Professional Training in Washington, DC

My First Lemonade Stand (MCC) Let's sell lemonade! In this class you will learn how to make yummy lemonade and how to earn money selling it! Fun sessions empower students with an entrepreneurial mindset for their lemonade stand. Students learn about marketing, finance and strategy in a supporting environment fostering team work.

The Vanguard EA (Advanced Applied FEA) course is a hands-on “applied” training course specifically designed to ensure student architects receive the most innovative and productive training in the industry.  The Vanguard EA (Advanced Applied FEA) course builds upon the concepts and principles learned within the FEA Foundation course by providing...

These are exciting times to be a screenwriter. With more shows and television channels than ever, the opportunities for inventive ways of storytelling increase daily. This hands-on workshop will guide beginning and intermediate screenwriters through the process of crafting a professional-grade screenplay and/or TV pilot.  Participants will examine...

This workshop will look at what makes short stories work (and by extension, novels and memoirs). Participants will be read and discuss stories from American Best Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg Wolitzer, as well as workshop their short stories or memoirs. Participants are encouraged to bring a story to the first class for critique.

Full Course Title: Business Analysis Introduction: Defining Successful Projects This training course delivers an end-to-end business analysis process, incorporating industry best practices from IIBA®, BCS, and Project Management. You will improve your analytical competencies and learn to apply a core business analysis framework — from initiation,...

The main aim of Corporate Sales Professionals is to provide fast, friendly service byactively seeking out customers to access their needs and provide assistance. Professionalsin this position know how to greet, qualify, recommend and close every customerin their department, and know how to handle basics in adjacent departments. Sales professionals...

Through a real-life simulation case study, this project management training course provides you with the fundamental knowledge and skills to leverage key project management concepts, implement effective project management processes, and develop leadership skills needed for successfully planning, managing, and delivering projects of any size and scope....

Hyper-partisanship, midterm elections and high-stakes policy debates will be keeping government relations professionals on their toes. And success may be tied to having the right assets at the right time and in the right place. This workshop will look at the unique challenges of 2018 and provide best practices and key insights for assessing: When...

Effective time management helps professionals make better decisions, meet deadlines, and achieve their goals. In this training course, you learn to develop a clear sense of purpose, structure priorities, overcome negative behavior patterns, and leverage practical strategies, tools, and techniques to develop and implement an effective time management...

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a framework for enterprise architecture that provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture. The Vanguard EA course is a hands-on “applied” training course specifically designed for TOGAF® practitioners to ensure...

Corporate Sales Expert aims to provide fast, friendly service by actively seeking out customers to access their needs and provide assistance. Professionals in this position know how to greet, qualify, recommend and close every customer in their department, and know how to handle basics in adjacent departments. Professionals in this position know how...

Leadership, delegation, motivation, communication, and vision are key components that make up an effective and successful manager. In this training course, you learn best practices and behaviors to help you build these components, leverage powerful techniques for getting the best from people, and use proven management models to design a blueprint for...

Simplifying the complex world of payroll taxes. Do you struggle to keep up with changing tax laws? Are you 100% certain that your organization is paying the right amount of payroll taxes? It’s a tricky business, and one you can ill afford to mess up. Unless, of course, you don’t mind paying staggering penalties from the IRS. That’s where ...

Join us to learn the critical components to a successful PAC plan going into 2018 and beyond, including an in-depth discussion which strategic elements can take your PAC to the next level. We’ll focus on how to build a structure that is not only doable but sustainable.  Hear about:   - Assessing what you’ve done in the past to...

This class will examine some of the more challenging and unusual metaphors that contemporary poets have used to bring their poems to life. This workshop will discuss how to choose between simile and metaphor, how to control and extend an image, and how to avoid using clichés.  There will be a writing exercise designed to challenge image-making...