Are you juggling multiple balls in the air with your busy professional and/or personal life? Are you always trying to develop strategies that can help you to navigate and manage your stress well?

During this course you will learn an innovative approach and practical strategies to help you to navigate your life by managing stress. We will explore current symptoms of stress, stressors, triggers, and thought traps and learn positive and practical strategies for managing and re-framing by exploring current skills. Give yourself a gift and join us. Continue to be a lifelong learner and promote positive wellbeing skills through managing stress that will enhance your life.

Outline of Course:

• Learn the basics of stress
• Identify stressors, sources of stress, and triggers
• Develop positive strategies to manage stress
• Develop a results-oriented stress management plan
• Learn a 6-step approach to manage stress - anywhere!

Course Format: 
You can participate in this course via Zoom while eating lunch at your desk, walking on the beach, or in the woods. Just carve out a time and place that works for you.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

Strengthen judgment and problem-solving with practical tools grounded in everyday psychology and clear-thinking strategies. This workshop explores how stress, emotion, and mental shortcuts shape the way people make decisions, and how simple, evidence-supported techniques can boost focus and clarity. Participants learn straightforward decision frameworks that help them sort information, weigh options, and choose next steps with confidence. Through realistic scenarios, they practice making decisions that are faster, clearer, and more effective.

Ideal for: Managers, professionals, analysts, educators, emerging leaders.

Take away: A decision-mapping template and a cognitive-bias checklist.

Format: In-person at the Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center location, 540 Main St., Hyannis.

Questions: Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

Develop the practical skills needed to stay competitive as industries and roles evolve. Participants review real labor-market trends, assess the skills employers are prioritizing, and pinpoint their own strengths that can transfer across roles or sectors. They create a personalized upskilling plan that includes targeted learning goals, microcredentials, and career milestones. The session focuses on clear next steps, practical tools, and building a career strategy that can adapt as the workplace changes.

Ideal for: Faculty, mid-career professionals, job seekers, students.

Take away: A personalized Future-Readiness Career Plan.

Format: In-person at the Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center location, 540 Main St., Hyannis.

Questions: Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

Learn exactly how to turn your passion into a structured, mission-driven organization that can attract funding and deliver real impact. This three-session course breaks down the full startup process, including defining your mission, choosing the right 501 category, forming a board, and completing required state and federal filings. Participants also learn how to prepare for fiscal sponsorship as an early strategic step, including what sponsors look for and how to position your organization for acceptance and participants receive practical templates to move their nonprofit forward with confidence.

Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, community organizers, educators, veterans’ groups, nonprofit starters.

Take away: A Nonprofit Startup Action Plan, Board Engagement Template, and Structure Checklist.

Format: In-person at the Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center location, 540 Main St., Hyannis.

Questions: Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

This beginner-friendly, three-session course is designed to help you build a strong foundation in Excel. Across the sessions, you’ll explore Tabs and Ribbons to locate key commands, practice essential keyboard shortcuts, and learn basic formatting tools. You’ll also be introduced to creating formulas using the Order of Operations, as well as building simple worksheets and charts.

Course Format: 
This course is offered live via Zoom. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

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.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

Take a productive break and join us mid-day for a 1-hour, lunchtime mini session on PowerPoint! This quick and practical overview will walk you through how to set up, lay out, and format a presentation using the Slide Master. Whether you prefer to watch or follow along, you’ll gain useful tips to make your slides look polished and professional.

Stick around after the session for a brief Q&A—bring your questions!

Course Format:
This course is offered live using Zoom.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

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
This course is offered live via Zoom. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at 508-375-5017 or ebrown@capecod.edu.