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LEAN PROCESS IMPROVEMENT | PART 2: CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT
$55.00In 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. -
Creativity In The Workplace
$40.00After 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. -
Emotional Intelligence
$65.00This course will introduce you to the history of emotional intelligence and what its all about. Youll 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. Youll also explore your personal values and vision statement to help guide you in your emotional intelligence development. -
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. -
Personal Brand: Maximizing Personal Impact
$99.00In this course, youll learn what a brand is and how you can leverage it to make a personal impact. Youll 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). Youll also learn supporting skills, such as setting goals, communicating effectively, building your credibility, managing difficult conversations, influencing others, and speaking in public. -
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. -
Project Management Fundamentals
$75.00In this course, you will learn what a project is and what a project manager does. You will also learn about the life cycle of a project. In particular, you will focus on the conceptual phase of project management, where you identify, prioritize, and scope a project idea. -
Knowledge Management
$60.00In 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. -
Building Better Teams
$65.00After you complete this course, you will be able to understand the value of working as a team, develop team norms, ground rules, and team contracts ,identify your team player style and how it can be used effectively with your own team, build team trust, identify the stages of team development and how to help a team move through them, recognize the critical role communication skills will play in building and maintaining a team atmosphere, and identify ways that team members can be involved and grow in a team setting. -
Basic Internet Marketing
$55.00In 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. -
Inventory Management: The Nuts and Bolts
$75.00In 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. -
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 -
Project Planning: All You Need to Know
$65.00Once 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. -
Public Relations: Working with the Media
$60.00You are going to have a good grasp of the interview process when you are done with this course, from the perspective of a regular citizen or as a professional spokesperson. In addition to speaking to the media, you're 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. -
Identifying and Combatting Fake News
$99.00After you complete this course you will be able to: define fake news, recognize the difference between fake news and objective reporting, understand the impacts of fake news on your organization, examine proactive strategies and how they work, learn reactive strategies and why they are essential, discover opportunities for promotion and growth within fake news , and create your own fake news action plan. -
Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
$65.00In 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. -
Employee Recognition: Appreciating Your Workforce
$65.00Here you are going to learn just what an employee recognition program is all about. Youre going to consider who falls under the definition of an employee and then decide why you should provide recognition for them. You will also look at the types of recognition programs, how to lay the foundation for one, and then how to actually build, implement, and follow up on a program in your office. -
Public Relations Boot Camp
$65.00In this course, you will learn how to determine the type of information required in a particular situation, ways to approach PR strategically, how to create compelling releases, and techniques for managing media relations. -
Celebrating Diversity in the Workplace
$50.00In this course, you will learn what diversity means and what some of its related terms are. Youll also consider how your world has changed and how stereotypes impact people. Then, youll learn how to use the four cornerstones of diversity and the STOP technique to encourage a diverse workplace. You will also learn how to manage for diversity and deal with discrimination issues. -
Making Training Stick
$99.00In this course, youll learn ways to help make your training workshops stickier so that the learners will retain the material better. You will familiarize yourself with strategies that can help learning to stick with the audience in an effective and meaningful way. You will learn how to keep learners focused and motivated to absorb material. Also, you will learn ways to develop an effective training style, using appropriate training aids and techniques. -
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. -
Coaching and Mentoring
$65.00In this course, you will learn how coaching and mentoring differ from each other. You will also learn the key aspects of each skill as well as supporting skills (such as goal setting, communication, feedback techniques, and adult learning principles). -
Facilitation Skills
$99.00In this course, you will learn how to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, to indentify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation, how to understand the difference between content and process, how to identify the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage and, how to use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive -
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. -
From Boss to Leader
$65.00Course Objective By the end of this course, participants will know the characteristics of bad bosses and good leaders, understand how those who hold management positions can develop into good leaders, know the elements of leading by example, understand the importance of good communication and effective feedback, and know how to use emotional intelligence. -
Developing Your Executive Presence
$65.00This 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. -
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 voice mail. We will also share a basic telephone script that you can customize. -
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. -
Advanced Project Management
$75.00In 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. -
Becoming a Progressive Employer: Setting Trends Instead of Following Them
$75.00In 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. -
E-Commerce Management
$85.00This 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. -
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. -
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. Youll also learn how telemarketing can add to your sales strategy. -
Workplace Safety
$65.00After you complete this course, you will be able to: Understand the difference between a safety program and a safety culture, Use resources to help you understand the regulations in your area, Launch a safety committee, Identify hazards and reduce them, Apply hiring measures that can improve safety, Explain what a safety training program will involve, Identify groups particularly at risk for injury and know how to protect them, Help your organization write, implement, and review a safety plan, Respond to incidents and near misses, Understand the basics of accident investigation and documentation. -
Project Management: All You Need to Know
$65.00Upon completion of this course you will have developed valuable new skills that will allow you to competently manage 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 project life cycle and project planning documents. Youll learn about communications and how to deal changes and project tracking and also how to conduct status meetings. The course wraps up with a look at closing your project. -
Ergonomics 101: Injury Prevention Through Workplace Ergonomics
$50.00In 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. -
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. -
Promoting a Marketing Webinar
$75.00At the end of this course, you will be able to define the marketing objectives of your webinar, create an attendee avatar to connect with your target audience, create and use a lead magnet, develop a promotion strategy, explore the potential of a joint venture, and create a webinar marketing calendar. -
Training with Visual Storytelling
$99.00In this course, you will learn how to use storytelling to engage the hearts and minds of your audience. Well cover the essential elements of a successful story as well as a variety of storyboarding and graphic design tools. After you complete this course, youll be ready to create engaging, compelling training sessions that inspire your students. -
The Minute Taker’s Workshop
$99.00Youll 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. -
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. -
Selling Smarter
$99.00In this course, you will learn why consultative and customer-focused selling are so important. Youll also learn about the sales cycle, setting goals, ways to increase your average sale, and where to find new clients. -
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. -
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. -
Dealing With Difficult People
$65.00Upon 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. -
Goal Setting
$65.00After 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. -
Honing and Delivering Your Message
$99.00Learn how to clarify your message and how to present it, successfully communicate your message, and ensure your listeners hear what you want to get across to them with the Honing and Delivering Your Message course. -
Generation Gap: Closing the Gap in the Workplace
$65.00During 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. -
Fostering Innovation
$65.00At 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. -
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. -
Business Writing That Works
$99.00This course will teach you the four Cs of writing: clear, concise, complete, and correct. You will also learn some of the fundamentals of good writing, including word agreement, active and passive voice, sentence construction, punctuation, and spelling. Finally, you will have a chance to apply these skills to real-life situations, such as writing e-mails, memos, and letters. -
Getting Stuff Done: Personal Development Boot Camp
$65.00To start this course, youll explore what personal efficiency is all about, as well as useful attitudes and skills that you might want to develop. Then, youll outline your vision statement, dreams, and goals. Next, youll 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. Youll also learn how to set up and maintain information management systems (both physical and virtual), prioritize tasks, create routines, and tackle procrastination. Finally, youll learn how to get organized at home. -
Becoming Management Material
$65.00After you complete this course, you will be able to define your role as a manager and identify how that role differs from other roles you have had, understand the management challenge and the new functions of management discover how you can prepare for and embrace the forces of change, identify ways to get you and your workspace organized and get a jump on the next crisis, identify your leadership profile and explore ways to use this knowledge to improve your success as a manager, enhance your ability to communicate with others in meetings and through presentations, and create an action plan for managing your career success. -
Risk Management
$65.00In this course, you will learn about the seven Rs and four Ts 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. -
Managing Difficult Conversations
$65.00This 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). Youll also learn how to speak persuasively, ask good questions, and listen actively. -
Mastering A Job Interview
$80.00In this course, you will learn how to prepare for and participate in a job interview. Well share the types of questions to expect, as well as the questions that you should think about asking. You will also learn how to prepare for second interviews, testing, and shadowing, as well as how to follow up after an interview. -
Introduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming
$99.00This introductory course will teach the basics of neuro linguistic programming (NLP). Youll learn about key terms, the NLP presuppositions, the NLP senses, eye cues, enriched language, clean questions, and hypnotic language. -
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. -
Delegation: The Art Of Delegating Effectively
$75.00This 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. -
10-Minute Presentations
$99.00At the end of this workshop, you will be able to know and use essentials of a good presentation, choose platforms that enhance your message and reach, set goals and timelines for your presentation, create engaging narrative from outline through final draft, edit and polish your presentation, offer and receive peer review and, develop best practices for future presentations. -
Intrapreneurship
$85.00In this course, youll learn what intrapreneurship is all about. You will learn about the history and culture of intrapreneurship and assess your own intrapreneurial qualities. Youll also explore different ways that you can contribute to the intrapreneurial process. As well, youll learn how to develop, screen, sell, and implement your ideas. -
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. -
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. -
Intermediate Project Management
$65.00In this course, you will focus on the last three stages of the project life cycle: planning, execution, and termination. This includes identifying tasks and resources; using scheduling techniques like the work breakdown structure, Gantt charts, and network diagrams; preparing a budget; executing a project; and controlling changes. -
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. -
Active Listening
$99.00In this course, you will learn what active listening is and what qualities active listeners have. Youll also learn how to manage your body language, create a positive listening attitude, encourage conversation, build relationships, and get over listening roadblocks. -
Advanced Writing Skills
$65.00After 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. -
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. -
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. -
Crisis Management
$70.00To begin this course, you will learn how to put the right people in place with a crisis management team and appropriate training. Then, you will learn how to identify and assess crisis risks, develop a response process, and gather appropriate resources. You will also learn how to respond to, document, and investigate crises; establish an emergency operations center; create a continuity plan; and recover from a crisis. -
Beyond Workplace Politics: Using Social and Emotional Competencies
$70.00Upon 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. -
Marketing and Sales
$65.00In this course, you will learn effective, low-cost, and non-cost strategies to improve sales, develop your companys image, and build your bottom line. -
Accounting Skills for New Supervisors
$70.00In course, you will learn the basics of accounting, including financial terms, generally accepted accounting principles, the accounting cycle, key financial reports, financial analysis tools, and budgeting. -
Business Etiquette: Gaining That Extra Edge
$99.00In this course, youll 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, youll learn how to dress for success, dine with confidence, and present yourself well on the phone and via e-mail. -
Developing a Lunch and Learn Program
$99.00This course will give you the skills to develop a successful workplace Lunch and Learn Program. You begin by looking at exactly what a Lunch and Learn truly is and why to have one. Next the course guides you through the underpinnings of a Lunch and Learn and then into how to administer the program. You will get the chance to develop your own short program and wrap up the course by evaluating it. -
Meeting Management: The Art of Making Meetings Work
$65.00In this course, you will learn how to prepare for meetings, develop agendas, lead a meeting, differentiate between process and content, use facilitation skills in a meeting, and manage difficult participants. -
Employee Dispute Resolution: Mediation through Peer Review
$65.00In 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. -
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.
