Learn how to create a simple and effective business plan you can take to investors, share with cofounders, or just start executing.

Take this fun and fast 5-day Excel challenge to test your Excel skills.

Have you ever wished for a collection of useful sales and prospecting tips to help you sell more successfully? In this course, sales professional and prospecting coach Miles Croft provides easy-to-understand advice, with actionable and achievable techniques for selling more efficiently, delighting the customer, making the most of your time, avoiding common pitfalls, and much more. With over 50 tips, each one having its own learning objective, you can improve your sales and prospecting know-how by choosing a tip applicable to your specific situation or learning in the recommended order.

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Get quick, actionable pointers for creating and managing effective websites—designed for those with no background in web design. Tune in every Wednesday for a new tip.

Enduring relationships help get us ahead at work and find more meaning in life. In this audio-only summary of Michael J. Gelb's book, get insights into building strong connections.

Small things that are done well make a difference in your career, particularly if you’re in the role of a manager or leader. This audio-only course, adapted from The Art of Leadership by Michael Lopp, encourages all leaders—from new managers to experienced executives—to sweat the small stuff when hiring, delegating, managing meetings, handling crises, controlling rumors, and more. While many new managers receive no managerial training and must learn by experience, the lessons in this course can give you a head start on your road to becoming a successful, inspiring leader.

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What normally happens inside of you when some says: “I have some feedback for you?” Do you freeze up and prepare to hear something bad? If you’re like most of us, your immediate reaction is to go into DEFENSIVE MODE. With my leadership tips, you can learn to improve the way you react to and receive feedback. In this video, I share leadership tips on how you can HEAR and MORE EFFECTIVELY USE THE FEEDBACK that you get.

Turn your video footage into a work of art. Learn the basics of rotoscoping to build creative effects and to isolate video elements for compositing or VFX. In this course, instructor and mograph artist Eran Stern starts by diving the history and origin of rotoscoping in film and video, providing the background for subsequent practical techniques. He shows how to transform video into natural art—from pencil sketches to Van Gogh paintings, claymation to chalkboard drawings, watercolors to graffiti, and ink blots, Legos, comic books, pastels, and much more. You can also find out how to use the same foundational techniques to isolate elements for compositing and visual effects work, and create simple character animations. Plus, explore the different software for rotoscoping, from Photoshop and After Effects to professional applications such as Mocha AE.

Learn how the pros prepare for, organize, and conduct great video interviews.

Learn the basics of shooting and editing 360 video. Get a tour of new 360 cameras and learn editing techniques for creating seamless 360 projects.

Learn about the benefits of standardization and the four types of standard work that apply to any type of work or industry.

Explore the BIM Execution Plan from an architect’s perspective. Learn how to standardize your organization’s BIM practices and maximize project quality, consistency, and results.

Creativity and innovation are now recognized as some of the most important contributors to economic growth. Thus, it’s imperative that work environments are structured so that creativity and innovation can thrive. But how can leaders translate the desire for creativity into something doable in their company? How can they lay the foundation for this structure? In this course, international speaker and trainer Denise Jacobs shows you how. Learn about the key directives that leading companies use to enhance engagement, reignite passion, and ramp up meaningful contribution. Discover how to prevent time pressures from blocking creativity, ask questions that spark innovative thinking, amplify the ideas of others, and more. By the end of this course, you'll have the tools you need to boost engagement and help your teams produce cutting-edge work.

Get started in the business of songwriting. Learn about all of the major organizations, rights, and procedures that songwriters have to deal with in the music business.

Inspire and empower your employees. Tune into this audio-only summary of Michael Bungay Stanier's popular book to get coaching tips you can quickly integrate into your routine.

Turn courage into a habit: Learn how to accept your fears, release the past, and embrace life to the fullest with tips from this audio-only summary of Kate Swoboda’s powerful book.

The head of the innovative motion design firm leftchannel explains the importance of versatility and experimentation in the design process.

Follow Beeple, a motion graphics artist, whose Everyday Project drives him to learn new software, adopt fresh techniques, and create art for himself and others.

The founders of Tiny Inventions explain how their (tiny) two-person animation studio evolved and share the process behind their film Between Times.

Wander around the Detroit Packard Plant with Brian Kaufman, a visual journalist whose multimedia projects help boost newspapers' relevance in the digital age.