Refresh your existing human resources management knowledge. The program will cover topics on how to professionally hire, train, retain, and manage the type of employees that will help businesses succeed. This program will teach managerial decision making, labor relations, compensation management and employee benefits.  Applicable skills:

Identify features, founders, and benefits of various management perspectives, skills required by managers, and the need for an ethical business structure and a diverse business environment.

Explain specific responsibilities of and skills needed for human resource management (HRM), types of illegal discrimination, and techniques to conduct successful interviews and choose prospective employees appropriately.

Discuss the features and examples of various compensation strategies. Calculate appropriate pay increases and analyze features of total compensation.

Describe the legally required social insurance programs for employees in the United States, the difference between group and individual insurance, the requirements for qualified pension plans, and evaluate benefit packages to determine comprehensive plan coverage.

On average this course is 522 hours of independent, online instruction.

For more detailed information: Human Resource Management Essentials PROGRAM OUTLINE

This course is WIOA Approved.

This program is a great option if you’re looking to learn new job skills, refresh or refine existing accounting knowledge, or help improve the performance of small businesses through a better understanding of the essentials of accounting and finance.  Applicable skills:

Gain knowledge and skills relevant to the accounting field, like managing taxes, account books, and analyzing case studies along with basic training for finance in business, financial accounting, and managerial accounting.

Understand how to examine financial statements to ensure that they are accurate and comply with laws and regulation. Explain how to inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency and use of accepted accounting procedures.

Create, organize, and maintain financial records. Demonstrate how to assess financial operations and make best-practices recommendations to management. Identify ways to reduce costs, enhance revenues, and improve profit. Learn effective quantitative skills in basic mathematical operations pertaining to the business environment.

On average this course is 444 hours of independent, online instruction.

For more detailed information: Accounting Essentials PROGRAM OUTLINE

This course is WIOA Approved.

This course provides basic training for relevant business skills such as management, finance, and technical writing.  It is a great option if you’re seeking to learn new job skills, refresh or refine existing business management knowledge, or to improve the performance of small business through a better understanding of the fundamentals of business management.  Applicable skills:

Discuss the various functions of business including competition, economics, accounting, technology and information systems, marketing; management through the phases of starting and growing a business; management of financial and human resources along with the ethical and social responsibilities of business.

Understand both the business environment and the manager's role in decision making, planning, organizing, leading, controlling and developing an ethical perspective.

Demonstrate understanding of basic mathematical operations including percentages, discounts, interest, present worth, sinking funds, installment buying, pricing, depreciation, investments, insurance, use of symbols and their applications, equations and formulas, the importance of statistics investments, insurance, use of symbols and their applications, equations and formulas, and the importance of statistics.  

Learn how to organize material for a professional setting by composing business memos, emails, outlines, reports, and proposals using the ABC method.

On average this course is 431 hours of independent, online instruction.

For more detailed information: Business Management Essentials PROGRAM OUTLINE

This course is WIOA Approved.

Learn detailed instructions about how to use the Microsoft Office applications of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as how to integrate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Applicable skills:

Demonstrate the fundamental skills needed to use the MS Word word-processing application. Create new Word documents, edit and format existing Word documents, add graphics and tables to Word documents, and merge Word documents.

Use the MS Excel spreadsheet application. Skillfully use the basic elements of Excel, create and use simple and complex formulas and functions, incorporate useful charts and graphs, add, delete, sort, and lay out table data.  

Create MS PowerPoint presentations. Explain the basic elements and fundamentals of Microsoft PowerPoint, insert objects and finish a presentation, work with PowerPoint tools, tables, and charts, apply Slide Master, shapes, and effects, and Insert hyperlinks, illustration objects, and media clips.

Learn the skills necessary to integrate an Excel spreadsheet into a Word document. Identify the tools used to integrate Word and Excel files, embed an Excel worksheet into a Word document, embed an Excel chart or graph into a Word document, explain the difference between object linking and embedding, describe the procedure for linking an object to a Word document, develop a form letter with form fields, and merge a database with a form letter.

Integrate a Word document and table, and Excel chart with a PowerPoint Presentation. Identify the tools used to integrate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, create PowerPoint presentations, place and manipulate clip art in a PowerPoint slide, work with themes and templates, add notes to a PowerPoint slide show, set the slide transitions for a PowerPoint slide show, embed and link Word and Excel material in PowerPoint presentations.

On average this course is 127 hours of independent, online instruction.

To complete this Microsoft Office certificate program, you will either need to buy Microsoft® Office 2019 or subscribe to Microsoft 365®. While Microsoft does offer a free trial of their programs through their site, it's important to note that the length of the trial period may not offer students enough time to complete the certificate program.

For more detailed information: Microsoft Office 2019 PROGRAM OUTLINE

This course is WIOA Approved.

This course introduces and increases knowledge of common medical terminology used by health care practitioners.  Applicable skills:

Analyze and interpret medical reports related to specific body systems.

Identify medical terms and words by their component parts.

Define the body structure and its systems, cavities, planes, and positions.

Explain the importance of medical terminology in health care profession.

On average this course is 195 hours of independent, online instruction.

For more detailed information: Medical Terminology Program Outline

This course is WIOA Approved.