Courses | Business Skills

Antioch's continuing education courses and workshops for business leaders offers training that will help you make an immediate difference in your organization. You have lots of opportunities to make new contacts and enrich your career. Our office is happy to arrange invoicing of third-party payers for tuition for any of our classes; please call 206-268-4111.

Flex Options for Mature Workers: Best Practices
Building Resilient Organizations: Leading, Consulting, Facilitating
Transforming Organizations
Resolving Conflicts at Work

Check out the full list of options here as well as in the Certificates section.

Flex Options for Mature Workers: Best Practices and Innovations (.2 CEUs)
Thursday, May 8, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Tuition: free to business owners, managers and Human Resource Professionals. Register by May 1.

Learn from Sally C. Hass, Education Benefits Manager, Weyerhaeuser Corporation and project leader for Gray Matters, and Cindy Johnson, Vice President of Human Resources at Group Health Cooperative, and Michelle Rupp, Owner, NRG::Seattle.

These employers have identified practices that work effectively for retaining and recruiting mature workers and have helped maximize their employees' productivity. For downloadable brochure click here.

Learn more about the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility, a prestigious, national awards program recognizing exemplary employers that are using flexibility as a talent management tool to enhance workplace effectiveness and contribute to employee success.

Co-sponsored by Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Workforce Development Council and Small Business Administration.

Building Resilient Organizations: Leading, Consulting, Facilitating (.6 CEUs)
Offered again fall 2008
Tuition: $280 general public; $250 Antioch alumni; $225 PNODN members

Organizational culture is profound, powerful and often unconscious. That is why we love it so! This workshop for experienced organizational development and human resources practitioners is a chance to expand your ability to contribute to healthy and resilient organizational life. Discover work-culture connections and their impact for organizations. Gain tools for discerning organizational culture and dynamics. Develop new insights into organizational trauma and entry points for intervention. As a participant, you receive consultation on specific cases.

Instructor: Shana Hormann, MSW, Ph.D., is a core faculty member in Antioch's graduate program in Organizational Psychology. She has been an affiliate associate professor for the UW School of Social Work since 1994. Her research and consulting practice focuses on organizational trauma and strengthening resilience in organizations that provide services to victims of trauma. To learn more about her, visit her faculty page.

Tranforming Organizations (.6 CEUs)
Offered again spring 2009.
Tuition: $175

This workshop provides skills for experienced mediators to examine mediation as a perspective and skill set that enhances relationships, increases innovation and expands problem-solving capacities. Whether designing and producing products, delivering a service or collaborating to change the world, people need environments that encourage open, dynamic dialogue. This workshop will provide specific tools and strategies that can be used by mediators to facilitate strategic planning sessions, manage transitions and launch or recreate businesses.

The workshop is co-sponsored by Dispute Resolution Center of Snohomish and Island Counties and Washington Mediation Association. Register by phone or fax.

Instructor: Meryl Daniell-Marshalls, J.D. Loyola School of Law, is a consultant to corporations and individuals, working as a mediator, arbitrator, facilitator and executive coach. Helping clients in the public and private sector, entrepreneurs and not-for-profit associations, Meryl facilitates strategic planning retreats, management transitions and mediates group and individual conflicts.

Resolving Conflicts at Work: Advanced Mediation Training (.6 CEUs)
Offered again spring 2009.
Tuition: $175 early registration; $195 after Feb. 15

This workshop for practicing mediators presents current best practices in mediating organizational and workplace conflicts. Examine the nature of workplace conflict, develop skill in opening heart-based conversations and learn techniques for handling difficult behaviors and intense emotions in the workplace. Consider the future of conflict resolution by joining mediators from around the region. Space is limited, so register early.

The workshop is co-sponsored by Dispute Resolution Center of Snohomish and Island Counties and Washington Mediation Association. Register by phone or fax.

Instructor: Kenneth Cloke is director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, consultant and trainer who specializes in resolving complex multi-party conflicts, including community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits and public policy disputes. He is a nationally recognized speaker and author of many journal articles and several books.