Search page: Courses

Gain a holistic view of your on-the-job performance through the 360-degree assessment process. This assessment combines feedback from a self-assessment, your supervisor, those who report to you, and select colleagues or team members to help you understand your strengths and identify areas for continued growth and leadership development. This workshop will address the assessment results and how to use the information to create a formal action plan to achieve individual development goals and will include a one-hour individual coaching session with the facilitator.

Survey established leadership practices to evolve your leadership strategy. In this course, you will learn advanced leadership skills and techniques to influence your organization's culture, lead others through strategic plans, and spark change with enhanced communication skills.

Learn how to best coach employees to help them gain new insights and make effective decisions that align their work with your organization’s mission. The Anytime Coaching model provides supervisors with approaches to finding coachable moments in everyday interactions. Guide your employees to solve workplace problems, build relationships, and overcome performance issues.

Challenge yourself to overcome common barriers and transform your thinking by engaging in problem solving designed to explore alternative perspectives and novel solutions. The concepts presented in Breakthrough Problem Solving are a logical follow-on to the skills learned in Critical Thinking for Problem Solving. Breakthrough Problem Solving provides an opportunity to harness those skills and put them into practice to reframe and overcome organizational issues.

Discover best practices, select appropriate visuals, and practice delivery techniques to ensure your next presentation is less intimidating, more effective, and well-received. Learn to create and organize content, write compelling introductions, and anticipate audience needs—all to ensure that you’re communicating your ideas clearly and confidently.

Discover techniques aimed at enhancing communication and streamlining processes to boost team performance. This course emphasizes effective intention-setting, strategic planning, and seamless collaboration. Through interactive discussions, self-reflection, and evaluation of current methods, you will learn to construct and maintain high-performing teams. Acquire the skills to think critically, problem-solve efficiently, and drive innovation while focusing on achieving team objectives.

Learn to convey professionalism and even influence by writing clearly, effectively, and with your intended audience in mind. You will learn to craft various types of business correspondence, to use prewriting and editing techniques to improve your communication and convey messages with accuracy, correctness, and impact. Through the use of real-life scenarios, examples, and exercises that relate directly to the knowledge needed back on the job, Business Writing provides the tools and skills necessary to refine and hone business writing skills.

Learn to strategically tailor messages to different audiences in ways that strengthen professional relationships and promote workplace engagement. Maximize the impact of your communication through intention and planning to ensure messages are aligned with organizational and personal goals.

This course helps individuals find a way to confidently and safely speak out and raise DEI issues. Courageous Inclusion will teach your people a mindset that promotes diversity and inclusion, then provides a proven process to help them become more knowledgeable and active proponents of inclusion in their workplace. Your people will understand how to diagnose themselves on the developmental continuum and which actions to take to progress to higher inclusion levels. This road map approach makes Courageous Inclusion uniquely powerful for increasing inclusivity in your culture and creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong.

Innovate your leadership! Executive leaders play crucial roles in driving innovation efforts to achieve organizational goals and initiatives. In this course, you will learn practical and relevant strategies for creating a culture of creativity and innovation in the public sector. You will gain hands-on practice through a scenario-based learning experience that explores strategic decisions about real-world workplace challenges. By the end of this course, you will develop actionable strategies for implementing and sustaining your vision in the years to come.

Learn how to employ critical thinking to solve problems, identify opportunities, and effectively manage change. Explore characteristics of critical thinkers and identify strategies for overcoming common thinking patterns. Use tools and strategies to apply to your current workplace situations.

Are you an inclusive leader? Take your advocacy and allyship to new heights and learn how to support your team with equitable and inclusive practices. This course is ideal for supervisors, team leads, and managers.

Learn the processes and techniques that build strong customer relationships, including evaluating your ability to manage your daily interactions with others. Through a series of dynamic activities, demonstrations, role-plays, and discussions, you will learn and practice the skills involved in establishing a customer focus, determining customer expectations, communicating with customers, dealing with challenging customers, and evaluating customer service.

Explore a decision-making framework tied to strategic thinking, learn to evaluate decision options that support organizational success, and use real-world scenarios to apply decision-making best practices as you discover ways to apply critical thinking skills holistically and make high-quality decisions.

Leverage the insights on personality types discovered through the DiSC® assessment tool to improve workplace communication. In this workshop, you will gain valuable information about your personality profile and develop strategies to effectively communicate with others. With practice, you will be able to build lasting workplace relationships and maximize your impact within your organization.

Explore how emotional intelligence (EI) helps leaders navigate dynamic environments, inspire commitment and engagement, and foster collaboration. Through this 360-degree assessment-based workshop, you will recognize how emotions affect leadership style, then learn to manage those emotions, be aware of others’ needs, and manage relationships. You will also develop a personal action plan to enhance your skills and strengths.Note: This course requires pre-work. You are required to complete the 360-degree assessment assignments prior to class. You will need 4–6 weeks' lead time to collect workplace feedback and complete a self-assessment.

Discover the core skills of emotional intelligence to succeed in today’s challenging business environment. You will also learn how to assess and grow your own emotional intelligence and get hands-on practice applying these skills to a wide range of leadership challenges.

Learn to identify factors that generate engagement and disengagement and gain the tools to cultivate workplace relationships. Through interactive discussions and exercises, this course will help you engage your team members and promote a workplace environment that supports adaptability, innovation, and growth. In addition, you will practice conversations that sustain engagement during times of change and conflict.

Empower yourself with the knowledge, empathy, and skills to become diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) change agents. This unique course is designed for students eager and ready to elevate their DEIA advocacy efforts to the next level through engagement, collaboration, and connection with the rest of the class. By focusing on sharing individual stories and experiences in a psychologically safe learning environment, you’ll explore methods to cultivate DEIA efforts organization wide.

Discover how mid-level leaders can elevate collaboration across the organization and maintain resilience in the face of uncertainty and complex problems. The Federal Leadership Development Program is a 5-day, research-based immersive training for mid-level leaders, available both online or in person. A deeply personal, feedback-intense, transformative learning experience, this world-class professional development for leaders helps give you clear perspective on who you are and how to thrive, both personally and professionally. It also equips you to forge a clear path forward in your career—with support for whatever the future may hold.This unique program combines the proven techniques and world-class content of the Center for Creative Leadership® (CCL®) with Management Concepts’ expertise in successfully developing Federal leaders in support of their mission.*Special Note on Course Length: In total, the facilitator-led portion of the program is about 40 hours. The program combines five days of high-touch live sessions, moderated asynchronous support for five weeks, and one-on-one coaching sessions.Registration must be finalized 6 weeks before the workshop date. There is a welcome session and mandatory pre-work that must be completed 4 weeks prior to the workshop date, otherwise your registration will be transferred into the next open session.