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Take your Live Online teaching to the next level for greater student satisfaction, learning, completion and retention. Come away with information you can use Monday morning. Come away with practical, how-to tips and techniques, plus the pedagogy of Live Online teaching. Taught by one of the foremost teachers of adults.

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.

In today's business environment, there is a need for good project management. Project management provides visibility of project health to the business and the customer. Through continuous monitoring, early detection of variations to plan, schedule, and budget can be communicated to stakeholders for quick resolution, including project cancelation.

Project management is one of the fastest paths to promotion by increasing your network through greater exposure.

First, gain the skills, tools and templates to confidently develop and maintain a project. An overview of salaries, certification costs, education and experience requirements are provided. Then acquire a well-rounded knowledge of the five Project Management Processes relating to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide. This basic information will assist you in learning the beginnings of Project Management, whether you are interested in project management, in a project management field, or in any line of work. Finally, learn the ten Project management Knowledge Areas and their support role and relationships to the five Project Management Processes.

For more information on this certificate program, please refer to course objectives and agendas.

What is exceptional customer service? What is the value of long-term customers and how can you exceed customer expectations? Learn the benefits of GREAT service and how it can have a positive impact on you, your business, and your community.

This course is designed for employees and supervisors who work with customers in any setting, from in-person retail to call-in centers. Participants will learn key skills and understanding to achieve quality customer service. 

This class prepares students to receive a Flagger Certification card, which is valid for 3 years in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Students must be at least 18 years old and must bring a valid State I.D. Card or Drivers License to the class. There is an open book test at the end of class in which you must have a passing score of 80% in order to receive your certification.

Course Details:

• Class is full-day for full certification and partial-day for recertification. 
• Students receive Traffic Control Flagger Certification Handbook (yours to keep and reference on the job).
• Students take an open book test at the end of the class.
• Successful completers receive a Flagger Certification Card.
• Students must be at least 18 years of age.

 

Class is in-person and socially distanced on the Peninsula College campus. Students are required to review Peninsula College's COVID precautions and Course requirements.

Discover advanced and new best practices in Integrated Marketing, the growing field that integrates traditional print marketing with digital marketing for even greater marketing success. Young generations are embracing print as well as online media, creating this exciting new area of marketing.

Find out the keys to success in the almost forgotten but still remarkably effective area of print, including catalogs, direct mail letters and post cards. Gain advanced marketing concepts and principles such as R, F, & M analysis; AIDA, and the 3-30-3 principle, that lead directly to practical marketing success. Acquire the understanding of how digital marketing and print complement and enhance each other, and how to integrate both kinds of marketing for even greater overall effectiveness. Come away with a new marketing expertise to make your value in the workplace even stronger.

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.

One of the most turbulent periods in brain development occurs during adolescence. The teen brain actually functions very differently from the adult brain. Certain kinds of thinking, such as decision-making, actually happen in different parts of the brain for adolescents and adults. Understanding these complex changes can help calm the rough seas of the teen years, but also provide your teen with critical support and understanding that will promote better decision-making, better mental health, and better outcomes at school. Come find out the important ways in which the teen brain is developing. Identify behaviors and attitudes that are influenced by these changes. Then learn to offer constructive strategies for establishing a better understanding of and communication with your amazing teen.

Discover the keys to successful writing for the workplace. Whether you are writing a report, memo, letter or publicity notice, business writing has some defined characteristics for success. Successful communicators in the workplace move forward, others move back. Enhance your career by improving this critical communication skill. Begin with understanding the format, construction, and successful techniques of writing good business reports and proposals. Then improve your skills with editing and proofreading. Finally, discover what good journalists know. Learn how to write a news story, press release or other publicity notice that zings.

Help your organization stand out with your new skills in business writing. This certificate will take you to the next level where business writing is a skill for personal and organizational success. Three one-month courses, 48 hours total.

Every successful person in the workplace utilizes financial information to aid effective decision making. The Certificate in Accounting and Finance for Non-Financial Managers explains the financial concepts and accounting processes used in most businesses and will provide practical techniques that will increase your effectiveness and career.

First, get a foundation to understand the seven steps in the accounting cycle and use financial information in decision making. Come away with the knowledge to analyze resource allocation and evaluate financial performance.

Then find out what you need to know about cash. Cash is the non-financial manager who really makes a difference in the day-to-day cash activities. Discover how to maximize cash flow, learn the importance of cash and find out your role in cash flow success.

Finally, acquire advanced knowledge on the financial information that drives your organization. See how business reports are assessed and analyzed. An understanding of this information will help you make smart decisions when it comes to budgeting, setting goals, and assessing performance within your own area of influence. Three one-month courses, 48 hours total. 

New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here's what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same. But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently. In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum. Your instructors are some of the foremost authorities in the world on these subjects. They write and speak around North America on learning styles.

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.

Certificate Length is 48 hours total. For more information on this certicate program, please refer to course objectives and agendas. 

Pre-requisite: Students must have Microsoft Excel to complete this certificate.

Create your own ebooks and print books! Get hands-on experience using InDesign, the industry standard for digital publishing software. Get a basic introduction to the exciting and evolving world of digital and print books. Learn how to design an elegant and readable book, starting from the ground up in Adobe InDesign. This class covers setting up your document, placing and styling text, working with images, creating the book cover, and preparing the book for printing and web distribution. Master the process of creation and formatting books, including reflowable, fixed-layout, Kindle, and PDF books. Plus, learn about important housekeeping details for selling ebooks and print books.

Please note, because this class is co-enrolled as both a Community Ed course and a credit-bearing course, it adheres to Peninsula College's standard withdrawal and refund policies. This class is non-credit, if you are interested in credit classes please visit pencol.edu.

Get started in Adobe Creative Suite! Learn graphic design basics as you work with page layout and illustration software. Graphic design is a complex art. To become a graphic designer, you need to master many different skills and tools. This introductory course covers the concepts and software that every designer needs to know and explains how they fit into a typical graphic design workflow. This course introduces the creative process, including high-level concepts like layout, typography, and color. It's your chance to get hands-on, using Photoshop to creatively adjust, repair, and retouch the kinds of images used in graphic design projects. You will learn how to use Illustrator to build a custom logos and design with various vector-drawing techniques. Last, learn about InDesign for an overview of the multipage document layout for both print and web. By the end of the course, you'll have a better grasp of what graphic designers do and what you'll need to learn next. It's a great jumping off point for any graphic design career.

Please note, because this class is co-enrolled as both a Community Ed course and a credit-bearing course, it adheres to Peninsula College's standard withdrawal and refund policies. This class is non-credit, if you are interested in credit classes please visit pencol.edu.

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, 32 hours total.

Permaculture Design investigates community and home-scale food production with a focus on farm design, intensive mini-farming, permaculture, and urban homesteading. Through research and practical applications, students will learn how to create small-scale food systems that mimic natural ecosystems. Students will explore the resiliency and diversity of garden farming via edible forests, ecosystem design, animal husbandry, mini orchards, season extensions, food self-reliance, and intensive planting strategies. Assignments include learning how to do a site analysis on your property, how to calculate how much space you need to grow your own food, and how to monitor microclimates, water, and solar power on your garden or farm. The course will include fun and engaging online discussions, relevant readings and videos, and a final permaculture plan to help you design your dream farm, garden, or homestead. Please contact instructor Jen Santry with interests and questions at jsantry@pencol.edu.

Please note, because this class is co-enrolled as both a Community Ed course and a credit-bearing course, it adheres to Peninsula College's standard withdrawal and refund policies. This class is non-credit, if you are interested in credit classes please visit pencol.edu.

Gain insights into your data using business intelligence software - Power Business Intelligence. Power BI is a widely used business analytics service offered by Microsoft. Power BI Desktop is a complete data analysis and report creation tool that you install for free.

Discover the process of creating interactive reports. Integrate financial, marketing, or any other source data in your accounting system, Excel, or on the Web. Streamline the data to what is needed using Power Query. Create charts, maps, and other visuals to see your data in real time.

Delve further into Power Query to ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) your data. Build the Data Model using relationships and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions). Utilize Time Intelligence functions to view YoY or YTD reports. Add user friendly features to enhance your reports and analyze your results.

This certificate will enhance your skills in data analysis, giving you greater insight into your organization's performance and allowing you to make more informed decisions.

Why is it often easier to communicate online than in person? Is it even possible to have a heart-to-heart conversation in a text? Or, have we lost the art of conversation? This class explores how our world has changed since going digital. We have unbridled access to multiple lines of communication--text, zoom, social media, voicemail--and yet many of us feel more cut off than ever. How can we navigate these changes and adapt to a 'new normal?' Join us as we explores the art of communication through a range of experiences, including: perception, listening, self-disclosure, speech apprehension, nonverbal communication, conflict, and power in relationships.

Please note, because this class is co-enrolled as both a Community Ed course and a credit-bearing course, it adheres to Peninsula College's standard withdrawal and refund policies. This class is non-credit, if you are interested in credit classes please visit pencol.edu.