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Reading Body Language as a Sales Tool
$99.00After you complete this course, you will be able to: Apply your knowledge of body language to improve communication, understand the impact of space in a conversation, understand the nuances of body language from a range of areas including your face, hands, arms, legs, and posture, use mirroring and matching techniques to build rapport, shake hands with confidence, and dress for success. -
Soft Skills New Employees
$60.00After you complete this course, you will be able to: Understand the importance of professional presence on the job Understand the importance of a positive attitude Understand the role of stress reduction in nurturing a positive attitude and appreciate various methods of stress reduction Determine your own level of assertiveness and understand and improve your assertiveness Learn how to self-manage to become more effective and efficient Learn the importance of working as a team member Improve your communication skills, including listening, questioning, and non-verbal communication, and learn how to set goals and create a personal action plan. -
CRM: An Introduction to Customer Relationship Management
$99.00This course will teach you how to make a decision about the need for CRM, the benefits of CRM, and how to coordinate the base requirements for a CRM undertaking. -
Mobbing in the Workplace
$60.00After 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 -
Leadership Skills for Supervisors
$75.00Upon completion of the Leadership Skills for Supervisors course, you should be familiar with methods for prioritizing, planning and managing your time, you should be able to identify your primary leadership style and other styles, you should be aware of ways to meet the needs of employees through communication and coaching, and how to manage conflict. -
Conflict Resolution: Getting Along In The Workplace
$65.00In this course, you will learn what conflict is all about. You will also learn about different types of conflict, stages of conflict, helping others through conflict, and creating win/win solutions. As a bonus, you will also learn supporting skills, such as communication, active listening, and body language. -
Digital Citizenship: Conducting Yourself in a Digital World
$50.00You 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. -
Communications for Small Business Owners
$85.00If 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. -
Team Building: Developing High Performance Teams
$65.00After you complete this course, you will understand how to apply the TORI model, Tuckman and Jensens five stages of team development, and Glenn Parkers 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. -
The Professional Supervisor
$65.00In this course, you will learn how to plan effectively, build a high-performing team, motivate employees, provide effective feedback, delegate, and manage conflict. You will also receive an introduction to several leadership theories, including John Adairs action-centered leadership model, Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchards Situational Leadership II model, and Velsofts signature leadership assessment. -
Time Management
$45.00After 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. -
Critical Thinking
$65.00In this course, youll learn what critical thinking is all about, what characteristics a critical thinker has, and what skills you may want to work on. Then, youll 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. -
Workplace Health and Safety: The Supervisor’s Role and Responsibilities
$75.00At the end of this course you are going to be able to understand the employers and supervisors responsibilities for workplace health and safety and you will also learn about, and understand, the three rights of workers. You will learn about Health and Safety Committees, employee orientation checklists, health and safety training for employees, and the importance of communicating health and safety information. -
Managing the Virtual Workplace
$65.00This 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. -
Project Management Training: Understanding Project Management
$75.00This 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. -
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. -
Story Marketing for Small Businesses
$55.00This course covers the essential elements of a story marketing campaign, from a review of company message and brand, to the elements of good storytelling. The course leads participants through the steps of creating a marketing story knowing your company, knowing and connecting with customers, and the story writing and editing process. This creates a clear and engaging path that will lead customers to your products and services and encourage them to respond to your call to action. -
Tough Topics: Talking to Employees about Personal Hygiene
$65.00This course has two major themes. First, well give you a customizable framework for having tough conversations. Then, well look at some common tough conversations that come up, including body odor, flatulence, poor clothing and hair decisions, and bad breath. -
Lean Process Improvement
$60.00This course will teach you the foundations of Lean through the Toyota precepts and the five critical improvement concepts (value, waste, variation, complexity, and continuous improvement). Then, you will learn about tools to perform continuous improvement in your organization, including 5S, 5W-2H, PDSA, DMAIC, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu, and Lean data mapping methods. -
English as a Second Language: A Workplace Communications Primer
$60.00This 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. -
Conversational Leadership
$75.00In this course, you will learn about the fundamental elements of meaningful conversations, the four-I model of organizational conversation, the conversational leadership framework, and the World Caf model. All of these tools will help you become a conversational leader and build stronger teams in your workplace. -
Becoming a Better Learner
$65.00After 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. -
Employee Accountability
$70.00You 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, youll 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. -
Creating a Workplace Wellness Program
$50.00To 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. -
Bullying in the Workplace
$50.00In this course, you will learn what bullying is and what it can cost an organization. You will also learn how to protect yourself from bullying, what to do if you are bullied, and what to do if you witness bullying. -
Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start
$65.00In 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. -
Human Resources Training: HR for the Non-HR Manager
$65.00This course will introduce you to basic human resource functions, including hiring, orientation, training, performance management, diversity, privacy, and disciplinary issues. -
Being a Team Player
$60.00Teamwork 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. -
Giving Effective Feedback
$75.00In this course, you will learn about the essential elements of feedback, important communication techniques, and a framework for informal and formal feedback. Youll also learn some tips for receiving feedback. -
Branding: Creating and Managing Your Corporate Brand
$99.00This course will get you started on the road to creating a perfect brand. Youll 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. -
The ABCs Of Supervising Others
$75.00This course will help you overcome many of the problems that you will encounter as a workplace leader. Topics include transitioning to a supervisory role, attitudes to cultivate, setting goals, personal productivity, communication skills, feedback techniques, conflict resolution, managing difficult conversations, and establishing credibility. -
Measuring Training Results
$99.00In this course, you will learn how to measure training results using Donald Kirkpatricks four-level evaluation model. You will also learn about essential tools and techniques, including cost-benefit analysis and return on investment. -
Business Succession Planning: Developing and Maintaining a Succession Plan
$65.00This 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. -
Collaboration
$60.00After completion of this course, you should understand the definition of collaboration, what it takes to work collaboratively with your colleagues and the advantages of collaboration. Obstacles to collaboration will be explored, and how to develop strategies to improve a collaborative work environment. As well, you will know the six steps to make collaboration work, and the difference between collaboration, cooperation and teamwork. -
Conquering Your Fear of Speaking in Public
$65.00After you complete this course, you will be able to: Speak with more confidence in one-on-one conversations, Feel more confident speaking socially or small groups such as meetings, and Practice developing these skills in a safe and supportive setting. -
Creating a Positive Work Environment
$70.00Here 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. -
Marketing for Small Businesses
$65.00This course will teach you how marketing is different for small businesses, the 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. -
Developing a Training Needs Analysis
$99.00This course covers all the essential elements of a training needs analysis. The first step is using the ICE method to isolate problems, consult with stakeholders, and evaluate your options. Then, you can bring all of the information together into a training needs analysis that will convince readers to take action.
