Management & Administration
The School of Professional & Continuing Studies offers classes and programs focused on managing, supervising, or administering people, processes, or activities.
Our classes and programs cover such topics as customer service, HR management, supervision and administration.
Political Campaign Management Certificate
The Political Campaign Management Certificate program teaches the essential skills required to manage all aspects of a winning political campaign.
SHRM Learning System®
The SHRM Learning System provides a comprehensive review of the entire body of HR knowledge that prepares you to take either the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® exam.
Mentoring and coaching have come to be used more frequently in organizations to improve leadership competencies and provide employee support, bringing benefits to both employers and employees. Develop skills in the development, implementation, and support of coaching and mentoring programs in your workplace. Take home the much-awaited toolkit you have been searching for to improve your employees' performance and create the working environment that your employees will find truly rewarding.
Online, starting on 09/08/20 and ending on 10/30/20
Transform your customer service into something extraordinary, and generate more repeat business to improve your bottom line. Customer service separates you from your competition, and extraordinary customer service comes from focusing on the few essential elements that yield big results. You'll take away a customer service plan that will help you focus on the key elements that will get you started on your pathway to success.
Online, starting on 07/06/20 and ending on 07/31/20
Especially for future and emerging leaders in Gen Y (born 1980-1999), this course reveals the key concepts of being a leader and the best strategies for developing leadership skills and influence. Learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ for influencing others. The action takes place in attending meetings, running meetings, interacting with others one-on-one, and employing successful techniques to convince and influence others.
Online, starting on 07/06/20 and ending on 07/31/20
Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. This certificate consists of three classes: Management Boot Camp, Collaborative Management, and Managing Generations in the Workplace.
Online, starting on 09/08/20 and ending on 11/27/20
Whether you manage or lead people, collaborative skills are essential to help harness the energy of groups and teams for maximum performance and productivity. Knowledge of collaborative skills will enable you to gain participation quickly, get input and buy-in for building consensus, and plan for cooperation to get crucial projects completed. This course will help you explore the principles of collaborative management and gain insight on how to expand your collaborative skills.
Online, starting on 07/06/20 and ending on 07/31/20
Get an understanding of managing workers in different generations in the workplace. Discover what motivates each generation at work, what incentives they respond to, and what messages they value. Generations X and Y are significantly different from the Boomer generation. Each generation has different expectations and styles of work in the workplace. Come explore the characteristics of the different generations in the workplace.
Online, starting on 08/03/20 and ending on 08/28/20
Discover proven strategies for moving your efforts, and those of others, from simple advocacy toward managing and achieving social change within the workplace and/or community. This certificate program consists of three one-month courses: Change Management Skills, Change in the Workplace, and Creating Community & Social Change.
Online, starting on 09/08/20 and ending on 11/27/20
A must-have skill to succeed in business, whether you are an entrepreneur or a valued employee, is the ability to create, edit and manage spreadsheets. This program will help you attractively compile your data into meaningful information with confidence. The certificate consists of three one-month courses: Mastering Microsoft Excel, Intermediate Excel, and Advanced Excel.
Online, starting on 09/08/20 and ending on 11/27/20
Maximizing productivity and the use of time is the primary way to increase profitability and organizational success for a growing number of people and their organizations. This certificate consists of three classes: New 21st Century Strategies for Productivity & Time Management, Productivity eTools, and Managing Productivity.
Online, starting on 09/08/20 and ending on 11/27/20
Find out the top 40 favorite applications and eTools of productive workers. Get the lowdown on the latest tools, sites, and iPhone and iPad applications to turbo-charge your work and simplify your life. Then discover how to select the right tools for your needs, evaluate your productivity system, and develop a framework that gets things done. Learn about different new productivity tools each week, while also conducting an evaluation of your own productivity needs.
Online, starting on 07/06/20 and ending on 07/31/20
Whether you are measuring and documenting your own productivity or managing the productivity of others, acquire the four new management systems and procedures to maximize productivity in your work organization. With a growing number of people in the workforce working remotely, these four new management systems allow you to successfully manage both office or on-site workers and those working from a distance, including home.
Online, starting on 08/03/20 and ending on 08/28/20
Acquire a well-rounded knowledge of the five Project Management Processes relating to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide. This basic information will assist you in learning the beginnings of Project Management, whether you are interested in project management, currently in a project management field, or employed in any line of work. Come away with a solid foundation of the five processes to learn and use for any type of project.
Online, starting on 07/06/20 and ending on 07/31/20
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. The Project Management Professional community does this through the five Project Management Processes supported by the ten Project Management Knowledge Areas.
Online, starting on 08/03/20 and ending on 08/28/20
Your employees are your most valuable resources. Ensuring the efficiency of your team is the key to your success and is your most important responsibility. Get practical, easy-to-understand and insightful methods for new and even experienced supervisors and managers. Learn about effective delegation, performance management, and writing performance reviews. Take home practical information along with tips and techniques that can be applied at your job immediately.
Online, starting on 09/08/20 and ending on 10/30/20
In today's business environment, employers expect employees to have a solid set of interpersonal skills. The ability to solve problems quickly and effectively is one of these interpersonal skills well worth developing. This certificate program consists of three one-month courses: Dealing with Difficult People in the Workplace, Stress Management in the Workplace, and Conflict Management.
Online, starting on 09/08/20 and ending on 11/27/20
Raising awareness is not enough! Social change is baked into the work of many mission driven organizations, but is it effective? Exactly what change are you after? Do you know if your efforts are working? This course is designed to support staff of nonprofit organizations in using planning and evaluation tools to increase the effectiveness of social change advocacy campaigns. This course will emphasize strategy and evaluation.
Online, starting on 07/06/20 and ending on 07/31/20
Project management skills and processes are critical tools in meeting the organization's strategic talent and management objectives. Successful human resource professionals need to develop and demonstrate skills in leadership, organization, planning, and understanding of the essential aspects of project management. This course is designed to broaden your understanding of project management principles, develop skills needed to successfully facilitate projects as well as develop an understanding of potential risks that often prevent successful project implementation.
Online, starting on 07/06/20 and ending on 07/31/20
The leading estate planning conference in the Richmond region. The seminar will cover recent developments in estate planning and offer practical guidance on today's most important tax and non-tax issues.
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This course will build skills and techniques to greatly improve our communications so that our intended messages (whether verbal, non-verbal, written, or broadcast) have the same meaning to their recipients.
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