Professional Development

Customized Training

The USC Aiken Continuing Education Department custom designs training programs to address your organization’s specific needs and interests. These tailored programs are flexible in format, location, and schedule. In an environment where change is the only constant, continuous learning keeps your employees on the leading edge. Our quality training is affordable and packed with tools that prepare you and your organization for the future.

Contact Alan Andrews at (803) 641-3288 or alana@usca.edu for more information about customized training.

Customer Service Series

Instill a service philosophy, establish support for a service culture, deliver!

Executive Leadership Series

Communicate a compelling vision, build involvement and ownership, capitilize on change.

Supervisory Skills Series

Reinforce key messages, maximize productivity and supervisory effectiveness, create a motivating work climate.

Communication Effectiveness Series

Learning to listen, top-notch writing skills, dealing with difficult people, and doing business in Spanish.

Grant Writing Series

How to design and write winning grants, develop your grant proposal, major gifts, and planned giving for non-profits.

Advertising and the Media Series

The urgency of advertising for business owners, dealing with the media, hot topics when needing to advertise, small budget marketing for big budget impact.

Managing and Motivating Employees Series

Motivating, training and recognizing your employees; handling employee conflict; managing generational diversity, working with and valuing the differences; peer today, boss tomorrow, and developing mentoring skills

Project Management Professional Certification

Project management is applicable to all levels of management and all types of businesses and industries. These classes, offered by the Savannah River Chapter of the Project Management Institute, in partnership with USC Aiken, prepare you to take the Project Management Institute certification exam. Participants learn the framework of project management and cover the nine knowledge areas from the 2005 Edition Project Management Book of Knowledge. Upon successful completion of the program, you are presented with a certificate from USC Aiken; 35 PDUs/3.5 CEUs are awarded.

Hazardous Materials Managers Certification Course and Exam

This is an overview course designed to prepare participants for the Certified Hazardous Materials Mangers National Certification examination. Specialists in the field of hazardous materials management can further their professional development by obtaining this nationally recognized certification. The course is sponsored by the Magnolia Chapter of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers and USCA.

ONLINE COURSES

Paralegal and Advanced Paralegal Certification

This nationally acclaimed program is designed for beginning as well as advanced legal workers. Students will be trained to investigate complex fact patterns, research the law, interview witnesses and assist in preparing cases for courtroom litigation. The instruction is practice oriented and relates to those areas of the law in which legal assistants are most in demand. This course is also effective in careers where knowledge of the law is a plus.

Ed2Go Classes

Our instructor-facilitated online courses are informative, fun, convenient, and highly interactive. All courses run for six weeks (with a two-week grace period at the end). Courses are project-oriented and include lessons, quizzes, hands-on assignments, discussion areas, supplemental links, and more. You can complete any of these courses entirely from your home or office and at any time of the day or night. To see all the courses we offer, visit www.usca.edu/conted and click the Ed2Go Classes link.