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Make life-long learning a part of your organization's culture through talent development and skill enhancement of your employees. Pikes Peak State College can offer customized workforce training solutions to companies and organizations leveraging existing content, college faculty/instructors and facilitators, course design framework, learning management system (LMS) and other resources to design a course that meets your industry needs.

Why customized workforce training is a great option for your specific business needs:

  • Needs Assessment: FREE needs analysis helps define training needs and skill gaps

  • Expert Facilitators: our programs are delivered by experienced subject matter experts

  • Customized Curriculum: customized training is created to meet the specific needs of your unique employee group, addressing their unique challenges and requirements

  • Practical Application: customized training emphasizes real-world case studies and scenarios utilizing your processes, products, and procedures relevant to your business, making learning and course content immediately applicable to your staff

  • Innovative Flexible Delivery: we offer flexible learning modes—online, in-person, or hybrid—to accommodate various schedules, travel and time constraints

  • Enhanced Leadership Skills: customized training strengthens soft skills such as effective leadership, emotional intelligence, team management, conflict resolution, strategic planning, employee development, etc.

  • Agility: customized training can be adapted from existing content or designed from scratch to cover important topics such as leadership, inclusive work environment, legal compliance, risk management, project management, and other technical skills leveraging PPSC faculty/instructors expertise

  • Grant Funding Eligibility: some customized training are eligible for the Colorado Skill Advance Training Grant which can cover between 60-100% of the training costs.

To request additional information about Pikes Peak State College customized training please email use the form provided below.

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Skill Advance Colorado Job Training Grant

The Skill Advance Colorado Job Training Grant helps for-profit businesses create customized job training for employees.

These trainings:

  • Develops Colorado’s workforce.
  • Builds workers’ transferable skills.
  • Improves workers’ resumes and long-term employment opportunities.
  • Helps Colorado businesses remain competitive.

The funds are broken down into Colorado First Job Training and Existing Industry Job Training.

  • Colorado First Job Training funds customized training for net new hires of new and expanding Colorado businesses.
  • Existing Industry Job Training funds customized incumbent worker training of established Colorado businesses.

The 2026 grant application opens in October 2026. There will be changes coming with the new application cycle. For additional information regarding Skill Advance, please email workforce@pikespeak.edu.

The Colorado Office of Economic Development alongside the Colorado Community College System jointly administer the program while participating colleges manage the program.

Contact the Customized Training Team

Email: workforce@pikespeak.edu
Phone: 719-502-2404