Catalog

Catalogs

Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Business Finance: Even and Uneven Cash Flows	0.75	This course will focus on how to identify the types of annuities, and calculate their present and future values. You will also learn how to identify the types of interest rates, analyze uneven cash flows, and prepare a scheduling table for amortized loans.
Team Participation: Nonverbal Communication and Active Listening	0.75	This course will focus on how to identify types of nonverbal cues and how they mesh with verbal messages, identify the characteristics of active listening and become an active listener, and respond to input in a productive manner.
Business Writing: Writing Skills	1.00	This course will focus on how to improve your writing skills by avoiding common pitfalls, adhering to specified guidelines, and following a standard writing process. You will also learn how to write effective sentences and paragraphs.
Time Management: Productivity	0.75	This course will focus on how to increase productivity by controlling interruptions and meetings and recognize and overcome factors that adversely affect productivity.
Project Management Essentials: Project Performance	1.00	This course will focus on how to measure project performance by using various analysis methods, use calculations in earned value analysis, and control project cost, and identify performance, status, progress, close-out, and final project report.
Microsoft PowerPoint - Basic: Getting Started	0.75	This course will focus on how to open a presentation, identify PowerPoint interface components, switch between views, and zoom in and out.
Team Participation: Understanding Team Fundamentals	1.25	This course will focus on how to organize a team, identify its characteristics, and differentiate between traditional and self-directed work teams; to understand the roles and responsibilities of a team member and the stages of team building; understand team goals, give feedback, and anticipate team problems; and communicate effectively with different types of personalities and resolve conflicts.
Team Participation: Resolving and Handling Conflict	0.75	This course will focus on how to resolve conflict within a team or between yourself and others, achieve positive results through how you handle conflict, and identify and understand conflict resolution styles.
Team Participation: Communicating in Teams	0.50	This course will focus on how to understand the factors affecting team communication, understand the elements of communication and use verbal communication, and communicate supportively and effectively.
Time Management: Technology and Time Management	1.00	This course will focus on how to use computer and telephone technologies to save time instead of wasting time and maintain a reasonable workload by saying “no” when appropriate.
Business Finance: Portfolio Risk	0.75	This course will focus on how to use the diversification principle to invest in portfolios as well as how to use the Capital Asset Pricing Model. You will also learn how to calculate different types of financial ratios.
Microsoft Word - Basic: Getting Started	1.25	This course will focus on how to use the elements of the Word window, create and save documents, and navigate a document and select text by using the keyboard and the mouse.
Paraprofessional Math Skills Applied to Classroom Instruction	2.00	This course will focus on how to use the information learned in our Math Skills and Knowledge courses. If you haven't taken them, we recommend you take the three skills courses before completing this one: Paraprofessional Math Skills 1: Number Sense and Basic Algebra Paraprofessional Math Skills 2: Geometry and Measurement Paraprofessional Math Skills 3: Data Analysis This course will help you build on all those skills, teach you a few more skills, and show you what using these skills might look like in the classroom with students. The math application questions in this course will assess your ability to apply the three categories of math skills listed in a classroom setting or support classroom instruction. The questions focus on testing the mathematical competencies needed to assist the teacher with instruction.
Business Writing: Writing Specific Messages	0.75	This course will focus on how to write effective business messages, including reports, letters, and e-mail. You will also learn how to write opinionated messages, including apologies, negative messages, and persuasive messages.
Business Writing: Understanding Proposals	0.75	This course will focus on how to write various types of proposals. You will also learn how to focus on the client when writing proposals.
Sales Skills: Basic: The Sales Presentation	1.00	This course will focus on identifying any client objections, creating a sales presentation to influence clients’ perceptions, and responding to objections effectively.
Sales Management: Forecasting Sales Revenue	0.50	This course will focus on identifying sales forecast factors and types of sales forecasts as well as discussing various types of forecasting approaches.
Sales Management: Effective Sales Teams	1.50	This course will focus on identifying the skills and daily tasks of a sales manager, interviewing sales professionals, identifying relationship-building processes, and identifying trust-building processes.
Sales Management: Managing Sales Territories	0.50	This course will focus on identifying the steps for choosing the best territory strategy and identifying the factors to consider when conducting territory reviews.
Sales Management: Motivating Sales Teams	1.00	This course will focus on motivating sales professionals, monitoring and increasing motivation levels, and addressing substandard sales performance.
Effective Presentations: Fundamentals of Persuasion	1.00	This course will focus on persuasion and the goals of persuasion. You will also learn how to organize a persuasive presentation and use the methods of persuasion.
Sales Management: Effective Sales Performance	1.50	This course will focus on training sales professionals, setting performance standards, evaluating performance, and conducting a sales meeting.
Sales Skills: Advanced: Studying the Market	0.75	This course will focus on using sales strategies, analyzing markets and competitors, and researching clients.
Virtual Teams: Fundamentals of Virtual Teams	0.50	This course will focuse on how to identify the purpose and types of virtual teams, identify the benefits of serving in virtual teams and types of work and meetings carried out by virtual teams, and identify the schedule of a session, and the agenda of a session.
Animal Behavior 3: Experimenter, Observer, and Sampling Bias	1.00	This course will give an overview of different types of bias that can impact a study on animal behavior. Information contained in this course will help ensure observers are aware of how experimenter, observer, and sampling bias can impact data collection and analysis, and of precautions to consider and take before starting a study.