Discover the Best Professional Team Events
Professional team events offer many of the same benefits for team building as more “fun” activities, such as escape rooms, arts and crafts, or trivia. Choosing a professional team event is a great way to increase team connections but also to increase your team’s knowledge and effectiveness.
One great thing about professional team events is that they offer the added benefit of providing cutting-edge training to your team on topics like coding, data science, digital marketing, and project management. For example, getting your whole management team trained on project management could drastically increase the overall productivity of your company. The training will also provide a common reference point for everyone going forward.
Benefits of Professional Team Events & Training
Professional team events can provide additional training to your team while building connections among cross-functional teams. One huge benefit of professional team events is that it gets your whole team on the same page and skill level. For example, providing your team with the shared experience of learning advanced Microsoft Excel techniques could promote efficiency and collaboration.
Professional team events are also useful for introducing your team to cutting-edge skills, such as data science, project management, or digital marketing skills. For example, you might uplevel your marketing and customer success teams by having them train in Google Ads or social media marketing.
Coursehorse has partnered with Noble Desktop to provide professional team events and training, both live online and in-person at Noble Desktop’s state-of-the-art campus in Midtown Manhattan. Noble Desktop is a top NYC coding, business, and design school with over three decades of experience in job skills training.
All of their courses are highly rated because of their time-tested, project-based approach: an expert instructor will teach a short “micro-lecture” and then immediately guide students through applying what they learned using hands-on, real-world projects. This approach guarantees that participants learn the job skills they need.
Tech Skills
Photoshop Corporate Training
Your team will learn how to retouch photos and design social media graphics in Photoshop Corporate Training. This course is great for any team that needs to use Adobe Photoshop to adjust or design photos and graphics. Some of the skills taught in this corporate training include retouching photos, adjusting image color and brightness, straightening and cropping photos, designing social media graphics, and creating designs, such as logos, that combine photos, text, and graphics.
Beginner Excel Corporate Training
Get your whole team on the same page with Beginner Excel Corporate Training. Everyone will learn the essentials of using Microsoft Excel, including calculations, basic functions, graphs, and formatting. This course is taught by an expert instructor who will guide your team through hands-on projects to develop their Excel skills.
You can also sign up for Intermediate Excel Corporate Training or Advanced Excel Corporate Training.
SQL Corporate Training
SQL is important for any role that incorporates data or wants to incorporate data. Your team will learn the open-source PostgreSQL in SQL Corporate Training. Structured Query Language (SQL) is a programming language that’s used to gather information from databases. Some of the skills taught in this training include writing SQL queries, aggregating data, joining tables, and filtering query results.
Python Fundamentals Corporate Training
In our increasingly data-driven economy, every team will benefit from training in Python, the preferred language for data science and the most popular programming language in the world. Python Fundamentals Corporate Training provides hands-on training in all of the fundamentals of programming in Python. Python is a relatively easy-to-learn programming language and your team will leave with skills
Python for Data Science Corporate Training
Python for Data Science Corporate Training is a bootcamp-style training program designed to take participants from Python beginners to the start of machine learning. An expert instructor will guide participants through hands-on data science projects to develop skills in using Python for data science, creating programs and data visualizations, using Python to work with data, and creating machine learning models.
Machine Learning Corporate Training
Machine learning runs the majority of stock trading and online product recommendations, such as on Amazon or Netflix. Machine Learning Corporate Training will put your team at the forefront of this revolutionary skillset. An expert instructor will guide students through hands-on data projects to develop skills in cleaning and balancing data, applying machine learning algorithms, data splitting, evaluating machine learning model performance, and important theoretical concepts, such as overfitting and variance.
Google Ads Corporate Training
Paid campaigns are a critical part of today’s digital marketing skills. Up-level your team’s knowledge with Google Ads Corporate Training. An industry expert will guide your team through the essentials of working with paid campaigns via Google. Some of the skills taught in this group workshop include keyword strategies, match types, bidding strategies, google ads auctions, creating ads that convert, tracking results, and campaign automation.
R for Data Analytics Corporate Training
The more members of your team that are trained in data-driven decision-making will lead to greater results overall. You can introduce your team to working with data in R for Data Analytics Corporate Training. This course includes training on coding basics using the R programming language, which is used to manage the data pipeline. All participants will learn how to develop data-driven insights for smart business decisions.
Graphic Design Corporate Training
Graphic design skills are important for designers, marketing teams, and anyone who is working with visuals and text used by customers. Graphic Design Corporate Training provides participants with essential knowledge of graphic design principles and professional graphic design programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign. An expert instructor will guide your team through learning to use Photoshop to retouch and edit photos, using Illustrator to create vector graphics, and designing page layouts in InDesign.
SEO Corporate Training
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an important part of a digital marketing skill set. Train your team in the fundamentals with SEO Corporate Training. This two-day bootcamp includes hands-on training in SEO, including how search engines rank, keyword research techniques, on-page optimization, link-building strategies, structuring websites for SEO, and measuring success.
SQL Server Corporate Training
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a programming language used to query databases for information. SQL Server is the version of SQL developed by Microsoft. Your whole team will learn how to write SQL queries, join tables, aggregate data, and filter results in SQL Server Corporate Training. The techniques learned for Microsoft SQL Server in this training can be applied to all types of SQL.
Data Analytics Corporate Training
Your whole team will learn the fundamentals of data analytics in this beginner-friendly Data Analytics Corporate Training. While data analytics can seem intimidating, an expert instructor will guide your team through hands-on projects to develop skills in descriptive statistics, data distributions, statistical algorithms, and forecasting and decision making.
Social Media Marketing Corporate Training
Up-level your marketing team with Social Media Marketing Corporate Training. A social media expert will guide your team through developing the fundamental skills of content marketing, including setting goals and metrics, brand establishment, marketing strategies for specific platforms, and creating and sharing content. The training will also cover trend monitoring, cross-platform promotion, and how to build and engage an audience.
Soft Skills
Professional team-building activities are also an excellent way to build your team’s soft skills. Soft skills are also called power skills, because they’re the hidden strengths that make excellent team members and employees.
Soft skills include things like critical thinking, communication, teamwork, problem solving, leadership, and collaboration. While it’s common to think of soft skills as being natural, they can be developed, and professional team-building activities are a great way to do it.
Virtual Team-Building Improv Workshop
In Virtual Team-Building Improv Workshop, your team will learn that improv isn’t about being funny; it’s about listening, communicating, and working together. They’ll practice making quick decisions and collaborating as a team in a low stakes, fun environment. Some of the soft skills your team members will learn include collaboration, listening, problem solving, and not taking themselves too seriously.
Virtual Weekly Decompression for High Stress Teams
Weekly Decompression for High Stress Teams provides a weekly time for your team to pause, unwind, and decompress. The class will start with a welcome and then a ten minute session for everyone to connect with their body using basic relaxation techniques. Then, the instructor will lead everyone through a guided visualization and meditation exercise. Everyone will leave refreshed and relaxed.
Virtual Public Speaking through Stand-up!
Improve your team’s communication skills while having fun in Virtual Public Speaking through Stand-up! CourseHorse’s stand-up comedy team-building class is taught by a professional comedian and is designed to use stand-up techniques to build collaboration and communication among co-workers. This 1.15-hour workshop has three rounds of joke writing and performing. Everyone will leave with their own stand-up routine.
NYC In-Person: The Art of Conversation
Conversation is what connects us. Learn how to communicate better with NYC In-Person: The Art of Conversation. A professional writer and storyteller will teach your team the dynamics of conversation, both listening and speaking. This workshop will raise your team’s emotional intelligence and improve their ability to talk to everyone.