Past Classes

Excel Cornerstones: Three Proven Skills to Reclaim 45 Minutes a Day

Instructor: Shir Aviv

In this Master Class, you’ll explore Excel’s three cornerstone skills: 1) Navigation, 2) Formatting, and 3) Formulas. Learn Excel shortcuts that will dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes you to complete your day-to-day tasks and skills that can eliminate manual and repetitive work so that you can get back to the creative and strategic work you were hired for in the first place.

Fostering Workplace Cultures of Equity and Belonging

Instructor: Deitra Reiser, Ph.D.

This Master Class helps organizations intentionally integrate inclusive practices while removing barriers that hinder a positive culture of belonging. By utilizing the iceberg systems model to critically examine their organizations through an equity lens, participants will gain actionable insights and clear steps to implement foundational and structural changes that will foster more equitable practices and policies.

Lead with Impact: Essential Skills for Modern Managers

Instructor: Amanda Silver

Learn the tools, skills and frameworks to manage others effectively. This course will focus on core competencies of management, like delegation, prioritization, providing feedback, creating performance management systems, and managing up, down, and across your organization.

Program Evaluation: Surveying for Success with Rosov Consulting 

Instructors: Dr. Frayda Gonshor Cohen and Allison Magagnosc, Rosov Consulting

This Master Class teaches best practices for evaluating programs by using surveys to collect data and describe impact. Participants will explore learning goals for data collection, discuss survey design and question writing, and create survey text together that participants can utilize as they evaluate their programs.

Spotlight: Creating Standout Resumes and Cover Letters

Instructor: Emily Kapit

Identify your Pattern of Excellence (your unique achievements and track record that demonstrates your skillset) to better understand how your accomplishments relate to your career trajectory and goals. Learn strategies, tips, and tricks for maintaining your career assets and how to integrate your resume with your LinkedIn profile.

Task Management with Less Stress

Instructor: Diana Bloom

Learn actionable steps that can be implemented to achieve higher productivity and efficiency, in order to bridge the gap between your intentions and your actions. Discover systems and processes in order to prioritize, track, and complete tasks with less stress.

Spotlight: 8 Practices of Excellent Project Management

Instructor: Jessica Eastman Stewart

In this interactive class, you’ll explore the essential practices of project management. Learn to define success, clarify roles and responsibilities, manage information, set realistic timelines, engage stakeholders, create templates, foster a great project culture, and close projects effectively.

Spotlight: Collaborative Brainstorming

Instructor: Aaron Henne

Learn a step-by-step process that will enable you to see how to best encourage productive brainstorming that will result in tangible outcomes. You’ll engage with structures and techniques designed to facilitate inclusive conversations and to build community in efficient ways.

Excel Formula Deep Dive: Learn 45+ Functions, Fix Broken Formulas, and Calculate Anything

Instructor: Shir Aviv

This course will teach you how to use formulas in a masterful way. You will learn how to calculate the right answer 100% of the time by using simple, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-modify formulas.

Strategic Communication

Instructor: Jordan Namerow

Learn the tools, techniques, and frameworks needed for building a strategic communications plan to help your organization achieve its goals and deepen its impact.

Spotlight: Getting Started with AI

Instructor: Dr. Sarah Rubinson Levy

Explore the history of AI, and to learn how to begin using this technology in an empowered way for good. You will learn how to develop prompts for ChatGPT specifically for efficiency, strategy, and creativity, so that you can begin using it and other AI tools to streamline your work.

Cultivating Team Wellness

Instructors: Yavilah McCoy, CEO and Founder, Dimensions Educational Consulting; Josh Feldman, Founder and CEO, and Rachel Zieleniec, Chief Program Officer, R&R: The Rest of Our Lives; and Sarah Waxman, Founder and CEO, At the Well

How can managers cultivate a sense of wellbeing among their direct reports to ensure that people can take care of themselves so that we can get the important work done? This Master Class highlights three ways that managers can foster a culture of rest and wellness at work: through individual behaviors, staff meetings, and across organizational culture.

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