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Imagine preparing for your future while collaborating with a career coach! Or picture yourself mastering workplace communication with a corporate trainer. If you’re excited about building practical skills for real-world careers,, our VLACS Projects are the perfect fit for you!
This engaging learning pathway allows students to explore various career fields while mastering key concepts and skills. For each competency, you can choose to complete a pre-designed project that simulates real-life career tasks or create your own unique learning experience. Regardless of your choice, you’ll engage in thorough research and apply what you learn to authentic career scenarios.
With the pre-designed projects, you’ll tackle real-world tasks that align with each competency. If you decide to design your own experience, you’ll collaborate with your instructor and a mentor to design and complete meaningful career tasks that demonstrate your understanding. We have partnered with hundreds of mentors you can work with if you choose to design your own experience. Check out our Career Mentor Catalog here.
Take a look at the competency statements and pre-designed options below. We’re excited to support you on this exciting and open-ended learning adventure!
Note: This is a project-based course. If you’re looking for a traditional format, please return to the learning catalog and select the course.
Projects
Human Resources Manager
Competency: Workplace Expectations and Regulations
You are a human resources manager, responsible for creating a safe and productive work environment by ensuring employees are informed and compliant with workplace regulations. Your role involves developing comprehensive guidelines to uphold safety standards and clear behavioral expectations, which will require an understanding of workplace expectations and regulations.
You will create a safety manual that will describe employee behavioral expectations, describe employee rights, and describe workplace safety regulations.
Office Manager
Competency: Workplace Communication
You are an office manager who oversees daily operations and ensures clear communication between staff members and departments. Your role requires effective communication strategies to facilitate smooth workflows, resolve issues, and foster a positive work environment, which will require an understanding of workplace communication.
You will create a communication plan that will explain the fundamentals of verbal and written communication in the workplace, explain listening skills in the workplace, and describe techniques for giving and receiving feedback in the workplace.
Project Manager
Competency: Workplace Leadership
through effective coordination and leadership. Your role requires you to foster productive and positive team dynamics, which will require a deep understanding of workplace leadership.
You will create a coordination plan that will describe the benefits of respectful workplace relationships, describe the benefits of workplace time management, and describe the benefits of emotional intelligence in the workplace.
Operations Manager
Competency: Workplace Teamwork
You are an operations manager, who ensures efficiency and productivity by fostering strong team dynamics and effective collaboration. Your role requires a deep understanding of workplace teamwork.
You will create a performance evaluation report that will describe the benefits of workplace collaboration, describe the importance of reliability of workplace team members, and describe the importance of accountability of workplace team members.
Sales Manager
Competency: Workplace Goal-Setting
You are a sales manager who drives team success by setting clear objectives and fostering a proactive work environment. Your role requires a deep understanding of workplace goal-setting.
You will create a sales growth plan that will describe the process of setting workplace goals, describe the benefits from a growth mindset, and describe the benefits of initiative in the workplace.
Marketing Manager
Competency: Workplace Problem-Solving
You are a marketing manager who develops strategies to navigate challenges and drive brand success. Your role requires a deep understanding of workplace problem-solving.
You will create a marketing campaign proposal that will explain the importance of conflict resolution in the workplace, explain a decision-making process, and explain the importance of workplace adaptability.
Competencies
Workplace Expectations and Regulations
Students will demonstrate an understanding of workplace expectations and regulations by describing employee behavioral expectations, describing employee rights, and describing workplace safety regulations.
Workplace Communication
Students will demonstrate an understanding of workplace communication by explaining the fundamentals of verbal and written communication in the workplace, explaining listening skills in the workplace, and describing techniques for giving and receiving feedback in the workplace.
Workplace Leadership
Students will demonstrate an understanding of workplace leadership by describing the benefits of respectful workplace relationships, describing the benefits of workplace time management and describing the benefits of emotional intelligence in the workplace.
Teamwork in the Workplace
Students will demonstrate an understanding of workplace teamwork by describing the benefits of workplace collaboration, describing the importance of the reliability of workplace team members, and describing the importance of the accountability of workplace team members.
Workplace Goal-Setting
Students will demonstrate an understanding of workplace goal-setting by describing the process of setting workplace goals, describing the benefits from a growth mindset, and describing the benefits of initiative in the workplace.
Workplace Problem-Solving
Students will demonstrate an understanding of workplace problem-solving by explaining the importance of conflict resolution in the workplace, explaining the decision-making process, and explaining the importance of workplace adaptability.
