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Our latest courses

Power BI Essentials for Government

Power BI is a robust data visualization tool which assists in creating interactive, immersive dashboards and reports. In turn these can provide your business or department with actionable insights and drive business results. 

Managing Stakeholder Conflict and Outrage

This course will teach you the many causes of stakeholder conflict and outrage and the best ways to navigate your organisation through these precarious situations.

Professional Diploma in Social Media for Government

On completion of this course you will be a social media specialist. The content provided throughout this course, deals specifically with public interest messaging and promotes open and transparent citizen engagement. 

Engaging Presentation Skills

It can be difficult crafting the perfect presentation. This is a course to help you in the planning, design and delivery of an engaging, effective presentation.

Leading Hybrid Teams

A course for current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve all of their decision making by using best practices from Fortune 500 leaders.

Workplace Investigations in the Public Sector

This is an introductory course to help you understand the foundational ideas around workplace investigations. It covers the different types of investigations, considerations and an understanding of when and how to perform an effective workplace investigation. 

Certification in Work and Workforce Management

As a first-time manager or new supervisor, you are probably looking for ways to improve your management skills and be a great team leader, so you can create highly engaged and empowered team members..

Impact Accelerator

This course is for Tech & Data Professionals who want to become trusted Advisors and Strategic Leaders.
The Impact Accelerator is designed to help you get greater recognition, opportunities and income by enhancing your impact. 

Developing and Delivering Local Government Strategic Plans

In this course you will learn about setting the direction for both the council and community as a whole; how to transform your strategic wish-list into a tangible and achievable strategic plan. It will discuss how to think strategically about the critical issues and the big picture as a whole.

Coaching the Analytical Mind

Current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve all of their decision making (quick, major, and strategic) by using best practices from Fortune 500 leaders will get the most benefit from this course.

Plain English – Words That Work

Not everyone enjoys writing, but the good news is that everyone can be taught how to write well. That is our job, and we are looking forward to showing you one of the best ways to quickly improve your writing – by using plain English.

Career Strategy – Master Best Practices

Your career strategy will determine whether you thrive in our increasingly-disrupted future. Yet traditional advice to “go with your gut” in career strategic development and decision making so often leads to disasters, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Decision Making – Master Best Practices

Current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve all of their decision making (quick, major, and strategic) by using best practices from Fortune 500 leaders will get the most benefit from this course.

Building High Performance Teams

Develop your foundation for Team Leadership and Followership through Dr Bill Brantley’s three pillars of Team Building; Emotional Intelligence, Trust and Psychological Safety and the High Performance Team – Building Behaviours for Success.

Content Design 101

Learn how to create user-focused and accessible web content that’s easy to find and understand. This introductory course will teach you foundational skills in content design. The importance of good web content is often not understood – Content Design NZ is here to change that.

Excel Boost for Beginners

Welcome to Excel Boost for Beginners where you will discover the fundamental skills to help you transform your data into meaningful, insightful data stories. Join our expert instructor Nicky Bull as she walks you through the Excel essentials and helps you kick-start your data journey.

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