Improve return on your employee investment. Firms that invest in their own people have a lower attrition rate and often discover untapped talent within their organizations. UIC Professional Development Programs specializes in working closely with organizations to develop customized training partnerships that enhance competitiveness and effectiveness in an evolving business climate.

Staying competitive and adding value means training employees for specific roles within a company culture. That's why business organizations come to UIC's Professional Development Program for custom training programs.

The mission of the UIC Professional Development Program is to design and conduct customized training programs that:

• Align a company's missions and core values with training outcomes
• Provide professional development to adults to broaden and enrich their skills
• Extend knowledge of modern business techniques
  

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Who Should Attend

You decide. Choose from among your staff those most likely to gain the most from UIC's professional business expertise.

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Program Overview/Highlights

The UIC Customized Training Program focuses on customer satisfaction. As your partner in training and learning, we provide a proactive learning approach to support employee performance and organizational productivity.

PDP offers over 45 courses in the following areas:

E-Business:

• Internet Overview
  
• Internet Marketing
  
• E-business Platforms
  
• Building an Internet Business Plan
  
• Change Management
  
• Customer Relationship Management
  
• Entre/Intrapreneurship
  
• Knowledge Management/Business Intelligence

Leadership/Management:

• Values Based Leadership
  
• Effective Leadership
  
• Change Leadership
  
• Making Teams Productive
  
• Change Management
  
• Customer Relationship Management
  
• Project Management
  
• Fundamentals of Sales Management
  
• Managing Diversity in the Workplace
  
• Improving Performance Management

Sales/Marketing:

• Internet Marketing
  
• Sales and Customer Relationship Management
  
• Building Strategic Relationships
  
• Trade Show Marketing
  
• Implementing a Winning Marketing Plan

Finance:

• Finance for the Non-financial Manager

Organizational Development:

• Management Assessment Techniques
  
• Work/Life Balance Training
  
• Time/Priority Management Seminar
  
• Creativity and Innovation
  
• Dealing with Difficult People

Strategy:

• Strategic Thinking
  
• Strategic Planning and Goal Setting

Business Language/Communication:

• Business Communication and Etiquette
  
• Successful Presentations
  
• Business Writing
  
• Business Spanish
  
• Business French
  
• Business Chinese
  
• Business English (ESL)

Small Business:

• Building an Internet Business Plan
  
• Entre/Intrapreneurship
  
• Implementing a Winning Marketing Plan

International Business:

• International Marketing
  
• Implementing a Global Supply Chain
  
• International Finance
  
• The Culture of U.S. Business
  
• International Human Resources/Culture

Real Estate:

• Real Estate Markets in Chicago
• Real Estate Development
• Real Estate Finance
• Real Estate Appraisal

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Location Flexibility

Choose from in-house training or training at our convenient training center.

On-Site Training
UIC's Customized Training Program can bring training to your site at your convenience. Training at your location minimizes travel costs and time, and skills can be immediately implemented.

Off-Site Training
There may be advantages to training your staff off-site. If so, participants can come to the completely-equipped and comfortable classrooms in our West Loop Chicago campus. UIC's campus training venue is designed to provide a stimulating learning environment, is easily accessible from major highways, and offers convenient parking.

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Your Key Benefits

In addition to establishing an educational partnership between your company and UIC, the Professional Development Program offers many more significant advantages:

• You select the participants
• You determine where, when and how long
• You increase business profitability through enhanced skills and efficiency
• Your employees will increase productivity and significantly upgrade their skills
• Your results will be "across the board"
• Your employees learn together as a staff/team
• You and your employees will be able to apply new skills immediately

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Professional Instruction

Teaching our customized programs are UIC business school faculty who have extensive experience as trainers and consultants, as well as Industry professionals who are highly engaged in the business community.

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Why Professional Development from UIC Works

The UIC Professional Development Program focuses on customer satisfaction. At all times, we are flexible and willing to listen. We work diligently to understand your business, its core values, mission and culture, and we align your company's mission with specific training outcomes. We will:

• Develop performance-based learning objectives to measure exit competencies and achieve instructional goals
• Combine cutting-edge, innovative, instructional designs with traditional adult education principles
• Develop and facilitate individualized, multiple-path instruction
• Coordinate training facilities and handle all logistics associated with training delivery

Vision your company's future with top of the line professional training. Call UIC Professional Development Programs at 312-355-0423 for complete information and to design solutions to your training needs.

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