Professional Development

The Business Writing Essentials course teaches the best practices for business writing professionals must master to write a clear, effective, professional emails, memos, letters, reports, and other business documents.

In collaboration with the Coalition of Arizona County Code Enforcement Officials (CACCEO), Arizona Western College (AWC) is offering an online certification course to Arizona County Code Enforcement Officials as well as the general public.

Ed2Go offers budget friendly career training courses as well as individual professional development classes. Courses can be completed at your own pace with a maximum completion time of 6 weeks.

Listening is the cornerstone of communication. Effective listening makes the person speaking feel valued, prevents miscommunication, speeds productivity, and creates more active forums of discussion. But listening goes beyond just hearing. From reading body language and facial expressions, to discerning emotions to accurately processing messages, listening involves a high level of observation, empathy and analysis.

School faculty and staff play a vital role in the holistic development of our children. Though academia serves to promote the discovery, acquisition, and application of knowledge, social and emotional learning occur in the classroom as well.

Excel 2019 Charts and Pivots provides advanced tools for analysis and presentation of complex, realistic data in Excel. Course ware coverage includes how to build more complex functions, use data analysis tools, make an impact with powerful chart and presentation features, and collaborate with other users.

The Listening with Intent course teaches students how to pay attention, not to voice your own thoughts, but to understand someone else's point of view. Being a good communicator is about how well you're able to listen. A good listener wants to hear what the other party is saying, so their response has focus and purpose.

This course serves as an introduction to students who want to learn the basics of Microsoft Excel. Students will learn the basic concepts of how to navigate spreadsheets, enter and delete data, use formulas and perform basic formatting functions. The focus of this course will be to familiarize students with using Microsoft Excel.

This course serves as an intermediate study to students who want to know more about Microsoft Excel. Students will learn ways to make their job easier and increase the sophistication of data reporting and analyzing, focusing on time-saving techniques, advanced “how-to” options, and further exploration of Microsoft Excel features.

This course serves to explore the built-in features and advanced features Excel has to offer. They will use shortcuts, new techniques, and key codes to work faster and smarter.

Proficiency in Microsoft is one of the most requested workplace skills. Earning a Microsoft Office Specialist certification sets your professional profile apart from the casual Microsoft user in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.

Keeping employees motivated and challenged can be a complex task. It depends on continual communication with an employee, and an understanding of that employee’s strengths and weaknesses. When procrastination, a lack of enthusiasm, and refusal to take initiative creep into an employee’s performance, it is time to find strategies to relight the fire.

The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship is a workforce development program that provides financial assistance to eligible military spouses for the pursuit or maintenance (including continuing education courses) of a license, certification, or associate's degree necessary to gain employment in an occupation or career field.

An introductory course of the QuickBooks Pro accounting software, including setting up a new company and chart of accounts; recording transactions with customers, vendors and employees; managing lists; running reports and customizing them; changing forms and generating letters. Prerequisites:Familiarity with the PC.