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ACQUISITION Planning and Managing Systems Acquisition

ACQI9010D

a comprehensive exam preparation program using the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) CMA Learning System, which includes textbooks and online practice tests.

Discover how mission, management, law, business skills, regulation, and finance work together to support your organizations acquisition activities, and how you can better manage systems acquisitions for performance and results.

Public Sector Financial Systems and Policies

BUDG8005D

BUSINESS ANALYSIS Business Analysis Planning Workshop

PGMT8321D

Develop the skills used by business analysts to effectively plan and monitor a complete business analysis project, including shaping the business analysis approach and conducting stakeholder analysis.

Become familiar with the key players from federal agencies, the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), and the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Council, and understand how they impact decisions regarding basic principles of accounting in the public sector. Explore the many facets of fund control and account structure, and discover how to recognize basic requirements.

Audit and Review Phase of the Federal Budget Process

BUDG8006D

Eliciting and Communicating Business Requirements

PGMT8322D

Develop the critical skills necessary to elicit, analyze, and manage project requirements. Learn how to effectively prepare a requirements package and communicate it to stakeholders.

Explore the processes used to ensure that programs are efficient, effective, and in compliance with the requirements of appropriations law and performance-based budgeting. Learn the differing roles and responsibilities of internal analysts, review staff, and auditors in analyzing program performance, financial integrity, and financial statements.

Requirements Analysis, Solution Assessment and Validation

PGMT8323D

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FERS Orientation for New Employees

BENE7630A

Develop the skills used by business analysts to assess and validate solutions. Learn how to allocate requirements, assess organizational readiness, define transition requirements, and validate and evaluate solution performance.

COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Instructional Design Essentials

ADMB9006D

Are you new to your job with the federal government? Need to know and understand your basic benefits? Then this is the course for you! This online course is designed to give you an introduction to Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) and employee benefit programs.

Federal Hiring Reform for Supervisors and Managers

PMGT7215D

Learn how to improve the design and delivery of your training programs, make cost-effective choices, and ensure training funds are well spent. Gain practical, how-to-guidance on the most essential aspects of the training process.

Executive Writing
WRIT9001D

Get the training you need to recruit and hire well-qualified individuals effectively, efficiently, and timely. Partner with Human Resources to get the right people into the right jobs and take ownership of the hiring process.

Category Rating
STAF8014D

Learn proven ways to streamline and improve your written work, from policies to handbooks to controversial correspondence. Discover techniques for tactfully managing and improving others writing, as well.

FEDERAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CMA Examination Prep Course-Part 1

ACCT9985D ACCT9986D

Effectively and correctly use category rating, as required by the Presidents Hiring Reform initiatives, to rate and refer federal job applicants. Learn how to develop quality categories that distinguish candidates, apply veterans preference, prepare certificates for the selecting official, and select candidates from the certificate.

Advanced Suitability Adjudication

STAF9101D

CMA Examination Prep Course-Part 2

CMA (Certified Management Accountant) is the advanced professional certification specifically designed to measure the advanced accounting and financial management skills used in organizations today. Graduate School USA offers

Get your suitability adjudication skills refreshed and updated. Review the adjudication process, the specific factors and additional considerations covered by OPM regulations, and OPMs Issues Characterization Chart, so that you can make better decisions, avoid reversals on appeal, and safeguard the integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the federal service.

Calculating Service Computation Dates

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Cyber Security: A Technical Approach

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Determine creditable service and correctly compute all four service computation dates (SCDs): leave, retirement, RIF, and TSP. Recognize when and how to change an employees SCD.

Federal Staffing (Distance Education)

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Learn how to select and retain the best qualified candidates for your agency jobs. Gain the background and knowledge necessary to operate in the complex environment of the federal staffing process.

Explore the threats and vulnerabilities associated with your information network, the current laws and regulations in place to help protect it, and what organizations can do to better protect themselves. Also explore the current trend of social networking and cloud computing, and the security ramifications from an organizational standpoint.

STANFORD ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Converting Strategy Action

PROJ9510D

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Introduction to Cloud Computing Architecture and Services

ENTR7101T

Cloud computing can quickly deliver cost savings and enable a more agile infrastructure. Learn what the cloud is and how to assess the value of the cloud, and see how major vendors are supporting organizations like yours through the cloud.

Evolve from being project-driven to being focused and successful with projects that consistently execute business strategies. You receive a solid introduction to the full range of approaches and emerging concepts for aligning project initiatives with strategic objectives, and you are introduced to critical steps that are examined in depth in the succeeding program sessions.

Designing Cloud Computing Architectures

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Mastering the Project Portfolio

PROJ9517D

Learn how to architect solutions in the cloud. Through training and labs, discover how to architect high-availability solutions that meet both your business and disaster recovery needs.

Implementing Systems Using Cloud Computing Architectures

ENTR8102T

Learn how to develop solutions in the cloud. Through instructor-led training and hands-on labs using tools like Amazons Web Services, discover how to develop powerful and low-cost solutions.

Receive a complete methodology for project selection, prioritization, and oversight plus mentoring on how to resolve real-world implementation concerns facing government leaders. Make sure you are investing in the right projects, giving those projects the right resources, and getting them completed at the right time.

Managing Without Authority

PROJ9515D

Securing Systems Using Cloud Computing Architecture

ENTR9101T

Learn how to construct secure systems in the cloud through the use of encryption, secure architectures, and appropriate identify andaccess management approaches.

Discover skills that top-rated problem solvers employ to achieve project, program, and portfolio success. This highly interactive course demonstrates effective leadership techniquesincluding how to influence decisions, gain commitments, hold people accountable, and address performance problems and provides plenty of practice in using them.

Microsoft Excel Budgeting Techniques

SPRD8550T

Leading Effective Teams

PROJ9513D

Learn the keys to utilizing Excel in the budgeting process, including: integrating management goals; working with operating budgets, costs, and expenses; controlling cash; and structuring a capital budget. See how Excel will help you with performance measurements and analyzing your actuals using pivot tables and data tables.

Microsoft Excel 2007: Macros

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Acquire the strategic perspective you need to conquer the vast initiatives of your organization. Drawing on research into high-performance teams whose leaders attained success, you learn how to avoid breakdowns and how to achieve breakthroughs. Discover methods for unleashing a teams potential by applying proven approaches to communication, coordination, collaboration, and conflict management.

Leveraging the Customer Relationship

PROJ9514D

Take your Excel skills to the next level. Learn how to create, run, and revise macros to allow you to simplify repetitive tasks and store the commands for the complicated ones. You will also learn how to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), add macros to the Excel toolbar, and share your macros with other users.

Learn proven communication and negotiation techniques for handling the challenging dynamics of customer interaction. Discover how you can be most effective at balancing competing objectives, facilitating decision making, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Financial Mastery for Projects

PROJ9511D

Strategic PMO Projects to Enterprise

PROJ9519D

Receive a high-level understanding of financial statements and how programs and projects create new products, processes, and services that directly affect those statements. Gain insight into how a projects products and its performance affect revenue recognition, profitability, and cash flow for the organization as a whole. Learn how to analyze the value of programs and projects throughout their life cycles using discounted cash flow and similar analysis, and how to take the necessary actions to improve a projects financial performance.

Learn the wide range of proven approaches and emerging concepts for aligning engagements, programs, and projects with an organizations strategic objectives. This elective course combines the latest research from Stanford with the world of practical strategy execution and provides proven techniques for creating SPMOs to support the achievement of your organizations strategic objectives. Prerequisite: We strongly recommend completing the curriculums Converting Strategy Into Action course.

Mastering the Integrated Program

PROJ9516D

Leadership for Strategic Execution

PROJ9512D

Discover a unique set of management skills for identifying and assessing the myriad of interfaces and relationships affecting your programs. Acquire proven techniques for initiating, defining, organizing, planning, tracking, managing, and closing out programs of any type and size.

As the capstone of the Stanford Advanced Project Management curriculum, this course addresses the crucial role that leadership plays in achieving better organizational performance in todays dynamic global environment. Learn how you can be an effective leader, whether for making strategic decisions, translating strategy, assessing risk, establishing sponsorship, or managing change within your organization.

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Federal Accounting and Auditing Internal Revenue Agent Contracting Phlebotomy Technician

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