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General Assembly provides the necessary tech skills, career advice, and networking opportunities to prepare individuals for careers in coding, data, or UX design. With courses lasting as little as three months and requiring no previous experience, General Assembly has graduated over 40,000 students worldwide since 2011.
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Speakers Fast Path to Profit and Freedom
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
How would you feel if you could walk into a room knowing that every single person is your ideal client? We all have unlimited potential when it comes to finding profitable leads for our businesses. However, so many of us don’t even get close because we are exhausted and have overextended ourselves with hunting them down. The quickest way to slash that stress and to create unlimited potential for your business is to use speaking as a profitable...
Post-Work Day Mindful Meditation
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
With our busy, ever changing world filled with high-speed technology and stress, focusing on self-care is more important than ever. Meditation is a tool that has been used for thousands of years to calm the mind, reduce stress and provide more focus, awareness and clarity in life. Join General Assembly Chicago and learn some basics of meditation that can be easily implemented in your day-to-day routine with Karianne Wardell. Take a break after...
Data Analysis: Moving from Excel to SQL
General Assembly @ 150 N Wacker, Chicago, IL
Are you using Excel for analysis? Spreadsheets are useful for analyzing and visualizing data, but become cumbersome and unwieldy with large datasets. Relational databases address many of Excel's limitations by simplify repetitive tasks and enabling analysis over much larger datasets. The only catch is that you need to know SQL to fully harness the power of these technologies. This class will introduce students to the world of databases and analysis...
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Advanced Excel: Beyond The Basics
The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our number one priority here at General Assembly. We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation very carefully and are adjusting delivery of our programs. Due to the current health concerns, all GA short-form events, workshops & bootcamps will temporarily be held online - including this one. Registered students will be notified 24 hours in advance of this program with...
Advanced Sketch for UX
General Assembly @ Online Class Livestream, Chicago, IL
We will discuss best practices and do group exercises that will help make the collaborative design process more efficient. Participants will learn most commonly used Sketch plugins from Github and have access to a full list of all plugins available for use in future projects. We will go through several in-class individual exercises to set up developer-friendly layouts, practice using plugins, and export CSS attributes. General Assembly’s classes,...
How to Run a Damn Good Website Project
General Assembly @ Online Class Livestream, Chicago, IL
Creating good websites is hard. However, as a designer, marketer, project manager or business owner, knowing how to do it well can be an absolute game-changer. Whether you’re making one for yourself, for your company or for a client, planning, designing and launching a new website can be a thoroughly interesting and highly rewarding experience. There is nothing more satisfying than having a website you made ‘go live’ and watching people...
Managing Expectations: Effective Communication Skills
The secret to a seamless working life? Managing Expectations with key stakeholders. The reason why so many of us find this challenging? We were never given the tools to communicate helpfully when challenges arise. Those who are consistently successful at work share the ability to communicate a solution-oriented mindset, leverage the buy-in of key stakeholders (internally and externally) and can use constructive communication skills to when it counts....
Stress Management + Mindfullness Workshop
Successful and happy people know just being busy all the time will lead to missed opportunities and lack of clarity and insight. You need mental space to be creative and focused. And when the season is busy with friends, holidays and family festivities, the need to maintain a restful mindset is more necessary than ever. In this workshop, take a breath and learn how to refresh your mindset with simple exercises and thought-provoking conversation that...
Content Creation: Creating Contents that Connects
Content is all around us. It's the posts we see on Instagram, the videos we watch on YouTube, the photos we see on websites, the words we read in an email, article or blog post... These days there's a lot of focus on social media, different platforms and various forms of technology, but understanding how to create content that connects with your target market is the foundation that allows you to be efficient, effective and strategic with your marketing...
Instagram Reels: Reel-y Important for Social Strategy
You may have heard of Instagram Reels (and seen them taking over your explore feed!) and while part of you is groaning at the thought of yet another format to think about in your social strategy - trust us when we say it's one you can't ignore. In this session you'll learn what Reels are, how brands are using them, how to start creating killer content within the platform, and most importantly - how to make an impact with minimal effort (because...
Psychology & Copywriting: Web Content That Converts
Do you struggle to write web pages, emails, blogs and other digital copy that capture and hold attention? Are you having trouble convincing online visitors and leads to say “Yes!” at the final step? Well here’s some invigorating news. You don’t need to be a pro copywriter to convert the curious into customers. The key to writing web copy that connects and sells is understanding psychological triggers - how people think, behave and make choices...
Blogging Like a Boss
Blogging is very popular with businesses, entrepreneurs, creatives, and individuals alike because it allows you to express yourself, educate customers, sell a message and share your knowledge. The beauty today is that you can use words, photographs, videos, and even podcasts to be found and become popular. Search engines and people are actively seeking relevant posts every single day, and well-written content can earn you an audience to achieve...
Sketch for UX
Users will be walked through Sketch design and workflow elements, tools, and other UX/UI essentials. We will also discuss best practices, workflow strategy, and current resources. Start designing apps immediately with this in-depth exploration and workshop. This class is ideal for UX professionals, graphic designers, web designers, entrepreneurs, and multi-disciplinary creative professionals. Takeaways Explore the features and reasons why Sketch...
Level Up Your Career: Personal Brand Bootcamp
Experimenting with your personal brand? Thinking about reinventing yourself? Looking to get to the next level? In this bootcamp, you'll get your brand into tip top shape so that you become confident wherever you go, stand out during interviews, make networking easy, and set yourself up to become influential in your field. Takeaways: By the end of the day you will have: Built Lifetime Brand Value Found your "why" Crafted the perfect elevator...
User Research Methods
Developing a deep understanding of users’ behavior, thoughts, needs, and desires helps design teams solve well-defined problems. Without identifying these core problems and opportunities, launching a product or service is simply a stab in the dark. User research is the means by which we foster this understanding. It focuses on developing direct connections to end users in order to make sense of their everyday lives, learn about their frustrations,...
UX: Usability & User Testing
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
In this workshop you will learn to define usability and form an understanding about how human measurement should be used in order to verify that the outcomes of a design process lead to improvements, rather than just changes. We’ll investigate when to use which methods, how to write a test plan, and how to conduct a user testing session. You will be able to write your own test plan and then will be given guided practice in moderating a user test...
Creating A Knockout Resume and Linkedin
When is the last time you brushed up your resume or LinkedIn? The job market is an ever changing environment and consequently, new trends are beginning to emerge in resume format and content and in LinkedIn appearance and marketability. In the competitive Austin market, it is important to submit cohesive, thoughtful and clean looking resumes and have a compelling, interesting LinkedIn profile that sets you apart from other applicants when recruiters...
Event Planning 101: How to Build a Wildly Successful
Events offer a unique and powerful opportunity to get in front of your audience...literally. Whether you want to grow your brand and build name recognition, provide value to your existing audience, or just impact real people in the real world, then events are for you. But how do you create an event that people WANT to attend when there's so many competing events out there? And how do you craft creative marketing strategies without breaking the...
Intermediate Excel: Formulas & Functions
The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our number one priority here at General Assembly. We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation very carefully and are adjusting delivery of our programs. Due to the current health concerns, all GA short-form events, workshops & bootcamps will temporarily be held online - including this one. Registered students will be notified 24 hours in advance of this program...
SQL Training For Beginners
Do you keep hearing the word ‘SQL’ buzzing around and want to find out more about it? This 3 hour workshop will provide an introduction to fundamental concepts in relational databases and using the query language SQL. Participants will learn to how to work with data that is stored in a relational database. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to use basic SQL commands to pull data to answer business questions. This workshop is for people...
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