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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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Managing Time, Multiple Priorities and Interruptions

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
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
  • Oct. 6, 2021
    $375; gov't/nonprofit $265
    Live online
  • Feb. 9, 2022
    $395; govt./nonprofit $285
    Live online

Leading for Racial Equity Part 2: Policy Tools and Workforce Development

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Diversity & Inclusion
Transform your commitment to racial equity into anti-racist leadership in this new two-part class. In part 2, learn how racial equity decision tools are used to hardwire equity strategies in budget allocations, programs and policy decisions. Apply an equity-focused analysis to a current project and leave with feedback on how to leverage the project for social justice and racial equity.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 14, 2021–Nov. 11, 2021
    $625; Gov't./Non-Profit $495
    Live online
  • April 13, 2022–May 11, 2022
    $625; gov't./non-profit $495
    Live online

Leadership

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
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
  • Oct. 19, 2021
    $385; gov't/nonprofit $275
    Live online
  • April 6, 2022
    $395; gov't/nonprofit $285
    Live online

Servant Leadership Certificate

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Examine the core aspects of servant leadership. Topics for the five day program are: Servant Leadership Foundations, Personal and Organizational Challenges of Servant Leadership, Serving Customers/Clients/Citizens, Servant Leadership at the Team and Organizational Level, and Connecting Servant Leadership to Community and the World.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 20, 2021–Nov. 11, 2021
    $2,150; govt./non-profit $1,550
    Live online

Listening for a Change: Skills for Inclusivity

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Diversity & Inclusion
Only through true listening and understanding can we hope to create communities of integrity that sustain us and elicit our best actions. Whether you're facilitating a discussion among members of your family, workplace, or community, learn to listen with curiosity and welcome multiple perspectives.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 26, 2021
    $375; gov't/nonprofit $265
    Live online
  • April 19, 2022
    $395; gov't/nonprofit $295
    Live online

The Manager's Role in Work Satisfaction and Engagement

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
There are many myths about what managers can and should do to support employee work performance, satisfaction and engagement. Learn what decades of real-world management experience reveals about best practices and tools, plus gain insights on today's diverse and fast-moving environments.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 3–17, 2021
    $545; gov't/nonprofit $425
    Live online

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

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Learn of the recent neuroscience discoveries that reveal how our brain triggers stress and poor interpersonal reactions. Exploration and practice of multiple methods for managing your brain will greatly improve your ability to lead others in today’s organizations.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 4–18, 2021
    $565; gov't/nonprofit $445
    Live online

Honoring Our Common Differences: Reflective Actions for Inclusivity

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Diversity & Inclusion
Inclusivity is the practice of radical hospitality, where people of diverse social and cultural groups experience uncompromising respect and dignity. Inclusive leaders value and encourage multiple perspectives. Gain insights into unconscious bias and inclusivity on individual/organizational levels.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 9, 2021
    $385; gov't/nonprofit $275
    Live online
  • May 17, 2022
    $395; gov't/nonprofit $295
    Live online

Beyond the Basics of Project Management: Managing Risks, Relationships, Resources and PPRs

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Advance your project management skills by diving deep into some of the critical components of managing a project. Going beyond the basics of project management creates a culture of learning, accountability, transparency, high performance and successful delivery.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 9–10, 2021
    $585; gov't/nonprofit $475
    Live online
  • June 22–23, 2022
    $595; gov't/nonprofit $485
    Live online

Professional Writing: Effective Workplace Communication

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
Master the skills necessary to communicate effectively with internal and external audiences in today's professional environment. Learn techniques of document structure, grammar and style proven to enhance credibility and influence. Learn credibility-damaging errors and tips for avoiding them.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 18, 2021
    $375; gov't/nonprofit $265
    Live online
  • June 22, 2022
    $395; govt/nonprofit $285
    Live online

Inclusive Teaching Online: Skills and Techniques for All Trainers

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Diversity & Inclusion
The larger principles of Universal Course Design will be summarized, then the major focus of the class will be techniques and tools that can be immediately applied to online format classes for creating flexible, equitable and respectful learning experiences. Gain insights and ideas from colleagues and our instructor who has over a decade of relevant experience.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 19, 2021
    $285; gov't/nonprofit $195
    Live online
  • Feb. 10, 2022
    $285; gov't/nonprofit $195
    Live online

The Art of Conflict Transformation

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Diversity & Inclusion
Conflict can open us to new possibilities and deepen our relationships. This workshop will help you embrace both-and thinking, transforming conflict into win-win solutions. Discover how to increase your comfort in dealing with conflict and to build more trust and communication in relationships.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 7–8, 2021
    $565; gov't/nonprofit $465
    Live online
  • June 7–8, 2022
    $585; gov't/nonprofit $475
    Live online

Communication Skills for Challenging Conversations

Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
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 giving performance feedback.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 8–9, 2021
    $565; gov't/nonprofit $445
    Live online
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