Business and Entrepreneurship (Non-Credit)

Gain a competitive edge in your bookkeeping career by mastering the skills and knowledge of accounting functions utilized by professional bookkeepers. Topics will include adjusting entries, correcting of accounting errors, payroll, depreciation, inventory, and internal controls and fraud prevention.  This course prepares to you to sit for the national bookkeeper certification through the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers (AIPB).

Hours: 90

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What is a Crucial Conversation?  A crucial conversation is a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong.  When conversations turn crucial, people tend to follow one of two ineffective paths; they either speak directly and abrasively to get the results they want but harm relationships, or they remain silent with the hope of preserving relationships only to sacrifice results.  Crucial Conversations gives people the skills to set into disagreement-rather than over or around it-and turn disagreement into dialogue for improved relationships and results.  Perfect for managers, leaders, or anyone desiring to improve their communication skillset.

Hours: 10

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Leading a team requires a different skillset than working as an individual contributor.  To succeed in the face of new challenges, leaders need to shift how they think and act.  This solution equips first-level leaders with the essential skills and tools to get work done with and through other people.  The program is ideal for new first-level leaders who need to transition successfully from individual contributors to leaders of others.  It also applies to leaders who have been in their roles for some time who are looking for practical and relevant guidance on how to effectively lead and manage their teams.

Hours: 8

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While each of the following courses may stand alone for CEU completion certificates, all are required for the Human Resources Certificate. Prerequisites are not required, but we recommend you start with Fundamentals of Human Resources Management if you do not have prior Human Resources experience.

BUX 8006 Fundamentals of Human Resources Management

This fundamentals course is the start of the Human Resources Certificate Program. It covers basic human resources functions, such as law, benefits, employee relations, and recruitment. It links the Human Resources program with the organization's mission, vision, culture, and business objectives.

Hours: 15

BUX 8011 Human Resources — Benefits Administration

This benefits course provides a basic understanding of laws/regulations affecting benefits administration and an overview of legally required and voluntary benefit programs. You will learn how to evaluate an organization's benefits program in terms of meeting their organizational goals and needs of the employees.

Hours: 15

BUX 8007 Basic Employment Law for Human Resources

This employment law course will provide an understanding of the state/federal court structures and will survey a variety of state/federal employment laws. You will review real life applications of most of the laws and put your training to use in a mock sexual harassment trial.

Hours: 15

BUX 8012 Human Resources — Employee Relations

This employee relations, will provide a basic understanding of this function and how it is integrated into the organization, review laws prohibiting discrimination, and identify barriers to performance management. You will learn to link the human resources/employee relations program with the organization's mission, vision, culture, and objectives.

Hours: 15

BUX 8010 Effective Recruitment and Selection

This recruiting course will provide you with a basic understanding of recruitment and selection functions. It is designed to assist you with how-to skills and resources to assess your company's employment need and to implement the necessary components to achieve that need.

Hours: 15

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Enrich your Human Resources skills and competencies to succeed. This intensive SHRM-CP/SCP certification preparation is designed for individuals seeking credentials that HR professionals need, offered in partnership with Society of Human Resource Management and includes instruction and SHRM Learning System. Successful completion of this course in no way guarantees passing the exam. For eligibility requirements, visit the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) Certification website.

Hours: 40

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Central Piedmont’s Green Belt and Black Belt certifications combine classroom study and online assignments, offering a convenient and flexible learning environment.

BUX 7430 Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

Learn the powerful and proven strategy to increase quality and effectiveness in your field. Whether you are a manager or member of a quality team, or want to get ahead in your career, this Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification course gives you a solid start. Become Green Belt Certified and have the skills to lead Lean Six Sigma project teams. The course includes virtual or in-person instruction with online module work.

Hours: 46

BUX 7435 Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

Build professional skills and lead your cross-functional team to a new level with a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. Using the American Society for Quality (ASQ) body of knowledge, Central Piedmont's Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification course will give you all the tools and guidance you need to define and measure problems, analyze the root causes, implement improvements and establish the ultimate level of control.

As our highest level of Six Sigma certification, you will:

• understand and define the quality philosophy of Six Sigma and DMAIC-L, including identifying and implementing the DMAIC-L process
• leverage key drivers, metrics, and scorecards for the business to provide value to customers
• use the correct formula to calculate ROI; use graphical, statistical and qualitative tools to understand customer feedback; calculate DPU, RTY, and DPMO sigma levels and understand how metrics propagate upward and allocate downward.
• compare and contrast capability, complexity, and control
• manage the use of Sigma performance measures to drive enterprise decisions, and more

This course blends classroom instruction with required online assignments.

Hours: 100

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The following courses are required for the certificate and will prepare you to take the PMI-ACP® exam offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and the SAFe® 5 SSM exam offered by Scaled Agile. While each of the following courses stands alone for Continuing Education (CEU) completion certificates, all are required to earn the Agile Project Management Plus Certificate.

BAP 7006 Project Planning and Control

Learn processes, tools, and techniques used to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close projects to ensure project quality from start to finish. Explore best practices for managing and controlling scope, schedule, budget, communications, risk and change between client/end-users and all team members (internal and external).

Eligible for 24 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for both the Project Management Plus and Agile Plus Certificate programs.

Hours: 24

PMP 7022 Leading the Way in Stakeholder Management

Increase your ability to identify and influence stakeholders at all levels. Identify root cause needs and leverage relationships from boardroom to team war room to maximize project success. Strategize team management as an integrated system to deliver a project on-scope, on-schedule and on-budget. Includes PMBOK principles and practical tools for success.

Eligible for 16 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for both the Project Management Plus and Agile Plus Certificate programs.

Hours: 16

PMP 7115 Agile Organizations

What is Agile? How is Agile product delivery different from traditional or waterfall projects? This course will answer those questions and more. You will learn how Agile can transform the way you contribute in your current work environment and prepare you for your future in an Agile Organization. This comprehensive workshop provides a variety of modalities for learning about what Agile is and how to strategically implement Agile practices. From watching instructional videos, participating in guided discussions, reading industry articles, and completing structured workbook exercises, you have an opportunity to build your Agile toolbox. This course is for anyone who is interested in, or currently working in an Agile Organization. Learn why companies choose to transform to Agile and how to align yourself with that organizational goal. Increase your value tremendously and you will see Agile as one of your keys to success. 

Eligible for 18 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for both the Project Management Plus and Agile Plus Certificate programs.

Hours: 18

PMP 7116 Agile Coaching

Agile coaches are sought after in today's corporate environment to help guide agile teams on their journey to agile maturity. An effective agile coach not only uses thoughtful and deliberate engagement with team practices to enhance team objectives, they also challenge teams to deliver value to the organization. Agile coaches ask the right questions and work with teams and leadership to promote organizational change and develop an agile culture. This course provides the framework for seeing how agile coaches facilitate on a daily basis on both team and enterprise levels.

Hours: 18

PMP 7400 SAFe® 5 Scrum Master

In this two-day SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 training course, you'll gain an understanding of the role of Scrum Master in a SAFe enterprise. Unlike traditional Scrum Master training that focuses on the fundamentals of team-level Scrum, the SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 course explores the role of Scrum in the context of the entire enterprise and prepares you to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI), the primary enabler of alignment throughout all levels of a SAFe organization.

Eligible for 16 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for the Agile Plus Certificate program.

Hours: 16

PMP 7009 PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) Exam Prep Workshop

This course prepares you to take the PMI-ACP Certification exam using a highly focused approach. You learn more of what you need to know and do in order to pass the exam rather than what you need to know to be an agile project manager. Here we make the same assumption as the PMI-ACP exam itself: that participants already have the required Agile project experience.

This course provides all 21 Contact Hours/PDU's which are required to sit for the ACP exam. This class is required for the Agile Plus Certificate program.

Hours: 21

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The following courses are required for the certificate and will prepare you to take the PMP® Certification exam offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

Review Project Management Plus Certificate for additional information. 

BAP 7006 Project Planning and Control

Learn processes, tools, and techniques used to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close projects to ensure project quality from start to finish. Explore best practices for managing and controlling scope, schedule, budget, communications, risk and change between client/end-users and all team members (internal and external).

Eligible for 24 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for the Project Management Plus and Agile Plus Certificate programs.

Hours: 24

BAP 7005 Determining Business Requirements with Agile

Learn how to develop a business case and business requirements documentation via identifying, capturing and documenting business needs. Explore how to prepare functional specifications, analyzing scope limits and differentiating between wants/needs in order to allow business sponsors to assess and determine project priorities. Beginning with the second half of this course explore the basics of Agile. Look at how various Agile principles and platforms play into not only collecting requirements but also determining if a project is better run as Waterfall or Agile. 

Eligible for 16 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for the Project Management Plus Certificate program.

Hours: 16

PMP 7115 Agile Organizations

What is Agile? How is Agile product delivery different from traditional or waterfall projects? This course will answer those questions and more. This course is taught in a blended format where 35 percent of the course time will be self-directed online theory with the remaining hours instructor-led coaching. You will learn how Agile can transform the way you contribute in your current work environment and prepare you for your future in an Agile Organization. This comprehensive workshop provides a variety of modalities for learning about what Agile is and how to strategically implement Agile practices. From watching instructional videos, participating in guided discussions, reading industry articles, and completing structured workbook exercises, you have an opportunity to build your Agile toolbox. This course is for anyone who is interested in, or currently working in an Agile Organization. Learn why companies choose to transform to Agile and how to align yourself with that organizational goal. Increase your value tremendously and you will see Agile as one of your keys to success. 

Eligible for 18 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for both Project Management Plus and Agile Plus Certificate programs.

Hours: 18

PMP 7022 Leading the Way in Stakeholder Management

Increase your ability to identify and influence stakeholders at all levels. Identify root cause needs and leverage relationships from boardroom to team war room to maximize project success. Strategize team management as an integrated system to deliver a project on-scope, on-schedule and on-budget. Includes PMBOK principles and practical tools for success.

Eligible for 16 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for both the Project Management Plus and Agile Plus Certificate programs.

Hours: 16

PMP 7003 PMP® Exam Prep

Prepare to become certified by PMI, the global leader in project management best practices. The Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification attests to knowledge and practice of standardized, formal, and successful project management protocols. This course uses a highly focused approach of content and exam application to prepare you to take either exam.

Eligible for 35 PDUs (PMI). This course is required for the Project Management Plus Certificate program.

Hours: 35

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If you have earned the PMP® designation and would like to expand your skills, Central Piedmont offers ongoing professional education courses. Topics change to stay relevant and include the following courses.

PMP 7116 Agile Coaching

Agile coaches are sought after in today's corporate environment to help guide agile teams on their journey to agile maturity. An effective agile coach not only uses thoughtful and deliberate engagement with team practices to enhance team objectives, they also challenge teams to deliver value to the organization. Agile coaches ask the right questions and work with teams and leadership to promote organizational change and develop an agile culture. This course provides the framework for seeing how agile coaches facilitate on a daily basis both on team and enterprise levels. While not required, previous training and/or experience in Agile will be beneficial. This class is part of the Agile programs.

This course also requires six hours of homework.

Hours: 18

PMP 7400 SAFe® 5 Scrum Master

In this two-day SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 training course, you'll gain an understanding of the role of Scrum Master in a SAFe enterprise. Unlike traditional Scrum Master training that focuses on the fundamentals of team-level Scrum, the SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 course explores the role of Scrum in the context of the entire enterprise and prepares you to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI), the primary enabler of alignment throughout all levels of a SAFe organization.

Hours: 16

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• Ed2Go Six-Week Courses in Business and Entrepreneurship
• Ed2Go Career Training Courses in Business and Entrepreneurship

• Accelerated Career Training
• Business Administration
• Office Administration
• Supply Chain Management