The Office of Extended Academic Programs offers numerous training opportunities. Discounts of approximately 50 percent are available for UNC Charlotte faculty and staff. For more information, call 704-687-8900 or email ceregistration@uncc.edu.
Courses and program sessions for April include:
Labor and Employment Law
Monday, April 13
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
In this course, participants will learn from experienced practitioners how to comply with and understand new laws applying to business and industry. Many new laws and recent legal developments will be covered along with interpretation of existing compliance issues. Topics to be covered include: ADA, COBRA, FMLA, USERRA, HIPAA, At-Will, Fair Pay Act, NLRA and many others.
PMP Exam Preparation
Monday, April 13
6 to 9:30 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This course concentrates on the fundamental concepts of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) thinking and approach to project management topics, concepts, vocabulary and testing techniques. The course expands on what’s in the “PMBOK Guide” to ensure that participants have a better understanding of the topics they might be tested on and how to prepare for the exam.
Instructional Design: Designing a Training Program
Tuesday, April 14
6 to 9:30 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will provide participants with an overview of both the art and the science of instructional design and development. This program is highly interactive as participants will learn through doing, namely we will design an actual training program from soup to nuts during the course of the session.
Cost Estimating and Cost Management
Tuesday, April 14
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This course explores project cost estimating and a budget planning effort for a project manager as part of the project plan; then, it looks at earned value and other controls as the plan unfolds. Individual and small group exercises and case studies include examples applicable to diverse industries and business sizes.
Project Management for IT and BAs
Wednesday, April 15
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This course shows how effective IT project management is essential to make the most efficient use of scarce resources. Participants will learn how to recognize and eliminate common causes for IT project failures; understand how the project management life cycle supports and integrates with system development methodology; and apply tools to effectively and thoroughly plan systems and requirements gathering projects.
Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard
Thursday, April 16
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
In this course, participants will learn why business processes are more important in today’s corporate environment. They also will learn how to use process improvement techniques, how to use strategy maps and the balanced scorecard to deploy and manage process-oriented strategies and why technology and process investments must be tied closely to corporate strategy.
Buildings Anatomy and Physiology
Friday, April 17
8 a.m. to 4:35 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will review and provide an overview of the determinants and inputs in building design. Included in the discussion are site design and structural, architecture, mechanical (HVAC) and plumbing design. The course will provide an overview of the systems and a general description of the functioning of each system.
Persuasive Presentation Skills
Wednesday, April 22
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
The objective of this course is to enhance the presentation effectiveness of participants through a process identifying the individuals’ unique style and personality to create and deliver a more captivating and interesting message. The intent is to get participants comfortable with their individual strengths and explore possible development areas as presenters and facilitators.
Employee Performance Management
Thursday, April 23
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This course is designed to help participants more effectively make and reinforce the transition from command-and-control toward a facilitative model of management. Performance managers and their employees are being asked increasingly to move beyond traditional, narrowly-defined job descriptions to support team objectives and goals.
Hot Topics from MBA School - All New Topics
Friday, April 24
8:30 a.m. to Noon
UNC Charlotte Center City
During this course, instructors will take some of the more recent and dynamic findings and present them in an engaging and challenging fashion. Why do market lenders often fail, unable to keep up with competition? How will your company adjust to be successful in the coming shortage of skill and talent? What do you do if your company is stuck between too big to be small -- or too small to be big?
Ethics: A New and Different Twist
Friday, April 24
1 to 3 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will engage participants in a conversation that includes rules and case studies, along with the latest in ethical behavior theories. In this class, the foundation for the ethics discussion is built, but then, the instructors look at influences on ethical behavior, recent cases in the news and some ways to strengthen a company’s ethical culture.
Building the Case for Learning
Tuesday, April 28
6 to 9:30 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
This practical course gives participants the tools to “Build the Business Case for Learning” in their organizations. Participants will use the language and tools of business to create a powerful value proposition statement, develop an annual learning plan and generate a powerful business case to get funding and support for their learning programs.
Developing Agile Requirements
Thursday, April 30
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
UNC Charlotte Center City
In this course, participants will learn to write effective user stories and acceptance tests and how to map existing requirements processes to an agile approach. A user story is a brief and clear description of system functionality that is of real value to a user. Written from the users’ perspective, good user stories drive effective requirements development, acceptance testing and ultimately the delivery of value to the customer by the system.