Professional Training
The PDC offers a wide variety of workshops that teach the necessary skills for today’s rapidly changing job market. Current Workshops are presently open for registration while Workshop Catalog is a list of workshops that have been offered in the past. Join our mailing list and receive notification of our upcoming schedule.
Workshop Catalog
business development
- Key Coaching Skills for Non-Coaches to Build & Strengthen Relationships
- Five Steps to Building a Profitable Coaching or Consulting Practice
- Turn Your Audience into Qualified Leads
- Seven Steps to Landing Your Dream Job
- Introduction to Search Engine Optimization
- Building a Successful Consulting Practice
- Introduction to Google Analytics
- Promoting Your Small Business or Consulting Practice
- WordPress Editing Basics
- Starting A Non-Profit Organization
- Create An Effective Business Plan
- Becoming a Consultant
- Event Planning
- Public Relations For Small Businesses & Non-Profits
- QuickBooks® Basics
- Social Media Marketing: For Your Business, Your Practice, Yourself
- Salesforce
- Introduction to Public Relations
- Social Media Marketing
- Building A Business Referral Network Online
- QuickBooks for Non-Financial Managers
- How to Apply for U.S. Patent
- Intermediate Salesforce
- QuickBooks for Non-Profits
- Marketing Strategies
- Start-Up Business Plan
An excellent introduction to the growing field of coaching.
Establish your presence on social media and reach the audience that your business will serve.
BrandingBand takes a comprehensive approach to presenting
Master how to translate your talents into today’s currency of social media.
Drive more organic search traffic to your company’s web site
Learn how to decide if consulting is right for you, how to focus your business, and how to charge for your services.
This introductory course offers a thorough coverage of the basics of Google Analytics.
This workshop is about how to use print, online and word of mouth to reach your audience and promote your business.
Learn basic WordPress in order to edit existing WordPress created websites.
This workshop will provide you with a basic understanding of what it takes to establish a Non-Profit organization.
This workshop imparts the savvy you’ll need to create a business plan that provides your new or existing business with a solid chance to succeed.
Consulting offers independence, a chance to build your own business, an opportunity to focus on what you do best and to earn a substantial income. But is consulting the right choice for you?
How to take an event from concept to completion
In this workshop you’ll have hands-on time learning how to craft that PR message and deliver it to the right audience, be it through press releases, social media or other electronic tools.
QuickBooks Basics workshop will assist’s new users in how to implement Intuit QuickBooks and improve the performance of your firm. This workshop provides the basis for installing and setting up QuickBooks for your firm and augmenting your bookkeeping requirements.
With the demands of modern business, successful professionals, managers and executives must be as dynamic as the tools they use. You’ll leave this workshop with tools and resources for Social Media that you can implement immediately.
Learn Salesforce at a high-level; Gain knowledge of: how it operates and its place in today’s workforce; key components and capabilities from an end user standpoint; how organizations use it to track prospects and customer interactions in Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, and Finance; Confidently begin to speak about Salesforce in your network.
In this workshop you’ll learn how to craft that PR message and deliver it to the right audience – whether through a press release, social media or other electronic tools. You’ll learn how to identify the key players you need to reach, both customers and “influencers.”
Learn trends, best practices, measurement tools for the single most effective way to reach your audience.
fundraising
- Introduction to Fundraising
- Introduction to Grant Writing
- Essentials of Fundraising
- Advanced Grant Writing
- Fundraising Campaigns
- Fundraising for Non-Profits, Part 2
- Fundraising for Non-Profits, Part 1
This workshop covers the essential topics of successful fundraising and is especially created for organizations operating on a shoe-string budget.
Introduction to the process including an overview of the essential administrative functions for grant acquisition, types of funding sources, cultivation of funders, the anatomy of a grant, and preparing a proposal paper.
This workshop covers the essential topics of successful fundraising and is especially created for organizations operating on a shoe-string budget.
Grant writing skills are a hot, in-demand skill and for those who master it, doors of opportunity open. This in-depth advanced grant writing workshop builds on your existing grant writing knowledge.
management
- Managing Today
- Team Building
- Authentic Leadership
- Conflict Management
microsoft office
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
Popular Data Base Program
You know how to produce a variety of documents in MS Word …BUT…Wouldn’t it be great if you could: produce stunning documents; shorten documents by 50-67%; utilize tables to organize text and keep it pleasing to look at.
You have learned the basics of Excel Spreadsheets and Workbooks. …BUT…Wouldn’t it be great if you could: work more efficiently and effectively; summarize information from a sales data table with over 38,000 line item entries, incorporate an undistorted spreadsheet into a PowerPoint slide, quickly and easily; pull information from a table of information with a Pivot Table?
personal development
- Stress Resilience for Troubled Times
- Make Age Invisible
- Busy, Busy, Busy – But What’s Getting Done? – A “How to” on Being Productive
- Immune Health 101:
- To Be Hired, You Must be Found
- Working Remotely: A “How To”
- Managing Your Stress During the Covid-19 Crisis
- Developing Your Emotional Intelligence
- Presentation Skills
- Managing Stress and Building Resilience for Your Job Search
- Designing and Delivering Effective Training
- Time Management
- Negotiations
- Stress Management
- Speak With Confidence
- Double Your Productivity
- Double Your Sales
- Branding Through Social Media
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Problem Solving
- First Aid and CPR
- Social Networking
Learn coping skills to help you manage your mental and physiological responses to the many challenges our world is facing
Communicate who you are, what you do, and what you offer to the world of work
This is much more than time management.
Home therapies to strengthen your immune system.
Maximize your online presence to increase to job interviews
Strategies to help you shift your focus to stay centered, rational, and resourceful.
Learn empathy and constructive communication to create a collaborative, cooperative work environment.
Strengthen and improve your presentation skills in a safe and supportive space.
This workshop teaches you how to manage stress effectively, allowing you to be both present and productive while job hunting.
Two-day interactive training to learn how to design an engaging and productive course for adult learners.
Learn how to get twice as much done in the same amount of time.
We all negotiate on a daily basis! Gain insights to be a more effective negotiator.
This workshop teaches you how to manage stress effectively, allowing you to be both present and productive in the workplace or while job hunting.
This workshop is designed to strengthen your public speaking skills – no matter what your comfort level is now – you will come away with tips and techniques to use for a lifetime.
Learn how to get twice as much done in the same amount of time.
professional development
- Resumes That Win Interviews
- Landing Your First Professional Job:
- Artificial Intelligence: Foundation for a Career Pivot
- Power Networking
- The 21st Century Job Search: A Whole New Ball Game
- Managing Your Career In a Changing Economy
- Planning a Job Search Networking Campaign
- Create Compelling Website Content
- Surviving and Thriving in the Gig Economy
- Growing Your Networking Skills Before and After You Land a Job
- Proactive Management
- CRM and Salesforce
- Effective Networking
- Mastering The New Linkedin for Job Search & Professional Success
- Essentials of Mediation
- Building a Brand
- DiSC® Method Workshop
- HR Essentials for Small Businesses & 501 (c)(3)’s
- Myers-Briggs
- WordPress 101
- LinkedIn Profile for Professional Development
- Assertive Communication
- Communicating for Results: Enhance Your Communication Skills
- HR Essentials
- CRM Solutions
- Produce a Webinar
- Technical Writing
- Effective Communications
- Creating a Website
Generate interviews from a well crafted resume
Learn all the key elements of a successful job search in today’s pandemic economy
Learn AI basics to prepare yourself for current and future employment.
This presentation provides a thorough overview of relationship-referral networking.
Ensure professional success in this rapidly changing American economy with insights to move your career forward.
Explore the pros and cons of the “gig” economy and learn to master the survival strategies for this nature of work.
A way of managing where you take the initiative by responding to, not reacting to, job-related challenges, taking real ownership of the challenges facing managers today.
This workshop introduces you to CRM and to Salesforce.com, a CRM software product that allows you to share customer information across the organization and between external stakeholders.
Learn how to network from Boston’s most effective networking teacher.
create an effective professional platform for yourself; to raise your visibility, create a “brand”, and improve your prospects.
This workshop will provide an overview of Mediation Philosophy, the different types of mediation and the types of situations where mediation is commonly used.
Learn how to create a strong brand for you or your business.
DiSC® is the leading personal assessment tool taken every year by over one million people.
This class focuses on the role of Human Resources in growing small businesses and non-profits.
Explore how a fuller understanding of the four axes of your Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI Type) will help you improve your workplace performance, your ability to collaborate and manage.
Learn WordPress basics
LinkedIn is an essential component of your visibility as a professional today. Learn: ways to increase visibility inside LinkedIn.
project management
- Project Management Essentials
- Introduction to Lean & Six Sigma
- Agile / Scrum Fundamentals
- PMP Preparation
- Project Management 2.0
- Introduction To SharePoint
Learn a powerful set of project tools that will help you manage a team and bring a project to fruition.
Reviews the benefits of Lean and Six Sigma programs and discuss the key tools with each program
Understand the values, benefits, and practices using simulations and interactive team learning.
A two day, 14 PDU (1.4 CEU) instructor led program for Project Managers or graduates of the Prof. Development Collaborative’s “Project Management Essentials” course, preparing you for the PMP® Examination.
Upgrade your PM skills. Build on The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge 5th Edition and the latest organizational “best practices” to create a powerful project plan that will stand the test of time. Blends sophisticated scheduling with robust budgeting, then adds the best in product quality and risk management. Earn PDU credits.
speaker series
- How to Get Motivated in the Current, or Any, Environment
- The Work You’re Born To Do
How to keep yourself motivated in your job search, your job, or your start up business
How to leverage your innate skills, strengths and passions, and bring a sense of purpose to your live.