Seeing people as people dramatically increases productivity at work and in life. Learn more about this surprising skill in this course adapted from How to Be Awesome at Your Job.

Learn how to optimize your meetings with research-based strategies in this audio-only summary of professor Steven G. Rogelberg’s book.

Learn time management and find out how to get into the zone and do your best work with Dr. Christine Carter, bestselling author of The Sweet Spot.

Discover how legendary figures in American culture became so successful and how you can use the lessons they learned to achieve your own goals.

Jeff Weiner has led LinkedIn, the world’s largest network of professionals, for over 10 years. In this course, he shares his take on what it means to be a great leader.

No matter who you are, how wealthy or powerful or healthy you are, you only have 24 hours in a day. Do you often find yourself wondering if you’re spending those hours in the most effective way? Do you live in denial about what you can actually accomplish in any one day? Then check out this audiobook summary of Elizabeth Grace Saunders’ The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment, a practical guide to living a life by design instead of impulse. It provides step-by-step strategies for planning your days around the commitments that really matter to you, setting up effective routines, and finding people to help you stay on track. It also reveals the importance of dealing with emotional baggage like guilt and shame, which can derail even the best-laid plans.

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Approach project management from a new perspective: by exploring what NOT to do. Learn the 10 most common mistakes project managers make and how to avoid them.

Learn about the top challenges facing PMOs—and how to overcome them.

Learn the flaws behind three negotiation-related myths: win win, the need for trust, and getting to yes vs. starting with no. In this course, adapted from the American Negotiation Institute podcast Negotiate Anything, Kwame Christian discusses these common negotiation myths with Allan Tsang, negotiation coach and consultant at Oblinger and Tsang, and explores how to use the truth to your advantage. They discuss examples that show why the myths don’t work in real life and address concerns you may have about challenging conventional wisdom.

This course was created by the American Negotiation Institute. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Photographer and Strobist publisher David Hobby explores what to see, eat, and shoot in Dubai, the ultramodern crown jewel of the United Arab Emirates.

Strobist.com founder David Hobby offers a city-specific vignette that makes a trip to Hong Kong much more accessible, productive, and enjoyable to the first-time photo traveler.

Strobist.com founder David Hobby offers a city-specific vignette that makes a trip to London much more accessible, productive, and enjoyable to the first-time photo traveler.

Take a trip to New York City with traveling photographer David Hobby, as he explains how to take iconic photos of the Big Apple.

Explore the best of what Paris has to offer, from Montparnasse to the Eiffel Tower, and make sure your trip is full of great photographs and even better memories.

Learn how to photograph your journey like a professional, without dispelling any of the magic of the experience, with Strobist.com founder David Hobby.

Become a master networker. Learn where to seek networking opportunities, how to make genuine connections, and what you can do to continually build your networking skills.

Look at your everyday life through the lens of an economist. In this audiobook summary, get an overview of economic systems and how they impact the decisions we make.

How can you make learning a core part of the way you work, and how can you share that across your company? This audio-only course shows you how to establish a learning culture at your company. Most skills only stay relevant for five years, so it’s important to keep learning. Explore teacher tactics to keep learning interesting, as well as how to cultivate an agile learning environment that helps you and your team adapt to a changing world. Find out how to generate employee excitement around learning, provide accessible learning, and demonstrate and promote the value of learning. Plus, discover ways to prove the value of development programs and create a DEAL hour.

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There are no shortcuts for professional graphic design. This course helps clients and designers understand the value of graphic design and have more successful partnerships.

Learn music theory as it applies to the modern electric and acoustic guitar.