Advance Your Skills: Digital Badges

Digital Badges

Upskill quickly and meet market demands with an Advance Your Skills Digital Badge! Taught by industry professionals, the program is designed to get you ready to take on your next challenge and provide a digital badge as visible evidence of your demonstrated competency.

How it works

• This badge unit is fully online, and is designed to be completed in one month.
• The unit is 4 weeks in length.
• Classes meet once a week for 2 hours live on Zoom.
• There is asynchronous work (reading, videos, and projects).
• Those who successfully complete the unit will earn a digital badge.

Digital badges are available upon completion of one or more of the following units:

Managing Operations Badges

Operations Badge 1: Breaking Silos and Building Teams to Achieve Goal Alignment

Upcoming session: October 24-November 14, 2023
To register for Unit II, please contact Laura Sear, senior program director for the School of Adult Learning and New Initiatives, by email.

Earners of this badge have learned how different functional teams impact each other across an organization. Earners are able to: identify and break down silos among teams using process improvement, build long-term constructive working relationships across teams, align goals and strengthen team cohesion and develop effective communication strategies to achieve transparency.

Operations Badge 2: Building a Learning Culture – The Competitive Advantage

Upcoming sessions: February 27-March 19, 2024
To register for Unit VI, please contact Laura Sear, senior program director for the School of Adult Learning and New Initiatives, by email.

Earners of this badge have demonstrated understanding of effectively developing and leading operations. Earners are able to understand different leadership styles and how to lead from any position, self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and how to foster growth mindset to achieve operational success.

Earn the Operations badges in just four weeks each by selecting the individual unit option. Please contact Laura Sear, senior program director for the School of Adult Learning and New Initiatives, by email. Or, earn a professional certificate in Managing Operations to Advance Organizations by completing the entire six-month pathway.

Leveraging the Power of Data Badges

Data Badge 1: Using Data for Decision Making

Upcoming session: January 2-23, 2024
To register for Unit II, please contact Laura Sear, senior program director for the School of Adult Learning and New Initiatives, by email.

Earners of this badge have learned how data is used to drive decisions in organizations. Earners are able to analyze data to see patterns that are used in decision-making, and can identify and gather specific business data and statistical information. Earners are able to: analyze data used in prescriptive or predictive decision-making, understand data in relation to business planning and operations, and gather data and statistical information to make decisions.

Data Badge 2: Storytelling with Data

Upcoming session: January 30-February 20, 2024
To register for Unit V, please contact Laura Sear, senior program director for the School of Adult Learning and New Initiatives, by email.

Earners of this badge have demonstrated understanding of data mining and how it is used to solve business problems. Earners are able to explore differences between Business Analytics, Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence, and are able to effectively relay a “story” from data by developing different visualization strategies and using various tools.

What is Advance Your Skills?

Developed and taught by Alverno faculty and industry professionals, the Advance Your Skills Pathways program provides the opportunity for individuals and groups to acquire technical knowledge and invaluable interpersonal skills. Our flexible learning pathways provide instruction in skills that are relevant in today’s job market and are in high demand by employers.

Professionals can enroll in the entire pathway or individual units, based on career interest. Professionals who complete the entire pathway will earn a professional certificate.

To learn more, or to discuss how our program can serve your organization, please contact us.

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