Anti-Corruption, Ethics & Corporate Governance
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Recognise and describe the ethical frameworks applicable to the delivery of public service
- Analyse the impact of corruption on public value and benefit, whilst identifying the key challenges in promoting and administering ethics and integrity within the public sector
- Demonstrate an understanding of corruption and misconduct from both a comparative / historical and domestic / international context
- Apply theoretical perspectives to the understanding of why corruption and misconduct can arise
- Apply and evaluate different approaches for addressing integrity assurance and corruption prevention
- Strategies on how to build resilience within an anti-corruption or integrity assurance work environment
- Understand and apply management strategies to corruption and integrity issues.
- Adopt the appropriate mechanism for effective governance
- Adhere to sound principles of direction and management
- Understand the significance of audit committee, its composition and responsibilities
- Implement best practices on corporate management
- Understand current developments in corporate governance and its environment: an overview of the legal structure of corporate governance; theories of corporate governance
- Comparative dimensions of corporate governance: global convergence or path dependence
- Understand corporate ethics
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Audit and Risk Management
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Describe the nature of an audit.
- Relate management assertions to general and specific audit objectives.
- Examine the criteria that determine the persuasiveness of audit evidence and evaluate the different types of audit evidence gathered.
- Relate audit evidence and audit objectives to evidence-gathering decisions.
- Plan and design an audit approach. Include preplanning procedures and procedures to obtain information about the client’s background and legal obligations.
- Examine the three elements of an internal control structure and their components.
- Describe the seven objectives of a system of internal control.
- Distinguish between the different types of audit tests performed to determine the fairness of financial statements.
- Advanced knowledge in relation to the theory and practices in the areas of Risk Management and Audit.
Customer Service and Public Communication Skills
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Understand and appreciate the role of Public relations in Corporate world
- Manage and Engage Stakeholders
- Create and manage content
- Give powerful oral and wriiten presenations
- Effectively manage the media
- Develop and implement Public Reations Strategies
- Use social media as a Public Relations tool
- Manage and use events as a Public relations strategy
- Develop and deploy Crisis Management startegies during crisis
- Manage organisational online reputation
- Develop Public Relations , Plan, Tactics and strategy for their organisation(s)
Energy Projects Risk Management
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Apply scalable planning methods to prepare for Energy project risk management
- Prepare a risk management plan to guide your risk approach
- Identify Energy project risks by using different identification tools
- Integrate risk management techniques and results into a balanced project management approach
- Use multiple techniques to identify and document risks
- Perform qualitative risk analysis to prioritize risks for response and monitoring
- Perform quantitative risk analysis to assess risk to the overall project cost and schedule objectives
- Incorporate expected value, probability, and distribution into your risk analysis
- Estimate and characterize the impact and timing of risks on your Energy project
- Determine and implement appropriate risk response strategies based on risk analysis
- Monitor and control identified and emerging risks based on risk plan and project execution results
- Communicate risks effectively to all project stakeholders
Executive Management for Managers
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Assess their current relationships and take concrete actions to make improvements
- Recognize what managers REALLY want from their staff
- Effectively surface issues with a boss related to their relationship, status, problems and opportunities
- Take steps that enhance the image of the boss’ and themselves
- Develop their relationship with their manager(s) by discussing work styles, managing expectations and resources, and considering career development goals
- Ways to communicate and negotiate with your manager(s) around workload, deadlines, and other important workplace issues
- Manage Up: Building a Rapport with the Boss
- Setting Effective Performance Expectations Tools
- Give Feedback and Address Performance Issues and managing expectations
- Developing a relationship with your manager
- Promote their manager’s goals
- Steps for presenting problems
Fraud Detection and Prevention
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Recognize potential offenders through understanding human nature
- Minimize the effects of fraud on your company’s public image
- Combat fraud through the role of internal auditing
- Retrieve evidence from personal computers and uncover fraudulent scams
- Investigate and draw up watertight cases against suspects of fraud
- Understand the true extent of fraud losses and identify all of the places in your organization where fraud may be hidden or under-reported
- Use data mining techniques to identify the root causes of fraud and develop counter measures to manage vulnerabilities to an acceptable level
- Develop organization strategies that will lead to the participation and cooperation of all stakeholders impacted by fraud and contributing to the management of fraud.
- Know how to identify the optimal point to install the necessary fraud management infrastructure
IT Security and Computer Forensics
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Digital Forensics Principles and Practices
- Incident Response & Investigation
- White Collar Crime, Computer Crime and Investigation
- Cryptography and Network security
- Ethical Hacking
- Disaster Recovery & Incident Planning
- General overview and definitions
- Security models and policy issues
- Authentication protocols and Key Management
- Systems Design Issues and Information assurance
- Design principles
- Security Mechanisms and Auditing Systems
- Risk analysis
- System verification and evaluation
- Intrusion Detection and Response
- Attack Classification and Vulnerability Analysis
- Detection, Containment and Response/Recovery
- Legal, Ethical issues
Strategic Human Resources Management
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Define strategic Human Resources and become a strategic HR Person Assist in training personnel.
- Orient personnel to organizational goals, policies, rules, and procedures. Supervise employees.
- Facilitate cooperation and develop HR strategies
- Place incentives to encourage improved employee performance.
- Evaluate employees.
- Reward/discipline employees.
- Assist in maintaining employee morale.
- Analyze and compare different HR Information systems
- Appreciate differences between HR information systems for
- Use HR information system to generate reports and manage data
Strategic Management and Leadership
Course Highlights and Objectives
- To introduce the concepts of strategic management
- Understand the process of strategy formulation and implementation
- Identify and exploit critical insights for strategy formulation
- Perform competitive analysis of the external environment
- Perform critical analysis of internal competencies and capabilities
- Develop competitive and innovative strategies
- Translate the strategy to actionable and measurable goals
- Identify and develop lead and lag measures and targets
- Apply these concepts and tools in the context of the Public Service.
- To develop analytic and decision making skills to deal with conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity
- Gain insight into the global drivers of reform and their potential impacts on future policy directions in developing nations.
- Systematic understanding of the challenges for the management, governance and leadership in developing countries
- Comprehensive understanding of the management tools available to systematically assess external and internal organisational drivers of change and system performance
Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Demonstrate how the supply chain management and logistics function of the firm should be aligned with the firm’s overall operations strategy;
- Explain, with reference to the practices of leading firms in both the manufacturing and the service sectors, how effective supply chain management and logistics could provide the firm with sustainable competitive advantages;
- Identify the major drivers of supply chain performance and to elaborate upon the role which each driver plays in creating a strategic fit with the firm’s overall operations strategy
- Analyze total system costs in supply chains
- Know when and how to use various forecasting techniques
- Compute tradeoffs between cost and responsiveness in supply chains
- Understand the role of logistics in supply chains
- Undertake competently a variety of analytical tasks that are at the core of supply chain management and logistics, utilizing the appropriate methods and techniques (tasks such as distribution network configuration, preparation of supply contracts, global optimization, etc.);
- Evaluate the impact of contemporary information technology on supply chain performance;
- Specify and elaborate upon the performance measures for supply chains in different industries;
- Construct and solve supply chain models
- Value the strategic importance of good supply chain design, planning and operation for every firm.
- Understand the scope of material and physical distribution management.
- Define marketing channels and logistics
- Explain Demand forecasting and aggregate planning in the supply chain
- Use inventories planning and management in the supply chain
- Make sourcing, transporting and pricing decisions in the supply chain
- Manage external and internal supply chain risks
Strategic Public Relations
Course Highlights and Objectives
- Understand and appreciate the role of Public Relations in the corporate world
- Manageand engage stakeholders
- Create and manage content
- Give powerful oral and written presentations
- Effectively manage the media
- Develop and implement Public Relations strategies
- Use social media as a Public Relation stool
- Manage and use events as a Public relations strategy
- Develop and deploy Crisis Management strategies during crisis
- Manage organizational online reputation
- Develop Public Relations, Plan, Tactics and strategy for their organisation(s) Organizational Impact