Learn how to organize your finances and craft a plan that ensures that—whatever your retirement goals might be—you'll have the cash you need for your third act.

Learn how to start your own business with family and friends. Discover how to set expectations around roles, ownership, and finances.

Learn about the art of starting and holding a memorable conversation.

Get practical, example-based learning of the intermediate skills associated with statistics: samples and sampling, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.

Complete your mastery of statistics. Get an advanced understanding of concepts such as t-distribution, degrees of freedom, chi-square testing, regression testing, and ANOVA.

Not sure if you need statistics? Think again! Statistics help with making decisions, new discoveries, investments, and predictions. For subjects ranging from political races to healthcare advancements, statistics can improve your understanding of your favorite topic. In this course, Professor Eddie Davila teaches common terms, formulas, and techniques related to probability, the area of statistics where this course focuses.

Eddie explains that probability is used to make decisions about future outcomes and to understand past outcomes. He covers permutations, combinations, and percentiles, and goes into how to describe and calculate them. Eddie introduces multiple event probabilities and discusses when to add and subtract probabilities. He describes probability trees, Bayes’ Theorem, binomials, and so much more. You can learn to understand your data, prove theories, and save valuable resources—all by understanding the numbers.

Statistics is not just the realm of data scientists. All types of jobs use statistics. Statistics are important for making decisions, new discoveries, investments, and predictions. Whether the subject is political races, sports rankings, shopping trends, or healthcare advancements, statistics is an instrument for understanding your favorite topic at a deeper level. In this course, Professor Eddie Davila offers beginner-level lessons, so you too can master the terms, formulas, and techniques needed to perform the most common types of statistics.

Eddie covers several examples of data and charts. He explains how to find the middle of your data set, as well as the mean and median. He introduces range, then goes into standard deviation and what to do with outliers. These techniques help you understand your data, prove theories, and save time, money, and other valuable resources—all by understanding the numbers.

Explore essential lean principles and discover how to use a kanban board to prioritize your workflow.

Learn how to organize your physical space and bring order to your work in a way that helps you get more things done.

Even the most optimistic of us can get weighed down when seemingly unrelenting negativity swirls around us at work and in life. It impacts our perspective, presence, and performance. Self-leadership expert Scott Mautz teaches a specific plan for fostering sustainable positivity, especially in the face of tiresome negativity. You’ll be able to stay positive over the long haul by applying fundamentals of positivity—like staying grounded and practicing a special type of gratitude—and by drawing optimism from increased mental strength. Learn to build specialized positivity skills—such as handling criticism and difficult people—and build daily habits of positivity too. Plus, hear real-world examples and craft a personal MAP (micro action plan) for being realistic but staying upbeat when it feels like the world is conspiring to keep you down.

Jump-start your weldment design skills by learning to use SOLIDWORKS weldments to create a steel building.

Nearly everyone has a webcam, but many people don’t put the effort into enhancing their webcam video presence. But with just a few relatively easy and inexpensive tweaks, you can capture well-composed, well-lit shots with great audio using the humble webcam. In this course, senior staff instructor Ashley Kennedy shows you how to represent your best self in meetings, as well as presentations, trainings, vlogs, interviews, demos, Q&As, and other types of web videos. Learn basic strategies for optimizing your system and your webcam, staging and lighting your shot, capturing high-quality audio, scripting and rehearsing for big-stakes webcam presentations, and more.

Responsibility is the key to change. Find out how to improve your life and make a difference in the world in this audio-only review of John Izzo’s book.

Learn how to stop stressing. Drop the grand plan of your life in favor of simpler questions to move you forward, with this course adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job.

Discover the 10 most important stories every leader should be able to tell at a moment’s notice, and learn how to find and craft unique and compelling versions of your own.

Andre Haddad grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. His love of reading led to his first job at a bookstore. After a mortar shell hit his family’s apartment in 1989, he left Beirut to study in France. In this course, adapted from the podcast al empire, Hebah Fisher and Andre Haddad discuss Andre’s journey to entrepreneurial success. Andre’s arrival in France forced him to start over, and with the fresh start came fresh observations. Andre noticed the need for auction sites like eBay outside of the US, which led to the launch of his first big success, iBazaar. Andre describes his move from iBazaar to Turo, the world’s largest peer-to-peer car sharing service, and how a passion for sustainability has enabled the growth of the company. The interview concludes as Andre contemplates what his efforts have truly gained both for himself and the world.

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

Learn the secrets of developing great characters and telling stories for animation. Animators Andrew Gordon and Nate Stanton recreate the story process for us.

Learn how to add 3D objects and 3D camera moves to your storyboards with Storyboard Pro.

Storytelling is an important skill for the modern day creative pro. Learn how to apply it to marketing and advertising for authentic connections between brands and consumers.