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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. -
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. -
Branding: Creating and Managing Your Corporate Brand
$49.99This course will get you started on the road to creating a perfect brand. You’ll learn how to develop a visual identity from start to finish, the basics of graphic design, and how to keep your brand energized and alive. -
Making Training Stick
$99.00In this course, you’ll learn ways to help make your training workshops stickier so that the learners will retain the material better. You will familiarize yourself with strategies that can help learning to stick with the audience in an effective and meaningful way. You will learn how to keep learners focused and motivated to absorb material. Also, you will learn ways to develop an effective training style, using appropriate training aids and techniques. -
Building a Brand on Social Media
$39.95In this course you will look at various social media platforms and how they can be melded into your business to promote your brand. Along the way you will learn how to decide who your audience is, how to handle negative feedback as well as how to develop a complete social media plan. -
Time Management
$19.99After you complete this course, you will be able to better organize yourself and your workspace for peak efficiency, understand the importance of, and the most useful techniques for, setting and achieving goals, plan and schedule your time efficiently, learn how to set priorities, discover the ingredients for good decision-making, learn what to delegate and how to delegate well, take control of things that can derail your workplace productivity, create order and get organized, and manage your workload. -
Developing Your Training Program
$169.99After you complete this course, you will be able to: Describe the essential elements of a training program, apply different methodologies to program design, demonstrate skills in preparation, research, and delivery of strong content, explain an instructional model, and create a training program proposal. -
Cannabis and the Workplace
$29.95In this course, you are going to learn about cannabis, its effects on the individual, and the potential impact in the workplace. You will consider medical cannabis, the rights and obligations of employees and employers, and the intervention process as you deal proactively by having a comprehensive drug and alcohol policy. -
Digital Citizenship: Conducting Yourself in a Digital World
$29.95You will be presented with the concept that, just as in the real world we have certain rights, responsibilities, and standards of behavior as citizens, this is true in the digital world as well. This will be supported by looking at the similarities between the two worlds. Your understanding of what digital citizenship entails will be increased by examining its three principles, each of which is comprised of three elements. You will be counselled on how to practice good citizenship using each of the elements. The course finishes up with giving you exercises designed to reinforce the principles. -
Personal Brand: Maximizing Personal Impact
$29.95In this course, you’ll learn what a brand is and how you can leverage it to make a personal impact. You’ll define, design, and plan the interior elements of your brand (such as your confidence level and approach to others) as well as the exterior elements (such as how you dress and act). You’ll also learn supporting skills, such as setting goals, communicating effectively, building your credibility, managing difficult conversations, influencing others, and speaking in public. -
The Minute Taker’s Workshop
$24.95This workshop will help you learn what is expected of a minute-taker, key minute-taking skills, including listening skills, critical thinking, organization, and good note-taking, how to write minutes that are suitable for formal meetings, informal meetings, and action minutes, how to be an efficient minute-taker in any type of meeting,,and how to prepare and maintain a minute book. -
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. -
Building a Consulting Business
$49.97This course will guide you along your journey to starting your own consulting business. It will take a look at important components such as business plans and marketing plans while touching on networking and important documents you need to consider. -
Building Better Teams
$24.95After you complete this course, you will be able to understand the value of working as a team, develop team norms, ground rules, and team contracts ,identify your team player style and how it can be used effectively with your own team, build team trust, identify the stages of team development and how to help a team move through them, recognize the critical role communication skills will play in building and maintaining a team atmosphere, and identify ways that team members can be involved and grow in a team setting. -
Writing a Business Plan
$49.95In this course, you will learn the essential steps for creating a business plan, including creating a first draft; identifying the audience; gathering information; researching; describing product plans; and marketing, sales, and accounting terms. -
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. -
Team Building: Developing High Performance Teams
$89.00After you complete this course, you will understand how to apply the TORI model, Tuckman and Jensen’s five stages of team development, and Glenn Parker’s 12 characteristics of effective teams to develop high-performance teams. You will also complete the Velsoft team player type assessment to help you identify how you behave in a team and how you can connect with others. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Business Succession Planning: Developing and Maintaining a Succession Plan
$157.00This course will teach you how to develop and maintain a succession plan with the SUCCESS model, which includes developing a system, identifying resources, creating risk assessments, developing action plans, implementing those plans, and evaluating the results. -
Cybersecurity 1: Fundamentals for Employees
$19.95Starting with an understanding of the history and the current state of cyberattacks in terms of quantity and cost to business this course has the participant explore the various forms of cybercrime so they know how to recognize and defend against them at a company and an individual level. Further it explores the role of information obtained on social media platforms in these attacks and allows so the participant to understand what they should and should not be putting on these platforms. This ends with participants creating their own Personal Cybersecurity Plan. -
Beyond Workplace Politics: Using Social and Emotional Competencies
$69.95Upon completing this course you will have developed the skills that will allow you to cope with workplace politics which crop up in every workplace where there is more than one person. You will learn exactly what workplace politics are and then delve into learning lessons from social and emotional intelligence. The course takes you along through a look at self-awareness, self-management and into social awareness. Your learning journey continues with consideration of good relationship skills, responsible decision making and wraps up with a chance for you to create your own workplace philosophy. -
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. -
The Professional Supervisor
$147.00In this course, you will learn how to plan effectively, build a high-performing team, motivate employees, provide effective feedback, delegate, and manage conflict. You will also receive an introduction to several leadership theories, including John Adair’s action-centered leadership model, Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II® model, and Velsoft’s signature leadership assessment. -
CRM: An Introduction to Customer Relationship Management
$49.95This course will teach you how to make a decision about the need for CRM, the benefits of CRM, and how to coordinate the base requirements for a CRM undertaking. -
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. -
Collaboration
$19.95After completion of this course, you should understand the definition of collaboration, what it takes to work collaboratively with your colleagues and the advantages of collaboration. Obstacles to collaboration will be explored, and how to develop strategies to improve a collaborative work environment. As well, you will know the six steps to make collaboration work, and the difference between collaboration, cooperation and teamwork. -
Design Thinking: An Introduction
$29.95This course is designed to get you started using design thinking to solve problems more creatively. You will better understand problems from the customer's perspective as you apply different brainstorming techniques to identify innovative ideas. You will be able to use effective design research through use of prototypes and testing to test your ideas and keep your design ideas moving forward. Upon completion you will be ready to take on your next project using a design thinking process. -
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. -
Story Marketing for Small Businesses
$39.95This course covers the essential elements of a story marketing campaign, from a review of company message and brand, to the elements of good storytelling. The course leads participants through the steps of creating a marketing story — knowing your company, knowing and connecting with customers, and the story writing and editing process. This creates a clear and engaging path that will lead customers to your products and services and encourage them to respond to your call to action. -
Research Skills
$89.00In this course, you will learn basic research skills, such as reading, memory recall, and note-taking. You will also learn how to create different kinds of outlines for different stages of your project, and how to move from the outline to writing, editing, and polishing. As well, you’ll learn how to find information using the library’s Dewey Decimal System, journals, and the Internet. -
Transgender Employees: Creating an Inclusive Work Community
$19.95In this course, you are going to learn about the importance and elements of safe inclusive workspaces for transgendered persons – those identifying as one gender but born into the body of the opposing gender. You will consider terminology, elements, policies, and resources to build and sustain a safe, inclusive environment for transgendered employees and increase the comfort level and productivity off all in your organization. -
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. -
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.
