Business Communications

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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Effective business communication is critical in today’s workforce. Through an exchange of verbal or written statements, the ability to communicate effectively is vital to creating an understanding of strategic goals, focus, or events.

In this course, you will learn the foundational principles of communication, interpersonal dynamics in organizations, the variances in communicating with internal and external audiences, crisis and risk communication, and developing impactful communication in professional presentations.

Accounting Fundamentals

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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You will learn the foundations and fundamentals of business accounting, including basic financial statement analysis, analytical measures, corporate annual reports, capital investment analysis, internal controls, budgeting, and performance measures. In this course, you will gain a comprehensive overview of the business accounting function.

Leading Teams

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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Understanding the dynamics of effective team leadership means better output, happier and more inspired people, and a smoother and more efficient workflow.

This course outlines what you need to understand to plan, build, and lead the most effective and productive teams possible. Whether you are a team member or a team leader — learn what you can do to be more effective and raise your team performance to the next level.

Leading the Leaders

Leading Edge Learning

Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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Create a leadership legacy. This course will take you to the highest tier of leadership and will show you how to ignite the desire in others to lead as you have. Ultimately, what it means to walk the path of a leader is different for each of us, but a few steppingstones have proven universal.

In this course, you will learn the principles of higher leadership, look at practical applications of leadership, and gain tools for working with people and inspiring yourself and others. Also, you will learn how to mentor so you can prepare the next generation of leaders successfully.

Legal Environment of Business

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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The legal environment of business is much more than simple compliance with the law; it is also about understanding the legal frameworks in which a company operates to achieve and maintain compliance.

In this course, you will learn the critical concepts behind how businesses are formed and structured from a legal perspective, trade laws and regulations, contracts, and compliance issues related to sales and product liability.

Managing Conflict

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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No matter how much we try to avoid it, conflict is inevitable regardless of our communication and leadership abilities. It can also push us to re-examine what we think and strive to be our best.

In this course, you will learn the art of conflict resolution. You will examine different kinds of conflict and how to best deal with them, including what to do when conflict happens, how to minimize or remove barriers to conflict resolution, how to handle high maintenance relationships, and some tried-and-true rules for conflict resolution.

Improving your conflict management skills creates positive results for relationships at home and in the workplace.

Marketing Fundamentals

Leading Edge Learning

Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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In this course, you will learn the core concepts of marketing that will help set your organization apart from the competition. Great marketing is based on sound, logical economics and psychological laws of human and organizational behavior. Marketing, when well executed, will make customers happier and companies more profitable.

This course is an easy-to-follow introduction to marketing, including marketing framework, the importance of research in decision making, segmentation, target marketing, positioning, and marketing metrics to gauge effectiveness.

Operations / Production Management

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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Synchronizing organizational efforts to produce and maintain the quality of goods and services is the essential function of the production or operations manager. In this course, you will learn about operations strategy, supply chain management, quality controls and systems, improving quality, and project management.

Organizational Behavior

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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Maximize employee satisfaction and effectiveness by understanding the dynamics of organizational behavior. Organizational behavior is the study of individuals and groups within an organizational context and the internal processes and practices that influence the effectiveness of individuals, teams, and organizations.

In this course, you will learn essential organizational behavior concepts related to employee competencies, organizational design, culture, and organizational change.

Quantitative Research Techniques and Statistics

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 5 SHRM PDCs

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In the complex and data-driven business environment, effective organizational decision making must be grounded in sound statistical analyses and research to succeed in a globally competitive world.

In this course, you will learn how business statistics involve collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting numerical findings relevant to a business decision or situation. Better data and data analysis enables sound decision-making. This course will provide you a complete picture of statistical concepts and their practical applications and teach you how statistical methods are vital tools for modern business leaders.

Strategy and Strategic Planning

Leading Edge Learning

Estimated learner hours: 6 hours

Access time: 2 years

Credits: 6 SHRM PDCs

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Strategic planning involves setting goals and a detailed blueprint or course of action to achieve the goals. Strategic planning should happen at all levels of your organization, with each group contributing value to the process. In this course, you will learn strategy and its relationship with achieving goals, strategic decision-making, and how to create organizational structures to lead you, your team, and your organization to success.

This course comes from the 8-unit program, Leading Organizations. To learn more about or purchase the full program visit the Leading Organizations page.