2016-09-15

From Leadership to Finance--Beat the Average Price & Learn to Succeed in the Business World with 7 Courses!

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Strategy & Business Models







KEY FEATURES
Whether you're a business professional or an entrepreneur, this course will have you tossing your outdated business models out the window and adapting new, more effective techniques. Learn to consider today's complex issues when looking to launch or pivot your business plan, and gain the practical techniques to put ideas into action.

Learn to think strategically using modern techniques w/ 15 hours of coursework

Recognize, develop & execute successful strategy using business model frameworks

Identify the drivers of Strategy formulation using Megatrend analysis

Adopt a dynamic strategic approach to deal with 21st Century continuous change

Turn your idea into a business model prototype

Construct a value proposition that works

Understand the importance of customer centrality in business models & value propositions

Deliver better results in company brainstorming sessions

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: 1 year

Access options: web streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

THE EXPERT
Anna Shaw is a Strategy and Innovation Consultant at Lucency, based in Sydney, Australia. She has 20 years experience appraising strategy, finance, and business models. This experience has been derived from working across multiple industries in the UK, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, for globally based financial institutions, servicing some of the world’s leading corporations. Her broadly based skillset includes strategy and innovation, finance, risk governance, economics, general management and business development. Anna has an insatiable curiosity about how ingenious business models are created, executed, and evolve. Her core focus is on training people in all types of businesses (from start ups, new ventures and established firms), how to turn their sensational new growth ideas into value propositions that delight and business models that work.

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Finance for Non-Finance Professionals

KEY FEATURES
Finance does not come easy to most of us who do not work directly in finance. Still, knowing financials, especially in terms of meeting objectives, is one of the most important skills a business professional can have. This course provides a fluent understanding of fundamental financial theory that will give you a leg up in any business-related industry, regardless of your place in it.

Access 21 units of course material 24/7

Combine written material, videos, screenshots & exercises to learn core financial skills

Understand & use key financial statements: Profit & Loss Statements, Balance Sheets & Cash Flow Forecasts

Discover budgeting & forecasting techniques to improve planning, control & decision-making

Learn how to use key performance indicators (KPIs) effectively

Apply important investment-appraisal techniques & understand how to develop a business plan

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: 1 year

Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

THE EXPERT
Dr. Janet Cole has over 20 years of finance experience. She trained as a chartered accountant with Hays Allen and worked in financial and management accounting roles as well as audit, information systems and business change. Dr. Cole worked for a range of firms during her finance career such as ARRI, Hoechst and Moss Chemists. She worked closely with managers and directors helping them to understand and make decisions based on key financial data.

Dr. Cole has been involved in providing finance and information systems training in her commercial roles and as an Associate Professor at Kingston University where she teaches on Finance, Information Systems and Business Change courses. She is the current chair of the Business Change special interest group for the British Computer society and contributed to the review of the Change Management Institutes body of knowledge. For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

Business Writing

KEY FEATURES
Whether you're tasked with drafting an email or a lengthy report, producing quality content quickly is essential for career success. This course will teach you techniques for getting even the most technical of ideas clearly outlined for your readers without wasting a minute of your time.

Study useful writing techniques w/ 15 hours of learning material

Structure & plan your writing

Write with style & confidence

Edit effectively to improve readability

Gain more readers

Explore techniques & tricks from an expert

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: 1 year

Access options: web streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

THE EXPERT
Andreas Loizou has run training course since 1999. His clients include governments and financial institutions around the world.
Andreas has also signed off research at BNP Paribas, worked in equity research at Goldman Sachs and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. He has also served as Director of Training at FT Knowledge, and was the highest-rated speaker on the Financial Times Intro to the City program six years in succession.
Andreas has a first class degree in English Literature from Leeds and an M. Phil in English from the University of Cambridge. He is also a graduate of the Faber & Faber Novel Writing Academy. His first book, The Devil’s Deal, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 2012. It featured on the WH Smith Business Book Chart, was Pearson’s Business Book of the Month, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and six other languages.
Andreas is now a Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School, where he talks to MBAs and Masters in Occupational Psychology about effective communication. He splits his time between London, Madrid and writing his next book - The Genius Guide to Modern Business Writing, which comes out in Spring 2015.

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Leadership & Management

KEY FEATURES
Lead your organization, department, or team to success with essential management skills. From managing performance to delivering stability to developing your own style, this is a must-take course for any current or future manager in today's business world.

Gain fundamental leadership skills w/ 15 hours of instruction

Understand your organization in detail & put forth a strategy

Make strategic decisions based on this strategy

Build a set of core values & brand definition

Promote these values & the brand across all teams at your company

Develop staff skills across to deliver your objectives

Lead & manage with charisma, integrity, conviction & support

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: 1 year

Access options: web streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

THE EXPERT
Richard Pettinger is Principal Teaching Fellow (Reader) in Management Education at University College London (UCL), where he is the director of the undergraduate and graduate programmes in information management for business, in the UCL Department of Management Science and Innovation. Richard is the author of over fifty books and numerous papers on all parts of the subject of management. His research interests are privatization and restructuring, the effects of organization and human behavior on decision taking in organizations, and the development of a professional and agreed body of knowledge and expertise for the ‘profession of management’.

Richard is visiting professor of management at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He continues to research write and consult with companies and organizations of all sizes and in many different sectors. He regularly is asked to join panels and conferences as keynote speaker, conference and session chair and expert contributor.

Chloe Daniel has run and helped set up a number of businesses - a specialized education consultancy, a network for high achieving graduates, an innovative online job referral platform and a publishing business. Her expertise lies in management, structuring start ups, and getting brilliant ideas off the ground. Her parallel focus right now is writing a series of education books and growing her publishing business. Chloë studied History and German at Oxford University and started her career at an internationally renowned literary agency.

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Project Management

KEY FEATURES
Project management is a key component of reaching business goals, and this course will cover best practices from project start to finish. Study tools and techniques with the experts, and make sure all projects are planned, performed, and completed as intended.

Learn to launch, manage & evaluate projects of all types w/ 15 hours of learning material

Make sure projects are well-informed, efficient, flexible & effective

Study tools, processes, and skills to monitor project progress

Study techniques & tricks w/ project-management experts

Receive video summaries, downloadable templates & exercises

Participate in multiple-choice tests

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: 1 year

Access options: web streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

THE EXPERT
Brett Topham has over 15 years of experience in contract and project management, and has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 2004. He has worked in a variety of roles in project / program management, procurement, contract management, and portfolio management. Mr. Topham served as the Deputy Account Lead with responsibility for a +$70M (annual) portfolio of U.S. Federal contracts, capturing and reporting financial data from all operations and projects; providing oversight, review, and approval of proposals and change requests; consolidating and presenting financial performance reports for senior management.

Don A. Cox has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 1999, and has more than thirty years experience in successful integration and implementation of large scale IT systems in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Cox has successfully managed multi-year programs and projects ranging from $70M to more than $650M.

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Business Analysis

KEY FEATURES
Successful businesspeople make the most out of the numbers available to them. If you're to succeed in the business world, you're going to need how to crunch and effectively analyze data. This course will take you through a proven, structured process to improve your ability to collect, analyze, and forecast business and financial data in order to generate valuable, financially viable insights.

Access 20 extensive units w/ exercises designed to hone your skills

Learn how to report on business data & present information & analysis to clients & stakeholders

Turn mass amounts of data into sound, well-supported business decisions

Create practical charts to communicate business decisions

Gain 60 professional spreadsheet models that can be adapted for your work

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: 1 year

Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

THE EXPERT
Harold Graycar is an experienced executive with a broad background in information technology, business development and general management.

His degrees are in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. In addition to his numerate and analytic skills, Harold's ability to communicate and work with personnel from non-technical backgrounds makes him a valuable contributor to multi-disciplinary projects, and an effective business trainer.

He has had over 25 years’ experience in technical, commercial and general management roles: advising corporate and government clients on project funding, models and strategies for business development, procurement of equipment and services and outsourcing of systems and operations -- all based around business analysis and numerate skills.

Harold has been a “power user” and developer of Excel applications since the product was launched, and has developed a number of Excel modelling tools for financial applications, workforce planning, HR profile analysis and transaction logging.

Harold has presented executive-level Financial Analysis, Forecasting and Business Modelling sessions for public groups and individual client organisations in Australia, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Macao, Philippines and Singapore. The focus is always on how to increase productivity with better hands-on numerate and information presentation skills.

Note from Harold:
“My courses are all about the important numbers that drive business: I try to make learning about them interesting and to help participants discover the strengths of their own capabilities.”

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Communication Influence & Teams

KEY FEATURES
Cultivate top-notch communication skills to augment your relationship with your staff and in turn, boost your business. As business moves faster and faster in today's digital age, it's essential to assure that clear communication exists across your organization--and this course explores the skills required to make that dream a reality.

Learn to better understand people’s emotions w/ 15 hours of training

Communicate according to people's wants & needs

Employ body language & active listening to communicate more effectively

Communicate with introverts & extroverts

Speak clearly & w/ authority

Create excellent first impressions

Cultivate power, empathy, rapport, consistency & credibility

Apply a number of influence-building techniques

Distinguish between different types of teams &team members

Manage teams, including conflict within teams

Communicate effectively as part of a team

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: 1 year

Access options: web streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

THE EXPERT
Andreas Loizou has run training course since 1999. His clients include governments and financial institutions around the world. Andreas has also signed off research at BNP Paribas, worked in equity research at Goldman Sachs and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. He has also served as Director of Training at FT Knowledge, and was the highest-rated speaker on the Financial Times Intro to the City program six years in succession. Andreas has a first class degree in English Literature from Leeds and an M. Phil in English from the University of Cambridge. He is also a graduate of the Faber & Faber Novel Writing Academy. His first book, The Devil’s Deal, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 2012. It featured on the WH Smith Business Book Chart, was Pearson’s Business Book of the Month, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and six other languages. Andreas is now a Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School, where he talks to MBAs and Masters in Occupational Psychology about effective communication. He splits his time between London, Madrid and writing his next book - The Genius Guide to Modern Business Writing, which comes out in Spring 2015.

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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