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Find your way forward. Whether you’re upskilling to advance your career, improve client/patient outcomes, pursuing a new passion or something in between, our flexible online, in-person and hybrid classes are designed to work with your schedule, here on the UW–Madison campus or wherever you are in the world. Use the search filters to find the class, badge or certificate that works best for you.

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Leadership

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
Explore leadership characteristics and ways to strengthen your organization and support others' work. Learn about different leadership styles, public perceptions of leadership by sector and servant-leadership basics. Develop a personal leadership philosophy that contributes to your mission.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 3–12, 2024
    $480; gov't/nonprofit $380
    Live online
  • March 25–27, 2025
    $480; gov't/nonprofit $380
    Live online

Communication Skills for Challenging Conversations

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Learn to handle difficult conversations at work and to listen and be assertive without weakening relationships. Better understand the complex nature of interpersonal communication and explore why misunderstanding is so normal. Apply the skills learned to conflict resolution and give performance feedback.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 4–19, 2024
    $580; gov't/nonprofit $480
    Live online
  • April 3–11, 2025
    $580; gov't/nonprofit $480
    Live online

Fundamentals of Project Management

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills
Customizable
Gain foundational knowledge and explore best practices in project management to build the personal knowledge, skill and confidence you need to effectively lead projects. Whether you're leading your first project or looking for strategies to ensure project success, you will benefit from this class.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 10–19, 2024
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online
  • Feb. 13–20, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online
  • June 18–26, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online

Trauma Informed Leadership: A Guide for All Managers

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
This course empowers managers to support team members impacted by trauma while maintaining personal and professional boundaries. Learn to balance compassion with productivity and navigate complex situations guided by employment law. Reduce stress, boost morale and build a stronger team.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 10–11, 2024
    $490; $390 gov't/nonprofit
    Live online
  • June 10–11, 2025
    $490; $390 gov't/nonprofit
    Live online

A Coach Approach to Work Performance Feedback

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
This specially designed class will focus on the how-tos of adopting a coaching style for giving work performance feedback. This is a class for leaders and managers who are ready to learn this approach and who want to understand and practice the key elements to utilize them right away.
Upcoming Dates
  • Jan. 21, 2025–Feb. 4, 2025
    $475; $375 Gov't/Nonprofit
    Live online

Managing Time, Multiple Priorities and Interruptions

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
Identify behaviors, create strategies that help you manage multiple priorities and handle interruptions so you are more effective at work. Cover the myth of multitasking, how daily goals and objectives lead to success, strategies and best practices in putting out fires and doing more than one job.
Upcoming Dates
  • Feb. 13, 2025
    $380; gov't/nonprofit $280
    Live online
  • April 17, 2025
    $380; gov't/nonprofit $280
    Live online

Facilitating Effective Meetings

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
Gain an understanding of the mechanics of managing a meeting well. Learn to develop an agenda, manage meeting dynamics, deal with disruptive behavior, keep the meeting on track, track assignments and record the decisions and actions of the group. The session includes templates and models.
Upcoming Dates
  • Feb. 18–19, 2025
    $450; Govt./Nonprofit $350
    Live online
  • May 14–15, 2025
    $450; Govt./Nonprofit $350
    Live online

Leading for Racial Equity Certificate: Intensive Exploration and Practical Application

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Diversity & Inclusion
Connect and grow within your learning community as you challenge norms and dominant thinking together. Learn tools and practices that can transform your team and organization. Become an anti-racist leader and drive real equity in budgeting, programs and policies.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 4, 2025–May 6, 2025
    $1,300; gov't/nonprofit $950
    Live online

Change Management for Projects

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
Project management protocols don't often account for the changes in attitude and behavior that people will need to make to ensure the successful adoption of change. This workshop will focus on the integration of change management and project management processes and tools.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 6–20, 2025
    $450; gov't/nonprofit $350
    Live online
  • June 9–23, 2025
    $450; gov't/nonprofit $350
    Live online

Managing Your Brain for Managers: The Neuroscience of Leading Self and Others

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
Our brains are hardwired to react and protect us. Through this skills-based training, we learn to calm our fear-based survival center and activate parts of the brain that facilitate creativity, critical thinking and interpersonal connection.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 11, 2025–April 15, 2025
    $580; gov't/nonprofit $470
    Live online

Managing Organizational Change

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
A key challenge for today's leaders is helping employees to understand the need for change. They must help employees discover new ways of working and embracing these new ideas. We explore strategies for communicating the need for change and building employee commitment to that change.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 18–19, 2025
    $450; Gov't/Nonprofit $350
    Live online
  • May 7–8, 2025
    $450; Gov't/Nonprofit $350
    Live online

Applied AI for Non-Technical Leaders

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
Artificial Intelligence is not a trend. It is a revolutionary development in technology for which all workplaces should be informed and prepared. This course is designed for non-technical managers and professionals seeking to understand and leverage generative AI in their operations.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 19, 2025–April 2, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online

Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: From Insight to Impact

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Customizable
Explore the science of emotions and their impact on workplace behaviors. Use evidence-based tools to discover and develop your own Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills and the agency to navigate pressure. Use the insight you gain to influence and support the EQ of your team.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 20, 2025–April 10, 2025
    $480; gov't/nonprofit $380
    Live online
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