From your personal and professional life, to broader changes to the world at large, dealing with change can be challenging even in the best of times. Change may be inevitable, but within modern organizations, it often feels like the world is changing rapidly at the hands of unseen forces. In this course, business psychologist Erin Shrimpton provides you with tools to help you not only survive changes in your work life, but thrive in uncertain times. To help explain why change can be so challenging, Erin begins by discussing the common psychological responses it brings about. She then delves into techniques and strategies you can use to protect yourself—and even give yourself a boost—while navigating change in your workplace and beyond.

Presentations don't have to be linear: slide after slide, bullet point after bullet point. With Prezi, you can create eye-catching, impactful presentations that allow you to connect multiple ideas on a single canvas and zoom in and out as your presentation flows. In this course, instructor Garrick Chow acquaints you with the hallmarks of the Prezi style and explains how to plan your presentation before you create it. He shows how to build a new Prezi with Prezi Present and add content like text, images, and shapes. Garrick then shows how to arrange the elements on your canvas for maximum impact and integrate multimedia and animation. Next, you’ll see how to record or stream your presentations with Prezi Video, and how to apply the skills you’ve learned to Prezi Design and build eye-catching and interactive data graphics.

Prezi Video allows a presenter to show visual content live during a presentation, showing and interacting with graphics on-screen and removing the need to switch to a separate screen. Follow along with LinkedIn senior staff instructor Garrick Chow as he shows how to install Prezi Video, then walks through creating a Prezi video using an included template and importing a presentation from PowerPoint. Next, he demonstrates how to add text and images to a presentation and save it as a video file. Garrick also walks through some basic editing tips, and shows how to livestream a Prezi Video presentation.

When we sit down to complete the tasks on our to-do lists, a myriad of distractions—from our smartphones to well-meaning colleagues or family members—can get us off track. In this course, adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, get best practices for prioritizing your tasks and keeping distractions to a minimum. Productivity expert Laura Stack shares tips for setting your productivity priorities and sticking to them. She discusses how technology can help or hurt your organization attempts, how to use boundaries and rewards to train your brain to complete tasks, and how to craft an environment that supports productivity. Plus, discover how to structure your day when you're working remotely and practice self-care to help maintain your focus.

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.

Learn how to start your own podcast. Podcasting is a cost-effective way to connect with targeted audiences and even extend the reach of an existing publisher. This course provides proven tips for producing professional, high-quality audio and video podcasts on any budget. Instructor Rich Harrington—a veteran podcast producer and host—starts with a basic overview of what podcasting is. He then provides preproduction strategies that will help you identify business opportunities, find your niche, and create a basic outline for your show. He also compares the benefits and drawbacks of audio and video podcasting and screencasting, and shows how to set up a studio for recording—allowing you to get up and running in less than a day! Then discover techniques for recording and editing podcasts and screencasts on Mac and Windows, hosting your files, and testing and optimizing your feed. Plus, get tips on tracking your performance and promoting your podcast to the world.

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

Do you need to create a tutorial, a website walk-through, or a business presentation? How do you make sure it’s high quality and easy to view? In this course, instructor Richard Harrington steps through the entire process of producing screencast videos on a Mac. Richard begins with an overview of what a screencast is, reasons you might need to create one, and how to distribute a screencast you have created. He explains the gear you’ll need to create screencasts with great production values and shows you how to get ready for your screencast by cleaning up your desktop and menu bar, setting resolution and audio to optimal levels, and more. Richard presents several recommended tools for recording your screen, including recommendations for recording an iPhone screen. He goes over planning, recording, and editing your screencast, then shows you how to export it for different delivery methods.

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

Do you need to create a tutorial, a website walk-through, or a business presentation? How do you make sure it’s high quality and easy to view? It’s increasingly important to be able to show people what you’re doing on a computer screen. In this course, instructor Richard Harrington steps through the entire process of producing screencast videos on a PC, from planning and production to editing and output. Richard begins with an overview of what a screencast is and reasons you might need to create one. He explains the gear you’ll need to create screencasts with great production values and shows you how to get ready for your screencast by cleaning up your desktop, setting resolution and audio to optimal levels, and more. Richard presents several recommended tools for recording your screen. He goes over planning, recording, and editing your screencast, then shows you how to export it for different delivery methods.

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

Everyone has moments of being on fire with creativity, but often the time of being in the state of creative flow is all too short. Additionally, sometimes we get stuck: we lack inspiration, our creative confidence wanes, and the generation of ideas comes to a standstill. It’s great when creative inspirations strike like bolts of lighting, but that’s the problem—they hit seemingly at random. So how do you access creative states when you need them? In this course, Denise Jacobs shows you that creativity is a skill, one that you need to first learn then repeat over and over. And, much like elite athletes, creatives need to exercise discipline to be able to get into the “zone” at will and produce consistently great results. Denise explores ideas and practices for regularly gathering sources of inspiration, eliminating blocks to more easily access creative states, prolong them, and leverage their power to develop and execute great work.

What does it mean to be a productive leader? In this course, instructor Dave Crenshaw takes on the topics of productivity and leadership, showing that they are deeply connected and demonstrating how to excel at both. Dave shares tips and techniques gleaned from his 20+ years of experience coaching and consulting leaders from around the world. He explains that leadership is about developing the best in others and creating other productive leaders. He shares strategies for prioritizing actions and results, training others to succeed, providing consistent, unwavering accountability, and more.

This course was created by Dave Crenshaw and Invaluable Inc. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Productivity Tips for Web Designers is a series for web designers who want to enhance their design, software, and freelance business skills and streamline their workflow. Whether you're new to web design or working professionally as a seasoned designer, you'll discover techniques that can help you become more proficient at your craft. Tips and topics include typography; SEO; design software like Illustrator, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver; and web coding in HTML and CSS.

Time management tools and programs can only go so far. If you want to boost your productivity in a lasting way, you need to change the way you look at your time and your tasks. In this installment of the Productivity Tips series, productive leadership author and speaker Dave Crenshaw explains how to boost your productivity by shifting your perspective. Dave shares bite-sized, actionable tips for finding room in your schedule to improve your productivity, developing flexibility, and avoiding lower-value activities. Plus, get strategies for shaking off negative experiences, adding meaning to your workday, and more.

Note: This course was featured in Market Watch, Inc., Fortune, Forbes, and Entrepreneur.

Connect to opportunity. Learn how to build and engage a network when you're just starting out in your career. Jayla Hill explains how networking can help you build professional relationships, explore different interests, and connect with a wide range of people—even if you don't have an established profession. She provides tips for making connections, fostering them, finding a mentor, and even mentoring others. Plus, learn how to ask for informational interviews, request job referrals, and stay in touch with your connections over time. Using these invaluable lessons, you can build a healthy and diverse network that can launch and lead you to success in the professional world.

Software is written by humans—and humans can make mistakes. Before suggested changes are integrated into a codebase, they are often reviewed and approved by other programmers. A large amount of developers' time is spent on code reviews. However, this skill is rarely taught. This course remedies that oversight, starting with the what, who, and why of code reviews. It then explores the how, showing how to thoroughly review everything from implementation details to maintainability and design aspects of code. Instructor Kathryn Hodge also introduces best practices for reviewing code on the cloud and implementing and committing changes to a codebase. In the last chapter, you can explore how to submit your own code for review and respond to comments. Take the challenges issued along the way to practice your new skills. By the end of the course, you'll have the knowledge needed to become a great code reviewer, saving valuable resources and influencing future design changes at your organization.

One of the biggest problems with a fast-paced, goal-oriented world is that we often rush through projects and tasks, then move on to the next item on the list, rarely pausing to reflect on the results. What worked well? What were pain points? Inevitably, the same frustrating problems get repeated. How do you get out of this loop? In this course, Sam Yankelevitch introduces a better way forward through the discipline of lessons learned and shows how to collect lessons learned in projects and use those to improve current and future project outcomes. He covers topics like getting past typical objections, running lessons learned sessions, and tips and suggestions to support this critical part of project management. As Sam demonstrates, when you make lessons learned a strategic priority, you can achieve better results by getting previous and persistent obstacles out of the way and making better decisions.

While quality may be a subjective measure when it comes to products like cars, clothes, or food, you can still loosely think of quality as a measure of expectations versus reality. When it comes to the realm of project management, defining quality is a little more cut and dry: To what degree did the project meet its requirements? In this course, Daniel Stanton provides project managers with an introduction to key quality management concepts. As Daniel points out, quality could be the main factor in making a sale and earning repeat business, and understanding the basics of quality management can help you deliver better results. He covers topics like metrics, Six Sigma techniques, quality function deployment, and Pareto analysis, and explains the difference between qualitative and quantitative quality metrics. After this course, you’ll have a better idea of the role quality management plays within project management.

Over the past few years, organizations have seen a significant increase in the number of projects, asking employees and managers to spend more time on project-based work. Project management has become one of the most sought-after skills, yet most people have never learned the basics of project management. This course from project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez aims at providing an initial foundation, with easy to understand definitions and basic and refreshed project management concepts, to help you have a better understanding of your projects and what it takes to make projects succeed. If you’re one of the increasing number of people managing projects who don’t have a title that says “project manager,” this course is for you.

Technical projects have their own unique set of needs and challenges. The project manager and the business need to be aware and ready to respond to these challenges. Learn how to manage technical projects effectively with Bob McGannon. This course illustrates how to leverage project management tools differently and anticipate the technical component and business risks that are common to technology projects. Topics covered in the course include waterfall vs. agile, managing new and existing technologies, working with the expectation that technology solutions will be available 24/7, special considerations for technical product development, and much more. The course concludes with a set of problems and solutions that you can use to apply the principles from this course.

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

Technical projects have their own unique set of needs and challenges. New technology must be researched, downtime must be kept to a minimum, and the organization must be helped to adapt to the change. Learn how to effectively manage technical projects of any size with these tips from project management expert Bob McGannon. He'll go over specific approaches to mitigate the risks and challenges common to technology projects. He'll walk through case studies to bring the concepts to life. Then he'll propose some specific challenges (including conflicts with stakeholders or vendors) for you to explore. Compare your solutions with Bob's recommendations to see how your project management skills compare.

Resource management can make or break your project. Secure an insufficient amount of money, equipment, or, most importantly, staff, and your plans can quickly go awry. In this course, instructor Claudine Peet shares a step-by-step process for effectively managing resources throughout the project life cycle. Learn about the roles required for a project team, as well as how to set your team up for success by defining a resource management approach that's tailored to your project. Get tips for negotiating resource commitment, acquiring external resources, and establishing a team charter that helps all team members understand their responsibilities. Then, discover how to carry out a resource capability assessment and identify training and development opportunities that can address skill gaps. Claudine wraps up the course by explaining how to track your progress, deal with conflict, and disband the team when the project has ended.

Running a company is inherently a risky business. But with a cohesive risk management program, you can reduce financial liability, protect your property and your people, and make sure you stay open for business—no matter what happens. This course offers practical and implementation-ready solutions to protect organizational knowledge and valuation while reducing financial risk for businesses of all sizes and industries. It is designed for business owners, executives, and risk managers who want to protect digital, intellectual, and physical assets; keep employees safe; and guard against cyber threats as well as natural and man-made disasters. Business continuity expert Dan Weedin first reviews the risk management process, from identifying exposures to implementing and monitoring a risk management program. Then he shows how to protect your company by building a strong team that keeps organizational knowledge in-house and operational. Plus, learn how to plan for risks that are unique to the digital age, such as IP theft and cyberattacks, and buy insurance to mitigate financial loss in the worst-case scenario.