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Events
May 19
General Membership Meeting
" What Would Miss Manners Say? Social Manners in Social Media"
noon @ Meeting House in Oakland Mills
ASTD Maryland Chapter May 13, 5:30pm "BRAC Facts" May 20, 3:00pm "Better than Bullet Points: Improving e-Learning" June 10, 5:30pm "Identifying the Needs of Those You Lead"
May 13
"How to Create a Powerful Capability Statement"
June 17
"Teaming to Win: How to Find Teaming Partners"
August 12
"Gearing Up for Fiscal Year-End Sales" |
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About Us
BTC is located at the Gateway Campus
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive
Columbia, MD 21046
 keywords: "HowardCC Business Training Center" |
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Howard County Training News is published three times a year by the Business Training Center, Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Pkwy Ste HR 100, Columbia, MD 21044-3197. To suggest news or events for future editions, email jerickson@howardcc.edu. |
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| State Funds Available for Training | |
In these economically tight times, training budgets often get reduced drastically or cut altogether. Funds may sometimes be available from the following State of Maryland programs:
- Partnership for Workforce Quality (PWQ) - for companies seeking to retrain current employees to enhance business competitiveness, productivity, or employment stability or to enable workers to keep pace with emerging technologies
- Maryland Industrial Training Program - for companies that are expanding their workforce or are new to Maryland
- Maryland Business Works - for training incumbent workers in small businesses of 50 or fewer employees
- Dept. of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) - for on-the-job training for persons with disabilities
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| Hot Topics in PD Program Design |
Disaster and Emergency Operations Planning
Risk Management in Professional Development and Training Interactive e-learning
Neurobics
Virtual training via web conferencing
Life coaching
Webinars and podcasts
Hybrid courses (half in classroom, half online)
The online, virtual, synchronous classroom
sources: ASTD, HRE Online, SHRM |
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Training Topics Currently in Demand |
Challenges of a Changing Organization
Coaching and Feedback
Culture/Diversity/Respect
Email and Telephone Etiquette
Giving Recognition
Supervisory Skills for Customer Service
Workplace Privacy in the Electronic Age
Managing Conflict
Leadership Skills for Non-Supervisors
Mandarin Chinese language training
(based on some of our current training contracts with companies) |
| New HCC Courses, Programs, and Degrees |
NONCREDIT CONTINUING EDUCATION
- Reflective Supervision - For supervisors and directors who want an overview of the reflective approach to supervision, in which leadership responsibilities are viewed in a positive relational manner. Participate in interactive and self-assessment activities that give you practical guidance to build and practice interpersonal relationship skills for productive supervision of staff, strengthen your interpersonal work relationships, and identify, manage, and reduce conflicts in the work place.
- Government Contracting - classes in Federal Government Procurement Process; and Cost Analysis.
Professional Human Resource Management, the SHRM-sponsored preparation for the HRCI exam, is offered every February and September.
For more information, call 410-772-4988
CREDIT
- Management in the Virtual Environment - seven-course curriculum including Managing for the Future, Business Ethics, Taking Your Business Mobile, Protecting the Virtual Office, Building Virtual Communities for Business, Web Tools for Successful Business, Virtual Process Management in Business.
For more information, call 410-772-4785 or email Betty Logan.
- Digital Arts - new AA degree program with Multimedia, Video/Multimedia, Web Design, and Gaming/Simulation Design options.
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