Training Course Catalog
APQC’s accredited training courses and certifications offer an efficient and cost-effective way to learn the tools and techniques needed to improve your individual and organizational capabilities and performance.
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Designing End-to-End Processes
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.
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Embedding Knowledge in the Flow of Work
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.
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Establishing Effective Measures and Analytics
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.
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Fundamentals of Content Management
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.
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Generative AI for Thought Leadership
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.
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Introduction to Benchmarking
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.
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Introduction to Knowledge Management
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.
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Introduction to Process
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.
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Knowledge Elicitation
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.
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Knowledge Management Basics Learning Path
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.
5 courses | 221 lessons
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Knowledge Mapping
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.
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Knowledge Sharing: Best Practices to Break Down Barriers
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.
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Managing Change
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.
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Master Planning for Innovation
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.
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Prioritizing and Implementing Process Improvement
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.