List of available topics and courses: These courses are designed to help organizations and small business owners strengthen essential skills and processes that drive performance and growth. Each topic is presented in a concise, practical format that focuses on the most important concepts, supported by real-world examples, ready-to-use templates, and step-by-step guidance for implementation. The in-person sessions feature facilitated learning, where discussions and activities are customized to participants’ unique business challenges and goals.

• Project Management

Description: This course focuses on the tools and processes needed to initiate, plan, and implement projects in a business setting. The class will examine the concepts of project management and will introduce tools to plan and track the progress of projects.

• Process Improvement

Description: This course focuses on the tools and processes needed to identify improvement opportunities, to diagnose root causes, and implement process improvements that reduce cost and increase performance.

• Email productivity course

Description: Increase your productivity by cleaning up your inbox and creating a process that allows you to manage your time more effectively. Review the emotional and cognitive process that promotes specific behavior and propose strategies to change behavior

Agile course

Description: Agile Project Management includes effective skills and tools that have been adapted to a variety of business practices. This course identifies 5 agile approaches and gives examples of how each of these can be applied to manage outcomes and results more effectively.

Innovation course

Description: When the current process isn't working, you need to come up with creative solutions. Innovation is the process of coming up with new ideas. This session reviews some of the challenges to innovation and ways to encourage creative problem-solving individually or as a team. Some of the topics include characteristics in building innovation awareness, exercises to prime creative thinking, and strategies to manage the ideation process.

Data visualization course

Description: The saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" comes from our ability to rapidly process images and pictures. This session reviews visual thinking and communicating processes, identifies ways that data can be presented graphically, provides an understanding of visual data frameworks and tools, and discusses ways to monitor and control processes using visual management approaches.

Change management course

• Description: In this course, participants will engage in hands-on exercises to build acceptance, reduce resistance, and unite teams around a shared vision. They'll learn practical strategies for sustaining change by reinforcing new behaviors and tracking progress. Because lasting change doesn’t just happen, it’s managed.

Project sponsorship and motivation

Description: This course focuses on the leadership role in process improvement. This provides the framework for leaders and sponsors to understand the importance of engagement and reinforcement and identify ways to promote excellence in the organization.

Facilitation Course

Description: Facilitation is considered a "nuanced skill," which means there is no one way of facilitating a group of people. Facilitation is the set of skills to keep a meeting or discussion organized and working toward a specific goal. This class focuses on the tools to keep meetings on track, how to manage productive discussions, and how to promote involvement and get things done.

Strategy course

Description: Does your business have a direction and goals for the future? Is there a roadmap to get there? This course presents the steps in strategy development and methods to implement and integrate the strategy throughout the business to drive success.