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Topics > Business / Career
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A Coach Approach to Growing Your Employees
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$69.00 (1 section available)
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Learn specific coaching skills and how to apply them in a business or non-profit setting. Students will learn core coaching skills, incorporate coaching models, assessments, coaching tools and hands-on practice applying them.
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Buying & Selling on Facebook Marketplace
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$39.00 (2 sections available)
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Have you ever wanted to try Facebook Marketplace but haven't known where to start? Learn about the safe way to reach more people to sell your items. We'll also give you best practices when purchasing an item from the marketplace.
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Effective Communication for Young Adults
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$199.00 (1 section available)
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This one-day course is designed for young adults so that they can more easily demonstrate confidence, enthusiasm, and poise when communicating in formal or informal situations. The learning begins with several proven techniques for creating a great first impression. Participants then learn how to sustain and expand this important beginning every day, all day. Another focus is on the ability to engage in productive exchanges of opinion while remaining tactful and diplomatic. This experience allows ample practice time so that the techniques become more comfortable to use beyond the session. By incorporating these principles and techniques, it is easier to connect with others and develop a proactive inclination to deal with challenge and change. This course is well suited to prepare young adults for life beyond the academic classroom.
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Floristry Training Non-Credit Certificate
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$249.00 (1 section available)
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Do you love flowers? Consider a career in the floral industry! This intensive 10-week entry level program will prepare you for the ever-growing, ever-exciting field of floral design. Students will learn the practices, concepts and applications used in the floral industry in order to obtain the acquired knowledge and skills needed to ensure accessibility of employment within the floristry arena. Students will earn a Certificate of Attendance. Cost of materials is extra and will be discussed at the first class.
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How to Become a Professional Organizer
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$29.00 (1 section available)
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Learn how to develop your passion for organizing into a career. In this workshop, learn the steps required and skills needed to become a professional organizer.
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How to Finance Real Estate Purchases
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$39.00 (1 section available)
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This course will explain various methods of funding single and multi-family real estate transactions and will be useful for both first-time home buyers and real estate investors. Students will learn about traditional and creative strategies for financing real estate. Also covered will be borrowing requirements, avoiding common mistakes, spotting rate trends and explanations of finance as it pertains to borrowing. Students who take this class will gain valuable insights that will be helpful whether the intent is to buy a home to live in or to buy for investment purposes.
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How to Select High Quality Tenants and Reduce Landlord Stress
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$29.00 (1 section available)
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This course will teach present and future landlords how to reduce the risks of leasing rental units on their own and minimize the stress that comes from being a landlord and a property manager. Students will learn how to screen rental applicants, how to properly review credit reports, how to encourage the strongest applicant to apply, how to increse the pool of applicants for each unit, how to resolve conflicts and how to reduce the stress of property management.
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How to Start a Small Business
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$119.00 (3 sections available)
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In this 15-hour overview course students will learn the basics of what it takes to start a small business. Practical topics include the fundamentals of financing, laws and legal structures, marketing, selling skills, insurance, taxes and record keeping. Students will also learn about the personality of the successfully self-employed and gain links to resources that help small businesses succeed.
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I Have an Idea, Now What?
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$39.00 (1 section available)
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Turn your idea into reality. Using real life examples a patent attorney with over 25 years of experience will give students an overview of patents, trademarks and copyrights and how to protect their idea. If you are serious about moving forward with an idea of your own, this course is for you.
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Property Management & Landlording
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$119.00 (1 section available)
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Learn about the rights and responsibilities of renting and managing property. Students will explore legal topics that directly affect the management of residential or commercial properties. Topics covered include contracts, leases, rent collection, eviction, liability and safety, landlord tenant rights, and notification of changes in services.
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Real Estate Law
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$139.00 (4 sections available)
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Learn the basics of real estate law, including investing, title searching, and mortgages. Explore the legal issues involved in real estate law, from investing to title examinations. You'll not only master the essentials, but you'll receive hands-on applications and examples that will show you how to use this knowledge in a day-to-day real estate practice or in personal real estate investing.
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Smartphones - How to Use It
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$39.00 (1 section available)
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Smartphones offer the features you need to manage the myriad details of your life whether that includes scheduling business meetings, tracking your family's schedule, reading email, or surfing the web. Learn how your smartphone can help you streamline, organize, and enrich your life. The course covers Android and iPhone functions and apps.
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So Now You Are a Manager: Practicing For Success
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$49.00 (1 section available)
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From coaching to consulting, this course will help leaders manage teams of employees to find their way to be successful together. This is not your average manager training.
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Starting a DIY Etsy Business
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$39.00 (1 section available)
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Learn how to set up your own DIY business on Etsy! Students in this course will gain a basic grasp of using Etsy from creation of a site to maintaining a successful shop.
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Step Up to Leadership
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$199.00 (1 section available)
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Don't supervise . . . superlead your team to breakthrough performance. Supervisors and managers who understand this simple truth and know how to implement it are the ones who create impact in today's organizations. They develop high performance teams that get results because they know how to lead a team - not just manage it. When you finish this workshop, you will be able to: Create a sense of direction for your team, Lead by example, Communicate with precision, Be cool under pressure, Resolve conflicts quickly before they affect the whole group, Convert negativity into positive production, Listen effectively, Work smarter, not harder, Delegate responsibility, authority and accountability and give difficult feedback without creating resentment
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Successful Public Speaking
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$199.00 (1 section available)
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Successful Public Speaking will reveal the very approach that Dale Carnegie himself used to create generations of politicians, community leaders, and successful businesspeople. Here you acquire the tools that you need to speak confidently at your next meeting, presentation or special occasion, such as a wedding or charitable event! Successful Public Speaking will help turn you from a nervous novice into a confident communicator. Whether in person or virtual, these skills are applicable and timeless. Dale Carnegie believed that public speaking is a skill to be learned, not an inborn trait. He validated that belief year after year by turning out the most accomplished speakers in the world.
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TOYZSTEAM Career Training - Training the Workforce for the New Careers in the Creative, Technical, and Maker Industries
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$500.00 (1 section available)
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In this 15-hour course, students will focus on career development, further training, and growth towards more technical and leadership positions in the future. The class will teach technical and soft skills in a culturally relevant and responsive way and will empower students with a wide range of skills using literacy, numeracy, entrepreneurship, leadership, and content creation. Instruction is based on a combination of tech and business skills, soft skills, and hands-on STEAM learning. Students will develop a superhero character and then use computer modeling and digital storytelling to create and realize their idea.
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Voiceover Acting
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$139.00 (2 sections available)
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Learn about voiceovers and their many applications in radio, television, films, documentaries, audio books, training and educational materials, etc. Topics include various types of voiceover narration, vocal improvement techniques, pronunciation and enunciation, reading lines and scripts, accent and character voices, and commercial voiceover opportunities. The process of making demo recordings and finding casting agents will also be discussed.
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Why Aren't My Employees Doing What They're Supposed to Do
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$49.00 (1 section available)
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Students will be introduced to practical tips to help work through employee performance gaps when approaching a new initiative or trying to get back on track. Discover what promotes employee performance.
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