Leadership Development and Organizational Change

This course, part of the Online Labor Studies Program, focuses on how to develop skills to improve the effectiveness of your communication relationships and enhance the quality of your life. The class will be highly participatory and include the most crucial readings on effective communications for working people.

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Register for Effective Communications At Work

This course is part of the Certificate of Labor Studies and requires no prior familiarity with the subject matter. This online class introduces participants to workplace hazards, their regulations/recommendations, and hazard control measures. An important benefit will be improving your ability to recognize hazards and to use hazard evaluation tools.

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Register for Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program, this course examines the principles of contract bargaining including bargaining environments and standards used in negotiations. Students will learn to prepare bargaining demands, cost economic items, draft non-economic language, negotiate economic and non-economic issues, and resolve a bargaining impasse.

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Register for Introduction to Collective Bargaining

For anyone who wants to improve oral presentation skills and overcome reluctance to speak in public and gain tools for more effective presentations. This online workshop is part of the four-course Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program and participants do not have to be online at a specific time.

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Register for Effective Communication (online)

Ready to make a difference in your union, organization, or company? Earn your certificate and build essential leadership, negotiation and communication skills with convenient and flexible online courses. The Labor Leadership Skills certificate program is an affordable and rapid-results educational experience that provides skills essential to success in your organization.

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Register for Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program - Online

Creative thinking and innovation goes beyond problem-solving and continuous improvement. It is about value creation and the ability to see opportunities for growth where others do not. Whether entering new markets, launching new products and services, or re-thinking current processes, it takes an innovator’s mindset to make it happen.

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Register for Think Create Execute

Influence and persuasion is an important set of skills that helps you achieve success in life. Whether it's selling products or services, getting others on board with your point of view, or simply motivating others to act in a certain way, these skills will significantly help you achieve unmatched results.

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Register for Influence and Persuasion

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program which allows busy union activists to take college credit courses regardless of their location or work schedules, this 11-week course is designed to acquaint labor relations professionals, union members, and union stewards with a basic understanding of public sector labor relations.

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Register for Labor Relations in the Public Sector

Master communication and leadership skills to effectively manage employees, establish priorities and delegate responsibilities. Building awareness of team dynamics and how to engage employees through group problem-solving and decision-making. Become an effective leader with the ability to develop productive relationships and ensure alignment and collaboration.

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Register for Leadership Skills for Success: Engaging Employees and Building Teams

Communicate effectively and respectfully in a multi-generational workplace while leveraging differences to build stronger work relationships. Understand why generational differences exist and prepare to change your mindset to use new ways of communicating with others. Learn to avoid making age-based assumptions that diminish both respect and trust.

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Register for Bridging the Generation Gap: Communicating Effectively in a Multi-Generational Workforce

Resilience in the workplace is about having a sense of purpose, while remaining an authentic version of yourself. Resilience helps to increases job satisfaction, self-esteem, employee engagement, communication and innovation. A resilient and adaptable workforce supports one another to get work done more efficiently and effectively. Resilient and adaptable teams work collaboratively to solve problems, react to change more quickly and strengthen relationships to reduce interpersonal conflict.

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Register for Resilience at Work: Adapting to Change and Rebounding from Workplace Challenges

Build skills for developing impactful and engaging coaching conversations that improve team performance. Establish an understanding of when feedback discussions need to transition to a coaching relationship. Review theories for changing behavior, the importance of trust, crucial coaching elements and formulating successful development plans to enhance performance and build potential.

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Register for Performance Feedback and Coaching: Engaging in High Impact Discussions

Learn to artfully inspire your people and motivate them to change by meeting them where they are with a fully realized, articulated vision for the future and concrete actionable steps to get there. This workshop offers a self-assessment, a method to navigate real-world scenarios and a personal action plan.

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Register for Leading Change

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to harness emotions in sensing, understanding and responding adeptly to social cues in the surrounding environment. Measure your current EI level and receive coaching to improve it. Learn to use your EI to interact with others, solve problems and achieve higher performance.

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Register for Emotional Intelligence: An Edge for Leaders