Best executive courses in Washington (United States)

Management Concepts

Project Risk Management

Olin Business School

Negotiation: Strategies for Results

Successful negotiation goes well beyond simple influence and persuasion. It requires a finely honed understanding of techniques that help you achieve win-win solutions. During the course, you learn the psychology and practice of effective negotiation; enhance the quality and logic of your...

Brookings Institution

Accountability for Results

How can government more successfully improve results—to advance mission-focused outcome objectives and improve operational quality? How can it communicate using goals, performance measures, other data, and evidence to build understanding of and trust in what government does? Beyond that, how can...

Olin Business School

Foundations of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This course will offer foundational knowledge and common language for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). DEI describes the policies and programs implemented to promote the representation and participation of different groups of individuals. These groups can include people of different ages,...

Management Concepts

Managing Stakeholder Expectations & Relationships

School of Continuing Studies

XCPD-452 Cultural and Social Group Identities: Expanding Self-Awareness

This course will introduce a variety of models of individual, cultural, and social group identities, focusing on several contemporary frameworks for understanding differences. Students will focus on the importance of identity theory in D&I work. Students will also develop skills and...

School of Continuing Studies

XCPD-454 Resistance and Renewal: Managing the D&I Change Initiative

This course builds on the concepts, frameworks, and tools covered in preceding courses (e.g. systems thinking) but focuses on embedded cultural and group dynamics influencing change. Participants will review best practices and current research on global diversity and inclusion as a way to...

School of Continuing Studies

XCPD-453 a Systems Approach to d & I Measurement and Accountability

This course focuses on metrics and analytics in the D&I field. Students will gain expertise in change theory and process consultation as a component of managing D&I dynamics in the workplace and examine critical business metrics such as Return On Investment (ROI) with respect to D&I initiatives....

School of Continuing Studies

XCPD-455 Workplace Application (A) - Leading and Influencing Across Differences

This course covers the use of effective communication skills such as giving/ receiving feedback and the art of influencing and empowering others. In addition, students learn powerful data collection and diagnostic skills in support of developing strategic D&I recommendations to a client....

Management Concepts

Building and Sustaining Teams