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Greetings!
Welcome back to the
California Corporate College Chronicle (CCCC)! The CCCC features articles,
links, tips designed to keep California Community Colleges in the know about
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CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COLLEGE:
THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION FOR KAISER |
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 When Kaiser Permanente needed to bring
their workforce into the 21st Century, they turned to the California
Community Colleges. And when
coordinating this training across 15 of their Southern California medical centers proved
to be unwieldy, they tapped the California Corporate College (CA CC). CA CC was charged with managing the
implementation of the training of more than 300 employees from 15 Kaiser
Campuses.
In an effort to reduce errors and redundancy of effort, Kaiser has been moving
aggressively to electronic charting and other online systems that have
historically been hand written. However, many of their long-time
employees, including doctors, nurses and other patient care providers have
limited experience with computer systems. It was determined that by offering
 this training to their employees, they would receive the benefits of
up-skilling their employees and reducing their fear of working with computers; thereby
increasing their compliance when electronic charting and other online systems
become mandatory. By making it free of
charge and available locally, they ensured maximum cooperation from their staff
by eliminating obstacles that blocked their path to increased efficiency.
The training that would increase this
efficiency, titled "Computers Made Easy", is a 16 hour course designed to
introduce the student to the very fundamental aspects of working on a personal
computer, including working with email and the internet. This particular
class was designed specifically for Kaiser employees, but similar training can
be created and coordinated for a multitude of other companies and industries.
Through the CA CC, any coursework can be customized to fit the specific needs of
the client- in much the same way this
curriculum was customized to meet the unique needs of Kaiser.
Kaiser began
with 57 sessions of the course offered at 15 locations in Southern California. In total it took
10 college districts coming together to be able offer training at those 15
locations. The college districts that
participated were Chaffey, Grossmont-Cuyamuca, Kern, Los Angeles, North Orange, Palomar, Pasadena
Area, Rio Hondo, Riverside, and South Orange. Over the summer, 15 additional sessions were
offered at 5 Kaiser locations. And to
further their workforce's education, 17 sessions of beginning MS Word and MS
Excel will be offered at 5 Kaiser locations in the fall.
A potentially
pricey solution, the program was completely paid for through grant funds made
available through the Regional Healthcare Occupations Resource Center statewide initiative
from the Economic and Workforce Development Program of the California Community
College Chancellor's Office. There are often grants and other funding
resources that can be made available to help offset other organizations'
training costs; the CA CC assists in finding those resources.
Though
Kaiser has found its cure for the common class, other organizations are still
lost in the morass of what to do with multi-campus consistency issues. For this reason, the CA CC continues to
ensure consistent training by being a single point of contact for both business
and the community college system; utilizing the same curriculum throughout the
multiple delivery sites; and making certain all instructors are of the caliber
required to meet the guidelines set forth by the curriculum being taught.
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JOIN CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COLLEGE AT
ITS FIRST SHAREHOLDERS MEETING
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It
is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
- Publilius Syrus
First Century BC
We've
heard you loud and clear at our recent meetings of the CA CC Advisory Board
that the original plan/role of the board needs to evolve. We admit it!
We
do need to note, however, that we are extremely grateful for all the work this
group did both in its early manifestation as the Action Planning Group and
those first months that followed as we got our legs under us as the California
Corporate College.
But
attendance has been light at our last several meetings, and we are not crafting
policy and procedure anymore, but rather getting on with the running of the entity.
So we're thinking we need to modify our plan for the role of the CA CC Advisory
Board.
Our
proposed new plan for the board is to expand its membership to include all
District Liaisons from our member college districts. And evolve the role
from one of advisors to one of shareholders. All of our member districts
have a stake in how well the CA CC performs. What better forum that a
quarterly shareholders meeting open to all to report out on our progress, and
receive suggestions, recommendations for ways to do our job better?
As part of our standing agenda for the CA CC Shareholders meetings we will seek
your input, recommendations and comments.
We're
also planning an annual CA CC Shareholders meeting where we would come together
face to face. We're looking at combining it with a summit around Contract
Training. We'll keep you posted as those plans progress.
Rick
L. Hodge from Pasadena City College will maintain his
position as Chairman of the Board and sit in on our operations meetings as his
time permits, keeping us in touch with the field's perspective on a regular
basis, so our ivory tower walls never get built.
As
CA CC District Liaisons, you are hereby officially invited to the inaugural CA
CC Shareholders meeting. Those of you
investigating becoming members of the CA CC are also cordially invited to
attend.
Date:
Thursday, September 30th
Time:
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Participant Login Details:
> Dial your telephone conference line: (888) 886-3951
> Enter your passcode: 319251
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MEMBER DISTRICT SUPPORT
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 Augusoft Lumens® Offers Discount on
their latest products - B2B & ENT - to CA CC Member Districts!
Complementing traditional academic systems, Lumens-ENT® has been designed for those corporate
education programs that offer both open enrollment solutions as well as
customized contract training solutions for their corporate clients. Augusoft's flagship product Lumens-PRO® manages your open enrollment programs
while Lumens-B2B® manages your contract
education program - sharing class, instructor, customer and contact data
enabling you to manage your entire enterprise with just one system. Now
available at a discount to our members!
Contact Deanna Dorscher, Augusoft Account Manager: deanna.dorscher@augusoft.net -
(763) 331-8307.
CA CC
Partners with Ed2Go!
Ed2Go is an online educational system that
enables education anytime, anywhere. Its
cutting edge online educational tools are a key addition to the CA CC
offering. But this is not just any old
partnership! When we provide online
solutions to our corporate clients, the member college district closest to the
client's locations will share in the revenue!
Call Leslie for details - (760) 832-8271.
New Member Orientation - November 16 9AM
This webinar has been created for those of you that have just joined our ranks
(and even those that have been with us for a while), to familiarize you with CA
CC operations and how best to maximize your membership benefits. Click here to view
more details!
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The mission of the California Corporate College is to provide a single point of contact for businesses,
governmental agencies, associations, and organizations to access training and
workforce preparation services throughout California. It is created as
a cooperative venture of California's 110 Community
Colleges.
We cannot do what we do without you - our CaliforniaCommunity College members!
Sincerely,
Leslie Larrabee
Executive Director
California Corporate College |
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