Online Professional Development at Harvard

This new online professional development series offers 2-hour live web conferences in an intensive and highly interactive format.

Designed to help managers become more effective leaders, this two-day online program delves into the fundamentals of managing yourself, leading teams, and motivating others. 

This program combines the science of data visualization with the art of graphic design to help you communicate complex information more accurately and effectively.

In this online program, you will gain insight into the habits of dealmakers as you build your skills. Through group exercises, you will learn how to execute proven tactics, refine your personal negotiating style, and improve your ability to bargain successfully and ethically in any situation.

This online program is designed to teach the management and application of artificial intelligence in the global business world. These two days will cover frontier technologies' implications, applications, and opportunities in both public and private sectors.

Data literacy has become an essential skill for professionals in all fields, and data-driven decision making is the key to success for many companies and organizations.  Understanding how to use and apply the right data sets can help you make better decisions for your organization and communicate more effectively with your team.

This two-hour web conference mixes expert lecture, case examples, and small group discussions to help leaders change their approaches to decision-making today.

Through small group activities and real-time feedback, you will put these techniques into practice, test out new approaches, and learn to communicate with poise, clarity, and conviction to inspire action.

In this leadership training program, you will develop the ability to recognize competing values within your organization, take disparate value propositions of various stakeholders and integrate them into a coherent strategy to help them respond to a wide range of ethical challenges.

This online program—integrating aspects of strategy, entrepreneurship, management, marketing, and technology—goes beyond benchmarking and performance reports to look at what spurs growth across a variety of industries, and how to spot it at the grassroots level. 

Through interactive exercises, you will improve your ability to influence and motivate others to buy products, services, and ideas.

In this online program, you’ll examine the frameworks that market-leading companies use to build innovation into their business approach.

 In this two-hour web conference, we will use scenarios, small group discussions, and exercises to create a dynamic, learning environment.

Develop an understanding of who you are as a leader, and learn how you can evolve attitudes and build skills to become a more effective manager in a remote environment. 

Explore characteristics of exceptional sales managers, and get ideas on how you can boost your team’s success and drive your organization's revenue through your role as a sales manager whether in a business-to-business (B2B) or a business-to-consumer (B2C) setting.

Unpack the myths and realities of authentic leadership and provides research-based tools, activities, and strategies to become a more authentic, mindful leader.

Learn when and where flawed thinking can occur, how you can intervene, and how you can ultimately make and influence smarter decisions for your organization.

Through oral presentations and small group activities, you will put proven techniques and tools into practice, test out new approaches, and learn to communicate clearly and confidently.

This two-hour web conference will provide practical ways for leaders to look up and ahead to envision their future recovery, and then chart a path to help get their organization and their ecosystem safely through it.

In this interactive two-hour web conference, you will explore research-based strategies that are essential for building trust and gaining buy-in.

This program provides the tools and techniques designed to enhance personal communication style, while challenging participants to step outside of their comfort zone to adapt to the needs of any audience.