Course Title: Management for IT Professionals
Hours required: 390
Price: $2,095
Length course offered: 6 Months
Instructor: Katherine Squires Pang [Bio]
Description:
This nationally recognized Management for IT Professionals online training program is particularly well suited for anyone in IT who has recently assumed management responsibilities, anyone who is managing IT professionals, or anyone who wants a basic and introductory perspective on some of the unique issues facing the management of IT professionals. The leaders in an organization often set the tone and establish the benchmarks for success.
In this program, the focus is on developing a successful leadership style that facilitates team-building, collaboration, and a corporate culture that promotes success. Different decision-making techniques will be explored in the context of successful leadership styles. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers and is best for anyone with little or no management training.
Goals:
By completing the Management for IT Professionals Certificate Program, students will:
• Be familiar with the basic subjects in the field of budgeting from a purchasing and production perspective. • Gain a basic foundation for thinking about budgeting in a strategic, integrated manner. • Develop basic skills necessary for working in teams, and learn strategies to solve problems and challenges on a collaborative basis. • Understand the basic subjects in the field of transactional work, and develop a foundation in the basic substantive law for the various subjects and filing requirements.
• Learn the basics of marketing management and the strategies involved in developing a marketing plan. • Develop the various approaches, tools and strategies used in negotiations and develop a foundation for negotiating with great awareness and effectiveness. • Learn to think strategically in the key areas of business management.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
Offered in connection with a college or university near you, our self-paced, online career courses are designed to launch you into your dream job.
Begin your course anytime. Textbooks are included, and you will have access to student support via phone, email, and chat 24 hours a day.
Click "Enroll Now" to find the partner school for the career course you want to take.
Instructor Bio: Katherine Squires Pang
Katrina McBride's career reflects extensive experience in organizational leadership, marketing strategies, and market development in multi-national corporate environments and as an independent consultant. Her leadership abilities have been utilized by employers and clients to develop new programs and functional areas and to reorganize resources with aggressive deadlines. She has positively impacted revenue and customer satisfaction for large, global organizations as well as small to mid-sized businesses that are experiencing changes due to rapid growth or restructuring to maintain their competitive position.
In director-level positions for Nortel Networks, Katrina was engaged to develop, define, and implement strategies for competitive intelligence, sales support, emerging markets, lead generation, and customer relationship management. Sought after as a trainer, speaker, and facilitator, Katrina develops and presents professional education courses in leadership development, team strategies, strategic marketing, organizational leadership, and change planning.
She is an active member of the American Marketing Association, the American Management Association, Society for Human Resources Management, and the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association, and she’s served on the board of directors of the Dallas chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.
Katrina holds an M.A. in organizational management and a B.S. in psychology, as well as certifications in mid-management/leadership and marketing. She is a trained dispute mediator.
Katherine Squires Pang, J.D., LL.M., M.Ed received her B.A. in 1980 from Clark University, her J.D. from the University of Dayton Law School in 1982, her LL.M in Taxation from Georgetown University Law School in 1983, and her M.Ed from the University of Texas in 2001. She has practiced law with national law firms since 1983, ran for the United States Senate in California in 1994, and was appointed by Governor Wilson as a Commissioner to the WCAB from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Pang has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate School of Management at the University of Texas, Dallas, and has been an adjunct faculty member in the law and business schools of many universities, including the Stern School of Business at New York University, Pepperdine University, USC, Golden Gate University, and the University of California, Irvine.
In addition to having over 20 years of law firm experience, Dr. Pang has founded several companies, including LawPrep, Inc., LawPrep Press, Inc., Legal EdNet.com, and EdWay Online. From 1989 to 1996, Dr. Pang authored several books, videos, and interactive CD-ROMs. Dr. Pang was also the manager for firm-wide practice section development, training, and forms for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld, L.L.P.
Dr. Pang has experience providing multimedia, interactive distributed learning to working professionals and adult learners in law and business through a variety of technologies, including video streaming and online conferencing (Webcasts, synchronous and asynchronous threaded discussion boards, and chat rooms) via the Internet and satellite, as well as ISDN-based videoconferencing on CD-ROM. Dr. Pang has been a speaker at the MEC 2001 Conference: Turning a New Page in Educational Technologies, sponsored by Arizona State University; the 2001 Conference on Training and Knowledge Management: Moving Beyond Training, sponsored by Generation 21 Learning Management Systems; and a speaker at various other e-learning conferences. She has design, development, implementation, and managerial experience in educational multimedia course design and creation. She has been responsible for course design and delivery using Macromedia Director, Windows Media Player, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Blackboard, Prometheus, WebCT, Webboard, and a host of other proprietary platforms. She also has experience with digital video, MPEG, MOV, and AVI Files.
