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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. -
Identifying and Combatting Fake News
$199.00After you complete this course you will be able to: define âfake newsâ, recognize the difference between âfake newsâ and objective reporting, understand the impacts of âfake newsâ on your organization, examine proactive strategies and how they work, learn reactive strategies and why they are essential, discover opportunities for promotion and growth within âfake newsâ , and create your own âfake newsâ action plan. -
GDPR Readiness: Getting the Message Out
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 2 Hours In this one-day course, you will learn: about internal communication methods, about privacy training, and promoting a good privacy culture, about the elements of a good customer privacy policy, how to write and design a cookie banner disclaimer for your website, and how to design a privacy-compliant web form. -
Becoming a Better Learner
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours After you complete this course, you will be able to understand what it means to learn and become a life-long learner, know what a mindset for learning looks like and how to adopt one, set realistic goals, understand what your network is and why expanding it is important, know how to ask questions and why that is important, become accountable for your goals and take responsibility, and know how to accelerate your learning. -
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. -
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. -
Successfully Managing Change
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This course covers how to manage and cope with change and how to help those around you, too. Topics explored include understanding, accepting and reacting to change; and strategies for assisting with change to be accepted and implemented in the workplace. -
Leadership Skills for Supervisors
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 4 Hours Ensure that your leaders are leading! Learn how to prioritise, manage and plan your time and your team schedule, develop different techniques when dealing with people, and use any situation as a method to problem-solving among other things. This course is all about helping you lead your people in the best possible way! -
Honing and Delivering Your Message
$199.00Learn how to clarify your message and how to present it, successfully communicate your message, and ensure your listeners hear what you want to get across to them with the Honing and Delivering Your Message course. -
Digital Transformation
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours This course aims to define digital transformation, and provide an understanding of why it matters, as well as take a look at businesses that are successfully undertaking this change. It will also help you begin developing a digital strategy for your own company. -
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. -
GDPR Readiness: Creating a Data Privacy Plan
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 2 Hours After completing this course, you should be able to explain what a data privacy plan will include, know the important terminology and legislation regarding data privacy, map the flow of data in an organization visually, understand and write an information request procedure, develop an internal data handling procedure, understand and write a data security policy, understand and write a personal data protection policy, adapt your current client privacy policy, develop a data breach procedure, decide on training solutions for data privacy, know the other necessary pieces of the data privacy plan and help your organization write, implement, and review a data privacy plan. -
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 Smarter: Using Technology to Your Advantage
$199.00In this course, youâll learn how to use technology to your advantage. Computers, various types of applications, software purchases, technical training, IT budgets, security, privacy, usage policies, ergonomics, instant messaging, and telecommuting are all covered. -
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. -
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. -
Selling Smarter
$199.00In this course, you will learn why consultative and customer-focused selling are so important. Youâll also learn about the sales cycle, setting goals, ways to increase your average sale, and where to find new clients. -
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. -
The Professional Supervisor
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 6 Hours 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 model, and Velsoft's signature leadership assessment. -
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. -
Risk Management
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours In this course, you will learn about the seven R's and four T's that traditionally represent the key activities of risk management. This will give you a framework that you can customize for a single project, a department, or an entire company. -
Research Skills
$199.00In this course, you will learn basic research skills, such as reading, memory recall, and note-taking. You will also learn how to create different kinds of outlines for different stages of your project, and how to move from the outline to writing, editing, and polishing. As well, youâll learn how to find information using the libraryâs Dewey Decimal System, journals, and the Internet. -
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. -
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. -
Facilitation Skills
$199.00In this course, you will learn what facilitation is, skills that a facilitator should have, and the different skill levels of a facilitator. Then, you will learn some basic facilitation techniques, including ground rules, differentiating between content and process, bringing divergent and convergent thinking together, degrees of support, managing difficult participants, building sustainable agreements, and more. Supporting skills, such as communication, feedback, and team building, are also covered. -
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. -
Creating a Workplace Wellness Program
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 4 Hours To begin this course, you will consider the benefits of workplace wellness programs. Then, you will learn how to create a wellness committee, outline a wellness program, gather support for it, perform appropriate research (including a needs analysis), design an appropriate package, and get buy-in for it. You will also learn how to implement the wellness program, evaluate how it is doing, and present the results in a tangible manner. -
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. -
Conquering Your Fear of Speaking in Public
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours To begin this course, you'll review some of the basics of communication. Then, you'l learn how to make small talk, develop conversations, speak well, dress appropriately, and control nervousness. To wrap things up, you'll learn how to handle specific scenarios, like meetings and sticky social situations. -
Balanced Scorecard Basics
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 2 Hours You will begin this course by learning what the balanced scorecard is and what types of organisations it is most useful for. Then, you will review some sample scorecards, strategy maps, and tactical action plans. You will also learn how to develop your organisation's mission, vision, and values (which form the basis for the balanced scorecard); a project vision statement; plans to implement the scorecard; and balanced scorecard teams. -
Advanced Writing Skills
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours After you complete this course, you will be able to make your writing clear, complete, concise, and correct, improve sentence construction and paragraph development, deal with specific business requests, create effective business cases, proposals, and reports, and thoroughly document sources that you use in your writing. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Business Ethics for the Office
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 3 Hours In this course, you will learn what the terms ethics, morals, and values mean. Then, you will learn about several different ethical frameworks, including Kohlberg's six stages, philosophical approaches, personal values, and codes of ethics. You will also learn how to avoid ethical dilemmas, make ethical decisions, handle common ethical dilemmas, and recover from mistakes. -
Employee Accountability
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 3 Hours Understand the importance of accountability and how it can fuel the growth of an organisation. In this course, you will learn about how you can build accountability and ownership in the workplace, set goals, delegate and make yourself and your team more accountable in your tasks. -
Communications for Small Business Owners
$199.00If 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. -
The ABC’s Of Supervising Others
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 5 Hours This course will help you overcome many of the problems that you will encounter as a workplace leader. Topics include transitioning to a supervisory role, attitudes to cultivate, setting goals, personal productivity, communication skills, feedback techniques, conflict resolution, managing difficult conversations, and establishing credibility. -
Writing for the Web
$199.00This course will teach you how to design and structure web writing, create eye-catching headlines, develop user-friendly websites, add audio and video to your writing, and leverage search engine optimization to get noticed. -
Time Management
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 4 Hours After completing this course, you will be able to better organize yourself and your workspace for peak efficiency, understand the importance of, and the most useful techniques for, setting and achieving goals, plan and schedule your time efficiently, learn how to set priorities, discover the ingredients for good decision-making, learn what to delegate and how to delegate well, take control of things that can derail your workplace productivity, create order and get organized, and manage your workload. -
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. -
Building Relationships for Success in Sales
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 3 Hours This course will teach you how to leverage customer-focused selling, identify what influences relationships, expand your communication skills, manage your body language, develop a professional handshake, and grow your network. -
Overcoming Objections to Nail the Sale
$199.00In this course, you will learn how to overcome objections, identify buying signals, and close the sale. You will also learn supporting skills, like building credibility, being observant, and communicating well. -
Prospecting for Leads Like a Pro
$199.00This course will teach you how to identify your target market, use a prospect dashboard, and set goals. You will also learn how to find prospects through networking, trade shows, lost accounts, and cold calls. -
Telemarketing: Using the Telephone as a Sales Tool
$199.00In this course, you will learn how to communicate effectively over the telephone, develop your personal telemarketing script, and close a sale. Youâll also learn how telemarketing can add to your sales strategy. -
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. -
Trade Shows: Getting the Most Out of Your Trade Show Experience
$199.00You 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. -
Problem Solving and Decision Making
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 4 Hours In this course, you will learn a three-phase problem solving process that you can apply to any situation. You will also learn techniques for creative thinking, how to make good group decisions, and ways to follow up on and evaluate decisions. -
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. -
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. -
NLP Tools for Real Life
$199.00This course will teach you about anchoring, establishing congruency, developing rapport, creating outcomes, interpreting and presenting information efficiently, and self-hypnosis. -
Developing Your Training Program
$199.00You will start this course by considering what training is, when it is necessary, and what other options are out there. Then, you will learn the ICE method for identifying needs, a seven-step model for instructional design, and tips for building an engaging program. Next, you will walk through the steps of program design, including setting learning objectives, identifying evaluation strategies, choosing learning methodologies, finding content, creating energizers, using assessment tools, developing supporting materials, and testing the program. You will also receive tips on creating a proposal for a training program and building rapport with company sponsors. -
Conference and Event Management
$199.00In this course, you will learn all the essentials of event planning, including setting objectives, budgeting, using committees, advertising, choosing a venue, selecting a menu, developing takeaway items, gathering feedback for the plan, hosting the event, and evaluating how it all went. -
Communication Strategies
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 3 Hours This course will teach you all about the various aspects of communication. You will learn about asking questions, probing for information, active listening, and body language. Supporting skills are also covered, such as self-esteem, building relationships with others, and assertiveness. -
Business Writing That Works
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 10 Hours 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. -
Business Etiquette: Gaining That Extra Edge
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours In this course, you'll learn all about business etiquette and how you can use this skill to present yourself in a business setup. It contains tips for meeting new people, identifying a good handshake, knowing how to handle business cards, making small talk, remembering names, and crafting an excellent first impression. It also tackles dressing up for success, dining with confidence and presenting yourself well on the phone and via e-mail. -
Bullying in the Workplace
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 4 Hours Bullying is also known as the silent epidemic. Several employees have experienced or witnessed bullying. However, policies and laws dealing with it are far less prevalent because bullying can be hard to identify and address. What exactly is bullying, and what does it look like? How can we discourage it in the workplace? What can we do to protect our staff and our co-workers? These are just some of the questions addressed in this course. -
Branding: Creating and Managing Your Corporate Brand
$199.00This course will get you started on the road to creating a perfect brand. Youâll learn how to develop a visual identity from start to finish, the basics of graphic design, and how to keep your brand energized and alive. -
Project Management Fundamentals
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 4 Hours 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. -
Personal Brand: Maximizing Personal Impact
$199.00In this course, youâll learn what a brand is and how you can leverage it to make a personal impact. Youâll define, design, and plan the interior elements of your brand (such as your confidence level and approach to others) as well as the exterior elements (such as how you dress and act). Youâll also learn supporting skills, such as setting goals, communicating effectively, building your credibility, managing difficult conversations, influencing others, and speaking in public. -
Knowledge Management
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 4 Hours In this course, you will learn what knowledge is, what knowledge management is, how tacit and explicit knowledge are different, and the business benefits that knowledge management can bring. Then, you will learn about the knowledge management mix (which includes people, technology, and process) as well as a four step process for building your knowledge management framework. You will also learn about four knowledge management models: Bukowitz and Williams' KM Process Framework, Gamble and Blackwell's knowledge management matrix, Botha's process model, and Nonaka and Takeuchi's spiral model. Implementation aspects, such as knowledge management teams, post-mortem plans, KMBOKs, Chief Knowledge Officers, and pilot programs, are covered as well. -
CRM: An Introduction to Customer Relationship Management
$199.00This course will teach you how to make a decision about the need for CRM, the benefits of CRM, and how to coordinate the base requirements for a CRM undertaking. -
Basic Business Management: Boot Camp for Business Owners
$199.00This course will give you all the skills that you need as a new business owner. Youâll learn how to develop your organizational chart, manage operations, speak knowledgeably about finance, hire the right people, build your brand, market your product online and offline, complete a strategic plan and a succession plan, and build your customer base. Youâll also learn the basics of leadership and tips for taking your business to the next level. -
Business Process Management
$199.00Level 3 | Duration: 12 Hours After taking 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. -
Lean Process Improvement
$199.00Level 3 | Duration: 4 Hours 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. -
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). -
Self-Leadership
$199.00In this course, you will explore the four pillars of self-leadership: knowing who you are, knowing what you do, knowing what you need to learn, and using what you know. -
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. -
Giving Effective Feedback
$199.00Level 1 | Duration: 2 Hours In this course, you will learn about the essential elements of feedback, important communication techniques, and a framework for informal and formal feedback. You'll also learn some tips for receiving feedback. -
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. -
Making Your Business Better
$199.00This course demonstrates how various factors work together to ensure a company flourishes. Students will be guided through positioning and pricing, marketing, selling, negotiating, responding to RFQs, project management, team building, productivity, and strategic planning. Other courses that may be of interest to the student are Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills, Business Leadership, Business Ethics in the Office, Creating a Positive Work Environment, and Getting Stuff Done - Personal Development Boot Camp. -
Becoming Management Material
$199.00Level 2 | Duration: 6 Hours After you complete this course, you will be able to define your role as a manager and identify how that role differs from other roles you have had, understand the management challenge and the new functions of management discover how you can prepare for and embrace the forces of change, identify ways to get you and your workspace organized and get a jump on the next crisis, identify your leadership profile and explore ways to use this knowledge to improve your success as a manager, enhance your ability to communicate with others in meetings and through presentations, and create an action plan for managing your career success.
