Customized Training

We are committed to helping your company stand out by providing you and your staff with the training they may need. We will partner with you to identify training that is customized to your business’s needs. By 2025, more than half of employees will need significant reskilling or upskilling. While it can be challenging to find the time, the benefits are significant.

Benefits of Training Your Employees

• Reducing employee turnover 
• Reducing layoffs 
• Improving employee engagement 
• A recruiting tool for hiring 
• Increasing productivity 
• Improving team functionality 
• Building a competitive advantage 
• Preventing and addressing skill gaps 
• Building a talent pipeline 
• Enhancing management 
• Reducing reliance on contractors 
• Increasing employees’ sense of security 

Customized Training

Our dedicated staff has worked with many businesses and institutions to design programs meeting your specific workplace needs. Companies include OSF, Morton Industries, JM Industries, Center for Prevention of Abuse, Apostolic Christian Skylines, Syngenta, Matcor, Connor Co., Altorfer, and more. 

Choose from our curated professional development programs or customize your training from our library of options to best suit the needs of you and your employees. Our programs can be customized for in person, online or hybrid training. We will meet with you to discuss your greatest need and work with you to develop a plan to upskill or reskill your employees.

Essential Skills & GPEAK for Businesses

The GPEAK (Greater Peoria Essential Abilities and Knowledge) program at ICC focuses on core essential competencies that will set you apart from others in any industry. At the foundation of the GPEAK system are the State’s Technical Essential Employability Competencies and a set of related Performance Indicators defined through extensive input from Peoria-area stakeholders. ICC Corporate and Community Education can help your employees attain these 10 badges listed below.

Earn Badges

• Working with Others 
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Cultural Competence
• Communication
• Initiative and Self-Drive
• Reliability and Accountability
• Planning and Organizing
• Problem Solving 
• Decision Making
• Critical Thinking

Emerging Leader Series

Learning is a lifelong process that should never end. This holds true when it comes to management and leadership training. Anyone can become an effective leader with the right training and understanding. In this series, we explore topics that the emerging leader will need to get to the next level.

Topics Covered

• Leadership 101
• Managing Your Priorities and Creating Habits for Success
• Problem Solving and Decision Making as a Leader
• Emotional Intelligence 
• Engaging Employees
• Employee Coaching 
• Leadership Communication Skills 
• Change Management for Leaders

Servant Leadership Series

Servant leadership is an effective way to foster a culture of trust, innovation and collaboration. In this series, you will learn how to empower and develop your employees rather than only directing them. Leading this way results in stronger customer relationships, better performance, higher job satisfaction and increased motivation. It is not only beneficial for employees, but also for the organization by improving its reputation and increasing the bottom line.

Topics Covered

• Servant Leadership
• Adaptive Leadership
• Strengths Finder
• 360 Feedback
• Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
• Values Leadership
• Writing for Results
• The Leader as a Coach
• Leadership Communication
• Developing Successful Work Teams

Microsoft Office Suite

We offer customized training in all applications of the Microsoft Office Suite of products.