Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. Nothing creates success like a solid foundation. Discover the keys for effectively managing your employees. Find out how to create clear expectations, engage and motivate employees, and increase your effectiveness.  

Then you will explore the principles of collaborative management and gain insight on how to expand your collaborative skills for success of your team or organization.   

Finally, get the keys to manage different generations in your workplace. Discover what motivates each generation at work, what incentives they respond to, and what messages they value. 

Classes offered with this certificate program are: 

• Management Boot Camp
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Collaborative Management
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• Managing Generations in the Workplace
   Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )
  

Discover the keys to communicating with and managing remote workers, one of the fastest growing sectors of the workforce.   

Some 80% of employers are keeping some or many of their employees working from home part of the week. People working from home are 25% more productive than those who work in an office. Working from home is here to stay. 

Tap into the experience of a CEO who has been managing remote workers for 22 years. He has pioneered the fundamental processes and procedures you won’t get anywhere else. And consulted with organizations around North America on managing remote workers.  

Two one-month courses.

Classes included in this certificate program:

• Remote Working and Communicating
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Managing Remote Workers
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

Must-have skills to succeed in the workplace include the ability to create, edit and manage presentations in MS PowerPoint, documents in MS Word, email and calendars in MS Outlook, and spreadsheets in MS Excel. Microsoft Office Suite of applications is the most used software tool in the world. Stay current with this class, as it is always up-to-date and will change as the features of MS Office change over time. Master the most common uses so that you can work faster and more efficiently and can take your computer skills from plain and drab to exciting and engaging. You will leave class with a set of skills that are a workplace requirement in today’s fast paced ever-changing environment and will enable your future career success.

A must-have skill to succeed in business, whether an entrepreneur or a valued employee, is the ability to create, edit and manage spreadsheets. Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet tool in the world.   

Begin with learning how an Excel worksheet is constructed, populated with content, and edited for delivery. Discover how various menu items, commands, settings and processes affects the look of your Excel worksheets and workbooks.   

Then, increase your efficiency by learning how to organize, display and calculate your data into useful information. Identify different types of data and how data can be best visually represented or formatted, by using different data tool techniques.   

Finally, you’ll learn a variety of Excel’s most powerful features to analyze data quickly and easily. This Certificate will help you discover how to attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.

Students must have Microsoft Excel to complete this certificate. 

Classes included in this certificate program: 

Mastering Microsoft Excel
Winter: February 6th - March 3rd
Spring: April 3rd - April 28th

Intermediate Excel
Winter: March 6th - March 31st
Spring: May 1st - May 26th

Advanced Excel
Winter: April 3rd - April 28th
Spring: June 5th - June 30th

Video marketing is the latest hot new marketing trend. Shoppers who viewed product videos were 144% more likely to add the product to their cart.  Video with good SEO has a 53% higher chance of showing up on page one of Google searches. When done correctly, video can tell a story, and stories connect people. Video also leads to an emotion ‘trigger’ that plain text cannot do.

The classes included in this certificate program are:

• Video Marketing
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• YouTube For Business
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

Non-profits today need to be run like a business in many respects. You have competition, a need to generate income and a surplus, and staff need to be even more productive. Get the best training on revenue generation for nonprofits, and program evaluation for nonprofits, with our Certificate in NonProfit Administration.  

You will come away with the latest best information from instructors who train people in nonprofits.

The classes included in this certificate are:

• Revenue Generation for Non-Profits
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Program Evaluation for Nonprofits
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

For those new to teaching online, or those already teaching online. Get the best instruction from the foremost authorities in online learning. Thousands of people have taken this fundamental yet advanced training in teaching online.

From building an online course to improving an online course, from fostering online discussion to encouraging student interaction, from traditional assessment to online tests, the program will give you both the fundamentals of teaching online, as well as the most advanced tips and techniques in the business. Your instructors are authors, speakers and consultants in online learning and teaching.

Classes included in this certificate program are: 

• Advanced Teaching Online
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Designing Online Instruction
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• Fostering Online Discussion
   Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )

Businesses are turning to podcasting to grow their brand and connect with customers. People with a niche hobby are turning podcasts into a business. Podcasting is experiencing a rebirth as mobile devices are everywhere. The intimate nature of the audio medium allows potential clients to get to know who you are and determine if you are the kind of company with which they want to do business.  Learn how to take your business or hobby and turn it into a podcast.  This step-by-step class will take you from start to finish and cover the required elements needed to get your show online.  Come to class with your idea and end with your show online for all to hear.