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Topics > Business / Career
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Buying & Selling on Facebook Marketplace
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$39.00 (1 section 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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Event Planning
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$49.00 (1 section available)
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Discover the world of event planning. Learn the skills needed to become a successful event planner. Planning details of various types of events will be explored and students will have the opportunity to present their mock event for the class. The class will also go over budgets, project management, building customer relationships, and so much more. This class will also show you how to create your own event planning business and do the marketing for it. Learn from a certified event planner.
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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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$39.00 (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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How to Start Investing in Real Estate
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$39.00 (1 section available)
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This course will introduce students to real estate investing and will cover how to buy, rehab, rent, and sell. Students will learn the main strategies for getting into real estate investing for rehab or for rent. Also covered will be the fundamentals of financing, property selection, maintenance, marketing, area consideration, building types, tenants, and contractors. Students who take this class will gain valuable insights that will help prevent costly mistakes.
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Interview Skills: How to Utilize Your Speech, Body Language and Resume to Your Benefit
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$29.00 (1 section available)
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Are you looking for a new job or hoping to apply for a promotion? Did you recently get a job in which you are interviewing candidates for your company? This course will work on how to gain skills for both interviewers and interviewees. It will apply how to utilize your voice and body language to your benefit, while remaining concise and confident, whether in person or on Zoom. Mock interviews will be held during the course as well as resume writing and/or reviewing.
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Introduction to the Enneagram
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$49.00 (1 section available)
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Which one are you?: Mediator? Perfectionist? Giver? Achiever? Individualist? Observer? Epicure? Protector? The Enneagram is a highly accurate tool that identifies our intuitive gifts, as well as how we see ourselves, how we view the world, what we seek, what we avoid, and how we use our defense mechanisms when we get triggered. (Often we can recognize these in others before we see them in ourselves). Understanding our motivations and seeing our blind spots improves how we communication, give and receive feedback, make decisions, resolve conflicts, and be more productive. Please join us to learn about his powerful system.
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Project Management Professional Certification
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$2,395.00 (1 section available)
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This project management preparation program will prepare participants to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP® certification) certification exam. The course will use the latest edition of the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK®) to learn and review project management methodology and theory. Participants will complete sample exam questions and discuss correct answers and reasoning behind them. Topic areas include: project management framework and processes, including scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, risk, procurement, Agile topics, and communication management. Application for the exam will be completed. Students will also create an application to sit for the exam and explore practice questions and exams. This course is facilitated by a practicing, certified project manager with multiple certifications.
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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 (5 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, Windows, and iPhone functions and apps.
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Starting a DIY Etsy Business
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$29.00 (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 (2 sections 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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Wedding Planning Career Introduction Weddings As a Business Introduction
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$49.00 (1 section available)
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The study material for this course is specifically designed to be an introduction to wedding planning and help the individual decide if the career is the right choice for them. In addition to making wedding dreams come true, wedding planners can save couples time, money and how to avoid those costly planning mistakes. Students will understand exactly what is needed to enter into the ever-evolving world of the wedding industry. Overviews of basic skills needed; how to begin a business; tips on advertising, marketing, interviewing clients, budgeting and much more will be discussed. Students will be presented a Certificate of Training for this Introductory Course by a Master Wedding Planner of the Association of Bridal Consultants.
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