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DPMG: Practical Project Management
with Jes Vargas
Practical Project Management
This 3-day course is designed to teach participants the basic principles of good project management. Participants will learn how to identify and schedule project resources, create project schedules, and produce critical path planning and evaluation reports. These learning objectives are reinforced by a course project that allows participants to apply the principles and use the tools they learned.
The training is design to:
- Describe what project management is and discuss key elements of the project management framework
- Understand the elements that make good project scope management important
- Describe the importance
Date: September 15, 22, 29, 2023
Schedule: 3-Fridays, 8:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Downtown Redding Campus, Room: 8104
Facilitator: Jes Vargas, DPMG Corp.
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Computers - Beginning Excel 2016
with Melissa Ray
Beginning Excel 2016
Did you know that Excel know-how can increase your job prospects as well as your starting salary? Excel is a transferrable skill that any hiring manager understands is critical. That’s the beauty of knowing such a universal computer program: It gives you options. By using Excel, you’ll save a lot of time at your job and/or in your personal life, and it’s guaranteed to be more accurate than something you could’ve done by hand. What’s not to love?
Topics covered: Create and save a workbook. Enter cell data. Create formulas and insert functions. Insert, delete and adjust cells, columns, and rows. Apply text and number formats. Align cell contents. Apply styles, themes, and basic conditional formatting. Preview and print a workbook. Set up the page layout. Create headers and footers.
Date: September 19 - 28, 2023
Schedule: Tuesdays/Thursdays, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Shasta College Downtown Redding Campus, Room: 8208
Facilitator: Melissa Ray
Fee: $149, includes a thick student handbook that you take with you as an ongoing guide for future reference.
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DPMG: Practical Problem Solving, Virtual Online Class
with Jes Vargas
Practical Problem Solving
Practical Problem Solving is the foundation of continuous process improvement. Improving requires continually solving problems - whether these are technical or recurring day-to-day problems. As a Lean tool, A3 reporting addresses the root cause of everyday problems. When used properly, the PDCA-A3 process dramatically increases the probability of success.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn to identify, classify and define problems.
- Be able to analyze and prioritize problems, symptoms and root causes.
- Match the right problem-solving process to the problem.
- Use a variety of proven problem-solving models, tools and techniques.
- “Frame” a problem to gain support and buy in from others in the organization.
- Understand how Plan Do Check Act process and A3 works.
- Create an A3 problem report to “tell the story” of the problem to guide and structure the problem-solving activity.
- Use root cause analysis tools.
- Develop countermeasures.
- Develop implementation plans.
Dates: September 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
Schedule: 5-Tuesdays, 8:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Instructor Led via Zoom
Facilitator: Jes Vargas, DPMG, Corp.
Fee: $370
NOTE: The facilitator will email the Zoom link with instructions to all registrants prior to the start of class.
Prof Dev: DiSC, Know Yourself and Others to Grow Yourself and Others
with Reanette Etzler
DiSC – Know Yourself and Others to Grow Yourself and Others
Want to understand yourself and those around you better? Learn to connect by understanding the different ways in which people meet their natural tendencies. Knowing DiSC will help you get there, and to be the best leader possible. People can be drivers, influencers, sensitive, and detail-oriented. Where do you fit? Where do your co-workers fit? How do you engage with each person, and how do they engage with you?
Topics:
- A deep dive into each of the DiSC profile types and their main characteristics.
- You will take an assessment yourself to understand your natural tendencies.
- How to determine other individual profiles based on an in-dive into the DiSC Assessment.
- Learn how to manage better, connect better, and understand how to interact with others, even the most challenging individuals.
Date: October 3, 2023
Schedule: Tuesday, 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Instructor Led, Virtual via Zoom
Facilitator: Reanette Etzler, PHR, DiSC Certified Consultant/Trainer, The HR Coach, Speaker, Coach, Consultant
Fee: $75 (includes the DiSC assessment)
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Computers - Intermediate Word 2016
with Melissa Ray
Intermediate Word 2016
Sort table data. Create a chart. Add an Excel table. Create and modify text styles. Create custom list or table styles. Apply themes. Use a template. Create and modify a template. Insert columns and section breaks. Simplify and manage long documents. Use mail merge to create letters, envelopes, and labels.
Date: October 3 - 12, 2023
Schedule: Tuesdays/Thursdays, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Shasta College Downtown Redding Campus, Room: 8208
Facilitator: Melissa Ray
Fee: $149, includes a thick student handbook that you take with you as an ongoing guide for future reference.
IMPORTANT registration deadline: please register by September 15, 2023
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Prof Dev: Communication Calls for Connection! A Communication Series
with Reanette Etzler
Communication Calls for Connection! A Communication Series
This 2-part series will include the following: Only One Thing Stands Between You and Success. It Isn’t Experience. It Isn’t Talent. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect. We will teach the Five Principles and Five Practices to develop the crucial skill of connecting.
Topics: connecting with others is a major determining factor in reaching your full potential. It’s no secret! Connecting is a skill you can learn and apply in your personal, professional, and family relationships - and you can start now by taking this course!
Date: October 11 & 18, 2023
Schedule: 2-Wednesdays, 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Instructor Led, Virtual via Zoom
Facilitator: Reanette (Fillmer) Etzler, PHR, DiSC Certified Consultant/Trainer, The HR Coach, Speaker, Coach, Consultant
Fee: $89
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Computers - Intermediate Excel 2016
with Melissa Ray
Intermediate Excel 2016
Topics covered: Work with specialized, logical, date, time, and text functions. Work with ranges. Sort and filter data. Query data with database functions. Outline and subtotal data. Create and modify tables. Apply intermediate and advanced conditional formatting. Create, modify, and format charts. Use advanced chart features. Create a PivotTable. Filter data using timelines and slicers.
Date: October 17 - 26, 2023
Schedule: Tuesdays/Thursdays, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Shasta College Downtown Redding Campus, Room: 8208
Facilitator: Melissa Ray
Fee: $149, includes a thick student handbook that you take with you as an ongoing guide for future reference.
IMPORTANT registration deadline: please register by September 29, 2023
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DPMG: 7S Workplace Organization
with Jes Vargas
7S Workplace Organization
Customers, employees and suppliers can tell a well-run organization without a narrated tour. The visual clues are everywhere. Establishing simple visual controls is one of the most important elements of becoming a Lean and Green Enterprise. 7S reduces the opportunities to make errors and help highlight, at an early stage, potential delays and disruptions and drives an organization to becoming green at the grass root level. 7S is much more than ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’. 7S comprises of seven principles to make people highly efficient, effective and greener in performing their doing work. This one day session will provide the participants with the principles of 7S.
The training is designed to: Provide participants with an overview of 7S, how it can benefit organization’s performance, an explanation of each category, how to get started, things to avoid, and tips for leadership.
Date: October 20, 2023
Schedule: Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Downtown Redding Campus, Room: 8104
Facilitator: Jes Vargas, DPMG Corp.
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