Value and Benefits

  • Our business acumen programs offer individuals and corporations a means to quantify ones’ business knowledge and chart a development path
    • New / existing employees take MBA IQ to baseline their knowledge.  Managers can baseline individuals and teams.
    • Personal development plans are built; courses can be mapped to corporate university offerings and the CABM/CBM Credentials.
    • Employees have real development plans and managers have a means to chart progress.
    • Management can use our business acumen programs to screen employees for special internal leadership,  high potential programs,  or tuition reimbursement programs.

    Once you start with the MBA IQ Course, there are many options to continue building your business acumen as indicated below.

  • APBM tools are often reimbursable by Corporate L&D Programs
    • Compared to traditional MBA programs, our business acumen programs are a significant value, thereby addressing a larger employee base within a company.
    • The CBM Credential is accredited by ANSI/ISO Personnel Standards.
    • Our business acumen programs are the perfect foundation to your leadership programs. We can teach business; you focus on what makes a leader in your culture, in your company, and with your values.
  • APBM tools are perfect for MBA-readiness
    • Business school is competitive – grades do matter.
    • Knowing the language of business is an important step in your career – master the MBA lexicon in order to accelerate your academic ramp-up time whether you are in a part-time, full-time, online, or Executive MBA.
    • Gain the confidence to compete in the classroom and the workplace – do not get left behind.
    • Be able to jump into group work, social life, and career exploration by showing up with a foundation to build upon.
  • Certifications are a robust measure of one’s knowledge
    • For an organization to administer a certification, it must have consistent standards in terms of education, experience, examination (testing), code of ethics, and continuing education requirements.  These standards are part of the certification process in which a person is elevated to a certified professional status in a given field. A certificate program cannot do the same.
    • Our CABM/CBM Credentials are similar to the CPA and CFA in approach and rigor.