Professional Development Collaborative
Industry Expert Led Affordable Training for Polishing Skills and Landing Jobs

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

    • An excellent introduction to the growing field of coaching.

  • Five Steps to Building a Profitable Coaching or Consulting Practice

    • Establish your presence on social media and reach the audience that your business will serve.

  • Turn Your Audience into Qualified Leads

    • BrandingBand takes a comprehensive approach to presenting

  • 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

  • Busy, Busy, Busy – But What’s Getting Done? – A “How to” on Being Productive

    • This is much more than time management.

  • Immune Health 101:

    • Home therapies to strengthen your immune system.

  • To Be Hired, You Must be Found

    • Maximize your online presence to increase to job interviews

  • Working Remotely: A “How To”

  • Managing Your Stress During the Covid-19 Crisis

    • Strategies to help you shift your focus to stay centered, rational, and resourceful.

  • 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

  • Resumes That Win Interviews

    • Generate interviews from a well crafted resume

  • Landing Your First Professional Job:

    • Learn all the key elements of a successful job search in today’s pandemic economy

  • Artificial Intelligence: Foundation for a Career Pivot

    • Learn AI basics to prepare yourself for current and future employment.

  • Power Networking

    • This presentation provides a thorough overview of relationship-referral 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

    • 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 / Scrum Fundamentals

    • Understand the values, benefits, and practices using simulations and interactive team learning.

  • 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 in the Current, or Any, Environment

    • How to keep yourself motivated in your job search, your job, or your start up business

  • 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.

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