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IT Management and Leadership Studies Certification (ITMLS)

12 days
IT Leadership

This 12-week certification program helps IT managers and directors strengthen leadership, budgeting, AI governance, and career advancement core skills.

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Course Overview

This 12-week certification program helps current IT managers and directors improve job performance, prepare for promotion, and accelerate career growth by expanding their understanding of the business of IT. Participants explore leadership, team development, budgeting, technology, AI governance, change management, and career advancement.

Course Benefits

  • Strengthen leadership presence, business acumen, and the ability to manage up.
  • Improve strategies for hiring, motivating, retaining, and developing technical talent.
  • Build skills for estimating, prioritizing, and delivering an IT service catalog within budget.
  • Handle conflict and difficult conversations more effectively within IT teams.
  • Understand key AI governance considerations, including ethics, security, and privacy.
  • Support the introduction of new technologies and effective organizational change.
  • Explain how data management supports analytics, AI, operations, and security.
  • Position yourself for promotion and continued career growth.

Delivery Methods

Public Class
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Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.

Course Outline

  1. Orientation: Class introductions, logistics, logins, and program overview
  2. Teambuilding: Finding, hiring, motivating, and retaining technical talent
  3. Budgeting: Defining, estimating, prioritizing, and delivering the IT service catalog
  4. Leadership: Executive presence, business acumen, and managing up
  5. Management: Conflict resolution and difficult-conversation strategies for IT teams
  6. AI Governance: Oversight, ethics, security, and privacy
  7. Technology: Introducing new technologies to IT and the organization
  8. Technology: The role of data management in analytics, AI, operations, and data security
  9. Teambuilding: Identifying and developing high-potential future IT leaders
  10. Management: Individual and organizational time management
  11. Change Management: Influence-based messaging, gamification, and related approaches
  12. Career Growth: Positioning yourself for promotion and accelerated upward mobility

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

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