In-Person: Thursday, August 7 (8:30 am-4:30 pm)

Virtual: DATE TBD

On this intermediate course you will learn to manipulate data using sorting and filtering, conditional formatting, PivotTables and advanced charting. You will share data across multiple workbooks, add graphics and learn to collaborate with others.

Learn more at: Excel Level 2 PDF

Tuesday, July 29th (8:30 am-4:30 pm)

Get Things Done (GTD) teaches skills to help individuals improve focus and productivity and teams to foster trust and efficiency. When used consistently and collectively, they create a “way of working” that help teams produce better results.

Learn more at: Course Overview – Getting Things Done PDF

In-Person: Wednesday, September 24th (9:30 am-4:00 pm)

Virtual: DATE TBD

Productivity & Prioritization: Collect tools to help you and your team make progress on the most important things. Develop strong time management, organization, and prioritization habits to make the biggest impact in your work.

What you’ll learn

• Diagnose your biggest time management challenges.
• Build precision, baselines, and accountability around how time is talked about and used.
• Align on competing priorities to clarify and strengthen focus on what matters most.
• Increase consistency, efficiency, and follow-through in your workflows.
• Reduce distracting behaviors and make faster progress in your work.

Adaptivity & Resilience: Practice techniques to stay calm, collected, and clear-minded even when things are quickly changing. Learn how to diagnose your default style under stress, make good decisions when information is confusing or limited, and create structure amid chaos. Be ready to tackle whatever comes your way.

What you’ll learn

• Explore brain reactions to uncertainty, including common coping styles and movement patterns through the Kubler-Ross change curve.
• Identify your default style under stress and how to diagnose your peers’ styles.
• Decrease personal anxiety in stressful situations through pausing, de-fusing, reorganizing your thinking, and articulating the positive.
• Add structure and decision-making clarity in complex situations.

Learn more at:

• LifeLabs Learning: Productivity & Prioritization PDF
• LifeLabs Learning: Adaptivity & Resilience PDF

In-Person: Wednesday, August 20th (9:30 am-4:00 pm)

Virtual: DATE TBD

Strategic Thinking: Rapidly strengthen team wide decision-making, planning, and project management skills. Master critical goal-setting and decision-making habits, and help your team take strategic action. Learn to identify objectives, diagnose obstacles, avoid unintended consequences, and involve the right stakeholders at the right time, even when timelines and priorities shift.

What you’ll learn

• Create alignment by linking up activities to team and company goals.
• Increase high-value work by conducting a gap analysis and determining lead and lag measures.
• Diagnose root causes using the 3 Lenses Check, a systems-based approach for evaluating any situation.
• Mitigate risks and build a habit of tradeoff awareness using pre- and post- mortems.
• Use inclusive planning to involve the right stakeholders at the right time during all phases of setting up a tactic, project, or strategy.

Meetings Mastery: Lead masterful meetings (in-person and virtually), moving groups to action and making sure every voice is heard. Design useful, productive, and energizing meetings and learn how to quickly fix common meeting-related problems.

What you’ll learn

• Design a meeting by choosing the right structure to meet the goal, sequencing the agenda, and timeboxing agenda items.

• Open a meeting with a purpose statement that focuses the group.
• Keep a meeting on track using a visual agenda, summation and transition statements, time statements, and parking lots.
• Close a meeting with clear next steps using action-owner statements.

Intervene when something goes wrong by using the Meeting Course-Corrections Guide.

Learn more at:

• LifeLabs Learning: Strategic Thinking PDF
• LifeLabs Learning: Meetings Mastery PDF