Microclasses
Learn what you need to know, in manageable stages. I provide short, intense lessons designed to allow learning to occur naturally and iteratively rather than in multi-hour workshops. Best of all, you can learn on your own time.
You get the key, actionable points, while avoiding information overload. Basically, you get what you need to feel comfortable with the topic. You can build on this later using iterative learning as needed. For more information on this technique, check out my CoolTimeLife episode entitled, Just Keep Learning, here (opens in new tab).
My sessions combine video and text and offer optional quizzes (not everyone likes being quizzed). It's learning on your terms.
Topics include: critical thinking, AI tools and strategies, personal productivity, cybersecurity best practices, communication skills, project management, wellness, and many more. The full list is below.
These courses are digests of longer sessions that I deliver to companies and universities every week, but build to fit into your busy day. Always up to date and relevant, they allow a digest of vital techniques, backed up with a recording, transcript and summary, as well as ongoing conversation after the session to allow the learning to be absorbed iteratively and asynchronously, which is how I believe all learning should happen.
The sessions are hosted on Thinkific.
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Topics
- AI Tools and Strategies for Professional Services
- This session delivers practical techniques and approaches to empower a professional practice to function more efficiently. AI technology provides numerous benefits ranging from data entry and improved client communication through to predictive analytics and risk management, and it is advancing rapidly. The session is delivered in clear, non-technical language, and is always kept up to date.
- AI: How to Identify Deep-Fakes, Social Engineering and Cyber Crime
- Artificial intelligence has dramatically improved the ability of cybercriminals to impersonate real people through convincing emails, voice messages, and even video calls. In this practical and accessible session, participants will learn how AI-generated scams such as deepfakes and social engineering attacks are being used to target professionals and organizations. Through real-world examples and interactive exercises, the presentation will show how to recognize common warning signs, understand the psychological tactics scammers use, and apply simple verification habits that prevent costly mistakes. Designed for non-technical professionals, the session focuses on practical awareness and everyday decision-making, giving participants clear strategies they can use immediately to protect themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations from AI-driven fraud. Participants will leave this session thinking “Now I know what to look for, and I know what to do when something feels off.”
- Calendar and eMail Management in the Age of AI
- Regain control over the two most dominant forces of your working life: your calendar and your inbox. Change the way you look at these tools from the eye of a project manager and a psychologist, and you will win back valuable time and balance. Based on my best-selling book, Cool-Time: A Hands-On Plan for Balancing Work and Managing Time.
- Change Management
- Facing change is one of the most difficult parts of life, both personal and at work. Change presents an unknown that can fracture team solidarity and productivity. But change is happening faster than ever, including in technologies, working styles, roles, and workforce. This session shows how to face change, plan for it and oversee its implementation. Special focus is given to resistance, acceptance, and the responsibilities of that team leaders face.
- Change Management for Leaders
- This course equips leaders with practical tools and mindsets to manage organizational change, both in leading others and adapting personally. It explores how resistance to change develops, how to communicate and guide through uncertainty, and how emerging technologies, including generative AI, can become catalysts for smoother, more informed transformation.
- Communicating as Leaders
- This session helps managers strengthen their ability to connect, inspire, and lead through effective communication. The program explores the art and science of leadership communication from active listening and storytelling to mastering body language, tone, and virtual presence. Participants will learn how to motivate teams using psychological insights like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, navigate difficult conversations with empathy, and project confidence and authenticity in every interaction.
- Time Management
- This is my signature course, and one that I have been teaching for more than 30 years. It is a proven success, using a combination of project management, influence, and a knowledge of physiology as a much a better way to manage time and obtain work-life balance.
- Psychological Safety in the Workplace
- Psychological safety has become a defining factor in performance, retention, and organizational resilience. This summary course, based on a three day university level course that I created, equips people at all levels with the mindsets and behaviours needed to reduce risk, strengthen trust, and support mental health while maintaining high standards.
- Critical Thinking and Decision Making
- The prevalence of AI technologies has made critical thinking even more necessary due to the ease by which people can access and rely on AI without fully verifying the accuracy of its results.
- This course is designed to develop students' critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities through a collection of frameworks, techniques and technologies. Students will explore various methodologies to analyze complex problems, evaluate evidence, and develop innovative solutions in diverse contexts.
- Influence - How to Make Things Go Your Way
- Feeling constantly pressured is a productivity killer and it’s also not healthy. My practical, engaging session shows you how to influence expectations (yours and others’) so you can work smarter and manage stress. You’ll learn simple, real-world techniques to set boundaries, communicate clearly, and reduce unnecessary pressure without damaging relationships. Increase your focus, protect your energy, feel more in control of your time, workload, and well-being, and even sleep better, starting now.
- Management Excellence
- The words "Management" and "Excellence" are are two extremely overused terms. It’s time to wrestle these concepts back into something practical by looking at metrics of quality developed over the twentieth century, such as Six-Sigma and kaizen, and pairing them with much needed elements of situational awareness and actively listening to the voices of internal and external customers. Managers have a special role to keep operations to the plan and handle things when they go astray. Included is a special section for people who are struggling with the management role following a promotion.
- Operational Productivity and Continuous Improvement
- No matter what type of work you do, the principles of continuous improvement and operational productivity underpin the success of all organizations, departments, and teams. This session translates those proven ideas into practical, usable techniques. Using modern case studies alongside compelling stories from industrial history, participants learn how to design and sustain improvement efforts that actually stick. The focus is on setting realistic goals, measuring what matters, overcoming resistance to change, securing buy-in, and maintaining momentum, whether in a large organization, public sector environment, small team, or startup. Participants will learn how to assess and visualize their current state, define meaningful targets, and identify opportunities for improvement, using concepts related to performance measurement, benchmarking, and best practices, including Lean principles, Kaizen, Six Sigma, and Total Productive Maintenance. The emphasis is on clarity, relevance, and real-world application, making complex ideas accessible, memorable, and immediately useful.
- Project Management
- Drawing from the Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) produced by the Project Management Institute (PMI), our Project Management session builds awareness and practical ability in the management of projects, large and small. It also applies for non-project days, such as managing your calendar, planning meetings, even helping with home-related tasks. IN one hour I will show you how to develop a workable, editable plan, integrate and understand the 5 phases of Project Management, estimate more accurately, understand where projects can fail, and of course, understand AI in project management.
- Project Management Advanced
- First, the bad news. You can't fully learn advanced project management in an hour. It's a highly nuanced art and science that requires regularly updated expertise in areas such as estimation, risk management cost-benefit analysis and people management/leadership. But the good news is that you can learn the starting components of these vital elements of advanced project management, and then you can turn to other resources such as YouTube, and LLMs to add to your knowledge piece-by piece and as you need. This sessions is here to set you on a path toward lifelong learning in the area of project management which itself is a highly sought-after professional skill. In this one hour I will discuss the vital areas of project management that embody the "advanced" level. These include: optimizing project schedules, advanced risk management strategies, leadership, leveraging generative AI and agentic AI in project management, and advanced communication and stakeholder management.