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Asset Management
AM101 Successful On-Site Property Management (IREM RES201)
The Accredited Residential Manager (ARM) certification is the most widely esteemed credential for residential property managers. Improve your property's bottom line, increase productivity and secure a reputation as a manager who knows what it takes to achieve the owner's objectives. . . .

AM230 Property Management for Scattered Site Rental Housing
identify ways of mobilizing and adapting a management operation to effectively monitor the operational performance of a scattered-site real estate portfolio. . . .

AM242 Green and Healthy Strategies for Multifamily Properties
Identify opportunities to introduce health/energy/water benefits into routine building maintenance and capital improvement processes. . . .

AM244 Creating and Managing a Comprehensive Energy Program for Your Residents
This course will help residents, owners and staff to understand and address the high costs of energy usage in multifamily housing properties. You will learn how to build and use community leadership and partnership between residents, owners and property managers to implement your energy management program. . . .

Community Engagement
CB142 Organizing for Neighborhood Safety
Learn practical tools for community action to prevent crime from overriding your community, such as citizen mobilization, situational prevention and mentoring; and how to create a coalition to affect policy and create change. Learn what neighbors can do together to go beyond just fighting crime — to making a neighborhood a safe place to call home. . . .

CB230 Organizational Capacity Assessment for Community Engagement
How can you help assess your organizational capacity before taking on new community engagement projects, what methods can your organization employ to assess strengths and weaknesses in its organizational structure? In this course you will examine ways to assess the capacity of your community-based organization to take on community engagement activities, and develop easy to use tools to apply to this process. . . .

Construction and Production Management
CP104 Housing Rehabilitation Production Systems
Learn the basics of risk control, right-sizing, management & feedback loops, task forecasting & time management and automating your system. . . .

CP107 The Human Side of Housing Rehabilitation
Whether you're a senior manager, a rehab specialist or a homeowner wishing to make the process go more smoothly, you'll have to conquer the Art of Dealing with People. Role Definition, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, Team-Building and simply getting along better with co-workers, clients, building inspectors, contractors — this course explores the human aspects of Rehab . . . .

Economic Development
ED127 Transit Oriented Development — SITE VISIT!
This course uses case studies and site visits with practitioners and leaders involved in local community based TOD projects to help participants understand the value of transit related development, identify challenges and develop the skills to plan a TOD project, including determining feasibility and sources of financing. . . .

ED181 Making Development Benefit Communities
Learn how to look critically at development outcomes and processes, to determine what benefits to ask for, and how to organize a community benefits agreement that helps to hold developers and public entities accountable to creating truly community-based development. . . .

ED225 Commercial Real Estate Development Finance
This course is designed for nonprofit organizations and public entities interested in getting involved with commercial real estate development. We will focus primarily on how to evaluate the financial feasibility of projects. Whether you are a developer, lender funder or advocate trying to encourage development in your community, understanding how to assess financial feasibility of potential projects will help you in your role. . . .

Homeownership and Community Lending
HO202 Making Home Affordable: A Breakdown of Program Components (expanded to a 2-day course)
Key topics in this expanded course include program eligibility requirements, the decision process and servicer requirements for both the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), as well as the FHA HAMP program. Participants will discuss how the "waterfall" method is used and will learn about the alternative programs now available under the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA). . . .

HO290 Being Green, Seeing Green: Counseling Clients to Maximize Energy Savings
Today's consumer is looking for every way possible to save money, lower expenses and live in a safe, healthy home. Being "green" is not only a trend — it's one way a consumer can better manage their finances and maintain secure homeownership. . . .

HO310 Financial Coaching: Helping Clients Reach Their Goals
In this two-day course participants will learn how coaching differs from and complements financial education, knowledge sharing and counseling. Using the personal finance content taught in HO209 Delivering Effective Financial Education for Today's Consumer, participants will gain an understanding of practical coaching techniques using interactive case studies and demonstration activities to learn coaching essentials, client sensitivity and communication skills. . . .

HO360 Homeownership Counseling Certification for Program Managers and Executive Directors
This course is designed for professionals in the Homeownership Counseling field who are working at the management level. Through hands-on application participants will learn procedures and methodology that will better equip them to manage the day to day operations of a housing counseling program. . . .

Management and Leadership
ML142 The Soul of Leadership: Finding Your Inner Leader
This session will take a close look at how the interdependence between community leadership, spirituality and faith has been a driving force in many community-based organizations, with a particular focus on the field of community development. . . .

ML252 Your Money and Your Mission: Successful Financial Management in Challenging Times
This practical hands-on course offers nonprofit leaders techniques to successfully manage their organizations through challenging times. The purpose of this course is to help nonprofit leaders develop and use financial information to make better — and often difficult — decisions, and to better communicate their financial story to funders, board members and other stakeholders. . . .

ML282 How to Negotiate: The Most Important Skill You Will Ever Learn!
During this session you will learn a series of negotiation skills that you will be able to apply in a number of situations. As a result of this session you will be able to conduct negotiations with confidence; become a better leader and team builder; create stronger negotiating positions; adjust your negotiation style for different situations and improve relationships. . . .

ML285 Coaching for Transformation
Coaching can be used in a variety of settings, for example: resident services, leadership and management. In this course you will learn about the core principles of transformative coaching, and practice using these principles in situations that help move people forward. . .

ML299 Strengthening Your Human Resource Toolbox: New Strategies for Retention and Recruitment
Recruiting and retaining the best workforce possible remains one of the greatest challenges to nonprofit organizations, but having an effective strategy to address these practices is one of the most important factors to long-term organizational health and success. . . .

Questions? Call us at (800) 438-5547 or e-mail us at training@nw.org.