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Marketing for Small Businesses
$99.00This course will teach you how marketing is different for small businesses, elements of a successful marketing message, what the marketing cycle looks like, how to build a marketing plan with the five Ps, how to market with social media, and how to create a marketing budget. You will also explore over 100 strategies and consider which ones are right for your small business. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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 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. -
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 -
Facilitation Skills
$99.00In this course, you will learn what facilitation is, skills that a facilitator should have, and the different skill levels of a facilitator. Then, you will learn some basic facilitation techniques, including ground rules, differentiating between content and process, bringing divergent and convergent thinking together, degrees of support, managing difficult participants, building sustainable agreements, and more. Supporting skills, such as communication, feedback, and team building, are also covered. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
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 -
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. -
Creating Successful Staff Retreats
$99.00In this course you are going to learn a comprehensive approach to crafting a successful staff retreat for your organization. You are going to look at why retreats are conducted, look at retreat undertaking categories and then advance to the development and presentation of retreat activities. Your retreat education doesnt stop there as you are also going to learn how to identify the critical elements of a staff retreat and you will learn to create a planning checklist and about the keys of running a retreat. When the retreat is over, your responsibilities arent, you need to evaluate how things went so you will learn how to create an evaluation and follow up. -
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. -
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. -
Selling Smarter
$99.00In this course, you will learn why consultative and customer-focused selling are so important. You'll also learn about the sales cycle, setting goals, ways to increase your average sale, and where to find new clients. -
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 -
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. -
Becoming a Better Learner
$35.00After you complete this course, you will be able to understand what it means to learn and become a life-long learner, know what a mindset for learning looks like and how to adopt one, set realistic goals, understand what your network is and why expanding it is important, know how to ask questions and why that is important, become accountable for your goals and take responsibility, and know how to accelerate your learning. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Process Improvement with Gap Analysis
$99.00You will learn how to embrace Process Improvement with Gap Analysis during this course which provides you with the knowledge of what gap analysis is, examples, templates, and the guidance to implement an analysis in your situation. -
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. -
Disability Awareness: Working with People with Disabilities
$99.00This course will assist with welcoming people with disabilities into workplaces, learning how to Interact with people with disabilities, identify and overcome barriers in the workplace, use respectful, appropriate, acceptable language in any circumstance, understand appropriate interaction during the hiring and interviewing process, and understand what job accommodation is and how it applies in a workplace. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com -
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 -
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. -
Creativity In The Workplace
$99.00After you complete this course, you will be able to, define creativity, identify the characteristics of a creative person, develop your creativity, understand the importance of creativity in the workplace, identify the benefits of creativity in the workplace, examine creative corporate cultures, foster creativity in the workplace, and apply brainstorming techniques. Learning Objectives: Define creativity. Identify the characteristics of a creative person. Develop your creativity. Understand the importance of creativity in the workplace. Identify the benefits of creativity in the workplace. Examine creative corporate cultures. Foster creativity in the workplace. Apply brainstorming techniques. *90 day access period -
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. -
Getting Your Job Search Started
$35.00In this course, you will learn how to manage change, identify your values and skills, consider your vocation, find jobs, network, and set goals. Then, you should be ready to start the search for your dream job. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
Advanced Skills for the Practical Trainer
$99.00To begin, you will explore the trainers role and what skills and competencies trainers should have. Then you will learn about the learning process and different learning styles, and apply that knowledge to designing programs and motivating learners. You will also learn ways to manage the stress of training, plan a workshop, and lead a training session. Then, you will learn techniques for dealing with difficult participants, evaluating learning, and conducting on-the-job follow-up. Alternative training methods, such as eLearning, co-facilitation, and team teaching will also be covered. *90 day access period www.skillmatelearning.com
