Whether you are looking to expand your skill set, earn professional credits, or learn something new, our online professional development courses and certificates pair perfectly with a busy schedule. Courses are self-paced and online, accessible from anywhere and available on mobile. Browse content categories by clicking on the titles below.
Don’t forget to check out our signature courses, including Nonprofit Board Essentials, Nonprofit Academy Online, and Board Diversity Learning Lab.
Leadership and Management
Learn how to transform your natural charisma and enthusiasm into leadership skills. The leadership coursework discusses the theories of leadership, and offers real-world practical explanations and definitions. The courses focus on topics such as leading teams, leading through change, and the importance of work-life balance.
Nonprofit Management
Whether you run a nonprofit and need staff training, or plan to build your own skills, these courses in nonprofit management offer a comprehensive training program in topics from volunteer development and grant writing, to fundraising and budgeting. Give your team the tools to continue your selfless work with new skills and a renewed commitment to your mission.
Communication
Communicating effectively is vital in both personal and professional settings. Sharpen your skills with these self-paced courses and certificates in writing, grammar, public speaking, presentation, and business communication. Form persuasive arguments, make compelling presentations, write error-free emails and documents, and increase your impact as a skilled communicator.
Human Resources
HR is both the glue that holds a business together and the grease that keeps its gears turning smoothly. It is the management of people; caring for their health and safety, managing their financial investment in the company, and fostering their growth within the organization and beyond. The HR Management coursework will give you a well-rounded foundation in the human resource management sector to keep your organization's most valuable assets—its people—working as smoothly as you do.
Finance
The finance coursework guides learners to organize and interpret the financial health of a business. From budgeting, the time value of money, risk, and ROI, learners gain the ability to read financial data and turn those insights into impactful decisions that move the business forward.
Computer Applications
Technology has revolutionized business communications, and workers across all industries are now expected to demonstrate, at the very least, a basic level of computer literacy. In addition to understanding how to search the Internet and use word processing programs, workers can expand their career potential by mastering more advanced computer applications. Focusing on Microsoft Office software, these courses will guide learners through the tools and techniques needed to create products that both inform and impress.
Career Building
These career building courses cover critical professional skills to help all workers plan, build, and manage their career path for optimal success, covering skills such as resume writing, interviewing, networking, and managing personal finances.
Marketing
These marketing courses will teach you the tips to run a successful marketing campaign. Designed for current marketing professionals and those wishing to pursue marketing, these carefully created courses will teach you the principles of marketing, and the technical elements of digital marketing including social media marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), marketing automation, and web analytics.
Creativity and Innovation
Can you teach creativity? No. Can you teach skills, mental frameworks, and tools to help people capture their ideas and make them a reality? Yes, absolutely. With creativity and innovation courses, learn to harness the power of your imagination and apply it to real-world scenarios, setting you apart in the professional workforce.
Project Management
These project management courses and simulations will teach you the best practices for running a project and ensuring success.
Risk Management
As more businesses migrate their data and services online, the need for cybersecurity training is greater than ever. The cybersecurity program offers a range of introductory to advanced training for IT professionals. These courses cover topics like Cloud data security and cryptography, malware, and risk management, and everything else you'll need to know as a cybersecurity leader in your organization.
Data Analytics
Modern business software produces mountains of data, and it's up to the professional to examine it and draw meaningful conclusions. The data analytics coursework will teach the fundamentals of quantitative analysis so that you can read the trends in your spreadsheets to convert them to thoughtful business decisions.