Southeast College offers a wide variety of interactive online training courses that you can take from the comfort of your home or office. Courses range from Safety to Business to Municipal Leadership. All courses are informative, interactive and geared towards the online learner.
Southeast College Entrepreneurship for Trades Microcredential
Just in time to start your new business! Entrepreneurship for Trades is a useful program for those who want to start their own business as well as those who want to make a name for themselves as self-starters and entrepreneurs in their own profession.
Through this program, new entrepreneurs will develop the skills they need to turn their ideas, products, and services into tomorrow’s success stories with a comprehensive just-in-time business education.
Future trade entrepreneurs will benefit from this just-in-time and flexible online program:
- This 80-hour program of four 20-hour courses is delivered online with 3 live sessions per course and can be completed in only two semesters.
Time: Online classes with three live sessions.
Cost: $280/course
Program Overview:
The work of today’s trade entrepreneurs goes beyond starting a business. Every career requires entrepreneurship, and the trades sector is no exception. To advance in a trades career, it is essential to learn how to think and act like an entrepreneur. Developing entrepreneurial thinking and behaviour and sustainable innovation business practices are the key to future career success. It is imperative for employers to hire self-starters who can identify, plan, and execute new opportunities. Your own business or career can benefit from the same skills that power high-growth ventures. You will learn the foundations of entrepreneurship, as well as the incorporation of innovation and adoption of sustainable practices, will help you build a successful enterprise.
Program Outcomes:
During this course, you’ll learn how to apply the knowledge you gain to running your own business.
- Create a sustainable business plan for establishing or growing your
- Prepare a 4-page marketing plan.
- Understand the law, regulations, guidelines, and ethical standards in
- Adapt products, concepts, goods, and services to meet the changing needs of the
- Utilize financial tools when planning a startup’s
- Improve business processes using concepts related to innovation, sustainability, business operations, inventory, manpower, and supply chain.
- Utilize sustainable business practices that promote social responsibility, economic commitment, innovation, sustainability, and environmental stewardship in the local and global
- Develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Prepare and present a convincing pitch and a business plan.
Course Information:
Marketing Skills for Trades
Dates: September 25 to October 27, 2023
Operations & Management Skills for Trades
Dates: November 6 to December 8, 2023
Finance Skills for Trades
Dates: January 22 to February 23, 2024
Capstone: Business Plan for Trades
Dates: March 11 to April 12, 2024
Questions? Please call us at 1-866-999-7372
Upskill with MicroCredentials from Southeast College.
Learn key skills in demand from the Labour Market with programs that are designed with industry needs at the forefront.
What is a Microcredential?
- A short, focused workshop that earns one Badge of the four needed to earn a Professional Microcredential.
- This targeted learning allows students to specialize in a narrow range of competencies, to complement experience or education and add to each participants resume. In short, they:
- enhance employability,
- verify an existing skillset,
- increase proficiency for current or future roles.
Click here to learn more about our extensive Micro Credential courses
Southeast College is excited to offer four new certificate programs! These business based programs are great for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge in a number of key business operational areas.
More detailed program information including how the online course is delivered, time commitments and what to expect can be found here.
Programs are 48 hours in length and are delivered 100% online. Click on the program link for upcoming program dates.
Certificate in Project Management
The Online Management Training Courses provided by the Southeast College are ideal for aspiring, new and current supervisors and business professionals.
These classes will help learners improve their management and leadership acumen through practical, skill-oriented business courses. This training is provided through online platform which allow the participants to access whenever is convenient for them.
These courses will challenge and build the learner’s core business, leadership and management skills.
Popular courses include:
Online Administrative Office Procedures
Online Communication Strategies
Online Time Management
And many more
A selection of 225 highly interactive courses that you can take completely over the internet. Our online courses are affordable, fun, fast, convenient, and geared just for you.
Popular courses include:
Start your own online business
Photoshop Elements for the digital photographer
Introduction to InDesign
And many more