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Business Writing That Works
$35.00This course will teach you the four Cs of writing: clear, concise, complete, and correct. You will also learn some of the fundamentals of good writing, including word agreement, active and passive voice, sentence construction, punctuation, and spelling. Finally, you will have a chance to apply these skills to real-life situations, such as writing emails, memos, and letters. -
Lean Process Improvement
$99.00This 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. -
Developing a High Reliability Organization
$99.00You will learn what constitutes a High Reliability Organization (HRO), the principles behind high reliability and take a look at a real life disaster that could have benefitted from those principles. -
Business Process Management
$99.00To begin this course, you will learn about business process management and three related skill areas: business analysis, enterprise content management, and business process re-engineering. Then, you will work through the five stages of the business process life cycle: vision, design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization. Tools such as automation, business rules, workflow engines, what-if analysis, process mining, business activity monitoring, the balanced scorecard, Lean, and Six Sigma are also covered. -
Skills You Need for Workplace Success
$0.00Upon 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. -
Using Activities to Make Training Fun
$99.00In 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. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
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. -
Digital Transformation
$99.00This course aims to define digital transformation, and provide an understanding of why it matters, as well as take a look at businesses that are successfully undertaking this change. It will also help you begin developing a digital strategy for your own company. -
Microsoft Excel 365: Part 2: Organizing Worksheet Data with Tables
$19.00In this course you will learn how to create and modify tables, sort data, and filter data. -
Stress Management
$99.00This course will teach you some different ways to look at stress, ways to take care of yourself to reduce the stress that you feel, and coping techniques. You will also learn some time management and organizational tips to help you work smarter. Learning Objectives: Understand that stress is an unavoidable part of everybody’s life. Recognize the symptoms that tell you when you have chronic stress overload. Change the situations and actions that can be changed. Deal better with situations and actions that can’t be changed. Create an action plan for work, home, and play to help reduce and manage stress. *90 day access period -
Dealing With Difficult People
$99.00If difficult interactions are necessary, and we approach those conversations or interactions with a plan, we will likely find that these encounters are easier to handle, and we can have more successful outcomes. Upon 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. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
Conference and Event Management
$99.00In this course, you will learn all the essentials of event planning, including setting objectives, budgeting, using committees, advertising, choosing a venue, selecting a menu, developing takeaway items, gathering feedback for the plan, hosting the event, and evaluating how it all went. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
Managing Customer Service
$99.00The need to lead, model, and promote the organizational values within a customer service environment is essential for business success. This course will provide you with opportunities to explore your responsibilities within your role as a leader (supervisor or manager) in a customer service environment. Learning Objectives: Identify ways to establish links between excellence in customer service and your. business practices and policies. Develop the skills and practices that are essential elements of a customer service focused manager. Recognize what employees are looking for to be truly engaged. Recognize who the customers are and what they are looking for. Develop strategies for creating engaged employees and satisfied customers in whatever business units you manage. *90 day access period -
Microsoft Excel 365: Part 1: Formatting a Worksheet
$19.00In this course you will learn how to format text and cells, align cell contents, use Find & Select tools, and apply conditional formatting. -
Digital Citizenship: Conducting Yourself in a Digital World
$99.00You 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. -
Conquering Your Fear of Speaking in Public
$35.00To begin this course, youll review some of the basics of communication. Then, youll learn how to make small talk, develop conversations, speak well, dress appropriately, and control nervousness. To wrap things up, youll learn how to handle specific scenarios, like meetings and sticky social situations. -
Beyond Workplace Politics: Using Social and Emotional Competencies
$99.00Upon 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. -
Microsoft Office 365: 2018 Feature Updates
$19.00By the end of this course, users should be comfortable using the new features released in 2018 for the desktop version of Microsoft Office 365, including features of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Visio. -
Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program
$99.00This 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. Learning Objectives: Define onboarding and describe how it is different from orientation. Identify the business benefits of onboarding. List the factors that contribute to a successful onboarding program. Build a team to create an onboarding program. Prepare a vision statement and goals for an onboarding program. Design a framework for an onboarding program that includes program setup, various types of training, games, progress tracking, and follow-up. Customize your onboarding framework. Identify which metrics you should track to evaluate program results. Create a branded, unique program that will strengthen your company’s image and market position. *90 day access period -
Planning for Workplace Safety
$99.00This 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. -
Microsoft Excel 365: Part 1: Using Pivot-Tables
$19.00In this course you will learn how to insert PivotTables, work with PivotTable data, and sort and filter PivotTable data. -
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. -
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Continuous Improvement with Lean
$99.00In this course, you will learn about developing continuous improvement strategies in the workplace using Lean methodology. The course focuses on the Identify Plan Execute Review cycle, and wraps up with an in-depth case study to help you practice what you have learned. -
Writing a Business Plan
$99.00In 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. -
Conducting Accurate Internet Research
$35.00This course is going to provide you with the skills you will need to get the most of an Internet search. You will learn where to look for information, how to find it, and the types of information that you can, and cannot, find online. It looks at the surface web and then takes you further in your searching skills to the deep web.
