Enhance your productivity—and get more free time—though focused deep work. This audiobook summary provides tips that can help you regain your focus in a distracted world.

Learn how to define and set professional goals—and then work to achieve them.

Competitors are a sign of a thriving market. Learn strategies for identifying and evaluating competitors to discover where opportunities lie to fill gaps in the marketplace.

Get strategies for confidently promoting your work as a designer or illustrator, developing a consistent brand, and landing your dream clients.

Watch a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects from computer graphics guru Deke McClelland.

Learn how to delegate work effectively.

Find out how to craft an authentic personal pitch while projecting competence and warmth—two key factors in making a great first impression. Instructor Tatiana Kolovou shares how building trust with people and making a positive first impression isn’t a matter of magic. Tatiana reveals how verbal and nonverbal behaviors can influence the way people react in an initial meeting, whether in person, over the phone, or online.

Discover how to confidently communicate bad news with tact and candor. Learn how to prepare to deliver bad news, manage the meeting itself, and then follow up to ensure clarity.

Learn about communication styles, methods, and approaches that can be applied to challenging situations with customers, like delivering bad news, handling concerns, and more.

Learn how to provide your employees with meaningful feedback that helps them learn and grow.

Learn how deliver results consistently by setting up systems to help you stay on track.

Lead a PMO that delivers results. Discover how to transform into a business-focused PMO that is aligned with the priorities and performance expectations of your organization.

Learn how to deliver rich video experiences with ease. Pick up key techniques as you explore the evolution and best practices of web video.

Learn how to run a successful Facebook Live event and avoid technical hiccups. This course offers practical advice for organizing, producing, and running an event that works for you.

Public speaking doesn’t have to be intimidating. Learn quick, practical tips for delivering your presentation like a professional.

Leadership accountability is at the heart of any organization’s ability to achieve optimal performance. At a time when we continue to experience accelerated change, increased complexities, growing pressures, and competing priorities, leaders set the tone in their companies and establish the culture by how they treat others and by how they live their values. Yet many organizations miss opportunities to demonstrate leadership accountability. In this course, learn about what leadership accountability is, why it matters to organizations, and what actions leaders should take to practice accountability. Instructor Dr. Shirley Davis describes strategies for taking ownership as a leader, making effective decisions, and demonstrating accountability in the way you communicate with others.

Up your levels. Move beyond the basics of sound synthesis, in this course with musician Scott Hirsch. These advanced tutorials explore the inner workings of familiar synth programming techniques, as well as a few alternatives for pushing your sound further. Scott builds from modular-component synthesis to other types of synthesis, including frequency-modulation (FM) synthesis, modeling synthesis, and vocoding techniques. The course finishes up with a series of tutorials on creating new sounds, including a classic vocoder effect, big moving basslines, evocative percussion patterns, and rich synth pads.

Note: Scott uses a combination of Ableton Live, Native Instruments software, and Logic Pro in this course, but you can easily recreate the techniques in the DAW of your choice. The specific synths used include Native Instruments Massive; Logic Pro Alchemy and the Sculpture plugin; and Collision in Abelton Live.

Learn how synthesis actually works, how to sculpt sound with filters and envelopes, and how to craft your own synth patches, including leads, pads, drums, and bass.

A bad company culture is often easy to identify and explain, but a great company culture can seem elusive and difficult to achieve. Many organizations throw things at the wall, seeing what will stick, which results in a lot of wasted expenses and frustrated employees. If understanding company culture seems challenging, try to instead understand employee engagement. In this course, human resources expert and podcast host Katrina Ghazarian explains how engagement is the foundation that leads to a positive company culture. Katrina walks viewers through defining company culture, measuring employee engagement, and making changes that lasts and improve culture. After this course, you’ll have a clear idea on what company culture is made of, how to manage it, and how to communicate company culture with employees.

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Discover how to install and configure core TCP/IP services such as IP addressing and DNS and DHCP servers, with Windows Server 2012.