An excellent logistics system delivers the right product to your customer at the right price, so understanding logistics is critical to your success. In this course, instructor Steven Brown shows you why logistics is important, what it is, and how logistics supports your company and your customers. Steven discusses how logistics must be effective and efficient. He explains steps to improve how a customer’s order is filled. The course covers both outbound and inbound logistics and also goes over reverse logistics. More money is spent on transportation than on all other logistics functions combined, so Steven specifically takes you through different modes of transportation and how they often work together. He also shares the four cost tradeoffs in warehousing and goes into specific cost-efficient and value-added distribution center activities. The course steps through how logistics supports your marketing strategy, cuts across departments, and touches your customers.

Learn about HR’s role in the modern world of work. Explore the talent pipeline, how organisational design and culture affects performance and engagement, and more.

Want to patent your invention or technology—or avoid infringing on someone else's? Learn the key characteristics of successful patents, including what is and is not patentable.

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is essential in many workplaces. Healthcare, construction, and manufacturing professionals use PPE regularly, but COVID-19 has also made PPE a necessity for frontline workers such as bus drivers, police officers, and grocery clerks. In this course, instructor Jim Rogers reviews the purpose of PPE, the hazards it applies to, and the various types of PPE out there. He explains how to choose the right PPE for your job and select PPE when availability is impacted during a crisis. You also get an overview of essential best practices for putting on and taking off—donning and doffing—PPE and tips for cleaning and storing your PPE for maximum continued effectiveness.

When working with the public, learn the difference between rights of publicity (ROP) and copyright or trademark, how to get ROP clearance, and how to avoid infringement.

Explore the architectural design process. The course demystifies each of the major design phases, as well as key regulation factors, contracts, and project delivery methods.

Get a useful introduction to the dangers and benefits of deepfake videos.

If you’re a current leader in a career rut or someone who keeps getting passed over for leadership opportunities, this course can help you find the forward momentum you need. Learn how to identify the hidden roadblock—or blind spots—that are inadvertently holding you back, and discover how you can manage them to accelerate your career growth.

Join instructor Sara Canaday as she shares examples of leadership blind spots commonly found in the business world and guides you to explore the perception gaps that could be undermining your professional reputation. By applying Sara’s targeted strategies to close those gaps, you can enhance your intangible skills and quickly position yourself as someone who is poised and prepared to move to the next level as a more powerful leader.

In this course by intellectual property lawyer Dana Robinson, learn about what's covered by nondisclosure and noncompete agreements and how businesses can protect trade secrets.

Lawyer and author Dana Robinson outlines the basics of trademark law, including when you need to register your trademark and what to do about trademark infringement.

Learn what is involved in a typical job offer so you can negotiate your compensation and benefits package when accepting a new job.

The traditional model of a firewalled enterprise separating trusted insiders from untrusted outsiders worked effectively for years, but it’s no longer a viable option in today’s world. Workers working remotely, insider threats, and attackers taking advantage of trust between internal systems—these demand a new approach to extending protection to all users and their devices, regardless of their location. In this course, Malcolm Shore shows how to better protect your networks and systems by adopting what’s known as a zero trust approach to access control—removing trust relationships in networks and requiring that trust decisions are made at the time that access is requested. Malcom starts with a brief history of the concept of software trust, before moving onto key facets of the zero trust approach, the reasons for wanting to minimize trust relationships in network architectures, and the tenets and models that have been proposed for zero trust.

David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean. This short talk celebrates the pioneering work of ocean explorers like Edith Widder and Roger Hanlon.

Capture the incredible beauty of fish coral and all manner of undersea wonders with underwater macro photography. Learn techniques for exposure, lighting, composition, and more.

Learn to capture sweeping underwater vistas with this deep dive into wide-angle underwater photography.

In this documentary, join the founder of The Rescued Film Project as he processes and restores thirty-one rolls of film shot over seventy years ago by a World War II soldier.

We all understand the value and necessity of processes in business, but did you know you can create processes that will be just as valuable to your career and daily life? In this course, Dave Crenshaw offers a powerful guide for anyone who wants a systematic way to improve their productivity. Dave explains how customized “unique habits” help you find your own pathway. He stresses the importance of knowing your motivation, as aiming for a specific result can help drive you forward. Dave steps through a two-week test to try out the success system you build, then shows you how to fine-tune the system and explains when it might be time to get a new system. He concludes with a discussion of ways to hold yourself accountable to your own unique success system.

This course was created by Dave Crenshaw and Invaluable Inc. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Discover how to develop reliable, high-quality Python code with unit testing and test-driven development.

Learn the fundamentals of unit testing in Python projects. Explore techniques for test-driven development of a Python project using the pytest framework and a Docker container.

Learn the essentials of Unity, the powerful 3D development tool for building mobile and desktop games, real-time simulations and visualizations, and short films.