Four classes in developing a business offer you the opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of what it takes to own, grow, and operate a business. All courses concentrate on real-life applications. You will develop actual documents needed to operate a private business successfully. When you’ve completed your certificate, you will have a full business start-up plan, a financial/capital plan to present to a financial institution, a marketing plan, and a human resource/staffing plan. The certificate courses are:

•Starting New Ventures and Managing Entrepreneurial Operations
•Communication Skills and Managing Relationships
•Entrepreneurial Marketing
•Financial Accounting for Non-Financial Managers and Financing the Emerging Enterprise

This four-course certificate is designed to strengthen your leadership skills through understanding organizations and group dynamics and through practice in managing and communicating effectively within organizations. You can also learn, and practice, how to teach others these skills in a workshop, training, and development environment. The courses are:

•Organizational Development and Macro Change Theory
•Managing Relationships
•Team Building and Group Dynamics
•Communications for Leaders

Through psychology and business management courses, you will explore leadership, decision making, motivation, cultural diversity, job performance, and testing and training in the workplace. Combining theory and practice, you prepare to apply your knowledge of individuals and organizations immediately after completion of the certificate. Choose four courses from:

•Personnel/Human Resources Management
•Employee-Management Relations
•Human Relations Problems and Policies
•Cognitive Psychology
•Industrial Psychology
•Organizational Psychology

This certificate is designed to enhance your prospects for success whether your career choice is in communication, science, or engineering. Through a sequence of five courses, including your selection of state-of-the-art technical communication courses, you can tailor this certificate program to meet your individual professional development needs. Choose from such courses as:

•Technical Writing and Presentation
•Technical and Professional Communication
•Document Design
•Presentation Media
•Desktop Publishing for Writers and Editors