The annual Career Connections across Harvard is an opportunity to meet representatives and explore other areas of work and expand professional networks. All staff are invited, no registration is required. Learn more.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This workshop provides tools for making the writing process manageable, the writer more confident, with a professional final product. You will build a toolbox for structuring language and an approach to writing preparation.
Cost: $50
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Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This session explores challenges behind saying “no” and potential risks, impact, and feelings that prevent us from being honest. Learn how to say “yes” to yourself by identifying what is important and work towards a positive, respectful outcome at work or at home. This course is based on the Harvard Negotiation Program co-founder’s book: The Power of a Positive No, which will be sent as pre-work.
Cost: $50
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Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Additional day of course: Wednesday, September 27 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
While referencing required pre-reading of the book Beyond Reason by Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro as well as Roger Fisher and William Ury’s Getting to Yes, participants are exposed to benefits of working with emotions during negotiations and developing win-win solutions. This 2-day class explores theories through readings, video clips, case studies, and practical applications.
Cost: $75
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This workshop covers tools and techniques to empower you as an effective communicator with your manager, based on the HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across. Topics covered include: style differences, setting clear expectations, and managing your professional development.
Cost: $50
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information here.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This workshop covers tools and techniques to empower you as an effective communicator with your manager, based on the HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across. Topics covered include: style differences, setting clear expectations, and managing your professional development.
Cost: $50
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information...
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This session will reference the book Thanks for the Feedback to explore the importance of receiving feedback with a growth mindset and identify triggers that can cause us to shut down. We’ll discuss emotional components of the process and the impact it has on us as professionals.
Cost: $50
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Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Additional day of course: Thursday, October 27 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
This two-day workshop explores essential elements of effective presentations including: organization, vocal delivery, physical presence, overcoming nervousness as well as engaging and holding the audience's attention.
Cost: $75
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Given email is the most popular channel of communication at Harvard, this workshop focuses on writing techniques that can impact how your messages are read and retained.
Cost: $25
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information here.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Given email is the most popular channel of communication at Harvard, this workshop focuses on writing techniques that can impact how your messages are read and retained.
Cost: $50
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information here.
This class combines exercises and discussion to help you understand the fundamentals of a “difficult conversation”. Based on required pre-reading of the book Difficult Conversations, the workshop concludes with participants preparing for, and having practiced, their own difficult conversation by leveraging learning-partners.
Cost: $75
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information here.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
This class combines exercises and discussion to help you understand the fundamentals of a “difficult conversation”. Based on required pre-reading of the book Difficult Conversations, the workshop concludes with participants preparing for, and having practiced, their own difficult conversation by leveraging learning-partners.
Cost: $75
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information...
In a workplace culture overly-dependent on voicemail and email, many of us have forgotten key elements of effective, meaningful, verbal communication. This session explores different communication styles and techniques for communicating with those different from your own.
Cost: $50
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information here.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
In a workplace culture overly-dependent on voicemail and email, many of us have forgotten key elements of effective, meaningful, verbal communication. This session explores different communication styles and techniques for communicating with those different from your own.
Cost: $50
Learn more and register on the Harvard Training Portal. Find class information...
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
For those who are in their first “real” job after school, this session will help you explore what next steps you might consider taking on your career journey. You will focus on describing your skills and weave in the aspects of work that you find most interesting. At the end of the session you’ll craft concrete goals to help you move toward your next career opportunity.
Cost: $25
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