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Reclaim Your Time!

$69

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 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. 

 

MS Excel Advanced in the Workplace

$219

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 29, 2025 at 2 pm, runs for 3 weeks

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; 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.

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.

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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