As a manager, making decisions is a big part of your job. Chances are you didn’t become a manager because you make bad decisions. But while some decisions are easy, cut-and-dry choices, other decisions demand significant consideration, strategy, and more buy-in from other stakeholders. How do you differentiate the important, key decisions from the others? In this course, management expert Kevin Eikenberry shows how your approach to decision-making affects the results you deliver and impacts a wide array of people and processes. Kevin highlights several types of decision-making approaches, important things to consider when making key decisions, and how to best implement the decisions and communicate your choices to all the necessary parties. By the end of this course, you’ll have a tool kit to help give you more confidence in your decisions, create better results for your organization and team, and improve your chances for success.

How can branded content help you make money? This short course offers a broad overview of ways you can make money with branded content. First, learn to identify what branded content is and which brands you want to work with. Next, discover how to build your personal brand, reel, and portfolio and use these to pitch your work to the brands you want to work with. Find out how to establish a creative brief, write the scope of work, and plan production and deliverables, then explore effective ways to deliver on your plans, invoice for your work, and follow up with your clients.

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Learn how to quickly make smart decisions at work. Get practical tips for accurately defining the problem at hand, generating options, and making a decision that sticks.

Review the core concepts of the CSS box model, including techniques such as styling text and images, floating content, using display properties, and positioning elements.

Learn tips and tricks that can help you make your teams more effective and user-centric. Discover how to integrate with development teams and communicate the value of UX.

Make a short video to sell a product—with little more than a smartphone. This project-based course is for non-video people who need a quick introduction to video production.

Make an effective training video—with little more than a smartphone. Get a quick introduction to video production and video editing.

Make an effective self-promotional video—with little more than a smartphone. This project-based course is for non-video people who want an introduction to production and editing.

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.

Learn how to make your site "retina"-ready by optimizing graphics and other content so that it looks great on retina (HiDPI) and non-retina displays alike.

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.

Learn how to create and manage apps with SCCM and prepare for Microsoft certification exam 70-703. See how to deploy apps using PowerShell scripts, and deploy App-V virtual apps.

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.

Become an effective manager. Learn the foundational management skills required to achieve business goals and help your team succeed.

Get two new management tips and learn to improve communication, increase motivation, deal with conflict, and build better relationships.

Get two-minute tips on the most important management topics: assertiveness, negotiation, time management, project management, and presentation skills.

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.

Learn how to use economics to make better business decisions. Explore economic theories to strategize and solve business problems from demand and competition to pricing products.

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.