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E3: Explore, Engage, Execute; Improving Business Communications

$279

with Red Hilton

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 29, 2025 at 3 pm, runs for 4 weeks
1 additional session on Apr 29, 2025

E3 ( Explore, Engage, Execute ) is a dynamic employer-focused training course designed to improve communication, collaboration, and adaptability in a business environment. Over three interactive sessions, participants will Explore how to properly communicate their own value proposition, Engage effectively with others, and Execute strategies to enhance team cohesion, leadership, or client satisfaction.

This program is ideal for professionals in sales, leadership roles, or anyone looking to enhance their communication skills. Whether task-oriented, people-oriented, outgoing, or reserved, participants will gain tools to improve their business interactions or drive team success.

Mental Health First Aid - Martha's Vineyard

Free

with Theresa Wilson

Calendar Next available session starts May 1, 2025 at 8 am

A skills-based training course that helps people identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance use issues. This course is offered in different modules for various audiences including those who work with youth, Older Adults, Veterans, Corrections, Public Safety, Higher Education, First Responders, and other groups.  Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Class Format: Learners participate in a 8-hour, Instructor-led, in person training.

Schedule: Thursday, May 1, 2025 from 8:00-4:30pm

Location: Martha's Vineyard

The Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Community College to offer Mental Health First Aid, as well as QPR, safeTALK, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, Cape Cod Community College, at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu.  

40 Hour Real Estate Salesperson Exam Prep

$499

with David Harris

Calendar Next available session starts May 6, 2025 at 9 am

Scholarships Available! With support from the Cotton Center for Real Estate Studies, we are able to offer a $400 scholarship based on student need. The scholarship reduces the cost per student to $99.

Massachusetts requires 40 hours of pre-license training prior to the real estate salesperson exam. This course will prepare students for the license exam. It is approved by the MA Board of Registration for fulfilling its licensing requirements. 

Who Should Attend?
Anyone who wishes to sit for the Massachusetts Real Estate Salesperson Exam.

Course Format: This program is offered in person. 

First Time Supervisors (WPG255-65)

$69

with Monet Viens

Calendar Next available session starts May 7, 2025 at 6 pm

This introductory course will expose first time supervisors/managers to the fundamentals and intricacies of this new role and responsibility. Attendees will learn how to define their role and themselves as supervisors and explore current challenges they will face in this role.

Additional learning points will include:

  • Techniques for managing time and priorities
  • Communication challenges and solutions
  • Constructive feedback
  • Maintaining and boosting team morale
  • Change management FMLA

Course format: This course isoffered using Zoom.

MS Excel Efficiency

$49

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts May 8, 2025 at 12 pm

Come listen and learn how to be more efficient entering data, creating functions, formatting and laying out a spreadsheet.  This session will help give you more time back in your day to accomplish other tasks.

Course format: This program is offered using Zoom.

Principles of Marketing: Strategy (WPG726-65), Ethics, and Real-World Applications

$349

with Cesar Rodas

Calendar Next available session starts May 8, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 4 weeks

Discover the fundamentals of marketing and how they shape business strategies and consumer behavior. This course equips you with the skills to analyze market trends, make data-driven decisions, and apply ethical frameworks to real-world scenarios. Gain hands-on experience in crafting effective marketing strategies and collaborating to solve business challenges.

Participants will learn to:

  • Apply fundamental marketing terms, concepts, principles, and theories and their effective applications to real-world situations in a global market.
  • Describe how the marketing function is organized and fits into an organization, including the relationships between marketing issues and those of other business disciplines.
  • Make effective marketing decisions in real world settings using critical thinking skills. 
  • Effectively communicate marketing analysis
  • Effectively collaborate to analyze marketing options
  • Identify and make judgments about questionable marketing practices by applying an ethical decision framework.
  • Identify and evaluate the advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, and tradeoffs involved in different marketing strategies and choices.

Course format: This course is offered using Zoom.

Burnout: Get Unstuck and Reset (WED031-65)

$69

with Elise Tofias Phillips

Calendar Next available session starts May 13, 2025 at 12 pm

Do you feel like you're burning the candle from both ends? Are you craving time to feel more balance, energy, and excitement? During this zoom session we will explore what burnout is, how it is affecting you, how to acknowledge and manage these feelings, and how to set priorities and boundaries.

We will look at how to notice and reframe the narrative you may be experiencing, and ways to integrate personal time into your daily life so that you feel refreshed and engage with renewed energy. You will leave this session with a plan that includes reframing your thoughts, and goals and strategies for change.

Goal: To understand and manage burnout for renewed energy

You will learn:

  • What burnout is and ways to change and manage the narrative
  • How burnout affects you
  • How to set boundaries and priorities
  • Strategies to become refreshed with renewed energy

Course format
This class is offered using Zoom.

Working with Difficult People

$69

with Monet Viens

Calendar Next available session starts May 14, 2025 at 6 pm

We encounter difficult people in various places – at work, at the grocery store, at school, everywhere. At times, we are difficult ourselves. When difficult behavior arises, performance, morale, and relationships are negatively impacted. This course will give you the proper tools to deal with difficult people effectively. Additional learning points will include:

  • Understand what makes people difficult
  • Identify and examine your role in the behavior
  • Build better relationships

Who Should Attend?

This course is an excellent introduction or refresher for supervisors/managers, executives, owners, and HR professionals. Attend this course as part of the bundle program for a well-rounded learning experience and a plethora of information to set a foundation for success. 

About the Instructor:

For over 10 years, Monet Viens has been helping a wide variety of businesses with their HR and employee needs. As an adaptable and innovative HR professional, she has a keen ability to translate visions and strategies into actionable goals, strengthen processes, and increase efficiencies. 

Monet’s favorite aspect of human resources is training and development. Having been an HR department of 1 for her entire career, she enjoys coaching, mentoring, and guiding other professionals through the tricky waters of HR so they don’t have to learn the hard way. Monet’s initiatives extend beyond HR, as she also provides training and development in topics such as communication, supervisor skills, management, leadership, and much more. Monet currently teaches per-diem at Cape Cod Community College and Bristol Community College. She has also been a keynote speaker for NEHRA, SCORE, and the One SouthCoast Chamber.





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