The ability to present yourself and communicate well is crucial in any work environment. In this course, adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, learn how to build on your presentation skills to gain a competitive advantage in your career. Professional speaker Diane DiResta shares tips and tricks for leveling up your presentations and boosting your executive presence. Learn how to craft your presentations around what’s important to the audience to ensure that you're only sharing the most impactful information. Discover how to shift your focus away from yourself to conquer your fear of speaking. Plus, get strategies for ensuring that your body, tone, and words are giving off one consistent message; planning for your worst-case scenario and establishing recovery strategies; handling tough questions; and more.

This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Learn about the common mental barriers that keep professionals from speaking up at work, as well as the steps you can take to actively build your authority.

Discover simple ways to speed up your home PC and free up more space on your hard drive.

Award-winning action and lifestyle photographer Kevin Steele shows how to capture the intensity of soccer on camera.

Trace the evolution of some specific logo trends so you can learn how to predict the future paths current logo trends could take, gaining an edge over your design competition.

The internet brings a world of information to your fingertips, but not all information is equal. Whether you're seeking news, product reviews, health data, or any other kind of information, it's important to use trustworthy sources. In this short course, Andrew Seaman, former Ethics Chair for the Society of Professional Journalists, shows how to quickly determine the accuracy and reliability of information you find online. Andrew explains how information sharing has changed, in both positive and negative ways, with the advent of the internet. He offers helpful tips for becoming a savvier media consumer of various kinds of online information: news, product reviews, health content, and more. To conclude, Andrew shares free online tools you can use to create healthy information habits.

Learn what's new in Spring 5.0 and Spring Boot 2.0, including reactive Spring and Spring Actuator.

Get started with Spring Boot 2.x—the popular Spring microframework—and learn how to build Java-based web applications quickly, using less code.

Get started with Spring Boot 2.x—the popular Spring microframework—and learn how to build Java-based web applications quickly, using less code.

Learn how to get started with Spring Boot, a powerful framework to build Java-based web applications quickly, using less code.

Leverage the power of Cloud SQL in your Spring Boot application. Learn how to set up a Cloud SQL database and effectively test your application.

Improve your efficiency as a developer by learning and implementing the most common design patterns in the Spring framework.

Get a comprehensive overview of Spring, the enterprise application framework and inversion-of-control container for Java.

Learn how to implement messaging within your enterprise Spring applications using JMS.

Learn how to use Spring Batch to create batch processing jobs in Java.

Learn cloud native application development with Spring Cloud, a set of tools to help developers quickly build distributed systems that are perfect for enterprise-scale deployment.

Easily implement JPA-based repositories using Spring Data JPA. Learn about the Spring Data Commons JPA for object-relational mapping, querying with Spring Data, and more.

In this course, instructor Kathy Flint shows how Spring Integration fits into the overall Spring framework. Kathy covers realistic use cases that warrant the use of Spring Integration, such as APIs, reactive websites, and database-integrated systems. Kathy demonstrates the full capabilities of Spring Integration by building a demonstration application; she starts with an empty Spring Boot application and adds Spring Integration components in increasing complexity, ending with a substantive demonstration application. She covers key features like message channels, message transformation, routing, and aggregation. Kathy finishes the course by identifying practical challenges and choices that an architect or engineer may encounter during the design and implementation of a Spring Integration system.