Other Training Opportunities
External Training Opportunities
Rhode Island Higher Education Training Consortium
The Rhode Island Higher Education Training Consortium is dedicated to providing the higher education workforce with the training they need to succeed, while affording opportunities to network with colleagues from other area institutions. The Consortium offers comprehensive programs designed to address mutual needs within the member institutions while providing economies of scale and cost-sharing opportunities. The Consortium is currently comprised of seven member institutions: Brown University, Bryant University, Community College of Rhode Island, Johnson and Wales University, Providence College, Rhode Island College, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, the Training Consortium offers the following courses:
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Administrative Professional Development Program
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Foundations of Management Program
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Change Management
This program is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills and competencies necessary to become exemplary administrative professionals. Participants will leave each session with practical suggestions to increase their level of professionalism in the office. Module topics include: Communication, Crafting a Professional Image, Customer Service and Project & Time Management. All sessions will be held at Bryant University. There is a cost of $297 per participant paid by the participant's department. Click here to learn more.
This five-session course is a highly participative, interactive approach to exploring and experiencing the challenges of management. Module topics include: Communication & Motivation, The Effective Team, Management Tools, Communicating Criticism and Effective Goal Setting. All sessions will be held at Bryant University. There is a cost of $345 per participant paid by the participant's department. Click here to learn more.
This two session workshop is designed to help participants understand the stages of change, the effects of the change process on self and others, and the manager’s responsibility in managing through change. A self-scoring assessment will help attendees identify what stage of the change process they most identify with. Participants will also learn critical change skills, and techniques for identifying and managing change resistance.
In the second session, participants will explore the critical communication role managers play in the change process, from explaining the change vision through increasing staff “buy-in”. Building on the concepts presented in the first session, participants will learn language that supports and undermines the change effort, critical questions that managers should ask and answer, and tools for handling change criticism. An assessment will help attendees understand their own change communication strengths and weaknesses. There is a cost of $130 per participant paid by the participant's department. Click here to learn more.
For more information about these programs including future session dates, please contact the Center for Learning & Professional Development at 401-863-9970 or email clpd@brown.edu.
University of Rhode Island: Feinstein Providence Campus
The Office of Special Programs and Professional Education at the University of Rhode Island offers a series of training and development courses at the Feinstein Providence Campus. Courses of note include:
Leadership Rhode Island
Leadership Rhode Island offers a series of programs to "provide leaders and emerging leaders with knowledge and access to resources which will allow them to positively affect their communities." Programs include: Core Leadership Programs, College Leadership Rhode Island, Women's Leadership Series, Executive Orientation, and Eye Openers Series.
If you decide to take one of the courses above, we would like to hear from you. Your feedback will help us to ensure that we are providing quality resources for our staff at Brown. Please email us at clpd@brown.edu.
Babson Executive Education
"Since its founding in 1919, Babson College has specialized in creating innovative business leaders. In 1972, Babson Executive Education emerged from these roots to become a leader in developing and delivering corporate educational solutions.
Babson’s approach focuses on a cycle of continuous learning that empowers you to acquire knowledge, apply it, achieve results, and then interpret those results to identify new opportunities—again and again."
Bryant University- Executive Development Center
"Bryant’s Executive Development Center offers a wide range of professional certificate programs that will enable you to set new goals and empower you to achieve them." Qualified EEP particpants are now eligible to receive a 15% discount on specific job-related certificate courses/ programs. For questions, email Michele_Wise@brown.edu.
Boston University Corporate Education Center
"Boston University’s Corporate Education Center (BUCEC) provides continuing professional education to individuals, plus employee training and development to corporations. BUCEC offers business, management, and project management training, as well as information technology (IT) training and certificate programs. Training delivery includes: classroom instruction, online business education, online computer courses, and onsite."
Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE)
"For more than 30 years, the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) has helped transform higher education leaders and their institutions by providing high-quality professional development experiences to college and university administrators."
Brown University Training Opportunities [A-L | M-Z]
Continuing Studies
Continuing Studies at Brown University offers an opporutnity for adults to understand their world through learning. Choose a course to develop a better understanding of the world around you and your place in it. Gain perspective and meet like minds.
Computer Education
The Computer Education Department within Computing & Information Services offers free technical training to all Brown staff, students and faculty.
Department of Public Safety: Lunch & a Lesson
In striving to make our campus a safer place to live, work and study, Brown University's Department of Public Safety offers a unique program of public safety and security.
Environmental Health & Safety
Environmental Health & Safety office holds periodic training sessions for employees who work in laboratories and other areas of the University requiring special health and safety knowledge.
Office of Sponsored Projects
The Office of Sponsored Projects offers training sessions in the Grants.gov process, the use of the Sponsored Projects Information Network database and the protection of human research participants. Purchasing- Web Requisitions
Join the purchasing team and learn hands-on how to create purchase requisitions on the user friendly, Web-requisition system. This class will help employees in all departments understand Web-requisition.