Adult Programs
Our adult programs focus on skills that lead to success. Our carefully cultivated curriculum includes the skills, strategy, and support necessary to build a business or career in the modern economy. Our adult programs include:
- Entrepreneur Development Cohorts
- So, You Want To Be a YouTube Star: Harnessing the power of visibility.
- Digital You: Protect and Prosper
- Parenting though Cyberbullying
- Grow with Google: Digital readiness for job seekers, veterans, seniors, and small businesses
Empower Yourself!
Program Details
Below is a detailed description of our programs.
Empowered Entrepreneur Cohorts
6-week to year-long programs for new and emerging business owners. This program includes both teaching time and business coaching.
At the end of the program entrepreneurs have created or refined their business plan and created an action plan for growth.
Topics include:
- Essential Components of a successful business plan and evaluating your current business model.
- Business operations and systems.
- Financial management, revenue streams, strategic sales, and generating income.
- Branding, communications, marketing: Your voice and visibility. Includes digital revenue opportunities.
- Creating sustainability and scale long term.
Career Readiness Cohorts
Building a career in the modern economy requires skills that are highly transferable and widely applicable. We offer 6-20 week career development programs at two levels:
Entry Level:
- Beyond the resume: Utilizing LinkedIn and networking to find your next opportunity.
- Thinking strategically about your career and your job search.
- Time management and organization skills.
- Using technology to create a better career.
- Social emotional leadership.
- Creating and implementing your career plan.
Mid-Career:
- Maximizing your professional visibility.
- Developing relationships and collaborations that lead to greater career opportunities.
- Transformational leadership: Leading yourself and others (even from a non-leadership role).
- Finding the right opportunities that align with your personal and professional goals.
- Designing your next level career plan.
Social Emotional Leadership: Your professional superpower.
Creating a successful career or business requires us to be able to deal with our own emotions, the emotions of others, and communicate effectively.
This program teaches leadership skills including:
- Emotional Intelligence
- Resilience and Setting Healthy Boundaries
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Goal Setting and Action Plans
- Creating Your Support Plan
- Transformational Leadership: The 4 pillars
Skills we all need to be future-ready.
Do you know how to protect your data? Or what that even means? What about bots, and trolls, and crawlers. Fake News.
It’s all just too…But hold on a second…With access to a computer connected to the internet there is nothing that you can’t do, learn, be, or accomplish. Let us teach you how to master the amazing tools in a realistic context that prepares you to avoid the dangers and maximize the benefits of these infinite resources.
As a Grow with Google partner we are proud to offer Technology education workshops for:
- Small Businesses and Startups
- Job Seekers and Students
- Veterans and Military Families
- Returning Citizens
Digital You Protect and Prosper
Digital skills are key to creating financial security and equity. Workers that qualify for jobs that require even one digital skill can earn an average of 23 percent more than in a job requiring no digital skills. Moving from a job requiring no digital skills to one requiring at least three can increase pay by an average of 45%.
For the economy as a whole, these increased earnings could generate more state and federal tax revenue. Depending on the household size and composition, this could range from $1,363 to $2,879 in additional tax revenue per household per year.
Our Digital You: Protect and Prosper program helps professionals to:
- Learn how to identify digital tools and resources.
- Evaluate information and validity of sources online.
- Cultivate their personal brand for professional success.
- Find resources from health care solutions to continued education.
- Use their voice in a way that is impactful.
- Be able to avoid scams, trolls, and discern fact from misinformation online.
Digital and Financial Readiness for Entrepreneurs and Professionals
The grown-up version of our So, You Want To Be a YouTube Star prepares adult professionals to master their money and their digital visibility.
Lessons include:
- Financial Literacy Foundations and Introduction to Digital Entrepreneurship
- Financial Management and Budgeting
- Creating a Financial and Business Plan
- Branding and Content Monetization
- Digital revenue streams and opportunities
- Developing your network
- Strategy, Critical thinking, and problem solving skills
- Communication and team building skills
- Overcoming self-doubt and imposter syndrome
- Creating long term career and business growth
Parenting through Cyberbullying
Dealing with kids and tech can be tough. How do you manage their screen time? What about bullies and trolls? How do I keep my kids safe and happy while using the devices they love?
Our Parenting through Cyberbullying program helps parents or caregivers to:
- Mange technology and your kids: Tools for parenting youth with technology
- Communication skills: Keep the conversation going with your littles. Tips on setting boundaries, healthy relationships, and resilience online.