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Office Professional Series
Overview
The role of the office professional has significantly changed over the years. The Office Professional Series has been created to provide professional development opportunities for office professionals and support staff. Enhance your career with knowledge and skills to increase your effectiveness and your success. If you’re a manager or supervisor, consider this free opportunity to invest in your staff members.
Benefits of Enrolling
Office Professional Series (OPS) courses, geared to your individual and interpersonal growth, are directly transferable to the workplace. Practical applications and discussions are designed to address the shared issues and common challenges of support staff.
- The six required courses are free.
- You’ll enjoy the opportunity to network with other office professionals across campus, while enhancing your skills.
- Receive a series certificate, documenting your dedication to professional development.
Core Curriculum
Maintaining a Positive Attitude in a Challenging Environment
Customer Service Solutions
Effective People Skills
Organizing Your Time and Work
Grammar and Proofreading
Required Online Course
The following online course is available through Learning Online with Skillsoft. Log on with your HawkID and password to http://skillsoft.uiowa.edu and type the course name or number in the search box. For help, call 335-2687.
Advancing Your Administrative Career (Course # ADM0105)
Learn how to develop your leadership potential and manage your career path by using “big picture thinking,” creative problem solving, and matching your leadership style for various scenarios.
Estimated duration: 3 hours
Series Celebration
Join in a celebration of your efforts to complete the series!
(You’ll have an opportunity to RSVP for the celebration closer to the date.)
Enrollment
Watch for open enrollment in February/March each year.
Due to space limitations, early registration by those who can commit to the entire series will be honored first. Those admitted to the Office Professional Series will be notified of their enrollment. Participants will also receive e-mail confirmations, (which will serve as reminders) about six days before each class for which they have registered.
Start learning today! Take related coursework, or read recommended books online now, through Learning Online with SkillSoft.
Here is what past participants have to say of the Office Professional Series!
“It reinforced things that I had read about but [had] not put into practice. . . it was a kick in the seat of the pants. That was the basic benefit of all the classes; a push to again do things I had let lapse or ideas that had not yet been put into practice.”
“[The OPS] helped me to stop and think about my work situation and how I can change things.”
“There is just a wealth of information presented. One can also gain a bit of clarity about one’s work situation by the examples of others in the class and from the instructors. This is a series that every person who works in an office could find information that is a benefit.”
“Great resources I’ll be sharing with my group! Thanks for making this a wonderful experience!”