Check out our latest offerings of workshops, seminars, and courses available to everyone. Registration information is included in the description of the class.
Apple Pro Training
The Apple Pro Training Series is Apple’s official curriculum. Taught by Apple certified trainers, the courses balance concepts and lectures with hands-on labs and step-by-step real-world exercises. The Ball State Indianapolis Center is Indiana's only Apple Authorized Training Center.
Upcoming Professional Development Programs
High Performance School Design Workshop
January 29, 2009
Cost: $199
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Learn more about procuring, designing and building schools in Indiana that can improve student academic performance.
Review case studies of successful school design from around the country. Learn about the Indiana guidelines that will take effect in January 2009.
The workshop is designed for architects, engineers, school superintendents, school procurement officers, and building and construction managers.
Succeeding With Social Media Marketing
March 19, 2009
Cost: $129 for One Session, $229 for Both Sessions
Do you Twitter your day away? Read any good Facebooks lately? Moved into MySpace yet? Confused by all the hype surrounding social media, online networking, and feeling like you’ve missed your chance to get involved? You’ve not. This one-day seminar, presented in two separate classes, will show you how to join the online social media scene and embrace different tools for viral marketing.
Social Marketing 101: Embracing the Online Tools, 8 a.m.-Noon
This presentation will explore the most popular Web-based social networks. Participants will learn about Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, FriendFeed, Second Life, and third-party applications that make interacting with these sites a breeze.
Social Marketing 102: Creating and Marketing Your Blog, 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
This presentation will guide participants through the creation and management of a blog using the most popular blogging service. This seminar will detail blogging services, scheduling blog entries, marketing your blog, earning money from your blog, widgets and blog applications.
Lifelong Project
March 20, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-Noon
Cost: $99
What if you treated the next year of your life like a project? That's a question Joseph Phillips has posed to thousands of people around the world in his Lifelong Project workshop. By using the principles of project management Phillips will help participants initiate their personal goals, plan for success, execute their plans, monitor their progress, and close out a successful project.
Sales Certificate Program
April 30-May 1, 2009
Cost: $399
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The key to successful professional selling is the ability to effectively execute the sales process and to cultivate productive relationships with current and prospective customers. This two-day certificate program is designed to enhance those abilities among participants through hands-on, results-based sales training. This interactive workshop will go beyond theory and provide individuals with the skills and strategies they need to successfully execute the sales process and establish and manage long-lasting customer relationships. The course will provide new salespeople a jump-start into successful selling while helping veteran sales professionals fine-tune their professional selling skills.
Presenting Like a Pro Workshop
May 7, 2009
Cost: $199
It’s been said that public speaking is the number one fear for most people. Public speaking, however, is often a requirement for professionals. If you want to still the butterflies, squash the boring presentations, and move your audience to action this is the workshop for you.
This one-day workshop will help participants approach their presentations with confidence, gusto, and a commanding presence. You’ll work with other presenters in a welcoming, encouraging environment and you’ll leave the workshop eager to present.
Secrets of a Business Writer Workshop
May 14, 2009
Cost: $199
Do you have a Web site but don’t know exactly what to say? Are you afraid to write your own blog entries, brochures, and other literature because you might make a mistake? Are you battling writer's block, grammar, and a host of other literary fears? Or do you just want to write crisp, compelling copy?
This one-day workshop will zip writers from tepid text to intrepid writing. You’ll learn a sure-fire approach to writing anything that’ll help you identify what to write, how to write it, and then you’ll get to work writing it. Participants are encouraged to bring current writing projects to tackle during this intense, hands-on workshop.
Cancellation policy for all professional development Offerings: 100% refund for cancellation made 14 days or more prior to the event; substitutions may be made within 7 days of the event; however, refunds will not be given.