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Honoring our common differences

Diversity includes not only race, ethnicity, and gender, but also ability/disability, education, age, class, and many other differences. By clearly understanding our commonalities and differences we can support one another's efforts to create healthy, inclusive organizations where all people feel respected and welcome to contribute their best work to the organization.

Listening for a change

Whether you are facilitating a discussion among colleagues at work, members of a faith community, family members, or fellow citizens, this two-day workshop supports you in learning the skills and tools to be able to listen deeply to others and to have the courage to speak your truth.

How to Lead Effective Meetings

On-line resource designed to provide immediate assistance for dealing with common meeting problems and making improvements in meeting planning, decision-making and follow-up. Includes audio.

Executive Education Grants

The UW-Madison Executive Education program in the School of Business will offer five single course enrollments as a contribution to Academic Staff professional development. Any member of the UW-Madison campus academic staff is eligible to apply. Successful applicants will benefit from single course registration fee of $50.

Workplace writing

Improve your memos, letters, e-mails, manuals, and reports. Learn to select appropriate format, style, and tone for particular types of writing. Gain an awareness of the value of brainstorming and organizing thoughts as a first step to any writing. We also analyze participant writing samples.

Adobe InDesign: advanced

In the class you learn how to set up and employ master sheets effectively and how to design with frames, and use InDesign's drawing tools. You also learn techniques for working with tables and multiple-page documents.

Teambuilding

One of the vital tasks facing an organization is building a cohesive team that empowers staff and volunteers to reach their goals. An effective team skillfully blends individual talents with a team spirit to achieve results. This workshop combines mini-lectures, a video, a teambuilding simulation, practical tools, assessment instruments, and discussion to help you foster team cohesiveness and participative approaches in your nonprofit organization.