Looking to get started with Final Cut Pro X? This course can help. Join instructor Nick Harauz as he demonstrates how to create your first video using the popular video editing software. After discussing the foundations of video editing, Nick details how to import and navigate through your footage, trim clips, and connect clips together in a timeline. He then shares how to add transitions, titles, and effects, as well as change the speed and color of your clips. To wrap up, he shows how to share your final project with the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

How does the change management methodology that you may be using fit in with agile project execution and delivery? Instructor Christina Charenkova shows you real examples of applying change management practices in an agile context. Christina discusses change management focus areas on an agile project and how change management adds value to an agile delivery. She steps through the actions required to build a high-level overview of the upcoming organizational change, then goes over how to analyze impacted teams and individuals as part of a sprint cycle planning. Christina covers how to adapt the project’s change management approach and how to integrate change management activities into the agile sprint cycles. She concludes with a challenge to integrate change management activities into the agile sprint cycles and adapt the approach to suit a rapid turnaround timeframe.

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

Jira is one of the leading project management software solutions across multiple industries, and this Managing Jira Projects series from Atlassian University teaches you how to create, configure, and maintain projects in Jira Cloud, as well as partner effectively with Jira Administrators. This first course in the series gets you started on two key topics: managing projects, and managing roles and permissions in Jira. The course describes how to manage projects, lists the components of a Jira project, details how to identify permissions, and covers how to assign project roles.

Note: To check out other Atlassian University courses about Jira workflows, reporting, automation, and more, click here.

Learn how to configure and manage a Jira board, then dive into how boards and projects relate to each other. Discover how to manage issues and move them between projects, as well as why it’s important to track business and agile metrics for your projects. Plus, walk through how to create dashboards and how to attach gadgets to them.

Note: To check out other Atlassian University courses about Jira workflows, reporting, automation, and more, click here.

How does Jira automation work, and what other concepts, features, and configurations can you employ to use Jira more effectively? In this course—the third in the Managing Jira Projects series—discover the core elements of Jira automation and automate some of the work in your Jira project. Learn how to alter your kanban board. Then explore other concepts and features like shared configuration, running parallel sprints, and facilitating agile at scale. Find out how to create and configure next-gen projects, including controlling access, adding issues, and customizing project features.

Note: This course can help prepare you for the Managing Jira Cloud Projects certification exam. To learn more about how to earn your first Atlassian credential, click here. To check out other Atlassian University courses about Jira workflows, reporting, automation, and more, click here.

Project teams are starting to head back into the office. With team members returning at different times—and with their own unique concerns and needs—the project environment is even more uncertain than usual. Given this new normal, project managers will need to negotiate project objectives along with the psychological safety of team members. In this course, instructor Cyndi Snyder Dionisio provides project managers with tips for taking care of themselves and their team members during this transition back to the office. Get tips for assessing the physical, practical, and psychological concerns that may define your organization’s new way of working. Review strategies for keeping projects on track while still being flexible in an environment of uncertainty. Plus, learn how to keep yourself healthy and resilient as you tackle these and other challenges.

Being an effective manager can be challenging enough in a face-to-face setting, but as more people are shifting to working remotely, managers have to change their mindsets and methods. You can no longer pop over and connect with your team or have impromptu chats. In this course, leadership coach Dr. Mary Jean Vignone teaches how to be the best possible manager in a remote work environment. Mary Jean leverages her two decades of managing virtual teams into a 15-step program that shows how to create a sense of community, build an inclusive culture that spans virtual workspaces, and shares values, goodwill, and ideas. She shows you how to adapt your leadership style and voice to a virtual space, fostering a trusting and supportive environment that sets your remote teams up for success. While a virtual workplace can be a very enriching environment, it won't happen organically. After completing this course, you will be better prepared to navigate this changing work landscape.

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

Learn how to manage projects with time constraints and fast-track schedules with Microsoft Project. In this course, join expert project manager John Riopel as he shows how to verify project schedules by checking task links, checking lag between tasks, removing unnecessary date constraints, and more. Then see how to review the schedule and display the critical path, use multiple critical paths, and find incomplete paths. Next, find out how to shorten the schedule by fast-tracking tasks, shortening lag time, using crashing, reducing scope, and assigning overtime. Finally, learn how to best execute the schedule, setting a baseline and entering actuals for the project.

Note: This course was designed in collaboration with author Bonnie Biafore.

Career transitions, whether planned or unexpected, trigger a barrage of time-sensitive financial planning questions. How much money do you need to fund your bottom line? What steps can you take to maintain health insurance coverage between jobs? In this course, longtime financial adviser Winnie Sun answers these questions and more, providing practical advice designed to help you survive a gap in income triggered by a layoff or career change. Discover how to leverage your assets during a transition, get your spending under control, and create a financial first-aid kit designed to help you plan your next steps. Plus, learn how to use COBRA to keep your insurance, roll over retirement funds, and start a new job with renewed financial goals.

In a job search, your mindset can be your biggest asset or your most glaring liability. A negative mindset can sabotage your job search, and seasoned interviewers can often sniff out a lack of confidence not just in person, but through email, text, or over the phone. A positive mindset is the foundation of a successful job search, and in this course, Kelley Biskupiak and Susan Rietano Davey cover effective strategies for developing and sustaining the proper mental state to propel you forward as you seek your next position. They show you how to create your best physical and mental space, calm your body, ask questions with confidence, and how to build resilience and bounce back from missteps.

For many of us who are not financial professionals, worrying about money and saving for the future can be a chore. In this course, financial expert Jane Barratt shows how opportunities arise when you change your attitude towards money. She walks you through the basics of personal finance—earning, spending, saving, and investing—with an eye for finding opportunities to enrich your life. She addresses such questions as: How can you earn more? What are the different types of income? How can you use tax season as a benchmark for planning and goal setting? How do you budget? What is the value of money and what are the smartest approaches for savings and investing? All of this and more is covered in this beginner's course in personal finance.

Having a sales process is critical to a salesperson's success. But a process isn't enough if you don't follow it on each and every call. Turning your sales process into a habit that feels natural is the key. In this course, CEO and author Jeff Bloomfield helps you create a sales process that is easy to follow, keeps you on track, and helps consistently close sales. He teaches you the difference between a sales process and sales methodology and shows how to close the gap between philosophy and strategy. He then helps you define and map your sales process—from understanding your buyer to reporting results—and set the expectations for the actual conversation: what you should know, do, say, and show. Follow along and learn how to create your own winning formula to turn prospects into customers—one step at a time.

Getting a small business off the ground is a feat in itself. But once you've made your business idea a reality, you're faced with an array of new challenges which—if managed improperly—can dominate your time and prevent you from achieving greater success. In this course, learn strategies and techniques for running a small to medium business with confidence. Join Naomi Simson—the founder of RedBalloon and a Shark Tank Australia judge—as she shares key lessons that can help you define your purpose and values, establish a framework for success, and promote your business in a smart, cost-effective manner.

Research shows that today’s leaders are suffering from poor well-being and mental health issues more so than ever before. Too often, they put the needs of the business or their team before their own needs. But, much like airline pre-flight instructions to “put your oxygen mask on first, before helping others,” leaders need to take a similar approach by managing their own well-being first. By doing so, they can become role models for their employees and build stronger team relationships that lead to better health and productivity outcomes. In this course, New York Times bestselling author, researcher, and workplace expert Dan Schawbel gives leaders the inspiration, advice, and real-world examples to guide them on their journey to better well-being.

If you’re a modern-day marketer, you’re not going to get by with just numbers, charts, and graphs anymore. In addition to your quantitative data, you need to learn what your customers really want. In short, you need to know your customers. You have to know what’s going to motivate and drive them, what they’re feeling as they’re making buying decisions, interacting with your products, or engaging with your brand. In this course, market research expert and best-selling author Sarah Weise walks you through the best practices and processes of gathering qualitative research, and how it should fit in with your marketing strategies. Sarah’s tactical course shows how to conduct a new research project, and covers topics like interviews, focus groups, diary studies, and ethnography. She also gives guidance on selecting the right methodology for your research and tips on moderating your groups.