Center for Business & Industry at John A. Logan College

The Center for Business and Industry offers workplace skills courses. Scroll through the examples listed below for more information on what has been provided in the past. For more information contact Dennis White.

BIN 105 Time Management 0.5 Credits
Description: The true key to time management is learning how to manage yourself rather than time. There are time management myths, time wasters, and time savers. This training is for every business professional who wants greater control of time, management style and life. Through this session, you will learn what the experts say about time management and what to do to develop control.

BIN 107 Stress Management: A Path To Peak Performance 0.5 Credits
Description: Stress can enrich our lives or stress can cause us serious problems. This course is designed to provide an understanding of factors causing stress and common reactions to sources of stress. Practical ways to manage stress will be demonstrated to help transform stress into success.

BIN 108 Successful Business Presentations 1.0 Credits
Description: This course is designed for the person who has to make speeches, talks, or business/technical presentations. It is designed for the person who is afraid to speak in front of an audience and also for the person who has trouble preparing a speech in the appropriate sequence of events.

Proven techniques are presented that will provide the skills required to give more confident, enthusiastic, and persuasive presentations. The course will address the topics of evaluating your skills, dealing with anxiety, planning, and organizing your presentation, using visual aids, and preparing and delivering the presentation. Students will learn the basics of good presentation, learn how to prepare a presentation, and learn how to deliver the presentation.

BIN 117 Career Management 0.5 Credits
Description: The topic of careers is important both to individuals and to organizations that want to assist the careers of their employees. This course explores the topic of career management. During the first half of the course you will discover the right fit between person and career. This course examines the range of career issues that confront employees in today’s organizations. Students will use career-planning techniques, including self-analysis and career selection tools. Techniques for coping with stress will also be presented.

BIN 118 Stress Relief 0.5 Credits
Description: This course is an introduction to the techniques and benefits of relaxation therapies to provide the student with tools to handle stress more efficiently. It covers massage therapy, mediation through guided imagery, and stress-coping strategies.

BIN 120 Receptionist Training 0.5 Credits
Description: This training is for individuals who are in front-line positions dealing daily in public relations with customers, clients, patients, etc. This course is designed to orientate a new staff member or to refresh established personnel. Receptionists will learn to present a positive first impression, handle scheduling, greet and accommodate visitors, operate a multi-line telephone system, and to present a neatly organized work station.

BIN 121 Beyond Secretary 0.5 Credits
Description: Go beyond your role as secretary and develop it into a “take-charge assistant.” Become an indispensable member of the management team. This course is designed for those who want to gain skills needed for the growing role and responsibility of secretaries and administrative assistants in today’s business world. As a vital member of the management team, you need to know how to position yourself more effectively as you take on more responsibility. This course is for all administrative support staff, executive secretaries, and administrative assistants.

BIN 122 Telephone Techniques 0.5 Credits
Description: The telephone is considered a lifeline for most businesses. It is usually the first, and may be the only, contact that clients, customers, and the public have with an organization; and yet the skills needed for effective telephone communications are often poorly developed. This course is for anyone who uses the telephone. It includes the basics, then progresses to difficult calls. Role playing using real case studies and a critique model complete the course. Participants will gain knowledge and hands-on experiences with commonly accepted principles of telephone techniques.

BIN 125 Records Management/Electronic File Management 1.0 Credits
Description: Information is only as valuable as one’s ability to use it. Records and the information they contain are essential and costly resources that need professional management. Records need to be current, efficiently organized, and available for fast retrieval and use. Using existing records, learn the suggested procedures for developing a records management system and ultimately a records retention schedule, the driver of the system. This session is geared for individuals directly responsible for the business records.

BIN 126 Basic Principles Of Business Writing 0.5 Credits
Description: A well-written document can land you a job, help you acquire money, or save you trouble. Today’s writing should be conversational, positive, objective, direct, and courteous. All this and the document must go out in 20 minutes! This course is designed to help you sharpen your basic writing skills and to assist you in preparing international correspondence.

BIN 127 Writing Memos and Letters 0.5 Credits
Description: A well-written document can get you a job, get you money, or get you out of trouble. Today’s writing should be conversational, positive, objective, direct, and courteous. This course is designed to enable you to diagnose your current writing skills and to help you write better memos and letters.

BIN 128 Writing Business Reports 0.5 Credits
Description: A well-written document can help you get a job, acquire money, or get you out of trouble. Today’s writing should be conversational, positive, objective, direct and courteous. This course is designed to help you write better business reports.

BIN 129 Mid-Life Career Change 0.5 Credits
Description: This is an exploration of issues involved in a mid-life career change. Focus will be on the participant’s interest, skills, and abilities and utilization of these to develop a career direction. Methods for developing plans to reach the new career goal will be emphasized.

BIN 150 Grammar And Punctuation Review 0.5 Credits
Description: Learn to correct the grammar mistakes that can hurt your credibility. The course offers a comprehensive review of the basic grammar rules that will enable you to write mistake-free letters, memos, and reports. The course is invaluable to all employees who are responsible for handling correspondence, developing company publications, preparing internal reports, or doing any job that requires written or spoken communication.

BIN 152 Successful Selling Techniques 0.5 Credits
Description: This course is designed to equip you with how-to techniques that will benefit you by showing you how to successfully make a sale. You will learn from beginning to end what to do in the proper sequence. You will learn methods for establishing rapport with your customer, personalizing the presentation, and successfully closing the sale.

BIN 154 Developing A Marketing Plan 0.5 Credits
Description: This course is designed to help you develop a marketing plan to promote your business. It covers the development of a marketing strategy ranging from basic research surveying to planning for outstanding customer service.

BIN 155 Speed Reading For Business 0.5 Credits
Description: This course is designed for the person who has the need to increase his/her reading speed and comprehension ability. As the flood of information from technical, business, and other professional books and magazines continues, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay abreast of important developments in one’s field. If you could read two or three times faster than you can now, it would help ease your work load. This course will enable you to assess your present reading and comprehension skills, learn techniques for improving your skills, and provide guided practice for improving both your reading and comprehension skills.

BIN 157 Stress Management And Assertiveness Training For Women 0.5 Credits
Description: This course is designed to enable women in today’s workforce to deal successfully with stress and learn to communicate assertively. This course will enable you to develop a personal stress control program designed to help you handle job problems, home problems, self-esteem, anxiety, and priorities. You will also learn how to develop an assertive communication style that will help you communicate more powerfully, feel better about yourself, and gain respect from others.

BIN 158 Protocol And Skills For Women Advancing In Their Career 0.5 Credits
Description: This session is for women only – women who work and want to become skilled in meeting their unique professional needs. This session is for women who want to be equipped with the latest techniques for leadership and personal effectiveness. Become more persuasive and motivating, not only with your co-workers, superiors, and staff, but in your personal life. Know the difference between assertive and aggressive. Learn to feel good about managing your former peers. Discover strategies to achieve challenging goals by using your personal strengths.

BIN 159 Professional Image/Business Etiquette 0.5 Credits
Description: How you dress, talk, and act can change the way others see you, and influence the way you view yourself. People make judgments about other people in the first few seconds, and those judgments can be influential and long lasting. Do your appearance and mannerisms serve you? Learn how to visualize yourself as a competent professional, then manifest that visualization into elements of professional image: dress, etiquette, appropriate conversation, and protocol. Learn how to look, act, and dress to reinforce your position as a professional, as well as prepare for career advancement.
(Note: Specific information will be provided on how to put together a professional wardrobe on a limited budget.)

BIN 160 Bar Coding 0.5 Credits
Description: The student will learn how and why industry is using bar coders. The students will also receive hands-on experience developing some of their own bar labels.

BIN 198 Introduction To Grant Writing 0.5 Credits
Description: This course is an introduction to grant writing and is designed to provide basic information about developing grant proposals for those new to the process. Emphasis is on developing the essential elements of a grant, including the grant narrative and budget. A brief introduction to writing proposals for foundations and private funding sources is included.

BIN 199 Grant Development And Administration 0.5 Credits
Description: This course provides students with information on developing grants that impact directly upon their institution’s long-range and strategic planning efforts. The course will review techniques for streamlining the grant development process. Special focus will be given to the administration of grants after the award, including budget negotiations, handling, personnel changes, and budget amendments, quarterly, monthly, and final grant reporting, grant evaluation, and site visits by program officers. Discussion will focus on how to research current grant opportunities, including
e-mail/Internet access and print sources.