What happens when creatives have to perform under pressure? There is no universal way to find inspiration, yet designers still need to deliver. In this course, join Von Glitchka as he shares a methodical approach for generating design ideas, from rough concept to polished product, that allows for spontaneity along the way. Explore your personal style and see how to establish scope with specific deliverables. Learn about generating quotes, defining your client's goals and target audience, and considering the styles that best suit a solution. Discover how to go from the essence-capturing ideation stage to the more practical work of constructing vector artwork, composing type with design elements, handling client feedback, and more. Then, learn how to create a brand standards style guide, built assets that clients can use for promotion on social media, and finalize your projects.

Review the major features of SAP Cloud Platform, the SAP collection of cloud-based services including analytics, AI, DevOps, security, and more. In this course, you can learn what the SAP Cloud Platform is and how it fits into an enterprise architecture by understanding the key use cases. Plus, learn how to set up your own free trial account of the SAP Cloud Platform so you can experience the services for yourself.

This course was created by Michael Management. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Do you work in audio recording, loop-based songwriting, or synth and sound design? Are you looking for a kickstart to learn to work effectively with Ableton Live? In this course, music professor Rick Schmunk walks you through all the essentials of using Ableton Live 11. Rick shows you how to set up your system and use the Ableton Live user interface. He explains how to work with the browser, the Arrangement view, and the Session view. After going over how to use the MIDI Editor, how to record and edit audio, and how to work with arrangements, Rick covers plug-ins, effects racks, the live mixer, and mapping. Then he demonstrates how to make your life easier by automating graphics, editing, and clips, including real-time automation. Rick concludes with some practical advice on managing your files.

The most skilled programmers don't always make it to the top rung of the career ladder. Becoming a high-performing software engineer with opportunities for career growth requires strong collaboration and communication skills in addition to technical skills. In this course, instructor Janan Siam focuses on building those skills using real-world scenarios that are relevant to the day-to-day work of software engineers. Learn how to collaborate with a variety of cross-functional teams—from product management to QA—to find solutions to problems that impact your larger organization. Discover how to help your teammates innovate and take more calculated risks by creating a culture of psychological safety, as well as help yourself cope with conflict, stress, and burnout by developing your emotional intelligence. Plus, learn how to make your voice heard by enhancing your communication skills.

Job growth and technological innovation often flourish after times of great hardship. Will businesses see that same growth as we enter the post-pandemic era? Whether or not the past is prologue, the time has come for organizations to shift their focus from managing a remote workforce and reducing costs to rethinking their business entirely. In this course, learn how to build a more resilient business by leaning into your company's digital transformation. Instructor Laura Merling guides you through a modern, pragmatic path for long-term growth. Learn about the pillars of an innovation organization, how to empower a B2C experience for your B2B customers, how to approach data monetization, and more.

It may seem counterintuitive to think that costs actually add value to a project. However, accurately projecting your costs and the resources they’re actually costing can determine the overall success of your project or investment. In this course, CPA Ajay Pangarkar shows you how to develop a cost estimate for all types of organizations. When major decisions need to be made, stakeholders want as much information as possible, and Ajay covers topics like looking at the various data types associated with cost estimating, how to report cost estimates, and tips for keeping the cost estimate accurate by validating data. After completing this course, you’ll be able use cost estimates to deliver more value in your projects, and do so within the cost limitations imposed by company leadership.

If you run a business, you probably want your business to have as broad a market as possible, which means, ideally, conducting business in multiple countries. Of course, having a business that’s active in a global, interconnected economy brings with it a whole slew of accounting challenges. How do you keep track of credits and debits when you’re dealing with US dollars, euros, British pounds, Japanese yen, and more? In this course, accounting experts Jim Stice and Kay Stice dive into how conducting business across national borders creates finance and accounting challenges that don’t exist when all business is done locally. Lenders, investors, and borrowers need to communicate using a common financial language. Jim and Kay show how additional operating, investing, financing, legal, and social risks are introduced when a company buys, sells, borrows, or invests across national borders.

While working in accounting or the broader financial field is often centered around numbers, dollars, and other known quantities, there can often be a lot of questions when you step back from the figures and calculations and ask the “why” of doing what you’re doing. For example, why does the income statement show the amount of net income that it shows? Or, what is the revenue recognition principle? In this course, Denise Probert explores the US GAAP, or General Applied Accounting Principles, the guiding backbone to the work of accounts in the US. Denise shows you the key things to know, where to get additional resources, and how these apply to working as an accountant or CPA.

Do you dread your annual performance review? In this course, instructors Ora Shtull and William Arruda teach you how to stop being a passive participant in your annual review and start being a powerful player in it. They walk you through a three-step process: own it, drive it, and ace it. You’ll learn what you need to do before, during, and even after the review to stand out and position yourself for promotion and a salary increase. You’ll discover how to deepen your relationship with your boss and be recognized by them for your achievements and goals. With this short course, you’ll be ready to ace your next review!

Note: This course was created by CareerBlast.TV. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

A common trait among top performers in any field is that they do well because they proactively plan out how to spend their energy. They know their goals and what they need to do to achieve them. In this audio-only course adapted from the How to Be Awesome at Your Job podcast, Pete Mockaitis talks to Molly Fletcher—a CEO, entrepreneur, and one of the first female sports agents—about how to masterfully manage your energy to accomplish your best work. Molly explains techniques for managing your energy with clarity and intention in order to perform at the highest level. She covers topics like the key to better energy management, smart ways to beat burnout, and why self-care shouldn’t make you feel guilty. By managing your energy better, you’ll be able to perform better, solve problems better, and serve your customers better.

This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Many of us are fascinated by identifying and categorizing types of people, whether it’s an online quiz or a professional assessment. Over 2,000,000 people a year take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, for example. But it's not enough to be able to categorize people as personality types. The real strength is in gaining an understanding to help better your leadership, relationships, and teams. In this course, Dr Eric Zackrison teaches leaders who want to become more effective and impactful to harness the power of behavioral assessments and the knowledge they provide. He shows just why understanding your team’s—and your own—behavioral styles is so important, as well as how to select the right assessment tool and avoid common pitfalls when using it. Eric also takes a deep dive into the Interpersonal Dynamics Inventory, including its key types and how to harness the power of a variety of personality types, so you can ultimately become a more responsive and knowledgeable leader.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Addiction is a public health issue that impacts us both at work and at home. But while this problem is widespread, the stigma surrounding addiction can make seeking help a challenge. This brief course was designed to help demystify addiction and provide employees with strategies, tools, and resources for helping themselves and others in their community.

Dr. Srini Pillay, a Harvard-trained psychologist, details the difference between recreational behavior and addiction to help you determine whether you or someone you know should seek help. Dr. Pillay shares how to address addiction in yourself or an employee, as well as how to appraise what level of care you or others need and when to approach specific care providers. He explains how addiction can also be present in our relationships with work, technology, food, shopping, and other seemingly benign areas of life. Plus, he helps you evaluate the merits of mobile apps and other new approaches for managing addiction.

Resin 3D printers use light to harden liquid resin layer by layer. Resin printers offer higher resolution than most filament-based printing, and are used in everything from moldmaking to dental applications. Now, access to affordable and reliable resin 3D printers has created new opportunities in additive manufacturing. In this course, you can learn all about the capabilities these tools have to offer and discover how to tune your workflow to get the most out of your machine. Instructor Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron show how to resolve the unique design and fabrication challenges when working with resin printers, helping you get a good print every time.

3D printing has become more common in commercial applications, both for one-off custom parts and at scale. There are tradeoffs between using familiar general-purpose simulation tools to model bulk material properties of 3D prints and using specialized or proprietary software designed for additively manufactured parts. In this course, instructors Rich Cameron and Joan Horvath explore issues that arise when creating an additively-manufactured part, from the design stage through simulation, fabrication, testing, and validation. They review the rapidly-changing landscape of standards development, such as the evolution from STL files into formats such as 3MF. Joan and Rich include case studies from users ranging from those who just want to avoid having to make a print twice to those needing formal certification in regulated industries. The authors compare the costs and limitations of different approaches being taken in this space today, so that you can make your own informed choices.

3D printing has come a long way, but there are still many things that can derail the printing process. This course helps you avoid problems in advance and solve them when they do come up. Rich Cameron and Joan Horvath of Nonscriptum LLC—the maker tech training company—review the most common hardware, filament, part geometry, and software issues and show how to fix them by making changes to the model, orientation, or printer settings. Learn what to do when your print doesn't stick to the print bed; when you see pimples, dimples, or stringing; when your filament jams or nozzle clogs; when you have cooling issues; or when the walls of your print are too thin. Joan and Rich also help identify and fix software-related issues with your host and slicer programs and troubleshoot problems with multiple causes via systematic debugging.

Passing the Microsoft DP-300 certification exam allows job seekers to demonstrate proficiency with next-gen, cloud-based database technologies, and in this Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure (DP-300) Cert Prep series of courses, Adam Wilbert takes you through the key aspects of the exam that you need to know. This first course focuses on the first two components of the exam: Understanding the full breadth of the Azure offerings, and creating and securing those resources. Even if you don’t plan on taking the exam, studying these aspects is still a great way to gain the knowledge and proficiency needed to modernize your organization's database resources.

Adobe Bridge CC is a hard-working component of the Creative Cloud package that can help you manage photos, preview video and audio files, automate repetitive tasks, and—true to its name—serve as a bridge between your Creative Cloud apps.

In this course, Rich Harrington shares a cookbook of Bridge CC tips and techniques, from importing photos to working with raw files to previewing audio and video. Learn how to import and preview images. Organize them with batch renaming, metadata, stacking, cache files, and more. Find out how to work with Raw image files, as well as video, audio, and animation files. Finish up with a series of time-saving tips covering topics such as PDF contact sheets and presentations, accessing functions of other Adobe apps from Bridge, and publishing to Adobe Stock or Adobe Portfolio from Bridge.

Note: This course was created by RHED Pixel. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Adobe Bridge CC is a hard-working component of Creative Cloud that can help you manage photos, preview video and audio files, automate repetitive tasks, and—true to its name—serve as a bridge between your Creative Cloud apps.

In this course, Rich Harrington shares a cookbook of Bridge CC tips and techniques, from culling photos to developing raw files to previewing audio and video. Learn how to review photo sessions with rankings, use stacks to organize media from related sources or shoots, manage the Bridge cache for improved performance, use collections to organize content on multiple hard drives, monetize your work by publishing photos to Adobe Stock, process images with Adobe Camera Raw, save Develop settings for future use, set up HDR and panoramic workflows, preview time-lapse photography and motion graphics, automate PDF and website creation with the add-on Output module, and much more.

Whether you're working on a web project for a customer or an artistic side project, color plays a powerful role in shaping your designs. Adobe Color allows you to explore color in a whole new way, using new tools, an active online community, and even the camera on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. In this course, learn how to build color themes using Adobe Color and apply them in your design projects. Instructor Bart Van de Wiele shows how to create themes using the online color wheel, edit themes, draw inspiration from the Adobe Color community, and use your themes in Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. He also shows how to turn photos into color themes with the Adobe Capture mobile app.

Adobe XD—a UX design platform for creating experiences using an iterative design process—was designed to help make it easier to collaborate on and share your ideas. In this course, part one in the three part series, you’ll learn how to create a variety of screen layouts using native tools within the application, or by importing content from other applications like Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Instructor Dani Beaumont, a principal product manager on the Adobe XD team, shows you how to set up a design project and use the workspace layouts and tools. Dani walks you through all the basics of designing with Adobe XD, then highlights the asset types and text controls that you will need to use. She goes over transformations, techniques you can use for a great layout, and content-aware tools like padding, stacks, and the responsive resize. Dani covers ways to add effects and introduces components and states. Plus, she presents useful advice on organizing your assets.