PDCA Contractor College 'Online' Business Courses

Building a High Performance Organization
This course and the corresponding test are required for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ This course explores a new way to look at high performance
▪ Here behavior is revealed as the key to achieving performance improvements.
▪ This course will expose what most affects the behavior of individuals.
▪ The power of group behavior will be examined and identified giving you a real key to success.
▪ Here the major drivers of team performance are illuminated and explained in a comprehensive manner so that you can improve performance in your organization.
▪ And, step by step, the methods to employ the Performance Mechanism to help you shape your organization for sustainable high performance improvement.

Building A Powerful Business Strategy
This course and the corresponding test are required for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ This course provides you with the knowledge to design and implement a powerful strategic business plan and know what to expect from it.
▪ Aimed at a high return on investment, processes are revealed that will help you succeed in a truly efficient manner.
▪ The best practices for strategic planning will be uncovered starting with process that includes concepts and techniques to materially enhance your organization’s results, your capabilities, profit and company value.
▪ Discover the high impact/high success elements of strategy and strategic business planning
▪ Using your core purpose as a business, this course will assist you in developing an action plan for real success.  

Financial Management for Privately Held Businesses
This course and the corresponding test are electives for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ Learn the keys to planning & performance measurement including indicators the use of key performance indicators.
▪ Examine ways to develop improved cash management procedures.
▪ The best accounts receivable measures that will assist in a better bottom line including the tax consequences.
▪ The elements of financial management geared for positive outcome including inventory, buildings and equipment, personnel, and operations.
▪ You will receive expert guidance concerning the areas of debt, insurance costs for business risks and communications expense.
▪ Taxes will be covered with a point of maximizing your utilization of Section 125, Tax Credits and more.
▪ The importance of an advisory board in setting tactical and strategic goals.

 Managing for High Performance
 This course and the corresponding test are required for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ Discover a rigorous, disciplined process for managing the performance of people is a critical part of every manager’s job
▪ Realize how to ensure the “right” talent is in place and cover how setting individual goals linked to business strategy and priorities is a key for success.
▪ Examine how weaving company development into goals is a key way grow real company talent.
▪ Learn how providing frequent and candid performance feedback can assist in measuring individual contributions and how to differentiate levels in individual performance.
▪ Finally, you will see how the combination of the people and the disciplined processes result in a culture that seeks to produce sustainable results.

Marketing Strategy I
This course and the corresponding test are required for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ You will learn why a “Brand Awareness” is linked to sales leadership in any category.
▪ Examine media solutions that are right for your business and prioritize them for cost effectiveness.
▪ Discover how not to, “box yourself,” in when branding your companies products and servers.
▪ Branding and Personification will help you identify the attributes that shape the perceptions of your brand personality
▪ You will learn to visually plot your product and your competitors’ product or service positions.
▪ Insightful methodologies are defined giving you ways to improve information extraction, organization and ideation techniques.
▪ You will learn to build a comprehensive cornerstone-marketing communications document allowing you to plot your marketing success.

Marketing Strategy II
This course and the corresponding test are electives for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ This course covers full circle marketing showing you how to create sales through seamless integration.
▪ Building upon principles uncovered in Marketing I*, this course will assist you in developing an integrated Full Circle Marketing Matrix.
▪ Discover your marketing opportunity, your strengths, weaknesses, and position your  vis-à-vis competition.
▪ Here we review and identify in order of customer importance all factors that separate your brand, product or company.
▪ And, identify and implement the action steps necessary to create the “brand footprint” that will open and exploit your market opportunities.
     *Marketing I is a prerequisite for this course.

Personal Fiscal Fitness
This course and the corresponding test are electives for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ This course covers the critical components of a financial plan.
▪ Here you will gather the tools to discover where you stand in relationship to your wealth accumulation, retirement funding, estate planning, and financial goals.
▪ This course presents clear and easy to follow presentations on retirement planning, education planning, investment planning estate planning, insurance planning, tax planning, and business succession.
▪ Valuable tools will be reviewed including an examination of the amount necessary to maintain ongoing desired lifestyle during retirement.
▪ Expert and easy to follow assistance is provided so that you can determine the amount necessary to fund your children or grandchildren’s education costs.
▪ You will find critical information concerning the appropriate asset allocation and investment alternatives to meet your financial goals while simultaneously minimizing risk to the extent possible.
▪ And, help with the identification of those risks that could impair a successful financial plan and the acquisition of the appropriate insurance products to mitigate such risk.

Picking Winners
This course and the corresponding test are electives for PDCA Accreditation.

▪ How to identify, qualify and hire top performers!
▪ Learn concepts and techniques to materially enhance your organization’s ability to find and hire top performers.
▪ Discuss high impact/high success recruiting strategies and concepts.
▪ Provide information that you can use to improve your organization’s results.
▪ Examine the obstacles to hiring top performers and review the cost of mis-hires for your organization.
▪ This course covers processes for hiring including ways to continuously improve and stay out of trouble.