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The course introduces industrial robotics and covers the functions and operations of FANUC robotic systems, including axis configurations, work envelopes, programming, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Specific learning objectives will vary based on the skill level of trainees and the requested course content. Potential course objectives are noted below.
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Typical Course Length: 16-40 hours
This course offers an overview of concepts and skills needed to work safely and effectively with industrial electricity. It includes the study of AC and DC electricity basics and AC current emphasizing resistors, inductors, capacitors, transformers, electrical quantities, and units of measure.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
This course provides an understanding of DC electric motors and how to maintain and protect them. It also explores control devices and systems, motor control circuitry, construction and units of measure, industrial DC crane control and maintenance, and how to improve uptime and efficiencies.
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Typical Course Length: 16–24 hours
Course develops understanding of fluid power equipment operations in participants’ workplace. It includes detailed discussion of equipment components and their interactions.
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Typical Course Length: 2-8 hours
This course covers theory and application of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, components, laws, operations and maintenance. It provides opportunities for hands-on experience constructing simple to intermediate circuits. Course can be customized for introductory through advanced skills.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
This course covers predictive maintenance in rotating equipment with the goal of contributing to better machine life and reduced operating costs.
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Typical Course Length: 24-32 hours
This course develops knowledge and understanding of a wide variety of mechanical power transmission devices and systems, including rigid and flexible coupling devices as well as manual, dial indicator and laser alignment methods. Also covers manual, dial indicator and laser alignment methods.
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Typical Course Length: 12 hours
Course ranges from fundamentals to advanced topics. Fundamentals content provides a solid understanding of the graphic language for engineering drawings, known as GD&T. It uses the ASME Y14.5 standard to which most recent drawings have been made and explains the most recent standard revisions. Advanced topics cover more complex processes that can be applied to specific components and in specific use cases such as for designers; product, manufacturing, assembly and quality engineers; and CMM operators.
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Typical Course Length: 24-32 hours
This course provides an overview of machining methods, mechanical operations and tools needed to operate mill and lathe machines safely and productively. It also covers presses, grinders, bandsaws and other common machining equipment. It can be customized from basic to advanced use of mill and lathe machines—manual and CNC – and other equipment.
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Typical Course Length: 20-40 hours
This training is for machinists who have three to five years of job experience, including a background with Mastercam and CNC machining if those topics are selected. (Beginning and Intermediate Machining topics available upon request).
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Typical Course Length: 20-40 hours
This course presents various types of prints, drawings, and schematics used in manufacturing, construction and other industries. Participants will learn why drawings are needed, how they are used and standard drawing information.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
Course covers both theory and application for industrial motors, control systems, units of measure and improving up-time and efficiencies.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
Course can be customized to cover introductory through advanced level content. Introductory level focuses on how PLCs are used in the field, understanding their capabilities for controlling processes, equipment, and other functions in an industrial setting. Intermediate to advanced level covers ways to monitor PLCs for status and faults and the most efficient and effective procedures for isolating and correcting problems.
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Typical Course Length: 24-32 hours
Welding courses can be segmented to cover foundational skills and/or specialized topics on welding equipment, set-up, operation and use of one or more of the following processes: Stick (SMAW), Gas Metal Arch (GMA), MIG (Metal Inert Gas) and TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) as well as sanitary welding and Oxyaceteline torch. Learning objectives will vary and focus on the desired skill level and depth of training requested. Same objectives are listed below.
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● Understand the welding process and typical uses of welding in the workplace.
● Demonstrate welding safety as well as proper cutting and grinding techniques.
● Building competency in welding techniques specific to the target welding process.
● Demonstrate understanding of appropriate welding process for different metal types.
Typical Course Length: 8-40 hours
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way organizations operate, make decisions, and engage with customers. This course equips participants with the knowledge and tools to leverage AI strategically across business functions. From understanding core AI concepts to applying generative AI for practical tasks, learners will explore how AI can optimize operations, enhance communication, and support data-driven decision-making. Topics include identifying AI opportunities, aligning AI with organizational goals, using tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, managing AI-powered projects, and addressing ethical considerations. By the end of the course, participants will be prepared to apply AI
solutions confidently in their workplace, bridging the gap between technology and business outcomes.
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Typical Course Length: 8-24 hours
Training series consists of Basic Statistics, Intermediate Statistics, Introduction to Design of Experiments and Introduction to Reliability and Survival Analysis. Courses can be delivered as a complete program or as individual stand-alone classes – depending on client needs. Post-program small group coaching is highly recommended for learning transfer and sustainability.
Course explores the practical underpinnings of statistics which offers tools for making data-informed decisions in the face of uncertainty. It is considered one of the three pillars of modern data science.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
Course focuses on the use of inference, that is, known facts regarding data behavior, to predict uncertainty within specified boundaries and assess the risks of making certain decisions.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
Course uses theory, real world examples and company-specific applications to develop participants’ understanding of Design of Experiments (DoE). It provides experiences that familiarizes them with its terminology, processes, and possibilities.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
Course focuses on the application of reliability concepts to evaluate product lifetime and survival. It covers the basics of product reliability and its importance and offers case studies that illustrate how to evaluate survival.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
Course explores distributed computing and practical tools used to store and process data before it can be analyzed. Participants work with data stacks and data flow situations commonly used to inform key business decisions.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
This course introduces tools for improving internal and external customer relationships and providing excellent customer service.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course provides strategies and tactics for successfully managing virtual and in-person meetings.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course offers strategies and tools to effectively plan and facilitate productive meetings in various environments and platforms. Participants will apply tools through hands-on exercises and discussions.
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Typical Course Length: 4 hours
This course builds skills needed to interpret and use financial data from companies’ financial management and accounting systems.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course improves participants’ presentation preparation and delivery skills, ensuring they speak with maximum impact to prospective audiences. Course includes small-group work, coaching and videotaped practice.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
This course provides practical knowledge and skills to train others effectively and efficiently. It explores the connections between personal motivation and knowledge transfer and how to adjust them. It also provides a simple, time-tested model for structuring an effective training method and trainee experience.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course develops participants’ writing skills for types of business communications and audiences, including email and other types of business communications.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course covers the fundamentals of creating effective technical communications for specific audiences. It is especially useful for engineers, scientists, software developers and other professionals seeking to improve their technical writing skills.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in accordance with the quality systems approach currently used in FDA inspections.
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Typical Course Length: 2-4 hours
In this training participants will learn that documentation of every aspect of the process, activities, and operations involved with drug manufacture is a very important part of GDP. They will understand that the documentation showing how the product was made and tested is correct and in order, so the product will meet the required specifications. Team members will learn the goals and principles of GDP, improve their understanding of FDA GDP documentation requirements, and improve their understanding of individual responsibilities in ensuring compliance to FDA GDP.
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Typical Course Length: 2-4 hours
This course offers techniques for writing clear, concise and usable Standard Operating Procedure documentation that meets FDA, audit and internal specifications for technical documents.
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Typical Course Length: 4-6 hours
This course teaches how to leverage Kaizen Events to apply Lean problem-solving fundamentals and applications to rapidly improve business processes and reduce or eliminate non-value-add activities.
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Typical Course Length: 24-40 hours
This course introduces Key Performance Indicators (KPI) used to measure business efficiency, quality, timeliness, and performance, including their selection, measurement and monitoring. It can be customized for all leadership levels within an organization.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
The course provides a broad orientation for anyone in an organization implementing Lean. It incorporates instruction, discussion, and simulation on Lean concepts and tools.
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Typical Course Length: 6-8 hours
Course provides a solid grounding on Lean Leadership by exploring Lean’s three pillars for effective leadership as well as the importance of self-awareness, effective communication, trust and community building, and supporting employee growth, empowerment and leadership. Lean organizational structures and coaching systems may also be covered along with selected Lean Practitioner material.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course is for individuals who are on a team using Lean and seeking to deepen their understanding of Lean tools and applications. It covers topics such as proven Lean deployment structures, value streams, current and future state value-stream mapping, customer demand, continuous flow, leveling tools and Kaizen-event implementation. Office and/or manufacturing versions are available with case studies showing how Lean tools improve process velocity and flexibility.
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Certificate qualifications for Lean Practitioner:
Typical Course Length: 16 hours
This course builds understanding of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), a comprehensive approach to equipment and asset management that is used in Lean and Continuous improvement to maximize operational productivity. Participants build a foundational knowledge of its key concepts, methodologies and best practices.
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Typical course length: 6-8 hours
This course provides strategies for improving business outcomes including visioning, planning and value stream mapping (VSM). The course covers project scoping, value stream mapping and implementation planning to improve a selected business process.
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Typical Course Length: 16 hours
This course provides an overview of tools and processes to identify the root causes (what, how and why) of complex problems. Participants learn to apply tools to sample organizational challenges.
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Typical Course Length: 24-40 hours
This course develops participants’ skills in using 8D problem-solving methodologies for process, product and service improvement. It also explores synergistic ways for teams to efficiently identify root causes and prevent problems from reoccurring. Courses can be customized from basic to advanced.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
FMEA shows participants how to apply Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), a proactive, systematic approach used by Product and Process Engineers to ensure that products and processes function properly over their life spans. It demonstrates methods for identifying design and process deficiencies early in the product development process by analyzing potential failure modes and their effects; developing an action plan to preempt failure modes. The course engages participants in hands-on, company-specific exercises and projects.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course provides high-level awareness of key Six Sigma concepts with an emphasis on the concept of process variation, the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process improvement roadmap, and the differences between Six Sigma with Lean methods.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course sets the stage for becoming a Six Sigma Greenbelt team-member by introducing what “Six Sigma” means, the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process improvement methodology, and the typical roles and support systems set-up in a Six Sigma deployment. Emphasizing participant engagement, this course uses business application examples and exercises extensively.
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Certificate Qualifications: Successful completion of a Six Sigma Yellow Belt course and serve as team member on a Lean Kaizen event or a Six Sigma Green Belt project (no exam required).
Typical Course Length: 24 hours
The Six Sigma Greenbelt (intermediate) level course provides more advanced exploration and application of core Six Sigma tools and processes. The course focuses on improving processes that already exist – not creating brand new processes – using the DMAIC methodology: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control. Prerequisites: Basic process mapping, risk analysis, basic math and analytical skills, excel and a project scoped by a manager.
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Certificate Qualifications: Successful completion of a Six Sigma Green Belt course, lead and successfully complete a Six Sigma Green Belt project, toll-gated by a certified Black Belt or Master Black Belt, pass a certification exam.
Typical Course Length: 80 hours
This course provides an advanced level of Six Sigma knowledge and skills application, including a deep dive into statistical methods designed to address delayering of common-cause variation. Class focus is on improving existing processes although participants will be prepared to use the tools in process/ product design applications. Designs of Experiments, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and several aspects of regression will also be explored. A capstone project must be completed in parallel with class lecture and exercises. Prerequisites: Green Belt certification (successful completion of Green Belt training and a project).
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Certificate Qualifications: Successful completion of the requisite Black Belt training, passing score on written and oral exam, and completion of capstone project.
Typical Course Length: 20 hours in class plus self-directed project time of 8-12 hours
This course covers the processes and tools established to produce designs that are manufacturable, reliable, easily maintained and serviceable, good for the environment and at reasonable cost from the onset, based on customer requirements. Designs applications may be in any business or industry: manufacturing, services, finance, healthcare, research, and many others. The course assumes familiarity with both Lean and Six Sigma technology. Prerequisites: Six Sigma Green Belt course (certification ideal), Lean Practitioner.
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Typical Course Length: 32-40 hours
This course explores Statistical Process Control (SPC) and offers participants basic control charting tools for continuous and attribute data. Participants will learn to use SPC to capture a data signature, use it in the identification of root-cause, and to avoid process drifts from specification. It can be customized for introductory, intermediate or advanced level participants.
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Typical Course Length: 32 hours
Foundational course builds basic spreadsheet skills using the Microsoft Excel application. Next level course covers shortcuts and features to automate data manipulation and presentation. Advanced topics are for power users interested in data analysis and report generation. Learning objectives listed below cover the range of potential course levels.
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Typical Course Length: 4-8 hours
This course provides simple and effective strategies for using Microsoft Outlook to save time and increase productivity.
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Typical Course Length: 2-4 hours
This course presents object-oriented analysis, design and programming using C++ language. It emphasizes the use of proper programming logic, style and syntax.
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Typical Course Length: 20 hours
This course provides participants with the SQL skills needed to communicate with databases. It uses a hands-on, learn-by-doing approach and can be customized for participants with beginner, intermediate or advanced skills.
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Typical Course Length: 16 hours
These courses build participants’ skills for workplace related conversation including speaking, listening and reading comprehension. As participants advance, they expand their vocabulary and grammar knowledge and their understanding of workplace cultural expectations and interactions. Courses can be customized for industry- and company-specific context and vocabulary.
Typical Course Length: 10-12 weeks, 30-40 hours per level
Course engages participants in listening and speaking exercises which help them to communicate more competently and confidently in English. It provides them with opportunities to practice pronunciation, vocabulary and basic grammatical patterns.
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Course develops participants’ intermediate, workplace-based English communication skills, including workplace vocabulary and conversations, listening comprehension, pronunciation and more complex sentence structure.
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Course develops participants’ advanced-intermediate, workplace-based English communication skills, including formal and informal workplace communications, paragraph writing and workplace culture.
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Course develops participants’ advanced workplace-based English communication skills including formal and informal workplace communications, workplace writing, culture and soft skills.
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These courses help participants learn workplace conversational skills to better communicate with their Spanish speaking co-workers and clients. As participants advance, they expand their vocabulary and grammar knowledge while improving their pronunciation and listening comprehension. Courses can be customized for company- and industry-specific context and vocabulary.
Typical Course Length: 10-12 weeks, 30-40 hours per level
Course provides participants with foundational Spanish language skills for conversing with native Spanish speaking coworkers. Participants learn basic grammar, industry-specific vocabulary, cultural background information and practice conversations. Company specific forms, policies and issues can be integrated into the course where appropriate.
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This course reinforces and builds on Level 1 skills, adding to participants’ grammar and vocabulary knowledge while increasing their confidence and practice in conversation engagement.
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Level 3 reinforces and builds on Level 1 and 2 skills, expanding participants’ vocabulary and grammar comprehension, which they practice in conversational activities and role-plays. These skills increase participants’ comfort and communication skills in both work and social settings.
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Course offers participants opportunities to explore multiple dimensions of effective leadership including identifying one’s own leadership style, competencies, and deficiencies; differentiating between and integrating leader and manager behaviors; inspiring and encouraging effective followership; skillfully implementing change; and identifying and minimizing success barriers.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
This provides proven structured thinking processes and strategies to identify and solve a wide range of employee performance and behavior problems. Participants will learn effective “thinking” processes for determining the root cause(s) of performance failures as well as how to effectively process, sort, queue and execute the constant stream of demands on their time.
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Typical Course Length: 8-12 hours
This course introduces the fundamental principles and approaches to ethical leadership. It explores moral theories as well as leadership virtues and values.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
Course offers strategies for successfully leading and managing within organizations including creating a culture of consistency, fairness and integrity; generating SMART goals; setting clear expectations
for employees; establishing priorities; responding quickly to employee and customer needs; and finding a work/life balance.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
This course offers an overview of effective performance management processes and how they help organizations achieve operational goals.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course explores the principles and five fundamentals of high functioning teams: trust, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability, and attention to results. Participants will discover the importance of adopting an outward mindset which leads to cohesion among team members and successful team outcomes.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
Course provides an understanding of tools to develop a shared sense of vision; recognize and leverage each team member’s unique knowledge, skills and abilities; and clarify team members’ roles and responsibilities.
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Typical Course Length: 8-16 hours
This course examines effective team decision making and problem-solving processes and provides tools for maximizing the efficiency and impact of team problem solving and decision making.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course explores challenges in dealing with and leading change through a look at past, present and/or potential future changes. Participants will learn about the cycle of change and how to move through it comfortably and act during the process.
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Typical Course Length: 4-8 hours
This course provides tools and techniques for understanding issues among employees of different generations and improving verbal and written communication to reduce and address gaps in understanding.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course strengthens participants’ communication and trust building skills including listening actively; being open and supportive; effectively giving and receiving feedback; and creating safe space for effective conversations.
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Typical Course Length: 4 hours
This course provides tools for effectively engaging with coworkers in challenging conversations. It emphasizes the importance of empathy and flexibility in collegial interactions, as well as how to adjust when your style isn’t working.
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Typical Course Length: 4 hours
This course explores the sources of conflict and strategies for resolving seemingly intractable situations. It examines personal triggers, non-verbal cues and healthy versus unhealthy conflict.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
This course explores key cornerstones of equity, diversity and inclusion which are essential for fostering a genuine sense of belonging for employees. It strengthens skills needed by leaders and managers to create a more productive and inclusive workplace and maximize individual, team and organizational potential.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course helps participants to develop greater awareness and improve their emotional intelligence or quotient (EI/EQ) to create and sustain more productive and satisfying professional relationships.
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Typical Course Length: 16 hours
This course demonstrates how to use the DiSC behavioral model (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness) to enhance individual and team productivity and efficiency. Participants complete individual assessments online that the instructor uses to create customized course content.
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Typical Course Length: 16-24 hours
This course offers simple techniques to improve interactions and communications with fellow employees across a variety of mediums: in-person, video, text and email.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course develops the ability to recognize and identify differing critical problems present in daily work environments. Participants learn how to recognize and articulate a problem by identifying assumptions and definitions and develop a problem-solving process. Focus is on critical thinking around basic business functions, keys to success in business, and key performance indicators (KPI).
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This course provides a self-directed assessment of current time management effectiveness in 12 key areas and helps to develop strategies for time management skills.
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
Agile Scrum covers the Agile Scrum project management approach through dynamic lessons and hands-on activities with the goal of producing quality end products for customers. This course provides the information to successfully pass the Scrum Master certification exam. Course hours may be applied toward professional development units (PDUs).
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Typical Course Length: 20 hours
Course builds understanding of the Product Owner who represents the customer’s voice on the Scrum team. Participants are prepared to sit for the SCRUMStudy exam for the Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC®) certificate. Course hours may be applied toward professional development units (PDUs).
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Typical Course Length: 20 hours
This two-course series provides participants with skills for successful project management. Participants will learn how to manage a project from beginning to end and will put into practice their newly acquired skills. They will work on actual projects, learn to develop a team, and outline project scope and outcomes. Program may be presented together or as separate components. Course hours may be applied toward Project Management Institute Exam eligibility.
This module establishes participants’ understanding of the importance of the project manager’s commitment to delivering projects on time, on budget, and to the agreed upon objectives (Measures of Performance).
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Typical Course Length: 8 hours
This module provides proven tools and techniques for successful project planning, scheduling and controlling. Participants will learn a proven approach to shorten project duration, manage communication, provide concise status reports and keep projects on track for on-time and on-budget delivery.
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Typical Course Length: 16 hours
This presents steps to reduce hazards due to arc flash events. It includes fundamental electrical concepts, hazards that can lead to threat of arc flashes, electrical industry safety standards, hazard control measures, and regulations for electrical and fire safety.
This course reviews confined space hazards and ways to test for them. It also provides an understanding of permit versus non-permit confined spaces. Companies scheduling this class must provide in advance a copy of their written program for permit required confined spaces.
This course reviews confined space hazards and ways to test for them. It also provides an understanding of permit versus non-permit confined spaces. After reviewing typical positions allowed to enter a permit required space, participants practice entry into confined spaces and complete entrant, attendant or entry supervisor certification requirements. Companies scheduling this class must provide in advance a copy of their written program for permit required confined spaces. Their employees must also have a current first aid/CPR card. For construction companies, specific provisions and requirements for the construction industry and multi-employer worksites are included.
This course covers hazardous materials regulations from OSHA’s, EPA’s and U.S.-DOT’s perspectives and your company’s. It also provides an understanding of chemical properties and chemistry including hazard assessment, toxicology, and safety data sheets.
This course meets the training requirements for Level 2 responders who respond to and assist in defensive actions to resolve a hazardous materials release. Participants learn their role in an incident and become familiar with the Emergency Response Guidebook.
This course meets the training requirements for Level 3 Technician response under the OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 section Q. It includes 20 hours of lectures and exercises, and four hours of field work. Prerequisite: Completion of HAZWOPER, 8-Hour Emergency Responder, Operations
Course meets the training requirements for Level 5 Incident Commander under the OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 section Q. It involves lectures, exercises and field work and covers the same topics in 24-Hour Emergency Responder Technician course plus FEMA Incident Commander courses ICS 100 and ICS 200. Prerequisite: Completion of HAZWOPER, 8-Hour Emergency Responder, Operations.
This course builds foundational skills for recognizing and preventing worksite hazards. It covers common safety and health hazards, emphasizing hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention.
This course covers basic rigging practices including rigging plans and triangles, load control and hardware selection and inspection. It is appropriate for employees involved in rigging either frequently or occasionally.