Barry University is pleased to partner with MindEdge to offer the following interactive, self-paced on-line continuing education courses. As you register for these on-line continuing education courses, you will be re-directed to MindEdge. We hope you enjoy these quality on-line courses on current topics.
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Exam Prep
Program Information (21 Contact or Clock Hours)
This course is designed to prepare learners for the Project Management Institute’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) exam by exploring the methodologies, practices, tools, and techniques that Agilists need to master to become proficient practitioners. Students in this course will increase their knowledge of Agile concepts with interactive exercises, vocabulary games, flashcards, and video segments from experienced Agile practitioners. Each student’s understanding of key Agile concepts and principles will be tested in several comprehensive module quizzes as well as in two 120‑question practice exams designed to mirror the PMI® certification exam process. The total program is 21 contact or clock hours.
Certificate in Business Communications
Program Information (25 Contact or Clock Hours)
Because corporate higher-ups and stakeholders can’t support your ideas—or recognize you for them—without first understanding what they are, communicating clearly and concisely in written and oral formats is critical to your professional success. From clarifying and structuring your ideas to designing the PowerPoint slides that will best complement them, the techniques, interactive exercises, and checklists in this suite will help you create presentations and workplace documents that inform and persuade. This certificate offers instruction on crafting many of the most common business communication formats: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. Topics include formal and informal outlining techniques, using email appropriately in an organizational setting, and revising for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy, and jargon. The total program is 25 contact or clock hours.
Certificate in Innovation and Critical Thinking
Program Information (25 Contact or Clock Hours)
Because organizations must innovate to stay alive in today’s highly competitive marketplace, organizations need employees who can channel their creativity and innovation toward organizational challenges and goals. This suite of courses will first help you become re-acquainted with your own stores of creativity and innovation. Next, you are given a set of tools that allow you to leverage your creativity to identify and solve organizational problems. One activity asks you how you might look at a problem from a different angle to produce a more creative result; others walk you through the process of using analogies or replacement techniques to invent creative solutions to problems. The total program is 25 contact or clock hours.
Certificate in Entrepreneurship
Program Information (20 Contact or Clock Hours)
This online certificate program introduces key issues in entrepreneurship for those looking to start a business on their own. What does it take to build and grow a business from scratch? What personal characteristics are shared by successful entrepreneurs? What types of resources are available to budding entrepreneurs, and where can you find them? Learners who complete this program will have the answers to those questions and others that are essential to the success of their businesses. The total program is 20 contact or clock hours.
Certificate in Finance Essentials
Program Information (35 Contact or Clock Hours)
This online certificate program introduces non-financial managers to the essentials of finance. The course will help you become conversant in critical financial terminology, and you’ll learn how to calculate key financial management indicators. You will learn how to assess your organization’s financial health by reviewing balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow, and you will discover how finance and accounting tools can be used to support informed decision making within organizations. The total program is 35 contact or clock hours.
Certificate in Human Resource Management
Program Information (30 Clock or Contact Hours)
An effective human resource management strategy is a valuable asset to any company, but those running small businesses often cannot justify designating a full-time HR professional to manage employee relations, compensation, policy-making, performance management, and employee appraisals. This suite of courses will teach you the basics of managing the benefits and policies that support an effective staff. What does an employer need to know about anti-discrimination regulations? What are the key aspects of pay policies? How can employers avoid the traps of the employee selection process? In this suite of courses, you will discover the answers to these and other important questions. This course is 30 clock or contact hours.
Certificate in Leadership
Course Information (20 Clock or Contact Hours)
What is leadership and why is it important? How does a leader encourage change without triggering fearful resistance? What are the key elements to leading an effective team? What is the role of charisma in leadership? How can a leader achieve work-life balance? This suite of courses addresses all of these questions and many more. Based on D. Quinn Mills’ book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, the courses in this suite offer advice on leadership that can help you stand out as a leader among your peers. Video segments introduce Dr. Mills and other leaders who discuss such issues as how leaders become leaders, leadership ethics, and the differences between leaders, managers, and administrators. This course is 20 clock or contact hours.
The Manager’s Toolbox
Course Information (35 Clock or Contact Hours)
The Manager’s Toolbox is a suite of online courses designed for the new manager. New managers face challenges every day that they have likely never encountered before. The Manager’s Toolbox seeks to give the learner a head start on managing issues correctly and professionally with less stress and fewer negative organizational circumstances. The courses will offer learners an explanation of the managerial mindset that all managers and leaders must adopt to succeed. This course is 35 clock or contact hours.
Certificate in Nonprofit Management
Course Information (26 Clock or Contact Hours)
This online certificate program introduces learners to key current management issues for nonprofit organizations. Fundraising, board and volunteer development, budgeting, reading financial statements, leadership, marketing, and setting strategic directions are all addressed, and video commentary on these crucial topics will give you insight into how nonprofit professionals apply key concepts in their own organizations. This course is 26 clock or contact hours.