Workforce Education
Transforming your organization's capabilities and ways of working requires programs that extend throughout the workforce.
In addition to our acclaimed executive development programs, nGenera offers Workforce Education programs that are designed to bring the insights and skills that form the core of our executive programs to your entire workforce - cost effectively.
Our research on Next Generation Enterprises has led us to develop a competency model that clusters around four broad areas that we find comprise the essential baseline for tomorrow’s leading organizations: web 2.0, collaboration, innovation, and business acumen.
As with all of our programs, this core workforce education curriculum is based on thought leadership from the nGenera Innovation Network and developed with the same attention to detail and quality.
The core curriculum includes the following courses, which may be taken individually or combined:
- Web & Enterprise 2.0 Foundations
- Collaboration Foundations
- Innovation Foundations
- Business Acumen Foundations
Classes are designed to be taken in an immersive, instructor-led format – either in person or remotely – with many examples and exercises so that the critical learning objectives are met.
The goal is to obtain a high degree of retention of the concepts, terminology, examples, and their practical application, demonstrating proficiency in the key competency areas.
The Workforce Education courses are designed to be 1-day or less each in duration and can be customized to fit specific additional learning objectives, upon customer request.
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Web and Enterprise 2.0 Foundations
Our flagship program focuses on the movement to Enterprise2.0
Helping All Employees Understand Enterprise 2.0 - the Open, Networked Organization that is Emerging
Our Web & Enterprise 2.0 Foundations workshop was created in exclusive arrangement with O'Reilly Media and partnership with Hinchcliffe & Company, a global leader in Web 2.0 education.
Web & Enterprise 2.0 Foundations is an intensive, day-long course designed to provide a thorough introduction of the revolutionary world of Enterprise2.0 through a deep exploration of the latest ideas, business models, trends, and techniques behind Enterprise2.0.
The program explores the dramatic shift underway in the manner in which organizations are organized, innovate, and create value. Information technology and new networked business structures are removing the sources of friction in our economy, producing major dimensions of change that every business must address.
What Participants Will Learn
- Web 2.0 Fundamentals: Are you familiar with Web 2.0 underlying technologies, platforms, and concepts? Learn the 7 major patterns of Web 2.0 impacting structure and business models.
- Building a Better Enterprise: Do you have the right capabilities for Enterprise 2.0? Discover how informed, collaborative, agile businesses generate productivity and innovation.
- Enterprise 2.0 definitions, history, patterns, practitioners
- Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Do you understand how to apply Enterprise 2.0 to obtain a good return? Technology, processes and culture
- Enterprise 2.0 Case Studies and Planning Methodology
How Participants Will Benefit
- Gain a thorough grounding in the key elements of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0; how to apply them to products and services
- Master actionable, specific best practices for making networked software dramatically more effective
- Understand how to best monetize the powerful audience building capabilities of Enterprise2.0 applications
The rapid pace and exciting course materials of Enterprise 2.0 Foundations combine the application of Web and Enterprise 2.0 techniques in individual and team settings to make this an experience unlike any business strategy or Web course you've ever attended.
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Collaboration Foundations
Building Collaborative Capacity - Overcoming the Challenges Posed by Complex Teams and Tasks
This innovative course provides practical, well-grounded approaches to building Collaborative Capacity within your organization. It is modeled on the highly successful program developed for senior executives by nGenera’s Innovation Network.
What Participants Will Learn
- Investing in signature relationship practices: What are they? And how to do it?
- Modeling collaborative behavior
- Creating a "gift" culture
- Ensuring the requisite baseline collaborative skills
- Supporting a strong sense of community
- Assigning team leaders that are both task- and relationship-oriented
- Building on heritage relationships
- Understanding role clarity and task ambiguity
How Participants Will Benefit
- Gain a thorough grounding in the key elements of collaboration; how to apply them inside an organization and with external communities including customers, suppliers, and others
- Master actionable, specific best practices for making collaboration dramatically more effective
- Understand how to best monetize the powerful audience building capabilities of Enterprise2.0 applications
Based on one of the largest academically-grounded studies of team collaboration ever conducted, the assessment and detailed approaches included in this program will help your teams share knowledge more effectively.
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Innovation Foundations
Contributing in an Innovative Organization
True invention is expensive and hard. Incremental improvement is not enough. What organizations need more than ever is a culture of innovation: the creation of "new" by combining, morphing, and extending the "old."
"Innovation Foundations" is based on nGenera’s world-class workshops developed for senior executive leaders to build their skills for creating innovative organizations.
What Participants Will Learn
- Creating and participating in an environment that fosters collaboration
- Posing intriguing questions to colleagues and the organization and participating in the discussion
- Continually remaining open to disruptive ideas and looking for ways to apply them in work and the organization
- The importance of bringing new people and ideas into the group and/or creating ways for members to have on-going contact with those outside the organization
How Participants Will Benefit
- Gain a thorough grounding in innovation and how to apply it to products and services
- Master actionable, specific best practices to become dramatically more effective in innovating
Based on ground-breaking research and years of client experience, this session explores these key leadership challenges and provides participants with a wide variety of approaches for accomplishing these three objectives in your organization.
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Business Acumen Foundations
Raising the Business Acumen of an Organization’s Workforce
This course is drawn from our world-class program designed for senior, non-financial leaders. The goal is to ensure that everyone in an organization master the core business skills required today for success in a Next Generation Enterprise.
Major topics include interpreting the company's internal business documents, understanding its important performance indicators, preparing a compelling business case, and assessing the financial implications of key functionally driven actions.
Further, the course provides an introduction to the concepts of entrepreneurship, as well as both personal and organizational agility.
What Participants Will Learn
- Accounting: income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements
- Finance basics: Time value of money and ROI options (NPV, IRR), financing options
- Entrepreneurship basics: Business case basics, business planning
- Organizational and personal agility: Context, examples, key attributes, exercises to demonstrate attributes
How Participants Will Benefit
- Gain a thorough grounding in the key elements of business acumen; how to apply them to products and services
- Master actionable, specific best practices for making direct participation in and management of the financial performance of the group, division, or organization dramatically more effective
- Understand how to best assemble the resources and content for a persuasive business case
Through this course, you can ensures that members of your workforce are grounded in key business fundamentals, not losing sight of the critical business measures such as cash flow, profitability, and ROI that must be met, even in an environment of dramatic industry and business upheaval underway.
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