Quarterly Learning Programs
BUSINESS SKILLS
Demonstrating business knowledge and prowess is essential to progressing your capabilities and career. If you want to enhance your business skills, the following programs may be of interest to you.
Explore our learning programs below...
Please note that each session carries a participant fee of USD 500.00. If your organization has multiple participants, a discounted flat fee may be available. Use sign-up links below or contact us at info@handscom.com for more information.
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Business Skills Programs
Advanced Agile (2.5 hours)
Agile Methodology has been used for years across industries as a contemporary and nimble way of approaching projects and other work. In this program, you will advance your understanding of the background and history and latest applications / uses of Agile in business. We will also distill the key steps in applying Agile to your work.
This program is running on 28 January or 27 March both days at 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific.
Advanced Finance for Non-Finance Managers (2.5 hours)
This program is mostly geared to senior leaders who are not in Finance. This program will help you advance your financial knowledge and awareness, as sound fiscal knowledge and management are critical for all leaders. You should only attend this program if you are currently at associate director level or above.
This program is running on 26 January or 30 March both days at 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific.
Advanced Strategic Planning (2 x 2 hours)
Advance your strategic planning capabilities by exploring the latest insights from thought leaders in evaluating good and bad strategies and what we can learn from these. In addition, learn advanced concepts, such as blue ocean strategy, to elevate your strategic planning skills. You should only attend this program if you are currently at associate director level or above.
This program is running on 20 January or 3 March both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
AI 201 (2 hours)
Advance your foundational understanding of AI and its many different forms and uses in organizations by learning more about generative AI and the latest evolutions in AI for business.
This program is running on 20 January or 12 February or 18 March all days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Budget & Resource Management (2 hours)
If you are responsible for planning or managing a budget and/or planning and managing longer-term resource allocation, this program is great to help you understand the different techniques in budgeting and resource planning.
This program is running on 4 February at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Business Process & Continuous Improvement (2 hours)
This program is mainly geared toward mid- and senior leaders who lead a function or department and have the opportunity to continuously improve efficiencies and operational excellence. This program is also great for anyone responsible for cross-functional business processes or who is interested in learning more about process engineering and continuous improvement.
This program is running on 28 January or 31 March both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Cross-functional Collaboration (2 hours)
Learn the fundamentals and best practices for optimizing cross-functional work, relationships, and business outcomes.
This program is running on 10 February from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Decision-Making (2 hours)
In this program, you’ll learn advanced techniques and practices to help you make better business decisions faster.
This program is running on 3 February from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Effective Meetings (2 hours)
We spend a lot of time in meetings and so it’s to everyone’s benefit to understand how to optimize meeting effectiveness and efficiencies. In this program, we’ll share best practices, and different tips and techniques to not only make your meetings more efficient but also elevate your meetings to increase the return on investment in time spent to ensure optimized outcomes from meetings.
This program is running on 8 January or 11 March both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Finance for Non-Finance Managers (2.5 hours)
If you are not in Finance and are keen to learn about
foundational financial processes and tools that underpin
business, this program will give you great context into how
business finances work, and the role that we can all play in
ensuring sound fiscal management of our organizations.
This program is running on 12 January or 17 February both days at 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific.
Interviewing Skills (2.5 hours)
This program is great for anyone involved in interviewing, as it will help to ensure your interviews are structured to garner the information you need to recommend the best hiring decision for candidates and our organization.
This program is running on 21 January or 12 March both days at 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific.
Intro to AI (2 hours)
If you’re outside of a technology role, this program is great for understanding what artificial intelligence is, its many different forms, trends, and evolutions, as well as how different functions are using AI to optimize their work, while understanding the broader societal considerations of AI adoption.
This program is running on 13 January or 11 February or 19 March all days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Leading Projects (3 hours)
This program is great for anyone who is not certified in Project
Management. This program will help you better plan for and lead
projects for optimal project engagement and execution.
This program is running on 14 January or 17 February or 13 March all days at 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific.
Managing Through Change (2 hours)
Change in any organization is to be expected. If you are leading an initiative or project that requires change management, such as communicating and educating others on the change, this program will help you understand how to incorporate change management best practices into your work.
This program is running on 15 January or 19 March both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Personal Time Mastery (2 hours)
Advance your time management capabilities and effectiveness by targeting specific areas that enable you to work toward time mastery, such as balancing work versus personal life, developing habits that increase productivity while maximizing time, and more.
This program is running on 27 January or 25 March both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Portfolio Management (2 hours)
Expand your project management skills by understanding what it takes to effectively manage a portfolio of projects.
This program is running on 18 February from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Risk Management (2 hours)
Risk management is among the critical capabilities growing and mature organizations develop and hone over time to ensure the organization’s readiness to effectively and efficiently manage different scenarios that can arise (foreseen and unforeseen) in business operations. Whether you lead a large function, a small department or team, a key project, or just generally want to learn about best practice risk mitigation and management, you’ll be exposed to different practices and models to help you play your role in managing your organization’s risks.
This program is running on 22 January or 26 March both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Root Cause Analysis (2 hours)
Learn the importance of Root Cause Analysis and how it is used in
organizations for more robust problem-solving. Learn how to map
problems to arrive at root cause analysis.
This program is running on 3 February at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.
Scaling the Organization (2.5 hours)
This program is mostly aimed at mid- to senior leaders who are responsible for a function or department. The program will help leaders understand how to grow and scale their function or department as their overall organization continues to grow and evolve. You should only attend this program if you are at associate director level or above.
This program isrunning on 20 January or 30 march both days at 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific.
Strategic Planning (3 hours)
This is an advanced program. This program will help you understand the difference between strategy and strategic planning, but more importantly the program will give you key models to consider when building strategy and then developing and executing a strategic plan that enables your strategy to be achieved.
This program is running on 26 January or 11 March both days at 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific.
Time Management & Organization (2 hours)
This is an entry-level program to help you better manage your time and organize your workload. This program is suitable for those who want to improve in these areas and/or are relatively new in their professional careers.
This program is running on 29 January or 26 March both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific.