MBA

 MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: GENERAL

 NWMSU's relevant curriculum empowered me with a comprehensive view of the essential business areas of accounting, business analytics, economics, finance, management, and marketing, enabling me to make business decisions in a leadership position confidently.   

Northwest MBA graduates hold positions from analysts at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City to project managers at Gallup in Omaha. The MBA program merges content-based learning with contemporary insight to refine professional knowledge, skills, and abilities. The teamwork opportunities, along with the analytical, reasoning, and managerial skills taught in the program, have enabled Northwest MBA graduates to accomplish tremendous success. 

The Licensed International Financial Analyst (LIFA) is a professional designation for finance and investment professionals administered by the International Research Association. It is similar to the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is intended for the same target audience. 

The University of Central Missouri Project Management Essentials certificate program, you will gain the project-management skills you need to be successful in your current career. The program covers topics such as time, cost, risk and communications. essential skills for project managers. 

The Applied Operations Management course from Alison will give you a better insight into inventory models. You will learn how these models help determine order quantities that minimize total inventory holding costs and ordering costs. This course will also discuss how they help determine the frequency of ordering to keep goods flowing to the customer without interruption.

The Project Quality Management course focuses on Quality, Risk, Procurement, and Project Closeout. A good project manager is the glue that holds a project together, ensuring quality and objectives are met on time and on budget. Education and training to guide quality control procedures throughout the project life cycle, assess risk, set up and run a project procurement system, and closeout projects successfully. 

 Modules Studied 

Introduction to Project Quality and Statistics 

Managing Project Risk. 

Introduction To The Procurement Process. 

Project Closeout. 

Course assessment. 

Minimize variability and defects in your manufacturing processes with Six Sigma tools and techniques.

The Six Sigma Diploma course describes how to plan and implement a Six Sigma project with a sequence of steps. Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools which seek to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes. 

  Module 1: Introduction to Statistical Process Control.

Module 2: Control Charts. 

Module 3: Design of Experiments.

Module 4: Diploma in Six Sigma - First Assessment. 

Module 5: Taguchi Methods and Robust Design. 

Module 6: Six Sigma and Benchmarking.

Module 7: Six Sigma and Supply Chain.

Module 8: Diploma in Six Sigma - Second Assessment. 

Final Course assessment.  

Lean Six Sigma certification training will introduce you to the Six Sigma processes that managers use to identify and solve supply chain problems. Supply chain managers design and manage networks that deliver high-quality products to the right customers at the right time at minimum cost. Six Sigma processes are essential in the creation of robust, high performance supply chains. 

Social media strategist skills. The rise of social media and how to conduct and audit market analysis to help set goals and select content, channels and platforms. Investigate how to create a social media policy and integrate marketing strategies to improve your client’s brand profile. 

Modules Studied

The Rise of Social Media.

Conducting Market Analysis.

Auditing Social Media.

Setting Goals and Selecting Platforms.

Wide-Area Networks.

Integrating Marketing Strategies.

Developing Effective Content.

Understanding the Popular Platforms.

Launching Successful Campaigns.

Managing the Community.

Providing Customer Service.

Measuring, Analyzing and Reporting.

The Social Media Strategist Career.

Course assessment.

Social media insights into the many social media marketing fundamentals. This course includes frequently used important terms of social media marketing, its various significant pillars and advertising methods. Create a perfect social media marketing strategy to become a success in your online business. 

 A business analyst is a problem-solver who helps organizations improve their performance and efficiency.  A business analyst is a person who processes, interprets and documents business processes, products, services and software through analysis of data. The role of a business analyst is to ensure business efficiency increases through their knowledge of both IT and business function. 

E-learning theory and practice will give you an overview of research-based e-learning methodologies for the creation of effective e-learning courses. E-learning content is a great way to share your expertise with a large audience. 

 Cognitive Theory and Instructional Design. 

Facilitating Learning - Content Development. 

Course assessment. 

Workplace safety and health, you and your supervisors and managers will learn how to develop a culture of safety among employees, along with higher productivity and greater employee satisfaction. This is essential for modern businesses that need to implement workplace safety and health policies to ensure compliance with legislation, promote employee well-being, and foster a productive work environment. 

Module 1: The Basics of Behavior Based Safety. 

Module 2: The Team and Behavior. Based Safety. 

Module 3: Behavior Based Safety - First Assessment. 

Module 4: Introducing Workstation Ergonomics. 

Module 5: Designing an Ergonomic Workstation

Module 6: Physical and Environmental Ergonomic Factors. 

Module 7: Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs). 

Module 8: Workstation Ergonomics - Second Assessment. 

Module 9: The Basics of Back Safety. 

Module 10: Back Safety - Third Assessment. 

Module 11: Promoting a Drug-Free Workplace. 

Module 12: Drug Free Workplace - Fourth Assessment. 

Module 13: Introduction to Safety and Health Legislation and General Duties. 

Module 14: Risk Assessment. 

Module 15: Emergency Planning, Reporting Accidents / Dangerous Occurrences. 

Module 16: Safety and Health Management System. 

Module 17: Managing Safety and Health in Schools - Fifth Assessment.

Final Course assessment.  

OSHA Hazard Communication Training. The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) was created by the United Nations and serves as the international standard for Hazard Communication. Recent changes to the OSHA Hazard Communication Standards have aligned the United States with the GHS, and training is required to familiarize employers and employees on these changes. With our certificate program, you will learn important information about these changes to hazard classification, labels, safety data sheets, as well as employee training requirements.

Tom Reilly began his ground-breaking research in this area in 1981. That year, Tom founded his company—now Tom Reilly Training—dedicated to training salespeople and their managers in the principles of selling their total value. 

Change Management guiding principles and practices for effective change management. These include communication, awareness, accountability, innovation, and problem-solving. Businesses need to be able to deal with ongoing change. You will be able to build an effective change strategy that will work for an organization that is going through a period of change. 

While there are several approaches to conflict, some can be more effective than others. The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Model—developed by Dr. Kenneth W. Thomas and Dr. Ralph H. Kilmann—outlines five strategies for conflict resolution:

1. Avoiding
2. Competing
3. Accommodating
4. Compromising
5. Collaborating

Diploma in Quality Management will introduce you to crucial quality management standards and concepts. The course will also give you a rundown of the quality management concepts such as Cost of Quality and Total Quality Management (TQM). Quality management plays an increasingly important role in businesses around the world, and this course will prepare you for this important function. 

 Modules Studied 

Module 1: Introduction to Quality Management. 

Module 2: Diploma in Quality Management - First Assessment. 

Module 3: Understanding Cost of Quality and TQM Tools. 

Module 4: Diploma in Quality Management - Second Assessment.

Module 5: Introduction to Quality Standards. 

Module 6: Diploma in Quality Management - Third Assessment. 

Module 7: Service Quality for Service Industries. 

Module 8: Diploma in Quality Management - Fourth Assessment.

Final Course assessment. 

Seven quality control (QC) tools training explains the seven basic quality tools used in statistics widely used in the management system of organizations for monitoring, measurement, analysis, and evaluation. Learn how to use a check-sheet, histogram, scatter diagram, and Pareto analysis to study the current state of your organization and take actions to improve the quality of processes, and more! 

The seven QC tools are:

• Stratification (Divide and Conquer)
• Histogram.
• Check Sheet (Tally Sheet)
• Cause-and-effect diagram (“fishbone” or Ishikawa diagram)
• Pareto chart (80/20 Rule)
• Scatter diagram (Shewhart Chart)
• Control chart.

ISO 45001 Principles of Occupational Health and Safety prescribed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). New standard ISO 45001 was published in March of 2018, this course will teach you why the ISO has chosen to develop the standard, how the standard works, the potential benefits the standard can deliver to businesses, about the PDCA approach, and more. 

 Modules Studied 

Module 1: Fundamentals of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. 

Module 2: Requirements of an Occupational Health and Safety Management System. 

Module 3: Performance Evaluation and Improvement. 

Final Course assessment. 

ISO 27001 explains the latest standard on information security management systems (ISMS). You will be introduced to the context of ISMS, and the business case for ISMS. You will also learn about other standards on information security, terminology used in ISMS, the requirements in ISO 27001:2013 and a brief guide on how to implement those requirements.