Training Course Catalog

APQC’s 3-day process manager certification course is the foundation you need to empower and transform your organization with the essential tools to design, improve, and evolve the performance of your processes. You will learn how to apply APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology across the Process Lifecycle leveraging the power of APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementTM.

APQC’s 3-day process manager certification course is the foundation you need to empower and transform your organization with the essential tools to design, improve, and evolve the performance of your processes. You will learn how to apply APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology across the Process Lifecycle leveraging the power of APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementTM.

Join us for a dynamic, one-day certification course designed to equip you with the essential skills and competencies outlined in the Thought Leadership Standard from the Global Thought Leadership Institute (GTLI) at APQC. Whether you're part of a formal thought leadership program or creating content independently, this course will help you elevate your impact by aligning your work with the full thought leadership lifecycle — from ideation to sustained impact.

This course will help participants understand how to match their organizations’ knowledge needs with the right capture and transfer approaches. It will include an overview of best practices for critical knowledge transfer and help participants understand needs to support access, refresh, and apply critical knowledge to realize the value.

APQC’s 3-day Knowledge Manager Certification Course helps participants harness the power of knowledge to drive efficiency and improve performance. Participants will gain practical insights and learn best practices, methods, and approaches to enable knowledge capture, transfer, and reuse in their organization.

APQC’s 3-day process manager certification course is the foundation you need to empower and transform your organization with the essential tools to design, improve, and evolve the performance of your processes. You will learn how to apply APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology across the Process Lifecycle leveraging the power of APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementTM.

APQC’s 3-day process manager certification course is the foundation you need to empower and transform your organization with the essential tools to design, improve, and evolve the performance of your processes. You will learn how to apply APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology across the Process Lifecycle leveraging the power of APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementTM.

APQC’s 3-day Knowledge Manager Certification Course helps participants harness the power of knowledge to drive efficiency and improve performance. Participants will gain practical insights and learn best practices, methods, and approaches to enable knowledge capture, transfer, and reuse in their organization.

APQC’s 3-day process manager certification course is the foundation you need to empower and transform your organization with the essential tools to design, improve, and evolve the performance of your processes. You will learn how to apply APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology across the Process Lifecycle leveraging the power of APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementTM.

Join us for a dynamic, one-day certification course designed to equip you with the essential skills and competencies outlined in the Thought Leadership Standard from the Global Thought Leadership Institute (GTLI) at APQC. Whether you're part of a formal thought leadership program or creating content independently, this course will help you elevate your impact by aligning your work with the full thought leadership lifecycle — from ideation to sustained impact.

APQC’s 3-day process manager certification course is the foundation you need to empower and transform your organization with the essential tools to design, improve, and evolve the performance of your processes. You will learn how to apply APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology across the Process Lifecycle leveraging the power of APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementTM.

APQC’s three-day Knowledge Transfer Specialist Certification course provides participants with a deep learning experience in how to apply proven methodologies, best practices, and techniques to ensure the transfer of knowledge.

APQC’s 3-day, virtual framework professional certification course will explore the significance of frameworks for driving business value. Participants will understand the power and benefits of using frameworks and gain practical insights, best practices, and approaches for applying frameworks and adapting them to fit an organization’s specific needs.

Join us for a dynamic, one-day certification course designed to equip you with the essential skills and competencies outlined in the Thought Leadership Standard from the Global Thought Leadership Institute (GTLI) at APQC. Whether you're part of a formal thought leadership program or creating content independently, this course will help you elevate your impact by aligning your work with the full thought leadership lifecycle — from ideation to sustained impact.

APQC’s 3-day Knowledge Manager Certification Course helps participants harness the power of knowledge to drive efficiency and improve performance. Participants will gain practical insights and learn best practices, methods, and approaches to enable knowledge capture, transfer, and reuse in their organization.

APQC’s 3-day process manager certification course is the foundation you need to empower and transform your organization with the essential tools to design, improve, and evolve the performance of your processes. You will learn how to apply APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology across the Process Lifecycle leveraging the power of APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementTM.

This workshop will focus on strategies and approaches to systematically measure the efficiency of KM. Through discussion and activities, participants will learn what measures are appropriate for the KM approaches they are using and how to track and interpret those measures over time. 

Participants will step into a typical workplace environment to confront challenges like finding and reusing knowledge and see how these challenges impact performance and morale. Working with KM experts, the team will identify critical knowledge needs and redesign the workflow such that knowledge is captured and transferred while the work is being performed.

In this highly interactive course, participants will reference other organizations’ experiences as they consider and discuss their own organizations and their level of maturity. At the end of this course, participants will understand the seven core components of an effective system and the benefits of an external review. In addition, they will know how to conduct a quick “check-up” of their own organizations.

This course will focus on the process steps required to develop, align, and execute a KM strategic plan. Participants will be introduced to a four-phase strategic planning methodology, as well as common definitions and terms used in strategic planning.

This course will focus on the process steps required to develop, align, and execute a KM strategic plan. Participants will simulate being part of a diverse KM team that represents the competing needs, perspectives, and focus areas that are typical in many organizations.

This course drills into the four phases of benchmarking - plan, collect, analyze, and apply - with a focus on the techniques and skills needed to perform benchmarking projects.

This workshop will introduce participants to a variety of processes and tools to track the impact of KM activities on business processes and organizational outcomes.

This course will focus on the critical elements of communities of practice (CoP) design and tips and techniques to help you plan your organization’s CoP strategy.

The course will walk through the structure of Business Process Management (BPM), highlighting the fundamentals of business case components, including hard and soft benefits and costs.

Participants will learn essential knowledge management (KM) concepts, frameworks, and best practices to enhance knowledge flow and sharing within their organizations. By the end of this course, participants will be able to develop effective KM governance models, align KM activities with business processes, and implement KM approaches that facilitate knowledge flow and sharing.

Participants will step into the operational roles of a high-volume transactional service industry and
work together to get the job done. While simulating ever-increasing performance requirements,
limited resources, and typical constraints on change, each iteration will allow for team-based
improvements that demonstrate the power of working together to find common solutions that
benefit the whole.

APQC’s Establishing Effective Measures and Analytics course teaches how to define meaningful metrics, ensure data integrity, and apply analytics to drive smarter decisions and better performance. Based on APQC’s research and real-world experience, this course equips business leaders with the tools to align measurement with strategy, gain organizational buy-in, and turn insights into action.

This course covers the essentials for process maturity assessments within any organization, demonstrating how to build a maturity model and apply it as part of continuous improvement across the business.

This course will help organizations understand how to evolve, sustain, and continuously improve their KM programs. Participants will develop use cases documenting real-life scenarios focused on their current KM capabilities and gain insights for improving their scenarios.

This training course delivers the latest methodologies, processes, and best practices for managing content. This course provides an in-depth understanding of content management and criteria to identify high-value content that is important to an organization's business outcomes.

This course is designed to give knowledge leaders the tools and strategies they need to succeed, whether they’re launching a large transformative initiative or keeping one fresh. Data from APQC research will be introduced that leaders can use to make a business case for advancing their knowledge management efforts.

The process performance workshop prepares participants to understand process performance measurement and the importance of monitoring and controlling their processes.

In this introduction to benchmarking course, you'll gain a holistic understanding of the essential practice of benchmarking and its application within the APQC framework. APQC has developed a robust four-phase methodology for conducting benchmarking exercises. Throughout this course, you will explore each phase to gain an understanding of the steps and techniques to conduct effective benchmarking and achieve higher-quality results. APQC guides you through creating surveys, gathering and validating data, and sharing actionable results that guide organizations to accelerate innovation and change.

This introduction to knowledge management course provides definitions and fundamentals for getting knowledge management started in your organization. A participant will learn why organizations build knowledge management capabilities and the value it can provide. Common definitions and methodologies provide the foundation for understanding knowledge and knowledge management.

This process improvement course introduces the concepts, terminology, skills, and techniques that allow us to get control of the work we do in our organizations. Participants will leave this course with a roadmap of process techniques and how they fit across the process lifecycle for any work process.

This course will provide best practices, techniques, tools, and lessons for building skills to elicit, capture, and begin the knowledge transfer process. The course will provide common ways to identify critical knowledge and what roles are most effective in a structured knowledge elicitation and transfer event.

APQC’s Knowledge Management Basics learning path provides a practical and foundational understanding and skill development for professionals looking to apply knowledge techniques across their organization. It focuses on understanding the many forms knowledge takes and the proven techniques to enhance its flow, use and reuse, and impact.

In this course, participants will learn why organizations map knowledge; what the critical success factors are for making and analyzing maps; and how organizations use completed maps to improve strategy and operations.

Learn knowledge-sharing best practices with APQC’s course. Learn to overcome cultural resistance, trust issues, and misaligned measures to boost collaboration and innovation. Perfect for KM practitioners, business leaders, and HR professionals.

This course is organized around APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM and characteristics of high-performing, best-practice process-managed organizations. Participants will learn about each of the seven tenets and how they work together to build a strong process management approach.

This course will walk you through the fundamental tenets of the Master Planning for Innovation (MPI) methodology and show you how to align around important change initiatives; establish clear authority and responsibilities; establish clear roles and deliverables; appropriately resource and plan for change; and organize your information management and flow.

This course will focus on identifying measurement strategies appropriate to your level of Knowledge Management (KM) maturity. Participants will be introduced to a variety of processes and tools to track the impact of KM activities on business processes and organizational outcomes.

This course helps participants to understand process performance measurement and the importance of monitoring and controlling processes. Participants will learn how to identify control points and their associated measures, connect process measures to strategic objectives and critical success factors, and build integrity into defining and managing process measures.

Learn how to identify, assess, and select process improvements, pick the right improvement approach and manage the change process, and integrate and align different improvement initiatives across the organization.

This course teaches practical process analysis skills essential for designing new workflows or improving existing ones. You’ll learn how to apply foundational principles, choose the right techniques based on goals and context, and evaluate processes for timing, risk, and reliability. The course also covers Lean Six Sigma concepts and helps you avoid common pitfalls like analysis paralysis and solution bias—ensuring decisions are driven by value.

APQC’s Process Basics learning path is designed to provide foundational understanding and skill development toward proven techniques and practices for design and management of the work done across an organization. The courses include training on process and process management best practices that work across all sizes and types of organizations. You will gain understanding of critical process design practices that not only produce an effective and efficient process, but also make it sustainable and enable both continuous and transformative improvement.

In this course, participants will learn how to design, implement, and manage effective business processes and document critical process knowledge using various tools such as process frameworks, model current and future state, and prepare process definition documents, SIPOC models, and RACI charts. They will also understand how to ensure alignment with organizational goals and create agility to changing environments.

This course introduces participants to process frameworks such as APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)®. The structure, core principles, and use of frameworks will be studied with examples from real organizations.

In APQC’s Process Framework Essentials course, you'll explore the structure, core principles, and practical applications of frameworks, with real-world examples. The course covers essential skills for selecting, designing, and applying process frameworks for various value-driven purposes. You'll also learn how to adopt or customize a process framework, including APQC's Process Classification Framework®, for your organization to enhance process management, content management, and benchmarking.

During this course, you will learn the benefits of the SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers) tool and how to use it effectively in your improvement projects.

This course is organized around the Seven Tenets of Process Management. Participants in this course will learn about the process lifecycle and how the seven tenets guide mature process practices; details and examples for each of the seven tenets; and how the seven tenets work together to build a strong process management approach.

This course will discuss common types of process maps and demonstrate best practices for their creation and use based on real examples from APQC engagement with organizations like yours. Participants will go through the life cycle of the process map from design to performance, and subsequent evaluation and continuous improvement.

During this course, participants will learn how to conduct a process risk analysis to identify and assess factors that may jeopardize successful performance.

In this course, participants will learn the power of RACI charting, one of the more popular techniques used for role-based analysis, to clarify roles and responsibilities within teams and processes. Real-life examples will be used to highlight the approach, variations, and tips and tricks for applying it for real value.

During this course, participants will learn communication strategies and tactics to help create roadmaps that move from building awareness and understanding to commitment and action. Participants will learn how to create a KM communication roadmap that includes KM stakeholders.

This course will give participants the tools to understand what knowledge is truly critical to their organizations and determine the most urgent priorities for capture and transfer. It will include an overview of established best practices and examples from leading organizations.

APQC’s benchmarking course teaches you to plan, analyze, and apply benchmarking data to boost performance, find opportunities, and support continuous improvement.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of change, assessing readiness, crafting change strategies, implementing change, and sustaining momentum. At the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to support organizational change efforts as a practitioner, engage leaders, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

This course empowers professionals to build practical AI fluency and adopt a growth mindset that leverages generative AI (GenAI) to amplify subject matter expertise and establish industry authority.

The Designing End-to-End processes course goes beyond traditional process design by helping participants understand how individual processes connect, how to manage handoffs, and how to enable performance measurement across the full value chain. Learners will gain practical skills in identifying end-to-end processes, managing complexity, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

This course will help participants understand how to match their organizations’ knowledge needs with the right capture and transfer approaches. It will include an overview of best practices for critical knowledge transfer and help participants understand needs to support access, refresh, and apply critical knowledge to realize the value.