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Critical Administrative Skills

Excel in any administrative role.

These Critical Administrative Skills courses are designed to equip you with essential skills necessary for administrative and managerial roles in any organization.

Content covers essential skills that are highly valued by employers in a wide range of industries. By developing your skills in presentation, business writing, budgeting, financial reporting, and time management, you will become a more valuable and marketable employee.

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: CASM010

Name: Business Writing

Course Outcomes:

  • Outline common spelling and grammar issues in business writing.
  • Apply basic concepts of sentence and paragraph construction.
  • Explain the basic structure of agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports.
  • Select the appropriate format to use for agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports.
  • Discuss tips and techniques for writing agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports.
  • Summarize the purpose of Request for Proposals, Projections, Executive Summaries, and Business Cases.
  • Outline techniques for improving proofreading skills.
  • Identify ways peer review can help improve business writing skills.
  • List guidelines for printing and publishing business writing.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: CASM020

Name: Presentation Skills

Course Outcomes:

  • Perform a needs analysis and prepare an outline.
  • Select presentation delivery methods.
  • Practice verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
  • Overcome nervousness.
  • Develop and use flip charts with color.
  • Create targeted PowerPoint presentations.
  • Utilize whiteboarding for reinforcement.
  • Describe how video and audio enhance a presentation.
  • List criteria for determining what types of video and audio to use.
  • Enrich the learning experience with humor, questions, and discussion.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: CSEM040

Name: Time Management

Course Outcomes:

  • Prioritize each day’s activities in a more efficient and productive manner.
  • Overcome procrastination quickly and easily.
  • Handle unexpected barriers and distractions.
  • Organize your workspace and workflow to make better use of time.
  • Delegate more efficiently.
  • Use rituals to make your life run smoother.
  • Plan meetings more appropriately and effectively.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: CASM040

Name: Budgets and Financial Reports

Course Outcomes:

  • Identify financial terminology.
  • Explain how financial statements are used in an organization.
  • Summarize how to analyze financial statements.
  • Explain how budgets are used in an organization.
  • Describe techniques that make budgeting easier.
  • Identify advanced forecasting techniques.
  • Describe how to manage a budget.
  • Explain how to make smart purchasing decisions.
  • Identify the legal aspects of finances.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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