ASUN’s Workplace Essentials is a for-credit course powered by Franklin Covey’s LeaderU platform. Course content is used by Fortune 500 companies and organizations around the world—and is based on international bestselling books and client engagements. Students taking the courses will gain an advantage by learning essential mindsets and skillsets, now—and be ready to execute organizational goals effectively.

Workplace Essentials will be delivered as a hybrid course with certain components delivered in-person.  The course can be customized to meet workforce needs. The Workplace Essentials course is approximately 45 hours in length, 24 hours in-person and remaining hours online. 

The following certificate course will be delivered in-person:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Signature Edition 4.0        

Students will complete two of the following online courses:

• The 5 Choices for Extraordinary Productivity
• Leading at the Speed of Trust Foundations
• The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership 
• Presentation Advantage
• Meeting Advantage
• Writing Advantage      

Please contact Charles Walker at (870) 680-8717 or charles_walker@asun.edu  for more details. 

This course covers basic skills including basic parts of an Excel window, formatting, alignment, indenting, merging cells; creating a simple spreadsheet with formulas, functions, format painter, absolute reference, freezing columns and rows, split windows, copy & paste, paste special, using multiple windows of the same file, printing options, creating charts and graphs, non-adjacent cells, and mail merges.

Excel Level 1 is a great introductory class for those who are starting their Excel journey or would like to know more. Participants should already know how to find a file given a path, have basic math skills, know how to use a mouse and keyboard. Objectives in Level 1 are formatting, inputting data, creating formulas and functions, format painter, absolute reference, viewing and printing options, comments/notes, creating a template and how to use an Excel database to create a mail merge using Word.

Power BI (Business Intelligence) works with many data sources (Excel, Access, SQL Server, and etc.) todevelop an interactive data visualization, or dashboard, giving valuable insights for business reviews and decisions. Those who work with data from multiple sources, to create reports regarding data analysis, marketing, sales, inventory control, production, education, and etc. will benefit most from this course.Requires experience with Excel or other computer applications dealing with data, and different database type software. You should be comfortable developing reports such as PivotTables and charts in Excel.

This comprehensive 6-hour course will teach you how to summarize data using these powerful Excel tools, enabling you to create summary reports and charts. With Power Query and Power Pivot, you'll learn to import data from multiple sources, manipulate it, and then review the consolidated data in a pivot table using multiple tables.

This class is a perfect for those who having been using Excel for years but don't know how to use these advanced features for data visualization and analysis.

Powered by Franklin Covey’s LeaderU platform, ASUN's Leadership 101 provides the tools required to increase one's personal effectiveness and leadership capacity.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People serves as the foundational component of the course. Renowned as the world’s premier personal leadership development and training program, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People aligns timeless principles of personal effectiveness with the relevancy of today’s practices as well as modern technology.

This course is eligible for college credit and is one of the 7 programs required to complete the Manufactruing Essentials program. 

Please contact workforce@asun.edu for more information. 

This course covers naming a range, specialprinting titles of rows & columns, paste between work-sheets, pasting values and links, viewing and workingwith multiple work-sheets, 3D formulas,  protecting a workbook \ worksheet, & cells, checking for duplicates, Excel as a database, autofilters, slicers,and creating a graph with two axis.

Excel Level 2 is a continuation of Level 1, participants should have those skills before taking Excel Level 2. Course objectives are how to work with multiple files and worksheets, naming a range and benefits, sorting and filtering data using Excel as a database, tables and their benefits, data validation, sub-totals, Pivot Tables, conditional formatting, graphs with two axis and sparklines.

This course provides in-depth training for employees and employers on the recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of safety and health hazards in the workplace. The course is for all management levels - first responders, safety professionals, manufacturing / production, and healthcare. Course covers how to identify safety and health hazards in the workplace, how to file an OSHA complaint, electrical Safety, general ergonomics, personal and protective equipment, workplace emergencies, blood-borne pathogens, machine Guarding, and more.