Develop business acumen. Gain an understanding of your business model, strategy, competition, and operations so you can make better decisions and become a better leader.

Over the course of your career, you work with many different stakeholders in many different facets. A business partnership can be one of the trickier relationships to navigate. In this course, longtime business executive Marcel Badart discusses the skills you need to identify, develop, and build strategic business partnerships and sustain them over time. Marcel walks you through factors that influence a partnership, from the nature of the relationship to the stakeholders involved. He explains the steps in developing the relationship, including prospecting, negotiating, and onboarding your new business partner. He concludes with pro tips on how you can ensure a successful, long-term partnership.

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What exactly is a chatbot? How does it differ from a bot, how can you develop one, and how can you use it, once it is developed? Instructor Bhavani Ravi walks you through learning about chatbots and developing your first one. Bhavani begins by describing what a chatbot is, what types of chatbots exist today, and how a chatbot differs from bots and applications. She goes over the components of a chatbot system and discusses the natural language processing (NLP) that allows chatbots to understand requests in human language. She steps through designing a chatbot, then shows you the “brain” of a chatbot: ML models. Bhavani shows you how to use ML models to train your chatbot, challenges you to write your own chatbot, then concludes with some projects that you can work on and submit to GitHub.

Learn how to establish and demonstrate credibility as a leader. Get tips for boosting your credibility with your team and bouncing back if your credibility has been damaged.

Develop the cross-cultural intelligence to navigate cultural differences. Discover the difference between high- and low-context cultures and how to effectively work across them.

Learn how to use C# and ZeroMQ, a flexible, open-source messaging stack, to simplify development of distributed .NET applications.

Explains how the "elusive" quality of executive presence actually can be developed to help you stand out from the crowd, gain leadership opportunities, and be successful as a leader.

Learn to develop simple financial applications with F#, like the Twitter bot featured in this course.

Microsoft Teams is one of the fastest growing enterprise tools and lets workers collaborate, conduct meetings, share data and information, and use applications, all within Teams. The versatility of Teams means it is also a rich development platform. In this course, software developer Bill Ayers teaches how to build custom tabs and extensions in Teams using open web technologies like Node.js, TypeScript, and React. With more and more users not just using Teams, but also doing more and more within Teams, understanding how to develop for this platform will be increasingly important for any software developer who wants to reach their users where they are.

Performance matters! Faster websites have been shown to increase visitor retention, loyalty, and satisfaction, especially on mobile. In this course, discover how to develop websites and applications with performance in mind. Since the cause of most slowdowns is the communication between the browser and the server—the realm of HTTP—senior staff instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen goes over the HTTP/2 protocol, which offers web developers huge performance enhancements. Morten then covers how to keep your team focused on performance by creating a realistic performance budget. He explains how to optimize images (one of the biggest resource hogs), code, and file caching, as well as server delivery and browser handling. Plus, learn how to optimize CSS and JavaScript and use a content delivery network to speed up download times. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have the basic knowledge you need to develop websites and apps that thrive in the age of the lightning-fast web.

Learn to communicate and develop an idea through brainstorming and sketching.

Learn more about how your investments actually work. Get practical investment strategies that can help you improve your financial portfolio and make your money work for you.

Explore the core development processes for developing long-running tasks with Microsoft Azure.

Develop exceptional managers who can lead with confidence. Learn leadership training techniques and strategies that can help first-time managers and experienced managers alike.

Learn how to develop a SQL Server 2016 database with more advanced features, like temporary tables, stored procedures, indexes, and secure user accounts.

Learn how to leverage Amazon Pinpoint to boost user engagement and streamline site analytics.

Learn how to use the Adobe XD API to create plugins and extensions to extend the features and workflow of Adobe XD.

Learn how to assess and develop the skill of resourcefulness: being able to do more with less.

Build more secure software by leveraging architectural analysis for security, security frameworks, code analysis and risk analysis tools, and security patterns.

Learn how to become more self-aware in order to develop yourself personally and enhance career progression.