Research Skills Courses

Professional Skills: Communicating to Build Relationships

18 ratings at Coursera

Balance workplace tasks with relationships: assess your current balance, share struggles constructively, and practice the "double hey" technique to build trust and compassion.

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

Anthropometry, Biomechanics, and Motor Skills in User Design

19 ratings at Coursera

Apply anthropometric measurement, ergonomic design, and biomechanics to human performance: study open- and closed-loop motor control, stimulus-response compatibility, and motion-tracking for training and injury prevention.

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

Career Certificate

Professional Skills: Managing a Team

16 ratings at Coursera

Build the skills to lead a team: decision-making, team communication, giving feedback, navigating bias, applied empathy, and managing conflict while fostering psychological safety.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Career Certificate

Professional Skills: Workplace Communication

11 ratings at Coursera

Practice public speaking, team collaboration, and emotional awareness across in-person, written, and virtual settings to connect with diverse audiences, navigate conflict, and lead with purpose.

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

Career Certificate

Professional Skills: Emotional Intelligence and Resilience

9 ratings at Coursera

Build emotional intelligence and resilience: practice applied empathy, grit and growth mindset, proactive stress and time management, and goal setting for high-pressure work.

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

Career Certificate

Professional Skills: Strategic Thinking

8 ratings at Coursera

Build strategies that hold up under uncertainty: apply futures thinking, vet information sources, practice perspective-taking, and produce agile strategic plans with hands-on planning tools.

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

Career Certificate

Professional Skills: Conflict Management and Negotiation

6 ratings at Coursera

Learn to assess, manage, negotiate, and resolve workplace conflict, handling team dynamics, feedback conversations, and role-based disputes constructively from first assessment through transformation.

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

Career Certificate

Professional Skills: Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

7 ratings at Coursera

Make sound, defensible decisions: apply ethical frameworks, risk assessment, and decision models to individual and group choices while reducing bias and weighing alternatives.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

Learn English Now: Intermediate Language Skills

Strengthen intermediate English through paragraph, process, comparison, and opinion writing, with grammar, vocabulary, reading, and discussion practice on health, technology, travel, and business topics.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Professional Skills: Applied Empathy

Practice empathetic listening and reflective empathy, express empathy as a leader, and build self-compassion through mindfulness and reflection exercises.

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

Professional Skills: Assessing Conflict

Learn to assess workplace conflict: identify conflict types and causes, recognize emotional reactions, listen actively for underlying interests, and ask strategic questions for constructive outcomes.

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

Professional Skills: Creative Thinking

Learn creative thinking techniques like mind mapping, curiosity-driven inquiry, and group ideation to break mental blocks and generate original solutions alone and with teams.

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

Professional Skills: Decision-Making

Apply ethical frameworks to workplace dilemmas, select among alternatives using the National Defense University Model, and assess risks with decision matrices.

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

Professional Skills: Futures Thinking

Challenge mental frames, sharpen your questions with the Question Productivity Index, build plausible scenarios, and use the futures triangle to face uncertainty with agency.

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

Professional Skills: Giving Feedback

Learn to give growth-oriented feedback: listen for messages of identity, build a repertoire of responses, and shift fixed mindsets toward growth across workplace conversations.

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