Training Course Catalog

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.

This course teaches practical process analysis skills essential for designing new workflows or improving existing ones. You’ll learn how to apply foundational principles, choose the right techniques based on goals and context, and evaluate processes for timing, risk, and reliability. The course also covers Lean Six Sigma concepts and helps you avoid common pitfalls like analysis paralysis and solution bias—ensuring decisions are driven by value.

In this course, participants will learn how to design, implement, and manage effective business processes and document critical process knowledge using various tools such as process frameworks, model current and future state, and prepare process definition documents, SIPOC models, and RACI charts. They will also understand how to ensure alignment with organizational goals and create agility to changing environments.

In APQC’s Process Framework Essentials course, you'll explore the structure, core principles, and practical applications of frameworks, with real-world examples. The course covers essential skills for selecting, designing, and applying process frameworks for various value-driven purposes. You'll also learn how to adopt or customize a process framework, including APQC's Process Classification Framework®, for your organization to enhance process management, content management, and benchmarking.

The Process Fundamentals Boot Camp is designed to equip participants with essential skills and knowledge needed for effective process management. Organized around the Seven Tenets of Process Management, this course explores the characteristics of high-performing organizations that effectively manage their processes.

This course is organized around the Seven Tenets of Process Management. Participants in this course will learn about the process lifecycle and how the seven tenets guide mature process practices; details and examples for each of the seven tenets; and how the seven tenets work together to build a strong process management approach.

This course will help participants understand how to match their organizations’ knowledge needs with the right capture and transfer approaches. It will include an overview of best practices for critical knowledge transfer and help participants understand needs to support access, refresh, and apply critical knowledge to realize the value.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.