November offerings from extended academic programs
The Office of Extended Academic Programs offers numerous training opportunities. Discounts of approximately 50 percent are available for UNC Charlotte faculty and staff. For more information, call 704-687-8900 or email ceregistration@uncc.edu.
Courses and program sessions for November include:
Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certification
Sunday, Nov. 1
Online
The White Belt program provides a brief overview of three of the most-widely used total quality management methodologies in industry today. The first half of the program covers an introduction to the Six Sigma methodology used to improve existing processes or design new processes. The second half of the program is a brief introduction to the methodology called Lean, which provides participants with the general knowledge of the terms used by practitioners in industry today.
Fraud Prevention and Detection
Monday, Nov. 2
Online
The focus of this course is on special areas of fraud awareness. The cornerstone is the review of fraudulent financial statement schemes, types of financial analysis and tools used to highlight the red flags of fraud and methods of preventing the occurrence of fraud.
Leadership and Communication Skills for Project Managers
Wednesday, Nov. 4
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
The course focuses on people management skills and the processes for effectively managing project communications: leading the project team, identifying stakeholders, planning and distributing information and managing stakeholder expectations.
Forensic Engineering: Failures Related to Operations
Wednesday, Nov. 4
5:30 to 8:15 p.m., EPIC, Room 3226
The course specifically addresses failure issues related to multiple aspects of operations, including materials, procedures, training, safety, maintenance and change of use.
Managing Learning Programs
Wednesday, Nov. 4
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
The role of manager of the training/learning functions is increasingly challenging in today’s complex and fast-paced business landscape. Gain a practical, how-to overview of the entire training function and learning environment through this course.
Recruitment and Selection
Thursday, Nov. 5
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
The current and predicted employment trends are mandating that organizations will need to have a solid recruitment and selection strategy in place to remain competitive. This course is designed to educate participants on best practices around recruitment and selection to establish a clear framework for success.
Insurance for CPA Dummies
Tuesday, Nov. 10
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will provide an overview of the key converges that all CPAs need to know and understand in order to protect their corporate assets. Useful and practical concepts will be provided, as to be implemented immediately to improve this protection.
Emotional Intelligence: The Critical Skill for Leadership
Tuesday, Nov. 10
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
The foundation and success for all effective leaders includes their ability to optimize their natural talents and their ability to leverage the talents of others. During this course, participants will move from learning to understanding and then to applying tactics and strategies to leverage emotional intelligence.
Evaluating Learning Impact and Data Analytics
Tuesday, Nov. 10
6 to 9:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course is directed to new and existing learning professionals who are tasked with measuring and evaluating the impact of learning and performance. It provides a solid foundation in measurement, evaluation strategies, data collection instruments, analyzing and interpreting data for any organization.
Employee Performance Management
Wednesday, Nov. 11
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
Performance management reflects a changing emphasis – one that moves away from command-and-control and toward a facilitative model of management. Performance managers and their employees are being asked increasingly to move beyond traditional, narrowly defined job descriptions to support team objectives and goals. This course is designed to help participants more effectively make and reinforce this transition.
Today’s Solar Energy
Thursday, Nov. 12
8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will introduce participants to today’s solar technology, applications, systems, design concepts and markets. Residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar systems will be discussed in the course.
Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard
Thursday, Nov. 12
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will explore why business processes are more important in today’s business environment; how successful companies have faltered by treating strategic management and process management as separate activities; and why technology and process investments must be tied closely to corporate strategy. Participants will learn four techniques for leveraging process excellence to expand market share, strengthen customer relationships, enter new market segments and create new revenue streams.
S Corporations – Hot Tax Topics
Friday, Nov. 13
1 to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course covers key benefits of using Subchapter S corporations and how to acquire and maintain Subchapter S status so those benefits can be realized. Tax saving opportunities with S corporations under the Affordable Care Act are explained. The course also includes an explanation of opportunities for saving Social Security Tax and the IRS campaign to limit those savings. Finally, several tax traps will be identified, and suggestions for avoiding some of those traps will be presented.
FASB Financial Reporting Update
Friday, Nov. 13
8:30 a.m. to noon, UNC Charlotte Center City
While the effective date of the new revenue recognition standard has been delayed one year, preparation for implementation is very important. Also, the long-discussed lease proposal as well as the financial instruments and disclosure framework projects continue to be discussed. As a minimum, there could be new exposure drafts but maybe final standards to be covered in detail. These, plus other final updates and FASB agenda items, will be the topics in this class.
Presentation and Facilitation Skills
Monday, Nov. 16
6 to 9:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
The objective of the course is to enhance facilitation and presentation effectiveness of participants through a process identifying the fundamental skills to create and deliver a more captivating message and experience regardless of the audience. The intent is not to create facilitation and presentation clones but rather to get participants comfortable with the tools and resources that will leverage their individual strengths.
Understanding the New Revenue Recognition Standard
Monday, Nov. 16
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
The new revenue recognition standard released by the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) last year represents a significant change in the revenue reporting model and process. Businesses of all sizes will need to consider how the new model will impact their systems, controls and reported items. This class will blend both conceptual and hands on coverage of the new standard.
Cost Estimating and Cost Management
Monday, Nov. 16
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course explores project cost estimating and a budget planning effort for a project manager as part of the project plan and then looks at earned value and other controls as the plan unfolds. Individual and small group exercises and case studies include examples applicable to diverse industries and business sizes.
Total Rewards
Tuesday, Nov. 17
6 to 9:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will provide an overview of common and specialty compensation and benefits programs found in various industries. Components of a total compensation system will be explored. Topics include: compensation and benefits compliance, common total reward systems, pay and motivation, controlling benefit costs through plan design, compensation internal and external equity, salary compression, types of compensation designs, common mistakes in reward systems and much more.
Ethics 101
Wednesday, Nov. 18
8:30 to 10:30 a.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course is designed to meet the two hours of ethics training CPAs in North Carolina must receive each year in order to meet the NC Board of Examiners requirements for certificate renewal. The course will discuss pertinent accountancy law in NC as well as professional ethical issues and standards.
Excel for Engineers: Charting in Excel 2013
Wednesday, Nov. 18
8 a.m. to noon, UNC Charlotte Center City
Participants will learn the new charting techniques included with Microsoft Excel 2013 as well as the standard chart features of earlier versions of Excel. Features will include various chart types, using embedded charts versus chart sheets, adding data tables, data labels, charting from multiple sheets and working with PivotCharts.
Excel for Engineers: Data Manipulation
Wednesday, Nov. 18
1 to 5 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will offer training in the new Excel 2013 Quick Analysis features in addition to complex functions such as SUMIF and SUMIFS. Participants will learn new features added to sorting and filtering, learn to Subtotal data and build PivotTables.
Project Management for Business Analysts
Wednesday, Nov. 18
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
For the business analyst, IT project management represents the core set of skills needed for requirements planning and management. Key topics of the course include establishing a framework for IT project management; planning and launching projects; executing and controlling projects; and closing, archiving and transitioning projects.
ASME B31 Process and Power Piping: Design and Fabrication
Friday, Nov. 20
8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will serve as a review of the design and fabrication requirements of the ASME B31.1 and B31.3 codes. Emphasis will be on understanding both what is covered and not covered by the code, including materials requirements, design roles and responsibilities, welding and NDE and pressure testing. The course also includes commonly asked questions and interpretations.
Human Resource and Succession Planning Skills
Monday, Nov. 23
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course will introduce the basic concept of human resource planning and succession planning to participants. It will be built around interactive discussions that review the importance these planning activities have on the future viability of organizations.
Personal Computing, Mobile and Cloud Technology Update
Wednesday, Nov. 25
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
It is becoming increasingly clear that most business professionals will constantly be shifting through an array of devices from desktop systems, laptops and Ultrabooks, tablets and smartphones. Each device will have unique strengths and weaknesses, and device choice will be highly task contingent. In this context it becomes important to understand not only the current best use of each device, but the ways that these devices are converging and diverging.
Project Quality Management
Monday, Nov. 30
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., UNC Charlotte Center City
This course focuses on the processes for successful quality management within projects and helps prepare project managers to complete these important tasks. The course provides exposure to the tools, techniques and methods successful project managers use to manage the quality of their projects.