Build the skills you need to advance along any career path. You can earn a free certificate of completion for any of these online Professional Development courses.

In our Professional Development courses, you will learn to:

  • manage your time wisely and develop healthy work habits;
  • develop "soft skills" like interviewing, office etiquette, communication, and customer service; and
  • anticipate, prevent, and solve problems in the workplace.

PRDV222: Management: Historical Development and Globalization

  • Time: 12 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore historical theories of management, the effect of globalization on management, and how firms conduct international business.

PRDV223: Organizational Culture, Diversity, and Ethics

  • Time: 20 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore aspects that are important to the climate of a company – organizational culture, diversity, and business ethics – and why they are important.

PRDV224: Leadership and Teams

  • Time: 7 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore topics including the leadership and management skills necessary in the different stages of group development, how to create an effective team, and how to harness a team's strengths.

PRDV225: Managing Employees

  • Time: 5 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore the important aspects of employee job satisfaction and well-being, including conflict management and resolution.

PRDV226: Introduction to Human Resource Management

  • Time: 18 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore the broad field of Human Resource Management and learn about the importance of strategic employee recruitment, selection, and retention.

PRDV227: Introduction to Business Planning and Strategy

  • Time: 5 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore the planning functions of managers, including management strategy frameworks, components of business strategy, and setting and achieving goals and objectives.

PRDV228: Decision-Making

  • Time: 4 hours
  • Free Certificate
Learn about the decision-making process, including basic decision types, tools, methods, and the insights that help you realize how decision-making involves both logic and emotion.

PRDV229: Organization Structure, Change, and the Future of Management

  • Time: 4 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore organizational structures and how traditional management practices are making way for more modern approaches.

PRDV230: Create a Workplace Conflict Resolution Policy

  • Time: 13 hours
  • Free Certificate
Learn how to identify appropriate workplace strategies for discouraging dysfunctional conflict (often based on misunderstanding, personalities that clash, negative stereotypes, and bias), and promote respectful functional conflict to foster creative thinking, problem-solving techniques, and innovation. Explore different methods of conflict resolution, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, litigation, and other remedies.

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PRDV231: Elements of Ethical Leadership

  • Time: 8 hours
  • Free Certificate
Study how our culture views and values the ideas, qualities, and ideals of ethical leadership. Consider the essential qualities of good leadership: honesty, moral courage and moral vision, compassion, fairness, intellectual excellence and willingness to listen to others, creative thinking, aesthetic sensitivity, good timing, and selflessness.

PRDV304: Introduction to Supply Chain Management

  • Time: 3 hours
  • Free Certificate
Explore how raw materials are selected, obtained, and then distributed to the customer as a finished product – the supply chain. Learn how every step in the process can be affected by changes in distribution, resource availability, and other external factors.

PRDV401: Introduction to JavaScript I

  • Time: 17 hours
  • Free Certificate
Learn fundamental programming concepts using JavaScript to produce code for browser-based interactive experiences using conditions and events.

PRDV410: Introduction to Java and Object-Oriented Programming

  • Time: 6 hours
  • Free Certificate
Learn the basics of object-oriented (OO) programming, a paradigm that uses objects that contain data in the form of instance variables and methods that control the behavior of the objects. This course is suitable for anyone and uses Java to demonstrate key OO concepts.

PRDV420: Introduction to R Programming

  • Time: 13 hours
  • Free Certificate
Learn the basics of data manipulation and visualization in R – the world’s most popular language for statistical computing – even if you do not have prior programming experience.

PRSM107: Crisis Communication

  • Time: 18 hours
  • Free Certificate
Learn how to apply crisis communication principles to protect and defend a company or organization facing a problem or challenge that threatens to harm its brand or reputation.