Certification Edge Executive Development Academy
CEED ACADEMY is an executive development academy that provides young and experienced Leaders and managers with all round management education required for originality and provocative thinking. We challenge conventional ways of doing business and empower people to make the world a better place by pushing for more
Since its inception, CEED Academy has established itself as a market leader and innovator in the development and implementation of training programs with seasoned professionals and thought leaders, with broad experiences, bringing their industry knowledge to enable organizations maximize profitability, leverage growth opportunities, facilitate innovative service provision and translate data into strategic insights.
One division of CEED Academy wholly owned by Certification Edge , which provides knowledge and certification preparation training for professionals who desire to build cross border capabilities.
Our Masterclass Program
Our Program prepares executives to take on greater responsibility and meet today’s complex business challenges. It assists with honing your skills and talent and gives you practical tools and experience that you can use straight away.
Our Masterclass program is innovative, challenging and focused on the real world. It provides the latest business knowledge and relevant tools, builds management and leadership skills, and gives you hands-on experience. It stretches you in ways you never imagined, giving you new perspectives and insights. In short, our masterclass programs offer you a life-changing experience.
Our Mission
We educate leaders who solve business problems
Each element of the Academy’s mission—to educate leaders who solves business problems—is infused with meaning.
“Educate”
And, of course, the first component of the mission is educating, which we do in many ways—through our educational programs, through the ideas our faculty produce and disseminate, and through the influence we achieve by being close to leaders of organizations across the world. We believe when we help a leader become a problem solver it has a ripple effect on the business and the world at large.
“Leaders”
When we talk about leaders, we mean people who make a difference anywhere they go by setting the pace and challenging the process with the right character and competence level required for transforming business systems.
“Solve business problems”
Every organization has something impeding productivity, performance and profitability.
Solving these problems requires a certain kind of behavioral patterns displayed by leaders and managers. Organizations need leaders who can discover the underlying causes, recommend solutions and take the lead in assisting with organizational transition to the future state.
Indeed, what distinguishes CEED Academy is that our graduates are problem solvers everywhere they go.
Our Core Values
We READ to LEAD
Resilience: We never ever give up
Empathy: We practice two-way thinking in all we do- the business and others
Agility: we are flexible and comfortable with sudden change
Discipline: we go the extra mile to get the result we want
Our Courses
Customized Courses
We understand that every organization is unique and different, which is why we don’t force a plan or process on you or your organization. We take the time to really listen to you and then work with you to develop a customized plan to help you reach your goals. While our Masterclass is mainly fixed training according to our training calendar, our customized courses are created to meet specific organizational needs.
With every business solution, we begin by listening to the client, so we can fully understand the business challenge. Our goal is to provide solutions to your most complex business problems, so you can achieve your strategic and tactical goals.
Masterclass Certificate
CEED Academy’s Masterclass Certificates is formal recognition of your professional development and commitment to continuous learning. Pursuing a Masterclass Certificate allows you to further your business knowledge and skills. Our Masterclass programs run throughout the year and are typically five days in duration.
Discover which Masterclass is right for you and your team: We offer an executive masterclass in three Areas of concentration designed to further your business knowledge and skills, while also addressing your interests, goals, and time constraints.
Masterclass Certificate Courses
Personal Effectiveness Masterclass (PEM)
There is a fundamental expectation of any jobholder to perform to expectations. If any job holder falls short of that performance expectation it becomes a frustrating experience for both employee and employer, the ROI for making the employment offer becomes shattered. This implies that an organization’s success depends on employees’ performance; poor performance is detrimental to the company’s success.
Employee poor performance impacts the organization negatively. However, there are tangible costs associated with poor workplace performance.
Employers require employees to develop certain set of skills to augment their technical skills. Technical skills alone are not sufficient, soft skills such as developing the right habits, business etiquette and ethical behavior is also a performance driver.
PEM will equip your workforce with the right skills required to outperform in the workplace. Participants will learn how to improve their individual performance at work and understand how it affects the achievement of the organizational goals.
This masterclass will help team members acquire skills for improving confidence, team building, effective communication, personal etiquette, business etiquette, multicultural etiquette and goal achievement
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Identify List and discuss the basic leadership and management competency to get ahead in the workplace.
- Discuss the basic requirements to fast forward your promotion and improve performance.
- Understand what it means to work with emotional intelligence and how they impact on the way you work.
- Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes in managing tasks.
- Write business letters and improve their telemarketing skills
- Be a more productive member of the work team.
- Differentiate between Etiquette and Ethics
- Identify problems impeding team effectiveness and performance
- Set work-related goals and achievement
- Recognize work style, ethnic, racial, religious, political and gender differences which can lead to conflict or isolation in the workplace, as well as the many shared values that unite us all.
- Understand and manage the different personalities present at the workplace and how these personalities affect the behaviors (performance of tasks) of stakeholders in the work setting.
COURSE CONTENT
- Attitude that matters: Differentiating between the good and the right
- The Art of Self branding: Strategic positioning for organizational impact
- Irresistible image: How to attract the attention of Organizational Leaders
- Principles of Self-Leadership and management
- Strategic alignment: Aligning your personal goals with organizational goals
- KPI Management: How KPI affects your personal and professional growth.
- Task Management: How to improve your productivity.
- Business writing and communication
- The Professional Advantage: Modern Manners for today’s business and beyond
- Corporate Survival: How to survive and thrive in the corporate world.
- Interpersonal Skills: How to communicate with diplomacy and tact
- Emotional Intelligence
- Habit Rules: Essential Habits of Highly Effective Employee
- Mastering Personal, Business and Intercultural Etiquette
- Framework of Ethical Decision and Ethical Behavior
COURSE METHODOLOGY
- Formal lectures
- Case studies
- Group exercises
- Experience sharing
- Role Playing
BENEFITS
- Increased productivity
- Employee motivation
- Increased ROI
- Employee job satisfaction
- Positive attitude
- Effective communication
Startup Survival Masterclass (SSM)
We live in a world of disruption. Entrepreneurship has redefined civilization as we’ve come to know it. Whenever the phrase Entrepreneurship is mentioned, what comes to mind are names like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg,etc. These individuals have transformed the world into what it is right now and have also created a ripple effect by motivating many individuals to start their companies. These new ventures are called Startups.
A startup refers to a company in the first stages of operations. Startups are founded by one or more entrepreneurs who want to develop a product or service for which they believe there is demand. These companies generally start with high costs and limited revenue, which is why they look for capital from a variety of sources such as venture capitalists. As thrilling as it is to be called an entrepreneur, a good number fail on their first try. According to Forbes, nine out of ten startups fail. Why? This question has puzzled many individuals looking to start their businesses.
This question and more are why this Startup MasterClass has been designed for you. This class aims to empower you with the prerequisite knowledge on successfully starting an enterprise, scaling fast, getting the right team for the job, identifying your target market, brand awareness and communication, market penetration strategies, making the best business decisions, developing a business model, developing an outstanding MVP, etc.
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Analyze the business environment in order to identify business opportunities,
- Identify the elements of successful startups,
- Know the legal and financial conditions for starting a business venture,
- Evaluate the effectiveness of different entrepreneurial strategies,
- Specify the basic performance indicators of entrepreneurial activity,
- Understand the importance of marketing and management in small businesses venture,
- Develop a comprehensive business plan,
- Implement Lean Startup Methodology,
- Pitch to Investors
- Identify their target market.
COURSE CONTENT
- The composition of a founder’s team
- Structuring your business
- Building strong relationships
- Reach Product-Market fit
- What is Product-Market fit and how do I reach it?
- Optimize your pricing
- Set-up an advisory board
- From idea to Problem-Solution fit T
- Lean start-up methodology
- Creating a product that customers really want
- Understanding your customer
- Providing value for your customer
- Growth strategies
- From startup to scale-up
- Building corporate partnerships
- Expand your team
- Hiring your first employee
- Build the right culture
- Reward your employees
- Prepare your company for fundraising
- The search for the right investor
- Convince the investor
- Clean up to close the deal
- You’ve raised money, now what?
- PR Strategy for startups
- PR Secrets from Tesla, Slack, Uber, Facebook, Salesforce …
- Leverage corporate milestones for brand awareness
- How to build a marketing communication machine
- Build a reputation and manage all the stakeholders
- Entrepreneurs Mindset and Behavior
Professional Selling Masterclass (PSM)
Although all businesses are different, they all have one single aim – to be successful. This success is often measured in profit and growth. Profit and growth are mainly fed by sales i.e., more sales = more profit = more growth. On the flip side, lack of sales can result in little or no growth followed by financial loss and eventually closure of a business.
Today’s successful salespeople know the focus must be their customers. They know it is important to be building the relationship, providing a service, satisfying the customer’s needs, listening, and understanding rather than talking and seeking to be understood. Salespeople are in the front line, building a reputation to ensure long-term growth as well as short-term sales.
This masterclass will take you back to the very fundamental aspects of sales from the perspective of you being the one making the sale to how to close key accounts and managing relationships for repeat business.
LEARNER’S LEARNING OUTCOME
- At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the sales process
- Discuss how marketing and sales interrelate.
- Become more aggressive in their selling effort.
- Increase their sales pipeline
- Identify the attributes of a successful seller
- Explore new avenues in getting in touch with customers.
- Outwit competitors.
- Deal with different types of buyers/customers.
- Use redefined sales techniques and Improve overall efficiency
- List how personal effectiveness assists sales performance.
- Handle objections with confidence
COURSE CONTENT
- Marketing fundamentals
- Traits of Successful Salesperson
- Everything Begins with Attitude
- Personal Development as a Sales Professional
- Rewards of Personal Development
- Becoming your own sales manager: Mission Statement, Goal Setting, Getting Motivated, Organization and Time Management
- How to Implement Personal Goals and Measure Results
- Balance of Mental, Emotional, Spiritual and Physical
- The Power of the Subconscious
- Focus and Persistence
- Understanding the Sales process
- Emotional intelligence for salespeople
- Building a Sales Pipeline: Finding new customers
- Prospecting and Lead Generation
- Dealing with Fear in Sales
- Relationship Building and Trust
- Selling a service
- Accessing and Working with Personality Types
- Negotiation Skills
- Following up a sales call
- The Power of the Subconscious
- Developing a Unique Selling Strategy: The Extra Edge
- Customers Psychology: Why they Buy
- How to Cold Call And Build New Customers
COURSE METHODOLOGY
- Formal lectures
- Case studies
- Group exercises
- Experience sharing
- Role Playing
BENEFITS
- Increased productivity
- Employee motivation
- Increased ROI
- Employee job satisfaction
- Positive attitude
- Effective communication
Management Acceleration Masterclass (MAM)
Managers are key members of an organization. As change happens so frequently and workforces become more dispersed, managers are the people who hold the organization’s strategy together.
As a result, they must be able to communicate and collaborate across functions, business units and levels of leadership as well as inside and outside the organization.
Due to the strategic role Managers play in the delivery of organizational initiatives such as detail-oriented tasks, think strategically, make personnel decisions, coach employees, and provide leadership in “emergencies” with projects, customers, or suppliers, hence, Managers development is important.
LEARNER’S LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Developing a broad, enterprise-wide view of the organization
- Agility, including the ability to quickly adjust priorities as the organization’s needs change
- Fostering learning and innovation throughout their team or department
- Being able to shape strategy and communicate it to everyone they manage and work with
- Resilience and adaptability, including being able to “find opportunity in disruption”
- Understanding and working in “a complex web of relationships”
- Managing performance for delivery of strategic initiative
- Emotional intelligence required to strengthen teamwork
- Being able to consider business needs and identify development opportunities within and beyond their teams
COURSE CONTENT
- Your Role as Manager and a Leader
- Strategy and Execution Skills
- The Effective Team Leader
- Principles of Mission Leadership
- Effective Communication
- Effective Management for Result oriented Organization
- Emotional Intelligence
- Effective Coaching and Mentoring
- Business Essentials for Managers
- Conflict Management
- HR for Non-HR Managers
- Mastering Etiquette and Personal Effectiveness
- Project Management Essentials for Leaders and Managers
- The Agile Organization
- Managing Organizational Change
COURSE METHODOLOGY
- Formal lectures
- Case studies
- Group exercises
- Experience sharing
- Role Playing
BENEFITS
- Increased productivity
- Employee motivation
- Increased ROI
- Employee job satisfaction
- Positive attitude
- Effective communication