Online Training Courses
Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Business Writing More Effective
The ability to write clearly and directly is highly prized in organizations. This course focuses on improving business writing. The ideas, techniques, and checklists in this course apply to all forms of business writing: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. Other topics include... more
Communicating with Confidence: More Effective Presentations
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is increasingly important in organizational settings. This course helps learners organize, structure, and create effective presentations. Since many organizations use PowerPoint as a way of communicating information, this course offers advice and guidance on the most effective and... more
Accounting and Finance for Entrepreneurs
This
course provides an introduction to key topics in accounting and finance
for those involved in new ventures. It reviews financial accounting
basics, including GAAP Principles and financial statements, and also
covers key issues in finance, broadly defined as any financial or
monetary activity that... more
Business Law for Entrepreneurs
This
course covers the basics of business law for an entrepreneur. It
reviews legal structures for a new venture, intellectual property,
employment law, contracts, government regulation, and personal and real
property. After completing this course, you should be able to discuss
the following topics:... more
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
This
course explores the different aspects of entrepreneurship and how
entrepreneurs create and establish successful new ventures. It reviews
issues and activities involved in starting a new business, including
the decisions that must be made before an enterprise can be launched
and established.... more
Leadership and Management for Entrepreneurs
This
course explores the leadership and management issues entrepreneurs face
as they create and establish successful new ventures. It reviews the
key managerial roles of planning, organizing, staffing, leading and
controlling and their application in entrepreneurial settings. Further,
the course addresses self-management for the entrepreneur--how... more
Strategic Marketing for Entrepreneurs
This
course reviews the strategic issues that an entrepreneur faces while
starting a new venture or business, and highlights the questions about
market acceptance that must be answered during every stage of the
entrepreneurial process After completing this course, you should
be.... more
Business Essentials: Financial Planning and Control
This course considers practical finance and accounting tools for decision-making within organizations. You will learn about cost benefit analysis, return on investment (ROI), fixed and variable costs, breakeven and CVP (cost-volume-profit) analysis, tracking and performance measures, and the Balanced Scorecard and its varied uses. After... more
Business Essentials: How to Read a Financial Statement
This course covers financial reports and their meaning. You will learn the fundamentals and important of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows, and how they can be used to manage a business. You will also be exposed to financial (ratio) analysis.... more
Business Essentials: Introduction to Business Statistics
This course will introduce you to the importance of statistics in the business world. Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, and analyzing data in order to make more effective decisions. Understanding statistical techniques can help any manager responsible for marketing, management, accounting, sales, or... more
Business Essentials: Introduction to Finance
This course introduces the discipline of finance in an organizational setting. Among the basics covered: responsibilities of financial managers; roles of finance in a typical business organization; legal forms of businesses; agency relationships; and relevant financial markets of interest to financial managers. Further you will... more
Business Essentials: Time Value of Money and Risk
This finance course covers Time Value of Money (TVM) principles and Risk and Return. You will review the basic TVM techniques used in evaluating all financial decisions and their cash flow implications. For Risk and Return, you will learn how risk influences investment decisions, and... more
Business Essentials: Understanding and Managing Budgets
This course covers budgets and how they are used in organizational settings. You will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of master budgets, operating budgets, sales, production and cost of goods sold budgets, and cash budgets. You will also learn how organizations are... more
Understanding HR: Compensation
In this course, you will consider the many issues surrounding the key aspects of pay policy: legal requirements, pay equity within an organization, competitive pay within the relevant industry, how and when to grant raises, and different ways payment can be structured.... more
Understanding HR: Employee Selection
In this course, you will learn about the process of selecting the best candidate from a large, diverse pool of high-quality applicants. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management, the course discusses how to conduct an effective job interview, asking questions... more
Understanding HR: Equal Employment Opportunity
In this course you will learn about many of the major employment laws, Equal Opportunity issues, and the anti-discriminatory regulations employers must be aware of in hiring, promoting, and firing employees. After completing this course, you should be able to: Explain... more
Understanding HR: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management includes the vital tasks of recruiting, screening, interviewing, training, appraising, disciplining, rewarding, and developing the employee -- both for business and non-profit enterprises. Since all managers (especially line managers) have HR responsibilities, it is important that they have an understanding of... more
Understanding HR: Performance Management
This course considers the different elements of performance management. In its broadest sense, "performance management" is what every good manager does every day: Makes sure employees know what they need to do to achieve the organization's goals, checks to make sure the employees are doing... more
Understanding HR: Talent Management and Career Development
Drawing on material from Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management, this course covers the challenges and issues that organizations face in developing and retaining their employees. After completing this course, you should be able to... more
Creativity & Innovation: Creativity in Teams and Organizations
This course looks at spurring creativity and innovation in teams and organizations. Drawing on the latest academic thinking, it outlines the key factors for creative teams. Further, the course focuses on tools and techniques designed to yield more productive thinking in collective settings. Participants... more
Creativity & Innovation: Innovation in Organizations
This course looks at innovation in corporations and the public sector. It reviews the latest academic thinking on innovation, including Clay Christensen's seminal thinking on disruptive technology and the proper response. Further, it explores some of the internal responses to the need for creativity,... more
Creativity & Innovation: Personal Creativity
This course addresses Personal Creativity. Through tools and exercises drawn from Adrian Brown' book, Creativity & Innovation, it seeks to help unlock the creativity within individuals. By stimulating creativity through various techniques (mind-mapping, DO-IT, SCAMPER, right and left brain thinking) participants learn to tap... more
Introduction to Critical Thinking
This course is an introduction to the importance of critical thinking in the business world. Critical thinking is an intellectual model for reasoning through issues to reach well-founded conclusions about them. Asking questions is at the heart of critical thinking. This program is designed to help... more
The Successful Leader: Introduction to Leadership
This course examines how to be a successful (that is, effective) leader. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course asks the crucial questions about leadership in today's organizations: What is... more
The Successful Leader: Leaders and Work-Life Balance
This course addresses the question of work-life balance, one which is of great importance to leaders in all settings. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course looks at methods and... more
The Successful Leader: Leading and Managing Change
Whether adopting new technology or adapting to a drastic shift in an organization's core focus, managers play a fundamental role in effecting changes. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course... more
The Successful Leader: Leading Teams
This course addresses the key issues surrounding leadership in a team. Why is it important? What does it require for a team leader to lead his team effectively? Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at... more
The Successful Manager: Managing in the Modern Organization
This course considers the fundamentals of management and how managers can be effective in organizational settings. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Management, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course addresses managing in the modern organization. After completing... more
The Successful Manager: Managing People
To be successful and move ahead in his or her career, a manager must understand how to manage people, including motivating workers and coordinating their activities. This course will explain how the goals, empowerment, measurement system of management can be employed, how organization structures differ,... more
Effective Negotiations
Every day we are involved in negotiations of one form or another. Even though negotiations are an integral part of our lives, techniques for managing these situations are not instinctive; they must be learned. Experienced negotiators make a conscious decision about what type of strategy... more
The Successful Manager: How to Coach
Managers who lead and manage through coaching—providing encouragement, feedback, and support—are more successful in "working through others." This brief course focuses on the skills and techniques of positive coaching in an organizational setting, including active listening, observing and providing constructive feedback, reinforcing positive employee performance... more
The Successful Manager: Time Management
One of the more precious resources a manager has is his or her time. Managers can become more effective by employing time management and scheduling techniques, delegating, outsourcing key tasks, and employing technology. Effective time management helps managers achieve their goals. After completing this... more
Online Management Information Systems Training
Talking IT with Confidence: An Intro to MIS
Information technology has become vital for virtually every industry and every organization. This course will help you understand the basics of information systems in a business and management context. You will learn about business information systems, networks (LANs, WANs, etc.) and distributed computing, systems development... more
Online Marketing Training
Connecting with Customers: An Overview of Marketing
This course provides an introduction to marketing and marketing planning, and addressing the definition of marketing, the marketing mix (the Four Ps), the strategic importance of marketing, and customer values and satisfaction. After completing this course, you should be able to: Define marketing... more
Connecting with Customers: Marketing Planning
This course reviews the marketing planning process, the components of an effective marketing plan, and the role of market research and how marketers segment, target and position their product or service. The course then looks at planning and the Four Ps (product, pricing, promotion, and... more
Online Non-Profit Management Training
Budgeting in a Non-Profit Organization
This course covers budgets and how they are used in non-profit organizational settings. You will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of budgets and the relationship between strategic budgeting and tactical budgeting. You will also learn about the organization-wide budget and different budget... more
How to Read a Non-Profit Financial Statement
This course will develop your ability to appropriately interpret the major financial accounting statements that are used by non-profit organizations. Ideally, you will gain an understanding of the types of financial statements that are used by non-profit organizations, and how they differ from for-profit financial... more
Leadership in a Non-Profit Organization
This course addresses the key issues surrounding leadership. What is leadership? Why is it important? What does it require to be a leader? How does leadership in a non-profit environment differ from the private sector? What is visionary leadership? What role should ethics play? This... more
Principles of Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations
When we think of marketing, we typically think of the activities that a for-profit company engages in. However, marketing is an important function for non-profit organizations as well. Marketing is the way that non-profits determine the needs of their clients and their donors. As in... more
Strategy for Non-Profit Organizations
We hear a lot about for-profit companies, such as Apple Computer or Wal-Mart, and the successful strategies they have developed. Even though non-profit organizations are not concerned with profit maximization, they too can benefit from following a strategy. A non-profit's strategy constitutes its... more
Online Project Management Training
Online PMP Test Prep Course
This completely online and self-paced eleven-Module Project Management program builds successful Project Managers at all levels of the organization. It provides a comprehensive preparation for the PMP® certification exam including exam taking tips, ten comprehensive module quizzes, and a full-length 200-question Practice Exam covering the... more
Project Management for Information Technology
Project management refers to the art, or science, of directing projects. This course, Project Management for Information Technology, focuses more specifically on how project management concepts can be applied to IT projects, as well as on project management issues that are unique to IT projects.... more
PMP 1 - Introduction to Project Management
This course considers some of the organizational issues surrounding project management. Learners will review how different organizations handle the responsibilities of project management and will focus on the entity known as a project management office, or PMO. This course will also discuss how organizational structure... more
PMP 2 - Project Processes
This course explores many of the key issues surrounding the model of good project management, including five ongoing processes that flow through a project lifecycle. This course emphasizes the beginning of a project: selecting a project manager and running the project kick-off meeting. After completing... more
PMP 3 - Team Work and Managing People
This course focuses on how to acquire and negotiate for people's time to work on projects, to depict roles and responsibilities, and to discover the essentials of good people management, including the skills to motivate, develop, report on performance and manage conflict. After completing this... more
PMP 4 - Project Communications
This course focuses on the definition of effective communication and how it can be applied to project management. Learners will develop an understanding of the communication plan and will participate in a case study to practice overcoming communication challenges. After completing this course you will... more
PMP 5 - Project Scoping and Tracking
This course focuses on how to scope a project and develops and understanding of a work breakdown structure. Learners will discover what it means to lead a team over a project's life, tracking and reviewing its progress with reports and meetings. After completing this course... more
PMP 6 - Project Time Management
This course considers how best to plan and schedule activities. Learners will become familiar with various techniques used to calculate and analyze activity time estimates, including ways to estimate the duration of activities. After completing this course you will be able to: Understand activities in... more
PMP 7 - Project Cost Management
This course considers the general approaches to cost management, including the methods used to estimate and budget for project costs. This course also covers the interrelationship between various cost control concepts and how they can be graphed to depict project status as well as what... more
PMP 8 - Project Risk Management
This course will help learners define the core elements of risk management, including the risk management plan and the risk register. Additionally, the course examines how risks are identified, prioritized, quantified, and used in decision-making. After completing this course you will be able to: Define... more
PMP 9 - Project Quality Management
This course considers what quality is in context of project management: its components and intent. Learners will understand the benefits of using a quality management plan and will develop an ability to recognize when quality has been achieved. After completing this course you will be... more
PMP 10 - Project Procurement Management
This course considers how procurement works in project management, and the steps taken in contracting including the types of contracts, purchase orders, make-or-buy analysis, and the procurement management plan. After completing this course you will be able to: Define procurement within the context of a... more
PMP 11 - Practice Exam & Exam Strategies
This Practice Exam covers the Project Management Institute's standard, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). The practice exam contains multiple-choice questions that provide a comprehensive review of the PMBOK® Guide. You will also review key strategies for preparing for the... more
Simulation
Leading the Courtney Museum - Simulation
Leading
the Courtney Museum is a simulation designed to challenge and engage
participants while exploring key real-world leadership issues
confronted by non-profit managers. The learner assumes the role of
executive director of the troubled Courtney Museum, and deals with a
series of personnel, marketing.... more
Online Strategic Planning Training
Fundamentals of Strategy: Strategy and Competition
Strategic planning does not occur in a vacuum: competitive factors and forces are perhaps the most significant issues confronting those responsible for developing an organization's strategy. This course reviews the key theories about how strategy should be developed in a competitive environment. After completing... more
Fundamentals of Strategy: What is Strategy?
This course draws on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Management, a text used at Harvard Business School. The course provides a basic understanding of the strategic planning process and its success factors, as well as discussing the importance of mission statements and budgeting.... more
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