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Advanced Writing Skills
$99.00After you complete this course, you will be able to make your writing clear, complete, concise, and correct, improve sentence construction and paragraph development, deal with specific business requests, create effective business cases, proposals, and reports, and thoroughly document sources that you use in your writing. -
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. -
Goal Setting
$0.00In this course, you will create your personal vision, identify your values, and make a bucket list. From there, you'll create goals with SPIRIT, set up support systems, learn how to deal with setbacks, and identify ways to get started on your journey right now. -
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 -
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 -
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. -
Basic Business Management: Boot Camp for Business Owners
$99.00This course will give you all the skills that you need as a new business owner. You'll learn how to develop your organizational chart, manage operations, speak knowledgeably about finance, hire the right people, build your brand, market your product online and offline, complete a strategic plan and a succession plan, and build your customer base. You'll also learn the basics of leadership and tips for taking your business to the next level. -
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. -
Developing Your Executive Presence
$35.00This course is going to provide you with the boost you might need to get the most out of your inter-personal skills as you develop yourself into an executive with presence that will be the marvel of your coworkers and others you meet. It will help you consider the first impressions you make on others, your interpersonal skills, your speaking and listening skills, plus sharpens your leadership skills. -
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 -
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. -
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Body Language: Reading Body Language as a Sales Tool
$99.00In this course, you will learn how to interpret personal space, gestures, facial expressions, body movements, and posture. You'll also learn how to send the right message with body language, dress, and personal interactions. -
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. -
Personal Brand: Maximizing Personal Impact
$35.00In this course, you'll learn what a brand is and how you can leverage it to make a personal impact. You'll define, design, and plan the interior elements of your brand (such as your confidence level and approach to others) as well as the exterior elements (such as how you dress and act). You'll also learn supporting skills, such as setting goals, communicating effectively, building your credibility, managing difficult conversations, influencing others, and speaking in public. -
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. -
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. -
Telemarketing: Using the Telephone as a Sales Tool
$99.00In this course, you will learn how to communicate effectively over the telephone, develop your personal telemarketing script, and close a sale. You'll also learn how telemarketing can add to your sales strategy. -
Working with the Media: Creating a Positive Working Relationship
$35.00You are going to have a good grasp of the interview process when you are done of this course, from the perspective of a regular citizen or as a professional spokesperson. In addition to speaking to the media, youre going to learn how to pass your message along via a press release or media package. Libel and slander will come under consideration as well as various types of media outlets and the concept of a professional relationship with the media versus a personal one. -
Code of Conduct: Setting the Tone for Your Workplace
$99.00Over the duration of this course, you will learn the whys and whats of a workplace code of conduct. You learn why they are needed, who they apply to, how to develop and implement one, and how to train employees on it. -
Strengthening Your Writing Skills: Essentials for Business Writing Series
$195.00You can never go wrong by becoming a better writer. Whether you’re creating resumes and cover letters, drafting emails, conducting research, developing reports, or writing proposals, you need to be able to communicate through writing. 90 day access period -
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. -
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 -
Six Sigma: Entering the Dojo
$99.00Once you complete Six Sigma: Entering the Dojo your skills in this practical area of business improvement will be prepped and practiced enough to apply them in the real world. You are going to learn about the basics of Six Sigma and about various improvement tools. You will follow that up with a look at management tools for generating ideas. A look at continuous improvement is next on the agenda and the course concludes with a consideration of customer relationships. -
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. -
Microsoft Excel 365: Part 1: Getting Started
$19.00In this course you will learn how to get started with Excel Online, describe the basic components of Excel, manage workbooks, and get help in Excel Online. -
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. -
Employee Dispute Resolution: Mediation through Peer Review
$99.00In this course, you will learn about the peer review process, which includes a statement being filed, gathering evidence, creating the peer review panel, conducting the peer review hearing, and making a decision. Learning Objectives: Describe what the peer review process is Apply a process for employees to file grievances and for management to respond. Choose a facilitator and panel. Understand what is involved in the hearing process, from preliminary meetings to the hearing, and the decision process. Explain what responsibilities and powers a panel should have. Apply professional questioning and probing techniques. Understand why peer review panels fail and how to avoid those pitfalls. *90 day access period -
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.