UAH PD Solutions: PRODUCTIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE

BUSINESS SKILLS SHORT COURSES

PRODUCTIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE

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BUSINESS SKILLS TRAINING NEW

Delivering Successful Briefings to Senior Leaders

7 hrs, $395

Senior leaders are one of the toughest audiences a presenter will face. This interactive course will help participants plan and effectively deliver information and decision briefings that meet and exceed the expectations of their senior executive audiences. The class participants will deliver a briefing and receive feedback on content. The higher up the corporate ladder employees go, the more important effective briefing skills become. Position yourself for promotion, by learning to successfully make presentations to senior management.

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Powerful Presentations Using PowerPoint

7 hrs, $265

Delivering effective and powerful presentations is critical to success whether you are presenting a new initiative or asking a manager for budget resources. Learn PowerPoint tips that make an impact to influence your audience. This course will provide examples of what makes the best PowerPoint presentations utilizing layout, themes, graphics, objects, builds, slide transitions, and more. Knowing your audience and delivery techniques will also be explored. Practice building easy-to-create powerful, engaging, professional, and custom presentations that ensure an attentive audience. Prerequisite: Experience with PCs and Windows.

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GROUP DISCOUNT AVAILABLE

CUSTOMIZED TRAINING

Targeted knowledge meets real-world applications

Environment and staff ensure positive learning experience

Save more when your organization learns more.

Choose the location and time that is convenient for your team.

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Building Productive Teams

7 hrs, $395

The morning session provides an opportunity for professionals to examine who they are and how they relate to their associates in the workplace. Attendees learn their distinct temperament (Blue, Gold, Green or Orange), gaining insight into their thought processes, leadership and communication style. The class then participates in interactive, fun group discussions and activities that highlight the important characteristics of each temperament. The afternoon session includes a Low Ropes Course designed to develop group cohesion and to teach leadership, teamwork and collaborative problem solving skills, continuing to utilize the Real Colors personality temperaments. Each initiative activity allows the group to work together as a team to reach a common goal and is followed by a debrief that allows participants to share observations and lessons learned and how to transfer them to their personal and professional lives. This is a hands-on course so comfortable attire and closed toe/closed heel shoes are required.

Employee Management and Leadership 14 hrs, $595

Recruiting and retaining employees is the most important job that managers do in an organization. Learn best practices on finding, interviewing, and hiring a superior workforce.

Your expectations of people and their expectations of themselves are the key factors in how well people perform at work. Gain knowledge to perform practices that keep employees motivated and inspired to develop and attain goals. Learn how to address employee behavior and prevent predictable decision-making errors. Become the successful leader who makes a serious difference in the work life of employees and your organization.

Strategic Decision Management 14 hrs, $595

Learn decision-making methodologies that influence alignment between the manager’s technical decision processes and the company’s organizational strategy. Discuss normative and descriptive approaches to strategic thinking. Explore how to structure strategic decision-making processes, and learn how to assess effectiveness with the performance measurement systems. Investigate links between strategy, organizational structure, and value chain with technical decision-making.

Choose the Convenience of Online Learning Learn when and where it fits your lifestyle with the benefit of 24/7 streaming and personalized support. Ambitious professionals can build real-world knowledge and skills to advance their careers while fulfilling professional commitments.

Ways to Register ONLINE: CPCS.uah.edu/PDSolutions PHONE: 256.824.6010 or 800.448.4031, 8:15 am – 5 pm (CST), M – F IN PERSON: UAH College of Professional & Continuing Studies, Wilson Hall 103, Huntsville, AL 35899-0650 WE ACCEPT: MasterCard, Visa, AMEX, Discover, POs, & SF-182s For policies and course info, visit CPCS.uah.edu

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Effective Business Writing 14 hrs, $595

This course will provide you with practical workplace writing strategies to assist you in developing documents that are clear, concise, complete, and correct. Topics that will be discussed include the professional writing process, audience awareness, document organization and design, and visuals. Learn to review key grammar, style, and sentence structure concepts that are essential to enhancing the readability of a document and understand how to adapt messages to meet the needs of various audiences.

What You Will Learn: • Understand the importance of professional communication in the workplace.

• Discover the professional writing process and its importance in developing documents for the workplace.

• Understand the role of audience awareness and how to create a document appropriate for a specified audience.

• Recognize the importance of developing documents that are reflective of their own workplace in regards to style and organization.

• Learn how to write a document in a prose style marked by clarity, conciseness, completeness, and correctness.

• Understand how to create various correspondences and how to adapt messages to meet the needs of different audiences.

• Learn how to use document design and visuals to enhance the readability of a document.

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CUSTOMIZED TRAINING IS AVAILABLE T HE R IG HT CO UR S E T HE R IG H T T I ME T HE R IG HT L O CAT I O N Customized training from UAH PD Solutions is the perfect solution to train a group or launch an organization-wide training program.

It is affordable, adaptable to your needs, and hassle-free. Volume discounts are available.

See immediate and measurable organization results!

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MICROSOFT EXCEL Equip yourself to use this LY NEW NED ESIG S! powerful tool. Differentiate D E R RSE COU yourself from others in today’s competitive job market. These courses are for those whose responsibilities include the use of Excel to organize and analyze data. In three courses you can develop skills to move from novice to confident Excel specialist.

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Introduction to Excel, 7 hrs, $265

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Excel: Formulas and Functions, 7 hrs, $265

NEW Excel: Introduction to PivotTables and PivotCharts, 7 hrs, $265

MICROSOFT PROJECT CERTIFICATE Use Project’s flexible features to keep your projects organized and on time.

• Using Project • Project Power User

QUICKBOOKS • QuickBooks Foundation • QuickBooks for Government Contractors Other Courses Offered:

MICROSOFT WORD Available for customized training. Call 256.824.6015 for details.

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• Access Essentials • Using SharePoint • PowerPoint Essentials