Emotional intelligence plays a vital role in effective communication, teamwork, and leadership. In this focused three-hour session, you will explore the core components of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, social skills, and motivation—and learn practical strategies to apply them in real workplace situations. Through discussion and interactive activities, you’ll gain tools to better navigate challenges, strengthen professional relationships, and contribute to a more positive and productive environment.

Learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Word in this beginner-friendly course. Explore key features including formatting text, creating documents, inserting images, and using templates. Perfect for those looking to build confidence and essential skills for personal or professional use.

This course teaches youth how to safely operate farm tractors and machinery. Students will learn essential safety practices and proper equipment operation while gaining awareness of common agricultural hazards. Successful completion meets the requirements of Wisconsin Act 455 and Federal Child Labor Regulations for youth operating tractors and certain farm equipment. Please note that class meets the following times:

Via Microsoft Teams: April 13-16, 20, 22-23, and 27-30 and May 4-7, 7-8pm

In person at Monroe Campus: April 22, 6:30-9pm; May 12, 6:30pm, May 19 & 21, 4-7pm; May 28, 4-8pm.

Success at work depends not only on what you do, but how you work with others. This course helps participants develop practical skills for navigating workplace relationships with confidence and professionalism. Through real-world scenarios and interactive discussion, learners will explore communication styles, managing difficult conversations, understanding workplace dynamics, and building positive working relationships across roles and personalities. Ideal for employees at any stage of their career who want to strengthen collaboration, reduce conflict, and create a more productive work environment.

Gain confidence in creating basic formulas and functions with relative and absolute references. Understand operator precedence and how it affects formulas. Learn about the different parts of a function and how to create arguments to calculate values and cell references. Excel includes common functions that can be used to quickly find the sum, average, count, maximum and minimum value for a range of cells

Learn the basics of Microsoft Office 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive. This beginner-friendly course focuses on essential skills to help you create documents, manage data, build presentations, and store and share files efficiently using today’s Microsoft tools. 

This class is for final year apprentices who will, as journey workers, soon be responsible for passing on their skills to new apprentices.  Developed by the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards, this 8-hour course teaches soon-to-be journey workers how to serve as a mentor and job coach, how to provide hands-on skill training, how to give positive and effective performance feedback, and explores the characteristics of a positive and diverse work environment. Please note that this is a Blackboard online course. If you are not a current/former student of Blackhawk Technical College you will receive login credentials 3-5 days after registering. 

This BLS course trains healthcare workers and other personnel to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED.