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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
    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

    Portuguese 2

    Subject Area: Languages → Portuguese
    This practical high beginner’s course (A1.2), designed by UW-Madison for adult language learners, explores the richness of Lusophone cultures while improving your ability to converse about real-life topics. Focuses on Brazilian Portuguese and introduces the past tense.
    Upcoming Dates
    • Feb. 19, 2025–May 7, 2025
      $269
      Live online

    Advancing Motivational Interviewing

    Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Motivational Interviewing
    This 20-hour blended (online and live Zoom sessions) course with instructors Laura Saunders and Melody Cole is for learners who want to strengthen their existing MI skillset. Develop strong skills and outline an implementation plan. Not sure which course is right for you? Check out our MI info page.
    Upcoming Dates
    • March 4, 2025–May 6, 2025
      Registration fee includes two practice sessions with a standardized client with instructor feedback and access to Canvas, an online learning management system. The course workbook is not included in the fee. Please see the summary on details on where the text can be purchased. $625.00
      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

    Cultural Reverence: Dialogue vs. Debate

    Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Human Services
    New: This 4-hour, interactive live webinar with instructors Adesola Oni and Shawn Smith builds on the Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence course. Further explore frameworks for engaging in dialogue, avoiding debate and building skills for healthy discussions regarding culture, identity and more.
    Upcoming Dates
    • March 6, 2025
      $129
      Live online

    Building Motivational Interviewing Competency Certificate

    Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Motivational Interviewing
    This 38-hour blended (online and live Zoom sessions) course with instructors Laura Saunders and Adrienne Allen is for participants wanting to learn or relearn the knowledge and skills necessary to reach MI proficiency. Not sure which MI course is right for you? Check out our MI information page.
    Upcoming Dates
    • March 11, 2025–May 13, 2025
      $1,299 The registration fee includes two practice sessions with a simulated client and instructor feedback and access to Canvas, an online learner management system. The course workbook is not included in the fee. Please see the summary for details on where the text can be purchased.
      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

    Grief Support Specialist Certificate

    Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
    This one-of-a-kind, 40-hour, online certificate with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy, peer educators and others. It provides knowledge and skills to create/enhance a professional specialty to support people who have suffered a major loss.
    Upcoming Dates
    • March 12, 2025–May 2, 2025
      $1,249 through February 26; $1,449 after
      Group-paced

    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

    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
    • March 25–27, 2025
      $480; gov't/nonprofit $380
      Live online

    Strategic Thinking, Planning and Organizational Transformation

    Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
    Customizable
    Strategic planning provides both a process and a set of outcomes that help you find answers to core questions about organizational identity and direction. Discover how to construct your organization's strategic plan, involve other stakeholders in its development and ensure successful implementation.
    Upcoming Dates
    • March 26–28, 2025
      $500; Govt./Nonprofit $400
      Live online

    Professional Writing: Effective Workplace Communication

    Subject Area: Leadership, Management & Workplace Skills → Leadership & Management
    Customizable
    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
    • April 2–9, 2025
      $370; gov't/nonprofit $270
      Live online
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