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Business Administration
ONE-UNIT BUSINESS SKILLS
COURSES
Looking
for a Job? Aiming for a Promotion? Start Here!
Chabot's Business
Department is now offering a series of 1-unit courses intended to provide you
with the skills needed to secure a job or to enhance your employability or
potential for promotion. These short, 6-week courses are focused on specific
job-hunting skills, on developing a plan to start your own business, on
improving your professionalism and your ability to supervise others. These
courses will help you to build the skills you want quickly! All courses are
online and designed to fit your busy schedule. See the class schedule for
specific dates for each course.
Earning a Degree?
These courses can be
applied toward the 3-9 additional business units required for your AS Degree in
Business (General Business, Management, or Marketing emphasis). The courses are
also transferable as electives to a 4-year university. Limitations apply, so
please speak with a counselor.
Earning a Certificate?
Effective Fall 2010, You
can earn a new
Certificate of Proficiency "Business
Skills", which includes 7 units of BUS-50 one-unit courses.
You can also apply these courses toward the 6 additional business units required for your Management
Certificate of Completion or Marketing Certificate of Achievement, or the 5
additional business units required for your Small Business Management
Certificate of Completion.
Course Schedule and
Descriptions
| Course Title |
Course Description |
Spring -10 |
Summer '10
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Fall '10 |
Spring '11 |
| BUS-50A Skills for Supervisors |
Survival skills for new supervisors
and those who aspire to move to managerial positions. Necessary skills
of time management, leadership, planning, motivation, conducting
meetings, communication, handling stress, conflict, and performance
appraisals will be discussed. |
X |
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X |
| BUS-50B Business Etiquette and
Professionalism |
Principles of American and
international business etiquette for the business professional:
introductions, conversational techniques, professional appearance,
entertainment, telephone and computer etiquette, and more. |
X |
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X |
| BUS-50C Interviewing for Success |
Principles and techniques of
successful employment interviews: interview preparation, selling your
qualifications, managing difficult qualifications, following up on the
interview. |
X |
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X |
X |
| BUS-50D Resumes and Job Application
Letters |
Research and preparation of persuasive
employment search documents, including company research,
self-assessment, document composition and format. Includes resumes, job
application letters, and follow up communications. |
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X |
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| BUS-50E Business E-Mail |
Communication and technology
principles for effective use of email in a business environment,
including email test and subject line composition and editing, email
technology and tools, inbox management, email etiquette, email as a job
search tool, and email security. |
X |
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X |
| BUS-50F Developing a Business Plan |
Research, analysis and outlining of
logical and persuasive business plans, including market and competitive
analysis, financial plans, management and operational plans, and plan
outlines and executive summaries. |
X |
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X |
X |
| BUS-50G Negotiating Skills |
Negotiation theory and skills
development for business negotiations. Negotiating goals, strategies,
key skills, and styles. |
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X |
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| BUS-50H Practical Business Ethics |
Examination of real-world ethical
issues in the business environment. Includes exploration of personal
ethics, review of contemporary business ethics issues, and development
of approaches to resolving ethical dilemmas. |
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| BUS-50J Time Management Skills |
Practical tips and tools to manage
time in academic and business-related situations. Setting short-term
and long-term goals. Prioritization of goals and activities.
Developing plans; organizing your workplace. Typical time wasters/time
leaks, including procrastination, and ways of overcoming them.
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X |
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X |
X |
| BUS-50K Listening Skills |
Examination of listening styles and
skill development for the business environment. Includes exploration of
the benefits of listening, listening attitudes, and tips for improving
listening. |
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X |
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| BUS-50L Careers in Business |
Exploration of the wide variety of
potential careers in business, and the educational preparation
appropriate for those careers. |
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X |
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| BUS-50M Workplace Diversity |
Tips and tools to value and manage
diversity in the workplace. Overview of theoretical and legal
perspectives, dimensions of diversity, the impact of diversity on the
workplace. Case studies to acknowledge differences and successfully
build relationships with people of diverse backgrounds. |
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X |
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| BUS-50N Dealing with Difficult People |
Techniques for resolving and preventing interpersonal conflict in
the workplace. |
X |
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X |
| BUS-50P Quality Customer Service |
Techniques and tools to understand customer expectations, and to
exceed those expectations. Includes analysis of customer needs, delivery
of quality customer service, and dealing with challenging customers to
win customer loyalty. |
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X |
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Other Topics of Interest?
Are there other topics
you'd like to see offered as 1-unit courses? Please email us with your ideas:
learnbusiness@chabotcollege.edu
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