AMA Schedule of Courses

Schedule of Courses

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Successful Project Management
This comprehensive course guides managers through every phase of effective project management. Managers will learn to:

• Set measurable objectives
• Create an action plan to achieve goals
• Control project schedules, costs, and scope
• Estimating costs
• Develop productive relationships with stakeholders
  

PRD 646 - First Line Supervision
Effective supervision is the heart of strong business results and is crucial to your professional success. This course will benefit experienced and new supervisors. Supervisors will learn to:

• Understand the supervisory role
• Enhance credibility and gain commitment from employees and customers
• Motivate employees using a variety of strategies and techniques
• Deliver both positive and negative feedback
  

PRD 429 - Communication Skills for Managers
Communication is a critical skill for a successful manager. Managers will learn to:

• Improve speaking and listening proficiency
• Avoid misunderstandings
• Ask the right types of questions
• Deliver messages that will be heard
  

PRD 675 - Leadership Skills for Managers
Managing in today's dynamic and diverse workplace demands a new type of leadership. Managers will learn to:

• Compare and contrast leadership and management
• Assess personal readiness to assume leadership responsibilities
• Describe a dynamic leadership model
• Apply leadership skill sets to current work situations
  

Coaching for Top Performance
Workplace coaching has become an essential business skill that every manager needs in today's change-filled business environment.  While the traditional manager was characterized as the one having the bulk of authority and holding most of the key business information, the coach in the emerging high-involvement organization helps people succeed by enabling them to manage and lead themselves.  Managers will learn to:

• Bring out the best in their employees
• Create productive partnerships with employees
• Make teamwork happen
  

Fair, Square, and Legal Documentation, Compliance and Prevention Methods for Business-Related Action That Can Raise Legal Liability
Do you know what to do to protect your business, your employees, and yourself from legal liability?  Can you defend your actions - or those of your employees - if you end up in court?  Staying out of trouble is a matter of being prepared and that's exactly what you'll learn in Fair, Square, and Legal - complex legal concepts that are translated into easy-to-learn guidelines for managing people.  The course examines how the laws governing equal opportunity and employee rights protect not only employees, but managers as well - and shows that understanding and adhering to employment laws is simply good business.  Managers will learn to:

• Protect their business from legal liabilities
• Examine laws governing equal opportunity and employee rights
• Identify danger signals that point to Human Resource legal violations
• Review the steps needed to investigate a sexual harassment charge
• Write safe job orders and job descriptions
• Understand the legalities involved with the hiring and interviewing process

Fundamentals of Human Resources
Understand the role of HR Management and acquire fundamental HR skills and knowledge.  Managers will learn to:

• Become an influential, collaborative member of the core management team
• Play a pivotal role in the growth of the company's productivity 

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