Learn how to cultivate the communication practices of high-performing teams. Discover how to establish a team charter, communicate in different settings, and more.

Compare the most popular project management approaches—agile and waterfall—to decide which one is right for your organization.

Learn how to be a more honest, kind, and direct communicator. Arianna Huffington and Joey Hubbard discuss the art of compassionate directness.

One of the most underrated skills a leader can demonstrate is compassion. Compassionate leaders are proven to foster more trust and respect for their teams, which increases their ability to have success. In this course, Dr. Melissa Steach details the building blocks of exercising compassion as a leader. She shares a fundamental understanding of what compassion in the workplace means, how to demonstrate compassion without compromise, and how leaders can foster compassionate environments for their teams. Melissa covers the physical, interpersonal, and emotional needs of employees, as well as how to communicate the benefits of compassionate leadership to your team.

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Get bite-sized, immediately applicable tips for building confidence in the moments that matter.

Learn how to successfully manage the most difficult negotiations, including those with multiple parties and multiple offers.

Discover tips and tricks from a complex project to help you successfully complete yours. Review a case study that offers valuable lessons on how to avoid costly problems.

Learn what it takes to put together a corporate training program that's engaging, effective, and memorable.

Composite manufacturing is no longer an enigma of high-level industrial fabrication. The migration of composite material has inserted itself into consumer products from automobile interiors to cell phone cases to sporting equipment. In this three-part series, carbon fiber product designer and fabricator Aram Goganian presents an essential guide on composite design and manufacturing, detailing the building of an actual consumer product—in this case a balance bike—from composite design to the finished product. This first course covers composite material basics and carbon fiber manufacturing methodologies. Aram details carbon fiber as a material, how it’s manufactured, how it’s processed, and the different styles of manufacturing with it. By the end of this course, you’ll have a better understanding of the material and how to best use it.

Composite materials are now found in everything from automobile interiors to cell phone cases to sporting equipment. It is critical for product designers to be able to incorporate composite materials into their design. In this three-part series, carbon fiber product designer and fabricator Aram Goganian presents an essential guide to building a composite-based consumer product—in this case a carbon-fiber balance bike. The second course focuses on composite design configuration and simulation, showcasing a single-sided mold with wash-out tooling, a closed mold with a thermoplastic epoxy, and pre-preg materials. By showing the design process in action, Aram provides guidance for part fabrication and final product validation. Discover how to build your model, validate your design concept and make updates to the design, and finalize the design, complete with a fully visualized surface finish. Plus, learn how to create detailed analysis or manufacturing.

In this three-part Composite Design and Manufacturing series, carbon fiber product designer and fabricator Aram Goganian presents an essential guide on composite design and manufacturing, detailing the building of an actual consumer product—in this case a balance bike—from composite design to the finished product. This third course in the series presents the final design workflow management and the integration of supplemental component additions that affect the end-product production plan. Aram shows how to use tools like CFD solvers to finalize the wind flow to make sure that the part is designed correctly, and how to use composite simulation tools to make sure that the parts are laid up correctly and structurally sound. He finishes the course by showing how to make the mold, produce and test the parts, and get the product out the door.

Creating and rendering a 3D scene is a tall task. But what happens when you need to make adjustments after render time? In this course, instructor Ryan McCauley shows you how to use AOVs to correctly composite a 3D scene for flexibility and finalizing. Ryan explains some important basics of AOV. Using a real-world example of a 15-second spot, he covers Multipass rendering out of Cinema 4D, including EXR multi-layer workflow and setting up AOVs properly in Redshift. Ryan steps you through rebuilding the beauty pass, fine-tuning to get the look you want in your final shot, and making revisions. He also touches on compositing stills in Photoshop, as well as advanced compositing techniques for both Fusion and After Effects.

Learn how to create an animated promo video that helps visualize how a mobile app will be used on a real device, using this screen replacement workflow in After Effects.

Acclaimed Nuke instructor Steve Wright shows how to create a show-stopping sci-fi force field using NUKE.

Join acclaimed instructor Steve Wright to learn how to create an otherworldly alien portal with NUKE, and discover valuable compositing, camera tracking, and lighting techniques.

Learn the techniques for compositing product photography in Photoshop, including swapping backgrounds and label art.

Get a glimpse behind the scenes of a real-world commercial made with After Effects—and learn advanced techniques for compositing text and video.

Enhance your NUKE compositing skills as you tackle a fun project. Learn how to use the software's keying, color correction, and effects tools to make a zombie rise from the grave.

Discover how to compress video and get it ready for publishing in Compressor, and learn about key compression concepts, from transcoding to codec types.

Boost your IT career by getting CompTIA A+ certified. Learn what it takes to ace the two required CompTIA A+ exams: Core 1 (220-1001) and Core 2 (220-1002).