Professional Development Offerings

Leadership Development:
Leadership programs are designed to hearten goal setting and enhance visions while providing techniques to be used to concisely articulate them. Demanding adherence is an effective government technique, but to be an effective leader, one must inspire others to follow with sound decision making, sound strategies, and an effective message.
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Management Development:
Management programs are designed to coalesce the academics, experiences, and talents that candidates already posses and add the underdeveloped aspects of their current responsibilities or anticipated roles they will soon tackle.
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Communication Skill Development:
Communication Skill programs are designed to provide the essentials needed to discuss, negotiate, and persuade for success at all levels within an Enterprise. When people communicate, there is a team. When team members effectively communicate, goals are met. When goals are met, clients are serviced. And when clients are serviced, companies succeed.
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Professional Development:
Professional Development programs include many aspects of day to day corporate life. A productivity increase of 15 minutes a day by employees may mean millions a year in earned income.
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Selected IT Education Offerings

z/OS Boot Camps:
Is your mainframe human resouce dwindling through retirement and attrition? MBA Boot Camps provide and effective skill transfer mechanism for your talented non-mainframe I.T. staff. These Boot Camps concentrate on end-to-end knowlege transfer by piggy backing on the current skill set of your non-mainframe I.T. professionals. Analogies, terminology, techniques, and hands on workshops effieciently present the intricacies of z/OS facilities to the existing skill sets of your professionals in 1/3 the time required to educate an I.T. newbe.
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Enterprise SQL:
The The Enterprise SQL Productivity Series is targeted to organizations that desire an in-depth understanding of how to effectively and efficiently use the richness of the new SQL language facilities that are hidden deap in relational data servers and data access tools like DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and others. Also Business Unit tools such as Business Objects, AQT, QMF and more are branded under this offering.

The content in this series is designed to reach unique experience levels. The aspiring SQL user, the SQL power user, as well as all in-between user can access content relevant to their skill levels and responsibilities. Topics include "What is SQL and why is it important" to "SQL Design and Performance" to "Implementing Recursive SQL for Generic Drug Review". Business Analysts, Programmers, and DBA's will benefit by honing their skills via attending the sessions designed specifically for their business and technical responsibilities.

Additionally, the sessions are targeted to your organizations infrastructure by tailoring content directly to your environment, (TeraData, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, DB2 etc.). If your environment involves multiple SQL vendors as many do, the sessions can be targeted to provied effective cross training for the participants.
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Understand the Lastest Techniques in Data Development and Retrieval; Beyond the SQL:
The knowledge to effectively utilize the flexible, built-in, programmable facilities within SQL and some NoSQL engines will improve performance, reduce costs, and may improve the security of data stored and processed by the Enterprise. Data Design, Triggers, Constraints, User Defined Functions, and Stored Procedures are the highlights of these seminars.

This content is designed for the experienced professional having responsibilities for design and implementation of effective, complex data access and data security. These offerings complement the SQL offerings with Administration and Management techinques.
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Java for COBOL Subject Matter Experts:
Java is a web-enabled language of choice on many platforms today. Legacy COBOL programmers already understand business applications from years of experience with masses of legacy data. Therefore, it makes project, budget, and personnel sense to add Java to their set of skills; this courseware is designed to do just that.
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Using z/OS eCOBOL effectively:
Most COBOL programmers are unaware of the current power of eCOBOL including the writing of a COBOL Class, invoking a Java Class with COBOL, the interoperation between COBOL CICS Legacy systems and Java, and the richness of COBOL built in Functions including XML parsing and more.
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Miscellaneous Offerings:

• Web 2.0 Development (AJAX, ServerSideShells, etc.)
• Functional Analysis and Effective Design.
• SQL Basics, Intermediate SQL, and Advanced SQL.
• Query Management Facility for Production Reporting
• Mainframe Archetecture - CICS, TSO, JCL, Debugging, etc.
• Telon, Xpediter, AbendAid, FileAid, etc.
• DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server Performance Techinques.
• 'Soft Skills' for Management, Team Leads, and Technicians.
• Full Service Education;
  • Train-the-Trainer
  • I.T. Boot Camps
  • Career Assessment & Development

Custom Education Programs:
MBA will join with your management team and technical staff to design an employee enrichment program specific to the technical skill needs of your Enterprise.

Contact MBA for additional offerings, or to discuss your Enterprise's unique needs.