Business Skills and Leadership   

This course empowers professionals to navigate workplace leadership with a convenient format of asynchronous Zoom sessions. Participants explore roles and responsibilities in leadership, management, and supervision. Weekly topics include developing team performance, engaging in productive mentorship, and handling conflict through strategic communication. Practical exercises and case studies support skill development in decision-making, task prioritization, and continuous improvement. The course meets once per week for five weeks, with asynchronous activities assigned before each session.

Course Outline and Schedule:

• Week 1: Monday, August 31 & Wednesday, September 2 | 3:00–5:00 PM
• Week 2: Wednesday, September 9 | 3:00–5:00 PM
• Week 3: Wednesday, September 16 | 3:00–5:00 PM
• Week 4: Wednesday, September 23 | 3:00–5:00 PM
• Week 5: Monday, September 28 & Wednesday, September 30 | 3:00–5:00 PM

Build a stronger LinkedIn presence that helps you grow your business and stand out in today's competitive B2B marketplace. This 4-hour online course is designed for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and B2B marketing professionals who want to strengthen their personal and company brand. Participants will learn how to optimize their LinkedIn profile, create a strategic content plan, and build authentic professional relationships that drive business growth. You'll leave with practical tools you can apply immediately to attract clients, recruit talent, and establish yourself as a trusted industry resource. All enrolled students receive a complimentary digital copy of Julie Wanzer's book, Get Them to Care: How to Leverage LinkedIn to Build Your Online Presence and Become a Trusted Brand, to reinforce and extend the concepts covered in class.

Become a future-ready leader. This 20-hour certificate series equips professionals with the mindset, tools, and skills to lead strategic change, develop talent pipelines, and navigate emerging technologies with confidence. Class schedule:

• Leading Strategic Organizational Change (4-Hours) October 1^st 

• Building Sustainable Succession Pipelines (4-Hours) October 8^th
• Digital Ethics & Responsible Innovation (4-Hours) –  October 15^th
• AI‑Powered Decision Making for Leaders (4-Hours) – October 22^nd**
• Leading Through Disruption: Building Organizational Resilience (4-Hours) – October 29^th 

^{** The AI-Powered Decision Making for Leaders session on October 22nd will be held via Zoom **}

This course empowers professionals to navigate workplace leadership. Participants explore roles and responsibilities in leadership, management, and supervision. Weekly topics include developing team performance, engaging in productive mentorship, and handling conflict through strategic communication. Practical exercises and case studies support skill development in decision-making, task prioritization, and continuous improvement. This section of the course meets in person once per week for three weeks.

Course Outline and Schedule:

• Wednesday October 7^th from 9:00 – 3:30 (lunch 30mins)
• Wednesday October 14^th from 4:00 – 5:00pm Online check-in
• Wednesday October 21^st from 9:00 – 3:30 (lunch 30 mins)

Lead with empathy, clarity, and impact. This 20-hour certificate series equips leaders with people-first strategies to drive performance, manage diverse teams, and foster strong relationships, whether in the office, on the job site, or across remote environments.

Class Schedule:

• Week 1: Leading Productive Meetings – November 2 & 4^th (4-hours total) – Julie Wanzer
• Week 2: Customer-Centric Leadership – November 9 & 11 (4 hours total) Patrick McNulty
• Week 3: Managing Remote and Field-Based Teams – November 16 & 18 (4-hours total) - Julie Wanzer
• Week 4: Effective Cross-Cultural Leadership – Nov 30 & December 2 (4hours total) - Tiffany
• Week 5: Managing Performance and Mental Health – December 7 & 9 (4 hours total) Patrick McNulty

Build a stronger LinkedIn presence that helps you grow your business and stand out in today's competitive B2B marketplace. This 4-hour online course is designed for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and B2B marketing professionals who want to strengthen their personal and company brand. Participants will learn how to optimize their LinkedIn profile, create a strategic content plan, and build authentic professional relationships that drive business growth. You'll leave with practical tools you can apply immediately to attract clients, recruit talent, and establish yourself as a trusted industry resource. All enrolled students receive a complimentary digital copy of Julie Wanzer's book, Get Them to Care: How to Leverage LinkedIn to Build Your Online Presence and Become a Trusted Brand, to reinforce and extend the concepts covered in class.

In this course, an experienced Project Management Professional will help you master the essentials of project management. You will become an indispensable member of your project team by discovering and mastering the critical concepts you need to plan, implement, control and close any type of project.

You will learn about project politics and ethics, project measurements, and project closure. You will be able to develop all sections of a project plan, you will become comfortable with the project management body of knowledge, and you will develop a variety of powerful techniques to generate project ideas.

If you're new to project management, this course will provide you with the essential information you will need to prepare for and complete your first project. If you're an experienced project manager, this course will make you more valuable to your employer by increasing your skills and competencies.

Register for this course here: https://www.ed2go.com/frontrange/online-courses/project-management-fundamentals/

If you have been assigned projects and need a quick jump start to get going, then this is the course for you. You will learn the 10 essential skills you need to survive and thrive. Topics include understanding the business need and the related project outcomes, setting project boundaries so you know what's included and what's not, getting to know your project stakeholders and their needs so you can set and meet their expectations, and how to plan projects and create a schedule.

It's not enough to just manage a project, you also have to control it, so things don't get out of hand. Eventually, the project will come to an end, so you will need to know what project closing looks like. You will want to turn the project over to your customer, so you can close down the project and move on to your next big adventure.

Throughout the course, you will find examples of real projects and how each of these essential skills applies in the real world. Project management skills are essential life skills with many practical applications and all industries. Project management and leadership are consistently the top two skill sets current and future employers look for, so this is also essential for your professional development.

Register for this course here: https://www.ed2go.com/frontrange/online-courses/project-management-course/

Stand out to future employers or acquire a potential promotion with your existing employer with a globally recognized project management certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. This comprehensive online course will prepare you for the PMI's® prestigious Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification exam and what to expect after you complete it. You will learn about the eight project performance domains and what is new in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) 7th edition.

Expand your knowledge of important industry-related methodologies, including predictive and agile project management. Raise your project management IQ by exploring project management tools and techniques. Throughout the course, use proven learning strategies to help absorb key terminology, concepts, and processes while preparing for your online project management certificate.

Register for this course here: https://www.ed2go.com/frontrange/online-courses/project-management-with-pmp-prep/