Personal Effectiveness Certificate

  Personal Effectiveness Certificate

The required classes are focused on enhancing communication skills while the electives serve as an opportunity to customize the certificate for the participant’s specific job duties.

For example, students can choose to focus on team work or strictly personal development with classes involving Dealing with Conflict and Personality Styles and Behaviors. This certificate offers a range of choices that can suit employees across the county.

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Group and Team Performance Certificate

  Group and Team Performance Certificate

The participant can also choose to take Principles of Public Service (Ethics) and/or Project Management depending on their job duties. This certificate has the flexibility of being structured specifically for a person’s job duties, as needed, whether it involves working as part of a team or developing personal skills to enhance performance in a unit.

This certificate can be useful for a group of employees from a unit to take for the Team experience.

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Professional/Technical Best Practices Certificate

  Professional/Technical Best Practices Certificate

One of the major strategies of this certificate is to ensure the student is exposed to all aspects of the budget process within the county. As we expand our classes in these areas, it will be critical for budget analysts and accounting specialists to be familiar with these subjects and practices including longer range, strategic planning.

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Office Professional Certificate

  Office Professional Certificate

The goal of this certificate program is to enhance the current skills of the office professional and to help develop new skills for those entering this area of work. 

By participating in this certificate program, the office professional can gain experience in dealing with internal and external customers, developing skills to take messages and record information clearly and accurately.  The participant will gain knowledge of interpersonal communications.  They can customize the certificate with their supervisor, whether it is a need for training in project management or principles of public service. 

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Supervision Certificate

  Supervision Certificate

Included in this certificate is a range of electives allowing for customization and personal development as a supervisor. The list of required classes provides the supervisor with a wide range of classes and the opportunity to network with other supervisors.

It is highly recommended, though not included as required in the certificate program, that supervisors enroll in Supervisors’ Institutes I and II to further enhance their skills and increase their opportunities for networking within the County of Santa Barbara’s Supervisor’s Community.

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Management Certificate

  Management Certificate

The goal of this certificate program is to prepare managers to handle their managerial responsibilities and to acquire skills to enhance existing skills.  There is a range of electives offering managers the opportunity to customize the certificate relative to their jobs. 

Participation provides managers the opportunity to network with other managers in specific required classes while the electives provide interaction with a range of county employees.  To fully appreciate their managerial responsibilities, it is essential to have this type of interaction.  It aids the manager in keeping a finger on the pulse of what is happening countywide and not just in one department.

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