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Story Marketing for Small Businesses
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course covers the essential elements of a story marketing campaign, from a review of company message and brand, to the elements of good storytelling. The course leads participants through the steps of creating a marketing story — knowing your company, knowing and connecting with customers, and the story writing and editing process. This creates a clear and engaging path that will lead customers to your products and services and encourage them to respond to your call to action. -
Managing Difficult Conversations
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course will give you an eight-step process for a difficult conversation, as well as some things to consider when deciding to have the conversation (such as your desired outcome, the time and place, and how to stay safe). You’ll also learn how to speak persuasively, ask good questions, and listen actively. -
Skills for the New Employee
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.After you complete this course, you will be able to: Understand the importance of professional presence on the job, Understand the importance of a positive attitude Understand the role of stress reduction in nurturing a positive attitude and appreciate various methods of stress reduction, Determine your own level of assertiveness and understand and improve your assertiveness, Learn how to self-manage to become more effective and efficient, Learn the importance of working as a team member, Improve your communications skills, including listening, questioning and non-verbal communication, and Learn how to set goals and create a personal action plan. -
Becoming a Progressive Employer: Setting Trends Instead of Following Them
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will gain an understanding of what being progressive means, and then take time to truly examine this concept through activities and discussion. You will look at the process involved in going from the status quo to being progressive, along with how to develop or enhance a progressive mindset and innovative ideas. The last part of the course involves understanding the importance of a succession plan to a progressive organization. -
Trade Shows: Getting the Most Out of Your Trade Show Experience
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.You are going to learn about people who attend trade shows and how to interact with them. You are also going to learn about the importance of pre-show promotion and then follow up afterwards. These topics will be explored in great depth as they get broken down into areas such as creating good opening lines and good conversations, targeted promotional giveaways, booth behavior, and prospecting activities. -
Social Selling for Small Businesses
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn about the attributes of social selling, you will learn how to explore social selling can generate business leads, how to apply social selling strategies of relevance in social media. You will also develop an understanding of the power of leveraging different platforms and how to measure results. -
Business Writing That Works
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course will teach you the four C’s of writing: clear, concise, complete, and correct. You will also learn some of the fundamentals of good writing, including word agreement, active and passive voice, sentence construction, punctuation, and spelling. Finally, you will have a chance to apply these skills to real-life situations, such as writing e-mails, memos, and letters. -
Process Improvement with Gap Analysis
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.You will learn how to embrace Process Improvement with Gap Analysis during this course which provides you with the knowledge of what gap analysis is, examples, templates, and the guidance to implement an analysis in your situation. -
Psychological Health and Safety
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.At the end of this workshop, you should be able to: understand basic concepts of personal mental health, know what psychological workplace safety is and why it is important, identify the factors influencing personal mental health and safety in your workplace, consider assessment and action strategies for personal and workplace needs, engage key participants in workplace programs, and explore methods of evaluation and continuous improvement. -
Writing Reports and Proposals
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.To begin this course, you will learn about the four stages of report writing: investigating, planning, writing, and revising. You’ll also learn about the ten steps of proposal writing, as well as using headings, adding visual aids, writing persuasively, and sourcing material. -
Call Center Training: Sales and Customer Service Training for Call Center Agents
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn how to present yourself appropriately on the telephone. You will also learn tips for saying “no,” giving bad news, selling on the phone, overcoming objections, dealing with difficult customers, taking messages, and managing voice mail. We will also share a basic telephone script that you can customize. -
Progressive Discipline
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course will ensure that all staff members understand the importance and use of progressive discipline. It starts by examining ways to minimizing disciplinary issues and after defining discipline, discipline policies and progressive discipline, it gives hands-on experience with verbal warnings, written warnings, performance improvement plans and termination, using thought exercises and scenarios. -
Lean Process Improvement
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course will teach you the foundations of Lean through the Toyota precepts and the five critical improvement concepts (value, waste, variation, complexity, and continuous improvement). Then, you will learn about tools to perform continuous improvement in your organization, including 5S, 5W-2H, PDSA, DMAIC, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu, and Lean data mapping methods. -
Project Management Fundamentals
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn what a project is and what a project manager does. You will also learn about the life cycle of a project. In particular, you will focus on the conceptual phase of project management, where you identify, prioritize, and scope a project idea. -
Communications for Small Business Owners
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.If you are new to the communications highway, this course will provide the foundation for future development. If your company has some communications expertise, this course will help you strengthen and polish your essential components. -
Intrapreneurship
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you’ll learn what intrapreneurship is all about. You will learn about the history and culture of intrapreneurship and assess your own intrapreneurial qualities. You’ll also explore different ways that you can contribute to the intrapreneurial process. As well, you’ll learn how to develop, screen, sell, and implement your ideas. -
Dealing With Difficult People
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.Upon completion of this course, you will be able to recognize how your own attitudes and actions affect others; find new and effective techniques for dealing with difficult people; be familiar with some techniques for managing and dealing with anger; and develop coping strategies for dealing with difficult people and difficult situations. -
Intermediate Project Management
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will focus on the last three stages of the project life cycle: planning, execution, and termination. This includes identifying tasks and resources; using scheduling techniques like the work breakdown structure, Gantt charts, and network diagrams; preparing a budget; executing a project; and controlling changes. -
Collaboration
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.After completion of this course, you should understand the definition of collaboration, what it takes to work collaboratively with your colleagues and the advantages of collaboration. Obstacles to collaboration will be explored, and how to develop strategies to improve a collaborative work environment. As well, you will know the six steps to make collaboration work, and the difference between collaboration, cooperation and teamwork. -
Reading Body Language as a Sales Tool
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.After you complete this course, you will be able to: Apply your knowledge of body language to improve communication, understand the impact of space in a conversation, understand the nuances of body language from a range of areas including your face, hands, arms, legs, and posture, use mirroring and matching techniques to build rapport, shake hands with confidence, and dress for success. -
Business Etiquette: Gaining That Extra Edge
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you’ll learn all about business etiquette. First, you will learn tips for meeting new people, which includes a good handshake, knowing how to handle business cards, making small talk, remembering names, and crafting a good first impression. Then, you’ll learn how to dress for success, dine with confidence, and present yourself well on the phone and via e-mail. -
Coaching and Mentoring
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn how coaching and mentoring differ from each other. You will also learn the key aspects of each skill as well as supporting skills (such as goal setting, communication, feedback techniques, and adult learning principles). -
Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn about the Shared Management Model, which helps the manager transfer motivation and responsibility for results to the employee. This course will cover all three phases of the model: preparing the employee for the job, motivating them to do it, and evaluating their performance. -
Critical Elements of Customer Service
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course is all about the critical elements of customer service: a customer service focus that is defined within, and given life by, your organization. In order to be successful, this focus must be reinforced every day, measured, and improved upon. -
Business Process Management
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.To begin this course, you will learn about business process management and three related skill areas: business analysis, enterprise content management, and business process re-engineering. Then, you will work through the five stages of the business process life cycle: vision, design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization. Tools such as automation, business rules, workflow engines, what-if analysis, process mining, business activity monitoring, the balanced scorecard, Lean, and Six Sigma are also covered. -
Design Thinking: An Introduction
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course is designed to get you started using design thinking to solve problems more creatively. You will better understand problems from the customer's perspective as you apply different brainstorming techniques to identify innovative ideas. You will be able to use effective design research through use of prototypes and testing to test your ideas and keep your design ideas moving forward. Upon completion you will be ready to take on your next project using a design thinking process. -
Facilitation Skills
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn how to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, to indentify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation, how to understand the difference between content and process, how to identify the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage and, how to use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive -
Employee Accountability
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.You will begin this course by exploring what accountability is all about and some recent events that have caused people to look at accountability more closely. Then, you’ll learn ways to build accountability and ownership in your organization and make yourself more accountable. Supporting skills, like goal setting, feedback, and delegation, are also covered. -
The Minute Taker’s Workshop
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.You’ll begin this course by learning what a minute-taker does and what skills they should have. Then, you’ll learn about different styles of minutes, what to record, how to prepare minutes, and how to keep a minute book. -
NLP Tools for Real Life
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course will teach you about anchoring, establishing congruency, developing rapport, creating outcomes, interpreting and presenting information efficiently, and self-hypnosis. -
The Professional Supervisor
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn how to plan effectively, build a high-performing team, motivate employees, provide effective feedback, delegate, and manage conflict. You will also receive an introduction to several leadership theories, including John Adair’s action-centered leadership model, Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II® model, and Velsoft’s signature leadership assessment. -
Promoting a Marketing Webinar
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.At the end of this course, you will be able to define the marketing objectives of your webinar, create an attendee avatar to connect with your target audience, create and use a lead magnet, develop a promotion strategy, explore the potential of a joint venture, and create a webinar marketing calendar. -
Continuous Improvement with Lean
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn about developing continuous improvement strategies in the workplace using Lean methodology. The course focuses on the Identify – Plan – Execute – Review cycle, and wraps up with an in-depth case study to help you practice what you have learned. -
Mastering The Interview
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.In this course, you will learn how to prepare for and participate in a job interview. We’ll share the types of questions to expect, as well as the questions that you should think about asking. You will also learn how to prepare for second interviews, testing, and shadowing, as well as how to follow up after an interview. -
Conducting Accurate Internet Research
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course is going to provide you with the skills you will need to get the most of an Internet search. You will learn where to look for information, how to find it, and the types of information that you can, and cannot, find online. It looks at the surface web and then takes you further in your searching skills to the deep web. -
Planning for Workplace Safety
Original price was: $99.00.$34.99Current price is: $34.99.This course gives you the tools to create a workplace safety plan that covers the all the bases you need to begin to build a safe work environment. You will learn many topics including the basics of a safety policy along with the introduction of a safety plan and how to develop a communications plan. You will learn how to decide upon training solutions for common accidents/incidents and learn of the importance and structure of incident response plans. Also, the course covers 6S inspections, checklists, plus the value of an appendix for the safety plan.
