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Emergency management is a critical and expanding field; climate change has increased the extent and frequency of natural disasters, and terrorism is a growing threat. Therefore, emergency managers play an increasingly vital role across the whole community and all levels of government. This course is designed for learners who are studying emergency management for the first time, preparing for a new career or job role in emergency management, or seeking to refresh their knowledge of foundational concepts.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $199
Hours to Complete: 10
Access to Curriculum Time: 180 days
Register for Introduction to Emergency Management in the U.S.
The AEM®/CEM® Prep Course was designed in partnership with the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). This course is designed for emergency management professionals seeking the AEM or CEM credential. The course walks learners through submitting an application and offers essay writing tips. Primarily, the course reviews key terms and concepts that may appear on the AEM/CEM exam. Learners can check their understanding throughout the course with interactive games, review checkpoints, and exams. Certified Emergency Managers provide expert commentary, using their knowledge and experience to guide learners through the course. Plus, learners can gauge their exam readiness with two full-length practice exams, which mirror the real AEM/CEM exam.
Please note that this course cannot be used to meet the AEM/CEM emergency management or general management training requirements at this time.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $399
Hours to Complete: 30
Access to Curriculum Time: 6 months
Register for AEM®/CEM® Prep Course (U.S. version)
First Aid - Includes basic skills for addressing minor medical emergencies (scrapes and bumps, heart attack, stroke and choking), injury emergencies. Provides training on how to use an epinephrine pen and asthma inhaler. Also includes HeartSaver CPR/AED - covering the basics of CPR for Adults, Children and Infants. It also has the option of just doing Adult CPR or just doing Child & Infant CPR. It also prepares you to use an AED (automated external defibrillator). Also included is management of foreign body airway obstructions. This course is available for anyone interested.
Type of instruction: Instructor Lead
Price: $95
Hours to Complete: 8
Access to Curriculum Time: TBD
Register for First Aid & CPR/AED Training
Includes CPR for Adults, Children & Infants as an individual as well as two-way management when working with another healthcare provider. Also included is management of foreign body airway obstructions and an introduction to the AED (automated external defibrillator). While this course is listed for healthcare providers, it is open to anyone wanting to learn CPR/AED.
Type of instruction: Instructor Lead
Price: $75
Hours to Complete: 8
Access to Curriculum Time: TBD
Is a dollar more valuable today or tomorrow? What about a year from now? This introductory-level course covers time value of money (TVM) principles and risk and return. You will review the basic TVM techniques used in evaluating all financial decisions and their cash flow implications. For Risk and Return, you will learn how risk influences investment decisions, and how to calculate risk and rates of return. Further, you will explore the benefits of diversification and the use of the portfolio concept in investing.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Time Value of Money and Risk
Changes in markets, techniques, technologies, and products have altered the landscape of Operations and fueled the explosive development of Operational Risk management. The regulators of financial and public companies are demanding a far greater level of disclosure and awareness by directors about the risks they manage and the effectiveness of the controls they have in place to reduce or mitigate these risks. There is also a greater realization that a major source of earnings volatility can be attributed to the way a firm operates and not “financial risk”. All these changes have triggered the need for an efficient Operational Risk Management system in organizations.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $450
Hours to Complete: 60
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
Register for Operational Risk Management
This completely online and self-paced one-module course utilizes Inc. Magazine's prize-winning editorial content to introduce basic concepts of business operations and crisis management. The focus is on providing practical, hands-on advice to entrepreneurs and small-business people, including video segments with analysis and commentary from industry-leading practitioners and subject matter experts. The course also offers real-world examples, how-to lists and advice, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material. Included with your course is a one (1) year complimentary subscription to Inc. Magazine ($19.99 value). Your subscription will start with the current issue. Inc. Magazine publishes 8 issues a year.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Optimizing Operations and Managing Crises
Every professional involved in the Global Financial Services industry would benefit from this training! This comprehensive course covers several important topics in the industry such as: Statistical concepts, Risk measurement, Back Testing, Stress Testing, and Value of Risk methodologies, used by leading financial institutions worldwide.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $600
Hours to Complete: 40
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
Register for Market Risk - Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
The Professional Risk Manager Program is a competitive exam that tests a professional’s competence in the field of risk management. This program is certified by The Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA). Visit their website www.prmia.org. Today’s risk professional is expected by regulators and shareholders alike to know and understand industry best practices and to be committed to using them. The PRM certification sends the message to stakeholders that you set the standards. This course offers the students online tutorials for certification exams, ePRM Coach, and a comprehensive self-study guide for the Professional Risk Manager (PRM).
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $450
Hours to Complete: 70
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
This course is designed for current and soon-to-be managers seeking to understand the foundations of effective management. Managers are employed across industries, functions, and organizational structures to oversee different-sized departments, teams, and groups of workers. However, there are fundamental tools, techniques, skills, and competencies that can help all managers navigate workplace relationships, coach and mentor employees, and lead high-performing teams in accordance with HR laws and managerial best practices. This course will dive into these topics and test acquired knowledge through exercises, games, review checkpoints, and a final assessment.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
MindEdge's A Manager's Guide to Superior Customer Service explores the art and science of developing a superior customer experience. Customers are vital to any organization and superior customer service can pay large financial dividends.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for A Manager's Guide to Superior Customer Service
Emotional intelligence (EI) is our ability to identify and control our emotions to achieve positive outcomes in our relationships. Managers with high EI are better equipped to deal with subordinates, colleagues, and company executives, and they can do a better job of handling and resolving conflicts. This one-module course reviews the underlying concepts of emotional intelligence and explores how managers can improve and make use of their emotional intelligence.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Emotional Intelligence for Managers
A budget is a detail of expenses and incomes for a set period of time. This introductory-level course covers budgets and how they are used in organizational settings including the uses and functions of master budgets, operating budgets, sales, production and cost of goods sold budgets, and cash budgets. You will also learn about the budgeting process, and how organizations are using different budgeting techniques to overcome operating challenges.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Understanding and Managing Budgets
If you're a manager and have not had any management coursework or experience, you may be looking for some foundation in management basics. This course considers the fundamentals of management and how managers can be effective in organizational settings. Starting by defining the role of a manager and how management differs from leadership and administration, the course then discusses management styles and seeks to help you identify your own management style. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Management, a text used at Harvard Business School. Chapters of the book are available via PDF download from within the course, and no additional purchase is required.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Managing in a Modern Organization
To be successful and move ahead in his or her career, a manager must understand how to manage people, including motivating workers and coordinating their activities. This course will explain how the goals, empowerment, measurement system of management can be employed and how organization structures differ. The course will also cover the difficulty of discipline while trying to maintain productivity and momentum.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
As businesses are increasingly turning to technology to handle both internal and external communications, the notion of a centralized workforce that meets face-to-face on a daily basis is becoming less common. Companies are embracing the idea of employing remote workers—from both near and far—who can provide a diverse range of skills and viewpoints without being bound by location. While there are many advantages to remote work for both the company and the individual, managers must be aware of the challenges that can arise when employing remote workers. This course explores the benefits and drawbacks of remote work and provides managers with tips for helping their remote workers stay connected and motivated.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Managing Remote Employees
One of the more precious resources a manager has is his or her time. Managers can become more effective by employing time management and scheduling techniques, delegating, outsourcing key tasks, and employing technology. Effective time management helps managers achieve their goals. The concepts covered in this course will help create structure around your time management skills, and will help reveal any weaknesses in your time management habits. Making time management a priority is often the first step to keeping on task and maintaining a schedule.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
This course introduces learners to basic artificial intelligence concepts and trends. Artificial Intelligence plays an increasingly important role in many industries. The emergence of this new technology promises to bring unprecedented efficiencies for organizations and enhance business performance. In today's global economy, managers will need to know how AI can be leveraged to keep their organizations competitive, as well as understand the potential ethical issues associated with employing AI technologies such as deep learning, machine learning, and the various AI-enabled recognition technologies.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for A Manager's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain is on the forefront of emerging technologies and is the foundation of modern cryptocurrencies. If you're a manager with little exposure to blockchain as a concept, this course will help you build an understanding of the concepts and how the technology might apply to your business. This course is an introduction to blockchain as an underlying technology for cryptocurrencies and other applications. The assignments delve into critical parts of blockchain, such as consensus mechanisms and cryptography. They also look at blockchain's impact on verticals such as healthcare, Fintech, and government, along with democracy, governance, and social impact.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for A Manager's Guide to Blockchain
This course will introduce many of the concepts and metrics for management to consider when evaluating whether an investment in robotics is the right decision for the operation. The course begins by defining automation types and processes before exploring the business functions involved in making the decision to execute an automation enhancement. In addition to delving into pragmatic issues, this course also explores the strategic and ethical issues of replacing human workers with robots.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for A Manager's Guide to Robotics
The Supervisors and Managers Soft Skills Bundle will equip managers with the basic skills needed to maintain employee motivation and production. It is never easy to take the lead, as you will need to make decisions and face challenges, but it can become natural and rewarding. Within these workshops students will learn Budgets and Financial Reports, Coaching and Mentoring, Conducting Employee Reviews, Employee Motivation, Knowledge Management, Leadership and Influence, Six Sigma, Office Politics, Performance Management, Self-Leadership, Supervising Others, and Team Building. Managers and supervisors will become more efficient and proficient, with information on delegating, managing time, setting goals and expectations (for themselves and others), providing feedback, resolving conflict, and administering discipline.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $199
Hours to Complete: 136
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
Register for Supervisors and Managers Soft Skills Bundle
MindEdge's A Manager's Guide to Information Technology course is designed to help managers develop a solid understanding of the basic concepts and technologies that they will encounter in the information technology field. Learners in this course will expand their knowledge of IT through games, videos, interactive exercises, quizzes, and other engaging content. Topics of major concern to managers are discussed throughout the course and include big data, cloud implementations, and mobile computing. Learners will combine these with business concepts in order to better inform business decisions. Examples of real-world cases involving IT security and other relevant topics are also incorporated to further expand a learner's knowledge of IT. In addition, certifications and careers in IT are introduced with explanations of each in this crucially important field.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $199
Hours to Complete: 10
Access to Curriculum Time: 6 months
Register for A Manager's Guide to Information Technology
This Certificate in Emerging Technology for Managers addresses blockchain, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Learners who have completed this suite of courses are knowledgeable in how each technology affects business processes and how each contributes to a discussion about the future of labor. In the current business environment, managers and leaders should have a baseline understanding of these emerging technologies. Certificate holders are informed about cryptocurrencies and how blockchain is restoring trust and security in Internet transactions. Learners have examined how artificial intelligence is leading to gains in efficiency and performance, along with concepts and metrics for management to consider when evaluating an investment in robotics. Each of these self-paced courses offer an assortment of interactive exercises, selected readings, and self-assessments that will engage you and help you practice effective business communication. Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $199
Hours to Complete: 9
Access to Curriculum Time: 9 months
Register for Certificate in Emerging Technology for Managers
Ethical decisions in business are everywhere. Managers and leaders, ideally, choose the moral right versus the moral wrong all the time. Organizations have learned that the costs of unethical actions can be high, both legally, and from the perspective of brand image and reputation. This introductory-level course introduces the major ethical frameworks in business and seeks to give learners a strong foundation in ethical business practices, whether as individuals, as a leaders, or as stewards of the organization. This course reviews how organizations can establish and encourage an ethical culture while monitoring for compliance.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $249
Hours to Complete: 10
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Business Ethics in the 21st Century
This online and self-paced Global Business Management prepares learners to take NASBITE's Certified Global Business Professional™ exam. It includes an in-depth review of the Global Business Management knowledge area aligned with NASBITE's practice delineation, exam taking tips, module quizzes, and a 25-question Practice Exam covering the Global Business Management area of knowledge. For a comprehensive NASBITE CGBP™ Exam Prep course, register for the full suite of International Trade courses, which includes Global Business Management, Global Supply Chain Management, Global Marketing, and Global Trade Finance. The Global Business Management course reviews essential skills for the practice of management in an international business context. It covers practical applications of management including: setting a mission and vision for the global business enterprise; developing a global business plan; conducting research in an international environment; understanding the nuances of cultural, legal, political, and regulatory differences; and using technology to support global trade.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $275
Hours to Complete: 10
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Global Business Management
This online and self-paced Global Marketing prepares learners to take NASBITE's Certified Global Business Professional™ exam. It includes an in-depth review of the Global Marketing knowledge area aligned with NASBITE's practice delineation, exam taking tips, module quizzes, and a 25-question Practice Exam covering the Global Marketing area of knowledge. For a comprehensive NASBITE CGBP™ Exam Prep course, register for the full suite of International Trade courses, which includes Global Business Management, Global Supply Chain Management, Global Marketing, and Global Trade Finance. The Global Marketing course reviews the essential skills for the practice of marketing in an international business context. It covers practical applications of marketing including: assessing the external environment; performing strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT) analysis; conducting international market research; developing a marketing plan and budget; determining the global marketing mix (product, price, placement, and promotional strategies); and conducting competitor analysis.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $275
Hours to Complete: 10
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
There are a number of managerial factors that are vital in managing and leading. Becoming a better manager or leader is directly connected to how well you can master them. The Effective Manager's Toolbox is a suite of online modules designed to give managers a head start on managing issues correctly and professionally with less stress and fewer negative organizational circumstances. The modules offer learners an explanation of the managerial mindset that all managers and leaders must adopt to succeed. After careful consideration of the relevant and reference managerial and leadership factors, including such topics as dealing with direct reports, solving problems, planning and budgeting, handling conflict, and others, learners are given a series of video-based scenarios and asked to consider how they would handle the challenges presented for the most optimal results. Upon completion, learners are given a summary of what they've learned for quick reference while at work.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $299
Hours to Complete: 15
Access to Curriculum Time: 6 months
Register for The Effective Manager's Toolbox
In this course, we will discuss and become proficient in the skills necessary to succeed as an administrative office assistant, including office etiquette, reception skills, technology, correspondence, calender management, bookkeeping, travel planning, and other duties performed by an assistant.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $3,595
Hours to Complete: 620
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
Register for Administrative Office Assistant Career Prep Master
Successful collaboration requires effective communication. As more teams and organizations shift to remote environments, many have been forced to adapt their practices to bolster collaboration. Through the courses in this bundle, learners will identify key components of communication and examine remote collaboration from multiple perspectives, including as team members, individual contributors, and leaders and managers. Learners will gain new strategies and skills for fostering collaboration with others, regardless of distance or physical location. The individual courses include: Communicating with Flair Working Remotely Leading from a Distance Virtual Teamwork Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $299
Hours to Complete: 12
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
No matter your age or what phase of your career you're in, leadership is a crucial skill on the path to success. This course examines how to be a successful (that is, effective) leader. This course asks the crucial questions about leadership in today's organizations: What is leadership and why is it important? What does effective leadership require? What is visionary leadership? What is the role of charisma? What is the difference between managing, administering, and leading? This course offers a balance of the theory of leadership with some real-world application to help you develop this critical skill for personal growth and success. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School. Excerpts of the book are made available via PDF download and no additional purchase is required.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Introduction to Leadership
At the core of strong leadership is the ability to communicate effectively. But many leaders focus solely on their spoken words while ignoring the impact of their nonverbal cues, including facial expressions, hand gestures, body movements, and eye gaze. By understanding the impact of body language, leaders can learn how to communicate in a way that builds and sustains positive relationships with employees, clients, and business partners. This course will provide leaders with tips for reading body language and using it to exude both strength and warmth. The course also addresses gender stereotypes and cross-cultural body language and explores the role of body language in virtual communication.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Body Language for Leaders
Why can it be so difficult to balance our work with our personal lives? And can these pressures be managed in a way that can make you more successful at both? Yes. This introductory course is meant for anyone who recognizes work-life balance as a skill and wants to improve their ability to create this balance. This course looks at methods and techniques to reconcile work and family. You will also consider the question of personal fulfillment and the needs and demands of leadership. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School. Excerpts of the book are made available via PDF download and no additional purchase is required.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Leaders and Work-Life Balance
Whether adopting new technology or adapting to a drastic shift in an organization's core focus, change is a constant in any successful business. Managers play a fundamental role in successful effecting changes across an organization, and meanwhile, humans, by nature, will often resist change out of fear of the unknown. This introductory course addresses the key issues managers face in a dynamic environment. By understanding the steps in effecting change and how to overcome resistance, a manager can successfully lead change at various levels of an organization. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School. Excerpts of the book are made available via PDF download and no additional purchase is required.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 4
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Leading and Managing Change
Leading a team through any task or project requires special skills, and an understanding of the team dynamic and politics. This introductory-level course for managers or anyone interested in leading teams, addresses the key issues surrounding leadership in a team environment. Why is leadership important to team success? What is required of a team leader to lead his team effectively? This course considers how team leaders must account for the special and unique circumstances of working in a team, where responsibility, accountability, communication, and leadership are shared. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School. Excerpts of the book are made available via PDF download and no additional purchase is required.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Managers who lead and manage through coaching—providing encouragement, feedback, and support—are more successful in "working through others." This course focuses on the skills and techniques of positive coaching in an organizational setting including listening actively, providing constructive feedback based on observation, reinforcing positive employee performance through recognition and praise, and teaching new skills.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
This Leadership Assessment lets you assess your leadership skills and helps you hone and strengthen them as well as identify gaps for improvement. It covers six skill areas: General Leadership Vision Ethics Communication Managing Change and Conflict Emotional Intelligence The assessment is based on research insights from leadership experts and has been reviewed by a panel of academics, editors, executives with business and nonprofit experience, and an educational assessment consultant. The diagnostic output also allows you to compare your assessment results with those of other leaders. A complete report of your results with analysis of performance and recommendations is provided at the end of the assessment.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Leadership Assessment
What is leadership and why is it important? How does a leader encourage change without triggering fearful resistance? What are the key elements to leading an effective team? What is the role of charisma in leadership? How can a leader achieve work-life balance? This suite of courses addresses all of these questions and many more. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, the courses in this suite offer advice on leadership that can help you stand out as a leader among your peers. Video segments introduce Dr. Mills and other leaders who discuss such issues as how leaders become leaders, leadership ethics, and the differences between leaders, managers, and administrators. Each 3 to 5 hour, self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies, and self-assessments that will engage you and help you consider how your own attitudes toward leadership might promote or impede your leadership success. Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $199
Hours to Complete: 20
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
Register for Certificate in Leadership
The Supervisors and Managers Soft Skills Bundle will equip managers with the basic skills needed to maintain employee motivation and production. It is never easy to take the lead, as you will need to make decisions and face challenges, but it can become natural and rewarding. Within these workshops students will learn Budgets and Financial Reports, Coaching and Mentoring, Conducting Employee Reviews, Employee Motivation, Knowledge Management, Leadership and Influence, Six Sigma, Office Politics, Performance Management, Self-Leadership, Supervising Others, and Team Building. Managers and supervisors will become more efficient and proficient, with information on delegating, managing time, setting goals and expectations (for themselves and others), providing feedback, resolving conflict, and administering discipline.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $199
Hours to Complete: 136
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
Sustainable management is managing a firm so that it generates profits for its owners, protects the environment, and improves the lives of the people with whom it interacts. The business case for sustainable management is that it can help a company's long-run profitability and success. This course provides an overview of sustainable management, and discusses the role of government and regulation in sustainable management practices.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for An Overview of Sustainable Management
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the concept of organizations taking responsibility for their impact on society and the environment. Businesses which embrace CSR promote the public interest through what they do (for example, encouraging community growth and development) and what they refrain from doing (for example, eliminating or avoiding practices that harm stakeholders, regardless of whether such practices are legal). CSR is the inclusion of the public interest into corporate decision-making.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Corporate Social Responsibility
One well-known business saying is that you can't manage what you can't measure. With the growing importance of sustainable management, business leaders must find the appropriate tools and techniques for measuring their organization's sustainability performance. This course reviews the measurement of sustainable management practices and performance.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Measuring Sustainable Management Performance
Leaders are increasingly being held responsible and accountable for the manner in which they lead—and if they are adhering to ethical behavior when they make decisions. Organizations have learned that the costs of unethical actions can be high, both legally, and from the perspective of brand image and reputation. At the same time, research is showing that good business ethics translates to good business results. Leading in an ethical manner can provide a clear advantage in building a thriving enterprise.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Sustainable Management: Leadership Ethics
In order to pursue the goal of sustainability, corporate and government leaders must manage companies and economies in terms of balancing and optimizing the triple bottom line of social, environmental, and economic impacts. The Triple Bottom Line concept, also known as the "3Ps" ("People, Planet, and Profit"), is both a metaphor for thinking about sustainability as well as the basis for a practical framework for accounting and reporting on organizations' activities and impacts. The TBL concept borrows the well-known and widely accepted idea of financial accounting and its "bottom line" and expands it.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Triple Bottom Line Accounting
Throughout this simulation, you will play the role of the new chief executive officer of Coastal Industries, a fictional manufacturer of industrial transformers. During the simulation, you will be asked to make a series of decisions as Coastal Industries adopts sustainable management practices. These decisions will involve the company's operations, its standing in the community, and its relations with local government and state and federal regulators. Each of your decisions will affect Coastal Industries in different ways. You will be asked to make a series of decisions during the simulation, and each decision will impact the project in different ways. As you make these decisions, an adaptive scoreboard will reflect the impact of your choices on project success.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $399
Hours to Complete: 10
Access to Curriculum Time: 6 months
Register for Taking the Helm at Coastal Industries Simulation
Sustainability refers to the use of ecosystems and their resources in a manner that satisfies current needs without compromising the needs or options of future generations. A sustainable business is one that generates profits for its owners, protects the environment, and improves the lives of the people with whom it interacts. This program covers several key topics, including: The reasons for sustainability's increase in popularity The connection between the environment and sustainability The business case for embracing sustainable management within an organization The role government regulation plays in sustainability efforts Some criticisms of corporate sustainability Applying sustainable management principles in the workplace Applying the triple bottom line (TBL) concept and its three pillars of "People, Planet, and Profits" in organizations Recognizing and implementing best practices for measuring sustainable management efforts Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $299
Hours to Complete: 15
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
Decision-making within an organization often hinges on the numbers. So what financial tools do managers need to be familiar with to make sound, defensible decisions? This introductory-level course is meant to teach finance concepts to non-financial managers, and considers tools for decision-making such as cost benefit analysis, break even analysis, and Balanced Scorecard. The course also teaches the basic finance concepts such as return on investment (ROI), fixed and variable costs, and payback period.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Financial Planning and Control
Financial statements can look intimidating and, as a non-financial manager, you may feel like ascertaining the right conclusion from a financial statement is like finding a needle in a haystack. This course covers financial reports and their meaning. You will learn the fundamentals and importance of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows, and how they can be used to manage a business. You will also be exposed to financial (ratio) analysis.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for How to Read a Financial Statement
Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, and analyzing data in order to make more effective decisions. As such, statistics is critical to a successful business. This introductory-level course is meant for non-financial managers. Understanding statistical techniques can help any manager responsible for marketing, management, accounting, sales, or other business functions. This course will also cover graphical representations of data that your stakeholders may expect when reviewing the results of any statistical analysis.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 4
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Introduction to Business Statistics
A budget is a detail of expenses and incomes for a set period of time. This introductory-level course covers budgets and how they are used in organizational settings including the uses and functions of master budgets, operating budgets, sales, production and cost of goods sold budgets, and cash budgets. You will also learn about the budgeting process, and how organizations are using different budgeting techniques to overcome operating challenges.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Understanding and Managing Budgets
This course will provide the beginning investor with the skills and knowledge necessary to begin investing in stocks and bonds. As a new investor, it is important to understand how the stock market works, types of investments and where and how to begin. The strategy and approach you employ, after market research and due diligence covered in-depth throughout this course, will help you successfully and easily make your first trade. This comprehensive course will use learning activities, practice exams, and assignments to help students learn the foundational components to becoming a successful investor.
Type of instruction: Self-Paced, Online
Price: $139.95
Hours to Complete: 24
Access to Curriculum Time: 180 Days
Register for Investing in Stocks and Bonds
Financial Mathematics is a building block to learners in the field of finance. The topics expose the user to fundamental concepts such as cash flows, present value, future value, yield and probability that form the basis for further advanced learning.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $250
Hours to Complete: 16
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
Register for Financial Mathematics
This online and self-paced Global Trade Finance prepares learners to take NASBITE's Certified Global Business Professional™ exam. It includes an in-depth review of the Global Trade Finance knowledge area aligned with NASBITE's practice delineation, exam taking tips, module quizzes, and a 25-question Practice Exam covering the Global Trade Finance area of knowledge.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $275
Hours to Complete: 10
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Corporate governance deals with the complex set of relationships between the corporation and its board of directors, management, shareholders, and other stakeholders. In the recent years, the regulators and legislators have intensified their focus on how businesses are being run. They are endeavoring to create a template for new corporate governance and disclosure measures, which is beneficial for both the stakeholders and controllers.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $295
Hours to Complete: 20
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
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The series of corporate financial scandals that took place in the United States has led to the framing of new legislation called Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This legislation was implemented to help strengthen corporate governance, restore investor confidence, and eliminate corporate corruption. The law was intended to bolster public confidence in the nation’s capital markets and imposes new duties and significant penalties for non-compliance to executives, directors, auditors, attorneys and securities analysts in public companies.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $325
Hours to Complete: 24
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
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This online certificate program introduces non-financial managers to the essentials of finance. The course will help you become conversant in critical financial terminology, and you'll learn how to calculate key financial management indicators. You will learn how to assess your organization's financial health by reviewing balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow, and you will discover how finance and accounting tools can be used to support informed decision making within organizations. Each 3 to 5 hour, self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies, and self-assessments that engage you and structure your learning about organizational finance. Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $399
Hours to Complete: 19
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
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Asset Securitization (AS) has revolutionized the field of finance. It provides an opportunity for financial institutions to enhance liquidity, generate fee-based income and optimize the usage of capital. It can be a source of competitive financing for corporations. For investors, securitized assets offer additional investment opportunities with different risk/return trade-offs. This course presents an introduction to asset securitization, credit enhancement, and helps you understand the ratings approach to Asset Securitization. Topics presented are extensive. Please visit our course description online for more information.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $425
Hours to Complete: 60
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 Months
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Financial Planning and Wealth Management are key skills needed for today’s leaders. In this course you will be presented with the key information needed to help you understand the basic aspects of estate planning and various methods of property transfers, gifts and gift tax. In addition Information is presented regarding The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which requires institutions to disclose privacy policies, and limits instances in which consumer information can be shared. Also covered is Insurance Concepts, Mutual Funds & Retirement Planning.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $575
Hours to Complete: 100
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
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The certificate in Global Capital Markets is a specialized program for professionals who want to acquire in-depth understanding of the financial markets. This course integrates the conceptual knowledge with procedural information about how markets function along with analysis skills.
Type of instruction: Mentor Supported, Online
Price: $575
Hours to Complete: 100
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 Months
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The North American Small Business International Trade Educators (NASBITE) Certified Global Business Professional program certifies that a candidate is competent in four primary areas or domains: Global Business Management, Global Marketing, Supply Chain Management, and Trade Finance. Within each of these four areas, five "threads" or topics are covered: Documentation; Legal and Regulatory Compliance; Intercultural Awareness; Technology; and Resources. Tasks and knowledge statements based on these areas and threads tested through the CGBP exam. This suite of courses provides an overview of essential skills for conducting international business. Each individual course contains a 25-question practice exam as well as tips and documentation to help you prepare for the exam. Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $799
Hours to Complete: 40
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
Register for Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) Exam Prep
There are many differences between nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations. Before delving into the details of nonprofit management, this course serves as a critical introduction to the fundamentals of nonprofit organizations. You will gain an understanding of the nonprofit sector and the issues that leaders face in this exciting and growing field. You will also be exposed to the major areas of responsibility for nonprofit leaders, including strategy, managing employees and volunteers, fundraising, grant writing, board governance, marketing, innovation, and social media.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Understanding what the numbers say about the health of your nonprofit is critical to being able to manage the organization successfully. This course will develop your ability to appropriately interpret the major financial accounting statements that are used by nonprofit organizations. You will gain an understanding of the types of financial statements that are used by nonprofit organizations, and how they differ from for-profit financial reporting. Also, the course demonstrates the power and limitations of accounting information in assessing financial performance and decision-making. You will also learn the uses of financial statement analysis, or ratio analysis for nonprofit organizations.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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A budget is a detail of expenses and incomes for a set period of time. This introductory-level course covers budgets and how they are used in organizational settings including the uses and functions of master budgets, operating budgets, sales, production and cost of goods sold budgets, and cash budgets. You will also learn about the budgeting process, and how organizations are using different budgeting techniques to overcome operating challenges.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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This course is a how-to guide for anyone who's got a great idea about how to give back to the community—but doesn't know how to turn that idea into a reality. The course begins by considering a fundamental question: Is starting a nonprofit the best way to achieve your philanthropic goals? For those who answer "Yes," the course then discusses the key steps in getting a nonprofit off the ground, including incorporating your organization; applying for tax-exempt status; drafting a business plan; choosing a board of directors and writing bylaws for the organization; recruiting employees and managing volunteers; and addressing the crucial issue of fundraising. Rich with videos and interactive content, this course provides a detailed and highly practical introduction to the fast-growing world of nonprofits.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 4
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Starting Your Own Nonprofit Organization
The success of any nonprofit organization can rely on the quality of its leadership. You know a good leader when you see one, but how can you become one? This course begins by examining leadership theories as well as key qualities and ethics within leadership. After establishing this foundation, the course focuses on leadership in the nonprofit sector, including the leadership shortage and possible solutions.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $99
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Leadership in a Nonprofit Organization
If you're involved in a nonprofit organization, you likely know all too well the importance of budgeting. In this course, you will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of budgets and the relationship between strategic budgeting and tactical budgeting. You will also learn about the organization-wide budget and different budget systems. After introducing the basics of budgeting in a nonprofit, the course continues on to slightly more advanced budgeting topics such as capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets. You will also learn how nonprofit organizations are using different budgeting techniques to handle operating challenges.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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When we think of marketing, we typically think of the activities that a for-profit company engages in. However, marketing is an important function for nonprofit organizations as well. Effective marketing is how nonprofit organizations determine the needs of their clients and their donors. As in the for-profit world, nonprofit marketing includes advertising, promotion, public relations, and customer relationship management. This course examines how nonprofits use marketing to publicize their mission and to gather contributions of time and money. The course also discusses marketing planning in the nonprofit organization.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Principles of Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations
Effective use of social media as a marketing tool is often essential for nonprofits to get attention in this digital world. This course introduces learners to the use of social media in communicating, marketing, public relations, and fundraising for nonprofits. It explores the major social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest) as vehicles for nonprofits to reach their members, volunteers, and donors.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
Register for Social Media for Nonprofits
We hear a lot about successful for-profit companies and the successful strategies they have developed. Even though nonprofit organizations are not concerned with profit maximization, they too can benefit from following a strategy. A nonprofit's strategy constitutes its decisions about what it will do and how it will do it. Nonprofit managers are critical to successfully implementing strategy since they are responsible for carrying out the actions that will support it. By understanding a nonprofit's strategy and how it helps the organization fulfill its mission, a manager can do a better job implementing the strategy.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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A capital campaign raises money that a nonprofit organization uses for any physical asset, such as purchasing or renovating a building. It's a critical part of managing in the nonprofit sector. This introductory-level course covers the key terminology and practices surrounding running a successful capital campaign within a nonprofit organization. You will learn about the phases of conducting a capital campaign—evaluation, feasibility study, organization, solicitation, and post-campaign activities—as well as how to avoid common pitfalls in capital campaigns.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Fundraising is one of the central activities of a nonprofit organization and nonprofit management. To help finance operating budgets, nonprofits must raise money every year. In addition, special projects and improvements to facilities may be needed. In these situations, fundraisers will often launch large capital campaigns or apply for foundation grants. This course offers an introduction to fundraising for nonprofit organizations, with an emphasis on the fundamental issues.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $150
Hours to Complete: 4
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Writing grants is often a critical part of gaining funding for any nonprofit organization's mission. Strategic grant writing aligns the needs of a nonprofit with funding sources, whether foundations, government agencies, corporations, or individuals. This introductory-level course offers a guide to the basics of grant writing. The course explores the relationship between grant writing and an organization's strategy for fundraising. It also outlines the six stages of grant writing and highlights grant writing best practices.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $150
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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Volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofit organizations. And board members are a special type of volunteer, helping to guide the direction of a nonprofit, promote the organization in the community, and ensure that the nonprofit's mission is fulfilled. Learning how best to manage the board and other volunteers is a critical part of nonprofit management. This course covers the fundamentals of board and volunteer development as well as recruiting, effective communication, and retention.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $150
Hours to Complete: 5
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
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This course will look at the most important aspect of nonprofits—your mission and how to define that. You will also study governance and leadership issues, looking at the laws that regulate nonprofits and codes of conduct. From there, you will be looking at how best to manage your volunteer program. You will learn how to handle nonprofit finances and, critically, how to create a budget. This course will also teach you how to market and raise funds through fundraising and earned income. Lastly, you will achieve an understanding of the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion and how to achieve this within your organization. Throughout the course, you will have an opportunity to look at how nonprofits of all sizes and from all subsectors accomplish their goals and learn how you can ensure that your nonprofit is successful. This is meant to be a very interactive course, and the more you interact, the more you will get out of this course. You will also have the opportunity to start working on the steps to create your own nonprofit.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $2,095
Hours to Complete: 100
Access to Curriculum Time: 6 months
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Learn what is happening in the Nonprofit world.
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $79
Hours to Complete: 3
Access to Curriculum Time: 3 months
This online course covers the key issues and best practices for managers dealing with contentious situations in the workplace. Throughout seven segments, learners will explore strategies that managers can use to help deal with conflict. The self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies and scenarios highlighting key issues, and self-assessments that engage students and provide opportunities to practice conflict negotiation and management skills.
Courses include: • Communicating Collaboratively • Conflict Management Final Exam (ACE CREDIT®) • Conflict Management Introduction Course (ACE CREDIT®) • Emotional Intelligence for Managers • Handling Difficult Employee Behavior • Handling Workplace Conflict • Introduction to Managing Change and Resolving Conflict • Leading and Managing Change • Negotiations: Resolving Disputes
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $599
Hours to Complete: 25
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
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This online course teaches essential leadership skills to help learners stand out as leaders among their peers. The coursework discusses the theories of leadership and offers real-world practical explanations and definitions. Throughout five segments, learners will explore questions such as: What is leadership, and why is it important? How does a leader encourage change without triggering fearful resistance? What are the key elements to leading an effective team? What is the role of charisma in leadership? How can a leader achieve work-life balance? The self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, case studies, and self-assessments that engage students and provide opportunities to practice leadership skills.
Courses include: • Body Language for Leaders • Introduction to Leadership • Leaders and Work-Life Balance • Leadership Final Exam (ACE CREDIT®) • Leadership Introduction Course (ACE CREDIT®) • Leading and Managing Change • Leading Teams
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $399
Hours to Complete: 20
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
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This online course explores the various challenges that evidence suggests women in business are likely to face—challenges that are different (in kind or in scale) than those faced by men in business. Throughout seven segments, learners will explore key concepts and practices that all successful business people should be familiar with, such as leadership, management, communication, work-life balance, networking, negotiation, and body language. The material also provides concrete and data-driven recommendations for women looking to advance their careers, by naming some of the systematic obstacles they might face, such as explicit discrimination, implicit bias, glass ceilings, and assumptions about familial responsibilities. Alongside commentary from women leaders, students will learn strategies for addressing these challenges. The self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, case studies, and self-assessments that engage students and provide opportunities to practice essential business skills.
Courses include: • Body Language for Women in Business • Communication for Women in Business • Current Issues Facing Women in Business • Leadership and Management for Women in Business • Leadership for Women in Business Final Exam (ACE CREDIT®) • Leadership for Women in Business Introduction Course (ACE CREDIT®) • Negotiation for Women in Business • Networking and Mentorship for Women in Business • Work-Life Balance for Women in Business
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $559
Hours to Complete: 23
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
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This online course equips both new and experienced managers with the skills and resources necessary to foster strong connections, lead change, and resolve potential conflicts. Throughout ten segments, students will learn practical ways to better coach and motivate their teams, whether operating in an in-person office environment or a remote work setting. The self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, case studies, and self-assessments that engage learners and provide opportunities to practice and apply key management skills
Courses include: • Communicating Collaboratively • Emotional Intelligence for Managers • Handling Difficult Employee Behavior • HR Fundamentals for Managers • Introduction to Negotiations • Leading and Managing Change • Management Skills Final Exam (ACE CREDIT®) • Management Skills Introduction Course (ACE CREDIT®) • Managing People • Managing Remote Employees • Time Management
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $749
Hours to Complete: 36
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months
Register for Management Skills ACE CREDIT®
This online course provides learners with a fundamental understanding of the most critical areas in small business management. Throughout nine segments, learners will explore the varied tasks, such as accounting, budgeting, business law, marketing, and project management, that small business owners must master to be successful. The self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, case studies, and self-assessments that engage students and provide opportunities to practice business management skills.
Courses include: • Accounting Fundamentals for Small Businesses • Budgeting and Financial Analysis for Small Businesses • HR Fundamentals for Small Businesses • Introduction to Small Business Management • Law for Small Businesses • Leading and Managing Small Businesses • Project Management for Small Businesses • Small Business Management Final Exam (ACE CREDIT®) • Small Business Management Introduction Course (ACE CREDIT®) • Small Business Marketing
Type of instruction: Online
Price: $559
Hours to Complete: 22
Access to Curriculum Time: 12 months