Investing in your professional development is one of the most impactful ways to advance your career and achieve personal satisfaction in your work. Human Resources provides a diverse range of in-person, virtual, online, self-paced, and consultative resources to help enhance individual and team effectiveness, foster deeper personal engagement in the work, and enhance overall job satisfaction.
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For Managers
Chart your development as a manager using these resources.
Career Resources
MIT provides comprehensive career development services to help you think about your career and development plan at the Institute, including workshops and individual consulting.
Online Learning Resources
Expand your knowledge through a variety of self-directed, just-in-time learning resources.
Work-Life Webinars
The Webinar Series from Work-Life provides research-based strategies and information to help you deal with a diverse array of work-life and wellbeing issues.
More Programs Available to Employees
Search Inside Yourself Program
The Search Inside Yourself Leadership Program focuses on mindfulness and emotional intelligence skills, rooted in neuroscience, with an aim of improving engagement and well-being at home and at work. In addition, participants will learn new skills and practical applications to reduce stress, increase resilience, develop greater self-awareness, improve communication, build empathy, and lead with compassion. Learn more and register.
Insights into Management
Thinking about becoming a manager? Insights into Management is a virtual training program that helps smooth the transition from individual contributor to management.
Leader to Leader (L2L)
The nationally recognized Leader to Leader (L2L) Program is a year-long cohort program that provides participants with dedicated time for reflection and self-discovery, theoretical and applied learning, and dialogue with fellow MIT leaders.
Managers' Feedback Program
MIT managers are invited to join this program on asking for, receiving, and using feedback to improve effectiveness and augment growth.
MIT Management Executive Education programs
Earn an Executive Certificate from MIT's Sloan School of Management by completing 4 short courses. MIT staff and spouses are eligible for a 15% discount with the code STAFF15 when registering with an mit.edu address.
MIT Professional Education programs
MIT Professional Education offers programs across a broad range of topic categories, levels of engagement, and time commitments. Eligible MIT employees may use their MIT Tuition Assistance Plan for online and on-campus courses.
The Susan Vogt Leadership Development Program
The Susan Vogt Leadership Development Program, sponsored by the Boston Consortium for Higher Education, is a management and leadership development program designed to foster collaboration and camaraderie in the next generation of leaders in higher education.
Tuition assistance
MIT provides tuition assistance to help you build or improve the skills you need to develop your career at MIT.