Corporate Training
DePaul's Corporate Training provides workshops, seminars and customized programs for companies, organizations and government agencies seeking to enhance the professional skills and capabilities of its employees.
Whether you seek basic training for frontline staff or strategic planning for senior executives, you can choose from any of DePaul's existing professional education and certificate programs and have them tailored to meet your specific needs. Taught by industry experts and DePaul faculty, we specialize in aligning employee learning with the business objectives of your company.
DePaul will also provide assessment services, instructional design services and program delivery services offering you the flexibility to choose the right level of support for employee training and development projects.
Listed below are a few of the many onsite programs and services DePaul can provide:
- Project Management / Advanced Project Management
- Mastering Innovation
- MBA Primer
- Leadership Series
- Supply Chain Management
- Purchasing and Supply Management Certificate
- Strategic Planning
- Customer Service Excellence Certificate
- New Media Marketing Strategies
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Practical Internet Marketing
In addition to the programs listed here, DePaul can customize any of our existing professional education courses and certificate programs. To view a complete list of offerings by subject area, click here.
Project Management / Advanced Project Management
Successful project managers provide guidance to an organization that can result in greater efficiency and cost savings. DePaul's Project Management Programs teach the knowledge and skills needed to execute successful projects and provide a competitive advantage for your organization.
- Project Management Certificate Program This certificate program is designed for professionals seeking to further their knowledge and develop the skills required to successfully complete projects. Based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge 4th Edition (2008), you will learn the best and most commonly used practices in project management today. This program will help you prepare for the PMP® exam offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
- Basic Project Management This two-week course will lead your colleagues through the entire life cycle of a project. The first week of the course focuses on the initiation and planning phases. The second week focuses on the executing, monitoring and controlling and closing phases.
- Lean Project Management Lean Project Management is an innovative new offering. It is a customized program that focuses on improving efficiency within your specific Project Management process. Analyzing and eliminating non-value-added process activities, known as "process waste," from the project life cycle accelerates completion time while generating savings. This course is available as a two or three-day session.
- Agile Project Management Get comfortable with taking the risks needed to increase the probability of project success with this one-day Agile Project Management training program. Discover new managerial approaches that focus on value management, continuous customer interaction and feedback, rapid structured decision making, visual performance reporting and the power of teams.
- Effectively Managing Conflict as a Project Manager This one-day class offers the opportunity to improve the skills needed in dealing with conflict, both emotional and intellectual, and by determining the best tactics to use during difficult conversations.
- Leadership: A Critical Capability for the Project Manager Inspiring others to contribute to a joint effort is the essence of leadership and a critical component of project management. This one-day training course helps to develop leadership skills while monitoring developing trends and insight to stay ahead of the market.
Mastering Innovation
- Creative Problem Solving: Identifying Business Challenges and Solutions Creative Problem Solving (CPS) was developed in response to the common assumption that only a few unique individuals can develop and produce creative ideas. CPS is a one-day, six-step process that helps individuals and groups generate novel and useful ideas and solutions and build on them by selecting which is appropriate for an organization.
- Leading Change: Innovative Approaches for Increasing Effectiveness in Your Organization This one-day session develops the ability to approach change in innovative ways, regardless of the type of change needed. Your group will learn what is necessary to manage change from start-to-finish; beginning with diagnosing the needs for change and ending with evaluating change efforts.
- Managing Innovation This one-day session introduces foundational skills for creating and supporting high-performing teams dedicated to fulfilling the vision of the organization. Your collegues will learn how to create and manage a creative environment in your organization.
MBA Primer
This 15-session "Mini-MBA" program broadens the understanding of company practices by providing specialized knowledge and the practical skills necessary to focus on key management concepts.
Topics include:
- Assessment of managerial skills
- Business strategy
- High-performance quality-management systems
- Supply chain management
- Innovation
- Project management
- Human resources and coaching
- Effective business communication
- Negotiations
- Economics
- Finance
- Accounting
- Marketing
Leadership Series
- How to Lead Through Difficult Situations Resilient Leadership Certificate This two-day program is designed to highlight the fundamentals of great leadership under difficult circumstances. With the techniques and hands-on applications taught in this program, your colleagues will discover how to maximize motivation, innovation and creativity without resorting to economic incentives. This program examines how to navigate critical people-related problems in order to create and implement positive change practices within an organization.
- How to Influence without Authority Influence Management Certificate This program instructs on the techniques to lead individuals and groups without direct authority. Key areas covered include analyzing the environment, understanding interpersonal factors and tailoring the actions that best respond to the particular situation. Simulation exercises reinforce the acquired skills. This program is available as a one or two-day session.
- Dealing with Organizational Change This program investigates the impediments to organizational change—organizational alignment and value incongruence—and the techniques that help groups effectively remove these impediments. Group work and simulation help illustrate key concepts and practice new behaviors. This program is available as a one- or two-day session.
- Leading Human Capital Modules
These modules share the common theme of "success through people." They are designed to increase a manager's capacity to lead the essential functions of people management. Each module is designed to be delivered within a 3-to-4 hour timeframe.
- SELECTING HIGH PERFORMING EMPLOYEES
Key topics include: predicting applicant performance and organizational fit, clarifying job role, screening candidates, and choosing assessment measures and making interviews effective. - MANAGING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
Key topics include: performance evaluation vs. performance management, mastering the performance management cycle, rewarding and recognizing performance and managing performance at the margins. - ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
This course is designed to expose managers to the most common ethical traps and decision-making errors and how to anticipate and overcome them.
- SELECTING HIGH PERFORMING EMPLOYEES
- Basic Management Skills
Management Skills Certificate
This two-day program consists of four modules focusing on the groundwork needed to develop effective supervisors. The training portion of this program is interactive, balancing lectures with individual and group exercises allowing your colleagues to practice new skills in real-life situations. Topics include:
- Role of the supervisor in the changing workforce
- Developing effective communication skills for supervisors
- Managing interpersonal conflict
- Building and managing relationships
Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management Certificate Program trains experienced supply chain managers to achieve efficient internal operations and better relationships between suppliers and customers. This intensive one-week program provides a comprehensive approach that prepares your colleagues for the Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) exam. This is supplemented with in-depth discussion of current industry topics such as:
- Global sourcing
- E-procurement
- Outsourcing
- Sourcing logistics
Purchasing and Supply Management Certificate
Supply management has advanced beyond achieving reliable sourcing and cost savings. It now positions organizations to provide more value to customers, establish market differentiation, and remain flexible and agile. This two-week program enhances the knowledge of experienced purchasing managers and helps prepare your staff members for the Institute of Supply Management certification exam.
Strategic Planning
The Certificate in Strategic Management provides your group with applied strategic planning solutions. Topics covered include the essential principles, practices and tools required to facilitate the planning, execution and evaluation of strategy. All training is tailored to your organization's business. Participants will develop strategic plans in their areas of responsibility. Certificates in this program are awarded by DePaul University in affiliation with the Association for Strategic Planning.
Customer Service Excellence Certificate
Great organizations recognize that financial strength requires superior customer service. In this one-day seminar, your employees will learn the techniques needed to interact with customers effectively. Building a positive rapport with customers allows for personal and organizational success. Half-day follow-up training and coaching sessions after 90 days are provided to review techniques that are working and discuss those that are not. Individual coaching is also available.
New Media Marketing Strategies
This four-day course teaches the latest strategies, tools and techniques in direct, interactive, digital and database marketing. This includes the planning, execution and the right Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to demonstrate success. Taught by industry experts with a strong reliance on case studies and real-world examples, this program offers the most current approach for developing marketing strategies, exploring new ways to track performance expenditures, and configuring the media mix.
Six Sigma Green Belt
The Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate Program is a disciplined, data-driven approach that focuses on process improvement and variation reduction by applying a set of simple, yet sophisticated, statistical, analytical and problem solving techniques.
Practical Internet Marketing
This two-to-three-day course teaches how to communicate effectively to a target audience through the use of social media tools like blogs, video and networking sites. The goal is to strategically use social media to increase the demand for products and services. Emphasis is placed on analytic tools to gauge the effectiveness of various internet strategies. Through a series of presentations and in-class discussions, your staff members will learn how to blog, Tweet, develop podcasts and vodcasts, as well as how to optimize web pages for search engines.
Delivery Options
For the added benefit and flexibility of your participants, you may choose to conduct DePaul programs onsite at your company or from any of DePaul University's five campus locations: including Chicago Loop, Lincoln Park, Naperville, O'Hare and Oak Forest.
We offer instructor-led training, train-the-trainer education, and online programming for a distance learning audience. DePaul will work with you to create a program format and schedule that is most effective for you and your organization.
For more information contact:
Michael Puican
- e-mail: mpuican1@depaul.edu
- telephone: (312) 362-7233
- fax: (312) 362-8764