Eastern Michigan University - Professional Education Center, EMU College of Business

The Professional Education Center at EMU

Customized Training and Development

Today’s business challenges require organizations to provide equally innovative and applied training and development programs. The Professional Education Center (PEC) in the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University provides customized technical and leadership training programs to help businesses and individuals meet challenges and build technical and leadership skills. Students benefit from training and professional coaching from EMU's world-class College of Business and external instructors and consultants.

The PEC tailors training programs to meet your unique organizational challenges bringing innovative and applied programs to the workplace. We can bring to your organization programs to enhance management and business skills and to support leader development including:

Management Certificate Program – Developing the Leader in You Workshop series
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
The “Mini MBA” – a non-credit program for non business professionals
Business Skills – Finance, Marketing, Statistics, Business Communication
Project Management – Introduction and Certificate Programs
Biz World 101- for new business professionals

Our business skills programs are immediately applicable on the job. Recently, the PEC provided training to the purchasing staff of a global manufacturing company to more effectively manage the significant dollars spent on parts and materials. “…we had a very successful vendor negotiation as a direct result of the high quality, very relevant cost accounting training provided by the PEC.” Dave Reeves, Vice President.

The PEC also provides leading edge training and coaching in building leader competencies that support changing leader roles and succession planning.

For more information about the EMU Professional Education Center, call Sandi Nielsen at 734.487.3164 or Mary Morris at 734.487.3566 or email us at pec@emich.edu.

"The PEC was instrumental in designing a writing course specifically tailored for the Hyundai America Technical Center.

Our consultant and instructor spent weeks learning about our work environment, speaking with our leadership team, researching and incorporating international writing skills into the course; all of which were critical to successfully incorporating our business needs in to the writing course.

The time and dedication of the PEC staff was greatly appreciated."

-E.R. Schmidt, HR Director, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.

-J.H. Rim, Korean Coordinator, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.

Download the Winter 2010 Professional Programs & Training Catalog [PDF]

Director of the Professional Education Center was named examiner for Baldrige Award.

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