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Our world-class faculty uses the latest research and practical experience to create a dynamic learning experience for executives.

Our open enrollment certificate programs are designed and instructed by distinguished Bauer faculty members, recognized as industry experts in their respective fields. These programs have well-defined learning objectives, assessments, and intellectual rigor designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel as leaders in their careers. For every 10 hours of instruction completed in our certificate programs, participants will earn one CEU credit.

Explore certificates for: Business Writing | Data Analytics | Energy | Finance and Accounting | Healthcare | Human Resource Management | Leadership and Management | Marketing | Mini-MBAs | Technology

Business Writing

Crafting Powerful Sentences

Available dates coming soon: Business professionals will learn in this four-hour course about making sentences useful, graceful, and grammatically correct.

Grammar for Non-Writers

Available dates coming soon: This four-hour course for business professionals teaches everything you ever wanted to know about grammar but didn’t know to ask.

Data Analytics

Data Analytics for Decision-Making and Problem-Solving for Executives and Managers

Available dates coming soon: Managers and leaders from all levels will learn to apply analytical business strategy by putting data analytics to valuable use inside of their company.

Energy

The Sustainable Energy Development Program, from UH Energy

Asynchronous: The Sustainable Energy Development Energy Value Chain Bronze Badge from UH Energy is available online with six weeks to complete eight study modules, and includes topics such as energy measurements, energy transition, energy efficiency, electricity generation, recycling, cement production, steel production, transportation fuels, transnational comparisons, public policy, and government incentives.

Human Resources for Energy Sector Leaders

Oct. 24, 2023: This multi-disciplinary seminar builds on frameworks from human resources and strategic management with an emphasis on how firms effectively manage people and organizations in the energy industry, and position themselves as leaders in today’s dynamic landscape.

Finance and Accounting

Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers

Sept. 11: This course covers the basic concepts of financial accounting and management that are essential for the efficient operation of any business.

Healthcare

Clinical Research Finance

Oct. 25-27 | Nov. 8-10: This program combines multiple sources of regulations and operational approaches melded together to provide the most relevant, and current information on the financial administration of clinical research studies.

Emerging Healthcare Leadership: Essential Business Knowledge and Skills

Feb. 2 - April 12, 2024: This six-day certificate course is for clinical and non-clinical individuals wanting a better understanding of the challenges facing healthcare and the business skills required to excel as new healthcare leaders.

Human Resource Management

Managing a Remote Workforce

Available dates coming soon: This two-day workshop explores the unique demands and challenges of leading and maintaining an organizational culture in a remote environment.

Managing Human Resources

Available dates coming soon: This workshop focuses on familiarizing managers with the key human resource management decisions in organizations by looking at a number of functional HR areas including staffing, training and development, performance management, and compensation and benefits.

Employee Retention in Turbulent Times

Available dates coming soon: Employee retention is more important and more difficult now than ever before. This course helps managers and organizations improve their retention practices, policies, and outcomes.

Leadership and Management

Presentation Skills Training

Dec. 8 | Feb. 16, 2024: Speaking clearly and confidently in public is a valuable and often essential leadership skill to possess. This course offers a basic and practical background on the principles of public speaking, as well as practical experience with basic types of speeches.

Women in Leadership

Available dates coming soon: Explore unique leadership styles, develop personal policies, skills and implementable action plans to increase happiness and decrease stress, and develop a portfolio of negotiation skills that can help you manage conflict and navigate the business landscape.

From Management to Leadership

Oct. 20 | Jan. 20, 2024: Develop the critical skills needed to advance from tactical to strategic; from contributor to achieve; from manager to leader during this one-day course.

Solve Problems Permanently

In-person: Available dates coming soon or Asynchronous/Virtual: This is a highly interactive course with impactful customized exercises that ensure the attendees come back to their organizations ready to tackle pervasive problems newly and effectively.

Leading High-Performance Teams

Available dates coming soon: This course provides participants with key concepts and knowledge that will help them not only to understand the nature of high-performance teams but also to develop and sustain them in practice.

Change Yourself, Change Others

In-person: Available dates coming soon or Asynchronous/Virtual: Using the latest research on adult learning behaviors, human psychology, technology, and organizational dynamics, this course takes amorphous principles and culls them down to key practices every manager and employee can master to ensure they are not ever the victim of circumstance or stuck in a perpetual problem with another person.

Eight Levels of Cultural Competence

Asynchronous/Virtual: This practicum focuses on the eight essential elements that make up the typical individual and how to adapt your style at work based on the “avatar” of the people and/or organization you are responsible for working with.

Marketing

Search Engine Optimization

Available dates coming soon: Search engines have changed the way people get information and make purchase decisions. When customers search the web for your product or service, will they see your company in the results? Will they click through to your website?

Search Engine Advertising

Available dates coming soon: Search engines have changed the way people get information and make purchase decisions. When customers search the web for your product or service, will they see your company in the results? Will they click through to your website?

Content Marketing

Available dates coming soon: Content marketing is the backbone of digital marketing. According to the Content Marketing Institute, 93% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing over traditional advertising. Content marketing, through its focus on providing timely and relevant information to your target market, fosters better relationships with potential buyers and moves them through the buying process at their own speed.

Web Analytics

Available dates coming soon: Successful marketing requires a unique blend of art and science. As we move from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond, the wealth of data and information available to marketers has increased exponentially. This course introduces you to web analytics and helps you create a comprehensive strategy for measuring your inbound marketing activities.

Social Media Marketing

Available dates coming soon: In today’s economy, companies that are behind the curve in social media are putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage. Successful companies need effective and profitable social media strategies. After this course, you will be able to use social media tools and platforms to promote and position your brand.

Digital Marketing Certificate

Available dates coming soon: The marketing courses above can all be taken in a four-day span to earn your Digital Marketing Certifcate.

The Bauer Mini-MBA

Jan. 22-26, 2024: The Bauer Mini-MBA is designed to expose you to the basic fundamentals of business. Led by the same faculty who teach within the renowned Bauer Executive MBA, the Mini-MBA offers high-caliber instruction within a consolidated timeframe. Specializations currently being offered include:

Technology

Microsoft® Project® 2019/2021: Part 1

Available dates coming soon: This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment. It covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project during the planning phase of a project.

Microsoft® Project® 2019/2021: Part 2

Available dates coming soon: This course is designed to familiarize you with some of the advanced features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2019: Part 1

Available dates coming soon: This course aims to provide you with a foundation for Excel knowledge and skills, which you can build upon to eventually become an expert in data manipulation.

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2019: Part 2

Available dates coming soon: Building upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2019: Part 1 course, this program will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence.

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