Learning & Development

2024 Jun 13

Boost your Harvard Career With Linked-In

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Online

LinkedIn has become an indispensable tool for Harvard job seekers, professionals, and career changers. It offers a platform to network, showcase your skills, and discover job opportunities. This 90-minute workshop aims to guide participants through the process of using LinkedIn identify how Harvard recruiters are currently using this tool to identify internal and external candidates.

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2024 Mar 22

Boost your Harvard Career With Linked-In

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Online

LinkedIn has become an indispensable tool for Harvard job seekers, professionals, and career changers. It offers a platform to network, showcase your skills, and discover job opportunities. This 90-minute workshop aims to guide participants through the process of using LinkedIn identify how Harvard recruiters are currently using this tool to identify internal and external candidates.

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2024 Mar 14

A Mid-Career Check-In

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Online

A Mid-Career Check-In (Grade 57+) is a 90-minute workshop designed for Harvard mid-career professionals, employees who are salary grade 57 and above, to reflect on their next career decision. Participants will partake in self-reflection exercises to identify what core values are driving their career path, engage in breakout room discussions with other mid-career professionals, and focus on crucial next steps for their careers.

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2023 Dec 05

Introduction to Project Management (Virtual)

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

In this introductory 2-hr workshop, you will learn and apply a framework to initiate, define, plan, and schedule a project. This course is intended for people leading a project who have little or no formal training in the project management process seeking an introduction to key concepts. Through this hands-on approach you apply tools and techniques and develop a project plan. Note: this workshop does not teach the use of project management software.  Please see LinkedIn Learning options for training modules on specific software.

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2023 Oct 19

Introduction to Project Management (In person)

9:30am to 12:00pm

Location: 

124 Mount Auburn St. Room 3318, 3rd Floor

In this introductory 2-hr workshop, you will learn and apply a framework to initiate, define, plan, and schedule a project. This course is intended for people leading a project who have little or no formal training in the project management process seeking an introduction to key concepts. Through this hands-on approach you apply tools and techniques and develop a project plan. Note: this workshop does not teach the use of project management software.  Please see LinkedIn Learning options for training modules on specific software.

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2023 Nov 29

Facilitating Meetings

9:30am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

This 2-hour virtual workshop focuses on increasing meeting effectiveness as a facilitator. Involving team members, inclusion, encouraging discussion, decision-making, and follow-up plans are essential for productive meetings whether in-person or virtually. Planning tools for before, during, and after meetings will be shared.

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2023 Oct 04

Facilitating Meetings

9:30am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

This 2-hour virtual workshop focuses on increasing meeting effectiveness as a facilitator. Involving team members, inclusion, encouraging discussion, decision-making, and follow-up plans are essential for productive meetings whether in-person or virtually. Planning tools for before, during, and after meetings will be shared.

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2023 Nov 30

Design Thinking Mindset

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Virtual

This 90-minute virtual workshop focuses on the five-phases of Design Thinking: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test. . We’ll focus on how to understand the user, challenge assumptions, and redefine problems in an attempt to identify alternative strategies and solutions that might not be instantly apparent with initial level of understanding. At the same time, Design Thinking provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It is a way of thinking and working as well as a collection of hands-on methods.

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2023 Oct 17

Supervisor Skills Training

9:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

“Supervisors” are defined as, or similar to, team leaders. They are not classified as “people-managers”. 

This 3-day training will focus on the essentials skills needed for Supervisors to be successful in their roles. Distinct from managers, Supervisors are focused on day-to-day operations of 'how' to implement management's decisions in their unit through the work of subordinates.

This training will cover important skills that Supervisors need to be successful including: Performance Management, Feedback, Communication, Delegation, Resolving Conflict, and...

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