Welcome to your Colorado Community College System resource for professional development. Please check here for upcoming trainings and additional development opportunities.
Mission Statement: The Learning and Development program fosters individual and organizational effectiveness by providing a variety of trainings that enhance employee development, build partnerships across the system, and create opportunities for career enrichment.
This program is dedicated to supporting the campus community in being a strategic partner so that students are supported in achieving their educational, professional and personal goals in an atmosphere that embraces academic excellence, diversity and innovation.
- CCCS Mandatory Trainings
- Professional Development and Training Opportunities
- Tech Trainings
- Succession Planning
- Educational Links
Mandatory Trainings

This professional development opportunity is one of the many ways we honor our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitment. The following two-hour training, made of four thirty-minute modules, will support our effort to ensure a common language around DEI and provide an introductory understanding of DEI at CCCS.
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This training is being provided to educate employees about Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). You will find this training on your portal. The average time to complete this training is 30 minutes
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Courses for Supervisors/Managers
ONLINE Supervisor Training
Join us for our next Supervisor Training online! This is for all current and newly hired supervisors in the College System. This training will include four classes, one session per week for four weeks. If you would like to attend, please fill out the form below. To be eligible, you must commit to attending all four classes.
Class One: Supervising
This class will be an introduction to supervising. We will cover how to manage self and others, project management, team building, and working with different types of workers.
Class Two: Hiring, Onboarding and Finances
This class will cover different employee types, the hiring process, and onboarding new employees. It will also cover budgets- managing, allocation, and procurement. There will also be sections on reimbursements, how to use grant money, and important laws.
Class Three: Communicating
This class will cover communicating effectively, giving feedback, and managing difficult employees. There will also be a section on completing performance evaluations as well as time spent learning more about Microsoft 365.
Class Four: Leading
This class will focus on emotional intelligence, leadership styles, writing a value statement and succession planning.
**You will need to fully commit to attending all four trainings. **





Professional Development Courses
ONLINE Supervisor Training
Join us for our next Supervisor Training online! This is for all current and newly hired supervisors in the College System. This training will include four classes, one session per week for four weeks. If you would like to attend, please fill out the form below. To be eligible, you must commit to attending all four classes.
Class One: Supervising
This class will be an introduction to supervising. We will cover how to manage self and others, project management, team building, and working with different types of workers.
Class Two: Hiring, Onboarding and Finances
This class will cover different employee types, the hiring process, and onboarding new employees. It will also cover budgets- managing, allocation, and procurement. There will also be sections on reimbursements, how to use grant money, and important laws.
Class Three: Communicating
This class will cover communicating effectively, giving feedback, and managing difficult employees. There will also be a section on completing performance evaluations as well as time spent learning more about Microsoft 365.
Class Four: Leading
This class will focus on emotional intelligence, leadership styles, writing a value statement and succession planning.
**You will need to fully commit to attending all four trainings. **






Microsoft Teams Courses

Objectives: Learn to navigate Microsoft Teams, Send a chat message, Understand teams and channels, Create and join a meeting, Locate files in Teams

Objectives: Understand the teams and channels structure, Learn how to join, organize, and collaborate in teams and channels, Create and manage a team

Objectives: Identify types and functions of apps in Teams, Increase efficiency and collaboration using apps, Access, install and uninstall apps, Manage applications for a team or group

Objectives: Learn to navigate Teams for Education, Create and set up a team, Stay connected with chat, Schedule and run a meeting
Working together is easier with Microsoft Teams. Tools and files are always available in one place that’s designed to help you connect naturally, stay organized, and bring ideas to life. Learn how to make the most of channels, chat, and connected apps to improve communication and deepen collaboration across teams of all sizes.
Objectives: Stay connected with chat , Create a collaborative workspace, Accomplish more together in teams and channels
This course will demonstrate how to stay connected, secure and productive as you adapt to new ways of working. Teams is the all-in-one collaboration solution with everything you need to be productive in one place: meetings, calls, chat, familiar apps, and business process workflows. It’s where you come together to get work done.
Objectives: Understand hybrid work meaning, Stay connected and collaborate in a hybrid work environment, Manage personal wellbeing, Simplify and streamline work activities, Adopt the hybrid meeting experience
Learn tips and shortcuts for Microsoft Teams to help you become a power user. Explore how to use Teams efficiently for communication and collaboration. Discover new Teams features to improve chat, meetings, and your overall experience
Objectives: Format messages so they get noticed (and responded to), Streamline collaboration with tools and tips to simplify your workday, Explore new Teams features for chat, meetings, and more
Microsoft Learning and Microsoft 365 Courses

Microsoft Learning Tools are a set of built in features that assist students of all abilities with reading, writing and math in a wide range of learning environments. These tools for the inclusive classroom, in Microsoft 365 and Windows, are designed to empower every student and educator to be more productive.
Objectives: Learn how to further support reading skill development for all students with Immersive Reader, Explore how to deploy Immersive Reader and Dictate across Microsoft 365 apps, Discover learning tools for Math in OneNote, See demonstrations of communication tools in PowerPoint

Objectives: Understand how to set up and navigate accessibility settings within Windows 10, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge, and Teams, Learn how to create accessible content within Office and Teams, Gain tips for presenting inclusively for all audiences

Objectives: Manage your work with tasks across Microsoft 365, Work with tasks in Outlook, shared Office documents, and in Teams., Manage individual tasks and build “your day”, Assign team tasks and build a plan, Explore various views to get the most out of task management
Microsoft Outlook, Bookings, and OneNote Courses

Objectives: Learn to navigate Microsoft Outlook, Set up and access Outlook modules, Use advanced features of Outlook to increase productivity and manage time, Use Outlook mobile for on the go requirements

Objectives: Understand Bookings functionality, Set up businesses and services, Use appointments and calendars, Integrate Bookings into Teams

Objectives: Discover OneNote versions and the differences between them, Navigate OneNote and organize content across notebooks, sections, and pages, Learn how to bring different types of content together, Understand how to create a notebook and format notes, Use OneNote to organize meeting notes, Set up OneNote for team collaboration
With Microsoft OneNote for Education, classroom organization has never been easier. OneNote Class Notebook includes a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities, saving educators time and empowering students to create their best work.
Objectives: Create a OneNote Class Notebook, Save time on lesson planning and organization, Enable collaborative activities, Observe learning and give real-time feedback
Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Courses

Objectives: Navigate the workspace, Use rich formatting and layout options to illustrate your point, Jump-start creation with modern templates, themes, and style sets, Leverage AI-powered review features, Share and collaborate productively
A beginner overview of Microsoft Excel for the new or novice user, this training will review overall navigation, formatting, simple formulas, charts and tables, and an overview of printing.
Objectives: Navigate Excel ribbon options, Format Excel workbooks and worksheets, Use formulas, functions and validate to work with data, Learn print processes for Excel workbooks
Take your Microsoft Excel skills to the next level and learn more advanced features! Create tables, learn conditional formatting, and share and collaborate with your colleagues.
Objectives: Create spreadsheets using tables, Analyze your data using conditional formatting and data validation, Collaborate and share your work with others, Use accessibility options in Excel
Take your Microsoft Excel skills to the next level with more advanced features. Learn advanced functions to better manage and analyze data, create and format charts to present information simply, and learn import and export options within Excel.
Objectives: Analyze data using advanced functions, Create and format charts, Use import and export functions, Use accessibility options in Excel
Take your Microsoft Excel skills to the next level with more advanced features. Learn about creating and managing pivot tables, as well as additional advanced features including functions, charts, and Power BI.
Objectives: Create pivot tables and power queries, Analyze and manage data, Connect data to Power BI

Objectives: Navigate the PowerPoint interface and view available options, Learn to design presentations using helpful tools, Bring slides to life with transitions and animations, Learn to collaborate with others during the editing process, Utilize helpful tools for presenting
Microsoft Forms and SharePoint

Objectives: Understand navigation and functionality in Microsoft Forms, Create forms, quizzes, and polls , Change visual layout, Configure access and sharing settings, Learn question types, Make use of branching forms, Analyzing responses

Objectives: Successfully navigate SharePoint team and communication sites, Understand Microsoft 365 groups., Work with SharePoint document libraries, Share files and folders with users outside of a group, Utilize shared resources in team sites including lists, plans, and notebooks

Objectives: Understand SharePoint Online team sites, communication sites, and hub sites, Plan a successful site by using best practiced for functionality, Customize the look of a SharePoint site, Build a site and utilize web parts, Set approvals for documents, Analyze usage data for a site
In 2015 with the implementation of the 2015-2025 CCCS Strategic Plan, CCCS undertook a project to implement a succession planning process for the System and college leadership. The first step in the succession planning process was the creation of a CCCS Competency Dictionary.
A committee of Human Resources Directors collaborated with CCCS functional leadership teams across the system to establish a common set of core qualifications and associated competencies. This work was then reviewed by the CCCS President Council.
Below you will find several important documents.
CCCS Competency Dictionary: The CCCS Competency Dictionary includes six core qualifications that incorporate a total of 28 competencies. The following document defines the core qualifications and the competencies linked to each core qualification. This framework supports selection, performance evaluation and professional development across CCCS.
CCCS Career Path and Behavior Anchoring Documents: Five areas of functional leaders were identified for inclusion during the succession planning process: Chief Business Officers, Vice Presidents of Academic Affairs, Vice Presidents of Student Affairs, Human Resources Directors, and Information Technology Directors.
Functional leaders were asked to rate each of the 28 competencies within the CCCS Competency Dictionary on their relevance at time of hire into the leadership position. These responses were used to identify the critical and secondary competencies necessary for success for each of the CCCS functional leadership positions. The competencies established through the functional groups were validated by the CCCS President Council.
Below you will find a Career Path and Behavior Anchoring document for each functional area of CCCS.