UPDATED 2024: When Steven Powers, the CEO of C.A.T. Enterprises, is suddenly called away on urgent business, you must take his place with the corporate strategy team to help assess the different risks involved with forecasting for the company’s next five years. Assessing Risk focuses in on concepts of sustainability and risk management, and teach you to lay the groundwork for the future. Course Type: Business Simulation. Worth 2 PDCs (SHRM).

UPDATED 2024: In this course, you’ll learn from some of Central Products’ best and brightest leaders to get a better understanding on the role of managers in organizations. You’ll have the chance to sit in on fictional but true-to-life executive round-table discussions, learning about various management styles. Ultimately, you will gain practical skills that will help you forecast, plan, schedule projects and get things done through other people – the basis of management. Course Type: Business Simulation. Worth 27 PDCs (SHRM) and 26 CEUs (HRCI Business Credits).

While demonstrating personal and business applications of important topics, this course covers the fundamentals of time value of money. So, learners have the chance to look at interest rates, present value, future value, and internal rate of return. And by looking at specific, real-world examples like vacation savings and the cost of college or university, they’ll see how the time value of money is at the heart of most financial decision making. But more so, why it’s important for business professionals to recognize exactly how it works. Course Type: Video. Worth 3 PDCs (SHRM) and 2 CEUs (HRCI Business Credit).

UPDATED 2024: Organizations would cease to function without skilled and dedicated employees. And that’s why it’s extremely important for a business to recognize and understand the basic principles of employee retention. In this short, self-study option, you will dive into Central Products’ fictitious HR department to get a better understanding of behavioral ethics, the stages of employment and individual employee needs from a narrative standpoint. Course Type: Business Simulation. Worth 4 RCHs (APA).