The American Management Association (AMA) is a global leader in areas of professional development, with a focus on the connection between a skilled workforce and organizational success. With this in mind, AMA provides members with a wide range of training and certification opportunities.
At amanet.org, management professionals can use the course finder tool to look for a specific area of training, or can instead browse through a list of the organization’s top courses. A few of the most popular and well rated courses include Management Skills for New Managers, How to Communicate with Diplomacy, Tact and Credibility, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Signature Edition 4.0. Many AMA courses and seminars can be taken in person or in a remote learning environment. Each of the top 40 AMA courses maintains a perfect 5.0 rating with members, most with hundreds or thousands of individual ratings.
While AMA balances in-person training with virtual education, the latter has become increasingly important in recent years. The organization maintains industry best practices for its virtual learning offerings, and while the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled many businesses and professional groups to reevaluate their virtual infrastructure, AMA has been creating and refining virtual learning services for more than a decade. Virtual learning consists of both real-time and on-demand sessions led by knowledgeable instructors, and users can speak with an AMA consultant about specialized, private group training options.
AMA has developed a variety of certificate programs over the years, allowing members to fully immerse themselves in the industry’s most important and complex subject areas. Certificate programs have been designed first and foremost to help managers further their individual careers. That said, the knowledge and skills associated with each certificate should allow managers to add measurable value to their companies.
The 12 unique AMA certificate programs range from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to Women’s Leadership. Managers interested in women’s leadership education should also check out the Women’s Leadership Center and its depth of courses for women. AMA has developed a five-day “MBA” Certificate Program designed to provide managers with vital skills explored in a traditional master of business administration program. Other certificate programs focus on subjects such as sales and employee training.
AMA maintains a short online quiz that managers can use to assess their professional skills and make a more informed decision about which certificates they should pursue. That said, many certificate programs complement one another and management professionals may be interested in signing up for the AMA-CPM 3-Step Value Pack, allowing for a more streamlined, less costly path to each certification.
Finally, the AMA works to support the federal government in several ways. AMA government learning solutions include discounts on digital training guides and other educational services for members of the government. AMA can provide members of the federal government workforce with educators with intimate knowledge of both the public and private sectors.
Members can visit AMA online to learn more about these and other educational and professional development opportunities. The AMA website features a special offers section that lists all of the active promo codes and discounts for courses and certificate programs, as well as a free digital catalog of all AMA offerings.
