Successful project management is less about rigid deadlines and more about effectively managing expectations. In today's fast-paced global business environment, the ability to juggle multiple projects, resources, and budgets is essential. This comprehensive Project Management course provides both theoretical insights and hands-on experience to equip you with the skills needed to drive projects to success—no prior project management experience required.

Through structured workshops, you’ll gain practical expertise by designing and implementing simulated project plans. You'll learn how to organize, plan, and control project deliverables using industry best practices. By the end of the course, you’ll understand why project management demands a high level of professionalism and attention to detail—and how to apply these principles in real-world scenarios.

Key topics include the roles and responsibilities of a project manager, the project lifecycle, and essential techniques for work planning, control, and evaluation. You’ll also explore system tools and project management methodologies to ensure project objectives are met efficiently and effectively.

This course is your gateway to mastering project management with confidence and precision.

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.  

In this 1-hour workshop, learn and explore business functions in Excel to help you lookup items in a table or list, transcribe formulas from a book to Excel, and more.  This workshop will investigate how to use functions like: Vlookup, Sum, Average, If and others.

Course Format: This course is offered using Zoom.  

Build on your existing Excel skills in this course designed for self-taught users. Learn how to freeze and unfreeze cells, apply conditional formatting, protect worksheets, and explore a variety of other useful functions to boost your efficiency and confidence.

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 along with other functions.

Course format: This program is offered in-person. 

This virtual 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 using Zoom. 

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 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 a (live) Zoom session. 

This virtual, interactive and hands-on course will explore additional formulas and functions and address absolute verse relative cell referencing, multiple worksheets and displaying of data using charts. It is appropriate for users that need to customize their worksheets, present data through charts, and/or develop long-range spreadsheets for data tracking. Attendees will learn how to expand their knowledge and use of functions and the creation of charts.

Individuals are encouraged to bring current spreadsheet projects with them to work on in real-time, privately with the instructor.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

• Functions in Excel
• Cell Referencing
• Creating and Linking Multiple Sheets in a Workbook
• Creating Charts
• Filtering and Sorting Data
• Inserting and Using a Pivot Table

All individuals participating in this training via Zoom are encouraged to have a second monitor, iPad or other tablet device to watch while you participate on your own computer.

Who Should Attend
This course is designed for individuals who are looking to learn more and enhance their MS Excel skills in the workplace. 

Class Format
This course is offered using Zoom. 

E3 ( Explore, Engage, Execute ) is a dynamic employer-focused training course designed to improve communication, collaboration, and adaptability in a business environment. Over four 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.

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. 

No class 6/19/2025.

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.