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Public Speaking: Speaking Under Pressure
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This 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. -
Making Your Business Better
$200.00This 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 to the student 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. -
Workplace Harassment: What It Is and What to Do About It
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.After completing this course, you will be able to identify acceptable and unacceptable behavior in the workplace, apply the benefits of harassment training, define the various types of harassment, assist in the creation of a harassment policy, understand ways to prevent and protect yourself from harassment, know what to do if you are the target of harassment or are accused of harassment, understand the complaint process, and how to help your workplace adjust after a harassment incident. -
Public Speaking: Presentation Survival School
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.After you complete this course, you will be able to establish rapport with your audience, implement techniques to reduce nervousness and fear, understand your strengths as a presenter and how to appeal to different types of people, recognize how visual aids can create impact and attention, develop techniques to create a professional presence, learn some different ways to prepare and organize information, and prepare, practice, and deliver a short presentation. -
Managing Difficult Conversations
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course will give you an eight-step process for a difficult conversation, as well as some things to consider when deciding to have the conversation (such as your desired outcome, the time and place, and how to stay safe). You’ll also learn how to speak persuasively, ask good questions, and listen actively. -
Managing the Virtual Workplace
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course will teach managers and supervisors how to prepare employees for the virtual workplace, create telework programs, build virtual teams, leverage technology, and overcome cultural barriers. -
Getting Stuff Done: Personal Development Boot Camp
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.To 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. -
E-Commerce Management
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course will give you the skills to develop, design, test and successfully run your e-commerce business. It looks at important components such as business plans and marketing while touching upon payment methods, software solutions, security and fraud awareness, and much more. With those topics covered you will have the skills to take your e-commerce business to the next level. -
Project Management Training: Understanding Project Management
$200.00This in-depth course will take you through all aspects of project management. First, you will consider what a project is and what a project manager does. Then, you will work through the four stages of the project life cycle: conceptual, planning, execution, and termination. You will also learn some supporting skills, like teamwork, communication, and presentation. -
Creative Thinking and Innovation
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In 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). -
Risk Management
$200.00In this course, you will learn about the seven R’s and four T’s that traditionally represent the key activities of risk management. This will give you a framework that you can customize for a single project, a department, or an entire company. -
Goal Setting
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.After you complete this course, you will be able to: Identify what is important to you in your life, Use goal setting activities and appropriate language to articulate what you want in your life, Explain what your dreams and goals are for both the short and long term, Use motivating techniques to help you reach your goals, Understand how to deal with setbacks. -
Time Management
$200.00After 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. -
Fundamentals of Writing
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.Specific learning objectives include: how to write clearly, concisely, completely, and correctly; how to make sure words agree; how to recognize and use active voice; how to write proper sentences; how to use practical and inclusive language; how to use different punctuation marks; and, how to revise and proofread. -
Beyond Workplace Politics: Using Social and Emotional Competencies
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.Upon 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. -
Building Relationships for Success in Sales
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.This 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. -
Team Building: Developing High Performance Teams
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.After you complete this course, you will understand how to apply the TORI model, Tuckman and Jensen’s five stages of team development, and Glenn Parker’s 12 characteristics of effective teams to develop high-performance teams. You will also complete the Velsoft team player type assessment to help you identify how you behave in a team and how you can connect with others. -
Self-Leadership
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you will explore the four pillars of self-leadership: knowing who you are, knowing what you do, knowing what you need to learn, and using what you know. -
Progressive Discipline
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00. -
Employee Accountability
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.You will begin this course by exploring what accountability is all about and some recent events that have caused people to look at accountability more closely. Then, you’ll learn ways to build accountability and ownership in your organization and make yourself more accountable. Supporting skills, like goal setting, feedback, and delegation, are also covered. -
Becoming a Progressive Employer: Setting Trends Instead of Following Them
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you will gain an understanding of what being progressive means, and then take time to truly examine this concept through activities and discussion. You will look at the process involved in going from the status quo to being progressive, along with how to develop or enhance a progressive mindset and innovative ideas. The last part of the course involves understanding the importance of a succession plan to a progressive organization. -
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.At the end of this workshop, you will: understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion for workspaces; be able to describe and analyze key issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in one’s work environments and community; grasp the power of diversity as a tool for creativity, and productive collaboration in the workspace; have the opportunity to share elements of one’s culture with others; and learn that norms and practices one thinks are universal may be culturally dependent. -
Inventory Management: The Nuts and Bolts
$200.00In this course, you will learn about all aspects of inventory management, including common terms, the inventory cycle, how to maintain inventory accuracy, and what some of the latest trends are. -
Six Sigma: Entering the Dojo
$200.00Once 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. -
Budgets and Managing Money
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.To start this course, you will review the fundamentals of finance (including basic terms, generally accepted accounting principles, and financial roles in an organization). Then, you will learn about different types of budgets and a six-step budgeting process. You will also learn how to monitor budgets, perform basic ratio analysis, and compare investment opportunities. -
Digital Transformation
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This 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. -
Tough Topics: Talking to Employees about Personal Hygiene
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.This course has two major themes. First, we’ll give you a customizable framework for having tough conversations. Then, we’ll look at some common tough conversations that come up, including body odor, flatulence, poor clothing and hair decisions, and bad breath. -
Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
$200.00In 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. -
Emotional Intelligence
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course will introduce you to the history of emotional intelligence and what it’s all about. You’ll explore the most popular theories, including the EI blueprint, Martin Seligman’s ABC’s of optimism, the VALUE and SOLER techniques, Ekman’s seven basic emotions, and Plutchik’s wheel. You’ll also explore your personal values and vision statement to help guide you in your emotional intelligence development. -
Developing Your Executive Presence
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This 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. -
Workplace Ergonomics: Injury Prevention Through Ergonomics
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In 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. -
Advanced Project Management
$200.00In this course, you will focus on two areas of advanced project management. The first area is advanced project management techniques, such as communication plans and status meetings. The second area is general management skills, such as building a winning team and rewarding team members. -
Transgender Employees: Creating an Inclusive Work Community
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you are going to learn about the importance and elements of safe inclusive workspaces for transgendered persons – those identifying as one gender but born into the body of the opposing gender. You will consider terminology, elements, policies, and resources to build and sustain a safe, inclusive environment for transgendered employees and increase the comfort level and productivity off all in your organization. -
Purchasing and Procurement Basics
$200.00In this course, you will learn the basics of purchasing and procurement. You’ll receive an introduction to the supply chain, the purchasing cycle, and basic purchasing tools. You’ll also learn about the competitive bidding process, how to manage supplier performance, risk management techniques, and ways to build relationships. -
Creating a Positive Work Environment
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.Here 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. -
English as a Second Language: A Workplace Communications Primer
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This 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.
