Your employees are your most valuable resources. Ensuring the efficiency of your team is the key to your success and is your most important responsibility. Get practical, easy to understand, and insightful methods for new and even experienced supervisors and managers.

Learn about effective delegation, performance management, and writing performance reviews. Discuss the specifics of the supervisor's role and responsibilities, and strategies for improving your overall effectiveness as a leader.Take home practical information along with tips and techniques that can be applied at your job immediately.

This is your invitation to teach others in-person and join in one of the more important functions in life - passing on knowledge and skills to others.  It is both an opportunity and a responsibility.  Whether you want to teach others or currently teach others, in any setting, either formally or informally, this course is for you. We will give you both the fundamental and advanced information to improve your teaching. Your lead instructor is author of How to Teach Adults, the best-selling book on the subject. The ebook version is included in the course.

Online users say a website’s design is the number one criteria for deciding whether a company is credible or not, according to recent research. Understanding what it takes to produce effective web design is essential in today’s market of highly saturated digital competition.  

First discover the basics of web design using HTML and CSS. The No prior knowledge of HTML or web design is required. After the first course you will have the info you need to plan and design effective web pages.  

Then find out how to create effective and dynamic websites/applications. Take away a functioning web application hosted on a web server that is both accessible and Search Engine Optimized.  

Finally, learn about responsive design process, advanced layout and design features. Plus explore industry standard technologies and frameworks. 

This Certificate must be taken in the following order:

• Introduction to Web Design
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Intermediate Web Design
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• Advanced Web Design
   Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )

Coding is becoming one of the most in-demand skills in the workplace today. As a result, coding has become a core skill that bolsters one’s chances of becoming a higher value to organizations. The highest demand is for programming languages with broad applicability.

Begin by getting introduced to the basics of computer programming and various programming languages. 

Then go to the next level and acquire all the basics of HTML and CSS. You will learn the relationship between these two industry-standard web page coding languages and the step by step process of hand coding and building web pages.

Finally, discover the advanced features of CSS and learn how to use this very powerful language.

Students must take the Coding Certificate classes in the below order:

• Introduction to Coding
   Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
   Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• HTML Fundamentals
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• CSS Fundamentals
   Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
   Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) for website and blog design.   

During the first week, you will learn or refresh your knowledge of all the initial steps and the required elements for having a website. Then find out how to build a simple WordPress website or blog. Topics include an introduction to CMS, WordPress installation and setup, page and content creation, administration, themes (selection, purchase, installation, and setup), working with widgets and plugins, and more.   

Finally, acquire advanced knowledge about WordPress options and features. You will learn how to modify WordPress web pages by hand-coding, learn about simple yet effective search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that improve your website ranking, and much more.    

After successfully completing the WordPress Certificate you will know how to build a WordPress website or blog, customize your WordPress site by hand-coding HTML, CSS, and PHP, know necessary regular WordPress maintenance, create WordPress website backup, and know how to apply SEO techniques in WordPress.

Good communication in the workplace is more important than ever. And critical to your career advancement and success. Come get a comprehensive and intensive preparation with skills and techniques you can put to use on Monday morning. Take back a workable conflict management model, along with successful and practical conflict management strategies. Then work with a pro to learn how to improve your negotiation skills for a win-win outcome, including helping others to get what they want, so you get what you want.  Finally, find out more about yourself and others using personality profiles for better work performance. You will be learning from some of our more popular instructors, and taking away new how-to skills that work.

The classes included in this certificate are as follows: 
• Conflict Management
  Winter ( February 6th - March 3rd )
  Spring ( April 3rd - April 28th )

• Negotiation: Get What You Want
   Winter ( March 6th - March 31st )
   Spring ( May 1st - May 26th )

• Using Personality Profiles for Better Work Performance
  Winter ( April 3rd - April 28th )
  Spring ( June 5th - June 30th )

How do you keep track of the day-to-day financial transactions of a business?  Whether you are looking to advance in your career, or you’re an entrepreneur, (or maybe you are a part of a family business), this course will help you if you are looking to understand the numbers.  The Basics of Bookkeeping course will help you understand, and know how to record, every penny that comes into your business and every penny that goes out of your business.  This course shows you how to create a chart of accounts that meet your needs.   All of the money you spend, and all of the money you earn, have a place to go.  How do your record them?  What are debits and credits?  What do the numbers mean?  How do I label accounts?  Even if you outsource your bookkeeping needs, you should still have a basic understand of what happens with the money earned and the money spent.  No one should be blind to his or her finances!  In this course you will learn where the numbers go, and why! 

You will learn the bookkeeping terminology as well as what it means to keep track of the numbers.  At the end of the cycle, what do the numbers mean?  The Basics of Bookkeeping will show you how to keep track of the numbers and why!