Date: Friday, 12/3/2021,1 session
Time: 11am-1pm
Format: Livestream via Zoom

Course Description:

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.

Date: Tuesday, 12/7/2021, 1 session
Time: 1-5pm
Format: In person
Location: Hyannis Center, 540 Main Street, Hyannis

Course Description:

“Simply put strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next year or more and how it’s going to get there.” Aaron Carter in Strategic Planning

This program will explore the six steps involved in creating a successful strategic plan:

• Understand the definition of strategic planning
• Identify the six steps necessary in creating a strategic plan
• Identify customers & vendors
• Create a vision and purpose statement
• Develop a SWOT profile
• Identify next steps

Who should attend?

Small business owners and managers seeking guidance to develop and set overall goals for their business, and an implementation plan to achieve them. 

About the Instructor:

Rich Weissman is an experienced supply chain management practitioner and educator. He works with businesses to build scalable and sustainable supply chain strategies. His focus includes strategic sourcing, sales and operations planning, process improvement, and sales and customer service management. Weissman teaches operations and supply chain management, strategy and policy, entrepreneurship, and managerial economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and writes and speaks extensively on issues impacting the global supply chain. He has more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience in procurement and supply chain management for Boston area manufacturing and service companies. He is past president of the Purchasing Management Association of Boston (ISM-GB) and the recipient of the Harry J. Graham Memorial Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association. Weissman earned an MS in Management from Lesley University and a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.

Date: Friday, 12/17/2021, 1 session
Time: 11am-1pm
Format: Livestream via Zoom

Course Description:

We are at work more than we are at home. Even in our new virtual environment, work demands take up many precious hours of each day. With such a commitment, we need and deserve effective work relationships as a means of successfully navigating our many demands. This course will explore how we can make ourselves and others feel valued, how to work with different personalities, and how to respond to situations outside of our comfort zones. Additional learning points will include:

• Social awareness
• Active listening
• Credibility and confidence
• Accountability and trust 

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.

Date: Mon./Wed./Fri., 10/6/2021-12/17/2021, 30 sessions
Time: 4-6pm
Format: Livestream via Zoom

Course Description
Take the first step towards joining this growing field by developing the administrative and technical skills that a virtual personal assistant needs with Cape Cod Community College’s Virtual Assistant Certificate program. Students will learn key administrative and business skills to move forward with confidence as an independent contractor (on your own time, at your own pace, and at an affordable price).  

Topics include: 

1. Organizational Communication
2. Customer Service
3. Workplace Behaviors
4. Business Writing and Document Production
5. Office and Records Management
6. Microsoft Office
7. Virtual Tools (office, administrative, project management)
8. Remote Meeting Technologies
9. Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
10. Invoicing and invoicing tools 

Why Become a Virtual Assistant
Virtual assistants are independent contractors who provide expert administrative services to clients, typically from a home office setting. As a virtual assistant, you design your own work schedule around your life. Work independently from home, operate your own business, or work as a freelancer or through a virtual staffing company.  

Who Should Attend
If you are interested in being your own boss and creating your own small business then this program is for you! Become an independent contractor, working from your own home or professional office space and on the schedule you choose, to help other like-minded professionals with their administrative and business office needs.

About the Instructors
Our team of dynamic professionals bring decades of experience in the areas of technical, business, administrative, bookkeeping and office management skills to create a one-of-a-kind program designed to propel you into this exciting field! Program facilitators include: Mindy Kole, Mary Jean Huettner, Elaine Moore, Tom Scheffer, Patricia Allen, Susan Martin and Jen Vondenbrink. 

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