Improve Your Business Writing
Writing well is critical to your success at work. These resources will help you navigate some common pitfalls in the English language and apply new skills to common business tasks.
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Research and Identify Potential Customers for Products or Services
You have something to sell. It is an awesome concept that you believe the masses of consumers will thank you for. The curves. The lines. Everything is there and represented at a level of quality that cannot be matched! It...
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How To Take Your Content Online
There is a vast audience online needing to hear from compelling speakers, and needing to find trusted resources in order to hone skills or increase industry-specific knowledge. With help of trusted sources in my network, I have curated this path...
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How to Start a Startup
How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures initially given at Stanford University in Fall 2014; the course was taught by Sam Altman. In this path, Sam will lead the learner through 20 lectures with the likes...
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Feedback: The Gift You Might Not Want but Receive Anyway
Someone once told me, "Feedback is a gift." This may be true, but constructive criticism (even when it's well-intentioned) can often be hard to take. This path is part of my own learning journey -- I've gathered these resources to...
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Making the Transition to Management
Have you recently been promoted to a management role? Congratulations! After you take a moment to celebrate, dive into this path, which will help you understand your new role, avoid some common mistakes, and make a great first impression with...
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Empowering Your Mind with Positive Psychology
Twenty years ago when I struggled with depression, I had no idea about the tools I needed to stay mentally happy until my psychologist introduced me to them. Then I thought, “Why am I only hearing about this now?” We...
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The PRIMES: Universal Patterns of Leading in Uncertain Times
You are a problem solver on a team with a large group of people. Everyone on the team has different agendas but you were all tasked with one central goal to accomplish. You know that without strong leadership your group...
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Cultivating a Mutuality Mindset
I truly believe, in my firsthand experience, the world is hungry for us to unite together as opportunity-makers and to emulate those behaviors as so many of you already do and to reimagine a world where we use our best...
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We All Need a Little Inspiration
Each week, Dr. Gonzales focuses on coaching and themes related to leadership in public education, focusing on the theme and related videos, articles, and photos. Check back at the beginning of each week and take a bit of time...for a...
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Your Sales Team + Trade Shows (Conferences) = Success!
Trade association meetings, trade shows, and conferences are all (still) worthwhile endeavors for your organization, particularly the sales teams. Essentially, anywhere your brand can be seen by prospective clients with a clear ROI, it is worth it. Your organization can...
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Escalating Customer Grievances
Don't you hate it when you have a complaint and the customer service agent you are speaking to won't escalate it? Or when they do refer your complaint to a manager and no one follows back up with you? Both...
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Boost Your Negotiating Skills
Life often requires compromise - be it in the workplace or at home. From closing a sale with a new client to deciding on a what to have for dinner with your partner, negotiation skills can be applied toward successful,...
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Learning How-To Train (Remotely)
There are two areas you should consider when Training Remotely: best practices and technology. Knowing PowerPoint doesn't make you a great presenter. Your content and delivery does. The same applies to teaching remotely. This curated content is targeted to corporate...
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The Power of Real-Time Feedback to Enhance Employee Performance
Annual performance reviews are as familiar to us as our annual dental appointments. Both are needed, lightly dreaded, and often times both are seen as necessary evils. Enter 'Real-Time Feedback' , an effective and efficient replacement for a...
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Work Together…Anywhere!
The benefits of remote work are clearer in today's working world than ever before; but to really reap those benefits, you have to know how to manage yourself, your team, and the virtual, collaborative spaces you all share. Discover how...
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Finding The Career You Were Meant For
Finding a job can be one of the most stressful things we do. Unfortunately, many of us find jobs we don’t love, and are often afraid to make the leap to something else when we are in a place we...
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Strategies for Delegating Better and Getting More Done
Being a good leader involves delegating tasks to employees. This can be difficult to do for many people, but there are tricks to make it easier and more effective. This path will help you understand the delegation process, techniques to...
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How to Convert, Delight, & Keep your E-Commerce Customers
There is no ignoring the significance of the e-commerce industry. Its growth over the years has been phenomenal, constant, and ubiquitous. Even if the trend begins to slow down — we’re still talking trillions in global online sales each...
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Check the Numbers: Ensuring Accounting Accuracy
Journalism students are taught to fact check, Law students are taught to fact check and in the world of accounting, one must always fact check. Check the numbers, review the supporting documentation, check for approvals, and recheck the numbers again....
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The Power of Presence
Showing up every day feeling great and ready to rock. Parts of the 6 Vital Skills to Catapult Your Career series with Pete Mockaitis.
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Career Leap: Pushing Beyond Your Bounds
This is an all call for the serial fear mongers amongst us. Those of you who know you need to make a move, or take a leap, but fear has you in its awesome clutch. I challenge you, without judgement,...
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Customer Experience Journey Mapping
In today's highly-competitive business landscape, your customer experience strategy must be laser-focused on the things that matter most to your customers. Customer journey mapping is one of the master keys to that kingdom. When approached from th...
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From Tables to Queries: Becoming Data Efficient
This path is for the data entry lovers at heart: those of us who enjoy manipulating letters and numbers into an intricate design which houses critical information for others' use, the ones who understand how to create spreadsheets and databases,...
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