Work it UP: Certificate Program in Business Growth

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• Program Requirements

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• Schedule

• Fee

• Contact Hours

• Instructors

• Receive Your Certificate

• About Work-it UP

Details:

If you are an entrepreneur or are thinking about starting a business, consider what you need most to succeed – a flat plan or a technique that puts your plan into action?  If you own or work within a small or mid-size company, consider what you need to stay competitive in today’s changing market – a plan to keep you afloat or a strategy for innovative growth?

Explore techniques for turning plans into action and innovative strategies for business growth with the 2013 Work it UP Business Growth Certificate.

The 2013 Work it UP: Certificate Program in Business Growth 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

Program Requirements

In order to receive the certificate, participants must successfully complete the following three required courses. A USM Professional Development Program Certificate will be awarded after successful completion of all program requirements.

1. Assessing A Business
   Assess the health and sustainability of your existing company or start-up by utilizing best-in-class methods and tools to identify risks within your enterprise and tools to help mitigate them.
   
2. Designing for the Future
   Identify the proper technology and business communication tools to help you design the changes you need to enhance growth within your business.
   
3. Implementing the plan
   Implement your business growth plans for positive organizational change.

Click on the course titles for course descriptions and details.  These courses may also be taken individually.

Enroll in the full certificate program and receive a discount: Work it UP: Certificate Program in Business Growth

Schedule

6 Thursdays: March 14, 21, April 4, 11, May 2, 9
9:00am-4:00pm

Click here to register for the Spring 2013 program.

 *For those interested in participating in individual courses only, please click on the course titles above to view specific course schedules.  

Fee:

• Full Certificate Program: $795 (all materials included)
• Individual Courses: $295 each (all materials included

Register for the full certificate program

To register for individual courses, please click on course titles within Program Requirements.

Contact Hours/CEUs:

36 contact hours / 3.6 CEUs

Instructors:

• Bill Taylor
  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).

• Stephen Stofanak
  Stephen Stofanak is the Operations Director for Work it UP. Stephen also co-developed and teaches a certificate program in project management for the Continuing Education Programs at the University of New England and the University of New Hampshire.  Stephan provided the research, case studies, and initial prototypes for launching IT Harmony’s Business Change Management solution suite. Stephan has delivered project and change management consulting and coaching to senior executives in companies such as Fairchild, The Jackson Laboratory, American Electric Power, and Cornell University. Previously, Stephan spent 23 years with Digital Equipment Corporation where he was instrumental in developing Digital’s Program Management Methodology used to plan and manage customer systems integration programs. As Change Management Consultant for Worldwide Manufacturing and Logistics at DEC, he established the program office that was responsible for twelve worldwide re-engineering and SAP software implementation projects that significantly reduced expenses and improved customer satisfaction. He has managed groups of four to 130 people and consulted with companies ranging in size from entrepreneurial start-ups to the Fortune 100. He has a keen understanding of how to help organizations, from the factory floor and field offices to senior management teams, implement change and create high performance results.

• Natasha Turner Stout, M.S.
  Natasha Turner Stout, M.S., is a training and development professional who is currently working with Work it UP as a training advisor and as the Member Services Coordinator. Natasha has developed and delivered training for Work it UP and is working to enhance the Work it UP curriculum and delivery strategies. Natasha has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Education and Workforce Development, as well as a Certificate in Human Resource Development.  As the Director of Organizational Learning for the Louisiana Department of Revenue, Natasha developed a training and organizational development unit that became a key resource for the Louisiana Department of Revenue, assisting with organizational change initiatives, increasing employee development opportunities, and continuously improving training strategies to align with the department’s dynamic organizational changes.

• Raymond Paré
  For over twenty years, Raymond Paré has provided business management, process improvements, and technological consulting services to clients in a number of fields including training, health care, food service, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, veterinarian services, and construction. His professional mission is to help organizations achieve or exceed their operational goals. With a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology, and an MBA in Health Care Financial Management, is certified to teach college level 100 – 400 Business and Information Technology courses. He is currently recently running his own consulting business providing interim IT development , senior management support, financial management, and fund raising.

Receive Your Certificate

For those participating in the full program- If you have met all certificate requirements, you will receive your certificate on the last day of class.

For those participating in individual courses- After you have met all certificate program requirements, complete the program evaluation and certificate completion form, and we will award your certificate. 

About Work it UP:

• The Work it UP Mission
  Professionals Lending Their Expertise To Help Maine Businesses Grow.Collaboratively Linking Students, Businesses and Professionals to Create Jobs.

Work it Up was established in May, 2009 as a social entrepreneurial enterprise created to address the massive challenges of the broken economy that followed the collapse of the global equities market in September, 2008.

From 2009-2011 Work it UP served as,“Professionals in Residence“ at the Maine Center for Enterprise Development providing executive coaching and business management solutions to the entrepreneurs who joined the MCED incubator to launch their businesses.

In 2012, Work it UP continued its service to MCED and also collaborated with the Department of External Projects at the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus as primary resource for project management oversight of all business and technical issues associated with the launch of several start-up companies under the Campus Ventures program.

Since its inception, Work it UP has served dozens of companies and nonprofit organizations in seven counties across Maine, trained more than 500 member professionals and donated an average of 60,000 hours per year of volunteer professional services to the small business community of Maine.

Learn more about the organization at Work it UP http://www.workitup.org/