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Basic Business Management: Boot Camp for Business Owners
$89.00This course will give you all the skills that you need as a new business owner. You’ll learn how to develop your organizational chart, manage operations, speak knowledgeably about finance, hire the right people, build your brand, market your product online and offline, complete a strategic plan and a succession plan, and build your customer base. You’ll also learn the basics of leadership and tips for taking your business to the next level. -
Social Selling for Small Businesses
$39.00In this course, you will learn about the attributes of social selling, you will learn how to explore social selling can generate business leads, how to apply social selling strategies of relevance in social media. You will also develop an understanding of the power of leveraging different platforms and how to measure results. -
Prospecting for Leads Like a Pro
$49.95This course will teach you how to identify your target market, use a prospect dashboard, and set goals. You will also learn how to find prospects through networking, trade shows, lost accounts, and cold calls. -
Process Improvement with Gap Analysis
$69.00You will learn how to embrace Process Improvement with Gap Analysis during this course which provides you with the knowledge of what gap analysis is, examples, templates, and the guidance to implement an analysis in your situation. -
Telemarketing: Using the Telephone as a Sales Tool
$19.95In this course, you will learn how to communicate effectively over the telephone, develop your personal telemarketing script, and close a sale. You’ll also learn how telemarketing can add to your sales strategy. -
Disability Awareness: Working with People with Disabilities
$19.95This course will assist with welcoming people with disabilities into workplaces, learning how to Interact with people with disabilities, identify and overcome barriers in the workplace, use respectful, appropriate, acceptable language in any circumstance, understand appropriate interaction during the hiring and interviewing process, and understand what job accommodation is and how it applies in a workplace. -
Facilitation Skills
$145.00In this course, you will learn how to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, to indentify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation, how to understand the difference between content and process, how to identify the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage and, how to use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive -
Advanced Writing Skills
$24.95After you complete this course, you will be able to make your writing clear, complete, concise, and correct, improve sentence construction and paragraph development, deal with specific business requests, create effective business cases, proposals, and reports, and thoroughly document sources that you use in your writing. -
Giving Effective Feedback
$39.95In this course, you will learn about the essential elements of feedback, important communication techniques, and a framework for informal and formal feedback. You’ll also learn some tips for receiving feedback. -
Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program
$97.00This course will explore the benefits of onboarding, show you how to design an onboarding framework, give you ways to customize the program for different audiences (including managers and executives), and demonstrate how to measure results from the program. -
Women and Leadership: Owning Your Strengths and Skills
$79.95At the end of this course you will understand a brief history and evolution of women and leadership. You will recognize leadership barriers, how to handle them, and use them to create benefits. You will know about social and emotional intelligence, and self-awareness. You will be able to develop a basic vision and brand for your leadership and understand essential leadership skills. You will also examine decision making and create a workplace philosophy statement and action plan. -
Dealing With Difficult People
$49.95Upon completion of this course, you will be able to recognize how your own attitudes and actions affect others; find new and effective techniques for dealing with difficult people; be familiar with some techniques for managing and dealing with anger; and develop coping strategies for dealing with difficult people and difficult situations. -
Intermediate Project Management
$119.00In this course, you will focus on the last three stages of the project life cycle: planning, execution, and termination. This includes identifying tasks and resources; using scheduling techniques like the work breakdown structure, Gantt charts, and network diagrams; preparing a budget; executing a project; and controlling changes. -
Crisis Management
$49.95To begin this course, you will learn how to put the right people in place with a crisis management team and appropriate training. Then, you will learn how to identify and assess crisis risks, develop a response process, and gather appropriate resources. You will also learn how to respond to, document, and investigate crises; establish an emergency operations center; create a continuity plan; and recover from a crisis. -
Leadership Skills for Supervisors
$89.00Upon completion of the Leadership Skills for Supervisors course, you should be familiar with methods for prioritizing, planning and managing your time, you should be able to identify your primary leadership style and other styles, you should be aware of ways to meet the needs of employees through communication and coaching, and how to manage conflict. -
Creating a Workplace Wellness Program
$49.95To begin this course, you will consider the benefits of workplace wellness programs. Then, you will learn how to create a wellness committee, outline a wellness program, gather support for it, perform appropriate research (including a needs analysis), design an appropriate package, and get buy-in for it. You will also learn how to implement the wellness program, evaluate how it is doing, and present the results in a tangible manner. -
Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start
$49.95In this course, you will learn why orientation is so important. You will learn about the four components of employee commitment as well as the commitment curve. You will also learn how to develop successful orientation and training programs. -
Basic Internet Marketing
$19.95In this course, you will learn how to market online, where your target market is, and what results you are getting. You will also learn about search engine optimization, e-mail campaigns, pay per click advertising, and more. -
Six Sigma: Entering the Dojo
$129.95Once you complete Six Sigma: Entering the Dojo your skills in this practical area of business improvement will be prepped and practiced enough to apply them in the real world. You are going to learn about the basics of Six Sigma and about various improvement tools. You will follow that up with a look at management tools for generating ideas. A look at continuous improvement is next on the agenda and the course concludes with a consideration of customer relationships. -
Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills
$29.95At the end of this course, you will be able to: define what the balanced scorecard is, identify the benefits of the scorecard, create a vision statement for the balanced scorecard, understand what corporate values, mission statements, and vision statements are and how they tie into the balanced scorecard process, determine if the balanced scorecard is right for your organization, describe the key elements of the balanced scorecard process, identify a strategy map, tactical action plan, and balanced scorecard, identify the components of supporting balanced scorecard plans, understand what processes you will need to support the balanced scorecard, and, identify the members of different balanced scorecard teams. -
Knowledge Management
$39.95In this course, you will learn what knowledge is, what knowledge management is, how tacit and explicit knowledge are different, and the business benefits that knowledge management can bring. Then, you will learn about the knowledge management mix (which includes people, technology, and process) as well as a four step process for building your knowledge management framework. You will also learn about four knowledge management models: Bukowitz and Williams’ KM Process Framework, Gamble and Blackwell’s knowledge management matrix, Botha’s process model, and Nonaka and Takeuchi’s spiral model. Implementation aspects, such as knowledge management teams, post-mortem plans, KMBOKs, Chief Knowledge Officers, and pilot programs, are covered as well. -
Business Etiquette: Gaining That Extra Edge
$29.95In this course, you’ll learn all about business etiquette. First, you will learn tips for meeting new people, which includes a good handshake, knowing how to handle business cards, making small talk, remembering names, and crafting a good first impression. Then, you’ll learn how to dress for success, dine with confidence, and present yourself well on the phone and via e-mail. -
Problem Solving and Decision Making
$39.95In this course, you will learn a three-phase problem solving process that you can apply to any situation. You will also learn techniques for creative thinking, how to make good group decisions, and ways to follow up on and evaluate decisions. -
Trade Shows: Getting the Most Out of Your Trade Show Experience
$29.95You are going to learn about people who attend trade shows and how to interact with them. You are also going to learn about the importance of pre-show promotion and then follow up afterwards. These topics will be explored in great depth as they get broken down into areas such as creating good opening lines and good conversations, targeted promotional giveaways, booth behavior, and prospecting activities. -
Active Listening
$24.95In this course, you will learn what active listening is and what qualities active listeners have. You’ll also learn how to manage your body language, create a positive listening attitude, encourage conversation, build relationships, and get over listening roadblocks. -
Using Activities to Make Training Fun
$97.00In this course, you will explore different types of games, including icebreakers, energizers, simulations, and case studies. You will also learn how to get buy-in, deal with reluctant participants, troubleshoot games, and create your own games. To top things off, we will give you four activities that you can customize and re-use in your own training sessions. -
Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business
$19.95This course will introduce you to the basics of sustainability and corporate social responsibility using ISO 26000 guidelines as a framework. These principles include organizational governance and ethics, operating practices, human rights and labor practices, environmental awareness and sustainability, consumer issues, and community involvement. -
Getting Your Job Search Started
$19.99In this course, you will learn how to manage change, identify your values and skills, consider your vocation, find jobs, network, and set goals. Then, you should be ready to start the search for your dream job. -
Balanced Scorecard Basics
$29.95At the end of this course, you will be able to: Define what the balanced scorecard is, Identify the benefits of the scorecard, Create a vision statement for the balanced scorecard, Understand what corporate values, mission statements, and vision statements are and how they tie into the balanced scorecard process, Determine if the balanced scorecard is right for your organization, Describe the key elements of the balanced scorecard process, Identify a strategy map, tactical action plan, and balanced scorecard, Identify the components of supporting balanced scorecard plans, Understand what processes you will need to support the balanced scorecard, and Identify the members of different balanced scorecard teams. -
Managing Difficult Conversations
$97.00This course will give you an eight-step process for a difficult conversation, as well as some things to consider when deciding to have the conversation (such as your desired outcome, the time and place, and how to stay safe). You’ll also learn how to speak persuasively, ask good questions, and listen actively. -
Skills You Need for Workplace Success
$39.95Upon completing this course, you are going to know approaches to be an effective team member, how it feels to experience change and ways to be flexible in times of change and to approach problem solving. You will also identify tips to giving and receiving feedback, learn ways to recognize self-confident behaviors in the workplace and learn a three-step process to building self-confidence. -
Creating a Dynamite Job Portfolio
$19.95In this course, you’ll learn about the different aspects of your job package, including your resume, cover letter, and job portfolio. You’ll also receive a plan that will get you to a job in 60 days, techniques for writing thank-you notes, and tips for choosing your references. -
Becoming a Progressive Employer: Setting Trends Instead of Following Them
$19.95In this course, you will gain an understanding of what being progressive means, and then take time to truly examine this concept through activities and discussion. You will look at the process involved in going from the status quo to being progressive, along with how to develop or enhance a progressive mindset and innovative ideas. The last part of the course involves understanding the importance of a succession plan to a progressive organization. -
Intrapreneurship
$29.95In this course, you’ll learn what intrapreneurship is all about. You will learn about the history and culture of intrapreneurship and assess your own intrapreneurial qualities. You’ll also explore different ways that you can contribute to the intrapreneurial process. As well, you’ll learn how to develop, screen, sell, and implement your ideas. -
Conflict Resolution: Getting Along In The Workplace
$29.97In this course, you will learn what conflict is all about. You will also learn about different types of conflict, stages of conflict, helping others through conflict, and creating win/win solutions. As a bonus, you will also learn supporting skills, such as communication, active listening, and body language. -
Risk Management
$39.95In this course, you will learn about the seven R’s and four T’s that traditionally represent the key activities of risk management. This will give you a framework that you can customize for a single project, a department, or an entire company. -
Creative Thinking and Innovation
$29.95In this course, you will identify ways to develop your creative side and build a creative environment. You’ll also learn a basic problem-solving process, individual creative thinking tools (such as the RAP model, shoe swap technique, mind mapping, metaphors, and toys), and team-based creative thinking tools (such as brainstorming, brainwriting, rolestorming, the stepladder technique, and slip writing). -
Workplace Harassment: What It Is and What to Do About It
$19.99After completing this course, you will be able to identify acceptable and unacceptable behavior in the workplace, apply the benefits of harassment training, define the various types of harassment, assist in the creation of a harassment policy, understand ways to prevent and protect yourself from harassment, know what to do if you are the target of harassment or are accused of harassment, understand the complaint process, and how to help your workplace adjust after a harassment incident. -
Managing Pressure and Maintaining Balance
$79.00This course will teach you about the causes and costs of workplace pressure, the benefits of creating balance, and how to identify pressure points. You will also learn how to apply emotional intelligence, increase optimism and resilience, and develop strategies for getting ahead. -
Self-Leadership
$69.00In this course, you will explore the four pillars of self-leadership: knowing who you are, knowing what you do, knowing what you need to learn, and using what you know. -
Goal Setting
$19.99After you complete this course, you will be able to: Identify what is important to you in your life, Use goal setting activities and appropriate language to articulate what you want in your life, Explain what your dreams and goals are for both the short and long term, Use motivating techniques to help you reach your goals, Understand how to deal with setbacks. -
Developing a Training Needs Analysis
$79.95This course covers all the essential elements of a training needs analysis. The first step is using the ICE method to isolate problems, consult with stakeholders, and evaluate your options. Then, you can bring all of the information together into a training needs analysis that will convince readers to take action. -
Working Smarter: Using Technology to Your Advantage
$39.95In this course, you’ll learn how to use technology to your advantage. Computers, various types of applications, software purchases, technical training, IT budgets, security, privacy, usage policies, ergonomics, instant messaging, and telecommuting are all covered. -
Lean Process Improvement
$89.00This course will teach you the foundations of Lean through the Toyota precepts and the five critical improvement concepts (value, waste, variation, complexity, and continuous improvement). Then, you will learn about tools to perform continuous improvement in your organization, including 5S, 5W-2H, PDSA, DMAIC, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu, and Lean data mapping methods. -
Mobbing in the Workplace
$4.95After this course, you will be able to identify mobbing and how it differs from individual bullying, know why and how it occurs, know how it impacts the person targeted and the organization, know what actions to take if you are being mobbed, know how to avoid targeting someone, and know what action to take as an organization to stop mobbing before it starts -
Entrepreneurship 101
$49.95In this course, you’ll learn the basics of entrepreneurship. You will learn how to find and evaluate business ideas, flesh out those ideas by developing value propositions and financial projections, consider your ownership options, prepare the appropriate documents (including a business plan, pitch deck, and white papers), and gather funding for your business. You’ll also learn the steps of developing, testing, marketing, and launching a product or service. To wrap things up, you’ll learn how to grow your business and become an entrepreneurial leader. -
Building Relationships for Success in Sales
$39.95This course will teach you how to leverage customer-focused selling, identify what influences relationships, expand your communication skills, manage your body language, develop a professional handshake, and grow your network. -
Writing Reports and Proposals
$49.95To begin this course, you will learn about the four stages of report writing: investigating, planning, writing, and revising. You’ll also learn about the ten steps of proposal writing, as well as using headings, adding visual aids, writing persuasively, and sourcing material. -
Creating Successful Staff Retreats
$89.00In this course you are going to learn a comprehensive approach to crafting a successful staff retreat for your organization. You are going to look at why retreats are conducted, look at retreat undertaking categories and then advance to the development and presentation of retreat activities. Your retreat education doesn’t stop there as you are also going to learn how to identify the critical elements of a staff retreat and you will learn to create a planning checklist and about the keys of running a retreat. When the retreat is over, your responsibilities aren’t, you need to evaluate how things went so you will learn how to create an evaluation and follow up. -
Critical Thinking
$29.95In this course, you’ll learn what critical thinking is all about, what characteristics a critical thinker has, and what skills you may want to work on. Then, you’ll work your way through a seven-step critical thinking model. Supporting skills, such as asking good questions, applying common sense, and thinking creatively, are also covered. -
English as a Second Language: A Workplace Communications Primer
$29.95This is an opportunity to review and enhance your proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. You will find that being aware of cultural and workplace influences will help keep them from creating barriers to communication. Practical information on selecting the right words, and combining them effectively to get your message across, will improve your verbal and written communication. Specific advice on email, videoconferencing, proposals, and selling your ideas will further improve your communication skills. -
Planning for Workplace Safety
$49.95This course gives you the tools to create a workplace safety plan that covers the all the bases you need to begin to build a safe work environment. You will learn many topics including the basics of a safety policy along with the introduction of a safety plan and how to develop a communications plan. You will learn how to decide upon training solutions for common accidents/incidents and learn of the importance and structure of incident response plans. Also, the course covers 6S inspections, checklists, plus the value of an appendix for the safety plan. -
Developing a Lunch and Learn Program
$49.97This course will give you the skills to develop a successful workplace Lunch and Learn Program. You begin by looking at exactly what a Lunch and Learn truly is and why to have one. Next the course guides you through the underpinnings of a Lunch and Learn and then into how to administer the program. You will get the chance to develop your own short program and wrap up the course by evaluating it. -
Creating a Positive Work Environment
$45.00Here you will learn how to recognize a positive work environment and understand the key elements that are needed to create one. You will also discover what you can do personally to build on in your workplace and figure out what type of team player you are. Along the way you will be shown the importance of effective workplace relationships in creating and maintaining a positive environment at work. You will also reveal your personal strengths and weaknesses in working cooperatively and your preference for dealing with workplace conflict. -
Tough Topics: Talking to Employees about Personal Hygiene
$19.95This course has two major themes. First, we’ll give you a customizable framework for having tough conversations. Then, we’ll look at some common tough conversations that come up, including body odor, flatulence, poor clothing and hair decisions, and bad breath. -
Creating a Google AdWords Campaign
$29.99In this one-day course, you will learn how Google AdWords work, what pay per click means, the importance of correctly setting an AdWord budget, how to select keywords and set up ad groups, how to design a compelling ad, and how to make adjustments to increase success. -
Conference and Event Management
$49.95After you complete this course, you will be able to: Plan a complete corporate event, including an agenda, budget, and goals, Keep your event on budget, Select an appropriate venue, Design a promotional plan, Determine whether partners, sponsors, and volunteers can help to make your event unforgettable, Select speakers and a master of ceremonies to add impact to your event, Engage your event participants, and Evaluate the process once it is all wrapped up.
