Loyola University Chicago

Scope and Purpose
To be successful in business, you need to understand the foundations, concepts and techniques that form the basis for management today, as well as the business vocabulary that improves communication and enhances individual and corporate performance.

In the Management Certificate Program, outstanding faculty expose you to all the management concepts, cutting-edge theories and tactics in each functional area. They help you develop the skills you need to think corporately by tying together all the functions with a strategic alignment mapping process. You gain experience in team problem-solving and in applying your new techniques, strategies, and skills under expert guidance.

Who Should Attend

• Professionals wanting a stronger base in current business theory/practice
• Managers whose experience is primarily in one functional area who want exposure to other functional areas in order to qualify for positions of increased responsibility
• Those interested in furthering their education and considering an MBA or other Graduate School of Business program

Objectives
At the end of this program you will be able to:

• Significantly enhance individual and organizational performance
• Understand the most important managerial concepts for each functional area
• Improve your abilities to tie functional areas together in order to grow revenue, control expenses, and promote productivity
• Communicate and work more effectively with leadership
• Create learning networks to promote business opportunities

Topics
Each three-hour session covers a different business topic and is presented by an expert in that particular field. Program sessions are selected from such business topics as:

• Formulating Strategy
• Applying Strategy
• Managerial Accounting
• Human Resource Management
• Marketing
• Project Management
• Financial Management
• High Performance Work Systems
• Corporate Finance & Securities
• Balanced Scorecard

Sessions may change depending on scheduling availability.

Faculty
The Management Certificate Program is primarily taught by faculty from the Graduate School of Business, home of the nationally ranked top 25 part-time MBA program as reported by U.S. News and World Report. Loyola Executive Education faculty are in great demand as consultants to corporations, organizations, and government agencies throughout the region and around the world. The faculty make business concepts and skills readily understandable and immediately useful to you. To do this, they engage you in dialogue about your experiences and how what you are learning can be applied on the job. This makes the program personally relevant and focused on real-world results.

Strategy Alignment Map
Successful businesses have long recognized that aligning focused, discipline-based strategies enables concentration of energies on plans that mutually support and further their overall business strategy. Executive Education has developed the Strategy Alignment Map (SAM) process to apply this principle to improve the educational experience of organizations and/or individuals by:

• Producing a document for participants that summarizes their purpose or strategic goal for attending the program
• Identifying specific learning outcomes and how those outcomes align with their overall purpose for attending
• Identifying action steps or a plan for implementing the learning
• Providing a feedback mechanism to faculty regarding specific participant needs beyond the theoretical subject matter alone

LOYOLA MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE

MBA elective course waiver option, available for those who:

• Earn the Management Certificate
• Are accepted into Loyola's Graduate School of Business (current GSB students are not eligible)
• Complete an additional paper/project