Courses by Deborah Grayson Riegel

If you are a busy professional who knows that your job—and your career—depend on being able to communicate clearly and concisely, manage leaders and team with confidence and credibility, and coach colleagues and clients to be self-directed and self-motivated, then I have a course (or two, or three) for you!

I created these asynchronous, online courses for anyone who wants to have more impact and influence at work — and in life. I have been teaching and coaching communication,  presentation, supervision, coaching, and leadership skills for over three decades, across industries and around the world, including Fortune 50 companies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and Ivy League academic institutions.

These courses represent my most requested, most tested, and most well-reviewed tips, tools, and techniques that I use with my clients. They are fast-paced and fun (yes, really!), and you’ll get the best of the best from my years of experience teaching and coaching busy professionals at all levels, my commitment to using research-based strategies from psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, etc., my personal experience as a parent of twins (talk about conflict!); as well as a taste of my background in stand-up and improvisational comedy. 

What are you waiting for? (You could already have learned 3 new skills in the time it took you to read this!) Join thousands of other busy professionals from around the world  and give yourself a competitive, communicative edge to help you advance in your job and career.

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Facilitating Successful Hybrid Meetings

In about a half hour, you will learn how to make the hardest, trickiest, and often the most frustrating kind of meetings — hybrid meetings — simpler, better, and more effective for the facilitator AND the participants.

How to Own Your Career

In about a half hour, you will learn how the most successful professionals regularly reflect on what’s working and what isn’t when they think about their job, their motivation, their skills, their learning, their development, and their career prospects.

Build Your Personal Board of Directors

In about a half hour, you will learn how the most successful leaders regularly get the support, insights, feedback, cheerleading, and advocacy they need to keep growing their skills and advancing their careers.

Comprehensive Self-Paced Online Courses

Smart Tips: Managing Stress

Taking this course can be one strategy to help you feel better, have more energy, change your mindset, and bounce back from setbacks with resilience. And it’s something you can start NOW!

Smart Tips: Communication

If you are a busy professional who knows that your job — and your career — depend on you being able to communicate clearly and concisely, with confidence and credibility, then this user-friendly, engaging course is for you!

Smart Tips: Public Speaking

If you want to become a noticeably improved speaker, this course can help you get there — fast! This course will give you techniques for reducing presentation anxiety and insights into creating audience-centered presentations.

10 Ways to Be a Great Team Player in Challenging Times

In this course, you’ll learn 10 important skills that everyone needs to be a great team player, especially when things feel hard or uncertain. This is a great course to take on your own OR for your team members to take together — and then discuss “how are we doing?”

Get Amazing Results from Your Conversations at Work

Your conversations are more likely to be successful when you’re mindful of your intentions, willing to flex your approach, and you’re skillful in evaluating your impact. In this course, I will teach you how to improve your results with four types of conversations.

Business Presentation Skills for Nonnative English Speakers

Business Presentation Skills for Nonnative English Speakers is a practical, tactical, and supportive how-to course aimed at addressing the unique problems that nonnative English speakers like you experience when they attempt to deliver a presentation in public.

Talking to Your Employees About Stress at Work

Talking about mental health and mental wellbeing at work can feel intimidating, overwhelming, and too personal. In this course, you will learn how to have conversations with your colleagues or direct reports that help them feel safe sharing their stress.

Coaching for Growth and Success

When we work with colleagues, clients, and team members (and even family members) we know that sometimes we need to be directive and sometimes we need to be supportive. But how do we know when to use which approach? Learn each coaching approach.

The Manager’s Guide to Driving High Performance

In this course, you will learn: how to identify and leverage what motivates people, how to create a culture of trust, why delegation is a development opportunity and how to give helpful performance feedback that drives short- and long-term results.

How to Stay Positive When Everything Feels Negative

For much of my personal life, I wrestled with negative thinking, while in my professional life, I helped tens of thousands of my clients change their mindsets, behaviors, approaches, and practices.

And that’s when I realized that positivity isn’t something you’re born with; it’s a series of small, meaningful, manageable practices that anyone (including myself) can learn to use.

Users Testimonials

Very helpful with clear strategy during coaching to help others overcome and excel in success. Thank you Deborah.

Roy L.

So amazing, good course suitable for both employees and employer.

Yolokazi N.

It is an excellent match for sure. There are so many tips and great ideas/suggestions that I am planning to start using or practicing at work as soon as I finish the course.

Jose S.

It was an excellent course. It was very informative and the instructor was very knowledgeable and made it easy to understand.

Billie M.

A very interesting and insightful course. I most certainly picked up some valuable tips. Anyone wanting to improve their presentation skills will definitely benefit from this course.

Sharona P.

This is an amazing course…! It helps to shape us effective / better in a highly professional way…! The contents are well clear & great presentation by the coach.

Gowri S.M.