Communicating for Results Course
- IDCOMM7003
- Weekdays only
- 2 Days
- Open to beginners
Enhance workplace communication by identifying styles, interpreting feedback, and overcoming barriers to understanding.
To be a key contributor in your organization, you need well-developed communication skills.
Enhance workplace communication by identifying styles, interpreting feedback, and overcoming barriers to understanding.
Master the skills to transform conflicts into productive, win-win outcomes using proven constructive approaches.
Develop effective verbal and non‑verbal communication skills to improve workplace relationships and clarity.
This course, provided in partnership with ADR Vantage, Inc., shows you how to use Claude and other free AI tools as a personal preparation coach to plan and navigate difficult conversations with confidence.
Gain strategies for interacting effectively with challenging personalities using empathy, structure, and communication frameworks.
Build confidence in public speaking with expert coaching, audience analysis, and effective presentation techniques.
Strengthen customer service by mastering listening, empathy, and responsive communication with internal and external customers.
Build structured negotiation skills to reach mutually beneficial outcomes in complex, high-stakes interactions.
Learn to deliver exceptional customer service by identifying customer needs, enhancing service quality, and resolving issues effectively.
Develop essential communication skills to build trust, foster collaboration, and inspire teams as an effective leader.
This hands-on course teaches participants how to use Google Gemini to research, write, analyze information, automate recurring tasks, and build a personalized AI workflow using tools such as Gems, Deep Research, NotebookLM, and Google Workspace.
Build a personalized Claude workflow to draft, analyze, summarize, and manage legal work more efficiently while maintaining attorney review and professional responsibility.
Join this bootcamp to improve your writing skills. Learn grammar essentials, effective business writing skills, and advanced communication techniques. Gain practical strategies to create complex business documents confidently.
Strengthen grammar, usage, and editorial confidence through mastery of punctuation, sentence structure, capitalization, verb forms, and pronoun agreement.
Improve your business writing with this Grammar Essentials course. Learn to identify grammar errors, write effectively for different audiences, determine correct word forms, and more. Boost your confidence and become your own editor with this comprehensive review of grammar rules.
Sharpen your writing skills and enhance your business communication with this comprehensive business writing course. Learn how to write effective emails, make announcements, deliver bad news, write formal business letters, and create persuasive business proposals.
In the Advanced Business Writing course, learn how to prepare complex, multi-page business documents for any purpose. This course focuses on outlining and formatting techniques for different business documents, including schedules, proposals, project plans, and contracts, to communicate with your audience effectively.
Strengthen clarity, concision, and organization in your professional writing using Federal Plain Language principles and a repeatable process.
Learn how to craft clear, concise, and technically accurate documents—such as SOPs, Federal Register notices, or white papers—for government audiences.
Learn to create accurate and comprehensive federal position descriptions that align with organizational goals and HR requirements.
Learn to efficiently review and provide constructive feedback on audit report drafts to ensure clarity, accuracy, and effectiveness.
Receive instruction from subject‑matter experts who bring proven government experience.
Courses that are regularly updated based on feedback and industry developments, ensuring versions are mapped to federal competencies.
The instructor was wonderful and so knowledgeable. The course materials were extremely relevant to what my job is. I feel like I can be better because of this class.
— 2025 student
Directly addressing the day-to-day challenges of federal employees.
Your trusted training partner, equipping public service professionals with the skills and knowledge to excel in their roles and drive meaningful impact.
Develop your business writing skills from the ground up with this bootcamp, where you'll explore grammar fundamentals, effective writing techniques, and advanced communication strategies that'll help you tackle complex business documents with confidence.
Strengthen your business writing with this comprehensive look at grammar fundamentals. From catching common mistakes to choosing the right word forms and writing for different audiences, you'll finish with the skills and confidence to edit your own work effectively.
Strengthen grammar, usage, and editorial confidence through mastery of punctuation, sentence structure, capitalization, verb forms, and pronoun agreement.
Bring your business communication to the next level with this comprehensive writing course. You'll discover how to craft effective emails, make announcements, deliver bad news with tact, write polished formal letters, and create persuasive proposals that get results.
Bring your business writing further by mastering the skills needed to plan, format, and produce complex, multi-page documents that get results. You'll explore outlining and formatting techniques across a variety of document types, including schedules, proposals, project plans, and contracts, all with a focus on connecting clearly with your audience.
Overcome barriers to effective office communications. Develop strategies to increase your ability to be understood by identifying your own communication style and that of others. Explore methods of interpreting verbal and nonverbal feedback and the use of appropriate repetition to clarify communications.
Develop essential communication skills to build trust, foster collaboration, and inspire teams as an effective leader.
Conflict is inevitable, but transforming it into positive outcomes is a skill. Learn how to shape even the most difficult circumstances into satisfying, win-win experiences. Discover a wide variety of proven constructive approaches that lead to productive resolutions and teaching moments. Develop the tools for quickly analyzing and responding to difficult situations and share them with your team to make conflicts approachable and productive.
Learn proven techniques to work more productively and improve your everyday interactions with others. Discover conflict resolution strategies and negotiation techniques, and benefit from useful tips on tact and diplomacy.
Do not let "difficult" people ruin another day! Learn approaches for maintaining your composure and clarifying underlying issues, as well as strategic questioning and listening techniques to discover what is behind someone with a difficult personality. Leave the course refreshed and prepared to minimize the negative impact of difficult people in your work environment.
Build confidence in public speaking with expert coaching, audience analysis, and effective presentation techniques.
Develop superior customer service by learning the basics of effective communication to successfully interact with internal and external customers. Become adept at recognizing and anticipating the needs of others; being flexible when handling requests and complaints; and spotting and responding to important verbal and nonverbal messages.
Learn to create win-win situations and improve work relationships with colleagues, employees, customers, and others. Focus on issues of negotiation, including using multiple strategies, applying the no-fault formula, interest-based methods, and empathy in the negotiation process.
Become "customer-driven" and learn how to take service to the top, inspiring others to provide quality service. Gain proficiency in identifying your internal and external customers. Discover the latest methods for enhancing customer service and handling problems, including anticipating and responding to customers' needs.
Develop essential communication skills to build trust, foster collaboration, and inspire teams as an effective leader.
This hands-on course teaches participants how to use Google Gemini to research, write, analyze information, automate recurring tasks, and build a personalized AI workflow using tools such as Gems, Deep Research, NotebookLM, and Google Workspace.
Build a personalized Claude workflow to draft, analyze, summarize, and manage legal work more efficiently while maintaining attorney review and professional responsibility.
Since 1921, Graduate School USA has partnered with over 125 federal agencies and trained more than one million federal employees. Led by instructors with deep, real-world knowledge of federal regulations, policies, and practices, our private group programs are practical, mission-driven, and tailored to your agency’s objectives. We offer expertise across key federal domains—including human resources, financial management, acquisition and contracting, leadership, and more—to deliver training where and how your team needs it.
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Our alumni consistently commend the expertise of our instructors and the real-world relevance of our programs. Their feedback highlights how Graduate School USA training has advanced their skills, supported their agencies’ missions, and fostered long-term professional growth.
I recommend Deb to continue the courses for communicating. It is a great skill we need for personal and professional life. I really enjoyed the breakout rooms and interaction with my peers. We were able to have meaningful conversations. The instructor gave us real time feedback that we can use in the workplace
Charlene S.
Excellent course!
Antonette F.
Great experience. Highly recommend! Mrs. Doris McMillon, was splendid. Her knowledge of the material, ability to effectively relay the information, and relate to students facilitated learning.
Jose F.
It was a great course, I would highly recommend it. I was pleasantly surprised about how updated the content was. Instructor was also very engaging and she answered all of our questions.
La'Toya W.
The instructor kept us all engaged and was very pleasant and knowledgeable.
Pamela K.
Deborah did a great job teaching us about interpersonal communications! I appreciate her realizing that though we're not talkative, its not personal. We're auditors and mainly introverts :) Debbie was thoroughly enjoyable, patient, and flexible. One of the best teachers here.
Leslie B.
Debbie was a great instructor. Very upbeat and engaging. Class content was easy to follow. Overall, a great training course.
Keah H.
Great experience! Deborah Deichman was engaging. I truly enjoyed this class.
Erika W.
This was an excellent and engaging class. Very fun and informative. Best class and instructor I've had so far!
Carlton Peterson
Thank you so much! Deborah was understanding and open to various styles of communication. This course provided a great amount of content to grasp the topic easily.
Martika D.
Deborah is very engaging and pleasant. Also, she provided thought-provoking scenarios.
Regina W.
Deborah provided great information and support for future engagements.
Michele S.
Dr. Frazier exudes a great energy as an instructor, and I look forward to taking additional trainings with him in the future.
Jennifer V.
Great class, I will be applying what I learned to better serve my organization. I finished the class with a better understanding of how to deal with all types of customers and how to apply myself to better understand their needs.
DeMarco Farmer
I had a great time learning this material. The instructor was very clear, concise, and knowledgeable on the subject. Learn to be great, and have fun doing it.
Jacob Neal Jr
The morning and afternoon energizers were a lot of fun. Got me, the other participant, and the observer working as a team. The instructor was very enthusiastic. Strong knowledge of the subject matter. Encouraged others to share their experiences regarding the subject matter. Great sense of humor.
Sri Rapak
Mr. Sanders is a good instructor and knowledgeable. You could tell he enjoys training, and he made participants feel comfortable. The class was well-organized and easy to follow.
Kimberly B.
Excellent learning experience. The instructor articulated the material very well and gave great examples. Very engaging.
Ramona D.
The instructor was personable and kept pace well with a balance of material and breaks.
Brendan G.
The instructor was engaging, which can be difficult to do in an online class.
Cassandra S.
The training was really good, and I would recommend the class to anyone who works with the public. Mr. Sanders did an awesome job; he made the class interesting, and he did a great job engaging the class and allowing us to interact with the activities.
Cassundra R.
The instructor was very clear and provided excellent course material. The content of the class was great. We can add some additional real-life examples for students to understand it better.
Sameer L.
After attending this 2-day class, I have learned valuable information on how to expand my customer service skills. From the helpful tips on personality traits to the dos and don'ts when I am approached by a customer, plus many other tools that were provided in class, all will help me to administer excellent customer service effectively. Instructor Sanders is an OUTSTANDING teacher. His class was well prepared, well-balanced, and very informative. The examples Mr. Sanders uses are applicable to everyday experiences and are key to learning how to handle situations that we face on the job.
Lisa Jordan
Very thought-provoking with real tools to use in the future. Coach Don is fabulous and interpersonal. Very observational.
Lindsey P.
I think this was overall a great course. I learned a lot from the instructor and from other attendees. Two days was the perfect timeframe for this topic.
Ashley J.
The class was engaging, well-organized, and provided useful communication strategies that I can apply in my role. It was a worthwhile and practical training experience. The instructor was excellent, knowledgeable, engaging, and well-prepared. They presented the material in a way that was easy to understand and relevant to real workplace situations. Their ability to facilitate discussion and encourage participation made the course especially effective.
Jamar H.
Loved the class, Debby is an amazing teacher. She was patient, and the feedback will be very instrumental moving forward.
Taunya S.
Kind, compassionate, and knowledgeable instructor.
Alison H.
I loved this class and the instructor. I have trouble speaking confidently in public at times, so I really enjoyed the exercises and the information. I really feel this class is very beneficial in many areas of work and home life.
Jacqueline Miller
This class puts you out of your comfort zone, but in a good way. I appreciated the ability to practice, and the content reinforced skills important to public speaking. The mix of participants brought unique perspectives and ideas that I haven't thought of before, which will help me be a better public speaker.
Kelley Unsicker
The instructor was awesome! He was very knowledgeable and engaging.
Erica G.
Great training - topics and tools are relevant. I will definitely recommend it to my colleagues. Stefan Sanders was engaging, provided great examples, and kept the class on track with expectations established on the first day.
Caroline B.
The instructor was extremely genuine and entertaining. I liked the extra bonus information he provided. He kept the course engaging the entire time.
Anna S.
Overall, this was an excellent learning experience. The training enhanced my awareness of conflict dynamics and my ability to address challenging situations with professionalism and empathy. The session was interactive, well-paced, and highly relevant to leadership and people-management roles. I would strongly recommend this training to other professionals seeking to improve communication and conflict resolution skills.
Priamo R.
I got a lot of information out of this course on how to handle situations. Amazing content and a great instructor with a lot of knowledge.
Kristina Mack
David was a great instructor - his experience as an SES really shone through. Great course - thank you!
Kyle S.
Overall, the class gave me a lot to think about as far as communication and leadership, and the various applications of the skills discussed in the class. Well spoken instructor, who has a lot of experience to answer questions and teach about the topic.
Brendon M.
Clarissa's presentation has been very professional and informative.
Michael J.
The instructor was very engaging and explained the content well.
Abby H.
Our Professional Communication Skills Training are rated 4.8 stars by 836 students
The instructor was very engaging and explained the content well.
Clarissa's presentation has been very professional and informative.
Overall, the class gave me a lot to think about as far as communication and leadership, and the various applications of the skills discussed in the class. Well spoken instructor, who has a lot of experience to answer questions and teach about the topic.
David was a great instructor - his experience as an SES really shone through. Great course - thank you!
I got a lot of information out of this course on how to handle situations. Amazing content and a great instructor with a lot of knowledge.
Overall, this was an excellent learning experience. The training enhanced my awareness of conflict dynamics and my ability to address challenging situations with professionalism and empathy. The session was interactive, well-paced, and highly relevant to leadership and people-management roles. I would strongly recommend this training to other professionals seeking to improve communication and conflict resolution skills.
The instructor was extremely genuine and entertaining. I liked the extra bonus information he provided. He kept the course engaging the entire time.
Great training - topics and tools are relevant. I will definitely recommend it to my colleagues. Stefan Sanders was engaging, provided great examples, and kept the class on track with expectations established on the first day.
The instructor was awesome! He was very knowledgeable and engaging.
This class puts you out of your comfort zone, but in a good way. I appreciated the ability to practice, and the content reinforced skills important to public speaking. The mix of participants brought unique perspectives and ideas that I haven't thought of before, which will help me be a better public speaker.
I loved this class and the instructor. I have trouble speaking confidently in public at times, so I really enjoyed the exercises and the information. I really feel this class is very beneficial in many areas of work and home life.
Kind, compassionate, and knowledgeable instructor.
Loved the class, Debby is an amazing teacher. She was patient, and the feedback will be very instrumental moving forward.
The class was engaging, well-organized, and provided useful communication strategies that I can apply in my role. It was a worthwhile and practical training experience. The instructor was excellent, knowledgeable, engaging, and well-prepared. They presented the material in a way that was easy to understand and relevant to real workplace situations. Their ability to facilitate discussion and encourage participation made the course especially effective.
I think this was overall a great course. I learned a lot from the instructor and from other attendees. Two days was the perfect timeframe for this topic.
Very thought-provoking with real tools to use in the future. Coach Don is fabulous and interpersonal. Very observational.
After attending this 2-day class, I have learned valuable information on how to expand my customer service skills. From the helpful tips on personality traits to the dos and don'ts when I am approached by a customer, plus many other tools that were provided in class, all will help me to administer excellent customer service effectively. Instructor Sanders is an OUTSTANDING teacher. His class was well prepared, well-balanced, and very informative. The examples Mr. Sanders uses are applicable to everyday experiences and are key to learning how to handle situations that we face on the job.
The instructor was very clear and provided excellent course material. The content of the class was great. We can add some additional real-life examples for students to understand it better.
The training was really good, and I would recommend the class to anyone who works with the public. Mr. Sanders did an awesome job; he made the class interesting, and he did a great job engaging the class and allowing us to interact with the activities.
The instructor was engaging, which can be difficult to do in an online class.
The instructor was personable and kept pace well with a balance of material and breaks.
Excellent learning experience. The instructor articulated the material very well and gave great examples. Very engaging.
Mr. Sanders is a good instructor and knowledgeable. You could tell he enjoys training, and he made participants feel comfortable. The class was well-organized and easy to follow.
The morning and afternoon energizers were a lot of fun. Got me, the other participant, and the observer working as a team. The instructor was very enthusiastic. Strong knowledge of the subject matter. Encouraged others to share their experiences regarding the subject matter. Great sense of humor.
I had a great time learning this material. The instructor was very clear, concise, and knowledgeable on the subject. Learn to be great, and have fun doing it.
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May 12–13
Tuesday to Wednesday
9–4:30pm
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$1,049
2 Days
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Enhance workplace communication by identifying styles, interpreting feedback, and overcoming barriers to understanding. |
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May 13–14
Wednesday to Thursday
9–4:30pm
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$1,049
2 Days
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Learn to deliver exceptional customer service by identifying customer needs, enhancing service quality, and resolving issues effectively. |
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May 14–15
Thursday to Friday
9–4:30pm
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$1,049
2 Days
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Develop effective verbal and non‑verbal communication skills to improve workplace relationships and clarity. |
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May 14–15
Thursday to Friday
9–4:30pm
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$1,049
2 Days
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Gain strategies for interacting effectively with challenging personalities using empathy, structure, and communication frameworks. |
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June 1–2
Monday to Tuesday
9–4:30pm
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$1,049
2 Days
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Master the skills to transform conflicts into productive, win-win outcomes using proven constructive approaches. |
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