• From Boss to Leader

    $65.00
    Course 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.
  • Entrepreneurship 101

    $85.00
    In this course, you'll learn the basics of entrepreneurship. You will learn how to find and evaluate business ideas, flesh out those ideas by developing value propositions and financial projections, consider your ownership options, prepare the appropriate documents (including a business plan, pitch deck, and white papers), and gather funding for your business. You'll also learn the steps of developing, testing, marketing, and launching a product or service. To wrap things up, you'll learn how to grow your business and become an entrepreneurial leader.
  • Business Writing That Works

    $99.00
    This 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.
  • Advanced Skills for the Practical Trainer

    $99.00
    To 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.
  • Branding: Creating and Managing Your Corporate Brand

    $99.00
    This 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.
  • 10-Minute Presentations

    $99.00
    At 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.
  • Developing Your Training Program

    $99.00
    After you complete this course, you will be able to: Describe the essential elements of a training program, apply different methodologies to program design, demonstrate skills in preparation, research, and delivery of strong content, explain an instructional model, and create a training program proposal.
  • Appreciative Inquiry

    $65.00
    In this course you will learn about the appreciative inquiry process. To begin, youll explore its fundamental principles and the 4-D model. Youll 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.
  • Team Building: Developing High Performance Teams

    $65.00
    After 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.
  • Lean Process Improvement

    $60.00
    This 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.
  • Business Etiquette: Gaining That Extra Edge

    $99.00
    In 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.
  • Marketing for Small Businesses

    $65.00
    This 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.
  • Creating a Top-Notch Talent Management Program

    $65.00
    In this course, you will learn about the various aspects of talent management, including performance management, succession planning, talent management programs, employee development strategies, and employee engagement plans.
  • Honing and Delivering Your Message

    $99.00
    Learn 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.
  • Conducting Accurate Internet Research

    $99.00
    This course is going to provide you with the skills you will need to get the most of an Internet search. You will learn where to look for information, how to find it, and the types of information that you can, and cannot, find online. It looks at the surface web and then takes you further in your searching skills to the deep web.
  • Critical Thinking

    $65.00
    In 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.
  • Working Smarter: Using Technology to Your Advantage

    $99.00
    In this course, youll learn how to use technology to your advantage. Computers, various types of applications, software purchases, technical training, IT budgets, security, privacy, usage policies, ergonomics, instant messaging, and telecommuting are all covered.
  • Transgender Employees: Creating an Inclusive Work Community

    $65.00
    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.
  • Research Skills

    $99.00
    In this course, you will learn basic research skills, such as reading, memory recall, and note-taking. You will also learn how to create different kinds of outlines for different stages of your project, and how to move from the outline to writing, editing, and polishing. As well, youll learn how to find information using the librarys Dewey Decimal System, journals, and the Internet.
  • Writing Reports and Proposals

    $65.00
    To begin this course, you will learn about the four stages of report writing: investigating, planning, writing, and revising. Youll also learn about the ten steps of proposal writing, as well as using headings, adding visual aids, writing persuasively, and sourcing material.
  • Getting Stuff Done: Personal Development Boot Camp

    $65.00
    To 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.
  • Emotional Intelligence

    $65.00
    This 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.
  • NLP Tools for Real Life

    $99.00
    This course will teach you about anchoring, establishing congruency, developing rapport, creating outcomes, interpreting and presenting information efficiently, and self-hypnosis.
  • Problem Solving and Decision Making

    $65.00
    In this course, you will learn a three-phase problem solving process that you can apply to any situation. You will also learn techniques for creative thinking, how to make good group decisions, and ways to follow up on and evaluate decisions.
  • Managing Pressure and Maintaining Balance

    $65.00
    This course will teach you about the causes and costs of workplace pressure, the benefits of creating balance, and how to identify pressure points. You will also learn how to apply emotional intelligence, increase optimism and resilience, and develop strategies for getting ahead.
  • Employability Skills: Skills Needed for Workplace Success

    $65.00
    Upon completing this course, you are going to know approaches to being 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 for giving and receiving feedback, learn ways to recognize self-confident behaviors in the workplace, and learn a three-step process to building self-confidence.
  • Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills

    $99.00
    At the end of this course, you will be able to: define what the balanced scorecard is, identify the benefits of the scorecard, create a vision statement for the balanced scorecard, understand what corporate values, mission statements, and vision statements are and how they tie into the balanced scorecard process, determine if the balanced scorecard is right for your organization, describe the key elements of the balanced scorecard process, identify a strategy map, tactical action plan, and balanced scorecard, identify the components of supporting balanced scorecard plans, understand what processes you will need to support the balanced scorecard, and, identify the members of different balanced scorecard teams.
  • Call Center Training: Sales and Customer Service Training for Call Center Agents

    $99.00
    In 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.
  • The Minute Taker’s Workshop

    $99.00
    Youll 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.
  • Making Training Stick

    $99.00
    In 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.
  • Creating a Positive Work Environment

    $70.00
    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.
  • Beyond Workplace Politics: Using Social and Emotional Competencies

    $70.00
    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.
  • Social Selling for Small Businesses

    $99.00
    In this course, you will learn about the attributes of social selling, you will learn how to explore social selling can generate business leads, how to apply social selling strategies of relevance in social media. You will also develop an understanding of the power of leveraging different platforms and how to measure results.
  • Story Marketing for Small Businesses

    $55.00
    This 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.
  • Code of Conduct: Setting the Tone for Your Workplace

    $70.00
    Over 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.
  • Communications for Small Business Owners

    $85.00
    If 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.
  • Developing Your Executive Presence

    $65.00
    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.
  • Giving Effective Feedback

    $75.00
    In 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.