Personal & Professional Development   

If you are looking for a new summer hobby, now is your chance to learn to Sail. 

Please join us at Gull Lake for Intro to Sailing. 

In this course you will learn how to launch a boat, tie varied sailing knots, how to sail a triangle course and so much more. 

This class is open to participants 18 years of age and older

Attorney’s from Kalamazoo Defenders Office will educate community members on their rights and responsibilities when encountering Public Safety officers.  Community will be participate in a fun interactive quiz and encouraged to ask questions to verify understanding of information presented.

This 2-hour program is for front line to mid-level management, team leads, supervisors, shift managers and other leaders not serving in senior level or executive roles.

In this program participants will learn:

• The role of trust in work environments
• How to determine if your team lacks trust
• How to build trust on a team with employees and new hires

This course will help leaders to improve in their evolving role and learn to build leadership skills through the use of: Feedback, Communication, Coaching, Improving, and Performance. Designed for anyone in a supervisory role. Supervisors will attend four sessions designed to increase their leadership skills. Between sessions, participants are asked to apply their skills, on the job, that were discussed in the prior session. This program will focus on the leadership skills: feedback, communicating, listening, coaching, goals, planning, and evaluating human performance. Participants will become skilled at using several job aids, such as; the human performance model, SPEAK, SBI, GRACE, and the basic coaching model.

An intensive 36-hour program incorporates lectures, discussions and tests to learn the HR body of knowledge. It is designed primarily for HR professionals seeking HR certification. The course materials utilized are the Human Resource Certification Preparation (HRCP) learning system. Some of the features and benefits include:

-Five modules correlating with the Body of Knowledge
-More than 600 HR QuickStudy Flash Cards color-coded for each module
-Online practice tests with over 800 questions
- Interactive discussions about real-life situations faced by HR professionals

By attending the course, participants will benefit from:

Experienced instructors
Opportunities to network and learn from your peers
A dynamic classroom environment that helps you stay on track