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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. -
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. -
Conducting Effective Performance Reviews
$0.00This in-depth course will cover the entire performance management process, various types of performance reviews, goal setting, feedback strategies, coaching tips, techniques for handling performance problems, and ways to maintain performance. Learning Objectives: Recognize the importance of having a performance review process for employees. Understand how to work with employees to set performance standards and goals. Develop skills in observing, giving feedback, listening, and asking questions. Identify an effective interview process and have the opportunity to practice the process in a supportive atmosphere. Make the performance review legally defensible. *90 day access period -
Business Succession Planning: Developing and Maintaining a Succession Plan
$99.00This 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. Learning Objectives: Demonstrate an understanding of the value of succession planning for successful businesses. Demonstrate expertise with the key elements of a succession plan. Create and discuss aspects of a succession plan. Discuss the elements of a succession plan in terms of roles, responsibility, function, scope, and evaluation. *90 day access period -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
$99.00In this course, you will learn about the Shared Management Model, which helps the manager transfer motivation and responsibility for results to the employee. This course will cover all three phases of the model: preparing the employee for the job, motivating them to do it, and evaluating their performance. Learning Objectives: Understand the role of goal setting in performance management. Have tools to help your employees set and achieve goals. Have a three-phase model that will help you prepare employees for peak performance, activate their inner motivation, and evaluate their skills. Have a better knowledge of motivational tools and techniques. *90 day access period -
Workplace Ergonomics: Injury Prevention Through Ergonomics
$99.00In this course, you will learn how to identify, assess, and resolve ergonomic issues. You will also learn about basic ergonomic principles for sitting, standing, lifting, transporting items, and using tools. Ergonomic environments and workstations will also be covered. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
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. -
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 -
Creating a Top-Notch Talent Management Program
$99.00In this course, you will learn about the various aspects of talent management, including performance management, succession planning, talent management programs, employee development strategies, and employee engagement plans. Learning Objectives: Apply the multifaceted aspects of talent management in your own organization. Describe the skills required to manage high potential candidates. Recognize and foster talent within an organization. Explain the principles of competency-based management. *90 day access period Use the language for talent management. -
Being a Team Player
$99.00Teamwork is essential in any organization, and strongly influences whether a venture succeeds or fails. Participants will learn what characteristics are common to team players, how to demonstrate to others that you are a good team player, types of teams and which ones are vital to every workplace, reasons teams fail, and strategies to ensure success. Other courses that may be of interest are Creating a Positive Work Environment, Making Your Business Better, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Team Building- Developing High Performance Teams, and Communication Strategies. -
Public Speaking: Speaking Under Pressure
$35.00This course will take you through preparing an effective presentation. Topics include planning your speech, identifying your audience, connecting with the listener, developing key themes and sentences, structuring your ideas, and managing nervousness and body language. You'll focus on short responses and learn ways to expand a basic presentation. -
The Minute Taker’s Workshop
$35.00Youll begin this course by learning what a minute-taker does and what skills they should have. Then, youll learn about different styles of minutes, what to record, how to prepare minutes, and how to keep a minute book. -
Creating a Dynamite Job Portfolio
$35.00In this course, youll learn about the different aspects of your job package, including your resume, cover letter, and job portfolio. Youll 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. -
An Environmental Audit Primer
$99.00This course will give you the tools to conduct an internal environmental audit at your workplace. You will learn of the different types of audits and about auditors and the basic steps of an audit. This course will also teach you the essential aspects of an audit checklist and how to develop a checklist based on Environmental Management System procedures. You will also explore noncompliances, corrective actions and an audit closing meeting. -
Environmental Sustainability: A Practical Approach to Greening Your Organization
$99.00Here you will learn how to draft an Environmental Management System that can be applied to your organization. Along the way you will understand the term greenwashing and how to avoid it. You will know the six key performance indicator areas as defined by the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme and will be able to determine Environmental Impacts and Aspects within an organization then how to set objectives and targets for significant impacts. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
Time Management
$0.00After 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. -
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. -
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. -
Creating a Google AdWords Campaign
$99.00In 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. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
Managing Pressure and Maintaining Balance
$35.00This 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. -
Hiring for Success: Behavioral Interviewing Techniques
$99.00This course will take you through the hiring process from start to finish, including cost analysis, position profiles, finding candidates, screening resumes, testing candidates, interviewing (including different types of questions), evaluating responses, and reference checks. You will also learn about some of the problems commonly encountered in the hiring process and how to overcome them. Learning Objectives: Recognize the costs incurred by an organization when a wrong hiring decision is made. Develop a fair and consistent interviewing process for selecting employees. Prepare better job advertisements and use a variety of markets. Be able to develop a job analysis and position profile. Use traditional, behavioral, achievement oriented, holistic, and situational (critical incident) interview questions. Enhance communication skills that are essential for a skilled recruiter. Effectively interview difficult applicants. Check references more effectively. Understand the basic employment and human rights laws that can affect the hiring process. *90 day access period -
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. -
Problem Solving and Decision Making
$99.00In 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. Learning Objectives: Apply problem solving steps and tools Analyze information to clearly describe problems Identify appropriate solutions Think creatively and be a contributing member of a problem solving team Select the best approach for making decisions Create a plan for implementing, evaluating, and following up on decisions Avoid common decision-making mistakes *90 day access period -
Networking for Success
$35.00In this course, you will learn how to identify opportunities, create a positive first impression, develop a memorable intro, start conversations, shake hands well, handle business cards, manage sticky situations, follow up with others, and organize your network. Youll also learn how to network in online spaces, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. -
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. -
Call Center Training: Sales and Customer Service Training for Call Center Agents
$99.00In this course, you will learn how to present yourself appropriately on the telephone. You will also learn tips for saying no, giving bad news, selling on the phone, overcoming objections, dealing with difficult customers, taking messages, and managing voicemail. We will also share a basic telephone script that you can customize. -
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). -
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 -
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. -
The Practical Trainer
$99.00In this course, you will learn what makes a successful trainer and a successful training program. You will also learn about adult learning principles, the learning process, Kolbs experiential learning cycle, and learning styles. You'll even complete an assessment to help you identify your training preferences. Then, you will learn how to apply the learning cycle to assess needs, develop a program outline, choose training methods, design learning sequences, add some fun and games, and launch the program. You will also learn tips for delivering your program and managing difficult participants. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com
