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  • Accounting Fundamentals
    • Fee: $129.00
      Item Number: 40445
      Dates: 4/7/2025 - 6/20/2025
      Times: 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
      Days:
      Sessions: 0
      Building: CLONLINE
      Room: Online-no scheduled meetings
      Instructor:  

      Learn the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, as well as how to analyze and record financial transactions. You will get hands-on experience with handling accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll procedures, sales taxes, and various common banking activities.

      To REGISTER click this link: More Details and Registration Here


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  • Developing Your Leadership Style
    • Fee: $139.00
      Item Number: 40723
      Dates: 4/21/2025 - 4/23/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 2
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      Learn how to capitalize on your personal leadership style to achieve workplace goals. In this course you will identify your leadership through personal assessment; learn the difference between leadership and management; recognize the "being" and "doing" of leadership; and develop the innate motivating techniques that transform employee attitudes and enhance cooperation and teamwork. Other topics include understanding the leadership management balance and SMART goal development. This course is offered in partnership with Green River College.

 

 

  • Leadership and Supervision Certificate (6 class series)
    • Fee: $599.00
      Item Number: 40719
      Dates: 4/14/2025 - 5/21/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 12
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      Develop your leadership, communication, motivation, and problem-solving skills with the Supervision Certificate. Through a series of six courses, you will acquire the interpersonal skills needed to interact successfully in a supervisory role. Topics include turning negative situations into positive outcomes; identifying your leadership traits through personal assessment; leading effective meetings; providing feedback; establishing priorities; problem-solving techniques, and more! Earn the certificate by taking the courses individually or register for the series and save. Series includes (36 total hours): Working With Difficult People, Developing Your Leadership Style, Getting The Most From Your Meetings, Motivating For Success, Working Smarter, Problem Solving And Decision-Making Strategies. Program Completion: To receive the Supervision Certificate, you must attend 80 percent of the entire certificate program (calculated by total number of sessions.) This course is offered in partnership with Green River College.

 

 

  • Leadership Series
    • Fee: $299.00
      Item Number: 42977
      Dates: 5/8/2025 - 5/22/2025
      Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Days: Th
      Sessions: 0
      Building: CLCTC
      Room: Columbia Tech Center 0338
      Instructor:  
      Effective Leaders require communication skills that demonstrate confidence, candor, and authenticity. This series is experiential in design and invites the opportunity for participants to assess their baseline communication and speaking style for the purpose of discovering & learning practical behaviors that will result in up-leveling their confidence and presence in front of their peers, colleagues, clients/customers and leaders. This series is for any professional who leads meetings, speaks publicly and provides feedback to others. Whether you present your ideas on a regular basis or need to find your courage to speak up in meetings, this is the course for you.

 

 

  • Podcasting 101
    • Fee: $109.00
      Item Number: 41605
      Dates: 4/12/2025 - 4/26/2025
      Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Days: Sa
      Sessions: 3
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      Learn podcasting from Anthem Award-winning podcast producer John Yeager! The course will include a background to podcasting, trends in the podcasting industry, and a discussion on why you should or shouldn't produce a podcast. Each class will feature a guest speaker with real-world podcasting experience, along with plenty of time for questions. This course is a partnership with Edmonds College.

 

 

  • Problem Solving and Decision Making Strategies
    • Fee: $139.00
      Item Number: 40734
      Dates: 5/19/2025 - 5/21/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 2
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      Creative problem-solving and effective decision-making skills are essential in today's workplace. Through the use of real-life case studies, you will discover four primary problem-solving tools, learn a format for group problem-solving, methods for effective decision-making and techniques to minimize conflict and dissension. This course concludes with an interactive problem-solving group exercise. Concepts taught in this course can be applied to all facets of life. This course is offered in partnership with Green River College.

 

 

  • Project Execution to Closing
    • Fee: $339.00
      Item Number: 40715
      Dates: 6/2/2025 - 6/16/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 5
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      Your Project Management Plan is approved and accepted. What's next? This course shares best practices for implementing and controlling the project to success. Learn how to manage quality, develop and manage a project team, effectively communicate, manage risk and engage stakeholders. Key tools and techniques and valuable tips will be introduced, shared and applied - all to ensure that your project is successful. TEXTBOOKS (available through Amazon): Required--The PMBOK® Guide - 7th Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2021, ISBN-13: 978-1628256642; Recommended--Project Management Made Simple and Effective, Yeomans, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-1457549816. This course is a partnership with Green River Community College.

 

 

  • Project Management Basics: Initiating the Project
    • Fee: $339.00
      Item Number: 40711
      Dates: 4/16/2025 - 4/30/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 5
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      Discover the science and art of effective project management, and learn why 75 percent of all projects fail! Summarize the five Process Groups, 10 Knowledge Areas and 49 processes recommended for application in the PMBOK® Guide (Project Management Body of Knowledge). Learn about the Initiating Process Group, and discover how to develop a business case, create a Project Charter, identify and document stakeholders and effectively present a project to decision-makers using a winning methodology. TEXTBOOKS (available through Amazon): Required--The PMBOK® Guide - 7th Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2021, ISBN-13: 978-1628256642; Recommended--Project Management Made Simple and Effective, Yeomans, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-1457549816. This course is a partnership with Green River Community College.

 

 

  • Project Management Certificate Information Session
    • Fee: $0.00
      Item Number: 40708
      Dates: 4/9/2025 - 4/9/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
      Days: W
      Sessions: 1
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      Join this *FREE* information session to learn more about the online Project Management Certificate program. This program is offered in partnership with Green River Community College.

 

 

  • Project Management Certificate Part A (3-class series)
    • Fee: $969.00
      Item Number: 40709
      Dates: 4/16/2025 - 6/16/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 18
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      The Project Management Certificate is designed for working professionals who are either starting out or moving up as project managers. Courses are taught with a practical approach that equips participants with the skills and knowledge that can be applied immediately to the workplace. The Project Management Certificate consists of seven required courses totaling 108 hours of course work. Most people are able to complete the Certificate in two quarters. You may register for the courses individually, or you can save money by registering for a series of courses. This program is a partnership with Green River Community College. This program is offered in partnership with Green River Community College.

      No Class 5/26/2025.

 

 

  • Project Planning and Scheduling Essentials
    • Fee: $479.00
      Item Number: 40714
      Dates: 5/5/2025 - 5/28/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 8
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      It is said, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Discover the 24 key planning processes needed to plan and implement a successful project, and learn the order in which they should occur. Identify the key tools and techniques to effectively plan for scope, schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, procurements and stakeholder management. This course keys on both predictive (Waterfall) and adaptive (Agile) planning techniques. TEXTBOOKS (available through Amazon): Required--The PMBOK® Guide - 7th Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2021, ISBN-13: 978-1628256642; Recommended--Project Management Made Simple and Effective, Yeomans, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-1457549816. This course is a partnership with Green River Community College.

      No Class 5/26/2025.

 

 

  • Working with Difficult People
    • Fee: $139.00
      Item Number: 40720
      Dates: 4/14/2025 - 4/16/2025
      Times: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      Days: M W
      Sessions: 2
      Building: ARR
      Room: Remote Teaching
      Instructor:  
      We all encounter difficult people. Whether you are a supervisor, a customer service professional, or you have a challenging coworker, it's important to know how to rise above your initial emotional reaction and turn negative situations into positive outcomes. Topics include understanding why we label people as difficult; types of difficult people; tools and techniques for resolving issues; coping strategies for the effects of difficult people; conflict management strategies; and practical application. This course is offered in partnership with Green River College.

 

 

  • Introduction to QuickBooks Online
    • Fee: $139.00
      Item Number: 40446
      Dates: 4/7/2025 - 6/20/2025
      Times: 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
      Days:
      Sessions: 0
      Building: CLONLINE
      Room: Online-no scheduled meetings
      Instructor:  

      Manage the financial aspects of your small business quickly and efficiently using QuickBooks Online. This course will give you hands-on experience recording income and expenses; entering checks and credit card payments; tracking your payables, inventory, and receivables; and much more.

      To REGISTER click this link: More Details and Registration Here


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  • Accounting Fundamentals
  • Fee: $129.00
    Item Number: 41114
    Dates: 1/6/2025 - 3/20/2025
    Times: 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
    Days:
    Sessions: 0
    Building: ARR
    Room: Remote Teaching
    Instructor: 
    This class is in session.  For more information please call Registration at 360-992-2939.

    Learn the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, as well as how to analyze and record financial transactions. You will get hands-on experience with handling accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll procedures, sales taxes, and various common banking activities.

    To REGISTER click this link: More Details and Registration Here


 

  • Introduction to QuickBooks Online
  • Fee: $139.00
    Item Number: 41093
    Dates: 1/6/2025 - 3/20/2025
    Times: 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
    Days:
    Sessions: 0
    Building: ARR
    Room: Remote Teaching
    Instructor: 
    This class is in session.  For more information please call Registration at 360-992-2939.

    Manage the financial aspects of your small business quickly and efficiently using QuickBooks Online. This course will give you hands-on experience recording income and expenses; entering checks and credit card payments; tracking your payables, inventory, and receivables; and much more.

    To REGISTER click this link: More Details and Registration Here


 

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