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The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business Executive Education program has set its project management courses and workshops for 2016. Registration is now open.

Spring 2016 Foundations of Project Management

Fridays, Feb. 26; March 4, 18, 25; and April 1

8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Learn the basics and best practices of project management and prepare for the PMP® certification. Successful completion awards the 35 educational hours required for the PMP® certification exam.

Motivating to Increase Performance Across Generations

Friday, March 18

8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Motivating employees has never been a one size fits all approach. As today’s organizations become more diverse, the need to understand what makes employees tick becomes increasingly important. Motivation is part of the performance equation. Therefore, in order to increase performance for your department and for your organization, you need to understand the power of motivation. Jenni Hunt, instructor in the SIUE Department of Management and Marketing, has developed a hands-on session that will provide participants the understanding necessary to create a motivational culture throughout the organization. She will share stories, techniques and practice scenarios to help participants master the art of motivating across generations.

Emotional Intelligence

Friday, April 1

8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

This one-day workshop will introduce components of emotional intelligence and how they shape distinct leadership styles, and you will learn how to lead in an emotionally intelligent way. We’ll start by exploring the varied aspects of emotional intelligence, self and social awareness, and self and relationship management, then move into emotionally intelligent leadership practices. 

Simply learning about leadership styles is not enough to make you an adept, insightful leader. It takes using each style repeatedly, and examining the feedback from each interaction, to really develop the skillful use of leadership styles.

Basic Statistics

Friday, April 8

8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

The course covers key statistical concepts crucial to decision making in business and government. Building up the basic ideas of statistics systematically and quickly, the course provides a review of the methods of summarizing and presenting data, estimation and confidence intervals. Mathematical details are kept to a minimum. Much of the course is practical computer work using Microsoft® Excel®.

This one-day course will cover:

• Interpretation of commonly found published statistics
• What is statistical significance and what does it mean?
• How to make the best of statistics for decision-making
• Descriptive statistics - graphical and numerical summarization of data
• Distributions - binomial and normal
• Sampling distribution of the mean
• Confidence interval

Agile Boot Camp

Thursday-Friday, April 14-15

8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Don’t do Agile - BE Agile:  An introduction to Agile using the Scrum Framework

Why Agile? – Learn the differences between Agile frameworks and the Waterfall methodology. Understand the Agile Manifesto and the principles behind it.

What is Scrum? – Learn how to use Scrum and the first steps to take to begin an Agile transformation in your organization.

This workshop will guide you through the Scrum roles, events and artifacts. You’ll learn how to use relative estimation, write user stories and plan sprints through a combination of lecture, videos and hands-on exercises.

Persuasion and Negotiations - The Art of Influence and Skill

Friday, April 15

8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

In the business world and in life there are two ways to get people to do what is required - force and persuasion.   For the project manager, who often is managing in a matrix organization without line authority, persuasion is often the only path. This workshop will take you through practical scenarios to help refine your persuasion skills to a razors edge.

Earned Value Management Workshop

Friday, April 22

8:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Learn Earned Value Management (EVM) from expert David Hunter. The first two hours will focus on the basics to gain a firm knowledge of the building blocks and fundamental application of EVM. The remaining two hours will be an extension of EVM Basics focusing on developing and applying the skill to move to the next level in using Earned Value Management. The course features tips and techniques on how to effectively use EVM to manage projects/programs and to create more reliable Estimates at Complete.

To register, call Kristine Jarden at 618-650-2668 or Deanna Lotter at 618-650-5440 or visit: siue.edu/business/executive_education.