CRE professionals develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders, communicate with confidence and persuasion, and tailor their communications to effectively influence each of their stakeholder groups. This course is designed to help CRE professionals develop skills required to conduct difficult conversations and communicate with confidence and assertiveness.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Quickly open an interaction with clients in a positive way. 
• Understand the many faces and functions within Corporate Real Estate. 
• Identify the key components of crafting a good message, providing you with an opportunity to practice creating a powerful elevator speech.
• Create a summary speech and how to effectively practice to build confidence.

The flip side of every problem is the opportunity to devise a solution. Corporate real estate professionals who learn to counter challenges with creativity will boost their value to their corporations. Learn how to modify your mindset and apply creativity enhancing techniques. In this course you will:

• Learn the value of creativity in problem solving.
• Identify roadblocks that can prevent creative thinking when solving problems.
• Enumerate the steps of the problem solving process and creative thinking strategies that can be used throughout the process. Employ creative thinking strategies while using the problem solving process to devise a solution.

Financial statements and instruments reveal important information about your organization’s financial health by highlighting areas where your organization performs well and areas where there are opportunities for improvement. By learning how to read and interpret a few basic financial instruments, you can recognize opportunities to increase revenue and shave expenses, thus increasing your value to the organization.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the advantages of analyzing financial information.
• Understand the purpose and benefits of budgets.
• Differentiate among various financial instruments.
• Conduct horizontal and vertical analyses using your organization’s financial information. Recognize which ratios are most important to your organization.

This course is designed to help CRE professionals move from a tactical to a strategic approach when developing short-and long-range plans, develop real estate strategies that align with the organization’s business and strategic goals, and allow CRE professionals to respond effectively to the Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) of the business environment and real estate market. After completing the course you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of goal alignment.
• Differentiate corporate, organizational and personal goals.
• Develop SMART goals.
• Prioritize projects and tasks associated with CRE role and goals. Align and evaluate your CRE goals with those of the business overall.

Meetings have a bad reputation. Poorly run meetings take too long, involve too many people, and never seem to result in any concrete action. Despite this, meetings are necessary and can be extremely effective. Meetings that are planned and facilitated well give participants a sense of accomplishment and a sense that their time was well spent. This program will show you how to make every meeting efficient and effective. After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize ways to change your mindset about meetings.
• Eliminate habits that make meetings unproductive.
• Identify alternatives to holding traditional meetings.
• Demonstrate effective facilitation skills.
• Help your group make decisions quickly. Ensure that every meeting ends with actionable items.

Trust is essential for any organization to succeed in today’s increasingly competitive global environment. Organizations with high levels of trust are more credible, productive, flexible, innovative, and able to adapt to changing circumstances and effectively handle crises. Learn how trust improves interactions at all levels, and how to exemplify the characteristics and behaviors of a trustworthy person. Discover how your team can embody those traits and ultimately reduce the stress that often accompanies low levels of trust, improve your reputation, and increase team members’ productivity, innovation, and ability to work effectively with others both within and outside of the organization.

Perhaps your company has torn down the silos and taken down walls in your workplace. Learn how to break them down figuratively and increase your productivity, effectiveness and corporate leverage through collaboration. After completing this course, you will be able to:

Define collaboration and how it affects your success as a CRE professional
Understand that for collaboration efforts to be successful, they must be intentional
Apply the Collaborative Process Cycle to make collaboration more effective
Introduce collaborative processes into your individual job as well as team environments

Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don't go as planned. Resilient people don't dwell on their failures; they acknowledge the situation, learn from their mistakes, and move forward. This course will address what it takes to become resilient.
After completing this course, you will be able to:

Bounce back from adversity
Build your self-esteem as a foundation of resilience
Make and maintain connections to build resilience
Accept and embrace change
Use flexible thinking to overcome obstacles
Implement stress management and relaxation strategies to maintain resilience

When it comes to workplace battles, there are more and better options than fight or flight. This course will teach you constructive ways of dealing with the kinds of conflicts that are bound to arise among your CRE teammates and the internal clients you serve.
Once you have completed this course, you'll be able to: 

Acknowledge and work with individuals with different perspectives and opinions than your own.  
Build positive business relationships and avoid unnecessary conflict.
Apply effective conflict resolution steps when conflict occurs.
Positively resolve conflicts that adversely impact relationships.

This course is designed to help CRE professionals develop productive work habits that allow them to prioritize their daily work based on key results, work more effectively with stakeholders, and focus their efforts on the most productive activities to drive results.
This course will help you:

Understand how to identify key results to share with your stakeholders and your manager.
Learn the importance of taking ownership of your results, and ways you can be proactive in taking ownership.
Understand methods for communicating those results to stakeholders.
Discuss the importance of developing a communication plan.