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Working Smarter: Using Technology to Your Advantage
$35.00In this course, youll 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. -
Building Relationships for Success in Sales
$99.00This 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. -
Anger Management: Understanding Anger
$99.00This course will help you identify how anger is affecting you. You will also learn about the anger process, trigger thoughts, behavior types, and coping strategies. Learning Objectives: Recognize how anger affects your body, your mind, and your behavior. Use the five-step method to break old patterns and replace them with a model for assertive anger. Use an anger log to identify your hot buttons and triggers. Control your own emotions when faced with other peoples’ anger. Identify ways to help other people safely manage some of their repressed or expressed anger. Communicate with others in a constructive, assertive manner. *90 day access period -
Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business
$99.00This 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. -
Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start
$99.00In 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. Learning Objectives: Understand how important an orientation program is to an organization Identify the role of the human resource department in the orientation program Recognize how the commitment curve affects both new employees and their managers Know what companies can do to deliver their promise to new employees Determine the critical elements of effective employee training Establish the importance of having an employee handbook for new and longterm employees *90 day access period -
Creative Thinking and Innovation
$35.00In 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). -
Global Business Strategies
$99.00This course provides an overview of the various factors that a business must consider before going global. Students will also begin considering how they can expand their business to the global marketplace using a variety of planning techniques. We strongly recommend that participants complete our Entrepreneurship 101 and Basic Business Management programs before taking this course. -
Research Skills
$0.00In 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. -
Active Listening
$35.00In 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. -
Critical Thinking
$35.00In 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. -
Delegation: The Art of Delegating Effectively
$99.00This course will teach you how delegation can make you more successful, ways that you can delegate, techniques for giving instructions, how to monitor delegation results, and how to give good feedback. You will also learn an eight-step delegation process that you can customize for any situation. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
Communications for Small Business Owners
$99.00If you are new to the communications highway, this course will provide the foundation for future development. If your company has some communications expertise, this course will help you strengthen and polish your essential components. -
Intrapreneurship
$99.00In 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. Learning Objectives: Understand the importance of intrapreneurship in today’s economy. Identify the characteristics of an intrapreneur and assess your own strengths. Create an intrapreneurial team within your organization. Understand the process of intrapreneurship. Develop a new product or process idea. Understand the importance of a sales strategy. Create a start-up financial statement. -
Microsoft PowerPoint 365 Part 2: Using Additional Features
$19.00In this course you will learn how to review a presentation, insert links and online video and view a presentation. -
Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills
$35.00In this course, you will explore what self-esteem is and where low self-esteem comes from. You will also learn ways to build your self-esteem, get what you want, and make others feel better about themselves. -
Making Your Business Better
$99.00This course demonstrates how various factors work together to ensure a company flourishes. Students will be guided through positioning and pricing, marketing, selling, negotiating, responding to RFQs, project management, team building, productivity, and strategic planning. Other courses that may be of interest are - Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills, Business Leadership, Business Ethics in the Office, Creating a Positive Work Environment, and Getting Stuff Done - Personal Development Boot Camp. -
Public Speaking: Influence and Persuasion
$35.00In this course, you will learn how to speak persuasively, communicate with confidence, build rapport, develop a strong presentation, and leverage storytelling. Youll also receive an introduction to basic neuro linguistic programming techniques. -
Creating Winning Proposals
$35.00In this course, you will learn how to locate potential funders and how to match funders interests with organizational needs. Along the way you will also learn the basic elements of proposal writing for not-for-profit organizations and learn to understand the process for successful proposal writing and how to build effective relationships with funders. -
Managing Difficult Conversations
$99.00This 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. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
Appreciative Inquiry
$99.00In this course you will learn about the appreciative inquiry process. To begin, you'll explore its fundamental principles and the 4-D model. You'll also get a hands-on look at the appreciative inquiry interview guide and start considering how this powerful tool could make a difference in your organization. Learning Objectives: Recognize and work with the fundamentals of Appreciative Inquiry. Describe the 4-D’s of Appreciative Inquiry: discovery, dreaming, design, and destiny. Work through a simple Appreciative Inquiry process. Create thoughtful, meaningful questions for your own Appreciative Inquiry initiative. Help organizations review what’s important, what they can become, and how they can get there. *90 day access period -
Public Speaking: Presentation Survival School
$35.00After you complete this course, you will be able to establish rapport with your audience, implement techniques to reduce nervousness and fear, understand your strengths as a presenter and how to appeal to different types of people, recognize how visual aids can create impact and attention, develop techniques to create a professional presence, learn some different ways to prepare and organize information, and prepare, practice, and deliver a short presentation. -
Critical Elements of Customer Service
$35.00This course is all about the critical elements of customer service: a customer service focus that is defined within, and given life by, your organization. In order to be successful, this focus must be reinforced every day, measured, and improved upon. -
Getting Stuff Done: Personal Development Boot Camp
$35.00To start this course, you'll explore what personal efficiency is all about, as well as useful attitudes and skills that you might want to develop. Then, you'll outline your vision statement, dreams, and goals. Next, you'll learn about the 80/20 system, what characteristics your organizational system should have, how to design a functional workspace, and techniques for organizing your daily to-do items. You'll also learn how to set up and maintain information management systems (both physical and virtual), prioritize tasks, create routines, and tackle procrastination. Finally, you'll learn how to get organized at home. -
Knowledge Management
$99.00In 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 Blackwells knowledge management matrix, Bothas process model, and Nonaka and Takeuchis spiral model. Implementation aspects, such as knowledge management teams, post-mortem plans, KMBOKs, Chief Knowledge Officers, and pilot programs, are covered as well. -
Business Ethics for the Office
$99.00In this course, you will learn what the terms ethics, morals, and values mean. Then, you will learn about several different ethical frameworks, including Kohlberg's six stages, philosophical approaches, personal values, and codes of ethics. You will also learn how to avoid ethical dilemmas, make ethical decisions, handle common ethical dilemmas, and recover from mistakes. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
Communication Strategies
$99.00This course will teach you all about the various aspects of communication. You will learn about asking questions, probing for information, active listening, and body language. Supporting skills are also covered, such as self-esteem, building relationships with others, and assertiveness. -
Emotional Intelligence
$35.00This course will introduce you to the history of emotional intelligence and what its all about. You'll explore the most popular theories, including the EI blueprint, Martin Seligmans ABCs of optimism, the VALUE and SOLER techniques, Ekmans seven basic emotions, and Plutchiks wheel. You'll also explore your personal values and vision statement to help guide you in your emotional intelligence development. -
Microsoft Excel 365: Part 2: Analyzing Data with Logical and Lookup Functions
$19.00In this course you will learn how to use text functions, use logical functions, use lookup functions, use date functions, and use financial functions. -
Creating a Workplace Wellness Program
$99.00With increasing costs of health care, a shrinking workforce, and aging workers, a savvy workplace understands the value in supporting workers to improve their conditioning and to live a fitter lifestyle. This course will give you a framework to build a program from scratch and ways to enhance existing programs. To 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. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
Survival Skills for the New Trainer
$99.00In this course, you will learn the basic skills that every trainer must have. This includes dressing appropriately, being assertive, being genuine, communicating well, connecting with people, handling difficult participants, and a desire to learn. At the end of the course, you'll review a list of dos and dont's and consider your next steps. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com
