General Assembly Classes, Chicago

Google Ads is designed to help you reach potential customers at the exact right moment. This workshop will walk you through what you need to know to get started with this highly powerful, highly technical, advertising platform. Participants will learn what makes the most effective ad copy, how to target audiences through selecting the right keywords,...

Whether you’re a designer, a developer, or an entrepreneur who’s looking to get your own company off the ground, knowing how to effectively lead a team and complete a project is an essential element of success. This Bootcamp reviews the fundamentals of project management. It’s a good place to start whether you’ve found yourself taking on a...

This two-hour workshop will whip you into shape to be ready to land an exciting new job. A certified career coach with Ama La Vida will guide you through a series of exercises to help you get noticed by employers, wow them in your interviews and prepare to kick butt on the job. We will start by ensuring you are seeking the right job opportunities for...

Google Analytics for Beginners: Key Concepts and Quick Wins Everyone wants to grow their business and make their websites successful. But how do you know if you are making progress to your goals? And how do you know what marketing activities are the most efficient and cost effective to pursue? That is the job of analytics and Google Analytics in...

In this intensive, two-day bootcamp participants will gain an understanding of the entire product development lifecycle, the role of UX in software development, modern requirement gathering techniques, fundamentals of software architecture and design and user testing practices. Students will learn Lean UX approaches to help both designers and non-designers...

In this one day bootcamp, we will move beyond the basics of spreadsheet creation. We will dive into data manipulation and advanced functions to summarize and analyze data with multiple attributes. We will also introduce using slicers with PivotTables, creating interactive reports, and using advanced formulas. Interactive in-class exercises will be...

Scrum is used extensively, but not exclusively, in web and software development. Everyone from developers to business execs are now expected to know how to work using Scrum, but few are taught it and many struggle along with misinformed ideas.  This bootcamp will cover the main principles and ideas underpinning agile and why using Scrum is the...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe InDesign, the professional page layout standard, used by designers and production professionals to design, preflight, and publish a broad range of documents such as brochures, catalogs, magazines, & books. InDesign allows you to layout and design multiple page documents. This workshop is designed to...

Course Name: Mastering the Art of Negotiation: Finding Mutually Beneficial Outcomes From working with business partners and job candidates, to navigating your own compensation or buying a home or car, negotiation is a critical skill in our everyday lives. Become a master of negotiation in this program - learn how to identify negotiation opportunities,...

Figure out how to be your best when the pressure’s on. The ability to connect with others in an authentic way is the key to being a great speaker – and it carries over into the success of your business and personal life. This hands-on workshop gives each student the chance to articulate their specific public speaking goals and give a 1 – 2...

Data analytics is in the midst of an evolution. In today’s digital world, the practice of decision makers relying on information to be delivered to them is no longer sufficient to keep pace. Tableau is software that puts access to data, and the insights it can unlock, directly in the hands of those who need it.  The software is designed to...

Your best course for career transformation. Our award-winning program, expert instructors, dedicated career coaches, and 19K+ hiring partners get grads hired at A-list companies. With 9000+ hires, we’ve placed more grads in high-growth, high-pay tech careers than any other program. Essential Industry Skills Build rich, interactive, full-stack...

Social media initiatives don’t start when you register a Facebook or Twitter account and start posting announcements, it begins much sooner. In this workshop, you’ll be taken through a 6-step methodology that will help guide your efforts to develop an actionable social media strategy. You’ll learn how to structure your social media efforts, deploy...

Speaking Tips to Nail the Networking Event for Business Owners & Entrepreneurs How would you feel if you knew what events held your ideal client? Now imagine that you walk into the room knowing exactly what to say to convert all those ideal clients. We all have unlimited potential when it comes to finding profitable leads for our businesses....

In increasingly complex times, innovation and collaboration skills are becoming vital to businesses, and both principles are essential in Design Thinking. This hands-on workshop will lead you through the design thinking process, taught by design thinking professionals that live and breathe in this space. Together we'll explore how human-centered design...