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Graphic Design Software Essentials Certificate
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Graphic Design Software Essentials Certificate

$545

with Andy Helmi

The Adobe software tools are the leading software for graphic design. Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard computer illustration software. Use Illustrator to draw shapes and design logos, flyers, posters, banners, business cards, or any other vector graphics for print or web. Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books, and magazines. Use Adobe Photoshop to effectively work with selection and editing tools, layers, and masks to edit, retouch and enhance existing images or create your own composite digital artwork. Access to the Adobe software tools required. Software Requirements: For all online Adobe classes, students are responsible for purchasing their own software for their course. Trial versions of Adobe software are sometimes available on the Adobe company website.  If you're taking the entire “Graphic Design certificate” you'll need Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. Otherwise, you may sign up for a single software. There is no school discount through LERN. More information on Adobe Creative Cloud software can be found at adobe.com   

Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.

Human Resources Professional with Payroll Practice and Management
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Human Resources Professional with Payroll Practice and Management

$2,995

with Anna Smith and Helene K. Liatsos

Gain essential human resources and payroll management skills in this online course bundle. By course completion, you will be prepared to take the PHR (Professional in Human Resources) certification exam. For detailed information, CLICK HERE.

Integrated Marketing Certificate
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Integrated Marketing Certificate

$495

with William Draves

Discover advanced and new best practices in Integrated Marketing, the growing field that integrates traditional print marketing with digital marketing for even greater marketing success. Young generations are embracing print as well as online media, creating this exciting new area of marketing.   Find out the keys to success in the almost forgotten but still remarkably effective area of print, including catalogs, direct mail letters, and postcards.  Gain advanced marketing concepts and principles such as R, F, & M analysis; AIDA, and the 3-30-3 principle, that lead directly to practical marketing success. Acquire the understanding of how digital marketing and print complement and enhance each other, and how to integrate both kinds of marketing for even greater overall effectiveness.    

Start any month. Come away with new marketing expertise to make your value in the workplace even stronger.

3 courses, 3 months. Can be taken in any order.

CEUs/ILUs: 4.8

Length (in hours): 48

Intermediate InDesign CC
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Intermediate InDesign CC

$115

with Doug Sahlin

Learn to use advanced features in Adobe InDesign Creative Cloud (CC) to produce professional brochures, forms, and documents.

Introduction to InDesign CC
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Introduction to InDesign CC

$115

with Doug Sahlin

Learn how to use Adobe InDesign CC to create professional-quality letterhead, brochures, forms, eBooks, business materials and more.

Leadership Development (for Gen Y) Certificate
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Leadership Development (for Gen Y) Certificate

$395

with Constance Yates and William Draves

Especially geared for future leaders in the Gen Y generation (born 1980-1999), the certificate provides how-to practical information on advancing your leadership potential and making a difference in both the workplace and in society.    Find out what it takes to become an effective leader. Discover your style of leadership.  Discuss task completion, building relationships with your subordinates, becoming socially perceptive to changes in the workplace, utilizing your emotions in a positive and effective manner, and addressing challenging goals. Then learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned.  You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do.   At the end of completing the three-course certificate, you will come away with a new understanding, a new toolbox of leadership skills, and the information to move your leadership development into high gear. 

CEUs/ILUs: 4.8

Length (in hours): 48

Price in USD $395

Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.

Learning Styles Certificate
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Learning Styles Certificate

$395

with Julie Coates and Kassia Dellabough

New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here’s what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same.  But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently.  In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum.  Your instructors are some of the foremost authorities in the world on these subjects. They write, and speak around North America, on learning styles.

CEUs/ILUs: 4.8

Length (in hours): 48

Price in USD $395

Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.

Management Certificate
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Management Certificate

$595

with Sally Klauss and Joyce Odidison

Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. Nothing creates success like a solid foundation. Discover the keys to effectively managing your employees. Find out how to create clear expectations, engage and motivate employees, and increase your effectiveness.  

Then you will explore the principles of collaborative management and gain insight on how to expand your collaborative skills for the success of your team or organization.   

Finally, get the keys to managing different generations in your workplace. Discover what motivates each generation at work, what incentives they respond to, and what messages they value. 

CEUs/ILUs: 4.8

Length (in hours): 48

Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.

 





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