Central Community College provides businesses and organizations with career, professional and personal growth learning opportunities that are open to the public or customized to meet specific needs.
You can find upcoming courses with our Community & Industry Class Search. Please remember that we can also customize classes to meet your specific needs.
Job satisfaction is closely linked to feeling valued and appreciated by coworkers. However, everyone has their own unique way of feeling appreciated.
That is why the Appreciation at Work System was created: to help individuals discover their primary language of appreciation in the workplace and develop a better understanding of it.
Developing assertiveness is more than just learning to talk differently. Being assertive requires thinking assertively, feeling confident, and behaving positively. Guidelines for word choice and behavior, along with numerous exercises, will help you change how you interact with others.
You will discover how to use assertive communication in a variety of managerial situations to solve problems, make decisions, overcome conflict, negotiate agreements, build strong teams and more.
Discover who you are and own it. The CliftonStrengths assessment outlines your top talents, while your report features definitions of each of those talents specific to you. CliftonStrengths help you aim your purpose at greater performance.
During training, we will focus on your greatest opportunities for development and success (rather than on your weaknesses). You can use your reports to tackle things like your career, working on teams and your personal relationships.
Coaching is the process of letting people know that what they do matters to you. Coaching is about inspiring, encouraging and challenging. We will explore our possible role in performance issues before addressing them and the impact of the types of feedback we provide.
Developing communication skills that allow you to connect, understand, and collaborate more successfully with all types of people. Participants will identify the importance of communication to one’s success, overcome barriers to communicating effectively, define active listening and master techniques to be a better listener.
On average, people spend at least one-third of their lives in a work setting, and much of that time is spent under the pressure of deadlines, responsibilities and commitments.
Emotional behavior, both positive and negative, can be expected. Participants will learn to recognize the choices available in managing conflict and provide constructive feedback that gets positive results.
Customer service is intangible. We cannot poke, prod, weigh, or otherwise physically inspect customer service. Customer service deals with the human side of an organization. It is measured by the customer’s emotions, behaviors, understandings, feelings and perceptions.
This session will focus on how to refresh the lens you see customer service and revive your commitment to excellence.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is defined as the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of those around you. Leading experts and professionals agree that EQ is one of the top skills needed in the workforce.
Professionals with high EQ skills are more likely to stay calm under pressure, resolve conflict effectively and respond to co-workers with empathy. By building your EQ skills, you can bring out the best in others and create successful teams.
Making the transition from employee to manager is never easy. Relationships with co-workers change dramatically, and new supervisors frequently struggle to balance old relationships with new responsibilities.
After this class, you will reduce any fears or frustrations you may have, increase your effectiveness, gain greater respect from those reporting to you, improve your professional reputation and enhance your overall career.
Your title does not define leadership; your actions define it. The way you lead tells a story about your values and creates an example for others to follow. Key Leadership Principles can give you tools to increase your leadership potential.
Set yourself up for success and create positive, long-lasting habits. Accountability is an ongoing process that builds trust, improves relationships, and increases opportunities for personal and professional growth.
In this workshop, participants will learn new ways to take ownership of their actions and establish habits to stay on track.
Trust is a firm belief in the reliability, truth or ability of someone or something, and it underpins effective working relationships. Trust helps organizations run smoothly by increasing positivity, improving processes and driving individual and team performance.
This highly interactive Leadership Program features numerous developmental activities in a supportive, fun and positive learning environment! It is intended to enhance the skill level of current and prospective supervisors.
Outcomes include increased employee confidence, a positive work environment, more effective teams and results that impact the bottom line.
The series meets once a week for 7 weeks. The registration fee of $875 includes interactive instruction, printed materials and breaks. Lunch is not included.
Learn five key principles to become a more effective leader and create a positive work environment. Reflect on current skills and habits and discover alternative options to enhance leadership abilities. Begin a 7 week challenge of better self-understanding.
Assess your color or temperament and discover how each style interacts with others. Learn tools to communicate effectively with different colors while recognizing the attributes of each style.
Develop methods to enhance one-on-one discussions. Identify appropriate word choices, improve listening skills and learn how to ask better questions. Discover the importance of verbal and nonverbal communication.
Learn the importance of trust in the workplace. Explore trust busters and trust builders, and uncover signs of low trust in the workplace and its impact. Understand how trust is like money; it’s hard to earn and easy to lose.
In Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II model, participants will identify the appropriate leadership style to use for task-specific situations. This in-depth module includes leadership behavior analysis, application and development exercises.
Learn how to foster a productive, positive team environment. Discover the elements of a unified team and how to put the concepts into action. Learn how to brainstorm and come to a consensus. Additionally, discover how to lead effective meetings.
Learn how to recognize the choices available in managing conflict and provide constructive feedback that gets positive results. Discover the various conflict management styles and their appropriate uses.
Explore the change process and learn how people in organizations respond to change. Learn to value resisters and how to positively promote the change process.
Valerie Bren facilitates a variety of soft skill presentations, workshops and classes for Central Community College’s Community & Workforce Education team.
Valerie has a passion for helping people discover what they do best and applying it to their lives. She brings fun and energy to all her trainings/workshops and has a great desire to learn and to continuously improve. Valerie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Valerie is a certified coach in Gallup’s CliftonStrengths and BP 10. She is also a certified facilitator for The SLII Experience™ and Real Colors®. Valerie has completed the Professional Trainer Certificate Program of The Bob Pike Group.
Valerie is a board member of the South-Central United Way & Leadership Hastings. She is a member of the Hastings Young Professionals, a Leadership Hastings graduate and a member of the Sherwood Foundation Community Catalyst Cohort 37. She was awarded the winner of the Hastings Young Professionals’ Top 30 under 30ish. Most recently, Valerie is a member of Leadership Tomorrow’s class 38 in Grand Island.
Valerie and her family have made Hastings their home.
Central Community College’s Community & Workforce Education team offers training opportunities in the following areas:
Central Community College is your first contact for all of your training needs!
Explore the change process, understand how people in organizations respond to change and learn how to lead change. Learn to value resisters and how to positively promote the change process.
A personal brand is the unique combination of skills and experiences that make you who you are. It is how you present yourself to the world.
Participants will define what makes them unique and build a personal brand that demonstrates expertise and values.
Real Colors® is a fun, interactive discussion that will provide the skills needed to understand human behavior, uncover what motivates others and improve your communication with different personality types.
In Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II model, participants will identify the appropriate leadership style to use for task-specific situations.
This in-depth module includes leadership behavior analysis, application and development exercises.
Developing and leading a team is a complex undertaking. Team members often must share resources and manage competing demands on their time.
Effective teamwork is critical for completing tasks, improving motivation, sharing knowledge and resources, as well as generating ideas.
Everyone on our planet has the same number of hours in a day. How do some people appear to get so much more done? You cannot buy time, save time, or stop time; you can only use it — wisely or otherwise.
By learning to take ownership of your time, you can: improve the quality and quantity of your work, achieve your goals, increase your organization’s efficiency, reduce stress and have more time to do what you want.
