Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD335
Cost: $50.00
Do you find it hard to manage the business of work and life as our society races faster and opportunities for distraction increase? Your personal effectiveness may not need an overhaul, but you may benefit from more structure and flexibility. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to the principle of Kaizen, which uses small steps for continual improvement in habits and processes, and learn how you can build your own incremental process for productivity improvements.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD320
Cost: $75.00
Effective project management ensures that projects are completed on time, within budget and according to a requisite standard. In this introductory workshop, you will learn and apply a framework to initiate, define, plan and schedule a project. This course is intended for staff members charged with leading a project who have little or no formal training in Project Management and who would like an introduction...
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD311
Cost: $50.00
Are you overwhelmed by the piles of paper cluttering your office, emails overflowing your inbox and accumulating voicemails? Does it feel like you can never, ever get out from under it all to get some real work done? If so, then this course is for you! This online, interactive workshop will help you tackle your time and space management challenges. You will identify your own style and create an organizational...
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD561
Cost: $50.00
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:
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD110
Cost: $75.00
The workshop combines the "practice" and the "politics" of editing and proofreading. You’ll build editing and proofreading skills and toolboxes and learn strategies for the sometimes sensitive skill of giving constructive criticism and corrections.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD101
Cost: $75.00
Are you looking to learn the basics of well-written, solid communication in the workplace? This workshop provides concrete tools for making the writing process more manageable, the writer more confident, and the final product more professional. You’ll build a toolbox of strategies for writing, from preparation to finished product.
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: CPD270
Cost: $50.00
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
Additional day of the course: Friday, October 23 from 9:00am - 12:00pm
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.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Additional day of the course: Friday, July 10 from 9:00am - 12:00pm
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.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Additional day of the course: Tuesday, September 15 from 9:00am - 1:00pm
Course Code: CPD230
Cost: $75.00
Working collaboratively within Harvard's decentralized academic and research environment requires skills that include negotiation, persuasion, and a keen understanding of organizational politics and practices. Theories and best practices will be illustrated and explored through readings, video clips, case studies, as well as...
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.
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...
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD200
Cost: $50.00
Do you ever wonder why communicating with managers, co-workers, and colleagues seems more challenging than it should or could be? In a workplace culture that has become dependent on email and voicemail, we can lose touch with some of the key elements of effective, meaningful verbal communication. In this session we will explore elements such as active listening, body language and tone, as well as your communication style and connecting and communicating with grace while under pressure.
Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Course Code: CPD200
Cost: $50.00
Do you ever wonder why communicating with managers, co-workers, and colleagues seems more challenging than it should or could be? In a workplace culture that has become dependent on email and voicemail, we can lose touch with some of the key elements of effective, meaningful verbal communication. In this session we will explore elements such as active listening, body language and tone, as well as your communication style and connecting and communicating with grace while under pressure.
