Riverland Community College

This course builds the workplace skills required to generate enthusiasm, enlist cooperation, and bring out the best in others. This course provides understanding and practice in effective verbal communication and intends to enhance the supervisory skills of giving feedback and responding to emotional behavior. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course focuses on personal excellence through positive attitudes and self empowerment. This course offers techniques and strategies to stay positive and focused in a busy, pressure-filled world. Through a process of personal exploration and growth, students discover insights about behavior and thought processes. Self-improvement strategies offer students an opportunity to gain new perspectives on their personal life and career. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course focuses on performance management for the process of identifying, developing, and using an organization's human resources. This course includes competency models, performance plans, goal setting, performance appraisals, recognition and coaching. It provides a supervisory approach for performance appraisals based on preparation and technique. Practical applications of procedures are conducted through skill practices. Hands-on projects and cases provide practice in employee performance evaluation. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course provides students with skills necessary to coach, mentor, tutor, counsel, and confront performance issues in order to help employees become more committed to performance objectives and increase productivity. The students practice setting, communicating, and coaching employees to performance expectations. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course emphasizes diversity in culture, race, sex, age, and ability as some of the chief characteristics of the workplace of the future. This course prepares managers to utilize diversity for greater effectiveness as well as employer and employee satisfaction. Assisting management to eliminate existing barriers affecting equal access, professional growth, and mobility which enables every employee to reach his or her potential in today's diversified workforce is included. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course emphasizes the legal aspects of workplace supervision. The focus is on the legal requirements of today's workplace including executing supervisory responsibilities, avoiding legal infractions and violations, and following employer policies and procedures. Other types of legal issues that may arise in the workplace are also included. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course emphasizes supervisory skills in conducting effective interviews for and selecting the best candidates. Issues such as legal requirements for hiring practices, objectivity, and fairness are examined. Practical applications of techniques are featured. Course focus is on improving interviewing skills. (1Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course emphasizes personnel training and development functions in organizations as well as advancement of competence in the areas of analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, and training. It provides the opportunity to examine training and development leadership, examine training and development needs, and identify opportunities to achieve greater productivity. Students sharpen skills in communicating job expectations, orienting new employees and providing an OJT (on the job training) demonstration. (2 Cr - 2 lect, 0 lab)

This course assists supervisors to gain a better understanding of stress and its causes. Participants identify the most common stress warning signs and recognize which types of people are most susceptible to stress. In addition to practicing techniques for controlling stress, there is an opportunity to calculate a stress inventory and develop a stress-relief plan for yourself and a wellness plan for your organization. This course focuses on reducing and channeling stress towards a goal of creating healthier, happier, and more productive workers. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course emphasizes supervisor responsibilities for safety training, compliance, industrial hygiene, motivation, enforcement, ergonomics, and compliance. It also focuses on identifying safety problems, risk management, accident prevention, and ergonomics in the work environment. Understanding reduces the risk of injuries due to poor ergonomics and safety problems. The course covers different types of injuries, common injury symptoms, and the risk factors and methods for improving the safety in the working environment. Conducting assessments of your work environment with the goal of identifying potential issues and recommending improvements are included.
(1 Cr – 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course emphasizes skills to handle suspected substance abuse problem effectively, fairly, and legally. Focus is on understanding drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS in the workplace, family relationships, and clinical depression. This course also covers employee assistance programs and the latest research on treatment and recovery of the conditions and diseases studied. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course assists the student in experiencing the real-world environment that a human resources team member is exposed to everyday in the workforce. Students will work alongside a professional for a total of 48 hours. Internship worksite must be pre-approved by the program manager or SMGT faculty. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab, 1 OTJ)

This course focuses on identifying time management principles. Students think, plan, prioritize, concentrate energies, achieve goals, and bring work and personal life into balance and harmony. Identifying personal time wasters and developing your own time management plan are included. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)

This course focuses on the influence of ethics and values on supervisory skills and decision-making. The relationship between ethics and values is studied. The Resolved Strategy of Ethical Decision Making is used to identify ethical dilemmas, analyze those dilemmas, and choose and defend ethical decisions in response. This course identifies supervisory strategies to motivate employees and define the role ethics and values play in the outcome of those strategies. (1 Cr - 1 lect, 0 lab)