• Read more about HS 354 Sources of Retirement Income

The second of the program's three courses explores sources of retirement income in depth. After completion, you should be able to:

• Recommend the optimal age to claim Social Security benefits as appropriate for each clients situation
  
• Help the client evaluate the factors to consider when determining an appropriate retirement age
  
• Understand the role of annuities in a retirement income plan
  
• Have a better understanding of how executive benefits and retirement benefits for federal and military employees fit into the plan
  
• Understand the different ways that life insurance can be used in planning and how to address the retirement needs of the small business owner
  
• Understand how to build a retirement income portfolio
  
• Become more familiar with the latest research on strategies for ensuring that retirement assets last a lifetime

000278 RICP^® Single Course 2 1.00 Retirement Planning Financial Planning Professional Designations & Certifications Mid Career Professional Yes Yes 0002781 AL AL AR AR AZ AZ CA CA CO CO CT CT DE DE GA GA HI HI IA IA ID ID IN IN KS KS KY KY LA LA MA MA MD MD ME ME MI MI MN MN MO MO MS MS MT MT NC NC NE NE NH NH NJ NJ NM NM NV NV NY NY OR OR PA PA RI RI SC SC SD SD TN TN UT UT VT VT WI WI WV WV WY WY OK PR TX VA FL WA IL OH ND 10G

• Read more about HS 353 Retirement Income Process, Strategies and Solutions

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the steps in creating an effective retirement income plan
  
• Identify retirement income needs, objectives, and goals by evaluating the clients current situation
  
• Determine how to choose the appropriate retirement income strategy for your clients
  
• Evaluate income tax, estate issues, retirement risks, and other threats to an effective retirement income plan
  
• Integrate risk management tools, products, and strategies to create an effective retirement income plan

000277 RICP^® FSCP^® Single Course 1 1.00 Retirement Planning Financial Planning Practice Management Professional Designations & Certifications Mid Career Professional Early Career Professional Yes Yes 0002771 AL AL AR AR AZ AZ CA CA CO CO CT CT DE DE GA GA HI HI IA IA ID ID IN IN KS KS KY KY LA LA MA MA MD MD ME ME MI MI MN MN MS MS MT MT NC NC NE NE NH NH NJ NJ NM NM NV NV NY NY OK OK OR OR PA PA PR PR RI RI SC SC SD SD TN TN UT UT VT VT WI WI WV WV WY WY MO TX FL WA IL OH ND 10G

• Read more about MSLS 520 Leadership Capstone Experience

Students prepare and execute a project demonstrating in a real-world context the techniques learned within the program through leadership crisis management. The capstone course introduces tools and a framework to guide the leader, organization and protect the core assets of the business through a crisis. Topics include but are not limited to exploration of crisis communication techniques, research-based methods to assist in preparing, prevention of and recovery from crises. Students are equipped with a range of tools to increase competencies and confidence in an organizational crisis context. 000402 MSM Single Course 12 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0004022 0

• Read more about MSMT 502 Foundations of Management

The GS 502 includes nine (9) online learning modules designed to equip students for success in the MS in Management program. The modules are (1) Foundations of Communication, (2) Foundations of Business Integration & Strategic Management, (3) Foundations of Organizational Behavior, (4) Foundations of Human Resource Management (5) Foundations of Finance, (6) Foundations of Marketing, (7) Foundations of Statistics, (8) Foundations of Ethics and (9) Foundations of Academic Writing. The online 2 Foundations course is largely self-paced. An instructor provides assistance as needed. Students complete a pre-test for each module to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Brightspace then produces a customized learning module appropriate for their individual needs. Students use the module to master key concepts and skills. They then demonstrate mastery through post-tests. Students may repeat each post-test an unlimited number of times during the 5-week session to earn a passing grade. Students must pass every assigned module in the Foundation courses with a score of 70% in order to proceed to later courses in the master’s program. 000391 MSM Single Course 13 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0003911 0

• Read more about MSLS 516 Management by Leadership

This course focuses on the importance of leading organizational change and building positive engaging strategies using organizational development (OD) interventions. Students acquire effective approaches for leading change, evidence-informed research for positive change and coping mechanisms for the increasing pace of change. Students reinforce OD concepts and organizational change skills through the analysis of case studies as change agents or consultants for nonprofit and for-profit businesses. 000158 MSM Single Course 8 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001582 0

• Read more about MSLS 512 Ethics In Leadership

This course covers four areas: ethical awareness, ethical analysis/ethical decision making, current ethical issues in business, and ethical management in an organization. This course provides the skills required to make reasoned responses to ethical dilemmas, deal with daily and long-term ethical challenges, and build an ethical culture in an organization. The course explores the emotional influence on behavior and decisions, and it explains how to learn from success and failure. In this highly participative course, the leadership candidate is expected to complete both the reading material and written assignments before each session. 000157 MSM Single Course 4 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001572 0

• Read more about MSLS 519 Decision Making Leadership Skills

The ability to gather and analyze data to form a strategy is essential in management. This course examines two levels of analytics from a descriptive and predictive viewpoint. Using spreadsheets, visualizations and research, students develop a working knowledge of analytics as it applies to business decisions within the field of management. Topics include database analytics, data visualization, forecasting techniques and data mining. 000156 MSM Single Course 11 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001562 0

• Read more about MSLS 518 Leading Strategy Development

This course approaches strategic management from a practical perspective. Students develop an understanding of business strategies, formulation and implementation of major goals to better identify organizational initiatives. Real world examples communicate important stages, components and major roles of exceptional managers to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. 000155 MSM Single Course 10 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001552 0

• Read more about MSLS 513 Law, Compliance, Benefits,and Social Responsibility

Increasingly, leadership of business organizations is intertwined with local, national and international legal and ethical frameworks that define, regulate and support the business enterprise. The effective, successful business leader must understand the basic components and operations of those frameworks as well as the basic policy assumptions that emanate from that legal framework and influence business decisions. Those policies affect what products are produced, how they are priced, marketed and distributed, as well as who works for the enterprise and how the workplace and its work processes are configured. The extent to which a leader effectively manages or mismanages the human resources of the company will determine the company’s success, and therefore the leader’s own success. This course investigates the basic legal and socio-ethical framework within which companies operate today. 000154 MSM Single Course 5 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001542 0

• Read more about MSLS 511 Dynamic Organizational Leadership

This course is designed to help leaders understand and influence human behavior on an individual, interpersonal, and institutional level. The foundation is a knowledge of individual differences and how those unique characteristics affect each person’s thoughts, actions, and motivations. However, it is not enough to simply understand people on their own, separate from others and their environment. Teams and groups have a powerful impact on their members and people behave differently around others than they do alone. Similarly, organizational structures, systems, and cultures have a strong, but seemingly invisible, effect on what people believe, what people say, and what people do. Effective leaders know how to analyze and manage all these complex factors in order to achieve the organization’s objectives. 000153 MSM Single Course 3 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001532 0