August 27, 2025 | Loralai Stevenson

Rare TapRooT® Courses to Catch Before They’re Gone

These are our most underrated courses, key to developing soft skills. From public speaking to predictive analytics, soft skills make the difference that turns RCA students into RCA experts. These courses are offered on our Pre-Summit Course list, and you can still sign up for them before our 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit begins.

2-Day TapRooT® Advanced Case Study Workshop

This is a course for those who want to go beyond the basics. Students will examine unique cases and learn advanced TapRooT® skills to improve their investigation process. Alongside strange cases, we will teach new ways to apply RCA to your investigations, including the opportunity to discover some of our new TapRooT® Software features. Here are a few of the things you will learn in this course:

SnapChart® grouping skills
Causal Factor identification
In-depth Root Cause Tree® information
Developing Corrective Actions
Grading your investigation

This course is made for certified TapRooT® Trainers, people who have attended a TapRooT® course and would like to refresh their knowledge, and TapRooT® Users interested in advanced information about the TapRooT® RCA method.

2-Day Advanced Communication/Presentation Skills

82% of today’s professionals say that public speaking and giving presentations is a prevalent professional fear, but public speaking is more than just standing on a stage. It is vital that investigators are able to effectively communicate during interviews, interrogations, virtual calls, voicemails, and video messages. But when communication comes with fear, how can professionals find success in these endeavors.

This course is focused on developing the skills necessary to present and deliver your findings and investigative reports with excellence. Public speaking, though dreaded, is a vital aspect of RCA, so it is important to become comfortable with the prospect. Led by Vincent Phipps, one of our most beloved Summit Keynote Speakers, this course will help you to develop that comfort and seize this difficult aspect of successful RCA.

Students taking this course can expect to learn the following:

Understanding and reaching your audience
Building communicative credibility
Reducing nervous expressions such as filler words
Utilizing statistics, storytelling, quotes, and questions
Improving based on positive and negative feedback

This course will transform your presentations so that they glow with clarity and professionalism, allowing your message to be received with well earned respect.

2-Day Measurement, Trending, and Predictive Analytics

The data leaders collect about their organizations show when performance levels spike and sink, and can therefore be vital to understanding how to maintain high levels of performance. These measures hold key indicators that can help organizations to understand the way they truly operate, but many of the people looking at these measures do not utilize these indicators or this understanding.

In this course, students will learn how to make their data work for them in the following ways:

Checking the vital signs of process performance
Creating systems to utilize collected data
Predicting and improving daily performance
Engaging team members in data collection and its uses
Improving the design of existing measurement systems

This course is made for anyone who is interested in improving the way they measure data and analyze daily work. Every student will leave with an action plan for the aspects of their own organization that they are responsible for improving, making this course both a widely applicable and highly practical part of our course list.