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Core Confidence: Essential Skills for Today's Manager
with Angela Ackerman

Whether you're stepping into management for the first time or looking to refresh your approach, this training equips you with the essential tools to lead effectively in today’s dynamic workplace. Through a blend of foundational learning and practical application, you'll gain the confidence to:
- Motivate and engage employees
- Delegate with clarity and accountability
- Solve problems and resolve conflict proactively
- Boost individual and team performance
The program closes with actionable strategies for sustaining best practices long after the training ends—ensuring your leadership continues to grow with you.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at 508-375-5017, or ebrown@capecod.edu.
The Advanced Manager
with Angela Ackerman

Elevate Your Leadership for Greater Impact!
Take your leadership to the next level with The Advanced Manager, a high-impact course designed for managers ready to tackle complex workplace challenges and drive strategic results. Building on the foundation of the Essentials course, this program expands your leadership toolkit to help you lead people and projects with confidence, empathy, and clarity.
Participants will learn how to:
- Coach individuals effectively and build high-performing teams
- Strengthen organizational competencies by applying emotional intelligence (EQ) and cultural intelligence (CQ)
- Address difficult employees and sensitive situations with professionalism
- Engage and motivate both in-person and remote staff
- Use strategic thinking to align leadership with organizational goals
This course combines leadership theory with practical application through a variety of engaging methods:
- Instructor-led presentations
- Individual and group exercises
- Peer discussion and real-world case studies
- Hands-on projects
- Self-assessments and guided reflection
Designed for experienced managers looking to grow, this course offers tools you can immediately apply to lead with purpose and precision.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at 508-375-5017 or ebrown@capecod.edu.
Reclaim Your Time!
with Elise Tofias Phillips

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.
Strategic Communications for Managers
with Cesar Rodas

This course is designed to equip managers with essential communication skills necessary for effective leadership and decision-making in diverse business environments. Students will explore various aspects of communication crucial for managerial success, including written, verbal, and nonverbal communication strategies. Emphasis will be placed on developing clear and concise communication techniques tailored to different business scenarios.
This course will provide students with the opportunity to:
- Recognize that effective management is dependent on excellent communication skills.
- Discuss communication skills and activities that are required for managers at all levels of management.
- Create business memos and letters.
- Write a clear and concise analytical business report
- Demonstrate proficiency in giving oral presentations
- Create a professional visual presentation including graphics
- Prepare and maintain an e-portfolio
By the end of this course, students will possess the necessary communication competencies to thrive as effective managers in today's dynamic business landscape.
Course Format:
This course is offered live using Zoom.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.
Burnout: Renew Your Energy and Focus
with Elise Phillips

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