Are you missing a critical part of your management skill set? Discover a novel approach to improving your leadership: being more mindful with yourself and your colleagues. Mindful leadership is not a single technique or skill, rather it is masterfully managing yourself moment by moment as you lead others. Learn how to tune into your emotional intelligence, use your compassion, and recognize the verbal and nonverbal cues of those around you. Find out how rigidity can be a detriment to not only you or your team, but your organization, and learn how to embrace the unknown for better flexibility and problem-solving. Explore how your consistent mindful practice can help you bring your full self to any situation.

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

With so many distractions throughout the day—from text messages to email to social media to meetings—and having to constantly multitask, it can be difficult to get anything done. This course guides you through several mindfulness techniques to help maximize productivity throughout your day. First, this course shows you how to clear your mind, center your focus, and use visualization techniques to regain a calm and positive headspace. It steps you through how to slow your breathing, regain a calm physical composure, and release tension to each portion of your body to gain a deeper sense of relief and relaxation. The course concludes by encouraging you to focus on yourself, recharge your energy, and regain a great sense of productivity.

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Get a new approach to managing your relationship with on-the-job pressure with the power of mindfulness. Mindfulness strengthens your ability to deal with job-related tensions that can negatively impact your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. In this course, get strategies that can help you identify what causes you to feel pressure, how it gets expressed in your body, and how you can mitigate its negative effects. Discover techniques that can help you control your reactions and walk away from your life’s stressors. Cultivate a healthier relationship to anxiety by learning how to clear your mind and body from its manifestation. Plus, find out how to avoid the chronic strain of rumination and integrate meditation into your life as a habit.

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The practices in this course are designed to support and deepen your ability to navigate the workday. Here, you can reconnect with your natural resilience, intelligence, and kindness. The exercises in this audio-only course include lessons on empathy, compassion, forgiveness, generosity, service, and seeing goodness instead of negativity. Join Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield as they explain how to use mindfulness techniques to continually find moments of ease, release, and stillness. While difficulties at work and at home may be overwhelming at times, you can still find ways to live with a creative and joyful spirit.

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Do you often find yourself in a place—at work or at home—but not present? This audio-only course covers skills and tools that can help you set a strong foundation for your journey into mindfulness. Instructors Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield show, for example, how simply pausing for a moment or steadying your breath can help you learn to bring yourself more fully into the present moment, develop greater awareness of your thoughts, and practice receiving the wisdom of your body in the spirit of friendly, open inquiry. With these practices, you can come home to yourself, your heart, and the present moment. Each lesson offers clear instructions for integrating mindfulness into your workday right away.

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Diversity exists in all areas of life. Fostering an environment of understanding, awareness, and growth is vital for your workplace. In this course from Chill Anywhere, explore ways to embrace this mindset. Discover the importance of body scanning, recognizing how you feel, and recognizing the diverse places in your life to help you recognize areas that are not diverse. Explore how to create a more equitable space around you and how to focus on embracing the moment. This course highlights that revealing imbalance is key to creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world.

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What is assertiveness? How can you use it effectively while still respecting others’ opinions? In this audio-only course, adapted from the Negotiate Anything podcast, Lousin Mehrabi explains what assertiveness truly is, why it’s important, and how to use conflict to add value to your business and general life. Lousin goes over building the necessary confidence for assertiveness, covers different approaches to advocate for yourself, and concludes with useful advice for dealing with people who don’t like conflict. Lousin Mehrabi is a trainer and advisor in negotiations and emotional intelligence at Lousin Mehrabi: Executive Coaching & Training.

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Miro is an online tool that allows you to develop ideas and to collaborate easily with other people. In this course, Brian Wood shows you how to employ Miro for user experience brainstorming, with methods that can also be used for wider brainstorming in general. Brian covers how to start up a collaborative session in Miro, different brainstorming project and workspace styles, how to invite new participants to your sessions, and how to set up and manage collaborative brainwriting boards and mind-mapping sessions with participants.

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In your career, it's natural to experience blunders and missteps. These experiences provide you with valuable lessons and takeaways that can help you succeed downstream. In this course, longtime consultant Trevor Kasmar shares his knowledge on common career mistakes, allowing you to learn from these errors without having to actually experience them. Trevor starts by outlining the importance of investing in yourself as a means to stay focused, improve self-awareness, and support a positive culture. He then walks through the missteps of not taking ownership in your career and allowing distractions to lead you off course. Finally, Trevor shares his lessons on the downfalls that can come from people-pleasing and struggling to communicate. After this course, you’ll have a list of lessons you can apply to your career to help you succeed.

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Conflict is inevitable. When it's time to resolve conflicts, you need to be equipped with the best tools and tactics. In this course, conflict expert Lynne Hurdle shows you how to avoid common mistakes when resolving conflict. Lynne shares ways listening can be difficult and explains how to listen effectively. She goes over how to avoid judgement and respond appropriately, then concludes with ways to overcome common obstacles and resolve conflicts.

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If you’re looking to add some texture and depth to your music and sound programming, modulation effects are a great way to alter and enhance recorded sounds. In this course, producer and instructor Evan Sutton covers the main categories of modulation FX. He details both delay- and filter-based modulation, the basics of low/high-pass frequency theory, how to add extra depth, dimension, and movement to synthesizer sounds, and creative ways to use flangers, phasers, and auto filters. He also shares some of his favorite tricks and treatments for mixing vocal tracks and how to use modulation effects in tandem with spatial processors. So if you’re a musician, producer, sound engineer, or anyone else who makes music or sound designs and want to take your mixing skills up a notch, this course is for you.

Do you need to understand the theory, practical applications, and creative applications of multimode filters? In this course, producer and instructor Evan Sutton shows you how to use multimode filters for several types of sound design and musical projects. Evan begins with an explanation of basic low-pass and high-pass filter theory. Then he explains mixing with high-pass filters and low-pass filters. He goes into mid/side filtering, band-pass filters, and hybrid filters. Then he concludes with ways you can use filters as FX.

If you’re looking to get into the world of machine learning models, but don’t know where to start, ML.NET is free software machine learning library for C# that allows you to build models without having to know all the theory behind machine learning. In this course, Jonathan Wood introduces you to ML.NET and shows how you can use it to leverage machine learning within your .NET applications. Jonathan starts with the basics of machine learning and covers both what it’s good for and scenarios when it’s not the best option. He then gets into the tools that you can utilize to help you get started building machine learning models. By the end of this course, you’ll have a better idea of the benefits of using ML.NET and why it’s a great tool for C# developers who are interested in machine learning.

If you’re in marketing, you have to reach and connect with customers and prospective customers where they are. And more than ever, people are on their phones and mobile devices, which means that having an effective mobile marketing strategy is essential to your business. But how do you break through the marketing noise? In this course, marketing executive Keitha Maciel teaches you how to successfully leverage mobile devices to resonate with your audience. She discusses the many elements needed to craft an effective mobile marketing strategy, and shares enhanced customer engagement techniques that help build relationships, which can increase sales and conversion rates. Whether you are a small business, growing business, or large enterprise, if mobile is not part of your marketing plans, you'll be left behind. Join Keitha as she gets you on the fast track to implementing your mobile marketing strategy.

What do you do with the plethora of photos on your smartphone after taking them? It's easy to have hundreds—if not thousands—of photos in your library, but it isn't so easy to back up and keep track of them. In this course, get tips on how to manage your ever-growing mobile photography collection. Photographer Derrick Story delves into several different backup and organizational methods for both Android and iOS devices, highlighting the benefits and risks of each approach. Plus, he shares tips for enhancing the appearance of your shots right on your mobile device. Discover how to leverage your iPad as a mobile photography studio, transfer images from your digital camera to your mobile device, back up and edit photos with Lightroom, and much more.

Have you ever wanted to explore the world of concept modeling but didn't have the time to learn a new interface or application? With Autodesk expanding the capabilities of Alias to include subdivision modeling, you can now dive into concept development without having to learn a new interface or application. In this course, Veejay Gahir demonstrates a typical workflow by taking a sketch of a Formula 1 race car steering wheel and showing how to model and render a fully realized version in Alias. Veejay shows how to import the sketch, use subdivision (SubD) modeling techniques to create the basic shape, and add details like buttons and switches, and logos. With the capabilities of Alias coupled with the unique commands developed exclusively for subdivisions, Alias users can now use a familiar interface to learn a new skill.

In this course, the first installment in a two-part series, learn how to model a shoe from scratch using Modo, a powerful platform for 3D modeling, rendering, and texturing.

Modo gives artists a powerful 3D platform for modeling, rendering, texturing, and animating. In the two-part Modo Product Visualization series, instructor Richard Yot uses the process of rendering a shoe from scratch to introduce key concepts that make Modo different from other 3D tools, as well as key workflows for modeling, lighting, and rendering beautiful 3D objects. In this course, the first installment in the series, Richard walks you through prototyping, from importing sketches to rendering a prototype with cel shading. Since this example project is modeling a shoe, he then shows you how to model the sole, including assigning materials to it. Once the sole is modeled, he moves on to modeling and thickening the main shapes, then the panels. Next, Richard covers how to model, edit, and add details to the lace holders and the shoelaces. Plus, he shows how to unwrap what you’ve modeled using UV mapping. Tune into the next installment in this series to learn how to render the project you started in this course.

Money in Excel is a new Excel template that helps Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) subscribers manage their personal finances with ease. Instead of manually moving transactions to Excel, users can securely connect their bank and credit card accounts and start slicing and dicing information quickly and easily. In this brief course, Jess Stratton shows how to find, install, and start using Money in Excel. Jess shows how to connect your accounts and answers your questions about security. She then shows how to categorize transactions and view snapshots that highlight where you're spending the most money.

Companies that move to the cloud can end up using hundreds or thousands of different services. CloudWatch allows organizations to manage all these services' performance and issues using logs, metrics, and alerts—all in one place. In this course, learn what CloudWatch has to offer, and how to use it to monitor your entire cloud ecosystem from one central location. Instructor Nertil Poci goes over how to set up alarms and notifications, gather and query logs, and create metrics for logs to better understand how your services are performing. Learn how to implement CloudWatch agent to collect VM logs, use Synthetics to monitor application load times, and use canaries to monitor specific pages and APIs. Finally, learn about ServiceLens, which helps you visualize numerous application components and their interactions.

In Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics, instructor Ian Robinson covers the core concepts and techniques used to create real-world motion graphic elements in Apple Motion. Throughout the course, Ian breaks down motion graphics into smaller groups of applied techniques. For example, he covers traditional typography and then shows how to take those theories and apply them specifically to motion graphics. He also covers essential editing and animation tools and techniques such as keyframes, simulations, and transitions, as well as Apple-Motion-specific concepts such as particles and the Replicator.