Tropical destinations offer a wealth of photographic opportunities, from lush forests to waterfalls to dramatic foliage. In this course, join photographer and educator Justin Reznick as he showcases these and other options. With the breathtaking Hawaiian island of Maui as the backdrop, Justin explains how to protect your gear in humid, tropical settings and shows how to convey the essence of tropical scenes. He also discusses lens choices, compositional considerations, post-processing, and more.

This course navigates the intricate, ever-evolving landscape of pay-per-click advertising and describes how to leverage it for effective lead generation. Amy Bishop guides you through the multi-channel strategy-building process, including key topics like building your data sources, selecting your channels, and leveraging targeting strategies. Amy covers the critical step of coordinating your lead generation campaigns across multiple channels, as well as projecting performance and defining campaign budgets. She outlines the concepts and shares the tactical tips you need to design, execute, and measure an effective multi-channel PPC strategy for lead generation.

If you're not providing timely and effective feedback, you are not being the best leader that you can be. In this course, leadership expert Linda Croyle explains how to give feedback that delivers results. Linda covers what makes feedback unique, why it's important, and why it can be so difficult. She discusses the brain science of feedback, including how our brains learn and why we are wired to connect to each other. Linda describes communication patterns in feedback and how to identify your own patterns and clearly understand others’ patterns. She goes into how to avoid bias in your feedback and how feedback can help you improve solid relationships, become an effective advocate, and build trust. She concludes with helpful tips on how you can give and receive feedback correctly.

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

Lead with intention using the leadership tips, tactics, and advice in this audio-only course. Lisa Earle McLeod and Elizabeth Lotardo explain how to develop a leadership mindset, thrive in crucial leadership moments and challenges, and build a winning team. Discover how to master the leadership opportunities you have at every turn: to set direction, build a strong team, and make a lasting impact on your entire organization. By the end of this course, you'll learn how to manage your mindset and behaviors to be a leader others will want to follow.

A person's thoughts, feelings, and actions, taken together, form a pattern psychologists call "personality." As a leader, you deal with so many personalities daily. To be an effective leader, you need to know how to motivate, lead, and persuade these diverse personalities. In this course, instructor Kwame Christian—business lawyer, Director of the American Negotiation Institute, and host of the Negotiate Anything podcast—steps through how to gain the skills you need to lead and motivate anyone on your team. Kwame explains how understanding personality and motivation can help you lead and manage. He goes over ways you can successfully influence and lead individuals with recognized personality traits. Kwame goes in-depth on how you can motivate people with different personal motivations. He concludes with a discussion on how combining personality and motivation gives you the leverage to create new and better results with your team.

Erin Shrimpton—business psychologist, coach, and expert in organizational behavior—helps you change the workplace experience on your team for the better. Erin first defines organizational culture and shows how you can put all of organizational culture into perspective to work on improving experiences. People are more likely to get behind change when they're the ones driving it. Erin teaches you about participatory action and how to start your culture change plan. Then, Erin walks you through a five-step plan designed to help you make culture changes that stick. Learn how to define a shared vision, analyze data to diagnose the aspects of culture you're trying to change, set up culture squads to create solutions to the issues you've identified, and more. Plus, Erin shares some thoughts on why culture change initiatives at the team level are such meaningful work.

The shift to remote work has created a need for new management skills. Remote work is here to stay. In this audio-only course, find out how to lead effectively from anywhere. Learn how to develop a shared team purpose, build a team culture of respect and trust, manage your team members’ performance remotely, run virtual meetings, and provide meaningful feedback to your team members. Plus, learn about the history of remote work. If you thought it was a new thing, you’re in for a fascinating lesson!

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Global leadership is a step up in complexity from traditional leadership. In this course, instructor Kevan Hall introduces the five key hurdles global leaders need to understand and overcome to lead a global team or organisation successfully. He outlines the key challenges and provides ideas on how to overcome them. The first challenge that Kevan discusses is the need to manage people across distance, in multiple locations, with limited face-to-face time. He then covers how to interpret and manage cultural differences and how to plan for and create successful communication across different regions and time zones. He discusses the challenge of navigating and managing a more complex global “matrixed” operating environment. Kevan concludes with advice on how you can systematically improve your global leadership approach.

As a leader, it’s up to you to keep your team or organization afloat. That’s challenging enough when everything is mostly going right, but sometimes things go wrong. In this course, executive coach Kathy Klotz-Guest guides you through the intersecting world of improvisation and business. Kathy explains how improvisation can help you lead more effectively, whatever your business environment, and shows you how to build space for the psychological safety that’s key for high-performing people, teams, and cultures. She covers how to use the tools of improv to lead through moments of uncertainty, as well as sharing strategies to transform elements of fear into courage and opportunities for growth. The truth is, you’re already an improviser, because you adapt and make choices every day. This course helps you to keep improving those skills and start responding deftly to any challenge today.

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

The path to success isn’t always linear, but strategic leading is the key that defines exceptional leaders. Drawing from nearly 30 years’ experience as a business owner, professor Eric Zackrison shows you how to move past common leadership pitfalls to create lasting organizational change. In this course, Eric shows how to set the groundwork for better decision-making and execution, creating a roadmap for change that’s guided by organizational needs and responsive to competitive forces. He explains how to persuade stakeholders to follow your lead and build support for change by integrating modern techniques of influence into your leadership, and shows ways to narrow down decision-making options and build in checkpoints to ensure your plans and solutions have staying power. After this course, you’ll be better prepared to lead your team through unexpected challenges, and confidently pivot from where you are to where you should be.

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

Feeling like everything is out of control is incredibly frustrating, and the problem only intensifies when you’re in a position of leadership. Multiple people look to you to lead them through the crisis, and you can’t just walk away from the challenge. Those moments, when everything is going wrong, represent a true time of chaos. But in this course, Joanne Simon-Walters shows you all the ways you can still find and make order, even in disaster and disorder. Joanne walks you through how to invoke creativity in moments of chaos and how to develop the traits of a creative leader. She teaches a creative problem-solving process, and shares the principles and strategies of sensemaking. Chaotic and surprising situations can feel totally out of control, but there are ways to maintain a positive mindset for yourself and your team. Take this course to get started learning them today.

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

As a leader, developing a growth mindset is key to your success. The way you overcome challenges, build relationships, and cultivate a positive culture all stems from your mental agility. In this course, instructor Karen Allen shows you how to strengthen your greatest asset: your mindset. As she explains, your mindset is how you see life and forms the basis for how you live and treat others. Karen illustrates how leaders who operate with a growth mindset create a thriving work environment that fosters more innovation, collaboration, and compassion. Throughout the course, she shows how to focus your mindset to make your brain stronger, and gives you the skills and techniques to help you build a growth mindset to improve your communication, develop other members of your team, and build a culture of trust.

Leaders, like everyone else, are humans first. Your humanity makes you a better leader, but it can be difficult to know how to best guide others when faced with your own personal and emotional challenges. How can leaders honor their needs and still serve their organizations and teams? Identify key ways to lead others when you are struggling—and turn your experience into the basis for more authentic leadership and a better environment for your teams. Executive and growth leader Kat Cole explains how to confront reality, identify what’s in your control, and be open with your team. These inspiring lessons can help you reframe your challenges and feelings as an integral part of your life’s journey, your career, and the example you set for others.

Be a leader that can rise to challenges. Captain Sandra Yawn is a world-renowned captain with over 28 years of experience. Yawn’s love of the ocean propelled her to achieve in a male-dominated industry. In this course, Captain Yawn tells her personal stories and defines the qualities that make up a great captain and overall leader. Discover how to hire and manage teams and how to delegate tasks. Sandy encourages you to create a strong leadership framework so that you can find solutions to the most difficult problems and situations that arise—and understand how to navigate clients to ensure top-level customer service while maintaining your cool. As an exciting bonus element to the course, you can learn about Sandy’s favorite destinations and her go-to travel advice.

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

Join inclusion strategist, Harvard-trained-lawyer, author and instructor, Vernā Myers, to learn how to grow a more inclusive workplace and become an ally in and out of the office. Vernā explains what an ally is and who can be an ally. She shows you the link between inclusion, equity, and allyship and describes the importance of allyship as a business practice that starts from the top down. Vernā lists ways allies behave in the workplace, shows you how to identify opportunities to be an ally, explains how allyship can shape your community then walks you through some misconceptions about allyship. Your course concludes with some final takeaways to lead your org on a journey of allyship.

Job instruction (JI) is a fundamental element of lean. It is a streamlined method of instruction that will help you transfer knowledge from instructor to learner more quickly and easily than conventional training methods. This is done through one-on-one training following a four-step method and using a document called a job breakdown. This course—for JI facilitators—can be used to prepare for your next job instruction course. Ron Pereira and Roger Bilas explain how to develop the job breakdown sheet, create a training timetable, practice effective instruction, and roll JI out in your organization. Using these tips, you can use JI to develop proficiency, prevent defects, eliminate waste, and reduce stress among all your employees.

This course was created by Gemba Academy, a leading provider of lean and Six Sigma training. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Have you ever wanted to create an animated scene, but thought it was too complicated, or just didn’t know where to start? Then try this course from Darrin Lile, as he walks you through the creation of an animated scene using Blender, a free, open-source software. Darrin shares a scene of a spaceship landing in a cargo bay, and then shows you everything that goes into making that scene, from the first polygon to the final render. He details how to import reference images to create 3D models, how to use the Node Editor to create the materials and textures for the 3D objects, and how to build star fields, planets, and cloud layers. He then dives into the animation, starting with the landing gear, and explains how to use the Graph Editor as you bring the ship in for a landing. To finish the animation, Darrin shows you how to mix music and sound effects in the Video Sequence Editor, before executing the final render of the animated scene.

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

Telegram is an emerging technology that is used primarily for messaging. This course gives enterprise developers a point of entry into leveraging Telegram bots to create internal or client-facing tools. Instructor Tom Geller shows you how to check the requirements to host a Telegram bot. He explains what Telegram is, how it's used, and its place in the world of instant messengers. He covers the basic architecture of how a Telegram bot works and how you can browse bots that others have created for ideas. Tom steps through how to notify the Telegram.org servers of your bot. He discusses how to send requests and receive updates. He shows how to direct your bot to perform a greater variety of actions and how to handle multimedia content as easily as text-based content. Tom goes over how to take advantage of certain security features built into the Telegram messaging platform. In conclusion, he shows you how to get further help from others who have built Telegram bots.

Camera movement is vital to creating visually dynamic scenes, but how do you plan your shot? Are there any times you shouldn’t move the camera? What tools do you need? In this course, Director of Photography Matt Nagy discusses basic types of camera movement, planning camera moves, shot composition throughout the movement, and crafting camera movement for the edit. He also covers equipment commonly used to execute camera movements, such as tripods, sliders, jibs, and gimbals, and offers tips and tricks for making fluid and dynamic moves that serve your story.

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

.NET is a programming framework that defies expectations. It's a platform and a runtime environment; it supports cross-platform development but runs primarily on Windows. Regardless, .NET is one of the staple tools for software developers. This introduction is designed to guide new programmers through the basics of the latest version of .NET. Industry expert Reynald Adolphe steps you through everything you need to know to get up and running, describing the Common Language Runtime (CLR), and the Framework class library (FCL) and providing an overview of the differences between .NET 4.6 and .NET Core. He demos different IDEs you can use to code in .NET, including Visual Studio, and shows how to create basic apps for four different project types: ASP.NET MVC, Windows Presentation Foundation, Console, and Web API. Plus, learn about popular C# features and testing methodologies, as well as different deployment methods for .NET apps.