• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Active Listening

    $99.00
    In 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.
  • Measuring Training Results

    $99.00
    In 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.
  • Employee Dispute Resolution: Mediation through Peer Review

    $65.00
    In 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.
  • Soft Skills New Employees

    $60.00
    After 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.
  • Building a Consulting Business

    $85.00
    This course will guide you along your journey to starting your own consulting business. It will take a look at important components such as business plans and marketing plans while touching on networking and important documents you need to consider.
  • Business Succession Planning: Developing and Maintaining a Succession Plan

    $65.00
    This 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.
  • Meeting Management: The Art of Making Meetings Work

    $65.00
    In 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.
  • Conversational Leadership

    $75.00
    In 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.
  • 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.
  • Writing a Business Plan

    $99.00
    In this course, you will learn the essential steps for creating a business plan, including creating a first draft; identifying the audience; gathering information; researching; describing product plans; and marketing, sales, and accounting terms.
  • Workplace Harassment: What It Is and What to Do About It

    $70.00
    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.
  • Developing a Training Needs Analysis

    $99.00
    This 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.
  • Being a Team Player

    $60.00
    Teamwork 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.
  • Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start

    $65.00
    In 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.
  • Design Thinking: An Introduction

    $75.00
    This course is designed to get you started using design thinking to solve problems more creatively. You will better understand problems from the customer's perspective as you apply different brainstorming techniques to identify innovative ideas. You will be able to use effective design research through use of prototypes and testing to test your ideas and keep your design ideas moving forward. Upon completion you will be ready to take on your next project using a design thinking process.
  • Coaching and Mentoring

    $65.00
    In 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).
  • Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program

    $65.00
    This course will explore the benefits of onboarding, show you how to design an onboarding framework, give you ways to customize the program for different audiences (including managers and executives), and demonstrate how to measure results from the program.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • E-Commerce Management

    $85.00
    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.
  • Vendor Management Essentials

    $75.00
    This course will take you through a Vendor Management process including outlining a Vendor Policy Document, developing Vendor Key Performance Indicators, assessing of potential vendor risk, describing components of a vendor contract, and monitoring the performance and relationship of vendors using questionnaires, form and auditing.
  • Inventory Management: The Nuts and Bolts

    $75.00
    In 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.
  • Managing the Virtual Workplace

    $65.00
    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.
  • 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.
  • Developing a High Reliability Organization

    $99.00
    You 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.
  • Becoming Management Material

    $65.00
    After 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.
  • Facilitation Skills

    $99.00
    In 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
  • Introduction to E-Mail Marketing

    $50.00
    In this course, you will receive an in-depth introduction to e-mail marketing. Once you have completed this course, you will be ready to plan, create, and deliver e-mail marketing campaigns that build relationships with customers and get results.
  • Accounting Skills for New Supervisors

    $70.00
    In 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Getting Your Job Search Started

    $99.00
    In this course, you will learn how to manage change, identify your values and skills, consider your vocation, find jobs, network, and set goals. Then, you should be ready to start the search for your dream job.
  • Business Process Management

    $60.00
    To begin this course, you will learn about business process management and three related skill areas: business analysis, enterprise content management, and business process re-engineering. Then, you will work through the five stages of the business process life cycle: vision, design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization. Tools such as automation, business rules, workflow engines, what-if analysis, process mining, business activity monitoring, the balanced scorecard, Lean, and Six Sigma are also covered.
  • The Professional Supervisor

    $65.00
    In 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.
  • Personal Brand: Maximizing Personal Impact

    $99.00
    In 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.