Training Course Catalog

Become an APQC Certified Framework Professional and gain expertise in industry-leading frameworks, including the globally recognized APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF)®, trusted by businesses worldwide.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.