Execute
Build on everything you've learned so far and apply your business, technical, communication, and leadership skills to create project plans for global expansion that incorporate marketing trends and financial decision-making.
Courses in this module
Core Course
Communication & Collaboration 3: Influence & Persuasion
Leverage your new functional knowledge for organizational impact by bringing together elements from the Personal Impact and Teamwork courses. Hone your influence, leadership, and negotiation skills to learn how to effectively and ethically persuade in an organizational context.
Key topics & skills
Persuasion
Influence Without Authority
Managing Up & Across
Giving Voice to Values
Change Management & Leadership
Core Course
Financial Management & Decision Making
All managers contribute to, and are responsible for, certain financial functions within a company—profit planning, breakeven analysis, operating budgets, capital budgets, and variance analysis. This course prepares you to understand and contribute to financial processes and decisions while understanding key performance and valuation metrics.
Key topics & skills
Introduction to Capital Budgeting, Financial Markets & Stocks
Risk, Return & Bond Valuation
Projections & Sustainable Growth Rate
Capital Budgeting & Corporate Valuation
Performance Management Systems, KPIs & Integrated Reporting
Core Course
Project Planning & Execution
A key driver for competitive advantage is the successful planning and execution of projects. Equip yourself with a set of best-practices, tools, and project management frameworks to allow you to work successfully in a variety of project environments.
Key topics & skills
Project Definition, Planning Methodologies & Tools
Time, Cost & Resource Planning
High Performing Teams
Global & Remote Project Execution
Sustainable (Green) Projects
Core Course
Sales Management
The sales process is essential to building a relationship between company and customer, gathering important market research for product development, and operationalizing the promise of the brand. Build your sales skills and gain an understanding of the fundamental elements of the sales process in the ever-evolving digital landscape.
Key topics & skills
Business Development in B2B Markets & Supply Chain Integration
Regulations & Policies When Selling in International Markets
Building Loyal Customers Through Brand Engagement
Capstone Challenge
Capstone Challenge: New Market Expansion Plan (Triad Challenge)
Your program culminates with the opportunity to cement all your learning in your practical capstone challenge. This international expansion project will have you working in triads to leverage the work you completed in Business Challenge #2. Choose a solution to launch in an international market and finish with a final team presentation.
Key topics & skills
Sustainable Business Practices
Creating an Expansion Plan—Market Research & Financial Factors
Key Stakeholders & Engagement Strategies
Global Strategic Decision-Making
Courses and challenges subject to change
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