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Global Business Strategies
$199.00This course provides an overview of the various factors that a business must consider before going global. Students will also begin considering how they can expand their business to the global marketplace using a variety of planning techniques. We strongly recommend that participants complete our âEntrepreneurship 101â and âBasic Business Managementâ programs before taking this course. -
Purchasing and Procurement Basics
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 6 Hours In this course, you will learn the basics of purchasing and procurement. You'll receive an introduction to the supply chain, the purchasing cycle, and basic purchasing tools. You'll also learn about the competitive bidding process, how to manage supplier performance, risk management techniques, and ways to build relationships. -
Understanding and Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This course aims to combat this by helping people understand the situation, and what they can do to protect themselves and others, while looking after their mental wellness. It contains the best information available at the time of writing, as the situation is changing rapidly. Different areas and countries are responding to this pandemic in different ways. Be mindful of directives in your area. -
Project Management Training: Understanding Project Management
$199.00This in-depth course will take you through all aspects of project management. First, you will consider what a project is and what a project manager does. Then, you will work through the four stages of the project life cycle: conceptual, planning, execution, and termination. You will also learn some supporting skills, like teamwork, communication, and presentation. -
Collaboration
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours 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. -
Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours In this course, you will explore what self-esteem is and where low self-esteem comes from. You will also learn ways to build your self-esteem, get what you want, and make others feel better about themselves. -
Meeting Management: The Art of Making Meetings Work
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours In this course, you will learn how to prepare for meetings, develop agendas, lead a meeting, differentiate between process and content, use facilitation skills in a meeting, and manage difficult participants. -
From Boss to Leader
$199.00Level 3 | Duration: 4 Hours After completing this course, participants will know the characteristics of bad bosses and good leaders, understand how those who hold management positions can develop into good leaders, know the elements of leading by example, understand the importance of good communication and effective feedback, and know how to use emotional intelligence. -
Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 3 Hours 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. -
English as a Second Language: A Workplace Communications Primer
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This is an opportunity to review and enhance your proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. You will find that being aware of cultural and workplace influences will help keep them from creating barriers to communication. Practical information on selecting the right words, and combining them effectively to get your message across, will improve your verbal and written communication. Specific advice on email, videoconferencing, proposals, and selling your ideas will further improve your communication skills. -
Becoming a Progressive Employer: Setting Trends Instead of Following Them
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This course aims to help you understand the meaning of being a progressive business so that you can take the time to examine its concept thoroughly. It shows you the process involved in dissecting the status quo, including developing or enhancing a progressive mindset and innovative thinking. The final part of this course focuses on understanding the importance of a succession plan to a progressive organisation. -
Project Planning: All You Need to Know
$199.00Once you complete this course you will have learned several valuable new skills that will allow you to properly plan for a project. You will come away from this course knowing about project management basics and how to being project planning. You will learn about the Work Breakdown Structure, how to prepare a basic schedule and all about Resource Breakdown Structures. You will conclude this course by learning about project planning worksheets. -
Writing a Business Plan
$199.00In this course, you will learn the essential steps for creating a business plan, including creating a first draft; identifying the audience; gathering information; researching; describing product plans; and marketing, sales, and accounting terms. -
Getting Your Job Search Started
$199.00In this course, you will learn how to manage change, identify your values and skills, consider your vocation, find jobs, network, and set goals. Then, you should be ready to start the search for your dream job. -
Accounting Skills for New Supervisors
$199.00Level 3 | Duration: 4 Hours In this course, you will learn the basics of accounting, including financial terms, generally accepted accounting principles, the accounting cycle, key financial reports, financial analysis tools, and budgeting. -
Budgets and Managing Money
$199.00Level 3 | Duration: 4 Hours To start this course, you will review the fundamentals of finance (including basic terms, generally accepted accounting principles, and financial roles in an organization). Then, you will learn about different types of budgets and a six-step budgeting process. You will also learn how to monitor budgets, perform basic ratio analysis, and compare investment opportunities. -
Advanced Skills for the Practical Trainer
$199.00To begin, you will explore the trainerâs role and what skills and competencies trainers should have. Then you will learn about the learning process and different learning styles, and apply that knowledge to designing programs and motivating learners. You will also learn ways to manage the stress of training, plan a workshop, and lead a training session. Then, you will learn techniques for dealing with difficult participants, evaluating learning, and conducting on-the-job follow-up. Alternative training methods, such as eLearning, co-facilitation, and team teaching will also be covered. -
Creating a Dynamite Job Portfolio
$199.00In this course, youâll learn about the different aspects of your job package, including your resume, cover letter, and job portfolio. Youâll also receive a plan that will get you to a job in 60 days, techniques for writing thank-you notes, and tips for choosing your references. -
Influence and Persuasion
$199.00In this course, you will learn how to speak persuasively, communicate with confidence, build rapport, develop a strong presentation, and leverage storytelling. Youâll also receive an introduction to basic neuro linguistic programming techniques. -
Networking for Success
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 4 Hours In this course, you will learn how to identify opportunities, create a positive first impression, develop a memorable intro, start conversations, shake hands well, handle business cards, manage sticky situations, follow up with others, and organize your network. You'll also learn how to network in online spaces, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. -
The Minute Taker’s Workshop
$199.00Youâll begin this course by learning what a minute-taker does and what skills they should have. Then, youâll learn about different styles of minutes, what to record, how to prepare minutes, and how to keep a minute book. -
Being a Team Player
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours Teamwork is essential in any organization, and strongly influences whether a venture succeeds or fails. Participants will learn what characteristics are common to team players, how to demonstrate to others that you are a good team player, types of teams and which ones are vital to every workplace, reasons teams fail, and strategies to ensure success. Other courses that may be of interest are Creating a Positive Work Environment, Making Your Business Better, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Team Building- Developing High Performance Teams, and Communication Strategies. -
Creating Successful Staff Retreats
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 1 Hours In this course you are going to learn a comprehensive approach to crafting a successful staff retreat for your organization. You are going to look at why retreats are conducted, look at retreat undertaking categories and then advance to the development and presentation of retreat activities. Your retreat education doesn't stop there as you are also going to learn how to identify the critical elements of a staff retreat and you will learn to create a planning checklist and about the keys of running a retreat. When the retreat is over, your responsibilities aren't, you need to evaluate how things went so you will learn how to create an evaluation and follow up. -
Crisis Management
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 5 Hours At the beginning of this course, you will learn how to put the right people in place with a crisis management team and appropriate training. Then, you will learn how to identify and assess crisis risks, develop a response process, and gather appropriate resources. You will also learn how to respond to, document, and investigate crises; establish an emergency operations center; create a continuity plan; and recover from a crisis. -
Generation Gap: Closing the Gap in the Workplace
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours During this course, you will consider whether defining the actual limits of each generation is most important, or whether the merits of people within the context of employment is the bigger issue. You will learn about the various types of generations and how human resource practices can bridge the gap. -
Hiring for Success: Behavioral Interviewing Techniques
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 5 Hours This course will take you through the hiring process from start to finish, including cost analysis, position profiles, finding candidates, screening resumes, testing candidates, interviewing (including different types of questions), evaluating responses, and reference checks. You will also learn about some of the problems commonly encountered in the hiring process and how to overcome them. -
Disability Awareness: Working with People with Disabilities
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This course will assist with welcoming people with disabilities into workplaces, learning how to Interact with people with disabilities, identify and overcome barriers in the workplace, use respectful, appropriate, acceptable language in any circumstance, understand appropriate interaction during the hiring and interviewing process, and understand what job accommodation is and how it applies in a workplace. -
Dynamite Sales Presentations
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 4 Hours This course will show you how to create a winning proposal, and how to turn it into a dynamite sales presentation. -
Marketing and Sales
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 4 Hours In this course, you will learn effective, low-cost, and non-cost strategies to improve sales, develop your company's image, and build your bottom line. -
Emotional Intelligence
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This course will introduce you to the history of emotional intelligence and what it's all about. You'll explore the most popular theories, including the EI blueprint, Martin Seligman's ABC's of optimism, the VALUE and SOLER techniques, Ekman's seven basic emotions, and Plutchik's wheel. You'll also explore your personal values and vision statement to help guide you in your emotional intelligence development. -
Developing a High Reliability Organization
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours You will learn what constitutes a High Reliability Organization (HRO), the principles behind high reliability and take a look at a real life disaster that could have benefitted from those principles. -
Social Selling for Small Businesses
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This course will help you develop your social selling skills by focusing on developing meaningful relationships with customers and potential customers through social media. You will learn about the attributes of social selling, how to explore social selling to generate business leads and how to apply social selling strategies of relevance in social media. You will also develop an understanding of the power of leveraging different platforms, how to measure results and learn all about ways to harness the power of social media to spread your message far and wide to your target audience. -
Managing Across Cultures
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 3 Hours During this course you will learn about cultures and how to integrate them into the workforce through effective communication and team building. In addition, you are going to be shown ways managing over a cross-cultural spectrum and building a multicultural organization by dipping into the global talent pool. -
Conducting Accurate Internet Research
$199.00This 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. -
Mobbing in the Workplace
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours After this course, you will be able to identify mobbing and how it differs from individual bullying, know why and how it occurs, know how it impacts the person targeted and the organization, know what actions to take if you are being mobbed, know how to avoid targeting someone, and know what action to take as an organization to stop mobbing before it starts. -
Working with the Media: Creating a Positive Working Relationship
$199.00You are going to have a good grasp of the interview process when you are done of this course, from the perspective of a regular citizen or as a professional spokesperson. In addition to speaking to the media, youâre going to learn how to pass your message along via a press release or media package. Libel and slander will come under consideration as well as various types of media outlets and the concept of a professional relationship with the media versus a personal one. -
E-Commerce Management
$199.00This course will give you the skills to develop, design, test and successfully run your e-commerce business. It looks at important components such as business plans and marketing while touching upon payment methods, software solutions, security and fraud awareness, and much more. With those topics covered you will have the skills to take your e-commerce business to the next level. -
Survival Skills for the New Trainer
$199.00In this course, you will learn the basic skills that every trainer must have. This includes dressing appropriately, being assertive, being genuine, communicating well, connecting with people, handling difficult participants, and a desire to learn. At the end of the course, youâll review a list of doâs and donâts and consider your next steps. -
Intrapreneurship
$199.00In this course, youâll learn what intrapreneurship is all about. You will learn about the history and culture of intrapreneurship and assess your own intrapreneurial qualities. Youâll also explore different ways that you can contribute to the intrapreneurial process. As well, youâll learn how to develop, screen, sell, and implement your ideas. -
Marketing for Small Businesses
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 3 Hours This course will teach you how marketing is different for small businesses, the elements of a successful marketing message, what the marketing cycle looks like, how to build a marketing plan with the five Ps, how to market with social media, and how to create a marketing budget. You will also explore over 100 strategies and consider which ones are right for your small business. -
Entrepreneurship 101
$199.00In this course, youâll learn the basics of entrepreneurship. You will learn how to find and evaluate business ideas, flesh out those ideas by developing value propositions and financial projections, consider your ownership options, prepare the appropriate documents (including a business plan, pitch deck, and white papers), and gather funding for your business. Youâll also learn the steps of developing, testing, marketing, and launching a product or service. To wrap things up, youâll learn how to grow your business and become an entrepreneurial leader. -
Public Relations Boot Camp
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 3 Hours In this course, you will learn how to determine the type of information required in a particular situation, ways to approach PR strategically, how to create compelling releases, and techniques for managing media relations. -
Creative Thinking and Innovation
$199.00In this course, you will identify ways to develop your creative side and build a creative environment. Youâll also learn a basic problem-solving process, individual creative thinking tools (such as the RAP model, shoe swap technique, mind mapping, metaphors, and toys), and team-based creative thinking tools (such as brainstorming, brainwriting, rolestorming, the stepladder technique, and slip writing). -
Strategic Planning
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 5 Hours A good strategic plan describes what the owners want the business to do and how to get there. This course will help you identify all the pieces of a strategic plan and how to put them together to create something meaningful. -
Fostering Innovation
$199.00At the end of this course, you will be able to understand what fostering innovation means , learn what an innovative workplace looks like, determine how you can help create an innovative workplace environment, understand your role in helping to foster innovation, know what happens in the workplace when you help foster innovation, and describe ways that innovation can help your company. -
Active Listening
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours In this course, you will learn what active listening is and what qualities active listeners have. You'll also learn how to manage your body language, create a positive listening attitude, encourage conversation, build relationships, and get over listening roadblocks. -
Using Activities to Make Training Fun
$199.00In this course, you will explore different types of games, including icebreakers, energizers, simulations, and case studies. You will also learn how to get buy-in, deal with reluctant participants, troubleshoot games, and create your own games. To top things off, we will give you four activities that you can customize and re-use in your own training sessions. -
Workplace Harassment: What It Is and What to Do About It
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 4 Hours After completing this course, you will be able to identify acceptable and unacceptable behavior in the workplace, apply the benefits of harassment training, define the various types of harassment, assist in the creation of a harassment policy, understand ways to prevent and protect yourself from harassment, know what to do if you are the target of harassment or are accused of harassment, understand the complaint process, and how to help your workplace adjust after a harassment incident.
