Training Course Catalog

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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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.