Women and Leadership: Five Key Strengths Every Organization Needs
Cash Flow Efficiency: Six Ways to Get the Biggest Payoff
Supervisors and Managers: Check Your Leadership Pulse
The Mini MBA: Perfectly Packaged for the Busy Professional
Top Quality Education for Top Quality Assurance
Leave Them Speechless with Your Communication Skills
Learn How the Task Masters Master Their Tasks
Cure Your Health Care Management Headaches
Bring Your A-Game to B2C Marketing
Business Acumen for the Maturing Medical Device Industry
From Faith Leaders to Volunteer Coordinators: Programs for Every Nonprofit Professional
Opus College of Business News and Events
Featured Programs
Women and Leadership: Five Key Strengths Every Organization Needs
The time is right for organizations to fully tap the strengths that women leaders bring. Are the women in your organization stepping up to their next level? Does your organization know how to create an environment that encourages the highest level of contribution among women?
Click here to read about the key strengths women leaders bring to the table.
The efficiency of a company’s cash flow determines its ability to thrive or merely survive during tight times. Taking a proactive approach toward how you sell and then converting products and services into cash will carry you through the most difficult periods and favorably position your company for growth.
Click here to read about the ways cash flow improvement can give your company a competitive advantage.
Leadership development is like exercise: You know you need to make time for it, but the typical work day allows for little time to truly hone your leadership expertise. Yet leadership growth is a healthy part of career development: Stronger leadership means less stress and more reward. If you have not invested in your leadership development lately, it’s time to step up. The following programs will increase your leadership endurance and show your organization you can go the distance.
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Business as usual? Today, there is no such thing. Business is changing at a furious pace. Customers not only want, but expect added value. Meeting today’s business challenges requires a new breed of managers who understand all of the functional areas of their organization. Are you prepared? Our Mini MBA Program allows you to update your knowledge in a convenient week-long or evening format. This program provides practical information on the various business functions that you can apply for immediate impact in your workplace.
Find out more and register for Mini MBA Program.
How can you eliminate waste, reduce costs, improve quality, and raise customer satisfaction? With the Lean process management system. At the University of St. Thomas, we will get you started on your Lean journey and give you the tools you need to fully implement Lean in your organization. Learn how to identify waste in critical processes, create an action plan for building a Lean organization, practice applying Lean techniques to customer service and quality, and gain the management knowledge to develop a Lean culture.
Find out more and register for Mini Master of the Lean Enterprise.
Are you trying to keep up, move up? Do you need a more formal business communication education for the next step in your career?
Work experience, being self-taught, and common sense can only take you so far. You can become a business communication leader and position yourself for promotion with the Mini Master of Business Communication. Today’s business is fast paced, so this program is offered in a convenient week-long format for busy professionals.
Become a more well-rounded business communicator. Whether you could stand to learn more about public relations, internal communications, advertising strategies, marketing communications, web communications, or group process, this is the program for you. Sign up and elevate the level of your communication effectiveness.
Find out more and register for Mini Master of Business Communication.
You know how to manage your projects. After all, you are the project manager. Have you ever wondered, though, how Bob always manages to come in under budget—every time? Or how Sarah never allows for scope creep and follows her timeline to a tee? Or how John always gets full support from senior leadership for his projects?
These are project task masters, and you will find them in every corner of your company. It takes skill to simply manage a project, but it takes true talent to be able to master one.
At the University of St. Thomas, we offer the Advanced Project Management Series to turn managers into masters. Gain the project management knowledge and tools you need to get noticed – and rewarded.
We are a PMI Registered Education Provider.
Find out more and register for:
Project Management: Procurement Management
Project Management: Scope Management
Project Management: Requirements and Charter
Microsoft® Project Basics
Physicians, nurse leaders, and administrators tell us that the business side of health care is often the most challenging, time-consuming, frustrating, and neglected part of medical treatment. Yet delivering quality care takes a healthy dose of business savvy.
In the Mini MBA in Health Care Management, we’ll teach you how to manage all aspects of your practice in a way that leverages patient care and eases the strain of your managerial role.
Find out more and register for Mini MBA in Health Care Management.
Many of us come into marketing sideways; we love what we do, but we wonder how much more we could contribute if we had the formal marketing education of some of our peers. Perhaps work experience has sharpened your skills in your marketing area—whether it is promotions, market research/consumer behavior, or product development. But imagine what you could do if you had a solid understanding of the four P’s of marketing and what goes into the marketing mix.
At the University of St. Thomas, we offer the Mini Master of Marketing Management to provide you with a solid foundation of marketing principles and best practices in a convenient format for busy professionals. Leave this program with the knowledge and insights you need to grasp the “big picture” of marketing, contribute to your organization on a higher level, and become a member of the “A” team that drives successful marketing strategy.
Find out more and register for Mini Master of Marketing Management.
The medical device industry has changed drastically in the last couple of years. As this high technology industry matures, do you have what it takes to succeed in the market? Does your company see you as a key contributor—one who will help the company grow in the face of increasing competition?
Devote one week of your time to develop the management expertise needed in this industry with the Mini Master of Medical Technology Management. Deepen your understanding of the relationships among the technology, regulatory, and business elements of your company; gain the ability to move your company to the next level; and learn from industry experts who bring real-life experience and solutions into the classroom.
Find out more and register for Mini Master of Medical Technology Management.
From Faith Leaders to Volunteer Coordinators: Programs for Every Nonprofit Professional
The University of St. Thomas has long been dedicated to helping nonprofits achieve their missions. Through our nonprofit programs, offered in a variety of areas including faith-based management, volunteer management, and fundraising, you can grow your knowledge base and help your organization DO GOOD BETTER.
Find out more and register for these June programs:
Fundraising: Grant Writing Essentials
Mini MBA for Faith-Based Organizations
Mini Master of Volunteer Management
Mini MBA for Nonprofit Organizations Opus College of Business NewsA UST MBA student is appointed to Governor Pawlenty’s Council on Black Minnesotans. Dr. Tom Musil, director of the Shenehon Center for Real Estate, comments on the innovative webdigs.com, a new real estate selling model. The Opus College of Business hosted its 19th Annual Entrepreneur Awards Ceremony on April 24, announcing this year’s award winners.
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http://www.stthomas.edu/business/media/newsroom/news_this_month.html
Opus College of Business EventsUnderstanding the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Featuring Mark Spriggs, Chair of the Entrepreneurship Department
May 28, 2008
4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Schulze Atrium – Minneapolis campus
Spring 2008 Commencement Ceremonies
May 17, 2008
2:00 p.m. – Undergraduate Commencement
7:00 p.m. – Graduate Commencement
St. Paul Campus
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