No matter what your area of focus, or your level of experience, responsibility or expertise, you’ll find the courses that will let you or your employees improve at-work performance and create a positive impact on your organization and on your career.
With a dedicated staff of more than 20 curriculum development specialists, industry-leading subject matter experts and more than 600 instructors bringing both professional and academic experience, ESI courses are continually improved to provide learners with practical skills they can immediately apply on the job. Our areas of learning include:
Project Management -- Taught by professionals with years of real-world expertise, each course offers unique insights, practical applications and the opportunity for students to network with other project managers. Specifically, project management courses from ESI teach you proven approaches to improve on-the-job performance and save your organization time and money.
Program Management -- If your organization is seeking a way to strategically align projects to goals, efficiently implement organizational change or even eliminate resource wastefulness, ESI’s Program Management courses will help ensure that you have a strategic view of projects and that you are maximizing overall program benefits.
Business Analysis -- From strategic enterprise analysis to tactical operations, ESI’s Business Analysis courses approach business opportunities and challenges from a requirements management and development perspective. You gain the knowledge needed to understand stakeholder needs through elicitation, facilitation and analysis, providing the skills to communicate, trace and validate requirements.
Contract Management -- With nearly 50 contract management courses covering federal, state and local government as well as the commercial marketplace, ESI’s Contract Management courses prepare you to understand the entire procurement process from acquisition planning and source selection to contract administration and closeout. The wide-reaching curriculum ranges from core knowledge and skills for new professionals to advanced, specialized topics such as pricing, accounting and audits, law and earned value management.
Business Skills -- Regardless of your role, and whether you're fresh out of school or an experienced manager, professionals agree that there’s always room for improvement. ESI’s Business Skills program offers the relevant, practical skills technical and specialized professionals need to align their projects with broader organizational goals, perform more effectively and consistently attain desired results. In short, this program can help you become a better leader within your organization. These courses have been developed to address the strategic, interpersonal, operational and personal perspectives of today’s professional — and the challenges they present.
FAC-P/PM -- The Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers Program was established to provide civilian federal program and project managers (P/PMs) with the necessary cross-functional competencies and aligned skills to achieve the intended results of programs, projects and acquisitions. The program recognizes three levels of certification—entry/apprentice, mid level/journeyman and senior/expert, each of which has experience, training, and other development activity requirements. ESI’s FAI-approved comprehensive suite of FAC-P/PM courses will not only help P/PMs comply with certification requirements, but also gain the needed skills and competencies they need to raise the performance levels of integrated program/project teams and ensure programs, projects and acquisitions meet their targets. ESI’s suit includes a capstone course that helps participants fulfill the government-specific requirements while providing continuity and reinforcement of skills and concepts gained in the other courses. After their coursework, participants are then able to take a level 4-5 evaluation that will help them adopt newly acquired skills and concepts on the job.
See the full list of courses within each ESI Learning Program by clicking on the links below.