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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Certified Framework Professional
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.
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Certified Knowledge Manager
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.
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Certified Knowledge Transfer Specialist
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.
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Certified Process Manager
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.
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Certified Thought Leadership Producer
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.
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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 Fundamentals (Boot Camp)
This two-day intensive boot camp is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and
practical skills necessary to apply knowledge practices and principles in your organization.