Workplace Training

...a quick infusion of skills for your workplace!

Quick Infusion of Skills Customize Your Class Teach English to Non-Native Speakers

Workplace Training collaborates with organizations to maintain their competitive edge with customized training programs that are responsive to the specific challenges and needs of the business and its people.

While organizational performance depends on both the professional skills and the personal attitude of your staff, training is an influential tool that can improve both performance and morale. Enhancing the capabilities of your employees is a retention strategy that improves productivity and the bottom line.

For more information, contact Kathy Goobic at 703-658-1288 or e-mail workplacetraining@fcps.edu.

Update skills, improve performance, and advance in your career. These intense, information-packed sessions provide the skills you or your employees need right now. Enrollment is open to all; companies may use purchase orders to register employees. Click on catalog to download PDF.

• Careers
• Communication
• Management

Customize Your Class
Select modules from existing courses and training programs, or ask us to tailor a learning program to meet a specific objective. Either way, our professional instructors deliver affordable solutions at a time and location convenient for your business.

Communication

• Business Writing – Improve confidence and communicate more clearly, concisely, and courteously.
• English for the Workplace – Increase effective workplace communication, worker skills, and productivity. Employees benefit by receiving greater understanding of workplace policies and procedures, improved job literacy, and increased participation.
• Spanish for the Workplace – Our business-specific Spanish classes provide staff with the tools to communicate more productively with Spanish-speaking employees and customers. Workplace Spanish® programs are a non-academic approach to learning bite-size terms and phrases that can be implemented immediately.
• Customer Service – Explore practical techniques for positive problem-solving, communicating effectively with all cultures, building rapport with customers, and projecting a professional image. 
• Presentation Training – Help your staff build confidence and skills, manage nerves, and create logical, convincing presentations for both large and small groups. 

Organizational and Personal Development

• Time Management – Minimize time-wasting activities by providing staff members with tools to plan, organize, and set priorities for their workday.
• Stress Reduction – Learn and use a variety of stress reduction techniques to overcome stress-related challenges at work and at home.
• Conflict Resolution – Training staff to deal with difficult people will help them manage conflict and build better relationships.
• Team Building – Introduce the skills and behaviors of a successful team to your staff and teach them strategies to use these skills in the workplace.

Information Technology
From beginner to advanced, select the computer course that matches the competency level of your employees. Choose from standard off-the-shelf books or ask us to create a class targeted to your specific technology need.

• Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Keyboarding, Web Development

Relaxation and Rewards
Recognition and incentives provide you with a way to acknowledge hard work and to show you appreciate your employees. Let us design a relaxation or wellness program to recognize your staff. Options include the gamut of courses offered at Adult and Community Education.  Browse the catalog and consider cooking classes, floral design, genealogy, fine crafts, needlework, nutrition and health topics, and woodworking. 

Skill Development
Development of on-the-job skills and trades certifications are an excellent way to retain valued employees by providing upward mobility in the company.  ACE is a leading provider of trades and apprenticeship-related instruction in northern Virginia. We can provide onsite skill development or continuing education classes to meet trades license renewal requirements. 

We have provided continuing education programs for electricians, plumbers, and gas fitters at convenient times and locations.  All Apprenticeship and Trade and Industry classes can be customized and presented onsite to meet your needs.

Teach English to Non-Native Speakers

Learn to teach English to adult non-native speakers in this highly interactive course. Practice classroom activities, observe classrooms, discuss observations, and develop lesson plans for an ESOL class.

Course topics include: adult learning theory, assessments, cross-cultural training, integrating technology, lesson pacing and planning, pronunciation, reading, text use and supplements, and using the REEP curriculum.

Requirements: college degree with some teaching/tutoring experience preferred, excellent oral and written English communication skills. CEUs are offered. Enrollment is limited; early registration is recommended.

Send a short resumé to workplacetraining@fcps.edu highlighting your educational and professional background and a paragraph stating why you are interested in this class. Upon receipt of this information, you will receive additional steps on how to register.

57 hrs--Tuition $429
19 sessions @ 3 hrs each

Satisfied Customers

Catholic University | Fairfax County Government | Loudoun County Public Schools | MVM Inc. | Criminal Justice Academy | Strategic Investment Group | Wesley Housing Development Corporation | Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce | Fairfax County Park Authority | Goodwin House | Navy Federal Credit Union | Nordstrom | Anning-Johnson Industries | De La Rue Security Printing | Becker Electric | Fairfax Water | Grace Ministries | EE Reed | Department of Defense | K. Hovnanian Homes | Pulte Homes | Macerich Property Management | Sprint/Nextel