Category "Business & Management"

  • Balanced Leadership for Women

    Learn how to use your strengths, optimism, and sense of belonging, power and energy to prevail in service of a purpose in our Balanced Leadership for Women course. Listen to stories told by amazing women leaders and learn from their failures and success. Discover techniques for balancing work and life through centered leadership with tools for connecting, engaging, and energizing yourself and others. This course starts with you and helps you build your path for success.
  • Personal Excellence

    As a person with unique gifts to offer, it is your responsibility to use your talents wisely and it is your right to enjoy yourself while doing so. In this class we will learn what it takes to develop career-enhancing skills that include: goal setting, time management, and personal organization. You will learn the crucial steps it takes to improve your creative abilities, gain confidence and minimize conflict in your life. Just as a successful business requires a mission and a plan, so does a fulfilling life.
  • Dealing with Difficult People

    There are difficult people in all our lives. These people spend their time not doing what we want them to do, or doing things you don’t want them to do. This course will help you identify those difficult people, understand why they act that way, and teach you to not be their victim anymore. We will look at the ways to identify and assemble effective communication skills that will allow you to get those difficult people, and focus on strategies for dealing with the most difficult behaviors of the people you can’t stand.
  • Understanding Other People

    Would you like to get along with more people? Do you want to figure out how you can become a better negotiator in your personal and professional relationships? The answer is in five secrets to understanding other people, and it is possible to not only learn them but also put them into practice immediately to improve your relationships! This course will help you understand what is happening in your communication and in your relationships so that you can learn how to understand yourself better and therefore expand your options in every relationship. 
  • Project Management Fundamentals

    In a professional setting, chances are all of us have been asked to manage projects, whether large or small in scope. Our Project Management Fundamentals course provides a solid basis for individuals who would like to understand the field of project management and the concepts used to successfully deliver projects. We cover the “big picture” by developing project objectives, analyzing appropriate timelines and organization and roles and responsibilities of participants and stakeholders.
  • Grant Writing 101

    Grant Writing is at the heart of the nonprofit world, and Grant Writers remain in high demand. Philanthropy has remained strong in the United States. From large funders such as Bill and Melinda Gates to small funders, Grant Writers seek to secure funds for individuals. The Grant Writer provides a crucial connection between the person seeking grants and funders. Our course will allow students to gain a full understanding of grant writing from identifying potential grant seekers needing someone to write their grants to finding funders and building your own grant writing business.
  • Keyboarding Made Easy

    Leave hunt-and-peck to the chickens. Effective and efficient keyboarding is more than tapping the correct letter. Our course teaches you to react to letters instead of finding them on the keyboard. This breakthrough guide brims with step-by-step exercises for keyboarding with ease. Develop your digital dexterity with our Keyboarding Basics course. 
  • Coaching: Transforming Business and Personal Lives

    The coaching profession continues to evolve as a skill set and communication form that can be applied to many situations at work and in life. With the coaching profession on the rise it is important that coaches are trained in the most up-to-date methods of coaching their clients. This course uses the Co-Active Coaching Model to help you develop your skills in communication, relationships, and coaching to achieve transformational change in others. Our course is based on humanistic and transpersonal psychological principles.
  • Worker's Compensation: A Field Guide for Employers

    Workers' Compensation: A Field Guide for Employers covers all the topics a student needs to know to understand Workers Compensation insurance, including how to reduce premium costs.  Topics covered include how Workers' Compensation insurance is priced and audited.  This course explains the classification system used by insurance companies, the audit process, experience modification factors, and how and why overcharges occur.  Most importantly, it explains in plain language to students how employers can protect themselves from the common mistakes the insurance industry makes that cause Worke
  • Women’s Power at Work

    The world of work is different for women and men. They not only see things around them differently, but women also notice and evaluate completely different things. The female vision describes what is unique about how women perceive their world at work and offers strong research support for how this uniqueness can benefit women as well as organizations.