Global Dimensions of Business

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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Nearly every business today, both large and small, has global relevance. Leaders at all levels need to understand how a business can be global and gain a broader competitive advantage.

In this course, you will learn about strategizing in an international context, managing and leading within a global environment, multinational strategies and structures, foreign market entry, and becoming a savvy global strategist.

Introduction to Human Resource Management

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Access time: 2 years

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Human resource management is essential to the operations of any organization. In many small to medium-sized organizations, the human resource function is an additional job responsibility, often for the business owner or other senior leader.

In this course, you will learn the essentials of Human Resource Management (HRM), job analysis and recruiting strategies, employee training and development, career management, compensation plans, compliance in the workplace, and fair treatment.

Emotional Intelligence: Leading with Self-Awareness

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Estimated learner hours: 15 hours

Access time: 2 years

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Emotions are the invisible hero of both success and failure in the workplace. How emotions influence your creativity, ability to achieve goals, and work quality is up to you. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a skill that can be learned and developed.

In this course, you will learn about emotional intelligence in the workplace, its importance, and practical tools that will improve your emotional intelligence through a collection of science-based exercises.

Emotional Intelligence: Mental Toughness and Resilience

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Estimated learner hours: 15 hours

Access time: 2 years

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Mental toughness and resilience are becoming scarce commodities in leadership today. You can practice mental toughness and become more resilient to lead others more effectively through our ever volatile and changing times.

This course will guide you in developing your knowledge and skills related to the essentials of mental toughness and resilience, and provide you mental training interventions, stress management techniques, and ideas on how to build resilient teams.

Business Writing Fundamentals

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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In nearly any workplace situation, writing is something you will be expected to do continuously and expected to do well. Your writing style will indicate your level of professionalism and can garner respect for you and your organization.

This course teaches the basics of writing a business letter, preparing a report, writing for a publication, and choosing appropriate methods or technology to send your message. These tools can increase writing effectiveness in the business world and beyond.

Business Leadership

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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Leadership is a part of nearly every employee’s job description. Businesses today require employees to take the initiative, find innovative solutions, act like an entrepreneur, and lead others towards organizational success.

This course will help you understand and apply foundational leadership concepts, including leadership traits and characteristics, leadership development and succession, transformational leadership, measurement of leadership effectiveness, and contingency leadership.

Business Integration and Strategic Management

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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Do you have a system in place to grow your business? Managers and business owners must be able to conduct decision-making within an often complex, ambiguous, and evolving business landscape.

In this course, you will learn about strategic leadership, strategic decision making, building competitive advantage, multifunctional management, and strategy.

Business Finance Fundamentals

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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Financial managers must be able to convert relevant accounting and tax information into meaningful and actionable knowledge for organizational decision making.

In this course, you will learn about financial statements and cash flows, how to plan for growth and control, debt management, financial instruments, capital budgeting, and returns. It is appropriate for employees needing to understand financial analysis and reporting.

Business Ethics

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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In all realms of the business world, ethics and ethical conduct must be the foundation for employee decisions.

In this course, you will learn about organizational and ethical culture, ethical decision making, ethical leadership, global perspectives and issues of business ethics, and the development of business ethics culture.

Business Communications

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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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

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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.

Legal Environment of Business

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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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

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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

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Estimated learner hours: 5 hours

Access time: 2 years

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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

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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

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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

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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.