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Essentials
- Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century (The University of Virginia) — This course outlines the political significance and societal consequences of challenges facing international policymakers and helps participants develop skills to analyse and advocate for policy proposals to tackle them | Medium
- Understanding the GDPR (Virtual College) — Get to grips with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation and take the first steps to ensuring that you and your team are compliant | Medium
- Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution — Capstone Project (ESSEC Business School) — a highly interactive set of peer-evaluated exercises on how to handle conflict | Medium
- Influencing Stakeholders: Dealing with Power and Dynamics in Teams and Networks (Delft) — Aimed at engineers, this course explains how to add leadership and stakeholder management to technical ability | Medium
- Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving (Rochester Institute of Technology) — Learn how to dissect a problem, come up with effective solutions and adapt to failure and changing circumstances | Long
- Policy Analysis Using Interrupted Time Series (The University of British Colombia) — A comprehensive course on conducting and presenting policy evaluations using interrupted time series analysis | Super long
- Making Government Work in Hard Places (Princeton) — Learn from people who have helped build better government in challenging settings around the globe, and develop your own ability to analyse and solve similar problems | Super long
- Solving Public Policy Problems: UC Berkeley’s Eightfold Path (UC Berkeley) — An introduction to Berkeley’s signature method for problem-solving in the public interest | Long
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