Open Enrollment Programs

Contemporary Managment 101

A non-degree business certificate program

Designed to provide professionals with varied academic backgrounds the knowledge to assume new leadership roles in today's fast-paced business environment.

Program Overview

The development of professionals in every area of business is critical to helping individual contributors make the transition to leadership excellence. Contemporary Management 101 is a non-degree certificate program that offers participants the opportunity to pursue professional development initiatives, while at the same time, attend to family, work, and community commitments.

To earn a Business Certificate in Contemporary Management 101, participants complete the following courses:

• Business Basics for Today's Leaders
• Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
• Communications for Business Professionals
• Fundamentals of Project Management
• Conflict Resolution and Negotiation

Course Descriptions

Business Basics for Today's Leaders

Keeping up with trends, thinking, and terminology in business today can be tough. This course gives participants a roadmap to help them more effectively lead, manage, and protect an organization, its people, and its future as well as practical insight into the real world of business today.

This course helps participants to understand:

• What are the best minds in business thinking today about leadership and management?
• How are key areas of business changing #mdash; including marketing, strategy, brand, and innovation?
• What should you be watching and reading to stay current?
• How do you pay better attention to developments and opportunities both inside and outside your business?
• What are the key principles for dealing with change and transition in leadership, ownership, and control?
• How can you keep up with trends that affect your enterprise and clients?

Format/Length: Classroom; 5 Tuesday evenings beginning January 5, 2010 Cost: $1,890

Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers

Designed for professionals who are new to financial concepts or wish to increase their knowledge of basic finance and accounting. It helps you to understand accounting processes and methodologies to enhance your financial performance forecast ability, your competitive value with strategic planning and decision making; and increase your leadership effectiveness and the bottom line. [This is not a budgeting class.]

This course helps participants to understand:

• Financial statements including the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and financial performance metrics
• The time value of money (present and future value) and discounted cash flow (analysis)
• How long-term financial policy, such as the choice of debt or equity and the payment of dividends, affects the value of the firm

Format/Length: Classroom; 5 Tuesday evenings beginning March2, 2010 Cost: $1,890

Communications for Business Professionals

Although managers spend 80-90% of their days engaged in some form of interaction, effective communication is not easy. This course has been designed to enhance the writing and presentation skills of professionals that they will use throughout their careers.

This course helps participants to understand:

• The importance of communication processes and skills, critical thinking, and ethics in today's increasingly virtual workplace
• Communication structure, verbal and non-verbal tips, managing an audience and questions, and creating better visual aids
• Composing and formatting quality e-mail messages and memos, positive letters and business messages, persuasive and marketing messages, and negative messages
• Grammar, punctuation, capitalization, style, and word use
• How to give effective presentations appropriate for business audiences

Format/Length: Classroom; 5 Tuesday evenings beginning May 4, 2010 Cost: $1,890

Fundamentals of Project Management

This course is designed to teach the fundamentals, tools, and concepts of Project Management. The role of team members in managing a project is defined and participants receive a detailed walk-through and practice of various aspects of Project Management.

This course helps participants to:

• Define and develop the foundations of a project plan, project requirements documentation, work breakdown structures, cost, schedule, and other resources
• Create project schedules effectively, keeping the triple constraints—time, budget, and outcome—in mind
• Acquire modern project management skills that are becoming a requirement in the competitive job market

Format/Length: Online; three weeks (15 hours) beginning July 11, 2010 Cost: $1,890

Conflict Resolution and Negotiation

Negotiations occur everyday in business. This course provides the skills you need to understand your personal negotiating style strengths and weaknesses, your personal conflict resolutions style, how to say the right thing at the bargaining table, and how to negotiate effectively with anyone.

This course helps participants to understand:

• Personal conflict resolution modes and negotiation styles
• How to improve communication skills when negotiating
• Negotiation and the decision-making process
• Planning for optimal outcomes
• Avoiding decision traps in negotiation
• Using rational decision-making concepts to reduce noise and confusion in deal-making
• Meeting facilitation
• Planning
• Preparing teams for upcoming meetings and getting everyone on the 'same page'
• Leading meetings even when you are not in charge

Format/Length: Classroom; 2 Tuesday evenings beginning September 21, 2010 Cost: $990

Delivery/Timeline

Contemporary Management 101 is a five-course, non-degree certificate program incorporating face-to-face classes with an online component and developed with part-time learners in mind. Courses range from two to five evenings for face-to-face classes and three weeks for online. Delivered on Drexel University's Philadelphia or Malvern campuses, typical face to face classes run evenings from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. (consecutive weeks). Online courses require an average five hours per week commitment.

Contemporary Management 101 courses offer the greatest benefit when taken as a sequence, however, may be taken individually. Our classes are offered throughout the academic year and may be taken in any order; however, certificate requirements must be completed within three years of enrollment in the initial required course. Most participants choose to complete their certificates within 18 months.

Prior to the start of each class, students may be assigned readings or pre-assessment activities related to the associated course. The amount of time required for the pre-program assignments will be no more than 60 minutes and will occur the week before the start of the class.

Registration

Complete the Application for Admission form and submit to Drexel University LeBow College of Business Corporate and Executive Education via mail to 3141 Chestnut Street, 11-402, Philadelphia, PA 19104 or fax 215-895-1602. Upon receipt of your application, you will be invoiced for payment. Your registration is confirmed only upon receipt of full payment.

Tuition and Fees

Course fees include tuition and instructional materials. All evening courses include light refreshments. Complimentary parking is provided to participants for all courses delivered on Drexel's campuses. Students who register and pay for the complete non-degree Business Certificate Program (five courses) at one time receive a 20% discount off of the individual course pricing.

Transfer, Cancellation, and Refund Policy

Your registration is confirmed only upon receipt of full payment. You may cancel or send someone to take your place without penalty at any time up to three weeks prior to a course start date. If you provide LeBow College of Business with less than three weeks' notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire course fee. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and/or your company and will make every effort to accommodate your needs. Please call 215.895.1604.

Professional Credits/Certificate of Completion

To earn a certificate or professional education credits, participants must attend all classes associated with the certificate, actively participate in each class, and complete any pre-work, assignments, and/or assessments.*

Participants who successfully complete any of our certificate programs in the specified time period will receive a Drexel University Business Leadership Certificate from LeBow College of Business. Continuing Professional Education units (CPEs) and/or Continuing Education Units (CEUs) may be awarded to successful graduates of non-degree certificate programs based on the program and number of hours of instruction.

*Students enrolled in Professional Development courses are responsible for meeting all LeBow College of Business and Drexel University academic policies.