Let's get together for lunch and socialize. Everyone is responsible for their own lunch.

Learn the art of macramé and create a custom plant hanger for your home. Master three essential macramé knots and personalize it to bring greenery and artistry into your space. Materials fee is $10 and includes all supplies.

Explore various forms of storytelling on the page: from epic, full color graphic novels, to simpler bound books. Work together to design your own zine and print copies that you can share with your friends and family! Grades are the year your student will be entering in the fall. A lunch is available to all students. Please select this option when you register. Community Education uses a sliding scale model for program fees so our summer programs can be financially sustainable and more equitable. The different prices reflect the average cost of offering a class as well as discounted options and options that help us cover our administrative costs. Families are asked to pick the price that they are able to pay. If you need further financial assistance, please contact the lead coordinator of the Super Summer Program at lissa.gordon@mpls.k12.mn.us or call 612.668.4922.

Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. Nothing creates success like a solid foundation. Discover the keys for 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 on how to expand your collaborative skills for 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. Courses: Management Boot Camp Collaborative Management Managing Generations in the Workplace Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ Class details: Management Boot Camp Unit 1: Fundamentals of Management How to determine, set, and communicate job expectations Linking employee behaviors to performance Describing performance expectations Increasing employee commitment and pride and evaluate performance Unit 2: Employee Engagement Motivating and engaging employees to get the job done Tools and techniques to increase employee buy-in and commitment How to communicate with employees and get them involved and engaged in their own performance evaluations Unit 3: Increasing your Success Part 1 Enhancing your ability to manage effectively In-depth analysis of the behaviors of your style Unit 4: Increasing your Success Part 2 Behaviors that inhibit your ability to manage effectively Advanced analysis of the behaviors of your management style Collaborative Management Unit 1: Principles of collaboration in management Defining principles of collaboration Emotions, self-mastery and collaboration Redirecting teams and group collaboration Conflict management and facilitation Unit 2: Relationship building Building relationships fundamentals Renegotiating failed relationships Managing collaborative potentials Unit 3: Strategies to tap into group collaborative potential Harnessing collaborative energy Responsible communication Managing collaboration for performance Unit 4: Your action plan for collaborative management Setting your management goals Identify and utilize collaborative resources Creating a collaborative management action plan Managing Generations in the Workplace Unit 1: What makes these generations different The transition from the Industrial Age to the Internet Age How society shapes us Who are the Boomers? Who are Xers? Who is Gen Y? Unit 2: Evolving standards of hard work and success Knowledge work and the value of time Time as key to profitability The focus on outcomes The problem with meetings A new type of leadership Unit 3: What motivates generations at work Monetary and non-monetary rewards Key role of the “boss” A balanced life Lateral career moves Second careers Supporting social causes Retirement reservations Unit 4: Work styles and technology Customizing work styles and processes Peak work time and place A new role for technology and work Working collaboratively Modern recruitment