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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Aligning KM Activities to Business Outcomes
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.
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Applying Knowledge Practices in the Flow of Work (Learning Lab)
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.
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Assessing Organizational Readiness for Change
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.
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Building a High-Powered KM Strategy
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.
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Building a High-Powered KM Strategy (Learning Lab)
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.
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Conducting Benchmarking Projects
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.
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Create a Value Path for Your KM Approach
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.
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Designing and Sustaining Communities of Practice
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.
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Developing a Process Management Business Case
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.
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Enhancing Team Performance with Process Improvement (Learning Lab)
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
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Essential Skills to Map Process and Knowledge
In this course, participants will learn essential process mapping techniques and how to link critical knowledge assets to the processes. Through real-life examples and practical tips, participants will gain insights on how to apply these techniques for tangible benefits in your organizations.
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Evaluating and Improving Process Maturity
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.
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Evolving and Sustaining a Knowledge Management Program
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.
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Governance Essentials for Process and Knowledge Management
This course will discuss the foundational principles for effective governance that can be applied in
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Habits of Effective Knowledge Leaders (The Executive Leader's Role in KM)
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.