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A Coach Approach to Work Performance Feedback

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

Agile Scrum for Project Management

Customizable
This class will help build foundational knowledge of Scrum and equip you with skills to effectively manage, lead or be a member of a Scrum team. You will learn what kinds of projects call for an Agile Scrum approach.
Upcoming Dates
  • Jan. 22–29, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online
  • March 12–19, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online
  • May 21–28, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online

Managing Time, Multiple Priorities and Interruptions

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

Fundamentals of Project Management

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
  • Feb. 13–20, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online
  • June 18–26, 2025
    $590; gov't/nonprofit $490
    Live online

Facilitating Effective Meetings

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

Strategic Project Management: Optimizing Resources and Navigating Risks

Customizable
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
  • Feb. 25–27, 2025
    $590; govt./nonprofit $490
    Live online
  • May 7–9, 2025
    $590; govt./nonprofit $490
    Live online

Leading for Racial Equity Certificate: Intensive Exploration and Practical Application

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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