Course Descriptions
1. Financial Acumen
Introduction to Finance — Finance for Non-Financial Managers
If you're looking to grow your career and take on greater responsibility within your organization, you'll need to demonstrate a basic understanding of financial management—even if you're not in a financial role. In this course, you will develop the financial acumen necessary to interpret financial reports and make decisions based on available data, manage inventory and receivables, create an accurate budget, and cost a product or service. Plus, learn how to analyze your customers, understand your income taxes, and communicate your contribution to the bottom line. (On-demand eLearning)
Business Challenge (Foundational) — Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Managers
Business acumen requires that managers communicate in the language of finance. They must evaluate data to inform business decisions and connect those decisions to key business value drivers: growth, profitability, and risk. Business Challenge is an experimental learning simulation that allows employees to practice using these drivers. Participants apply skills in a business simulation
Finance Challenge (Advanced) — Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Managers
Leaders of an enterprise need to communicate effectively to stakeholders about business metrics and evaluate financial data to make informed business decisions. Finance Challenge gives them a safe environment to experiment with business levers and see the impact of their decisions in real-time and use financial data to make decisions that drive business value. This advanced simulation requires strong foundational financial knowledge and a solid grasp of financial terms and concepts. (Instructor-led/simulation learning)
2. Change Management
Building Change Management: Change Practitioner Edition
Building Change Management: Practitioner Edition is designed to build change management capabilities to successfully enable participants to lead through, manage, and foster sustainable change. Leading change when the business is constantly changing is a challenge, this program provides the change management methodologies and best practices to enable you to implement successful change. This course will cover the importance of change management, the J&J Change Management Framework and the key activities in each phase of change as well as the tools needed to develop and execute a change management plan. Participants must make a full commitment to this 10 day program, devoting roughly 45 - 60 minutes per day to self-directed collaborative learning, plus 3 Breakout Group meetings, a live 30 minute Kick-Off webinar and concluding with a 1 hour live Capstone webinar. (Social collaborative learning) )
Change Agent Awareness
After completing this curriculum, you will be able to understand change management and the role of a Change Agent in J&J and understand the importance of effectively managing change. In addition, you will learn the change commitment curve and to recognize the individual reactions to change as people move through the change commitment progression. You will be able to define change management, learn the J&J Change Management Framework and each phase of the change process, identify the key change management activities for each phase of change as well as understand the Change Framework levers. Lastly, you will be able to connect the Change Management Framework and the key change management activities to the role of a Change Agent. This course provides a common language and a common process as the initial step in building the Change Management capability and developing a culture that embraces change for J&J. (On-demand eLearning)
Leading People Through Change
The Leading People Through Change course is designed to build a leader’s capability to lead their organization during change and focuses on the critical role leaders have in leading change. The course will cover leadership behaviors such as building trust and influencing to build coalitions to support change. Participants will be able to practice building their case for change and applying dynamic communication techniques such as storytelling to engage and inspire their audience. As part of this course, participants will use self-assessments to reflect and evaluate their strengths and opportunities for Change Leadership and Emotional Intelligence, recognizing the importance of leading change and understanding the emotions of change in their teams. (Instructor-led)
3. Negotiation
Negotiating for Mutual Gains
This virtual learning sprint introduces participants to Negotiating For Mutual Gains key themes through self-paced learning, discussion, review, and practical application via completing case studies with partners. Learning takes place on the CorpU platform, a social-collaborative learning space that contains the learning roadmap, activities, resources, and discussion forums. (Social collaborative learning)
Negotiating On Behalf Of Your Organization
This virtual sprint allows you to continue building skills you learned in Negotiating for Mutual Gains and ensures that your bargaining strategies are aligned with key organizational processes, practices and behaviors enabling J&J to achieve the best negotiated results. Learning takes place on the CorpU platform, a social-collaborative learning space that contains the learning roadmap, activities, resources, and discussion forums. Participants work in teams to complete complex negotiation case studies, prepare with internal case study stakeholders, and conduct the negotiations with their case study counterparts. (Social collaborative learning)
4. Critical Thinking and Making Evidence-Based Decisions
Cognitive Processes of Critical Thinking and Decision-Making
The foundations of critical thinking are a series of cognitive processes: the techniques, frameworks, and tools we use to solve ordinary or complex problems. Through proven practices such as The 5 Whys, The 80/20 Rule, identifying opportunity costs, and overcoming logical facilities, these techniques help us bring clarity to the issues at hand and remove personal biases and blind spots to arrive at evidence-based decisions. (On-demand eLearning)
Enterprise Challenge — Making Evidence-Based Decisions
Enterprise Challenge is an immersive team-based competition where participants practice cross-functional collaboration and decision-making skills under pressure. Participants are placed on cross-functional teams, compete with others in a dynamic marketplace, take calculated business risks, react to unexpected events, and, through targeted debriefs and reflection, learn to apply critical thinking and decision-making strategies under pressure in a safe, fun environment. (Instructor-led/simulation learning)
5. Other Personal Development
Amplify
This curriculum is designed for new supervisors within the Supply Chain. There are two sections, required and optional. The required section contains courses that focus on transitioning from manager to leader, leading your team through change, delegating tasks, Servant Leadership, diversity, and managing conflict within your team. Should you desire additional information, there is an optional training section containing courses focusing on feedback and avoiding new manager mistakes.
Gateway Technical Leadership Development Program
Sponsored by the J&J Engineering Council and the JJSC Academy, this course helps develop your business and leadership skills. There are 3 phases including Core (Learning), Practicum (Application of skills), and a Capstone Presentation. All coursework is provided at beginner and intermediate levels. Participants work with their managers throughout the program. All content can be accessed from SUMMIT.