Professional Development Courses

COURSE FEE:  $79

Public speaking can be an intimidating experience for many in the professional world.  This workshop will help you develop the skills necessary to connect with your audience, get your point across clearly, and gain the confidence needed to be an effective public speaker in any business scenario.  Participants will learn how to get their message across through body language, verbal communication, and brand development.

COURSE FEE:  $159

The ultimate success or failure of a project is directly related to the quality of the planning process for the project.  Organizations are using project management skills to provide a structure for dealing with increasingly competitive markets, financial pressures to improve performance, restructuring, acquisitions and globalization.  This course provides participants with an overview of the essential elements of project management and the project management life cycle.

COURSE FEE:  $159

A core challenge for individuals and teams is to continue to work with individuals across multiple generations.  Each group has its own distinct characteristics, values, and attitudes toward work, based on its generation’s life experiences.  To successfully gain the contributions of diverse generations into the workplace, individuals need to actively try to understand people who are different from them.  This program will offer participants some techniques for working more effectively with various generations as well as consider other elements of diversity to strengthen results.

Course fee: $167

Learn how to plan and create a PowerPoint presentation that speaks to the audience.  Successful presentations should deliver the critical information in a natural and engaging way.  See how clickable items, interesting transition and animation schemes, and segmenting the presentation into logical chunks make it compelling for the audience, while keeping it easy for the presenter to deliver.

COURSE FEE: $167

In this advanced level of Excel, you will learn how to create pivot tables and turn them into beautiful reports. Learn to use power viewer to make your queries captivating. Use slicers to query your data or charts and use them in your spreadsheets outside of pivot tables.

Prerequisite: Experience using MS Excel is required.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

COURSE FEE: $269

Transform how you initiate, execute, monitor, and close projects leading to faster completion times. Learn to create and define projects, work with invested parties, set estimations, and manage multiple task calendars. Gain the knowledge and skills to build, maintain, and control focused project plans.

Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $230

This course is an introduction to basic 3D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) techniques using AutoCAD software and provides a guided, hands-on environment to learn the basics of solid modeling.  Fundamentals of 3D drawing, 3D editing, and introduction to 3D printing are presented.

Prerequisites: AutoCAD I or equivalent knowledge and keyboard proficiency.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $199

If you’re planning to apply to graduate school, you’ll likely have to take the GRE.  This series is here to help you prepare for the verbal reasoning, analytical writing, and math section of the GRE.  Topics include reading comprehension, text completion, sentence equivalence questions, and both essay tasks as well as quantitative comparison, data interpretation, and standard math questions. 

This course is fully online through ed2go.  To register go to:  https://www.ed2go.com/rvcc/online-courses/gmat-preparation?tab=detail