West Loop Classes Chicago, IL

Improve your emotional intelligence skills to recognize and positively manage emotions in yourself, in others, and in groups! Recent studies indicate that emotional intelligence is a powerful key to effective leadership. This valuable seminar delivers the in-depth knowledge and practical emotional intelligence skills you need to ensure that you are...

Get your point across with a positive professional image. How well you communicate can make or break your professional image, influencing how others view your work, your performance, and even your technical skillsets and your prospects for career mobility. This communication skills seminar will teach you how to choose and use the most appropriate...

Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers Overcome your fear of finance and learn the financial impact of your decisions - without leaving your office. From accruals and write-offs to receivables and payables, you'll get the concepts, tools, and techniques that can help you make each decision pay off - on the job and on the...

Effectively and smoothly manage the change in your role. Here's your opportunity to establish your presence as a new boss, build credibility, and adapt your unique style to every situation that comes your way. This seminar covers the nuts and bolts to prepare you to take your first supervisory role, from setting goals for your team to tackling...

Conflict is all around us, especially during tough business periods where resources are tight and tempers are shorter, but most people lack basic conflict management skills. Rather than react to conflict on a purely emotional level, learn to manage disputes and disagreements positively and proactively. With this conflict management training, you will...

Develop the management tools to help you fully lead and motivate your team to higher productivity.  Change is normal. You are responsible for your own productivity and that of your staff. Your day-to-day dealings may now include colleagues, your boss, and senior management who have different interests and viewpoints. This course will equip...

Improve your technical writing without compromising your technical message! If writing technical information and effective memos, letters, reports, manuals, instructions, documentation, specifications, or proposals is a tough proposition, this technical writing course is for you. In this intensive three-day seminar, you will learn proven technical...

Managing information technology professionals demands a whole new set of skills. How do you get people who typically work alone to function as a team unit? How do you get through to your direct reports to give constructive feedback and create the right energy to get things done? At this seminar, you'll broaden your perspective, get a keen understanding...

Gain the skills, insights, and competencies required in all negotiations-in every industry-at every level. Learn the six types of negotiation skills, how to develop an effective negotiation strategy, and why negotiation training is important to any project in order to negotiate to win. Whether you're allocating resources for a project, funding a...

Learn the psychological triggers that motivate you to say "yes" or "no." Bringing about the reaction you want from others and expanding your influence require insights that go beyond the actual process of influencing and into the psychology of what truly prompts us to say "yes" or "no." This two-day course explores these psychological triggers and...

Develop a collaborative style to enhance team commitment and individual performance. Why become a collaborative leader? Because it gives you the ability to break down silos to create an energetic department and team that has better business results. This seminar will give you the skills to be an adaptive manager-someone who can create clarity and...

Speak, present, and communicate with poise, power, and persuasion Presentations and public speaking are very much a part of every executive's responsibilities. Effective executive speaking is what distinguishes the successful professional from everyone else. Public speaking skills are most critical to your success and to your individual and corporate...

In this course, you will learn to become an innovator, a persuasive player, and a champion of strategic change. You will gain the knowledge and skills to close the gap between where you are now and where you want to be. You'll conduct SWOT analysis, leverage key prospects for strategic opportunities, and inspire risk taking and innovation. This course...

Bring your best self to work with this unique productivity process. For most of us, the demands our careers place on our shoulders can be overwhelming. Combine this with the distractions caused by an unending influx of information, and our lives can become downright exhausting. If we don't react to these stimuli with clear discernment, our ability...

No matter how compelling the vision or how brilliant the strategy, without leadership communication there is no execution. Developing leadership communication skills is the difference between being a manager and a leader. Find your leadership voice, and learn to use it to motivate and inspire your team. It's a fact of organizational life: Leadership...