The ability to write effectively is a skill every supervisor and manager needs to possess. Being able to express yourself clearly, accurately, and professionally in writing has a direct impact on your success. This training session on business writing for supervisors and managers is designed to review important writing techniques that can help you make the most of all your business communications.

The main objective of this training session is to help you communicate effectively with employees about workplace emergencies. By the time the session is over, you should be able to communicate effectively before an emergency; communicate effectively during an emergency; and communicate effectively after an emergency. The first part of the session will address communication before emergencies to prepare employees to respond effectively in an actual emergency. The second part will cover communication during and after an emergency.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate effectively with your boss and senior management. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:

• Communicate effectively with management so that your needs, views, and concerns are heard;
• Identify the needs and goals of your boss and senior management;
• Provide management with the information and advice it needs to make good decisions and solve problems;
• Plan your communications so that they are timely and well received; and
• Position yourself as a partner with your boss and senior management.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate more effectively in the global workplace. By the time the session is over, you will be able to identify cultural differences, be respectful and tolerant and avoid stereotyping, recognize how cultural context and other cultural issues affect communication in a global workplace, and overcome communication challenges.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate better with all generations in your workplace. By the time it’s over, you’ll understand what makes your fellow employees “tick” and be able to identify some of their characteristics; understand and respect your cross-generational coworkers; recognize some bad habits that could be creating conflict; enhance your communication skills on the job; and become familiar with some techniques to help you communicate better.

The objective of this training session is to teach you the basics of effective communication in the workplace. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify the benefits of effective communication; recognize obstacles to effective communication; enhance your communication skill; and communicate more effectively on the job.

The main objective of this session is to give you an overview of corporate use of social media in business communications. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand how your use of social media both at and outside of work can reflect on the company; recognize effective use of social media in corporate communications; see that actions taken in the workplace, even with personal electronic equipment, are covered by
workplace rules; understand that even personal social networking sites can affect the company and your employment; know your rights with respect to personal electronic equipment and social networking accounts; and see and understand how your company is using social media to further business goals.

The main objective of this session is to help you use meetings effectively to accomplish important goals. By the time this session is over, you will be able to plan meetings that achieve the best results; conduct meetings efficiently; and participate more effectively in other people’s meetings.

E-mail is an essential and influential component of business communication. It is used to conduct all kinds of business, from communicating with coworkers and colleagues to providing customer service to negotiating contracts and dealing with government regulators. The objective of this online e-mail best practices training course is to help trainees make the most efficient use of electronic correspondence. Trainees will learn how to write effective e-mails in the workplace. At the end of this training session, trainees will be able to manage e-mail volume and storage effectively; present a professional image in e-mail; produce clear, concise messages; and reply efficiently to incoming mail.

Communication is the process by which people create and share information and ideas with one another in order to reach mutual understanding and get things done. Effective communication is the foundation of positive and cooperative working relationships. Managers and supervisors have positions as leaders in their workplace and need to be able to communicate effectively with employees, colleagues, and upper management. The objective of this training session is to help managers and supervisors build more effective communication skills. At the end of the training session, trainees will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of effective workplace communication;
• Recognize obstacles to effective communication;
• Improve their communication skills; and
• Manage all their workplace communications more effectively.

This training session helps employees identify the purpose of workplace meetings, understand essential requirements for making them more effective, prepare successfully for meetings, participate actively and constructively, and lead meetings to achieve the best results.

The main objective of this session is to learn presentation skills and conquer the task of speaking in front of people. By the time this session is over, you will be able to deal with public speaking stress, prepare and deliver a presentation, and give your audience valuable information.

The main objective of this session is to help you learn to ask for what you need more effectively. By the time the session is over, you will know how to approach people effectively when asking for what you want and use seven strategies to improve your chance of getting it.

The main objective of this session is to help you learn telephone etiquette. By the time the session is over, you will have the skills you need to project a professional impression on the phone; handle holds, transfers, and voice mail effectively; deal properly with difficult callers; and conclude calls successfully.

The main objective of this session is to help you improve your listening skills. By the time the session is over, you will benefit from improved listening and processing skills.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate more effectively when you are giving direction and inspiring subordinates to deliver top performance. By the time this session is over, you will be able to understand the role top-down communication plays in effective supervision; identify strategies for improving top-down communication; and communicate successfully with employees in all work situations.

For most healthy adults, seasonal viruses are not generally life-threatening. But as you’ve seen in the news, acute respiratory illness pandemics, such as those caused by coronaviruses (including COVID-19) or influenza, can spread quickly and widely, and pose a major global health threat.

The main objective of this course is to make nonhealthcare workers aware of the risks of pandemics and the precautions to take to keep themselves safe. By the time the session is over, you will be able to describe what a pandemic is; identify types of viruses that can cause acute respiratory illness pandemics and recognize their symptoms; appreciate the risks of infection; prevent the spread of infection; prepare for and address a pandemic at work and at home; and react responsibly if you get sick.

Learning Objectives
• Describe what a pandemic is;
• Identify types of viruses that can cause acute respiratory illness pandemics and recognize their symptoms;
• Appreciate the risks of infection;
• Prevent the spread of infection;
• Prepare for and address a pandemic at work and at home; and
• React responsibly if you get sick.

For most healthy adults, seasonal viruses are not generally life-threatening. But as you’ve seen in the news, acute respiratory illness pandemics, such as those caused by coronaviruses (including COVID-19) or influenza, can spread quickly and widely, and pose a major global health threat.

The main objective of this course is to make nonhealthcare workers aware of the risks of pandemics and the precautions to take to keep themselves safe. By the time the session is over, you will be able to describe what a pandemic is; identify types of viruses that can cause acute respiratory illness pandemics and recognize their symptoms; appreciate the risks of infection; prevent the spread of infection; prepare for and address a pandemic at work and at home; and react responsibly if you get sick.

Learning Objectives
• Describe what a pandemic is;
• Identify types of viruses that can cause acute respiratory illness pandemics and recognize their symptoms;
• Appreciate the risks of infection;
• Prevent the spread of infection;
• Prepare for and address a pandemic at work and at home; and
• React responsibly if you get sick.

The Anatomy of a URL: How to Identify Web Links course provides an overview of a URL, how you can identify various components of a URL to verify if you can trust clicking on one or not, and how to identify malicious web links. You’ll also learn about Tiny vs. Long URLs, as well as anchors and destinations.

In this Creating and Using Passwords course, you will learn about the importance of passwords in order to protect your personal information. You’ll get a better understanding about why passwords are important, password dos and don’ts, password examples, password best practices, and tips for managing passwords.

From phishing to pre-texting to baiting, this E-mail security course provides you with an overview of E-mail security and how you can identify if an E-mail you received is an attempt to access your device in part of a cyber-attack.

This Mobile Device Best Practices course is an overview of the recommended best practices for securing your mobile device from a cyber attack. You’ll learn about firewalls, Wi-Fi security, and Bluetooth.

This Protecting and Securing Your Data course is an overview of how you as a user can take additional steps in protecting and securing your data from cyber criminals. You’ll learn about firewalls, virus vs. malware protection, and how to secure your internet equipment.

The Safe Web Browsing: Identifying Malicious Web Pages course covers safe Web browsing practices and shows you how to identify safe web pages. You’ll learn to spot indicators and examples of malicious Web pages.

What is the cyber-criminal after? How do cyber crimes start? This course covers cyber attack methods, as well as the different types of cyber threats you may encounter, including malware, viruses, Denial of Service (DOS), and Advanced Personal Threats (APT).

A recent study predicts that cybercrime damage will cost $6 trillion annually by 2020, up $3 trillion from 1 year ago. This course provides an overview of cyber security and why it is important for each and every one of us.

You’ll learn the history and statistics of cyber attacks, who is responsible, why someone would commit a cyber crime, and who is a target.

If you want to be a leader in the workplace, you need to prepare to assume leadership roles. You must go from being a follower to being the one who guides, directs, motivates, and manages. This transition takes time, experience, skills, and commitment. But if you want to lead others, you can. This session will tell you how to be ready when the right opportunity comes along.

The main objective of this session is to create awareness of ethical issues in business and to ensure that you always know the ethical course of action to take on the job. By the time this session is over, you should be able to recognize the importance of business ethics; understand the requirement of the law and our ethics policy; identify ethical problems on the job; and make ethical decisions.

The objective of this training session is to teach you the basics of effective communication in the workplace. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify the benefits of effective communication; recognize obstacles to effective communication; enhance your communication skill; and communicate more effectively on the job.

Conflict is a normal part of life. Whether it’s at work, at home, with friends or neighbors, disagreements between people happen. When they do, you need to be able to manage and resolve conflicts successfully to achieve the best outcome for you and for those caught up in the conflict. This online conflict resolution training course teaches conflict management and conflict resolution skills and techniques that can be used to more effectively manage workplace conflicts . Furthermore, resolving team conflict is an essential part of effective team management—group conflict resolution is critical to a productive workplace. Training staff on conflict resolution is an essential element of a productive workforce.

This online course in leadership skills conveys that to be an effective leader, you need to learn and practice certain skills addressed in this training session. The bottom line is that anyone can be a leader if you:

• Know what it means to be a leader;
• Recognize benefits of being a leader;
• Identify the qualities of effective leaders;
• Understand different leadership styles; and
• Use leadership skills to become a more effective leader.

We all think all the time. But how deeply do we think? How carefully do we think? How efficiently do we think? How effectively do we use our brain power on the job to handle all the information, problems, and decisions we must deal with every day? By the time you’ve completed this course, you’ll be well on your way to being a more effective critical thinker. So put on your “thinking” cap and get ready to learn about a very useful performance-enhancing process that will make you more successful.

The main objective of this session is to help you cope well with workplace change. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand the nature of workplace change and how it affects you; identify the stage of change; develop resilience; use coping skills to deal effectively with workplace change; take care of your health in times of change; and capitalize on opportunities for career growth resulting from workplace change.

E-mail is an essential and influential component of business communication. It is used to conduct all kinds of business, from communicating with coworkers and colleagues to providing customer service to negotiating contracts and dealing with government regulators. The objective of this online e-mail best practices training course is to help trainees make the most efficient use of electronic correspondence. Trainees will learn how to write effective e-mails in the workplace. At the end of this training session, trainees will be able to manage e-mail volume and storage effectively; present a professional image in e-mail; produce clear, concise messages; and reply efficiently to incoming mail.

Effective workplace communication is the foundation of positive and cooperative working relationships. The objective of this online employee communication training course is to teach employees the basics of effective workplace communication. At the end of the course, trainees will be able to understand the benefits of effective workplace communication, recognize obstacles to effective communication, enhance communication skills, and communicate more effectively on the job.

The main objective of this session is to help you make the best possible decisions on the job. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:

• Recognize the importance of making good decisions on the job;
• Identify the steps in the decision-making process;
• Avoid common decision-making mistakes; and
• Make more effective decisions, even under pressure.

This training session helps employees identify the purpose of workplace meetings, understand essential requirements for making them more effective, prepare successfully for meetings, participate actively and constructively, and lead meetings to achieve the best results.

This online time management training course teaches employees how to gain control over their time so that they can work more efficiently and productively. This employee productivity course offers ways that employees can make better use of their time and accomplish more with less effort. By the end of this online time management training course, employees will be able to identify and eliminate time wasters; plan and prioritize effectively; define goals and make time-wise decisions; capitalize on prime and commuting time; avoid procrastination; and handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies effectively.

This session will focus on negotiation skills. Everyone should be a good negotiator. Being able to negotiate effectively helps you reach agreements, achieve objectives, get along better with people, and ultimately be more productive and successful on the job. Learn more by participating in this online training session about negotiating skills for all employees.

Organizing and planning are two of the most important things you can do to be more efficient and successful in your job. Simply by organizing yourself, your work, your time, and your workstation, you can improve your job performance and take a big step toward achieving your career goals. This online training course addresses how organizing and planning can help you work smarter, and it provides the blueprint to more efficient organization and more effective planning. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Recognize the importance of being well organized and planning effectively on the job;
• Organize yourself, your work, and your time efficiently.
• Identify the types of plans you may need to make and the elements of a plan.
• Plan effectively to achieve work goals.
• Plan special projects successfully.

This session teaches employees problem-solving techniques. It goes without saying that problem solving is part of any job. Problems can’t be avoided. “Problems” are better looked at as opportunities for improvement. The problem-solving methods covered in this session can help trainees identify and resolve work problems more quickly and effectively, change employee behaviors and attitudes toward problems and, consequently, be more empowered and successful at work.

Teams can be an extremely effective way to get important work done. They make use of the diverse skills, knowledge, and experience of team members to produce results that a single person working alone would be unable to achieve. The main objective of this online teambuilding training course is to explain how to build strong, effective teams in your workplace. This course will teach employees to recognize the value of teamwork, identify the characteristics of an effective team, understand the qualities of a productive team member, and help build successful teams to achieve important goals.

This training presentation will help you gain control over your time so that you can work more efficiently and productively. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify and eliminate your time wasters; plan and prioritize effectively; define goals and make time-wise decisions; capitalize on prime and commuting time; avoid procrastination; and handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies effectively.

This course discusses effective training in all its stages, from assessing the needs at your workplace to developing a culture where training is ongoing and seen as an essential part of every job. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Assess training needs at your workplace.
• Identify training objectives to meet these needs.
• Understand the elements of adult learning. This will help you train adults effectively.
• Develop effective training sessions that enhance learning through participation.
• And finally, foster or encourage a culture of continued learning.

This course discusses effective training in all its stages, from assessing the needs at your workplace to developing a culture where training is ongoing and seen as an essential part of every job. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to assess training needs at your workplace, identify training objectives to meet these needs, understand the elements of adult learning in order to best train adults effectively, develop effective training sessions that enhance learning through participation, and foster or encourage a culture of continued learning.

The main objective of this session is to help you get things done more effectively and efficiently without authority. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:

• Identify situation in which you may need to get things done without authority.
• Communicate you way to cooperation.
• Work with the organization up and down to reach goals.
• Use influence effectively.
• Build effective alliance that encourage others to work with you.
• Rally people through teamwork and positive energy.

The ability to write effectively is a skill every supervisor and manager needs to possess. Being able to express yourself clearly, accurately, and professionally in writing has a direct impact on your success. This training session on business writing for supervisors and managers is designed to review important writing techniques that can help you make the most of all your business communications.

Coaches play a very important role in the success of a sports team. They develop and motivate players. They work hard to bring out the best in each player and to unify their players into a winning team. Coaching in the workplace has basically the same purpose and involves similar techniques. This session covers effective techniques you can use every day to coach your employees to higher levels of performance, which means greater success for you, your employees, and your department.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate effectively with your boss and senior management. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:

• Communicate effectively with management so that your needs, views, and concerns are heard;
• Identify the needs and goals of your boss and senior management;
• Provide management with the information and advice it needs to make good decisions and solve problems;
• Plan your communications so that they are timely and well received; and
• Position yourself as a partner with your boss and senior management.

Management experts estimate that most supervisors and managers spend as much as a quarter or more of their valuable work time managing conflicts. Workplace conflict may be based on disagreements over work procedures, different needs and interests, clashes of personalities, or a range of other situations and circumstances that lead to confrontations between or among employees. When you know how to resolve workplace conflicts effectively, you can save time and turn potentially destructive situations into positive, productive opportunities for growth and development within your work group. Additionally, when you know how to build consensus among employees, you can enhance motivation and cooperation as well as create an atmosphere in which agreement generally prevails over conflict.

The main objective of this session is to help your managers and supervisors manage conflict and build consensus among employees successfully. This session helps trainees:

• Recognize the impact of workplace conflict;
• Identify common causes of conflict;
• Understand how positive communication helps prevent conflict;
• Resolve conflicts successfully; and
• Build consensus among employees.

This course helps managers and supervisors deal with the challenge of change—something that no organization or supervisor can avoid. The objective of this training session is to help trainees understand how to manage change in their departments and work groups to help your employees cope—and even thrive—in a changing work environment. At the end of the training session, your managers and supervisors will be able to:

• Recognize the impact of workplace change;
• Identify reasons why employees resist change;
• Understand how you can overcome resistance to change; and
• Learn how to successfully implement change.

Communication is the process by which people create and share information and ideas with one another in order to reach mutual understanding and get things done. Effective communication is the foundation of positive and cooperative working relationships. Managers and supervisors have positions as leaders in their workplace and need to be able to communicate effectively with employees, colleagues, and upper management. The objective of this training session is to help managers and supervisors build more effective communication skills. At the end of the training session, trainees will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of effective workplace communication;
• Recognize obstacles to effective communication;
• Improve their communication skills; and
• Manage all their workplace communications more effectively.

All managers and supervisors must deal with meetings, either as a leader of a meeting or as a participant. The main objective of this session is to help managers and supervisors use meetings effectively to accomplish important goals. By the time this session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Plan meetings to achieve the best results;
• Conduct meetings efficiently; and
• Participate more effectively in other people’s meetings.

All managers and supervisors have an impact on other employees. Garnering input from those employees helps with improving individual skills as well as improves workplace communications and work practices. The main objective of this session is to help your managers and supervisors encourage employee input. By the time this session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Appreciate the benefits of employee input;
• Stimulate employees to develop ideas and suggestions for improvement;
• Use suggestion systems and other strategies for soliciting employee input effectively; and
• Respond positively to employee input and provide appropriate feedback and recognition.

The main objective of this session is to help you handle employee complaints successfully so that you and your employees can get past the problems that lead to complaints and get on with your work. By the time this session is over, you should be able to acknowledge employee complaints promptly and effectively, investigate complaints thoroughly and make fair decisions, decide when help is required to resolve a complaint, and avoid pitfalls that could cause complaints to escalate into larger problems.

Supervising other people is never easy, but some employees make it particularly difficult. Challenging employees can try a manager’s patience and drain a lot of time and energy. Turning things around takes skillful management and patience. The main objective of this online employment training course is to teach supervisors and managers how to manage challenging employees more effectively. By the time the course is over, you should be able to identify challenges associated with supervising difficult employees, manage your own feelings effectively, create a positive work environment for all, and respond positively to challenging employees and treat them fairly.

All managers and supervisors are, by definition, leaders in their workplace. Critical leadership skills are necessary for success as a supervisor or manager. The main objective of this session is to discuss the important supervisory and managerial topic of leadership and explain how you can become a more effective leader. By the time this session is over, you should be able to identify the qualities of effective leaders, understand different leadership styles, build credibility and trust, use leadership techniques to ensure success, lead teams effectively, and lead employees skillfully in challenging times of change.

This course helps trainees with the following concepts:

• A better understanding of the concept of motivation—this means more than just knowing a definition. It also entails knowing some of the qualities of motivation and thinking about how motivation relates to the health of your workplace.
• What motivates your employees—again, this may be more complex than it initially seems because people are motivated by different factors. We discuss many of these factors.
• Techniques to help you obtain peak performance from your employees.
• Ways you can encourage your employees to grow and reach their highest potential. This benefits both your workplace and the employee.

Negotiation is a process of building, maintaining, and improving relationships. It is something you use all the time at your work, whether you realize it or not. For example, you negotiate with your boss so that you can hire an additional employee. You negotiate with other supervisors to coordinate the operation of your departments and work groups. You negotiate many issues with your employees from performance goals to vacation schedules. The main objective of this session is to help managers and supervisors develop and improve negotiation skills. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Identify the purpose of negotiation;
• Recognize the importance of having good negotiation skills; and
• Negotiate effectively with a variety of people in the workplace to achieve goals and reach mutually beneficial agreements.

This course addresses how new supervisors can meet their new responsibilities successfully and excel as a supervisor. The course focuses on 14 key areas in which all new supervisors must become fully competent in order to perform their jobs well and prepare for advancement. The main objective of this session is to help trainees be the best supervisors they can be. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Identify key supervisory skills;
• Manage employees effectively;
• Promote superior employee performance;
• Achieve goals and objectives; and
• Project a competent, confident, and professional image.

This course focuses on the importance of setting goals to guide and develop employee performance. It examines the criteria for effective performance goals and covers the steps in the goal-setting and review process. The information trainees learn in this session help them strengthen the performance appraisal process, as well as supervise and motivate your employees more successfully. The main objective of this course is to help your managers and supervisors use goals to guide and improve employee performance so that all your employees can achieve at their highest potential. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Understand the benefits of setting performance goals;
• Tailor goals to the needs of each employee;
• Set goals to motivate superior performance; and
• Incorporate goals successfully into the appraisal process.

During this training session, you’ll learn about how you can become better organized so that you can become more efficient and stop wasting valuable time. You’ll also learn how to develop better plans so that you can achieve goals and be more successful.

The main objective of this session is to help you become a highly effective problem solver. Duration: 30 minutes.

Your success as a supervisor depends on conducting yourself in a professional manner at all times with everyone you come in contact with during the workday.
The main objective of this session is to discuss professional behavior and how it affects your job as a supervisor. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:

• Recognize the impact of your behavior on the job;
• Maintain professional relationships with employees, colleagues, superiors, and others; and
• Act appropriately in all situations and make proper employment decisions.

The main objective of this session is to help you supervise special groups of employees more effectively. By the time the session is over, you should be able to identify the needs of special groups of employees, avoid potential problems with young and older works and non-English speaking employees, supervise special groups more effectively, and obtain the best performance possible from each employee.

This course on time management for supervisors addresses ways to make better use of your valuable time so that you can accomplish more with less effort. This training session focuses on practical techniques and information that you can start using right away to gain more control over your busy work schedule. The main objective of this session is to help you work more efficiently and productively. By the time this session is over, you should be able to:

• Define goals and make time-wise decisions;
• Plan and prioritize efficiently;
• Process information more efficiently;
• Delegate effectively;
• Avoid procrastination; and
• Handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies more effectively.

This course discusses effective training in all its stages, from assessing the needs at your workplace to developing a culture where training is ongoing and seen as an essential part of every job. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Assess training needs at your workplace.
• Identify training objectives to meet these needs.
• Understand the elements of adult learning. This will help you train adults effectively.
• Develop effective training sessions that enhance learning through participation.
• And finally, foster or encourage a culture of continued learning.

This course discusses effective training in all its stages, from assessing the needs at your workplace to developing a culture where training is ongoing and seen as an essential part of every job. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to assess training needs at your workplace, identify training objectives to meet these needs, understand the elements of adult learning in order to best train adults effectively, develop effective training sessions that enhance learning through participation, and foster or encourage a culture of continued learning.

This training session on business ethics for supervisors explores ethical issues that affect your job and your employees. The objective of this training session is to help ensure that as an organization and as individuals we act ethically in all matters related to our business. At the end of the training session trainees will be able to:

• Appreciate the importance of ethical conduct on the job;
• Understand the requirements of the law and company policy;
• Identify ethical problems in the workplace;
• Make ethical decisions; and
• Recognize and carry out ethical responsibilities.

Microsoft Access lets ordinary users develop powerful apps customized for their business needs. The new Access 2013 even lets you build web-based apps which anyone can use. In this course experienced Microsoft Access trainer Peggy Ward will walk you through building your first Microsoft Access desktop or web app, including creating tables, importing external data, using templates, using queries, and implementing forms and reports.

If you learn to use Excel®, you will start to see how useful it is in your life—from formatting your grocery list to calculating complex return on investment (ROI) values. Of course, you may have a rudimentary knowledge of how Excel works, but if you want to learn to get the most of it, – take this course. Let our Microsoft®-Certified Trainers Barbara Evers and Christina Tankersley walk you through everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Microsoft Excel.

If you’ve mastered Microsoft® Excel® 2016, you have one of the most practical and valuable skill sets in all of modern business. A spreadsheet guru can work wonders—from organizing lists, to creating multilayered, interactive reports, to revealing answers to business-critical questions like return on investment (ROI), budget allocations, tracking expenditures, and more. This course is your first step toward getting started with Microsoft Excel.

If you’ve mastered Microsoft Excel 2016, you have one of the most practical and valuable skill sets in all of modern business. A spreadsheet guru can work wonders, from organizing lists to creating multi-layered, interactive reports to revealing answers to business-critical questions like ROI, budget allocations, tracking expenditures, and more. This course builds on your existing knowledge of Excel and teaches you how to use links, lookup functions, macros, data tables, and more.

If you’ve mastered Microsoft Excel 2016, you have one of the most practical and valuable skill sets in all of modern business. A spreadsheet guru can work wonders—from organizing lists; to creating multi-layered, interactive reports; to revealing answers to business critical questions like ROI, budget allocations, tracking expenditures, and more. This course builds on your existing knowledge of Excel basics and teaches you how to manage data, charts, and tables, as well as how to use powerful tools such as PivotTables, Pivot Charts, Slicers, Timelines, and more.

This Microsoft Project course covers the skills a project manager needs in order to manage a project plan created with Microsoft Project 2016. From updated task progress, work, and costs to creating reports, and including advanced topics such as sharing resources and linking project plans, this course covers everything you need to know in order to manage your projects using Microsoft Project.  A related course, Mastering Microsoft Project, Part 1: Creating a Project is recommended as a prerequisite to this course, along with basic project management knowledge and skills.

Office 365 is far more than classic Microsoft Office. Easy, collaborative tools like OneDrive, Groups, Planner, and FindTime combine with traditional Microsoft apps to form a powerful productivity-boosting tool. In this course, we’ll show you how to tap into all the power Office 365 has to offer!  For years there was a disconnect between the world’s most popular desktop suite, Microsoft Office, and the rapid shift to mobile computing. Office 365 effectively bridges the gap, providing the familiar tools
you depend on with a cutting-edge cloud-based environment for sharing and collaboration.

OneNote® is a powerful tool both for managing your own notes or ideas and for collaborating with others. In this course, trainer Christina Tankersley will walk you through everything you need to know to be efficient with Microsoft’s incredibly popular note-taking platform.

OneNote® is a powerful tool both for managing your own notes or ideas and for collaborating with others. In this course, trainer Christina Tankersley will walk you through everything you need to know to be efficient with Microsoft’s incredibly popular note-taking platform.

This course teaches you how to make the leap from being a mere user to being an Outlook® master. From setting up files, folders, message tracking, and flagging, it’s all in this course. This course also covers all exam objectives for the Microsoft Office Specialist 77-423 exam.

Few things have a greater impact on your productivity than the way you employ Outlook. Too many people waste time on unnecessary tasks that could be either managed automatically or handled in a fraction of the time if the Outlook user just knew how to use the proper tools. Learn more by participating in this online training session Mastering Outlook 2016—Advanced.

Few things have a greater impact on your productivity than the way you employ Outlook. Too many people waste time on unnecessary tasks that could be either managed automatically or handled in a fraction of the time if the Outlook user just knew how to use the proper tools. Learn more by participating in this online training course Mastering Outlook 2016—Basic.

Have you seen someone deliver a PowerPoint® presentation that was really well done? Do you remember the difference it made—not only in helping you understand the content but also the way it made you feel about the presenter? This course will show you how to turn lackluster presentations into something that is visually stimulating and works to keep your audience engaged.

Have you seen someone deliver a PowerPoint presentation that was really well done? Do you remember the difference it made, not only in helping you understand the content, but the way it made you feel about the presenter? This Mastering PowerPoint 2016 course will show you how to turn lackluster presentations into something that is visually stimulating and works to keep your audience engaged.

Whether you’re a new QuickBooks user or someone who is comfortable with the desktop version, this course will give you the skills you need to get up and running with QuickBooks Online quickly and confidently.

Do you feel like you don’t have time to learn how to use some advanced tools and functions in QuickBooks because you have other important work to do—like gathering or inputting data into QuickBooks? If we could show you how to perform in 30 seconds the same thing that normally takes you 10 minutes, would you be interested? This course is loaded with those timesaving lessons that can change the way you think about QuickBooks.

Microsoft® Word: Hands down the most powerful document creation tool on the planet. Used by millions of people each day, very few know how to use it properly. In this comprehensive course produced by Microsoft Certified Trainer Christina Tankersley, we’ll show you everything you need to know to harness the power of Microsoft Word.

Microsoft® Word: Hands down the most powerful document creation tool on the planet. Used by millions of people each day, very few know how to use it properly. In this basics course produced by Microsoft Certified Trainer Christina Tankersley, we’ll show you everything you need to know to start harnessing the power of Microsoft Word.

In olden times, workers would meet up around the watercooler to catch up with each other’s progress and share information. Microsoft Lync® aims to recreate this casual collaboration atmosphere through an array of easy, high-tech features. This course will give you the skills and confidence to use Lync’s communication, collaboration, and sharing features to stay in touch with clients and coworkers and get more done.

Microsoft® Sway lets ordinary users develop powerful apps customized for their business needs. The new Access 2013 even lets you build Web-based apps that anyone can use.

Office 365 is far more than classic Microsoft Office. Easy, collaborative online tools combine with traditional Microsoft apps to form a powerful productivity-boosting tool. In this informative online training course, we’ll show you the basics of everything Office 365 has to offer!

Microsoft® Office has no shortage of ways for groups to work together. From simple spreadsheet sharing to social media tools like Yammer and Delve and collaboration platforms like SharePoint®, Microsoft has provided plenty of tools to help people work as a team. One of the newest tools is also the most powerful: Office 365 Groups. The Groups feature is built into Microsoft Outlook®, the Office 365 Web interface, and its own Groups mobile app.

The new Planner tool in Office 365 is a powerful team management tool, providing features comparable to stand-alone project management apps but without the high price tag. In fact, it’s included free with most Office 365 business plans.

Both OneDrive® (the free, personal version) and OneDrive for Business (the corporate version included in most Office 365 plans) have the same mission: to let you easily access your documents and files from any device, anytime, and securely share them with others.

Sometimes you need a quick way to get to your stuff no matter where you are. Outlook Online, also called the Outlook Web App (OWA), is a convenient and powerful way to access your email, calendar, and contacts from any web browser.

Throughout this course you will learn the main features and benefits of using Outlook Online from Office 365. The interface is very similar if you are using Outlook Online from your company as well.

Knowing how to create a PowerPoint® slide is one thing. Knowing how to create an effective slide is something altogether different! As Roger Courville, author of The Virtual Presenters, says, “PowerPoint doesn’t teach you to do effective slides anymore than Microsoft Word teaches you how to be a good writer.” But this course will! During Power Up PowerPoint, you’ll see and experience how creating effective slides will improve your presentations.

Think you’re a Microsoft® Office expert? Test your knowledge in these 26 short, convenient modules highlighting the most useful aspects from our Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Power-Up PowerPoint courses.

Objectives. You will be able to:

• Discuss the basic use of Document Libraries
• Describe the typical uses for Team Sites and Communication Sites
• Explain the difference between Major Versions and Minor Versions
• Describe the use of Check In, Search, the Recycle Bin, and List Apps in SharePoint

Share Files and Post Information For Your Team with SharePoint Online

SharePoint is the behind-the-scenes backbone of Office 365, but the SharePoint Online app has it’s own benefits.  In this course, IT guru Chip Reaves demonstrates how to use SharePoint Online to create shared resources, including a shared document library, and to create internal websites to share information with your team.

Objectives. You will be able to:

• Describe the function of SharePoint in Office 365
• Discuss the differences between Team Sites and Communication Sites
• Create a SharePoint Site
• Add Pages to a SharePoint Site

Now more than ever, SharePoint is a powerful and user-friendly tool for creating a common place where your team can share documents, collect data, and collaborate. In this course, you’ll quickly learn how to create your own site and invite your team members.

SharePoint expert, Kat Snizaski, walks you step-by-step through creating a parent site and adding subsites for multiple teams. You’ll learn how to create and manage document libraries and custom lists that enable collaboration. You’ll also learn how to assign user permissions and get your team rolling on their new collaboration platform!

Learning Objectives

Chat, call, and video-conference with ease using Microsoft’s business communication app! Skype® for Business is an incredibly powerful communications tool, used for everything from simple chat conversations to webinars for 10,0000 people, and it can even replace a business’s phone system.

This course includes eight easy-to-understand modules that show how to take advantage of the new tools that are designed to make Excel® 2013 more accessible to new users and increase the usefulness of savvy users alike. Take this course and you’ll agree: Excel 2013 is destined to change the way people make use of spreadsheets!

Learn how Office 2016 makes it easier than ever to save your work to the Cloud, share and collaborate with others, and produce professional documents. Microsoft® Office 2016 is an evolutionary improvement that refines dozens of features and adds a few new tricks, too.

After years of development and improvements, Microsoft® released PowerPoint® 2013; a new version that’s more powerful and filled with new features and options. This course is perfect for PowerPoint users who want to sharpen their presentation skills.

Collaborating, reviewing, and commenting on documents just became easier. Access to documents, especially considering the hyper-mobile business environment, requires more accessibility options than ever before. Word 2013 is sure to have a significant impact on the way you use your Word processing application.

Microsoft Word 2013 provides major improvements that expand the usefulness of Word for everyday business.

When Microsoft® released Windows 8, they surprised a lot of personal computer (PC) owners. The interface and basic functionality were different from any previous Windows operating system. Windows 10 combines the best features of Windows 8 with a more traditional navigation structure and layout, plus some new modern benefits. Take our Windows 10, Windows 8.1, or Windows 8 courses to learn more about how you can use them most effectively.

If you learn to use Excel®, you will start to see how useful it is in your life—from formatting your grocery list to calculating complex return on investment (ROI) values. Of course, you may have a rudimentary knowledge of how Excel works, but if you want to learn to get the most of it, – take this course. Let our Microsoft®-Certified Trainers Barbara Evers and Christina Tankersley walk you through everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Microsoft Excel.

If you’ve mastered Microsoft® Excel® 2016, you have one of the most practical and valuable skill sets in all of modern business. A spreadsheet guru can work wonders—from organizing lists, to creating multilayered, interactive reports, to revealing answers to business-critical questions like return on investment (ROI), budget allocations, tracking expenditures, and more. This course is your first step toward getting started with Microsoft Excel.

If you’ve mastered Microsoft Excel 2016, you have one of the most practical and valuable skill sets in all of modern business. A spreadsheet guru can work wonders—from organizing lists; to creating multi-layered, interactive reports; to revealing answers to business critical questions like ROI, budget allocations, tracking expenditures, and more. This course builds on your existing knowledge of Excel basics and teaches you how to manage data, charts, and tables, as well as how to use powerful tools such as PivotTables, Pivot Charts, Slicers, Timelines, and more.

This course teaches you how to make the leap from being a mere user to being an Outlook® master. From setting up files, folders, message tracking, and flagging, it’s all in this course. This course also covers all exam objectives for the Microsoft Office Specialist 77-423 exam.

Few things have a greater impact on your productivity than the way you employ Outlook. Too many people waste time on unnecessary tasks that could be either managed automatically or handled in a fraction of the time if the Outlook user just knew how to use the proper tools. Learn more by participating in this online training session Mastering Outlook 2016—Advanced.

Few things have a greater impact on your productivity than the way you employ Outlook. Too many people waste time on unnecessary tasks that could be either managed automatically or handled in a fraction of the time if the Outlook user just knew how to use the proper tools. Learn more by participating in this online training course Mastering Outlook 2016—Basic.

Have you seen someone deliver a PowerPoint® presentation that was really well done? Do you remember the difference it made—not only in helping you understand the content but also the way it made you feel about the presenter? This course will show you how to turn lackluster presentations into something that is visually stimulating and works to keep your audience engaged.

Have you seen someone deliver a PowerPoint presentation that was really well done? Do you remember the difference it made, not only in helping you understand the content, but the way it made you feel about the presenter? This Mastering PowerPoint 2016 course will show you how to turn lackluster presentations into something that is visually stimulating and works to keep your audience engaged.

Microsoft® Word: Hands down the most powerful document creation tool on the planet. Used by millions of people each day, very few know how to use it properly. In this comprehensive course produced by Microsoft Certified Trainer Christina Tankersley, we’ll show you everything you need to know to harness the power of Microsoft Word.

Microsoft® Word: Hands down the most powerful document creation tool on the planet. Used by millions of people each day, very few know how to use it properly. In this basics course produced by Microsoft Certified Trainer Christina Tankersley, we’ll show you everything you need to know to start harnessing the power of Microsoft Word.

When Microsoft® released Windows 8, they surprised a lot of personal computer (PC) owners. The interface and basic functionality were different from any previous Windows operating system. Windows 10 combines the best features of Windows 8 with a more traditional navigation structure and layout, plus some new modern benefits. Take our Windows 10, Windows 8.1, or Windows 8 courses to learn more about how you can use them most effectively.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate effectively with your boss and senior management. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:

• Communicate effectively with management so that your needs, views, and concerns are heard;
• Identify the needs and goals of your boss and senior management;
• Provide management with the information and advice it needs to make good decisions and solve problems;
• Plan your communications so that they are timely and well received; and
• Position yourself as a partner with your boss and senior management.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate more effectively in the global workplace. By the time the session is over, you will be able to identify cultural differences, be respectful and tolerant and avoid stereotyping, recognize how cultural context and other cultural issues affect communication in a global workplace, and overcome communication challenges.

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate better with all generations in your workplace. By the time it’s over, you’ll understand what makes your fellow employees “tick” and be able to identify some of their characteristics; understand and respect your cross-generational coworkers; recognize some bad habits that could be creating conflict; enhance your communication skills on the job; and become familiar with some techniques to help you communicate better.

The main objective of this session is to help you use meetings effectively to accomplish important goals. By the time this session is over, you will be able to plan meetings that achieve the best results; conduct meetings efficiently; and participate more effectively in other people’s meetings.

Management experts estimate that most supervisors and managers spend as much as a quarter or more of their valuable work time managing conflicts. Workplace conflict may be based on disagreements over work procedures, different needs and interests, clashes of personalities, or a range of other situations and circumstances that lead to confrontations between or among employees. When you know how to resolve workplace conflicts effectively, you can save time and turn potentially destructive situations into positive, productive opportunities for growth and development within your work group. Additionally, when you know how to build consensus among employees, you can enhance motivation and cooperation as well as create an atmosphere in which agreement generally prevails over conflict.

The main objective of this session is to help your managers and supervisors manage conflict and build consensus among employees successfully. This session helps trainees:

• Recognize the impact of workplace conflict;
• Identify common causes of conflict;
• Understand how positive communication helps prevent conflict;
• Resolve conflicts successfully; and
• Build consensus among employees.

Conflict is a normal part of life. Whether it’s at work, at home, with friends or neighbors, disagreements between people happen. When they do, you need to be able to manage and resolve conflicts successfully to achieve the best outcome for you and for those caught up in the conflict. This online conflict resolution training course teaches conflict management and conflict resolution skills and techniques that can be used to more effectively manage workplace conflicts . Furthermore, resolving team conflict is an essential part of effective team management—group conflict resolution is critical to a productive workplace. Training staff on conflict resolution is an essential element of a productive workforce.

The main objective of this session is to teach you how to use delegation as a core tool in managing your project. By the time this session, is over you will be able to recognize the role of delegation in helping a project succeed, learn why delegating is valuable, understand the delegation process, realize the importance of giving and receiving feedback, and understand factors that put delegation at risk of failing.

The main objective of this session is to help you make the best possible decisions on the job. By the time the session is over, you should be able to:

• Recognize the importance of making good decisions on the job;
• Identify the steps in the decision-making process;
• Avoid common decision-making mistakes; and
• Make more effective decisions, even under pressure.

All managers and supervisors have an impact on other employees. Garnering input from those employees helps with improving individual skills as well as improves workplace communications and work practices. The main objective of this session is to help your managers and supervisors encourage employee input. By the time this session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Appreciate the benefits of employee input;
• Stimulate employees to develop ideas and suggestions for improvement;
• Use suggestion systems and other strategies for soliciting employee input effectively; and
• Respond positively to employee input and provide appropriate feedback and recognition.

This online time management training course teaches employees how to gain control over their time so that they can work more efficiently and productively. This employee productivity course offers ways that employees can make better use of their time and accomplish more with less effort. By the end of this online time management training course, employees will be able to identify and eliminate time wasters; plan and prioritize effectively; define goals and make time-wise decisions; capitalize on prime and commuting time; avoid procrastination; and handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies effectively.

This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the main principles of lean project management. By the time the session is over, you should understand the concepts of eliminating waste, creating value, executing faster, and creating a sense of accomplishment among your project team.

Negotiation is a process of building, maintaining, and improving relationships. It is something you use all the time at your work, whether you realize it or not. For example, you negotiate with your boss so that you can hire an additional employee. You negotiate with other supervisors to coordinate the operation of your departments and work groups. You negotiate many issues with your employees from performance goals to vacation schedules. The main objective of this session is to help managers and supervisors develop and improve negotiation skills. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Identify the purpose of negotiation;
• Recognize the importance of having good negotiation skills; and
• Negotiate effectively with a variety of people in the workplace to achieve goals and reach mutually beneficial agreements.

Organizing and planning are two of the most important things you can do to be more efficient and successful in your job. Simply by organizing yourself, your work, your time, and your workstation, you can improve your job performance and take a big step toward achieving your career goals. This online training course addresses how organizing and planning can help you work smarter, and it provides the blueprint to more efficient organization and more effective planning. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to:

• Recognize the importance of being well organized and planning effectively on the job;
• Organize yourself, your work, and your time efficiently.
• Identify the types of plans you may need to make and the elements of a plan.
• Plan effectively to achieve work goals.
• Plan special projects successfully.

During this training session, you’ll learn about how you can become better organized so that you can become more efficient and stop wasting valuable time. You’ll also learn how to develop better plans so that you can achieve goals and be more successful.

This session teaches employees problem-solving techniques. It goes without saying that problem solving is part of any job. Problems can’t be avoided. “Problems” are better looked at as opportunities for improvement. The problem-solving methods covered in this session can help trainees identify and resolve work problems more quickly and effectively, change employee behaviors and attitudes toward problems and, consequently, be more empowered and successful at work.

The main objective of this session is to help you become a highly effective problem solver. Duration: 30 minutes.

The objective of this training session is to learn how to plan a project effectively. At the end of the training session, you will be able to understand the steps involved in effective project planning, understand how to troubleshoot your own project plans to anticipate problems and prevent bottlenecks, and create project strategies that will successfully achieve goals, meet deadlines, and contain costs.

This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the concepts of stakeholder analysis and management. By the time the session is over, you should be familiar with the purpose of a stakeholder analysis, how to identify your project’s key stakeholders and important peripheral stakeholders, why you should involve stakeholders and why getting to know them is important, and understanding some different methods for conducting a stakeholder analysis.

The main objective of this session is to prepare you for the demanding task of getting a project under way. By the time the session is over, you will understand the many steps involved in successfully executing a project, how to wind up a project properly, and special situations that can complicate the implementation of a project.

The main objective of this session is to teach you about troubleshooting within project management. In this training module, we will go over what troubleshooting is, what the signs of trouble are and how to avoid them, why troubleshooting is important, and ways to react to different situations to become a more efficient troubleshooter.

The objective of this training session is to learn how to create a budget—and how to stay on it. We will talk about the importance of careful and accurate budgeting in the project planning process, the basic steps involved in budgeting for a project, and the importance of monitoring expenditures during project implementation. By the end of the session, you should be better prepared to deal effectively with problems and bring any project in on budget.

The main objective of this session is to teach you about Project Quality Management and how the process works. In this training module we will go over the Project Quality Management process, why it is important, and how to implement the process.

The main objective of this session is to teach you about project risk management and how to identify and plan for risks. In this training module, we will go over what project risk management is, why it is important and, most importantly, how to identify risks.

The main objective of this session is to teach you techniques for building more effective project teams. At the end of the training session, you will be able to recognize the value of team efforts, identify the characteristics of an effective team, build commitment and cooperation among team members, and use teams effectively to achieve project goals.

This training presentation will help you gain control over your time so that you can work more efficiently and productively. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify and eliminate your time wasters; plan and prioritize effectively; define goals and make time-wise decisions; capitalize on prime and commuting time; avoid procrastination; and handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies effectively.

This course on time management for supervisors addresses ways to make better use of your valuable time so that you can accomplish more with less effort. This training session focuses on practical techniques and information that you can start using right away to gain more control over your busy work schedule. The main objective of this session is to help you work more efficiently and productively. By the time this session is over, you should be able to:

• Define goals and make time-wise decisions;
• Plan and prioritize efficiently;
• Process information more efficiently;
• Delegate effectively;
• Avoid procrastination; and
• Handle communications, interruptions, and emergencies more effectively.

Managers play a key role in making a workplace wellness program a success. Managers need to help to motivate staff by setting a good example, providing the tools that staff members need to keep themselves on the right track, communicating your organization’s wellness messages, and helping to educate staff on the latest wellness techniques. This online wellness course for managers will empower key staff on how to embrace a wellness program and show the critical role managers play in the success of the program and the consequent health and wellness of all employees. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

A healthy diet has a tremendous impact on the health, happiness, and productivity of employees. But healthy eating in today’s frenetic world can be difficult. Despite available nutrition labeling, how many people really read and/or understand the nutrition labels and better yet, how many use the information to optimize their own health? Whether a person likes to cook or not, eat out or eat home-cooked meals, graze or eat sit-down meals— understanding good nutritional guidelines will help with overall health, outlook, productivity, energy, and healthy aging. This online nutrition awareness course will help educate and inspire trainees to better nutritional choices and better health.

The main objective of this session is to help you prevent back injuries. By the time the session is over, you should be able to identify causes of back injuries; prevent back injuries; use proper lifting, load carrying, and unloading techniques to help protect your back; and think smart about your back and the importance of keeping it healthy.

This session discusses how you might be exposed to bloodborne pathogens (BBP) and infectious diseases, how you can protect yourself from exposure, and how to clean up and properly dispose of blood or bodily fluids. Employees most likely to be exposed include first-aid responders, janitorial and maintenance personnel, and workers assigned to clean up after an industrial accident. Even if your job does not normally expose you to blood or bodily fluids, this session is helpful to raise your awareness of bloodborne pathogens, to understand why you should not come in contact with them, and to understand that it is important to report spills of blood or bodily fluids so that they can be cleaned up safely.

Many people struggle to juggle a full-time job while also caring for young children, aging parents, and other responsibilities on a daily basis. It can feel like there are not enough hours in a day—that there are too many responsibilities at work and at home—and that you can’t complete tasks in either place—many people feel this way. This online employee wellness course helps trainees manage home and work responsibilities, stress, and daily expectations. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

A workplace wellness program needs to be well-focused and well-executed to succeed. This training course goes over the necessary steps to create a successful wellness program designed for the specific health risks and vulnerabilities of your employee population. A well-run wellness program can not only help employees be healthier but it also increases your bottom line by decreasing healthcare costs, decreasing employee time away from work, increasing productivity, and even increasing morale.

For employees who drive, wellness is an important issue for several reasons. Fatigue, heart trouble, and other health problems are known to play a role in many accidents, injuries, and driver deaths. Studies conducted by federal highway safety experts, such as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), have shown that a significant number of truck accidents are health related. It’s been proven—wellness is an important component in safe driving. This online driver wellness training course ensures drivers are aware of risk factors of safe driving, staying healthy for better productivity, and how to apply good wellness techniques for long-term driving safety and personal wellness.

There are two versions of this course, standard and multimedia.

Personal finance is a challenge for many people. Yet, as an employer, you may not be aware of these personal challenges faced by your employees. As a result, employee financial education is a critical component of any corporate wellness program. Financial literacy can be learned and improved. Financial training that leads to employee financial wellness reduces employee stress and health-related problems. This employee financial wellness training online course teaches trainees about financial planning, effective money management, how to budget, and how to live within one’s means. With these key skills, an employee will be healthier with less stress. A healthy employee is a productive employee.

Regular exercise is one of the best ways to gain and maintain good health throughout your life. In fact, increasing your physical activity level may be one of the best, and simplest, things you can do for yourself. This online fitness course discusses physical fitness and looks at how to plan carefully and pace yourself to make fitness a healthy habit that lasts your lifetime. This online fitness for everyone course addresses the benefits of fitness, and provides tips and tactics to help trainees start improving fitness levels today. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

Despite the proven and well-documented health risks associated with smoking, it continues to be widespread, with new smokers joining the ranks every day. An effective smoking cessation program for employees can result in lower healthcare costs for employees, more productive employees, and improved overall health of employees. An effective smoking cessation program must address the underlying reasons for starting to smoke as well as the myriad challenges of quitting. This online smoking cessation course helps employees understand the health risks of smoking, the benefits of quitting, and how to quit and remain tobacco-free. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

No matter what age you are now or what shape you are currently in, you can make improvements that will extend and improve your life. It’s never too late to make healthy choices. Genetics are only part of longevity. The other part is taking good care of your health. This means that the quality of your life in your senior years depends largely on you and the choices you make today. For example, choices like not smoking; eating healthy, nutritious food; keeping your weight down; and getting enough exercise will help you live a longer life. This course highlights the impact today’s choices have on your future and how to make changes now for a healthier, more productive future. The benefits to an employer in providing this training to employees are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

A lot of Americans have trouble sleeping, and sleeping is very important to maintaining good health. We’ll talk about the problems associated with sleep deprivation, the various sleep disorders that interfere with healthy sleep, and we’ll look at a variety of suggestions for getting a good night’s sleep. Duration: 17 minutes

Our hearts are responsible for pumping oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood throughout our bodies. The heart has one of the most important jobs in keeping our bodies alive and healthy. This online heart health training course addresses this most amazing muscle in our body, how it works to keep us alive, and what we can do right now to make sure our hearts are healthy for years to come. Cardiac health can be managed and improved with some simple guidelines. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

This presentation will cover how important it is that families be concerned about health. Preventive care, nutrition, exercise, and other factors play important roles. And especially for children, good health is essential—for them, now is the time when growth happens, some diseases may begin, and health habits are set for life.

Despite reports that the number of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) has declined in recent years because of widespread awareness and implementation of effective preventive measures, ergonomics remains a significant workplace safety and health issue. The main objective of this online office ergonomics training course is to cover the topic of office ergonomics from hazards to precautions so that employees can avoid developing work-related MSDs. By the time the session is over, trainees should be able to define ergonomics and MSDs, identify ergonomic risk factors, recognize MSD symptoms, set up a workstation to minimize stress and strain, and perform tasks safely to avoid musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

The main objective of this session is to make you aware of the risks of flu pandemics, the potential problems we could all face should we be hit with a pandemic, and the precautions you would need to take to keep yourself and your family safe. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand what a pandemic is, recognize the risks, identify flu symptoms, prevent the spread of infection, prepare for and deal with a pandemic at work and at home, and know what to do if you get sick.

The main objective of this online substance abuse in the workplace training course is to teach employees the impact of substance abuse in the workplace and to suggest ways to help deal with this serious problem. You’ll learn the legal issues regarding workplace substance abuse, how to recognize if you or one of your coworkers may have a problem, as well as what solutions are available to deal with a substance abuse problem.

This session is designed to help employees manage their weight successfully and live a healthier life. Obesity is now considered an epidemic. Approximately two-thirds of the adult population is either overweight or obese. And yet, overweight individuals can reduce the risk for some chronic disorders by losing as little as 5 percent to 15 percent of their weight. This course will help trainees understand the risks of being overweight, learn the formula for maintaining a healthy weight, identify simple ways to cut calories, maintain a healthy exercise program, choose a sensible and safe weight loss program; and keep fit for life. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

Good health is perhaps the most important factor in anybody’s life. Without health, you can’t enjoy the rest of your life and meet the challenges you face every day. This course addresses wellness and how to improve your health and the quality of your life. The course offers practical tips for improving health and staying healthy for life. The benefits to the employer in helping facilitate your employee’s wellness, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.

A whopping 90 percent of all people in the United States get some kind of headache, with 20 percent seeking professional medical help for their pain. One category of headaches, the migraine, is experienced by an estimated 28 million people. Whether sufferers stay at home or go to work, migraines are a major, largely unrecognized cause of lost workplace productivity. This headache management and prevention online training course addresses different types of headaches, symptoms, medical and alternative treatments and, finally, healthful lifestyle changes that can help avoid the onset of headaches or minimize headache pain. These manageable changes enhance quality of life in general and improve employee productivity. The benefits to you, the employer, are numerous, from lower healthcare costs to increased employee productivity.