Learn essential life skills such as financial literacy, communication, and time management in Chicago's Life Skills classes, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to thrive in various aspects of their personal and professional lives.
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Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Enhance your gardening skills by understanding the vital role of soil. Discover the secrets to maintaining healthy soil and learn how water cycles affect plants. Get your garden soil professionally analyzed for optimal growth.
Discovery Center @ 4318 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL
Unlock the power of confident and effective public speaking at Discovery Center. Overcome communication obstacles, hone your message delivery, and master the art of organizing and writing prepared speeches. Through interactive impromptu speech exercises and strategies to reduce nervousness, our experienced Speak Easy Nation instructors will guide you to speak with confidence in any workplace or social setting. Join our small-sized, focused class to rapidly acquire techniques that boost your public speaking skills and apply them to your unique situations.
Discovery Center @ 4318 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL
You’d love to learn to downhill ski, but getting to the slopes is too much of a hassle? Wrong! Discovery Center has arranged & organized everything for you with this one day ski holiday amid beautiful surroundings. The trip includes roundtrip transportation (with complimentary coffee and donuts before you start out) & ski fees (including slope fee & lift ticket). The bus trip takes about 1 1/2 hours, so most of your day will be spent...
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Lead cohesive long-distance teams that can actually outperform face-to-face teams. Workplaces around the world are enjoying the power and opportunities of being linked virtually though technology. However, many virtual teams do not succeed because they fail to recognize that virtual collaboration has to be managed in specific ways. The leader of a virtual or remote team must successfully apply special insights and techniques to guide performance...
It's not enough to train the workforce. You also have to train the trainer. The training field can change fast with new methodologies, new discoveries about the way adults learn, and changing expectations from trainees and from your company. In this course, you will gain the practical platform skills and confidence you need to succeed. This powerful course puts the latest trends and techniques at your fingertips. Whether you've been training for...
Learn the psychological triggers that motivate you to say "yes" or "no." Bringing about the reaction you want from others and expanding your influence require insights that go beyond the actual process of influencing and into the psychology of what truly prompts us to say "yes" or "no." This two-day course explores these psychological triggers and how you can use this knowledge to bring about not only for compliance but also for mutually desirable...
Learn the basic techniques and some special tips needed for establishing and maintaining a healthy garden in the Midwest. Some of the many topics to be covered include planting, pruning, water and turf management, weed and pest control, maintenance of new landscapes, and specific methods for growing herbaceous and woody plant groups such as bulbs, ericaceous plants, container plants, and others. Gain hands-on experience in the Garden.
Global Knowledge @ 500 W Madison St, Illinois City, IL
Enhance your self-awareness and make emotions work for you to build more productive relationships, professionally and personally, through emotional intelligence training. Understanding and improving the connection between emotions and actions is crucial to business and personal success. Without such insights, even seemingly successful relationships may be courting disaster. Emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional intelligence training are very...
Global Knowledge @ 1500 McConnor Pkwy, Schaumburg, IL
Master and apply critical thinking skills to make better business decisions. Critical thinking is the ability to correctly understand information, a situation, or problem from different perspectives in order to take or suggest the best possible action. In business, it's truly an essential skill for success-and a proven way to distinguish yourself and your organizational contributions. Critical thinking skills provide ways to arrive at better decisions...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This series of workshops and Garden walks features the diversity and creativity of four seasons of Chicago Botanic Garden container gardens. Each season you will explore the Garden grounds with Heather Sherwood and discover an array of striking plants, interesting color and texture combinations, and unique container arrangements. She will then help you create a seasonal container for your sun or partial shade patio or porch.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn to identify more than 50 large deciduous trees, gain a greater understanding of the multitude of functions they serve in gardens and the landscape, and discover the wonders they offer year-round. Develop your ability to identify trees using their buds, bark, and habit, in addition to leaf shape and other characteristics. OPC, PGL 1, PGL 2, and GDC requirement
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, Chicago, IL
Students will be introduced to professional gardening through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Focus is on acquiring solid gardening skills, learning about a variety of techniques, and developing the ability to determine best practices. Topics range from plant selection to the identification and control of weeds and other horticultural practices. Prerequisite: Botany 1 Note: PGL 1, PGL 2, GDC requirement
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Online and On-site Hybrid Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills and determine best management practices. We will cover fall planting, bulbs, turf care, plant wildlife protection, garden maintenance, and winterization. Dress for the weather. A supply list will be sent with your confirmation.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This studio class is open to all levels. You may bring a project of your choice in any medium, or work with plant subjects to create a new art piece. Lectures and demonstrations illustrate principles that pertain to all media. A supply list will be sent.
Zenspeak - Public Speaking Center
This is an online course. Zoom link will be sent to you upon enrollment. Overcome public speaking fear with gradual exposure, in a supportive environment. Based out of New York City for 30 years, we are now offering these classes online to an international audience. Once the 10 session package is purchased, the student may use their sessions however they choose. The course is ongoing, so each session has participants at all levels. We use a workbook...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills, learn a variety of techniques, and determine best management practices in the field of horticulture. Gain applicable skills in plant selection, perennial and annual care and maintenance, pruning techniques, tool maintenance, and identification and control of common weeds. Dress for the weather. A supply...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover ornamental qualities, identification techniques, cultural practices, and landscape uses of more than 60 herbaceous perennials for the Midwest. Plants studied will include favorites such as astilbe and hosta, in addition to lesser-known plants including meadow rue and toad lily. Prerequisite: Botany 1. A supply list will be sent with your confirmation.
Lincoln Square Fencing @ 2500 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL
Summer Camp is open to everyone ages 7-18! No experience or equipment necessary! Join Future Champions Camp and Lincoln Square Fencing for a unique training camp opportunity with Marco Russo, Italian Junior National Coach. 2x olympian Rosella Gregorio, current member of the Senior National Team Lapo Pucci, member of the Junior National Team Violetta Piergiacomi: FCC official conditioning trainer The goal of the camp is a fluent...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Soil is an irreplaceable natural resource that affects plant selection and growth. Learn to maintain healthy soil; use compost, fertilizers, soilless and potting mixes, and other amendments. Discover how water cycles through a garden and affects soils and plants. A supply list will be sent.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover more than 60 outstanding conifers and broad-leaved evergreens for the Midwest. Students will learn identifying characteristics, cultural requirements, and landscape uses of conifers and broad-leaved evergreens ranging from shrubby dwarfs to towering trees. Prerequisite: Botany 1 Note: Classes are held on Tuesdays at Classroom 1, Learning Center. Walks Meet on Saturdays at Visitor Center
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