Health & Human Services, Enrichment, and Business and Management Enrichment Health and Human Services Business & Management

Work It Up: Designing for Future Growth

Identify the proper technology and business communication tools to help you design the changes you need to enhance growth within your business.

This is the second 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:

Cloud Computing

  • Participants will be able to analyze strengths, weaknesses, and current trends to determine the best cloud computing strategy in terms of access, security, costs and resources.

Distributed Team Collaboration

  • Participants will be able to determine when and how distributed team collaboration can be used to a company's advantage.
  • Participants will be able to Identify distributed collaboration tools and explain how these tools can both enhance and impede distributed team collaboration while reducing waste.
  • Participants will be able to predict challenges to distributed team collaboration and identify steps to minimize these challenges.
  • Participants will be able to create an effective team strategy that draws from best practices in leading and participating in distributed teams.

Telecommuting

  • Participants will be able to determine how telecommuting can be used to reduce costs, increase productivity, increase sales, and increase employee satisfaction.
  • Participants will be able to plan a successful telecommuting strategy.

Social Media and Websites

  • Participants will be able to engage in effective social media strategies to communicate with clients and recruit potential clients.
  • Participants will be able to determine the most appropriate functions of their websites based on information design theory, list the steps necessary to build and maintain and effective website, and identify strategies for ensuring that the website serves its intended purpose.

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, April 4 and 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Registration has ended. Please browse courses for future offerings of this course.

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

 

Class meets 4/4 & 4/11