Description
Attention is the most valuable currency in today’s dynamic and fast business environment. How can you clearly communicate complex ideas and project plans? How can you generate interest and captivate your audience? The answer lies in “Visual Thinking”, a growing trend that originates from Silicon Valley and the Stanford D-School: practitioners as well as researchers have realised that the more complex, dynamic and electronic the business environment becomes, the more important it is to be able to master such complexity via visualisation in meetings, presentations and discussions.
This is the first public online course offered by the top-tier business school, the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. The Economist places WHU’s MBA programme at #6 in the world and the Financial Times calls it the #1 MBA and Masters in Management programme in Germany. This is highest student-rated course in the WHU MBA programme. The course is taught by the award-winning Prof. Dr. Christoph Hienerth, the Chair of the Entrepreneurship and New Business Development at WHU.
Eligibility
The course learnings can be applied to many expertise levels and sectors. Both inexperienced and experienced presenters and workers in the business world, even creative designers and artists who want to develop a business edge, have a lot to gain from the course material and lectures.
More specific groups include:
Team Leads and Managers
- Communicate strategies more clearly by visualising key take-aways
- Improve meetings and presentations by using whiteboard sketches rather than boring power-point slides
- Reduce the time needed to create strategic documents
Sales Agents and Account Managers
- Create unique sales documents in less time
- Give presentations that stand out and make sure your leads remember you
- Be able to create engaging material on-the-fly and less dependent on prepared documents
Strategy, Business and Product Developers
- Simplify and explain complex systems by using visual structures
- Improve your ability to sketch and structure new ideas and concepts
- Take on new information and quickly integrate them into your concepts
Upon completion of this course, you will receive a Statement of Participation
In addition, this course offers flexible time management. With a workload of 12-16 hours, the suggested course length is about 4 weeks. If you can’t spare 3-4 hours a week or would rather finish the course faster, you can do so as well. Take as little or as much time as you need and complete the course at your own pace.
Costs
If you want to enroll as an individual, the costs for the course are EUR 399. If you represent an organisation and would like to buy this course for several individuals, iversity is open to talk with you on the benefits and options of bulk purchasing.
Deadline: 12 October 2015
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