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Generation Gap: Closing the Gap in the Workplace
$99.00During this course, you will consider whether defining the actual limits of each generation is most important, or whether the merits of people within the context of employment is the bigger issue. You will learn about the various types of generations and how human resource practices can bridge the gap. Learning Objectives: Identify where the generation gap issue surfaces, and the impact it has on the modern workforce. Describe and apply language that is specific to each generation currently in the workplace. Explore organization strategies that overcome gap issues. Evaluate the need and effectiveness of recruiting, retention, and succession plans in context of the generation gap. *90 day access period -
Writing Reports and Proposals
$35.00To 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. -
Fostering Innovation
$35.00At the end of this course, you will be able to understand what fostering innovation means, learn what an innovative workplace looks like, determine how you can help create an innovative workplace environment, understand your role in helping to foster innovation, know what happens in the workplace when you help foster innovation, and describe ways that innovation can help your company. -
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. -
Purchasing and Procurement Basics
$99.00In this course, you will learn the basics of purchasing and procurement. Youll receive an introduction to the supply chain, the purchasing cycle, and basic purchasing tools. Youll also learn about the competitive bidding process, how to manage supplier performance, risk management techniques, and ways to build relationships. -
Honing and Delivering Your Message
$35.00Learn how to clarify your message and how to present it, successfully communicate your message, and ensure your listeners hear what you want to get across to them with the Honing and Delivering Your Message course. -
Public Speaking Series
$195.00Get all the greats in one package! Whether you work in sales, own a business, or just want to strengthen your public communication skills, this series is the right fit for you. Enjoy our collection of public speaking courses to take your abilities to the next level. 90 day access period -
Mobbing in the Workplace
$99.00After 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 -
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 -
Business Etiquette: Gaining That Extra Edge
$35.00In 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 email. -
Microsoft PowerPoint 365 Part 2: Unique ShortCuts
$19.00In this course you will learn shortcuts for presenting, shortcuts to move between ribbons and panes and, shortcuts for editing slides and presentations. -
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. -
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. -
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). -
English as a Second Language: A Workplace Communications Primer
$99.00This 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. -
Successfully Managing Change
$99.00This course covers how to manage and cope with change and how to help those around you, too. Topics explored include understanding, accepting and reacting to change; and strategies for assisting with change to be accepted and implemented in the workplace. Learning Objectives: Accept there are no normal or abnormal ways of reacting to change, but that we must start from where we are. See change not as something to be feared and resisted but as an essential element of the world to be accepted. Understand that adapting to change is not technical but attitudinal. Change is not an intellectual issue but one that strikes at who you are. Recognize that before we can embrace the way things will be, we may go through a process of grieving, and of letting go of the way things used to be. See change as an opportunity for self-motivation and innovation. Identify strategies for helping change to be accepted and implemented in the workplace. *90 day access period -
Entrepreneurship 101
$99.00In 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 Better Teams
$99.00After 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. Learning Objectives: 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. Identify ways that team members can be involved and grow in a team setting. *90 day access period -
Identifying and Combating Fake News
$35.00After you complete this course you will be able to: define fake news, recognize the difference between fake news and objective reporting, understand the impacts of fake news on your organization, examine proactive strategies and how they work, learn reactive strategies and why they are essential, discover opportunities for promotion and growth within fake news , and create your own fake news action plan. -
Project Planning: All You Need to Know
$35.00Once you complete this course you will have learned several valuable new skills that will allow you to properly plan for a project. You will come away from this course knowing about project management basics and how to being project planning. You will learn about the Work Breakdown Structure, how to prepare a basic schedule and all about Resource Breakdown Structures. You will conclude this course by learning about project planning worksheets. -
Trade Shows: Getting the Most Out of Your Trade Show Experience
$99.00You 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. -
Creating a Positive Work Environment
$99.00Here 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. -
Basic Internet Marketing
$99.00In 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. *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 -
Negotiating for Results
$99.00In this course, you will learn about the different types of negotiation, characteristics of a successful negotiator, and building win-win solutions. You will also learn about the four phases of negotiation: preparation, exchanging information, bargaining, and closing. *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. -
Microsoft Excel 365: Part 1: Adding Pictures and Shapes
$19.00In this course you will learn how to insert pictures and shapes, and format shapes. -
Branding: Creating and Managing Your Corporate Brand
$99.00This 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. -
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. -
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.
