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Southwest Workforce & Community Solutions (SWCS) is offering 10 free non-credit professional enrichment classes.
SWCS provides tailored education and training for technical and professional advancement on campus and online.
As a commitment to support the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, SWCS is offering free online, self-paced tutorial courses to uplift businesses and individuals.
Signing up is as easy as a couple of clicks. Add the courses to your cart, create an account (or log in) and hit submit. You can access your courses immediately, and access is allowed for three months from enrollment date. Offer ends June 30th, so sign up now!
Visit southwest.tn.edu/ce/free for more info.
Courses offered:
As technology accelerates, skill sets and technical knowledge required to create web pages remain keystones of success in technology endeavors.
Whether building a new Web presence for clients or maintaining business, training, or academic course sites, learning the conceptual and technical infrastructure for building websites is a great investment of time and energy.
WordPress is the leading framework for creating and deploying data-driven websites and applications. WordPress skills are in demand for job, freelance, and startup opportunities.
Building client websites, upgrading outdated sites, or managing web presence for businesses, is made simple through a powerful WordPress platform.
Marketing Your Business on the Internet
During the COVID-19 crisis, many institutions and businesses have learned the importance of online marketing, including refreshed websites and social media campaigns.
The internet has become the key platform for communication, awareness, and transactions during the pandemic. New consumption patterns and new opportunities are being created for those who know how to market products and services over the internet.
Small Business Marketing on a Shoestring
As the internet has become a ubiquitous resource for individual departments and small businesses, significant opportunities for inexpensive yet effective online marketing are also opening up.
Using websites, social media, and digital tools, innovative educational and business leaders can use creativity to make students and customers aware of their courses, products, and services.
Fundamentals of Management and Supervision
Even experienced managers and leaders realize that remote work leads to an evolving field of responsibilities for them and for their teams. Remote teams and digital management tools create a greater need for personal management and team leadership skills.
Staying grounded in best management and leadership practices will help transition a team through the COVID-19 period and set a foundation for excellence beyond.
Keys to Effective Communication
Remote work and the intermediation of personal and team interactions change the dynamics of communication. Whether through written or voice and visual tools, intermediated communication is different and can be more challenging than the face-to-face environment.
However, practices of effective communication — clarity, empathy, flexibility, and many others — apply to the remote environment just as they do in person. Reviewing the keys to effective communication offers an opportunity to foster team solidarity during a time of remote work.
Managing customer service delivery and attaining new levels of customer satisfaction can begin with a review of the essentials of customer service.
Every customer is important to business success, and managing and building customer relationships offers growth opportunities for the future.
The fundamentals of success are anchored in individual excellence, which is built upon solid personal habits.
A time of isolation can be a great opportunity to refresh practices with goal-setting, time management, stress management, mindfulness, and communication.
Any season of crisis can threaten financial wellbeing, and this may be a particularly acute time for many.
A personal finance course can provide helpful reminders around issues such as personal or household budgeting, income and expense opportunities, and tools for managing finances.
Twelve Steps To A Successful Job Search
Millions of Americans are currently searching for new jobs. For those on the hunt, a quick, efficient job search is crucial for maintaining emotional and financial balance.
A step-by-step, orderly approach to research, preparation, interviews, and job selection is the ideal method for lining up a great new career during and after the COVID-19 event.