Congratulations to City Manager Mark Hill who has earned the Business Management Certificate from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Mark started the program last year and has now completed all the requirements to be awarded this accomplishment from Vanderbilt University.
The Vanderbilt Business Management Certificate consists of 4 courses with the following topics.
1. Strategic Leadership
Manage teams and foster effective decision-making
Create and communicate a vision for workplace change
Build coalitions that work
Master the art of self-management
Develop your executive personal brand
Improve your presence online, in email, and on video
Become a more persuasive presenter
2. Finance and Accounting
Utilize sound financial concepts to make better-informed decisions
Understand the 3 main types of financial statements and how they can be used to evaluate your firm’s performance
Apply decision-making criteria for evaluating capital investments and creating cash-flow forecasts
Learn how to identify and measure risk, and then translate that into sound investment decisions
3. Strategic Innovation
Generate, assess, and implement great ideas in your organization
Build your organization’s capacity for innovation, including creating an innovative culture
Lead innovation projects, processes, and teams
Recognize big issues lurking on the horizon before they become constraints
Drive adoption of great ideas
Develop and manage an innovation portfolio
Innovate to stay relevant and competitive in a fast-changing landscape
4. Strategy and Operations.
Plan and implement a business strategy from start to finish
Design and lead successful projects that support your organizational strategy
Analyze external and internal contexts of your firm using established frameworks
Identify sources of competitive advantage
Align functional strategies with corporate strategies
Measure success and distinguish good metrics from bad metrics
Analyze and improve manufacturing and service processes
Use time-tested tools such as process flow diagrams and queuing theory
Create a work breakdown structure, uncertainty assessment, network diagram, Gantt chart schedule, and communication plan for your project
Close your project effectively