Course Catalogue

Though businesses increasingly rely on technology, technological skills alone do not guarantee success in the workplace. You must still develop your ideas, express them clearly, and persuade others of their viability. This course offers effective strategies to sharpen your writing skills by structuring your ideas logically, exercising diplomacy in letters and reports, and shaping your arguments. In contemporary business environments, information overload makes it necessary for you to communicate clearly and concisely. Trying to make sense of a disorganized email message can be frustrating given the number of emails you have to answer daily. By analyzing your audience, organizing your writing, and employing effective persuasive techniques, your writing will make an impact.

Time is a form of currency, and the ways you talk about it illustrate its value: people say ?Time is money,? and ?My time was well spent,? or ?It's a waste of time.? Like most professionals, you've probably struggled with managing time effectively. In this course, you will acquire day-to-day time-management tools that will help you more effectively use your time so you can direct your energy towards fulfilling your short- and long-term professional and personal goals. Your time is a precious and limited resource. Too often, you may feel frustrated that there aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish everything you hope to do. Effective time managers enjoy the satisfaction of directing their talents and energy towards productive, goal-centered activities. By identifying improved time

After completing this course, students will be able to: • Communicate more effectively with collaborative writing tools and techniques • Recognize and apply grammatical best practices • Leverage concepts in sentence and paragraph construction • Structure agendas, emails, business proposals, and business reports

In this course, you will build a foundation for coaching, establish a coaching process, execute a coaching plan, and explore strategies for coaching in different business scenarios.

As a customer service representative, you are expected to handle customer interactions in the best way possible. The expectations of both your company and your customers hinge on your ability to provide the right service in the right way. In this course, you will explore the background and techniques of customer interactions.

You have transitioned from an individual contributor to a manager, or as an individual contributor, you've acquired practical skills to enhance your leadership abilities.

To be successful in the workplace, you must be able to effectively communicate and cooperate with coworkers and external people.

To perform the job well, the manager must understand the different roles of everyone involved on the team, and be trained in developing the capabilities of all team members and addressing issues as soon as they surface. In this course you will gain an understanding of the basic fundamentals of becoming an effective manager for your team.

The ability to deliver presentations is vital to achieving advancement for yourself and for your ideas. Few skills in life will contribute to your success as much as presentation skills. Without a dynamic and coherent presentation, even stellar ideas can fail to convince your audience.

. In this course, you'll explore strategies to increase your awareness of your emotions, develop your ability to manage your emotions, and improve your social skills.

Motivation has a profound effect on employees' productivity and performance. An organization improves its likelihood of success by maintaining a motivated work force. As a leader within your organization, you share in the responsibility of motivating your employees.

As a customer service representative, you're expected to handle every customer that comes your way. To be effective, you need not only knowledge of the products or services your company sells, but also people skills that will help you interact with customers in a positive and professional manner.

Effective facilitators know how to take charge of meetings and lead groups toward successfully completing their work objectives.

An organization improves its likelihood of success by effectively managing conflict. As a leader within your organization, you share in that responsibility. This course will help you cultivate the skills necessary to help manage conflict and ultimately to decrease the presence of conflict in the workplace.

You have developed skills to be successful in your field. In this course, you will learn the practical skills you need to be an effective leader in your organization.

Problem-Solving Skills (Second Edition) focuses on eliminating corporate problems. Approaches to problem solving are defined, along with traits of good problem solvers and the company cultures that influence them.

This course is an introduction to Microsoft 365 in a cloud-based environment. Using the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity apps online, users can easily communicate and collaborate through Microsoft Teams messaging and meeting functionality and Outlook email. When you create a team, the Microsoft SharePoint team site provides a central storage location for accessing and modifying shared documents. Each user also receives individual document storage through OneDrive for Business. Teams can provide a central hub for working with shared documents in the familiar apps?Word, PowerPoint, and Excel?as an alternative to installing the Microsoft 365 Desktop applications.

Data is everywhere. Most job roles today involve some form of data management. Virtually everyone is affected in some way by the need to manage data. A relational database application such as Microsoft Office Access can help you and your organization with this task. This course is the first part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access.

In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design,promote quality input from users, improve database efficiency, promote data integrity, implement advanced features in tables, queries, forms, and reports. This course is the second part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access 2019/2021.

This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Access 2019/2021. This course focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs, including import and export of data; using action queries to manage data; creating complex forms and reports; macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.