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Managing Your Finances Through a Career Transition or Layoff (228868)

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.

Managing Your Job Seeker Mindset (216458)

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.

Managing Your Manager

Discover how to manage up at work and strengthen one of your most important work relationships: your rapport with your boss.

Managing Your Personal Finances (216152)

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.

Managing Your Personal Investments

Learn your investment options and how to create your own intelligent investment plan.

Managing Your Professional Network

Learn how to network and build professional allies who are always in your corner. Get easy-to-implement networking tips to build professional relationships and grow your career.

Managing Your Sales Process (234750)

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.

Managing Your Sales Process

Learn how to build a sales process that is easy to follow and keeps you on track. Create a winning formula to help you identify prospects and close sales more consistently.

Managing Your Sales Territory

Learn about how to manage and reenergize your territory and organize your efforts so you are spending your time in the right areas with the most important prospects.

Managing Your Small Business (119779)

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.

Managing Your Time

Quick time-management tips that help everyone from busy executives to new employees get more out of their work day.

Managing Your Well-Being as a Leader (231979)

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.

Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

Learn foundations of bluegrass, classical, and Brazilian mandolin. Learn basics like holding and tuning a mandolin, positioning your hands and fingers, and playing simple chords.

Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs

Learn how to play the mandolin. Get practice exercises to stay motivated, increase your speed and dexterity, and build your repertoire of solo and kickoff material.

Mandolin Lessons: 3 Simplifying Difficult Tunes

Learn how to break down popular but challenging songs like "Ride the Wild Turkey" and build your speed, dexterity, and ability to improvise, in these intermediate mandolin lessons.

Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes

Master mandolin player Mike Marshall breaks down classics like "Silent Night" and "Auld Lang Syne" and offers variations to keep these advanced tunes fresh for years to come.

Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age (getAbstract Summary)

Learn basic principles and repeatable frameworks for encouraging innovation and disruption, in this audio-only summary of Greg Satwell’s popular book.

Mapping the Modern Web Design Process

Get a 10,000-foot overview of today's web design process, from discovery to content creation, development, and launch.

Marci Alboher on Encore Careers

Not interested in or can't afford retirement? Learn how to move beyond your midlife career and into a new phase of work that provides purpose and a paycheck.

Margo Chase's Hand-Lettered Poster: Start to Finish

Margo Chase shows how she created a beautifully hand-lettered poster for a special appearance.