Research Skills Courses

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Applying Management Skills to Meet Organizational Goals Course

Four foundations for federal managers: leading through change, the federal budget cycle, OPM's Human Capital Framework, and governing technology modernization and cybersecurity.

• Graduate School USA
• Self-Paced
• $649.00

Career Certificate

Resume Writing and Interview Skills Course

Tailor accomplishment-focused resumes, elevator pitches, and STAR-method interview answers to employer needs.

• Graduate School USA
• Self-Paced
• $649.00

Career Certificate

Executive Survival Skills Course

Develop executive survival skills for turbulent times through emotional intelligence, executive presence, adaptive leadership, change management, and conflict management.

• Graduate School USA
• Self-Paced
• $1,699.00

Career Certificate

CON1100: Contract Foundational Skills

Learn the federal acquisition process: navigate the FAR and agency supplements, the pre-award, award and post-award phases, Uniform Contract Format, SOWs, PWSs, and acquisition team roles.

• Graduate School USA
• Self-Paced
• $1,995.00

Career Certificate

Internal Consulting Skills for Federal HR Professionals Course

Build internal consulting skills for federal HR work: run entry meetings, gather diagnostic data, recommend options, handle client resistance, and evaluate projects with Kirkpatrick's model.

• Graduate School USA
• Self-Paced
• $1,299.00

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Assertiveness Skills Course

Practice assertive communication for difficult workplace conversations through I-messages, constructive feedback, role plays, and techniques for saying no.

• Graduate School USA
• Self-Paced
• $1,049.00

The Essential Skills Bundle consists of three courses to develop your practical communication, self-management, teamwork, and collaboration skills as a technical professional.

• VDCI
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• $887.00

Career Certificate

Elevate Your Project Management Skills

Strengthen project management through clearer communication, strategic decisions, and leadership influence that drive projects and team performance.

• CodeSignal
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate
• 4 courses

Essential Outdoor Skills: Winter Edition

Essential Outdoor Skills: Winter Edition with Isaac Johnston

• CreativeLive
• 2 hours 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Tidyverse Skills for Data Science in R

111 ratings at Coursera

Import, wrangle, visualize, and model data in R with the Tidyverse packages, covering each stage of a data science project's life cycle.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Practical Neuromarketing Research

Design neuromarketing studies: apply behavior change models, meet human subjects ethics standards, collect biometric and neuroimaging data, and analyze a cross-cultural neural synchrony experiment.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Community Engagement Principles: Health Research & Practice

Learn the eight guiding principles of community-engaged research: define capacity-building and sustainability, describe types of community, build partner trust, and share dissemination equitably.

• Coursera
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Data Literacy Capstone – Evaluating Research

Evaluate a published quantitative study end to end: locate high-quality original research, interpret its findings, critique its methodology, and peer review classmates' papers.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Leadership for Cancer Informatics Research

Lead multidisciplinary cancer informatics teams: frame good informatics questions, avoid project pitfalls, mentor and support collaborators, promote diversity and inclusion, and apply lab management tools.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Teamwork Skills: Communicating Effectively in Groups

8 ratings

Learn to communicate in groups: shape roles and norms, avoid decision traps, turn conflict and diversity into advantages, and collaborate across Zoom, hybrid meetings, and AI tools.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course