Performance Manager

The course provides relevant knowledge for performance management, which is responsible for the management and control of company performance as well as related data collection and evaluation. It starts with the preparation of business plans and budgets from an economic point of view as well as basic marketing and sales strategies. This is followed by an introduction to controlling, in which the fundamentals of economically successful corporate planning are explained. Finally, statistical principles and methods as well as cloud administration are explained.
  • Certificates: Performance Manager" certificate
  • Additional Certificates: Certificate "Fundamentals of Controlling"
    Certified Business Manager" certificate
    Certificate "Statistics and data analysis"
    Certificate "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner"
  • Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
    Certified Business Manager:in
    AWS Zertifizierungsprüfung CLF-C02 (in englischer Sprache)
  • Teaching Times: Full-time
    Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
  • Language of Instruction: German
  • Duration: 16 Weeks

Management and corporate planning

Management (approx. 1 day)

Hierarchy levels

Management methods

Planning horizons

Management functions

Management control loop

Management instruments


Objectives, methods and instruments of business plan preparation (approx. 3 days)

Basics of business plan preparation

Analysis and planning tools (SWOT analysis, scenario analysis, portfolio analysis,

creativity techniques)

Use of AI for brainstorming and structuring business models

AI-supported creation and revision of business plan components

 


Contract law (approx. 1 day)

Declarations of intent

Warranty and guarantee

Types of contract and their disruptions

Law on contractual defects (subsequent performance, withdrawal, purchase price reduction, compensation)

General terms and conditions (AGB)


Commercial and company law (approx. 1 day)

Types of merchants

company forms

Commercial practices

Special features of commercial law

Commercial register and publicity

Introduction to insolvency law


Project planning (approx. 0.5 days)

basics

Resource planning

Planning steps

Errors in project planning


Environment analysis (approx. 0.5 days)

Company analysis

Industry analysis

Location analysis

Competition analysis

Use of AI to support market and competition analyses


Marketing (approx. 3 days)

Market analysis and market segmentation

Basics of market research

Instruments of the marketing mix

Advertising and supporting instruments

Use of AI to develop marketing ideas and address target groups

AI-supported creation of marketing content


Financial planning (approx. 1 day)

Overview of

Instruments


Planning investment calculation (approx. 2 days)

Basics

Investment calculation methods

Limits and problems of capital budgeting methods

Key figures


Financial planning (approx. 1 day)

Basics

Equity and debt financing

External and internal financing

Key figures


Controlling (approx. 1 day)

Tasks and objectives of controlling

Areas of controlling

Controlling instruments


Project work, certification preparation and certification examination (approx. 5 days)

Controlling basics

Introduction to controlling (approx. 1.5 days)

Controlling as part of the management process

Overview of the various controlling instruments and methods

Strategic and operational controlling


Cost accounting and cost management (approx. 3.5 days)

Introduction to cost and activity accounting

Cost element accounting

Cost center accounting

Cost unit accounting


Cost accounting systems (approx. 3 days)

Actual, normal and planned cost accounting

Partial and full cost accounting

Activity-based costing


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Corporate planning and budgeting (approx. 4 days)

budget planning

Liquidity planning

investment planning


Key figures and key figure systems (approx. 3 days)

Contribution margin

Balanced scorecard


Reporting (approx. 2 days)

reporting

BWA

Data protection in controlling


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Statistics and data analysis

Statistical basics (approx. 6 days)

Measurement theory basics (population, sample, sample types, measurement, scale levels)

Univariate descriptive statistics (frequency distributions, central measures, measures of dispersion, standardization, histograms, bar charts, pie charts, line charts, box plots)

Bivariate descriptive statistics (measures of correlation, correlation coefficients, crosstabs, scatter plots, grouped bar charts)

Basics of inductive inferential statistics (probability distributions, normal distribution, sampling distribution of the mean, significance test, null hypothesis test, significance level, effect size, parameter estimation, confidence intervals, error bar charts, power analysis, sample size)

Data preparation and data cleansing with suitable software

Descriptive analysis

Visualization of statistical results

AI-supported analysis and interpretation of statistical results


Methods for comparing two groups (approx. 5 days)

z-test, t-test for one sample

t-test for independent and related samples

Pretest-posttest designs with two groups

Supporting significance tests (Anderson-Darling test, Ryan-Joiner test, Levene test, Bonett test, significance test for correlations)

Nonparametric methods (Wilcoxon test, sign test, Mann-Whitney test)

Contingency analyses (binomial test, Fisher's exact test, chi-square test, cross-tabulations, measures of association)

Interpretation of test results

AI-supported interpretation of results


Basics of regression analysis (approx. 2 days)

Linear regression

Model interpretation

AI-supported model interpretation

Correlation analysis


Methods for comparing the means of several groups (approx. 3 days)

One-factorial and two-factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA)

Post-hoc analyses

Interpretation of group differences

Multi-factorial analysis of variance (general linear model)

Fixed, random, crossed and nested factors

Multiple comparison methods (Tukey-HSD, Dunnett, Games-Howell)

Interaction analysis

Power analysis for variance analyses


Introduction to Design of Experiments (DoE) (approx. 1 day)

Full factorial and partial factorial experimental designs


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

AWS Cloud Administrator

Cloud concepts (approx. 3.5 days)

Advantages of the AWS Cloud

Principles of the AWS Cloud design

Migration to the AWS Cloud

Concepts of cloud economics


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Security and compliance (approx. 4.5 days)

AWS model as shared responsibility

AWS cloud security, governance and compliance concepts

AWS access management functions

Components and resources for security support


Cloud technology and services (approx. 5 days)

Methods for deployment and operation in the AWS Cloud

Global AWS infrastructure

AWS computing services, database services, network services and storage services

AWS service for artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as analytics services

Services from other covered AWS services categories


Invoicing, pricing and support (approx. 2 days)

Comparison of AWS pricing models

Resources for billing, budget and cost management

AWS technical resources and support options


Project work, certification preparation and certification exam (approx. 5 days)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 (in English)



Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.

Specialist knowledge of accounting (balance sheet and P&L) and a good knowledge of English are required for this course.

You have basic knowledge of controlling, can create business plans, are proficient in important economic planning and marketing tools and can analyze data using statistical methods. You have the specialist knowledge required to operate in the cloud. You also have the technical experience required to provision, secure and automate environments regardless of the provider's solution.

The course is aimed at people with training or relevant professional experience in accounting, business administration, commercial or administrative areas.

Performance managers concentrate on the future-oriented adherence to a company's strategies and plans and are therefore in demand from both large and medium-sized companies.

Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.

Didactic concept

Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).

You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.

 

Virtual classroom alfaview®

Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.

 

The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).

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