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
Transforming Organizations

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

Flex Options for the Multi-generational Workplace: Best Practices and Innovations (.2 CEUs)
Friday, Sept. 19, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Tuition: free to business owners, managers and Human Resource Professionals.

Join Portland-Vancouver area business owners and managers for a fascinating morning learning innovative practices being implemented by leading edge companies to meet the challenges of the multi-generational workplace. Panelists will share their best practices for making their workplace more flexible and successful.

This workshop is free to business owners, managers from both the public and private sector and human resource professionals. Please pre-register using the online link on this page or by calling the Center for Continuing Education at 206-268-4111.

Co-sponsored by Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, Small Business Administration, Life by Design NW, and Worksource Oregon.

The event is located at:
Small Business Admistration
601 SW 2nd Ave.
ODS Training Room, Suite 2030, 20th floor
Portland, OR 97204

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.