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Reduce Suicide Risk and Promote Healing: Sudden Death Postvention (WHN056-64)

Free

with Maura Weir

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 8, 2025 at 9:30 am

Date: Tues., April 8, 2025 from 9:30am-1:30pm

Using National Best Practice protocols, participants learn how to reduce the risk of contagion and create a comprehensive response plan in the event of a traumatic death. Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Class Format: 4.00 hours (in person)

Location: In Person, Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Campus

The Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Community College to offer QPR, safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, 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, at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu 

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Essentials (WPG051-65)

$679

with Monet Viens

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 10, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 8 weeks

Are you ready to master the fundamentals of HR? 

Our SHRM Essentials of Human Resources program provides a foundational overview of HR practices and behaviors. Through real-world applications and scenarios, you will be introduced to fundamental HR topics to help you effectively approach the challenging situations that you face in the workplace. 

Developed by SHRM, the world’s largest HR association and leading advocate for HR professionals, the SHRM Essentials of Human Resources course helps you discover the key value HR brings to the workplace. 

Whether you’re a student, new to HR, or in a small business environment, our course will help you develop the critical HR competencies and learn how to apply them on the job. 

Build a solid foundation in Human Resources skills. 

By covering a breadth of practical HR topics, the SHRM Essentials of Human Resources course provides the knowledge to perform daily tasks. Here’s a look at what we cover in the course:

  • Leads with Purpose: Understand HR’s role in the workplace 
  • Maximizes Talent: Learn how HR influences employee experience        
  • Champions Culture: Discover how to promote equity in company culture   
  • Optimizes Intelligence: Understand how to maximize efficiency with HR technology  
  • Accelerates Performance: Learn how to create a measurable impact        
  • Knows the Law: Stay up to date on U.S. state and federal laws

Gain critical HR competencies with our SHRM Essentials of Human Resources course.

The goal of this course is to help you develop the following critical HR competencies:

  • Identify where and how HR should be a strategic partner to your organization.
  • Build your knowledge of HR practices, behaviors, and activities.
  • Apply newly learned HR knowledge to practical activities you complete every day
  • Plan for ways to transfer the knowledge and skills learned from training to on-the-job tasks.
  • Explore career opportunities within the world of HR and how you can drive your future. 

Course materials are included with the cost of this program. 

Who Should Attend
This program is ideal for small business owners, those who are new to human resources, and/or any manager or professional with HR responsibilities. 

Course Format
This course is offered using Zoom. 

Attention Employers: This Training is Eligible for Reimbursement!
Click here for eligibility and application process information. Or join us for an upcoming information session. Click here for the schedule and to register for a session. 

Mastering Project Management: Strategies for Success

$349

with Cesar Rodas

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 11, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 4 weeks

Project Management is more about managing expectations than dates.  Effectively managing multiple projects, resources, and budgets is critical in today's global business environment.  This Project Management course will dive into the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and examine project management in theory as well as in practice.  The course offers a practical approach to managing projects, without requiring any previous project management experience.  We will focus on organizing, planning, and controlling the deliverables of the project using good practices.

Students will participate in structured workshops where simulated project plans are designed and implemented. At the end of the course, students will understand why project management requires a high degree of professionalism and attention to detail, and how to achieve that end in future projects.

We will examine project management roles, the project lifecycle, and various techniques of work planning, control, and evaluation to achieve project objectives using system tools and project management philosophies.

Topics:

  1. What makes a good project?
  2. Documentation of a project
  3. Common pitfalls
  4. Ownership versus governance of the project
  5. Project communication
  6. What to do when things go wrong
  7. What to do when things go right

Course Format:
This course is offered using Zoom. 

Attention Employers: This Training is Eligible for Reimbursement! 
Click here for eligibility and application process information. Or join us for an upcoming information session. Click here for the schedule and to register for a session.  

MS Excel for Self-Taught Users

$219

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 23, 2025 at 5 pm, runs for 3 weeks

This in-person seminar will explore how to freeze and unfreeze cells, conditional formatting, protecting a worksheet, and many functions.  Some of these functions are commonly used and other are not used very much. This is to give you experience using different functions. We will also explore how to create a multiple sheet workbook and link the formulas between the sheets. This will include the difference between Relative and Absolute cell referencing, Pivot Tables and Charts, and a review of Protecting a worksheet.  You will also learn how to use the IF and Vlookup functions among a few other.

 

Course format: This program is offered in-person. 

People Skills in the Workplace

$69

with Monet Viens

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 23, 2025 at 6 pm

We’ve all met and/or worked with someone whose communication skills drew us in, and we wished we could be just as skilled. Good news: people skills can be learned! We don’t all have to be natural-born people-persons to have good people skills. This course sets the foundation for improving your relationships, communications, rapport, and first impression, all through people skills. Additional learning points will include:

  • Self-awareness
  • Persuasion and influence
  • Assertive communication and being able to say ‘no’
  • Active listening
  • Navigating various situations such as business lunches, networking, and more! 

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.

Reclaim Your Time!

$79

with Elise Tofias Phillips

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 24, 2025 at 12 pm

Reclaim Your Time! Are you constantly trying to get things done? Are you struggling to accomplish all the things that need to happen? Are you looking for more balance in your life, while getting to do the things you enjoy?

Did you know most people do not use a time management system? Are you looking for a time management system that is results - oriented and supports you to become more organized, efficient, effective?

Join us for this 2 session time management course where you will learn a system that really works: from identifying and eliminating time wasters, determining priorities, creating lists that really work, prioritizing, breaking up and managing large and small projects, tips for digital and paper planning, and developing daily habits that will support your needs to accomplish what is most important to you professionally and personally.

This course will support the balance in your life that you have been craving.

Goal: To learn a result - oriented time management system that will support getting more accomplished for a more balanced life.

Participants will learn to:

  • Develop positive time management strategies and systems that really work
  • Identify and eliminate time wasters· Understand priorities
  • Set daily goals
  • Prioritize what needs to be accomplished
  • Calendar
  • Develop to do lists
  • Develop daily habits to support managing personal and professional time
  • Plan time digitally and on paper

Class Format
Take this course from the comfort of your home or office! This course is offered remotely with scheduled (live) Zoom sessions. 

 

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 corporate 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 isideal 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.

Burnout: Get Unstuck and Reset (WED031-64)

$49

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.





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