Business Management Skills
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1 Year Unlimited access to all 31 course series listed below (144+ lessons).
1 Year Unlimited access to all 31 course series listed below (144+ lessons).
Series Name
Courses
Leadership
6 courses
7 courses
5 courses
1 courses
2 courses
Management
4 courses
3 courses
5 courses
4 courses
3 courses
7 courses
6 courses
7 courses
3 courses
4 courses
2 courses
4 courses
4 courses
4 courses
Project Management
6 courses
12 courses
7 courses
7 courses
Time Management
5 courses
5 courses
Other
6 courses
4 courses
4 courses
5 courses
1 courses
1 courses
Communicating with Power
Includes 6 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 9 hour(s)Summary:
Most people's jobs include working with a lot of people who are coworkers from across the company (or even from other companies). Many times, doing your job properly depends upon other people doing the things or having the information you need. How can you persuade, influence, and inform other people in ways that will make things happen? This series will talk about how to spark action and motivation from others, especially ones who are not in a direct line of command with you.
Courses:
Elements of Powerful Communication
1 hour(s)
Persuasive Appeals
1 hour(s)
Modes of Persuasion
1 hour(s)
Active Listening
2 hour(s)
Resolving Conflict
2 hour(s)
Negotiation
2 hour(s)
Effective Business Communication
Includes 7 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 11 hour(s)Summary:
This series teaches the writing skills learners will need to effectively communicate in a business setting. They'll learn how to prepare for a writing task, and about strategies and skills for effective word choice, sentence building, and paragraph design.
Courses:
The Planning Worksheet
1 hour(s)
Writing Skills
2 hour(s)
Patterns of Development
1 hour(s)
Letters
2 hour(s)
Memos, E-Mail and Other Communications
1 hour(s)
Reports
1 hour(s)
Documentation
3 hour(s)
Motivation
Includes 5 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 11 hour(s)Summary:
This series presents the concepts of providing motivation for employees. It discusses developing a vision, a common goal, and direction for workers. Topics covered include using effective communication, conducting effective meetings, and encouraging creative problem-solving. The series also discusses rewarding effort and correcting mistakes without damaging motivation. Other topics examined include time and stress management, training and education and motivation, and building trust. This series is designed for those interested in improving their skills in coaching and motivating employees.
Courses:
Leading with a Vision
2 hour(s)
Communicating
2 hour(s)
Rewarding and Correcting
2 hour(s)
Performance and Training
3 hour(s)
Building Trust
2 hour(s)
Motivation Methods and Strategies
Includes 1 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s)Summary:
This series provides insight for motivating team members in the workplace. Learners will understand principles for leading and coaching employees and will discover methods of motivating a team through rewarding top performers, correcting weaker performers, and building trust. Learners also will become familiar with established psychological theories that support these motivational strategies.
Courses:
Leading for Commitment
1 hour(s)
Teams That Work
Includes 2 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 4 hour(s)Summary:
This series teaches the learner practical methods for establishing and maintaining teams that maximize the collective strengths of their members. Learners will also acquire valuable team leadership skills.
Courses:
Building Effective Teams
2 hour(s)
Leading Effective Teams
2 hour(s)
Business Ethics
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 5 hour(s)Summary:
The Business Ethics series provides a common sense, practical approach to doing good work, emphasizing the need for people to prepare in advance for ethical dilemmas. The series takes an honest, realistic view of how managers can help improve ethical behavior in the rushed, output-driven business environment.
Courses:
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
17 minute(s)
Everyday Ethical Dilemmas
2 hour(s)
Ethical Dilemmas and the Law
1 hour(s)
Individual Values; Organizational Values
2 hour(s)
Building Relationships
Includes 3 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 5 hour(s)Summary:
How do you build strong networks within your company and among industry peers? How do you communicate effectively with different types of people in the workplace and get your point across clearly? This series will help you build bridges and improve your business relationships.
Courses:
Socializing at Work
2 hour(s)
Understanding Behavioral Intentions
2 hour(s)
Choosing Your Approach
1 hour(s)
Customer Service
Includes 5 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 23 hour(s)Summary:
This series is designed to help users create and maintain good customer services. Concepts covered include defining company-wide customer service and standards, strategies for effective communication, and effective problem resolution. The series also provides an overview of creating a customer service department that useful tools for providing excellent customer service.
Courses:
Defining Service
5 hour(s)
Communicating
6 hour(s)
Fixing Problems
4 hour(s)
Building a Department
4 hour(s)
Tools of the Trade
4 hour(s)
Effective Presentations
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 10 hour(s)Summary:
Public speaking is a frightening task to many people, but it's also a crucial tool in career success. This series offers tips to help you prepare and deliver more powerful presentations.
Courses:
Preparing for a Presentation
3 hour(s)
Developing an Effective Message
2 hour(s)
Improving Delivery Skills
2 hour(s)
Using PowerPoint and Other Visuals
3 hour(s)
Fundamentals of Business Management
Includes 3 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 10 hour(s)Summary:
The Fundamentals of Business Management series provides learners with basic theories, skills, and tools they can use to improve their performance as managers.
Courses:
Management in Perspective
2 hour(s)
Functions of Front-Line Management
3 hour(s)
Managerial Finance and Accounting
5 hour(s)
Dealing with Difficult People
Includes 7 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 8 hour(s)Summary:
This series presents strategies for handling interpersonal tension in the workplace. In each course, learners will gain insight into analyzing situations, determining the best courses of action, and resolving problems. Scenarios and examples include working with difficult people in any organizational situation - supervisors, peers, and subordinates.
Courses:
Managing Against the Odds
16 minute(s)
Consideration
2 hour(s)
Attitude
1 hour(s)
Trust
1 hour(s)
Power
1 hour(s)
Communication
2 hour(s)
Responsibility
1 hour(s)
Innovation in the Workplace
Includes 6 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 7 hour(s)Summary:
Creativity can do more than just spark the next Big Idea for your organization. It
Courses:
Defining Innovation and Determining Your Point of View
1 hour(s)
Identifying the Enemies of Ideas and Innovation
2 hour(s)
Asking Questions
1 hour(s)
Harnessing Energy
1 hour(s)
Creating Ideas
1 hour(s)
Measuring Success
1 hour(s)
Management Skills Introduction
Includes 7 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 7 hour(s)Summary:
The Management Skills Introduction series teaches learners core management skills. Learners will be able to apply their knowledge to the successful management of projects, people, and time.
Courses:
Ready! Set! Manage!
35 minute(s)
Motivating
1 hour(s)
Planning
1 hour(s)
Communication
59 minute(s)
Getting Input
52 minute(s)
Dealing with Challenging People and Times
52 minute(s)
Building Success
1 hour(s)
Managing Change
Includes 3 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 5 hour(s)Summary:
Change is an undeniable aspect of today's business world. The leaders of an organization are called upon to guide their teams through the change process and to provide a critical bridge between the old way of doing things and new work practices. This series shows managers the three major elements of leadership in times of significant change -- the need to refocus yourself, to lead the team, and to work effectively with individual team members.
Courses:
Refocusing Yourself
1 hour(s)
Leading the Team
2 hour(s)
Working with Individuals
2 hour(s)
Negotiating
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 19 hour(s)Summary:
This series presents strategies for negotiating in business and daily situations. It covers techniques for developing a negotiation plan, evaluating the opposition, and taking advantage of body language, props, timing, questions, and correspondence. It presents strategies for gaining control in negotiation situations, and effective methods of getting past obstacles and closing a negotiation. Several everyday negotiation scenarios are explored, with tips for effective negotiation techniques to apply to these situations.
Courses:
Negotiating Techniques
8 hour(s)
Gaining Control
3 hour(s)
Closing the Deal
4 hour(s)
Everyday Negotiations
4 hour(s)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Includes 2 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 6 hour(s)Summary:
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will have a long lasting impact on the governance and financial accountability of publicly held companies. This series will provide the learner with an overview of the Act. Learners will master guidelines for making company policies, procedures, systems, and controls Sarbanes-Oxley compliant. Learners will also examine management certification responsibilities and noncompliance penalties under the Act.
Courses:
Overview, Disclosures, and Reporting
3 hour(s)
Standards, Regulations, and Penalties
3 hour(s)
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 3 hour(s)Summary:
This series works to educate managers and non-managers about the causes and effects of sexual harassment in the work environment. It looks at the elements that define behavior as harassment, methods that can be used to prevent it from occurring, as well as ways to deal with the situation if it happens. As of 8/17/07, the MindLeaders Sexual Harassment in the Workplace courses comply with the following legislation: California: Government Code 12950.1 (AB 1825), California Code of Regulations 7288, Connecticut General Statute Section 46a-54-204 and Maine Revised Statute, Title 26, Section 807.
Courses:
Defining Sexual Harassment
1 hour(s)
Preventing Sexual Harassment
1 hour(s)
Responding to Sexual Harassment
1 hour(s)
Why Can't We All Just Get Along
17 minute(s)
Stress Management
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 4 hour(s)Summary:
Stress is among the most common and harmful issues facing people in the working world. The information, practices, and exercises in this series will help you understand, control, and reduce stress.
Courses:
Stress on the Job
1 hour(s)
Resisting Stress
58 minute(s)
Assertiveness
60 minute(s)
Coping with Anger
56 minute(s)
Problem Solving Through Productive Thinking
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 7 hour(s)Summary:
One of the greatest abilities of leaders - whether in management positions or on the front line - is the ability to see the root of problems and quickly enact effective solutions. This series will pass on some of the skills and tips that will help you to better identify problems, find their causes, and get their solutions under way.
Courses:
The Concept of Productive Thinking
1 hour(s)
Productive Thinking in Principle
2 hour(s)
The Productive Thinking Model
3 hour(s)
Productive Thinking in Practice
1 hour(s)
Project Management from a People Perspective
Includes 6 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 12 hour(s)Summary:
This series goes beyond the basic mechanics of project management and focuses on the people side of getting projects accomplished. It helps you develop a deeper understanding of interpersonal dynamics that can make you more effective in leading a project team. Look to this series for topics such as building a team, leading a team, influencing team members across departments, communicating, documenting, and balancing multiple projects.
Courses:
Working Across Departments
2 hour(s)
Building and Leading a Team
2 hour(s)
Managing Project Stakeholders
2 hour(s)
Communicating Effectively
2 hour(s)
Key Documentation
2 hour(s)
Balancing Multiple Projects
2 hour(s)
Project Management
Includes 12 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 22 hour(s)Summary:
This series provides a detailed examination of project management concepts and strategies. It discusses the seven components of a management system and the five phases of the project life cycle, and looks at factors that affect cost and quality. The project manager's role is explored in detail, and strategies for defining the project are examined. Tasks such as developing the Work Breakdown Structure, estimating and scheduling resources, scheduling computations, and tracking project activities are discussed. The close-out phase of a project is also covered. Other topics include formalizing project management standards, developing a project team, and strategies for becoming a more effective project manager.
Courses:
Project Management Overview
2 hour(s)
Understanding the Project Manager's Role
2 hour(s)
Defining the Problem
1 hour(s)
Determining the Strategy
2 hour(s)
Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
2 hour(s)
Estimating and Scheduling Resources
2 hour(s)
Understanding Scheduling Computations
3 hour(s)
Tracking Project Activities
1 hour(s)
Closing Out the Project
1 hour(s)
Formalizing Project Management Standards
2 hour(s)
Developing Project Teams
2 hour(s)
Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness
2 hour(s)
Project Management Professional Certification 2005
Includes 7 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 12 hour(s)Summary:
Learn Project Managent Professional with our online training tutorials. The online training courses in this self-paced e-learning series complement the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) in preparing a learner for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam. This series will provide the learner with an understanding of the exam and how the Project Management Institute (PMI) views the topical areas associated with the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout of projects.
Courses:
Project Management Framework, Initiating the Project
2 hour(s)
Project Planning
3 hour(s)
Project Execution and Quality Management
2 hour(s)
Project Monitoring and Control
1 hour(s)
Project Closing
1 hour(s)
Professional Responsibility
1 hour(s)
Practice Exams
2 hour(s)
Project Management Professional Certification 2009
Includes 7 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 10 hour(s)Summary:
Courses:
Project Management Framework and Initiating the Project
2 hour(s)
Project Planning Processes
1 hour(s)
Project Execution and Quality Management
2 hour(s)
Project Monitoring and Control
1 hour(s)
Project Closing
1 hour(s)
Professional Responsibility
1 hour(s)
Practice Exams
2 hour(s)
Time Management Fundamentals
Includes 5 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 11 hour(s)Summary:
This series describes specific time-management strategies that learners can apply to make their work time more efficient and productive.
Courses:
Evaluating and Improving Time Management
2 hour(s)
Organizing Tasks and Creating Uninterrupted Time
2 hour(s)
Managing Meetings
2 hour(s)
Managing Workload
3 hour(s)
Managing Time with Co-Workers
2 hour(s)
Time Management for Maximum Productivity
Includes 5 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 6 hour(s)Summary:
It always seems like we could use an extra two hours (or more!) in the day. How can we manage our time and be truly productive in the office, and in life? This series will introduce you to the most important rules of time management, including not just how to get more done, but how to choose the things you do to give your day the biggest impact possible.
Courses:
Taming Time
2 hour(s)
Prioritizing and Procrastinating
1 hour(s)
Establishing Goals
1 hour(s)
Managing Time Together
1 hour(s)
Controlling Time Leaks
1 hour(s)
Basics of Business Math
Includes 6 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 16 hour(s)Summary:
This series is designed for users who want to improve their basic math skills. It covers basic mathematical calculations commonly used in business settings. Courses cover computing fractions and decimals, the order of operations for combined computations, and solving equations and word problems. It includes the use of proportions, ratios, and percentages, and also provides instruction on the use of a calculator for business applications.
Courses:
Fractions
3 hour(s)
Decimals
3 hour(s)
Calculator
3 hour(s)
Equations
3 hour(s)
Percents
2 hour(s)
Reports
2 hour(s)
Grammar
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 10 hour(s)Summary:
This series is designed for users who want to improve their grammar skills in a business setting. It examines sentence structure in detail, including parts of speech, subject/verb agreement, use of pronouns, and irregular verbs. Punctuation is discussed, including the proper use of apostrophes, quotation marks, capital letters, numbers, and abbreviations. Advanced topics include pronoun types, adjectives and adverbs, colons and semicolons, other punctuation, and modifiers.
Courses:
Fundamental Sentence Structures
3 hour(s)
Punctuation
2 hour(s)
Complex Sentence Structures
3 hour(s)
Advanced Grammar
2 hour(s)
E-Mailing Your Way to the Top
Includes 4 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 8 hour(s)Summary:
E-mail has become so prevalent in the workplace that we seldom think about it, and yet it is the medium coworkers see you through most often. How can your e-mails speak for you clearly, effectively, and potently? This series will walk you through building e-mail subject lines and messages that are effective and respect office etiquette. You'll also learn about e-mail safety by avoiding threats like viruses and phishing, and how to think about email confidentiality and legal security.
Courses:
Managing Your Inbox
2 hour(s)
Writing Effective E-Mails
3 hour(s)
The Legal Face of E-Mail
2 hour(s)
Becoming an Organizational Leader
1 hour(s)
Instructional Design
Includes 5 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 17 hour(s)Summary:
This series will teach the learner the basics of the instructional design process. Learners will discover how to identify the need for instruction and analyze the content to be taught. Best practices for designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction will help prepare the learner to create instructional programs.
Courses:
Process, Needs, and Roles
3 hour(s)
Analysis and Objectives
4 hour(s)
Design Concepts
3 hour(s)
Planning and Implementation
3 hour(s)
Evaluation
4 hour(s)
Doing Business in China
Includes 1 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 3 hour(s)Summary:
Courses:
Doing Business in China
3 hour(s)
Doing Business in India
Includes 1 online training courses, estimated time to complete: 4 hour(s)Summary:
Courses:
Doing Business in India
4 hour(s)
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