Installing applications on Windows computers is a varied experience. Sometimes it requires downloading an installer from a website, other times we can install from the Windows Store. In many cases the installer requires user interaction on multiple input screens. If you’re looking for a consistent and reliable way to install Windows applications, the Chocolatey package manager might just be what you’re looking for. In this course, Walt Ritscher details the many useful things this command line application installer for Windows can do for you. Unlike manual installations, Chocolatey adds, updates, and uninstalls programs in the background, requiring little user interaction. Walt explores how to use Chocolatey in PowerShell, and also covers the Boxstarter application, a tool that leverages Chocolatey to automate the installation of software and create repeatable, scripted Windows environments.

Learn how to create and manage apps with SCCM and prepare for Microsoft certification exam 70-703. See how to deploy apps using PowerShell scripts, and deploy App-V virtual apps.

Are you juggling your professional and family life, taking up slack for absent colleagues, and worrying about your job security? It’s a lot, and if you’re not careful, burnout can take hold. In this audio-only course adapted from the Modern Mentor podcast, Rachel Cooke teaches you how to protect yourself from workplace burnout and feelings of being overwhelmed, no matter your personal circumstances. Rachel helps you normalize the idea that burnout happens and provides key tools to support yourself and your colleagues through challenging times. She identifies common signs of burnout and emphasizes how you can check in with yourself. She also shares practical changes you can make at work and at home, as well as the available, helpful resources you can tap into.

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Become an effective manager. Learn the foundational management skills required to achieve business goals and help your team succeed.

Get two new management tips and learn to improve communication, increase motivation, deal with conflict, and build better relationships.

Get two-minute tips on the most important management topics: assertiveness, negotiation, time management, project management, and presentation skills.

Managing a team, particularly a team of people from different backgrounds, generations, and cultures, is challenging enough. But in a situation like a global pandemic, the rate of change in workplaces is unlike anything seen before, and leaders and managers need to deal with challenges they’ve never dealt with previously. The entire structures of teams and organizations are constantly changing, yet managers are still expected to perform at a high level. In this course, chartered psychologist Gemma Leigh Roberts provides coaching techniques to help your team focus on performance and productivity in a constantly changing environment. She explains different coaching models to help teams set and reach performance goals, provides tips for coaching across cultures and generations, and recommends practices you can use to build your coaching skills.

Learn how to use economics to make better business decisions. Explore economic theories to strategize and solve business problems from demand and competition to pricing products.

If you work in corporate finance or make financial decisions for your organization, this course can help you improve your decision making through a solid understanding of managerial finance. In this course, accounting professors Jim and Kay Stice break down the various aspects of managerial finance. Managerial finance combines finance and managerial accounting to provide information for making decisions. Jim and Kay explain different types of financial statements, financial ratios, and ratio analysis. They go over ways to manage working capital, as well as long-term decisions that require your attention. After explaining capital structure and factors that influence it, Jim and Kay conclude with a discussion of currency exchange rates, international financing, and multinational income taxes.

Most adults spend the bulk of their waking hours at work. Why not leverage that time to improve their health and well-being? In this course, instructor Laura Putnam covers the business case for well-being and the critical role that managers play in empowering employees to engage with their well-being. Laura points out that wellness increases team performance and explains how you, as a manager, hold a unique role in persuading your team to engage with wellness. She shows you how to monitor your own well-being and your team’s. Laura also provides a template for every manager to create a positive multiplier effect for their team members.

Learn about the key skills and practices required to successfully manage a cross-functional team.

Leverage the new developments facing contact centers to set up your organization for success. Learn how to plan your resources effectively, leverage quality metrics, and more.

Discover how to lead customer service teams to excellence and greatness.

Learn how to manage, counsel, and lead a diverse team in order to foster their best performance.

Learn how to lead a team comprised of four or five generations: traditionalists, baby boomers, Gen Xers, millennials, and Gen Zers.

Follow along with project management experts Bonnie Biafore and John Riopel as they share their tips for recording actual values in Microsoft Project.

Learn easy-to-use commands, features, and functions for managing and analyzing large amounts of data in Excel 2019 and Excel for Office 365.

Work with, manage, and lead a technical team with confidence. Learn how to quickly get up to speed with your team's work, communicate effectively with technical people, and more.

Learn how to manage your anxiety and be more effective and successful at work.

Learn how to manage app secrets in ASP.NET Core using Secret Manager and Azure Key Vault.