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Work It Up: Assessing a Business

Assess the health and sustainability of your existing company or start-up by utilizing best-in-class methods and tools to identify risks within your enterprise and tools to help mitigate them.

This is the first required course of the Work it UP Business Growth Certificate.

The Work it UP Business Growth Certificate Program provides the new or established business owner with hands-on learning to help them grow their business, their customers, and their profits by

  • Assessing their current business
  • Defining today's changes that ensure tomorrow's successes
  • Choosing the best tools, techniques, or strategies to help ensure success

Course topics include:

Technology Trends and the Evolving Workplace

  • Increasing availability reliability of Internet
  • Cloud Computing
  • Mobile Workforce
  • Communication and Organization Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Need for wide range of specialized expertise
  • Distributed Work Teams
  • New management skills
  • Cost-effective strategies
  • Increased efficiency and productivity
  • Increased flexibility
  • Employee retention
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Global opportunities

Fundamentals of Distributed Work Management

  • Complexity of tasks
  • Virtual communication
  • Evolving skill requirements
  • Expanded customer base
  • Increased competition
  • Business contract employment
  • Project management
  • Challenges managing and participating in projects in a distributed work environment
  • Characteristics and skills of successful managers, project managers, and team members
  • How these skills and characteristics impact business success

Business Assessment

  • Methods and tools for identifying risk

Becoming a Change Agent

  • Communications
  • Team Management
  • Functional and productive meetings

Robert Laliberte, PMP, Partner, Innovation Partners International, has managed & consulted organizations for more than 30 years in the fields of Project Management and High-Performance Work Systems. Current and past clients include GSA, Tuft¿s Medical Center, Norway Savings Bank, CertainTeed, Lafarge Gypsum, Domtar Gypsum, Rex Roto, Georgia Pacific, Unity Churches, JW Sewall (surveying/engineering), University of Maine, Bruce Power (Nuclear), Esthetic and Reconstructive Dentistry, SMRT (architecture/engineering), Artel (instruments). He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Northeastern University and a Masters degree in Management Science and Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a co-designer and has taught the Project Management Certificate Program at the University of New England and Western New England College and is adjunct faculty at the University of Southern Maine. In addition, Bob is past president of the Maine Association of Psychological Type, and a past Board Member and current member of the Maine Project Management Institute.

Bill Taylor is President of Work it UP. He has been an entrepreneur and private equity investor for more than 25 years. From 1999 -2006 Bill was a Principal at FPj Investments, a private equity firm based in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2000-2008 Bill was Chairman of New Leaf Investments, a private small business incubator with operations in five states that specialized in the launch and growth of several successful start-ups. Bill is President of Alpha Project Management Group in Portland, Maine, a for-profit company he has owned since 1991. Alpha specializes in project management solutions for private equity investors. Alpha Projects has been the sustaining resource of Work it UP since 2010 when it established the Alpha Projects Mentorship Program (APMP).


2 Thursdays, March 14 and 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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$295 (12 contact hours/ 1.2 CEUs)
Abromson Center, 88 Bedford Street, USM Portland campus

 

Class meets 3/14 & 3/21