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Certificate in QuickBooks
with Marcus Lander, Biddeford Adult Education

Save time, track money, and get important insights with Quickbooks Online. Quickbooks Online is the leading online accounting platform. It is the preferred choice for small business managers, owners, bookkeepers and accounting professionals. There area patches and regular automatic upgrades to the software.
Get a comprehensive understanding of QuickBooks Online. Then learn how to work with more advanced Quickbooks Online topics.
A free trial version of the software is provided to use during the class.
This certificate includes:
- QuickBooks Online Level 1
- QuickBooks Online Level 2
How it Works click HERE.
Certificate in Workplace Communication
with Sally Klauss, Biddeford Adult Education

Good communication in the workplace is more important than ever. And critical to your career advancement and success. Come get a comprehensive and intensive preparation with skills and techniques you can put to use on Monday morning. Take back a workable conflict management model, along with successful and practical conflict management strategies. Then work with a pro to learn how to improve your negotiation skills for a win-win outcome, including helping others to get what they want, so you get what you want. Finally, find out more about yourself and others using personality profiles for better work performance. You will be learning from some of our more popular instructors, and taking away new how-to skills that work.
This certificate includes:
- Management in the 21st Century
- Conflict Management
- Using Personality Profiles for Better Work Performance
How it Works click HERE.
CERTIFICATE Leadership Development
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Especially geared for future leaders in the Gen Y generation (born 1980-1999), the certificate provides how-to practical information on advancing your leadership potential and making a difference in both the workplace and in society. Find out what it takes to become an effective leader. Discover your style of leadership. Discuss task completion, building relationships with your subordinates, becoming socially perceptive to changes in the workplace, utilizing your emotions positively and effectively, and addressing challenging goals. Then learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned. You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do. At the end of completing the three-course certificate, you will come away with a new understanding, a new toolbox of leadership skills, and the information to move your leadership development into high gear.
This includes three classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate:
Leadership Principles - $145
Developing Your Leadership Skills - $145
Developing Your Professional Career - $145
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
CERTIFICATE Management
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. Nothing creates success like a solid foundation. Discover the keys to effectively managing your employees. Find out how to create clear expectations, engage and motivate employees, and increase your effectiveness. Then you will explore the principles of collaborative management and gain insight into how to expand your collaborative skills for the success of your team or organization. Finally, get the keys to manage different generations in your workplace. Discover what motivates each generation at work, what incentives they respond to, and what messages they value.
This includes three classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate:
Management Boot Camp - $295
Management in the 21st Century - $195
Managing Generations in the Workplace - $175
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
CERTIFICATE Marketing
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Discover advanced and new best practices in marketing, the changing field that now integrates traditional print marketing with digital marketing for even greater marketing success. Young generations are embracing print as well as online media, creating this exciting new area of marketing.Gain advanced marketing concepts and principles such as R, F, & M analysis; AIDA, and the 3-30-3 principle, that lead directly to practical marketing success. Learn the secrets of writing marketing copy, including easy steps in editing. Acquire the understanding of how digital marketing and print complement and enhance each other, and how to integrate both kinds of marketing for even greater overall effectiveness. Start any month. Come away with a new marketing expertise to make your value in the workplace even stronger.
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at AdultEd@sanford.org
CERTIFICATE Mastering Excel
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet tool in the world for creating, editing, and managing spreadsheet data.
Learn how an Excel worksheet is constructed, populated with content, and edited for delivery. Increase efficiency by learning how to organize, display, and calculate your data usefully. Learn a variety of Excel’s most powerful features to analyze data quickly and easily. Attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.
This includes three classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate:
Mastering Microsoft Excel - $195
Intermediate Excel - $195
Advanced Excel - $195
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
CERTIFICATE Mastering Video Marketing
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Video marketing is the latest hot new marketing trend. Shoppers who viewed product videos were 144% more likely to add the product to their cart. Video with good SEO has a 53% higher chance of showing up on page one of Google searches. When done correctly, video can tell a story, and stories connect people. The video also leads to an emotional ‘trigger’ that plain text cannot do.
This includes two classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate:
YouTube for Business - $245
Video Marketing - $245
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 1, 2025
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
CERTIFICATE Non-Profit Administration
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Non-profits today need to be run like a business in many respects. You have competition, a need to generate income and a surplus, and staff needs to be even more productive. Get the best training on revenue generation for nonprofits, and program evaluation for nonprofits, with our Certificate in Non-Profit Administration. You will come away with the latest best information from instructors who train people in nonprofits.
This includes two classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate.
Revenue Generation for Nonprofits - $495
Program Evaluation for Nonprofits - $245
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org