Writing, Technology among virtual courses available through new partnership
June 18, 2020
The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce and the Community College of Rhode Island's Division
of Workforce Partnerships have formalized a partnership that will bring valuable programming
to the businesses of Greater Newport.
The Chamber’s partnership with CCRI was created to educate and empower local entrepreneurs
and business owners by providing enriching skill-specific courses. Course topics include:
Advanced Excel, Technical Writing, Data Literacy, and Virtual Technology.
“Developing industry partnerships and strengthening the skills of Rhode Island’s workforce
continues to be an important initiative at the Community College of Rhode Island.
CCRI is excited to partner with the Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce to help support
its members through in-demand trainings that allow businesses to thrive in a digital
economy,” said CCRI President Meghan Hughes.
All courses will be held virtually throughout the summer, with limited class size.
We encourage all businesses and nonprofit organizations to consider taking advantage
of this valuable, professional development opportunity, which is being offered at
no cost, courtesy of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training’s Real Jobs
Rhode Island Grant Program.
For more detailed program, please email [email protected]. To register for a course, or inquire about registering your team, please email [email protected], or visit NewportChamber.com.
The organizations will kick off the partnership by taking registration for the following
virtual courses:
Advanced Excel for Business
June 22–23
Mondays and Thursdays, 9–11 am
This training looks to provide participants with the ability to harness the power
of Microsoft Excel. Participants will learn statistical and financial applications,
as well as logical, lookup and math formulas. In covering analysis, this class will
look at queries and trendlines, PowerPivot, PowerView, and PowerMap.
Virtual Technology for Business
June 22–July 10
Make remote work ‘work’ for your team. With rapid advancement in technology, a world-wide
trend towards and increasingly “mobile” business model has emerged. This training
focuses on technologies that support participants’ ability to operate virtually and
remotely. Topics include: Virtual Meeting Platforms, mobile Connectivity, Microsoft
“Tools for Collaboration," Remote Working and Virtual Communication, Leveraging the
“Cloud,” and Technology and Productivity.
- Class 1
Week of June 22 (with two-hour Webex portion on Friday, June 26 from 9–11 am)
- Class 2
Week of July 6 (with two-hour Webex portion on Friday, July 10 from 9–11 am)
- Class 3
Week of July 6 (with two-hour Webex portion on Friday, July 10 from 9–11 am)
Data Literacy
June 27–September 14
Mondays and Thursdays, 9–11:00 am
Throughout this course, students will begin with an introduction to data analytics
followed by data analysis concepts and techniques, collecting and cleansing data,
Microsoft excel skills (intermediate and advanced) and finish with discrete mathematics
overview and analysis methods. Students will complete a Final Project for the course
based on a dataset of their choosing.
Technical Writing
June 30–July 23rd
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9–11:00 am
This introductory course focuses on producing concise, clear, credible, objective
reports, memoranda, and other related workplace writing. The course promotes writing
that demonstrated an awareness of the reader, as well as how to explain complex subjects
in an organized manner.
“This is a great opportunity for employers, their employees and the unemployed throughout
the Greater Newport region to skill up. I hope that companies who have transitioned
to remote work, or have been forced to reduce their employees’ hours take advantage
of these free, value-added programs”, says Erin Donovan-Boyle, Executive Director
of the Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce.
ABOUT THE GREATER NEWPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce is one of the state’s largest business advocacy
organizations, whose mission is to connect, innovate, enhance, and advocate for the
businesses of Greater Newport. As a trusted and reliable institution for nearly 100
years, the Greater Newport Chamber is a vibrant collective body of the greater Newport
business community with nearly 1,100 members representing over 50,000 employees. We
work to create valuable strategic partnerships, promote strong economic growth, diversity,
and prosperity to serve its members and the Greater Newport region.
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