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Training Development

These courses will be a valuable investment in your career and personal growth.

Improve your professional skills: Learning about these topics can help you develop and improve your professional skills, particularly if you work in a field that involves training, presenting, or facilitating discussions or meetings.

By learning about these topics, you can gain a deeper understanding of best practices and techniques to make your presentations, meetings, or training sessions more effective and engaging.

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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: 

Name: Creating a Great Webinar

Course Outcomes:

  • Describe webinars and their purpose.
  • Choose the best formats.
  • Prepare for webinars.
  • Avoid common mistakes.
  • Describe how to interact with the target audience.
  • Follow up successfully.

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: 

Name: Developing a Lunch and Learn

Course Outcomes:

  • Describe what a lunch and learn is and is not.
  • Set up and break down a lunch and learn.
  • Create new content.
  • Address difficult situations and people.
  • Create useful takeaways.
  • Use feedback to improve future lunch and learns.

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: 

Name: Facilitation Skills

Course Outcomes:

  • Define facilitation and identify its purpose and benefits.
  • Clarify the role and focus of a facilitator.
  • Differentiate between process and content in the context of a group discussion.
  • Provide tips in choosing and preparing for facilitation.
  • Identify a facilitator’s role when managing groups in each of Tuckman and Jensen’s stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, and performing.
  • Identify ways a facilitator can help a group reach a consensus: from encouraging participation to choosing a solution.
  • Provide guidelines in dealing with disruptions, dysfunctions, and difficult people in groups.
  • Define what interventions are, when they are appropriate, and how to implement them.

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: 

Name: Train-The-Trainer

Course Outcomes:

  • Define training, facilitating, and presenting.
  • Describe how to identify participants’ training needs.
  • Create a lesson plan that incorporates the range of learning preferences.
  • Create an active, engaging learning environment.
  • Develop visual aids and supporting materials.
  • Manage difficult participants and tough topics.

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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