Basics of Business Math
- Fractions
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course provides instruction and practice in basic business math skills for the area of fractions. |
- Decimals
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course teaches how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using decimals. It also shows the order in which to do this for combined computations. |
- Calculator
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course provides instruction and practice in using a calculator for business math. |
- Equations
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course discusses equations and ratios. It teaches what equations and ratios are and how to use them to solve many different word problems. |
- Percents
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course teaches how to calculate percents. It explains how to convert decimals to percents, percents to decimals, fractions to percents, and percents to fractions. This course also teaches how to solve word problems involving percentages by using formulas. |
- Reports
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides instruction in evaluating and analyzing basic statistics and graphs used in business reports. |
Building Relationships
- Socializing at Work
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides tips you can use to network in the workplace. It includes information about overcoming fears, using body language, words, and tone, and gives tips for making a good first impression. |
- Understanding Behavioral Intentions
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course will help you identify behavioral intents and troublesome behaviors. It also offers techniques that you can use to build relationships with a variety of people. |
- Choosing Your Approach
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course focuses on dealing with tough behaviors by using skillful communication. It also teaches you effective listening skills. |
Business Ethics
- What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
| | Expected Duration: | .25 hours | Description: This video is designed to help you and your organization wade through the ambiguous areas of business ethics. After taking this course, learners will understand the primary principles of and possess strategies for ethical decision making, development, and maintenance. |
- Everyday Ethical Dilemmas
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: After taking this course, learners will understand the need for a practical approach to business ethics and how to develop their own personal ethical perspectives. |
- Ethical Dilemmas and the Law
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course features practical instruction for searching the Internet for legal information relevant to business ethics. |
- Individual Values; Organizational Values
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course focuses on helping learners set and use personal value priorities in their daily lives. |
Customer Service
- Defining Service
| | Expected Duration: | 5 hours | Description: This course explains the concept of company-wide customer service and standards. |
- Communicating
| | Expected Duration: | 6 hours | Description: This course presents strategies for understanding customer problems, resolving conflict, and writing effective correspondence, instructions, and manuals. |
- Fixing Problems
| | Expected Duration: | 4 hours | Description: This course explains how to answer common questions, find customers' needs and problems, and resolve the root cause of those problems. |
- Building a Department
| | Expected Duration: | 4 hours | Description: This course provides users with an overview of creating a Customer Service department and hiring talented customer service people. |
- Tools of the Trade
| | Expected Duration: | 4 hours | Description: This course explains the concept of company-wide customer service and standards. |
Dealing with Difficult People
- Managing Against the Odds
| | Expected Duration: | .25 hours | Description: This course introduces the major issues involved in dealing with difficult employees. It provides a three-step process to help transcend preconceptions about difficult people and avoid missteps in managing them. |
- Consideration
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: After taking this course, the learner will be able to identify key causes of inconsiderate behavior in the workplace and outline polite, effective strategies for resolving the problems with the other people who are involved. Situations covered in this course include workspace issues such as noise, odors, and misuse of shared spaces, as well as interpersonal issues of respect and courtesy. |
- Attitude
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides an overview of problems that arise from attitude issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of attitude problems in the workplace and outline polite, effective strategies for resolving them. |
- Trust
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides an overview of problems that arise from trust issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of trust problems in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them. |
- Power
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides an overview of problems that arise from power issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of power struggles in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them. |
- Communication
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides an overview of problems that arise from communication problems in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of communication problems in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them. |
- Responsibility
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides an overview of problems that arise from responsibility issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of irresponsible behavior in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them. |
Effective Business Communication
- The Planning Worksheet
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: After taking this course, the learner will be able to use a Planning Worksheet to analyze the needs and restrictions of a writing task. |
- Writing Skills
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course will help you improve your business writing skills by choosing appropriate words, building effective sentences, and identifying and correcting common sentence faults. |
- Patterns of Development
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: After taking this course, you will be able to organize business writing into specific patterns, depending on the type of information you want to communicate. |
- Letters
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: The course discusses standard letter parts and letter formats. This course talks about planning a correspondence, and the words, sentences, and paragraphs used when creating an effective letter. It also discusses the block and modified letter formats and how they differ. Finally, this course presents how to write letters that convey neutral or positive news, as well as how to write negative news letters with tact and courtesy. |
- Memos, E-mail and Other Communications
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course discusses memos, proposals, press releases, e-mails, and faxes. |
- Reports
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: After taking this course, you will be familiar with the general characteristics and acceptable formats of formal, informational, analytical, and persuasive reports. |
- Documentation
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: In this course, you will learn how to write clear, concise documentation. You will be able to effectively plan your documentation project and decide what information to include. This course also discusses the proper parts of a document, the editing process, and the preparation of your document for production and distribution. |
Effective Presentations
- Preparing for a Presentation
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course explains how proper preparation can help you deliver a more effective presentation. |
- Developing and Effective Message
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course shows you how to best structure message content to accomplish a presentation goal, as well as how to effectively use patterns in your presentations. |
- Improving Delivery Skills
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides tips and tools for improving your delivery skills for presentations. |
- Using PowerPoint and Other Visuals
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course shows how to design a dynamic PowerPoint presentation and use other visual tools to support message content. |
Fundamentals of Business Management
- Management in Perspective
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: After taking this course, learners will be able to evaluate their current performance as managers and utilize the skills, techniques, and theories reviewed in the course to improve their productivity. Learners will also be able to formulate plans of action to acquire additional skills needed to advance in the field of business management. |
- Functions of Front-Line Management
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the skills and duties of front-line management. The course explores the role of supervisor through best practices, expert suggestions, and practical tips that help build and maintain productive working relationships. |
- Managerial Finance and Accounting
| | Expected Duration: | 5 hours | Description: This course provides an introduction to the language of finance. After taking this course, the learner will be able to interpret financial reports and ask intelligent questions about financial matters. |
Grammar
- Fundamental Sentence Structures
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course provides instruction and practice in basic business grammar skills for the area of sentence structures. |
- Punctuation
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides an overview of the use of business grammar skills and how to use it to punctuate sentence structures. |
- Complex Sentence Structures
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course provides an overview of the use of business grammar skills. |
- Advanced Grammar
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides an overview of advanced grammar and how to use pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, special punctuation, and modifiers. |
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Management Skills Introduction
- Ready! Set! Manage!
| | Expected Duration: | .5 hours | Description: This course provides the learner with answers to questions new managers often have at the start of their management career such as the biggest mistakes made by new managers, how to build successful teams, and how to effectively manage a boss. |
- Motivating
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: After taking this course, the learner will be able to deliver effective feedback that employees understand and are able to successfully apply. It also discusses how to keep up with performance appraisals, yet provide thorough, thoughtful evaluations that are constructive and well-supported. |
- Planning
| | Expected Duration: | 1.35 hours | Description: After taking this course, the learner will be able to delegate work, think strategically, and plan meetings. It also discusses how to make effective decisions that will lead employees forward. |
- Communication
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: After taking this course, the learner will be able to level with your employees, deliver bad news, express yourself clearly and asking questions that uncover employees' ideas and opinions. |
- Getting Input
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: After taking this course, the learner will be able to obtain input on improving both their own and the organization's performance. It also discusses how to obtain useful information from departing employees during their exit interviews and how to receive feedback from your superiors. It covers the importance of listening, to get the most from the speaker's concerns and ideas, as well. |
- Dealing with Challenging People and Times
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: After taking this course, the learner will be able to help employees improve their performance and deal with organizational change. It also discusses how to handle cynics who are lowering employee morale and deal with worries about change directly. |
- Building Success
| | Expected Duration: | 1.15 hours | Description: This course will give the learner best practices for gaining success through work performance. It illustrates the value of cultivating friendships within your organization so you can exchange ideas and favors. It also discusses effective time management and how to make compelling presentations. |
Managing Change
- Refocusing Yourself
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides information on how a manager can refocus and gather important resources in the early stages of a significant corporate change. |
- Leading the Team
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides information about leading a work unit through organizational change. It focuses on helping your team adapt to change by implementing transition rules, getting team members involved, rewarding your team for achievements, and squashing rumors. |
- Working with Individuals
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course explains why some members of a team have a difficult time positively engaging in change situations, and what you, as a change leader, can do to help them through the change. |
Motivation
- Leading with a Vision
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course explains how to provide a clear direction to a team to encourage their performance. |
- Communicating
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course shows how to take advantage of language, meetings, and problem-solving to build better communication and performance with employees. |
- Rewarding and Correcting
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course shows how to effectively reward work, encourage teamwork and cooperation, and correct mistakes without damaging motivation. |
- Performance and Training
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course provides an introduction to time and stress management, and to education to encourage you and your employees. |
- Building Trust
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course explains how to encourage trust from and in your employees. |
Motivation Methods and Strategies
- Leading for Commitment
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course promotes strategies for leading team members and gaining commitment from them, rather than merely bossing subordinates for obedience and compliance. |
Negotiating
- Negotiating Techniques
| | Expected Duration: | 8 hours | Description: This course shows how to communicate and evaluate the competition in a negotiating situation. |
- Gaining Control
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course outlines the different types of opponents commonly faced in negotiations. It also explains how to appeal to the emotions of these opponents, how to use goodwill to succeed, and how to gain and use negotiating power. Finally, this course covers some good and bad negotiating habits and some methods of controlling the negotiating process. |
- Closing the Deal
| | Expected Duration: | 4 hours | Description: This course explains how to get past emotional blocks into the final stages of offers and counteroffers to close a negotiation. |
- Everday Negotiations
| | Expected Duration: | 4 hours | Description: This course examines some common negotiating situations to apply general negotiating techniques. |
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Overview, Disclosures, and Reporting
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been called the single most important piece of legislation affecting corporate governance, financial disclosure, and the practice of public accounting since the U.S. securities laws of the early 1930s. This course will provide the learner with an overview of the Act, including changes in disclosure and reporting requirements that have resulted from it. |
- Standards, Regulations, and Penalties
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been called the single most important piece of legislation affecting corporate governance, financial disclosure, and the practice of public accounting since the U.S. securities laws of the early 1930s. This course will provide the learner with an overview of the Act, including changes in listing requirements and penalties for noncompliance that have resulted from it. |
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- Why Can't We All Just Get Along
| | Expected Duration: | .25 hours | Description: This course introduces learners to thinking and talking about sexual harassment in the workplace. Using conversational language, it humanizes the discussion while outlining primary concepts such as types of harassment, recommended responses, and the information that is important for claims evaluation. |
- Defining Sexual Harassment
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides an introduction to the legislation currently dedicated to this topic, on both the federal and the state levels. It shows the learner how sexual harassment is characterized and helps identify the types of harassment that can occur in the workplace. This course also includes a List of state FEPA agencies. |
- Preventing Sexual Harassment
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course shows how sexual harassment can manifest in the workplace and adversely affect the environment, and investigates how situations can be perceived differently by those involved. It also explores ways to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, including the steps an employer can take to create a sexual harassment policy. |
- Responding to Sexual Harassment
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course educates employees about the causes and effects of sexual harassment in the work environment. It looks at elements that define behavior as harassment, methods that can be used to prevent it, as well as ways to deal with the situation if it happens. |
Stress Management
- Stress on the Job
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides information on the signs of workplace stress and the assumptions workers make that can increase stress. You will also learn about methods that can be utilized to reduce or eliminate stress on the job. |
- Resisting Stress
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: In this course, you'll learn methods for reducing workplace stress including breathing techniques, exercises, and increasing your level of self-awareness. |
- Assertiveness
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course describes how assertiveness relates to stress reduction. You will learn how to respond assertively at work and in your personal life. |
- Coping with Anger
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description: This course provides information on the nature of anger and the elements that contribute to it. You'll also learn tips on reducing feelings of anger, which will, in turn, lower your stress level. |
Teams That Work
- Building Effective Teams
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides valuable information about building teams from drafting the initial team charter to making teamwork part of the corporate culture. |
- Leading Effective Teams
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course provides valuable information about leading a team. It covers topics ranging from developing leadership and effective communication skills to dealing with team conflict, making decisions, and recognizing performance. |
Time Management Fundamentals
- Evaluating and Improving Time Management
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course helps learners evaluate how they're currently spending their time in the office. This benefits learners by helping them establish the fundamentals of their time management plan. |
- Organizing Tasks and Creating Uninterupted Time
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course helps learners organize their tasks and prioritize their goals. This benefits learners by helping them establish the fundamentals of their time management plan. |
- Managing Meetings
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course shows learners how to control the length and effectiveness of meetings. This helps the learner work with co-workers, superiors, and subordinates more efficiently and effectively. |
- Managing Workload
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description: This course shows learners how to handle communications and correspondence as well as how to avoid procrastination. This benefits the learner by providing concrete examples of good time management practices that are applicable to the learner’s work. |
- Managing Time with Co-Workers
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description: This course helps learners develop communication skills. This benefits learners by helping them make the most of their interactions with colleagues, subordinates, and supervisors. |
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