Professional Training

business development

• Seven Steps to Landing Your Dream Job

Master how to translate your talents into today’s currency of social media.

• Introduction to Search Engine Optimization

Drive more organic search traffic to your company’s web site

• Building a Successful Consulting Practice

Learn how to decide if consulting is right for you, how to focus your business, and how to charge for your services.

• Introduction to Google Analytics

This introductory course offers a thorough coverage of the basics of Google Analytics.

• Promoting Your Small Business or Consulting Practice

This workshop is about how to use print, online and word of mouth to reach your audience and promote your business.

• WordPress Editing Basics

Learn basic WordPress in order to edit existing WordPress created websites.

• Starting A Non-Profit Organization

This workshop will provide you with a basic understanding of what it takes to establish a Non-Profit organization.

• Create An Effective Business Plan

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.

• Becoming a Consultant

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?

• Event Planning

How to take an event from concept to completion

• Public Relations For Small Businesses & Non-Profits

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

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.

• Social Media Marketing: For Your Business, Your Practice, Yourself

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.

• Salesforce

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.

• Introduction to Public Relations

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.”

• Social Media Marketing

Learn trends, best practices, measurement tools for the single most effective way to reach your audience.

• 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

fundraising

• Introduction to Fundraising

This workshop covers the essential topics of successful fundraising and is especially created for organizations operating on a shoe-string budget.

• Introduction to Grant Writing

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.

• Essentials of Fundraising

This workshop covers the essential topics of successful fundraising and is especially created for organizations operating on a shoe-string budget.

• Advanced Grant Writing

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.

• Fundraising Campaigns
• Fundraising for Non-Profits, Part 2
• Fundraising for Non-Profits, Part 1

management

• Managing Today
• Team Building
• Authentic Leadership
• Conflict Management

microsoft office

• Microsoft Access

Popular Data Base Program

• Microsoft Word

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.

• Microsoft Excel

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?

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook

personal development

• Developing Your Emotional Intelligence

Learn empathy and constructive communication to create a collaborative, cooperative work environment.

• Presentation Skills

Strengthen and improve your presentation skills in a safe and supportive space.

• Managing Stress and Building Resilience for Your Job Search

This workshop teaches you how to manage stress effectively, allowing you to be both present and productive while job hunting.

• Designing and Delivering Effective Training

Two-day interactive training to learn how to design an engaging and productive course for adult learners.

• Time Management

Learn how to get twice as much done in the same amount of time.

• Negotiations

We all negotiate on a daily basis! Gain insights to be a more effective negotiator.

• Stress Management

This workshop teaches you how to manage stress effectively, allowing you to be both present and productive in the workplace or while job hunting.

• Speak With Confidence

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.

• Double Your Productivity

Learn how to get twice as much done in the same amount of time.

• Double Your Sales
• Branding Through Social Media
• Emotional Freedom Techniques
• Problem Solving
• Strategic Problem Solving
• First Aid and CPR
• Social Networking

professional development

• Create Compelling Website Content
• Surviving and Thriving in the Gig Economy

Explore the pros and cons of the “gig” economy and learn to master the survival strategies for this nature of work.

• Growing Your Networking Skills Before and After You Land a Job
• Proactive Management

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.

• CRM and Salesforce

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.

• Effective Networking

Learn how to network from Boston’s most effective networking teacher.

• Mastering The New Linkedin for Job Search & Professional Success

create an effective professional platform for yourself; to raise your visibility, create a “brand”, and improve your prospects.

• Essentials of Mediation

This workshop will provide an overview of Mediation Philosophy, the different types of mediation and the types of situations where mediation is commonly used.

• Building a Brand

Learn how to create a strong brand for you or your business.

• DiSC® Method Workshop

DiSC® is the leading personal assessment tool taken every year by over one million people.

• HR Essentials for Small Businesses & 501 (c)(3)’s

This class focuses on the role of Human Resources in growing small businesses and non-profits.

• Myers-Briggs

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.

• WordPress 101

Learn WordPress basics

• LinkedIn Profile for Professional Development

LinkedIn is an essential component of your visibility as a professional today. Learn: ways to increase visibility inside LinkedIn.

• Assertive Communication
• Communicating for Results: Enhance Your Communication Skills
• HR Essentials
• CRM Solutions
• Produce a Webinar
• Technical Writing
• Effective Communications
• Creating a Website

project management

• Project Management Essentials

Learn a powerful set of project tools that will help you manage a team and bring a project to fruition.

• Introduction to Lean & Six Sigma

Reviews the benefits of Lean and Six Sigma programs and discuss the key tools with each program

• Agile and Scrum Fundamentals

Designed to provide a rapid foundation in the values, benefits, and practices of Agile and Scrum using an active classroom with simulations and interactive team learning exercises. Leave with a solid understanding of what “doing Agile” or “adopting Scrum” really means; be ready to move forward with Scrum in your organization. Earn PDU credits.

• PMP Preparation

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.

• Project Management 2.0

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.

• Introduction To SharePoint

speaker series

• How to Get Motivated Regardless of Circumstances
• The Work You’re Born To Do

How to leverage your innate skills, strengths and passions, and bring a sense of purpose to your live.