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document.write("Career Development
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document.write("Ace Your Job Search!
Cost: $79.00
This course focuses on career planning, enhancing resume writing, and improving interviewing skills for those seeking employment. Part One of the course, \"Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for a Perfect Fit,\" will help learners craft a resume that is targeted, elegant, and... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
This course focuses on career planning,enhancing resume writing, and improving interviewing skills for those seekingemployment.Part One of the course, \"Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for aPerfect Fit,\" will help learners craft a resume that is targeted,elegant, and effective. Part Two, \"Interviewing Skills: Make the RightImpression,\" focuses on the preparation job candidates need in advanceof an interview, and on the five stages of the interview process. PartThree, \"Interviewing Skills: Ace Those Tough Questions,\" helpslearners formulate winning answers to difficult interview questionsbefore they walk into the interviewing room.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Recognize key career development questions to ask before beginning a job search
- Employ a written goal-setting process to establish career development and job search priorities
- Recognize the purpose of tailoring a resume and cover letter
- Develop a more effective resume
- Develop a more effective cover letter
- Identify the five stages of the interview process
- Conduct industry and company research efficiently using web-based resources
- Brainstorm potential interview questions and answers
- Understand what constitutes a good answer in the mind of a hiring manager
- Anticipate some of the most common interview questions
- Explain to a hiring manager how the past successes represented on your resume will translate to future success in your desired position
- Recognize whether a job aligns with your career objectives
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for job seekers.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("Communications
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document.write("Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Business Writing More Effective
Cost: $95.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $95.00
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 formal and informal outlining techniques, how to revise for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy, and jargon, and the appropriate use of email in an organizational setting.
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After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Recognize the difference between ineffective and effective writing
- List and define the four major factors of effective writing (clarity, tone, organization, and delivery)
- Recognize the role of the audience in effective communication and the importance of understanding an audience's needs
- Employ formal and informal outlining techniques
- List and recognize techniques for overcoming writer's block
- Recognize the importance and dangers of writing quickly
- Revise for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy, and jargon
- Write more effective emails and recognize the appropriate use of email in an organizational setting
- Employ checklists for organizing, writing, and revising
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with a foundational knowledge of writing and grammar.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 4-6 hours
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document.write("Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Presentations More Effective
Cost: $95.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $95.00
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is increasinglyimportant in organizational settings. This course helps learners organize,structure, and create effective presentations. Since many organizations usePowerPoint as a way of communicating information, this course offersadvice and guidance on the most effective and persuasive uses ofPowerPoint.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Recognize what makes communication effective
- Understand the elements in the communications process
- Better organize your communications and presentations
- Understand PowerPoint graphic rules of thumb
- Create an effective summary slide
- Describe and employ the four steps of purposeful communication in your presentations.
- Understand the forecast, present, and echo structure for presentations.
- Recognize key visual considerations for PowerPoint slides and presentations.
- Understand how to organize and create PowerPoint presentations.
- Revise PowerPoint slides to make them more effective.
- Understand the success factors for face-to-face presentations.
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with a basic understanding of and experience with PowerPoint.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 4-6 hours
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');document.write("Entrepreneurship
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document.write("Accounting and Finance for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outAccounting and Finance for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
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 involves a company.
The course covers these topics:
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Rules of Double-Entry Accounting
- The Accounting Cycle
- Relationship of Financial Statements
- Financial Planning and Budgets
- Calculating the Master Budget
- The Cash Budget
- Pro Forma Financial Statements
- The Financing Plan
- Evaluating New Ventures
- Break-even Analysis
- Return on Investment and Payback Period
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of completion.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with little or no experience with entrepreneurship.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-4 hours
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document.write("Business Law for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outBusiness Law for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
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:
- Legal Environment
- Sole Proprietorships
- Partnerships
- Corporations
- Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
- S Corporations and Limited Liability Companies
- Franchises
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Patents
- Copyright
- Trademarks and Trade Secrets
- Employment Law
- Forming a Contract
- Contracts and Fraud
- Sales Contracts
- Taxation and the Employer's Responsibilities
- Government Regulation
- Personal Property
- Real Property
- Transfer of Real Property Ownership
- Bankruptcy
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of completion.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with little or no experience with entrepreneurship.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 4-5 hours
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document.write("Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Cost: $129.00
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.... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outIntroduction to Entrepreneurship
Cost: $129.00
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.
After completing this course, you should be able to
- Describe the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur
- Outline the eight stages of the entrepreneurial process
- Explain the discovery stage
- Describe the evaluation of the market for a new venture
- Outline ways to structure the venture
- Discuss the strategic planning process for an entrepreneur
- Describe the operational and financial planning needed for a new venture
- Outline how an entrepreneur develops and employs a business plan
- Describe the options for funding the new venture
- Discuss issues in implementing the plans for a new venture
- Recognize the ethical issues faced by entrepreneurs
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of completion.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with little or no experience with entrepreneurship.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("Leadership and Management for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $129.00
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 an entrepreneur can manage his or her own time and maintain a proper work-life balance.
After completing this course, you should be able to
- Describe the managerial roles played by an entrepreneur
- Outline the five key managerial activities
- Describe self-management techniques for managing time and organizing, planning, and prioritizing
- Discuss the autocratic (ODS-A), participative (ODS-P) and empowering (GEM) management styles and their application
- Describe the process for staffing an entrepreneurial venture
- Discuss Katzenbach's Five Motivational Paths and how they apply to new ventures
- Describe the process for coaching employees
- Outline the USED Model for training employees
- Discuss the importance of active listening when communicating with employees
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of completion.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with little or no experience with entrepreneurship.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("Strategic Marketing for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
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,... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outStrategic Marketing for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
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 able to:
- Describe the role of strategy and marketing in an entrepreneurial setting
- Discuss the basics of strategy, including the three levels of strategy and the five competitive forces identified by Michael Porter
- Explain marketing basics, including the marketing process and the Four P's
- Discuss the role of marketing in the discovery stage of a new venture
- Describe the evaluation of the market for a new venture, including market segmentation, target marketing, and exploring customer needs
- Discuss the role of strategic planning in the entrepreneurial process
- Describe the key elements of a marketing plan
- Outline the factors for success in creating a new venture business plan
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of completion.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with little or no experience with entrepreneurship.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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');document.write("Human Resources
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document.write("Understanding HR: Compensation
Cost: $79.00
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.... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Comply with relevant state and federal \"wage and hour\" laws
- Determine the competitive pay level for a particular position in a particular geographic location
- Discuss and administer a variety of pay structures
- Effectively confront issues of pay equity within an organization
This course is designed for self-paced, self-directed, online learning; you will have the entire duration period to complete it.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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document.write("Understanding HR: Employee Selection
Cost: $79.00
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,... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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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 that elicit relevant information and avoiding questions that might be seen as discriminatory. You will also consider how to discover more about a candidate through the use of reference checks, background checks, and testing.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Conduct an effective job interview
- Analyze a candidate pool and identify the most qualified candidate given a job description and requirements
- Decide what additional tests - if any -- should be administered to candidates for a specific job
- Deal productively and sensitively with internal candidates for a job opening
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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document.write("Understanding HR: Equal Employment Opportunity
Cost: $79.00
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:... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 the major employment and anti-discrimination laws
- Understand the basic steps to take in dealing with discrimination complaints
- Explain and assess issues around alternative work arrangements
- Outline ways to develop and maintain a diverse work-force
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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document.write("Understanding HR: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outUnderstanding HR: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Cost: $79.00
Human Resource Management includes the vital tasks of recruiting, screening, interviewing, training, appraising, disciplining, rewarding, and developing the employee -- both for business and non-profitenterprises.
Since all managers (especially line managers) have HRresponsibilities, it is important that they have an understanding ofthe key concepts of this increasingly important function, especiallysince many decisions they make about employees have possible legalramifications.
The course draws on material from Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Recognize and identify the key roles and responsibilities of the human resource management function
- Assess your attitude and your organization's attitude toward human resource management
- Recognize and define HRM's strategic contribution to an organization
- Recognize and define human resources terms
- Differentiate between the day-to-day functions of the HR department and the broader concepts of human resource management
- Recognize the relationship and partnership that exist between an organization's HR Department and its line managers and identify the key responsibilities of each
- Differentiate between the structure and reporting relationships of a centralized and decentralized human resources function
- List and identify the five areas of HRM Planning
- List the three roles that an HR department must fulfill to maintain the ethical standards of an organization
- Identify the key global issues and business practices that impact HRM
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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details[12].html="Understanding HR: Performance Management
Cost: $79.00
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 those things, praises employees for doing the right things, and uses constructive criticism when that is not the case. A formal performance management system simply makes sure all those management tasks get done consistently across an organization.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Explain the value of a performance management system
- Discuss the pros and cons of various types of performance management systems
- Conduct a performance management interview
- Design a performance improvement plan
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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document.write("Understanding HR: Talent Management and Career Development
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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:
- Understand and effectively communicate the value of a career development program
- Describe the five stages in the career life cycle (Beginning, Developing, Mid-Career, Mastery and Maintenance, Retirement), and the needs an employee has at each stage of the cycle
- Explain why career management has become important to employers and employees
- Outline the tools for career development (training, education, job rotation, transfers, overseas assignments, mentoring, networking, volunteer work, formal career planning)
- Understand the issues HR departments face with career management
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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');document.write("Innovation and Critical Thinking
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document.write("Creativity & Innovation: Creativity in Teams and Organizations
Cost: $75.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outCreativity & Innovation: Creativity in Teams and Organizations
Cost: $75.00
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 learn about a number of targeted tools (including brainstorming, Discussion 66, Provocation, and others) to generate fresh thinking in smaller group settings and in their organizations.
After completing this Course, you should be able to:
- Explain the connection between creativity and innovation
- Outline the five factors for creative teams
- Use team creative tools such as brainstorming, Discussion 66, anonymous idea generation, and visioning
- Explain the importance of diversity in team creativity
- Describe techniques for prototyping new ideas
- Explain how to overcome creative barriers for teams and organizations
- Describe ways to make teams and organizations more open to creativity and innovation
This course is designed for self-paced, self-directed, online learning; you will have the entire duration period to complete it.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners interested in tools and techniques to generate fresh thinking in smaller group settings and in their organizations.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 4-5 hours
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document.write("Creativity & Innovation: Innovation in Organizations
Cost: $75.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outCreativity & Innovation: Innovation in Organizations
Cost: $75.00
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, including idea champions, idea incubators, new venture teams and skunk works, and the process of moving from innovation to commercialization.
Finally, the course focuses on some of the more successful corporate innovators as a way of illustrating the principles of effective innovation in large organizations, and also explores the role of innovation in the public sector.
After completing this Course, you should be able to:
- Outline the key factors for an innovative organization
- Discuss the barriers to innovation
- Explain the differences between incremental, semi-radical, and radical innovation
- Describe internal innovation tools such as idea champions, idea incubators, new venture teams and skunk works
- Explain the process of moving from idea to commercialization
- Discuss the issues surrounding innovation in the public sector
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners interested in innovation tools that can help organizations more effectively address the challenge balancing of creativity and value creation.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 4-5 hours
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document.write("Creativity & Innovation: Personal Creativity
Cost: $55.00
This course addresses Personal Creativity. Through tools and exercises drawn from Adrian Brown's 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)... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $55.00
This course addresses Personal Creativity. Through tools and exercises drawn from Adrian Brown's 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 into their personal creativity and apply it to organizational challenges.
After completing this Course, you should be able to:
- Describe the basis of personal creativity
- Explain the uses of creative tools
- Distinguish between vertical and lateral thinking
- Employ creative tools like SCAMPER, random input, mind mapping, and DO IT
- Describe the key characteristics of personal creativity
- Assess the issues surrounding measuring creativity
This course is designed for self-paced, self-directed, online learning; you will have the entire duration period to complete it.
Target Audience:
This course is designed for adult learners interested in exploring and expanding their personal and professional creativity.Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("Introduction to Critical Thinking
Cost: $95.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outIntroduction to Critical Thinking
Cost: $95.00
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 learners define and identify critical thinking and reasoning skills and develop those skills.
After completing this set of modules, you will be able to:
- Define critical thinking, reasoning, and logic
- Ask appropriate questions for critical thinking
- Understand the process of systemic problem-solving
- Identify and overcome barriers to critical thinking
- Articulate common reasoning fallacies
- Understand critical thinking as it pertains to the workplace
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners interested in refining their critical thinking skills.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 5-7 hours
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details[17].cost=95;
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');document.write("Leadership
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document.write("The Successful Leader: Introduction to Leadership
Cost: $75.00
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:... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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proceed to secure check outThe Successful Leader: Introduction to Leadership
Cost: $75.00
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This course examines how to be asuccessful (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 leadership and why is it important? What does effective leadership require? What is visionary leadership? What is the role of charisma? What is the difference between managing, administering, and leading?
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define leadership and explain its importance
- Discuss some of the better-known leadership theories (Fiedler's contingency theory; Path-goal theory; Vroom-Yetton-Jago theory)
- Distinguish leadership from management and administration
- Explain the role of ethics in leadership
- Discuss the positives and negatives surrounding charismatic leadership
- Recognize the importance of training, learning, and role-playing in leadership
- Discuss the seven bases for leadership
- Explain why formal authority alone does not guarantee leadership
- Discuss the nine key qualities for leadership
- Identify the five central skills needed for effective leadershipand explain ways to strengthen or develop those skills in a leader
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 90 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners who find a need for professional leadership skills.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 6-8 hours
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document.write("The Successful Leader: Leaders and Work-Life Balance
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
This course addresses the question of work-life balance, one which is of great importance to leadersin 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 techniques toreconcile work and family. You will also consider the question of personal fulfillment and theneeds and demands of leadership.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Identify the major sources of work-life balance conflict
- Discuss the myths about work-life balance - including the \"make time later,\" division of labor, and \"quality time\" myths
- Identify strategies to achieve balance, including balancing by week, over a year, and via a short career
- Recognize ways to maintain work-life balance
- Examine what defines personal fulfillment
- Identify those significant elements that play a role in a leader's life
- Identify nine ways of viewing life's choices
- Develop and complete a Personal Work-Life Balance Plan
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners seeking to improve their work/life balance and/or managers interested in promoting balance in the work place.
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Prerequisites: Learners should have some basic knowledge of, and experience with, managing and leading within an organization.
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("The Successful Leader: Leading and Managing Change
Cost: $79.00
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,... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 addresses the key issues managers face in a dynamic environment. By understanding the steps in effecting change and how to overcome resistance, a manager can successfully lead change at various levels of an organization.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Discuss organizational change and the forms it can take
- Describe Kotter's Eight Step Process recommended for implementing change successfully
- Outline Lewin's model of change and discuss its limitations
- Identify the factors a leader or manager can employ to promote change
- Discuss the underpinnings of resistance to change and how to overcome it
- Describe the five-step ADKAR model for change management
- Discuss the three steps of the Cisco Change Roadmap
- Understand strategic change and mastering a changing environment
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners and/or managers.
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Prerequisites: Learners should have some basic knowledge of, and experience with, managing and leading within an organization.
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("The Successful Leader: Leading Teams
Cost: $55.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $55.00
This course addresses the key issues surroundingleadership in a team. Why is it important? What does itrequire 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 Harvard Business School, this course considers how team leaders must account for the special and unique circumstances of working in a team, where responsibility, accountability, communication, and leadership are shared.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- List and identify the key characteristics and types of teams
- Recognize the benefits and challenges of empowered teams that leaders need to be aware of
- Identify differences in the primary and secondary roles filled by empowered teams and team leaders
- Recognize the key sources of motivation for empowered teams
- Explain Tuckman's model of team development
- Recognize the key qualities and skills of a team leader
- State the value of using the \"checklist for team leaders\"
- Recognize and apply suggested approaches for managing conflict in teams
- Discuss the different approaches needed for leading virtual teams
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners and/or managers.
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Prerequisites: Learners should have some basic knowledge of, and experience with, managing and leading within an organization.
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("The Successful Manager: Managing in the Modern Organization
Cost: $79.00
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.... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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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 this course, you should be able to:
- Define the role of management and managers in an organization
- Distinguish between management, leadership, and administration in theory and in practice
- Explain the three general management styles (authoritarian, participative, and empowerment) and their respective uses
- Identify your views on hierarchy and management
- Understand the roles of individual contributors and managers and how they differ
- Identify your own approach toward managing (including personal effectiveness and enjoyment)
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners and/or managers.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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document.write("The Successful Manager: Managing People
Cost: $79.00
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,... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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, as well as the difficulty of discipline while trying to maintain momentum. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Management, a text used at Harvard Business School.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Understand your own attitudes toward empowering management
- Explain how a GEM (goals, empowerment, measurement) approach to managing works in practice
- Describe the major organizational structures and the differences between them
- Explain the different factors that motivate workers and how a manager can use them to improve employee performance
- Discuss the challenges of discipline and how a manager should deal with such situations
- Identify the defining characteristics, benefits, and unique challenges of empowered teams
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners and/or managers.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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document.write("Effective Negotiations
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 to use in a discussion based on factors such as the importance of the relationship and the importance of what is at stake. Key concepts such as the \"best alternative to no agreement\", reservation price, and the \"zone of possible agreement\" can help when conducting negotiations. Since power is a fundamental dynamic in negotiations, it is important for negotiators to have a basic understanding of ways they can exert and also gain power in a discussion.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define what negotiation is
- Explain the differences between principled negotiation, distributive negotiation, integrative negotiation and mixed motive negotiation
- Discuss what BATNA is and why it is important within the context of a negotiation
- Describe the concepts of reservation price and ZOPA, as well as how they relate to one another in a negotiation
- Describe the steps that should be taken to plan for a negotiation
- Explain the ways that power can be used in a negotiation, and how power can be gained from different sources
- Identify different behaviors which can pose challenges to a negotiation and may cause impasses
- Apply the concepts of negotiation to two real-world scenarios
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course in intended for adults seeking to improve their negotiating skills.
Level: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("The Successful Manager: How to Coach
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 through recognition and praise, and teaching new skills.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Explain how coaching employees is a vital part of managing in any organization
- Distinguish between managerial coaching, executive coaching, and personal coaching
- Identify the triggers for coaching and recognize characteristics of coachability
- Describe the five-step coaching process
- Explain the SMART technique of goal setting
- Explain the use of the USED and GROW models in coaching
- Discuss the monitoring and follow-up coaching process
- Explain the differences between mentoring and coaching
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners and/or managers in any industry.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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details[25].cost=79;
document.write("The Successful Manager: Time Management
Cost: $55.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $55.00
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 course, you will be able to:
- State the key outcomes and goals of effective time management
- Assess your attitudes about your relationship to time and time management
- Employ a time log in ascertaining how you spend your time
- Recognize the common causes of procrastination and identify ways to eliminate your own procrastination
- List the key attributes of effective (SMART) goals and recognize the importance of establishing personal and professional goals
- Identify the key principles of time management (organization, prioritization, and planning) and some common methods for prioritizing tasks (ABC Method and the Eisenhower Method)
- Identify the value and purpose of common time management tools, including scheduling systems (activity logs, action plans, to do lists)
- Differentiate key characteristics of Action Plans and Task Lists
- Identify the steps in the delegation process and recognize guidelines for appropriate task delegation
- Identify strategies for handling daily tasks and distractions, such as email, phone calls, and other interruptions
- List the guidelines for planning effective meetings
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners in any profession who have an interest in more effectively and efficiently managing their time.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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details[26].cost=55;
document.write("Marketing
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document.write("Connecting with Customers: An Overview of Marketing
Cost: $79.00
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:... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 and the marketing concept
- Understand the marketing process
- Explain the uses of the marketing mix (the Four Ps)
- Explore the relationship between marketing and strategic planning
- Understand customer value, customer satisfaction, and the importance of loyalty
- Discuss the role of ethics in marketing
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners with little or no experience with marketing.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("Connecting with Customers: Marketing Planning
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 placement).
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the marketing planning process
- Understand how marketing information and market research is gathered, analyzed, and used
- Describe how target markets are identified and pursued
- Understand product marketing, including new product development
- Discuss the marketing issues involved in establishing the promotional mix and in setting prices
- Understand the key issues in placement and distribution planning
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners interested in expanding upon an understanding of basic marketing principles.
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Prerequisites: Learners should have some basic marketing knowledge, including an ability to define marketing and articulate how marketing is used within an organization.
Estimated time to complete: 4-6 hours
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details[28].cost=79;
document.write("Non-Profit Management
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document.write("Budgeting in a Non-Profit Organization
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 systems. The course will continue on to slightly more advanced budgeting topics such as capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets. You will also learn how non-profit organizations are using different budgeting techniques to handle operating challenges.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Explain the uses and functions of non-profit budgeting
- Describe the different types of budgets used by a non-profit organization
- Recognize the use of the organization-wide operating budget and program operating budgets
- Explain how an operating budget is created
- Analyze a non-profit operating budget through variance analysis
- Describe how a capital budget is used and created
- Explain the importance of a cash flow budget and describe how it is created
- Recognize how the budget process can be managed for optimal results
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course in intended for adults seeking to gain a basic understanding of budgeting. This course is best suited for learners with a basic understanding of finance concepts.
Level: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("Fundraising for Non-Profit Organizations
Cost: $150.00
Fundraising is one of the central activities of a non-profit organization. To help finance operating budgets, non-profits must raise money every year. In addition, special projects and improvements to facilities may be needed. In these situations, fundraisers will often launch large capital campaigns or apply... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $150.00
Fundraising is one of the central activities of a non-profit organization. To help finance operating budgets, non-profits must raise money every year. In addition, special projects and improvements to facilities may be needed. In these situations, fundraisers will often launch large capital campaigns or apply for foundation grants.
This course offers an introduction to fundraising for nonprofit organizations, with an emphasis on the fundamental issues.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the key concepts related to non-profit fundraising, such as annual campaigns, capital campaigns, and planned giving
- Discuss how non-profit funds can be raised through direct mail and telemarketing
- Explain how the Internet may be used to generate donations
- Compare and contrast fundraising through corporate donations versus foundation grants
- Explain the different sections of a grant application
- Describe methods for evaluating annual campaign performance
- Discuss how ethics applies to non-profit fundraising
- Explain the importance of donor relations
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course in intended for adults seeking to gain a basic understanding of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. This course is best suited for learners with a basic understanding of how nonprofits operate.
Level: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
Estimated time to complete: 4-6 hours
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details[30].cost=150;
document.write("How to Read a Non-Profit Financial Statement
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 reporting. Also, you should gain an appreciation of both the power and limitations of accounting information in assessing financial performance and decision-making. You will also learn the uses of financial statement analysis, or ratio analysis for non-profit organizations.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Identify and describe the documents and financial statements included in a non-profit organization's financial report
- Analyze the information found in non-profit statements of financial positions
- Analyze the information found in the statement of activities
- Analyze the information found in the statement of cash flows
- Describe the nature of business enterprises and non-profit organizations, as reflected by the statement of financial position
- Define financial (ratio) analysis and explain its objectives and limitations
- Identify the various categories of financial ratios used in non-profit analyses
- Define and calculate the ratios within each category
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners involved or interested in non-profit management.
Level: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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document.write("Leadership in a Non-Profit Organization
Cost: $99.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $99.00
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 course considers the foundations of leadership and examines how to be a successful and effective leader. The actual work of leadership requires specific qualities and skills. Some of these skills are unique to the non-profit sector.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define leadership and explain its importance
- Distinguish between some of the better-known leadership theories (Fieldler's contingency theory; Path-goal theory; Vroom-Yetton-Jago theory)
- Distinguish leadership from management and administration
- Explain the role of ethics in leadership
- Identify the positives and negatives surrounding the charismatic leadership
- Recognize the importance of training, learning and role-playing in leadership
- Describe the impending leadership shortage in the non-profit sector and discuss possible solutions to the problem
- Discuss the seven bases for leadership
- Explain why forma authority alone does not guarantee leadership
- Explain leadership issues that are especially important in the non-profit environment
- Discuss the nine key qualities for leadership
- Describe the leadership qualities that non-profit leaders feel are important for success
- Identify the five central skills needed for effective leadership and explain ways to strengthen or develop those skills in a leader
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course in intended for adults seeking to gain a basic understanding of leadership in a non-profit setting. This course is best suited for learners with a basic understanding of non-profit organizations.
Level: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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details[32].cost=99;
document.write("Non-Profit Board and Volunteer Development
Cost: $150.00
Volunteers are the lifeblood of most non-profit organizations. Board members are a special type of volunteer. They help to guide the direction of a non-profit, to promote the organization in the community, and ensure that the non-profit's mission is fulfilled. After completing... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $150.00
Volunteers are the lifeblood of most non-profit organizations. Board members are a special type of volunteer. They help to guide the direction of a non-profit, to promote the organization in the community, and ensure that the non-profit's mission is fulfilled.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the reasons why people volunteer and how non-profits can make volunteer programs more successful
- Describe the responsibilities of the non-profit board
- Discuss different models for organizing a non-profit board
- Describe the differences between a non-profit board and a for-profit board
- Explain different approaches for recruiting and filling a non-profit board
- Discuss the pros and cons of large vs. small boards
- Describe why board evaluations are useful
- Explain why non-profit boards form committees
- Discuss typical non-profit board and staff interactions
- Describe how non-profits can develop and maintain a strong volunteer base
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course in intended for adults seeking to gain a basic understanding of board and volunteer development in a non-profit environment.
Level: Introductory
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
Estimated time to complete: 5 hours
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details[33].cost=150;
document.write("Principles of Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 the for-profit world, non-profit marketing includes advertising, promotion, public relations, and customer relationship management. This course examines how non-profits use marketing to publicize their mission and to gather contributions of time and money. The course also discusses marketing planning in the non-profit organization.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define what marketing is within the non-profit environment
- Explain the service-intensive nature of non-profit program activities
- Explain how the marketing mix is expanded for service products (the 3Ps of Services Marketing)
- Describe the importance of customer satisfaction and how expectations play a role in satisfaction with service products
- Discuss the role of ethics in non-profit marketing
- Describe the importance of and explain the process of non-profit marketing plan
- Describe how target markets can be identified for donors
- Explain how new service products are developed by non-profits
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners.
Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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details[34].cost=79;
document.write("Strategy for Non-Profit Organizations
Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
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 decisions about what it will do and how it will do it. Managers are critical to successfully implementing strategy since they are responsible for carrying out the actions that will support it. By understanding a non-profit's strategy and how it helps the organization fulfill its mission, a manager can do a better job implementing the strategy.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define strategy
- Explain the basics of strategy in a non-profit context
- Describe the strategic planning process and how different approaches may be taken by different organizations
- Discuss how mission statements are constructed
- Explain how budgets and capital budgets interrelate with non-profit strategic planning
- Describe the success factors for strategic planning
- Recognize the need for contingency planning
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course in intended for adults seeking to gain a basic understanding of strategy for a non-profit organization. This course is best suited for learners with a basic understanding of business concepts.
Level: Introductory/No Prerequisites
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
Estimated time to complete: 3-5 hours
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details[35].cost=79;
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document.write("Leading the Courtney Museum - Simulation
Cost: $399.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $399.00
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, financial, and board/community relations issues.
As the learner makes tough decisions, an adaptive scoreboard reflects the impact of those choices on the museum's prospects. Video commentary from experienced non-profit leaders provides qualitative context and explores the consequences of choosing different paths for reviving the museum.
Note: Receive 10 CFRE points for successful completion of this simulation.
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 60 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for non-profit managers interested in enhancing their leadership skills.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Prerequisites: Learners should have experience in non-profit management.
Estimated time to complete: 10 hours of online course work
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details[36].cost=399;
document.write("Strategy
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document.write("Fundamentals of Strategy: Strategy and Competition
Cost: $55.00
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.... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $55.00
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'sstrategy. This course reviews the key theories about how strategy should be developed in a competitive environment.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Explain how strategy is developed and implemented in a competitive environment
- Understand the impact of competitive forces (Michael E. Porter's Competitive Forces theory)
- Discuss the impact of external and internal factors
- Explain how a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis is created
- Discuss how corporate strategies are changed by competitive challenges
This course is designed for self-paced, self-directed, online learning; you will have the entire duration period to complete it.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners interested in expanding upon an understanding of strategy and competition in the marketplace.
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Prerequisites: While much of the content in this course is an introduction to corporate strategy and competition, learners should have a basic understanding of business concepts and terminology.
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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Cost: $79.00
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... moreadd to cartremove from cart |
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Cost: $79.00
This course drawson 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.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define strategy
- Explain the basics of strategy
- Understand the strategic planning process
- Discuss how mission statements are constructed
- Explain how budgets, capital budgets, and capacity planning interrelate with strategic planning
- Describe the success factors for strategic planning
- Understand the need for contingency planning
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.
Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners interested in expanding upon an understanding of strategic concepts and terminology.
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Prerequisites: While much of the content in this course is an introduction to corporate strategy, learners should have a basic understanding of business concepts and terminology.
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
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