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HANDS ON
Learning & Organizational Development
Est. 1998
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Quarterly Learning Programs

BUSINESS SKILLS

Demonstrating business knowledge and prowess is essential to progressing your capabilities and career. If you want to enhance your business skills, the following programs may be of interest to you.

Explore our learning programs below...

Please note that each session carries a participant fee of USD 500.00. If your organization has multiple participants, a discounted flat fee may be available. Use sign-up links below or contact us at info@handscom.com for more information.

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Business Skills

  1. Agile & Design Thinking
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    (2.5 hours)
    Design Thinking is a key framework that helps us think through new strategies, products, services, and ways of working in a creative, customer-centric manner. Agile Methodology has been used for years by high tech organizations to streamline and expedite operations and execution. Today, many other industries have adopted Agile and Design Thinking to improve their strategies, operations and execution.
    28 September from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:00PM GMT
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  2. AI in life sciences
    AI 101
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    (2 hours)
    If you’re outside of a technology role, this program is great for understanding what artificial intelligence is, its many different forms, trends, and evolutions, as well as how different functions are using AI to optimize their work.
    28 October or 3 December both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
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  3. AI 201
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    (2 hours)
    Advance your foundational understanding of AI and its many different forms and uses in organizations by learning more about generative AI and the latest evolutions in AI for business.
    10 September from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
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    13 October or 9 December both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
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  4. Business acumen life sciences
    Business Acumen in Life Sciences
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    (3 hours)
    Life Sciences is rapidly evolving in its operating model, strategies, and focus on innovations. This program is useful for individuals at director-level and above to understand how the industry is evolving, whatever your sector or function of specialization. The program also covers topline business financials as another lever that influences your depth and breadth of business acumen and how you influence the short- and long-range direction of your organization.
    20 October from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 4:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
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  5. Business Process & Continuous Improvement
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    (2.5 hours)
    This program is mainly geared toward mid- and senior leaders who lead a function or department and have the opportunity to continuously improve efficiencies and operational excellence. This program is also great for anyone responsible for cross-functional business processes or who is interested in learning more about process engineering and continuous improvement.
    30 September from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:00PM GMT
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    8 December from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT
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  6. Cross-functional Collaboration
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    (2.5 hours)
    Learn the fundamentals and best practices for optimizing cross-functional work, relationships, and business outcomes.
    27 October from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 4:30PM to 7PM GMT
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  7. Decision-Making
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    (2 hours)
    In this program, you’ll learn advanced techniques and practices to help you make better business decisions faster.
    14 October from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 4:30PM to 6:30PM GMT
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  8. Effective Meetings
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    (2 hours)
    We spend a lot of time in meetings and so it’s to everyone’s benefit to understand how to optimize meeting effectiveness and efficiencies. In this program, we’ll share best practices, and different tips and techniques to not only make your meetings more efficient but also elevate your meetings to increase the return on investment in time spent - ensuring optimized outcomes from meetings.
    17 September from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
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    20 October from 10:00AM to 12:00PM Eastern / 7:00AM to 9:00AM Pacific / 2:00PM to 4:00PM GMT or 9 December from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
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  9. Finance for Non-Finance Managers
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    (2.5 hours)
    This program is mostly geared toward leaders who are not in Finance. This program will help you advance your financial knowledge and awareness, as sound fiscal knowledge and management are critical for all leaders. You should only attend this program if you are currently at associate director level or above.
    29 September from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:00PM GMT
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    20 October or 7 December both days at 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT
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  10. Interviewing Skills
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    (2.5 hours)
    This program is great for anyone involved in interviewing, as it will help to ensure your interviews are structured to garner the information you need to recommend the best hiring decision for candidates and your organization.
    24 September from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:00PM GMT
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    3 November from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT
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  11. Leading Change
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    (2.5 hours)
    Change in any organization is to be expected. If you are leading an initiative or project that requires change management, such as communicating and educating others on the change, this program will help you understand how to incorporate change management best practices into your work.
    7 October or 18 November both days at 10:00AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 7:00AM to 9:30PM Pacific / 2:00PM to 4:30PM GMT
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    Sign up for November
  12. Leading Projects
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    (3 hours)
    This program is great for anyone who is not certified in Project Management. This program will help you better plan for and lead projects for optimal project engagement and execution.
    29 September from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT
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    12 November from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT
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  13. Risk Management
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    (2.5 hours)
    Risk management is among the critical capabilities growing and mature organizations develop and hone over time to ensure the organization’s readiness to effectively and efficiently manage different scenarios that can arise (foreseen and unforeseen) in business operations. Whether you lead a large function, a small department or team, a key project, or just generally want to learn about best practice risk mitigation and management, you’ll be exposed to different practices and models to help you play your role in managing your organization’s risks.
    23 September from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:00PM GMT
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    5 November from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT
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  14. Scaling the Organization
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    (3 hours)
    This program is mostly aimed at mid- to senior leaders who are responsible for a function or department. The program will help leaders understand how to grow and scale their function or department as their overall organization continues to grow and evolve. This program is recommended for those currently at associate director level or above.
    21 September from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT
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    29 October from 10:30AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 7:30AM to 9:30AM Pacific / 3:30PM to 5:30PM GMT
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  15. Strategic Planning
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    (3 hours)
    This program will help you understand the difference between strategy and strategic planning, but more importantly the program will give you key models to consider when building strategy and then developing and executing a strategic plan that enables your strategy to be achieved.
    24 September from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT
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