| WPD 009 01 | Supervisory Skills for Leaders | 2.1 | | - | 10/19/2020 - 11/20/2020 | Newell, Marylin | Cost: FREE | 20 | FULL | No manager looks forward to approaching employees about job-performance problems, yet few tasks are more important. Supervising People- The Essential Skills for Leaders will help you and identify communication barriers, performance issues and difficult employees. Learn the skills you need to address the difficult issues and improve team productivity.
Module One: Introduction to Supervision (To kick-off supervisory training, participants will examine the role of supervisor by exploring their perceptions of leadership, evaluating their self-image as effective supervisors, identifying the role expectations based on job descriptions, and evaluating their effectiveness in several competencies identified as important to the role of supervisors. Additionally, participants will discuss techniques for easing the transition from peer to supervisor and learn essential skills for building mutually trusting relationships.)
Module Two: Workplace Communication (Although we talk and listen every day, effective communication is a complicated skill that requires a solid understanding of where things can go wrong. This session blends the basic concepts of the communication cycle with an understanding of the physical, mechanical, and psychological barriers to effective communication. Evaluating their own effectiveness in the nine behavioral skills for effective communication will provide an action plan for improving communication skills.)
Module Three: Performance Coaching (Even with well-developed communication skills, no manager looks forward to approaching employees about job-performance problems, yet few tasks are more important. This session will help build coaching skills by providing supervisors with a technique for helping others learn from their mistakes. Supervisors will learn how to use feedback to reinforce desirable behaviors, and how to caringly confront problem behaviors. Performance coaching can inspire others to learn, grow and develop, and build a more loyal and committed workforce.)
Module Four: Handling Difficult Employees (Following-up with the performance coaching model, this session will provide additional practice in motivating employee performance and explore the challenges of dealing with particularly difficult employees and/or situations. This session will also help supervisors understand why performance problems occur and how to resolve them. By identifying potentially difficult employees and understanding their own behaviors, supervisors will be able to change the way they manage difficult employees.)
Module Five: Team Building (In this session, supervisors will learn how to formulate strong teams through building a climate of open communication, trust, and accountability. This session introduces supervisors to the stages of group development and helps them understand the role of the supervisor in each of these stages. Supervisors will learn how to build trust and establish a strong foundation through planning, organizing, motivating and holding a team accountable for results.) | Online | Online | FULL | Register Now |
| WPD 041 21 | Ultimate Biz Eval | 1.2 | | - | 10/13/2020 - 11/13/2020 | Carbajal, Melissa | Cost: $199 | 15 | 0 | Ready to take the next steps in becoming the CEO in your business? Level up from a home-based/small business and complete an Ultimate Biz Evaluation on the current state of your business affairs. We will discuss and evaluate the top five areas of any successful business, as well as evaluate the top five areas of personal development for every successful business owner. We will assist you in creating a formable action plan to help you reach the next level in your business. | Online | Online | OPEN | Register Now |
| WPD 057 01 | My Success in a Changing Workplace | 0.6 | | - | 10/15/2020 - 11/12/2020 | Trautman, Debra | Cost: $199 | 15 | 0 | The skills you need to deal with today's unexpected changes ar ehte same as the skills you need to tap in order to create positive changes in your life. If you are a student working part-time or if you are entering, or reentering, the workforce full-time, use this moment - during a pandemic - to access and make career decisions that alight with your needs but also your values, passions, and vision for life. Personal branding is about taking responsibility over how you present yourself. This class will guide you through the steps towards branding yourself in this new normal.
Course objectives include self-awareness and defining yourself; self-management and controlling/developing your image; social awareness and sharpening your brand; relationship management and acknowledging personal/professional influences; and personal branding in a crisis environment. | Online | Online | OPEN | Register Now |
| WPD 058 21 | Smart Money for Small Business | 0.2 | | 5:00 PM - 6:55 PM | 10/27/2020 - 10/27/2020 | | Cost: FREE but please register | 10 | 4 | This course teaches the basics of checkbook registers, reconciling, account management, budgeting, debt management, tax management, and making a bunch of profit, while adding life and humor to a boring subject! This course is not for accountants and business experts. It's geared towards new, small business owners or any business owner having a hard time controlling their cash flow, ensuring taxes are paid and profit is made!
A basic understanding of spreadsheets will help but is not required. Students should have an open mind and maybe a sense of humor...! The ability to concentrate on math for two hours is NOT required! | Online | Online | OPEN | Register Now |
| WPD 401 01 | Basic Life Support Certification | 0.4 | Mon
| 12:30 PM - 4:25 PM | 08/31/2020 - 08/31/2020 | McCamish, Marshall | | 9 | 3 | This course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals with the skills to keep people alive until they can be brought to a hospital or be treated with more advanced lifesaving measures.
This four-hour course covers adult and pediatric CPR, use of the bag-valve mask, airway obstruction, automated external defibrillation (with child AED update), stroke and cardiac arrest and other special resuscitation situations.
The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in all AHA courses and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the AHA. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the AHA.
All instructional materials will be provided upon arrival and are included in the cost of the course.
The successful completion of a certification exam in this training results in a credential being awarded and subject to
recertification, based on specific industry standards. Recertification is the responsibility of the participant to ensure it is
completed prior to the credential’s expiration date. | Jalbert Hall | 113 | OPEN | Register Now |
| WPD 421 05 | Behavioral Health Professional Cert | 3.5 | | - | 08/31/2020 - 09/25/2020 | Jacoby, Heather | | 12 | 6 | BHP training and certification is required for direct care providers working in Children’s Behavioral Health Services, either in the school or home/community setting, in programs receiving MaineCare reimbursement for section 28 RCS, 28 RCS Specialized, and 65 HCT or Day Treatment Services. Additional requirements for BHP certification include current Child & Adult CPR/First Aid certification and completion of an OSHA compliant Bloodborne Pathogens training.
To be eligible to take the BHP course, individuals must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or equivalent. Proof of education is required. Additional education requirements must be met to be eligible to provide MaineCare Section 65 services.
What is a BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL? THey work in community-based, in-home, and center-based programs for children with developmental disabilities and behavioral health needs.
What does a BHP do? They learn strategies to assist children in developing and maintaining daily living skills necessary to remain healthy, safe, and live a full and productive life.
Included in the class schedule are the requirements to become a certified Behavioral Health Professional. Discussion topics include: Introduction to BHP, professionalism, working as a team, cultural competency and family dynamics, communication, documentation, child development, children's behavioral health, autism, trauma, understanding and managing behavior, and principles of instruction.
12 classroom modules, homework and activities, periodic quizzes, videos for review, discussion groups, and a final exam in which the student must acheive a score of 80% or higher to become certified. | Online | Online | OPEN | Register Now |
| WPD 421 06 | Behavioral Health Professional Cert | 3.5 | | - | 09/28/2020 - 10/23/2020 | Jacoby, Heather | | 12 | FULL | BHP training and certification is required for direct care providers working in Children’s Behavioral Health Services, either in the school or home/community setting, in programs receiving MaineCare reimbursement for section 28 RCS, 28 RCS Specialized, and 65 HCT or Day Treatment Services. Additional requirements for BHP certification include current Child & Adult CPR/First Aid certification and completion of an OSHA compliant Bloodborne Pathogens training.
To be eligible to take the BHP course, individuals must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or equivalent. Proof of education is required. Additional education requirements must be met to be eligible to provide MaineCare Section 65 services.
Included in the class schedule are the requirements to become a certified Behavioral Health Professional. Discussion topics include: Introduction to BHP, professionalism, working as a team, cultural competency and family dynamics, communication, documentation, child development, children's behavioral health, autism, trauma, understanding and managing behavior, and principles of instruction.
12 classroom modules, homework and activities, periodic quizzes, videos for review, discussion groups, and a final exam in which the student must acheive a score of 80% or higher to become certified. | Online | Online | FULL | Register Now |
| WPD 421 07 | Behavioral Health Professional Cert | 3.5 | | - | 10/26/2020 - 11/20/2020 | Jacoby, Heather | | 12 | FULL | BHP training and certification is required for direct care providers working in Children’s Behavioral Health Services, either in the school or home/community setting, in programs receiving MaineCare reimbursement for section 28 RCS, 28 RCS Specialized, and 65 HCT or Day Treatment Services. Additional requirements for BHP certification include current Child & Adult CPR/First Aid certification and completion of an OSHA compliant Bloodborne Pathogens training.
To be eligible to take the BHP course, individuals must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or equivalent. Proof of education is required. Additional education requirements must be met to be eligible to provide MaineCare Section 65 services.
What is a BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL? THey work in community-based, in-home, and center-based programs for children with developmental disabilities and behavioral health needs.
What does a BHP do? They learn strategies to assist children in developing and maintaining daily living skills necessary to remain healthy, safe, and live a full and productive life.
Included in the class schedule are the requirements to become a certified Behavioral Health Professional. Discussion topics include: Introduction to BHP, professionalism, working as a team, cultural competency and family dynamics, communication, documentation, child development, children's behavioral health, autism, trauma, understanding and managing behavior, and principles of instruction.
12 classroom modules, homework and activities, periodic quizzes, videos for review, discussion groups, and a final exam in which the student must acheive a score of 80% or higher to become certified. | Online | Online | FULL | Register Now |
| WPD 516 01 | Entry-Level Software Development | 12 | | - | 10/19/2020 - 01/11/2021 | Magda, Barry | | 15 | 6 | Preparation for and building of knowledge, skills, and abilities required to become entry level Software Developers. Included in the training is:
- Basic introduction to ideas in software development using simple coding blocks portion conditionals, loops, sequencing, etc.
- Introduction to a "C" based procedural language translating code to real world actions, beginning with an internet of things (IOT) enabled device for introduction to hardware, and designing a bottom to top project in the Internet of Things using a development environment.
- Preceeding to include HTML & Javascript, developing webpage functionality
- Learning more advanced programming language for problem solving (Python)
- Using GitHub and other practice tools of the software developer to practice collaboration and agile/team development methods.
Students will prepare for a Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exam in one of the following areas:
- Software Development Fundamentals
- Introduction to Programming using Python
- Introduction to Programming using Javascript
- Introduction to Programming using HTML and CSS | Online | Online | OPEN | Register Now |
