This course teaches students how to create and edit basic Excel worksheets and workbooks. Students learn how to navigate the Excel environment and create a basic worksheet, perform calculations, modify and format a worksheet and print and manage workbooks.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This course provides the knowledge to create basic presentations. Participants learn to navigate the PowerPoint interface, format text, insert and modify objects, add tables and charts, and prepare a presentation for delivery. Version: Microsoft Office 2010
Cost: $145
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Additional day of the course: Wednesday, July 27 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Course Code: CMP720
Cost: $300.00
Participants will learn to design, layout and edit publications such as newsletters and brochures using InDesign CS2 through CS6 in this two-day workshop. InDesign is Adobe's premier page layout program for print, PDFs and Web.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Participants will learn about capture, enhancement, and publication for photographs in Photoshop CS6. Topics include making basic photo corrections; working with selections; understanding, creating, adding, and arranging layers; and understanding colorspaces and printing options.
Cost: $175
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Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This course covers how to use HTML 4.01 to create basic Web pages. Participants will create a four-page website; insert text- and page-formatting tags; learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); create hyperlinks; insert inline images; set up page layouts; and conduct a Web publishing test. Prerequisite: An understanding of basic word processing and desktop navigation and familiarity with Internet Explorer or Firefox
Cost: $175
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To manage a team well requires specific understanding of team dynamics. In this session, we will define a team and explain what differentiates it from a working group and explore the stages of team development. We will cover six characteristics to create a high performing team:
CWD courses are open to benefits-eligible Harvard employees. Registration for CWD courses is completed via PeopleSoft Self Service, by going to Learning and Development >Request Training Enrollment (Harvard ID and PIN required).
What Drives You?: Develops awareness of one's strengths and values and intrinsic motivators to find greater meaning at work.
What participants are saying:“I am going back to work energized and committed—feeling like Harvard cares about our success at work by offering such workshops. I appreciated being guided through the work. Affirmation that I am in the right place. Thank You.”
Description: Building positive work relationships through conversation is a key driver of engagement. During this session, we will be discussing how to have powerful and important conversations at work, and prepare you to engage in these conversations with each other more frequently and productively.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Come to this workshop and hear how you can give your career a quick check up using an easy to follow model for career management and a simple career audit. An overview of your career is made more manageable by dividing up the process into sections with specific steps for reflection and planning.
In the session you will hear about specific resources available to you at Harvard to help you keep your career healthy and "on track". There will also be an opportunity for questions and answers.
What you'll learn: • The what & why of doing a checkup...
Additional day of the course: Friday, July 10 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Course Code: CPD240
Cost: $75.00
Would you like to be a more relaxed and engaging public speaker? Preparation is the key to building confidence, remaining calm and giving a successful presentation. This two-day course will teach you how to organize your presentation for maximum impact, manage your nerves and identify your current strengths and challenges as public speaker with opportunities to practice speaking in public.
The relationship between an employee and his or her manager is a critical one. In this workshop, you will learn tools and techniques to better communicate with your manager as you practice developing a more productive relationship. You will learn to increase your effectiveness by learning how to best talk to your manager, set expectations for what work needs to get done, discussing work styles and more.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD220
Cost: $75.00
Would you like to know how to open a dialogue with a colleague about a challenging subject? Or what to do when someone gets defensive, even before the conversation begins? Using the bestselling book "Difficult Conversations," which relates 15 years of research and experience at the Harvard Negotiation Project, along with in-class exercises and discussions, you’ll gain an understanding of and learn to apply strategies and techniques for having more productive "difficult" conversations.
Networking is critical to career development and everything you do now to build relationships offline can be translated into a LinkedIn activity. Founded in 2003, LinkedIn now has more than 347 million members in over 200 countries and territories making it the world's largest professional network on the internet. Learn how to take advantage of this powerful career development resource in this lab style class, through an engaging profile and an active voice in your LinkedIn...
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This workshop will provide guidelines and practice which will help you successfully prepare for interviews. During this session, we will ddiscuss different types of interviews (behavior-based, informational and phone); address what the hiring manager expects from candidates during job interviews, and strategize how best to answer potentially difficult interview questions.