In response to today’s changing job market, Northampton Community College’s Center for Business and Industry is offering a virtual certificate program that will allow learners to gain skills to facilitate a move to a new career, or help keep fresh in these uncertain times.

Whether you want to improve your computer and technical skills, or make a change to managing and leading in an office environment, our Accelerated Office Skills Program has the flexible options you need to design a program to achieve your goal.

Improving Technical Competence

All workshops are 8 hours; two 4-hour sessions.

• Microsoft Excel - Beginning - June 8-9

• Microsoft Excel - Intermediate - June 22-23

• Microsoft Word - Beginning - July 6-7

• Microsoft Word - Intermediate - July 27-28

• Microsoft PowerPoint - Beginning - Aug. 18-19

• Microsoft PowerPoint - Intermediate - Sept. 8-9

Understanding Yourself

All sessions are 4 hours

• Your Work Preferences/Working Well with Others - July 21

• Your Strengths / Connecting Your Natural Talents to Any Work Environment - Aug. 21

Expectations of a Professional

All sessions are 4 hours

• Writing in a Professional Environment - June 30

• Maximizing Your Professional Effectiveness - Aug. 26

• Customer Service - Sept. 15

Building Solid Working Relationships

All sessions are 4 hours

• Using Emotional Intelligence to Create Shared Understanding - June 18

• Using Emotional Intelligence to Work through Conflict - June 25

• Using Social Style to Better Understand Your Colleagues - July 16

Moving to Management

All sessions are 4 hours

• Creating the Mindset of a Manager/ Leader - Aug. 3

• Understanding Motivation - Aug. 17

• Setting Employees Up for Success - Sept. 2

• Using Goals to Focus Work and Grow Employees - Sept. 14

Instruction will be completely online, using the Blackboard platform. Learners may enroll in one course or as many as they desire. Learners will receive continuing education credits. A certificate will be awarded to those learners who complete 40 hours, in any combination of workshops.

For more information, costs and to enroll, visit northampton.edu/CBIVirtual.