LatitudeU Newsletter - November 30, 2009

What's New on LatitudeU

New FAQ from Members
Does LatitudeU issue Certificates of Completion?
Yes, once you have completed a course, you can view and print a certificate for the same. Once you log in to LatitudeU, please click on the 'Courses I've Completed' tab to view a list of your completed courses, from where you can view and print certificates.

Save $10 on the Get Your Career on the Fast Track Course

Offer Expires Midnight (EST) December 07, 2009.
Course Overview: Everyone has seen those TV shows from the '50s. The fathers went to work, worked hard, and got ahead. These people were your role models, your guides to succeeding in business. But if that's not happening, you ask yourself, "Why not?" The world is different now. Instead of job security, you need to focus on career security. In this course, you will learn more about today's new business environment. You will learn about yourself and how to work with your strengths and weaknesses to improve your position in this new world. You will get a chance to identify your options within the new environment and will learn how to make a plan to get your career on the fast track to success.

New Courses
The following courses have been recently added to the LatitudeU Course Catalog:

1. Business Analysis Requirements Management and Communication
2. Introduction to Business Analysis and Essential Competencies
3. JavaScript: Advanced Browser Scripting and DHTML
4. Oracle Database 11g: Firewalls, Oracle Connection Manager, and SQL*Plus Security
5. Oracle Database 11g: Privileges, Roles, and Application Contexts
6. Oracle Database 11g: Transparent Data Encryption
7. Oracle Database 11g: Virtual Private Database
8. Planning Business Analysis Communication and Monitoring
9. VMware Server Overview

New Training Companies
Please join me in welcoming the following companies to the Training Company Directory:

1. Behavioral Coaching Institute
2. Best Practice Institute
3. Job Skills Training
4. Job Works
5. Career Growth Inc

New Training Stores
Please join me in welcoming the following training stores to LatitudeU:

1. MaxImpact
2. BCN Services
   

Free Course of the Day: Investing Time for Maximum Return

In this free online course you will learn the Time Tactics Process, setting goals for time management, using a time log, lack of self-management, lack of control over the work environment, handling time wasters, the action plan and advanced time management tactics.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced free training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: time management, optimization, scheduling, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development >> Take Control of Your Time by Working More Effectively
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• 6 Easy Ways to Beat the Clock - Time Management
• Your Time and You
• Techniques for Improved Time Management
• Developing Excellent Time Management Habits
• Taking Control of Your Time Simulation


Click here for the Investing Time for Maximum Return course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Peter DiGiammarino

Products/Services Provided: eLearning
Subjects: Management, Venture Captial

Click here for Peter DiGammarino's listing

Free Course of the Day: Resume Tips and Techniques

You have skills that employers want. But those skills won’t get you a job if no one knows you have them. Good résumés, applications, and cover letters broadcast your abilities. They tell employers how your qualifications match a job’s responsibilities. If these paper preliminaries are constructed well, you have a better chance of landing interviews—and, eventually, a job.

Key Concepts: careers, jobs, money, work skills

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Get Ready for your Job Search
• Getting Work Done!
• No Privacy Legal Issues in Email
• Getting Feedback, Delivering Results
• They Made It!
• Wealthy U Seven Sacred Wealth & Wisdom Lessons
• Anger Management
• Overcoming Inventoritis
• The Art of Making Money -- Golden Rules for Making $$$ eBook
• Resume Tips and Techniques
• How to Get a Job with the Federal Government


Click here for the Resume Tips and Techniques course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: PD Media

PD Media provides and shares content on interesting and relevant topics generally found in the public domain.

Click here for PD Media's listing

Free Course of the Day: 10 Steps to Becoming a Great Manager

You can be a highly effective manager if you can incorporate some basic principles into your everyday work practices. Here are 10 steps to consider to help you learn how to be a great manager.

Key Concepts: careers, healthcare, job

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Project Management >> Project Management for Non-Project Managers
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• 10 Steps to Managing Like a Pro!!
• Project Management Fundamentals
• Transitioning into a Project Management Role
• Initiating and Planning a Project
• Managing a Project
• Troubleshooting and Closing the Project
• Project Management for Non-project Managers Simulation


Click here for 10 Steps to Becoming a Great Manager course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Online Marketing Expert

Chad Wiebesick is a savvy digital marketing pro who's been exclusively in the online space since the turn of the century (the 21st century, that is). A strategic thinker with an eye for tactical execution, he’s got extensive background in integrated media strategy across both B2B and B2C markets. He has successfully planned and executed branding and direct response digital campaigns for dozens of clients. Tactics have included search engine marketing (SEM and SEO), display advertising, rich media expandable banners, performance-based affiliate marketing, social media, podcast advertising, email, newsletters, and webinars. Chad’s work and contributions have earned industry recognition. He was named a Rising Media Star by OMMA Magazine in 2004 and was a finalist in Media Magazine’s Creative Media Awards in 2006. Chad has spoken at industry conferences, presenting to organizations such as Search Engine Strategies and American Business Media. In 2005 he was elected as an Executive Board Member to the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association and served again in 2006. Outside of work, Chad enjoys watching episodes of The Office and playing Wii with his wife. They live in Michigan.

Click here for Online Marketing Expert's listing

Free Course of the Day: Healthcare Jobs You Might Not Know About

As career fields go, healthcare is hot. And there are lots of cool jobs, including some that aren’t as well known. Find out about three of them here. Document prepared by Bureau of Labor Statistics and includes links to additional resources, and pros and cons of a healthcare career. 10 pages, pdf downloadable format.

Key Concepts: careers, healthcare, job

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Other
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Communication Fundamentals
• Legal Issues in Management
• Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
• Quality Service in the Public Sector
• Coaching for Business Success
• Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
• Effective Business Meetings
• The Impact of Workplace Diversity
• Be an Effective Manager
• Supervising Difficult Behaviors
• Dealing with Diversity


Click here for Healthcare Jobs You Might Not Know About course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Learning Currents

Rebecca Gibson has a long history in a wide variety of contact centers with an emphasis on employee performance management. During six years with one of the fastest growing call center outsourcers in the country, she consulted with clients in the pharmaceutical, insurance, healthcare, financial services and high-tech industries on program implementation, selection practices, and workplace learning. As the Manager of Educational Services with ICMI and Training Director for nation’s largest behavioral healthcare services provider, she designed holistic strategies to improve employee performance and boost employee development efforts. She's currently the principal consultant with Learning Currents, where she focuses on tackling tough organizational challenges and designing and developing workplace learning strategies and programs. In addition to working independently with clients, Rebecca is an ICMI-Certified Associate and authors a learning and performance blog, learning-currents.blogspot.com. In her free time, she's exploring her love of learning as a student in San Diego State's Educational Technology graduate program.

Click here for Learning Currents' listing

Free Course of the Day: Leading Meetings to Success

This free online course looks at the way meetings can be led, facilitated, controlled and influenced in order to achieve positive outcomes. Making Meetings Work will help learners develop the skills of chairing effective meetings and of presenting information.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced free training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Business Meeting Management, facilitated, facilitation, Free Training, Free Courses

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Communication >> The Effective Business Meeting
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Planning an Effective Business Meeting
• Leading an Effective Business Meeting
• Participating Effectively in a Business Meeting
• The Effective Business Meeting Simulation


Click here for the Leading Meetings to Success course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: JN Productions CPE Courses

Products/Services Provided: eLearning, Online Study Guides, Self Study, CD-ROMs
Subjects: CPE for CPAs, Accounting, Auditing, Ethics, Taxation, Personal Development, Business Law, Computer Science, Consulting Services, Economics, Finance, Management Advisory Services, Marketing, Personal Development

JN Productions CPE courses has been providing self-study CPE courses to CPAs since 1994.

Click here for JN Productions CPE Courses' listing

Free Course of the Day: Effective Change Management

This free online course helps you understand the characteristics of change and how people react to change. Identify strategies for managing change at a personal level and in work groups. This self-study free course is divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced free training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Career Development, Managing Change, Change Management, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Customer Service >> Customer Support, Process
• IT Professional Skills >> Business Skills for the IT Professional >> IT Business
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Managing the Quality of the Customer Support Service Center
• Management Tools and Metrics


Click here for the Effective Change Management course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Jean Zawlocki

Jean Zawlocki has over 10 years experience in HR. She is a proactive change agent with the ability to bring immediate results. She will give you an example of immediate results. Started the infrastructure of the HR department with a company that had 4 acquisitions previous to her arrival.

Click here for Jean Zawlocki's listing

Free Course of the Day: Building Wealth - A Beginner’s Guide to Securing Your Financial Future

This free online course offers introductory guidance to individuals and families seeking help to develop a plan for building personal wealth. While a comprehensive discussion of accounting, finance and investment options is beyond the scope of this workbook, it presents an overview of personal wealthbuilding strategies. Presented by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in an easy to understand style. 39 pages, pdf.

Key Concepts: personal finance, money, planning, investment

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Get Ready for your Job Search
• Getting Work Done!
• Getting Feedback, Delivering Results
• They Made It!
• Wealthy U Seven Sacred Wealth & Wisdom Lessons
• Anger Management
• Overcoming Inventoritis
• The Art of Making Money -- Golden Rules for Making $$$ eBook
• Resume Tips and Techniques
• How to Get a Job with the Federal Government
• Memoirs of the Money Lady


Click here for the Buildig Wealth - A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Jayesh Patel

ProfitFromPrices teaches amazingly SIMPLE and LOGICAL but one of the most EFFECTIVE and TIMELY methods to find stocks for trading. It gives trading signals at an EARLY STAGE of price movements so one can have MAXIMUM PROFIT OPPORTUNITY with MINIMUM EXPOSURE TO RISK/LOSS. See me eBook - PROFIT FROM PRICES - ISBN 1434805131

Click here for Jayesh Patel's listing

Free Course of the Day: Clinical Data Management

This free online course discusses Clinical Data Management, which is an important affair in health care management, research and assessment of effects new drugs. It also provides the pattern of disease development, its course of spread and the probable method to find out solution. The practitioner, researcher and drug development institutions need skilled human resources for clinical data management.

Key Concepts: inspired, organization, workplace, performance, profitability

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Other
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Communication Fundamentals
• Legal Issues in Management
• Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
• Quality Service in the Public Sector
• Leading Meetings to Success
• Coaching for Business Success
• Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
• Effective Change Management
• Effective Business Meetings
• The Impact of Workplace Diversity
• Be an Effective Manager


Click here for the Clinical Data Management course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Jason Patino

My career for the last 15 years has revolved around networking with others and finding synergies to create opportunities for myself and those involved. desigining processes that work have been an integral part of that success. I am currently engaged in process improvement contracts and welcome any and all networking regarding process improvement. *** Get to know me on these other social and professional networking sties: 1) http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=576868705&hiq=jason%2Cpatino 2) http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonpatino

Click here for Jason Patino's listing

Free Course of the Day: Creating Loyal Customers for Leaders

This free online course for retail managers and supervisors covers topics about defining leadership, creating a shared vision, understanding teams, leveraging change, and encouraging personal authority in team members in order to improve customer service.

All Global Mindset free online courses are self-paced free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. These training courses provide plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Business Training, Retail Managers, Customer Service, Retail Industry, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Other
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Communication Fundamentals
• Legal Issues in Management
• Quick Start Sales Training (Turning-on Your New Salespeople)
• Be Your Own Manager
• Hiring the Right Talent for Your Business
• Discrimination/Legal Issues
• Coaching for Performance Excellence
• Discipline Documentation
• Gross Margins
• Investing Time for Maximum Return
• Job Strategies for New Employees


Click here for the Creating Loyal Customers for Leaders course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: The PAR Group

The PAR Group is a management consulting firm that has trained more than half a million men and women the world over in the execution skills necessary to successfully implement corporate strategies. We specialize in building skill levels in real life work situations and coaching people in teamwork, leadership, customer service, sales, management, supervision and communication. Founded over 25 years ago, The PAR Group delivers results. After PAR training, companies see measurable results in proficiency within two to six days and a 100% return on investment within 90 days. In fact, we are so confident in what we do that we offer a money-back guarantee. Our strong commitment and the results we deliver are why our clients - from Fortune 500 to small private companies - hire us year after year to work with group after group in their organizations. Tom, Senior Partner The PAR Group since 1993, has consulted and presented the PAR program to numerous corporate clients including such Fortune 500 companies as Honeywell, FirstEnergy, Thomas Cook, IBM, UPS, PPG, TLC Laservision, Western-Southern Life Insurance, Sunlife Clarica Insurance, Lawson Software, Epicor, Cleveland Clinic, CGI and American Management Systems. In addition to delivering seminars across the United States, he has traveled and consulted with clients on five continents and trained people from an African chieftain to corporate executives to entry-level employees on the PAR skill set. He has delivered multiple PAR Sessions in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. Tom, who has his MBA from the University of Georgia, is a frequent speaker at industry and management conferences, including being key note speaker at conferences for the Six Sigma Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, and Thomas Cook in Cancun, Mexico. Email: tom.herrington@thepargroup.com Telephone: 770-493-7188 or 800-247-7188

Click here for The PAR Group's listing

Free Course of the Day: Margin of Difference

You can recognize the difference between an inspired organization and one that is simply good enough by the "wow" of the products, the vitality of the workplace, and by a significant difference in every performance measure including profitability. We know how to help you reach this margin of difference. This free online course explains what it takes to get there.

Key Concepts: inspired, organization, workplace, performance, profitability

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development >> Business Professionalism
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• TestPrep Final Exam: Managing Contractors and Temporary Employees
• Tomorrow's Managers' Development Tools
• Managing as Coach and Counselor
• Managing as Project Champion
• A Primer for Ensuring Accountability
• Problem Performance Prevention
• Problem Performance Identification
• Problem Performance Improvement
• Addressing Problem Performance
• Starting the Change Process


Click here for the Margin of Difference course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Digital Info & Mapping Center

Eng. Abd Alla mohamed Abd Alla Adlan- Manager of Digital Information Center- Khartoum State Survey- Minst. of Physical Planning & Public Utilities- Gamaa St.- Khartoum- Sudan- Tel:00249-9129-86796

Click here for Digital Info & Mapping Center's listing

Free Course of the Day: No Privacy Legal Issues in Email

In this FREE online course you will learn the legal and privacy implications of email use, security and etiquette.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced online training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Email Privacy, Legal, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development >> Business Professionalism
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Business Professionalism Simulation: Replaced
• Personal Accountability: Working for Your Inner Boss - Replaced
• Self-empowerment: Managing from Within: Replaced
• Goals and Goal Setting: Replaced
• Developing a Positive Attitude: Replaced
• Successful Lifelong Learning: Replaced
• Professionalism in Business Simulation


Click here for the No Privacy Legal Issues in Email course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Aurora Engineering

Aurora Engineering provides both Unigraphics (Seimens) NX3,NX5,NX6 and CATIA V5R18 CAD training, skill enhancement courses for businesses, government organizations, and colleges of any size. We offer both customized training and generalized courses along with proficiency testing for a wide variety of job skills to increase CAD knowledge. AE also develops custom web based courses upon request.

Click here for Aurora Engineering's listing

Free Course of the Day: Teamwork Challenges

This FREE online course for project managers, retail managers, and other business managers provides information about overcoming teamwork challenges. In doing so, it discusses topics such as team roles, team organization, conflict, team politics, and non-participation of team members.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced online training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Business Training, Teamwork, Business Teamwork, Team Building, Management, Project Management

Course Appears in these Categories:
• IT Professional Skills >> Business Skills for the IT Professional >> Project Management
• IT Professional Skills >> Business Skills for the IT Professional >> Team Building
• Business Skills >> Project Management
• Business Skills >> Team Building
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Introduction to Program Management
• Program Life Cycle and Organization
• Program Management Processes and the Initiating Process Group
• Program Planning
• The Executing Process Group
• Monitoring, Controlling, and Closing Programs
• Ethics and Professional Knowledge
• Stakeholder Interests and Cultural Diversity
• Project Management Essentials Simulation
• An Introduction to Project Management


Click here for the Teamwork Challenges course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Doug Beabout CPC CSP

Doug Beabout's mission is to deliver a worldwide comprehensive recruiting process which will elevate the value of recruiting services and standardize industry skills to their highest level.

Click here for Doug Beabout CPC CSC's listing

Free Course of the Day: Getting Work Done!

This FREE online course addresses setting priorities, procrastination, time efficiency, job efficiency, efficient meetings, and delegating.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced online training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Time Management, Work Habits, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Get Ready for your Job Search
• Getting Feedback, Delivering Results
• Pursuing Successful Lifelong Learning
• Taking Control of Your Time Simulation
• Business Ethics Simulation
• Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace Simulation
• The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation
• Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas
• Evaluating Creative and Innovative Ideas
• Implementing Creative and Innovative Ideas
• Handling Organizational Change Simulation


Click here for the Getting Work Done course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: AMCKAIZEN

Provider of professional consultancy, training and public speaking
Have given training and consultancy all over Asia on:

• Projects increasing revenue
• Bottleneck & Constraint Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Lean Health care
• Supplier Lean & Lean Supply Chain
• Organizational Change

Have experience in consulting, training and helping increase revenues for small as well as multi-national Fortune 500 companies throughout Asia

Click here for AMCKAIZEN's listing

Free Course of the Day: Getting Feedback, Delivering Results

This FREE online course addresses feedback principles, personal change action plan, and feedback action steps.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced online training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Feedback principles, Personal change action plan, personal development, Feedback action steps, Free Training, Free Courses

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Get Ready for your Job Search
• Getting Feedback, Delivering Results
• Pursuing Successful Lifelong Learning
• Taking Control of Your Time Simulation
• Business Ethics Simulation
• Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace Simulation
• The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation
• Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas
• Evaluating Creative and Innovative Ideas
• Implementing Creative and Innovative Ideas
• Handling Organizational Change Simulation


Click here for the Getting Feedback, Delivering Results course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Global Mindset

In today's global economy, managers and employees need to develop their skills and behaviors to become more effective.

Global Mindset's free online courses are interactive, self-paced learning paths are built with an eye on teaching individuals to maximize their work performance.

All Global Mindset free courses business training are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

We provide free training courses in the following areas:

* Free Training: Business Math Courses
* Free Training: Career Courses
* Free Training: Coaching Skills Courses
* Free Training: Communications Courses
* Free Training: Conflict Management Courses
* Free Training: Contiuous Improvement Courses
* Free Training: Customer Services Courses
* Free Training: Diversity Courses
* Free Training: Entrepreneurial Courses
* Free Training: Feedback Courses
* Free Training: Harassment Courses
* Free Training: Listening Courses
* Free Training: Job Interview Courses
* Free Training: Management Courses
* Free Training: NX5 Courses
* Free Training: Project Management Courses
* Free Training: Retail Math Courses
* Free Training: Sales Courses
* Free Training: Sexual Harassment Courses
* Free Training: Team Building Courses

Click here for Global Mindset's listing

Free Course of the Day: Get Ready for your Job Search

This FREE online course teaches participants how to proactively prepare for a successful job search. Proper preparation prevents poor performance throughout the recruitment life-cycle. This course helps job seekers understand the key attributes of successful preparation.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced online training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Jobs, Job Search, Job Interviewing, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
Get Ready for your Job Search
• They Made It!
• Wealthy U Seven Sacred Wealth & Wisdom Lessons
• Anger Management
• Your Time and You
• Techniques for Improved Time Management
• Developing Excellent Time Management Habits
• Making Decisions Ethically
• Business Ethics for Managers
• Understanding Organizational Ethics
• Social Responsibility in Corporations


Click here for the Get Ready for your Job Search course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Chopper Institute of America

The Chopper Institute of America was created to help people understand the basics of Choppers and Motorcycles. Any one can read and learn from the material and understand how a bike is put together and what the names of the parts are. You do not have to know anything about choppers inorder to read the material.

Click here for the Chopper Institute of America listing

Free Course of the Day: Community Research and Development

This FREE online course on Community Research and Development is taken from the Ann Arbor SPARK Entrepreneurial Boot Camp. It discusses "Market Research" for new markets and new-to-world products.

Key Concepts: Research and Development, Market Research, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Marketing
• Business Skills >> Business Startup
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Community Research and Development
• High Impact Marketing for Startups and Small Businesses
• Perfecting Your Positioning
• 42 Rules of Marketing
• NETWORKING: I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What???
• 5 Tested Tips to Increase Your Email Marketing ROI
• Introduction to Online Business Networking (Online Business Networking)
• Elements of Marketing Strategy
• Analyzing the Market
• Competitive Factors in Strategic Marketing
• Writing a Marketing Plan: Phase 1


Click here for the Community Research and Development course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Navya Technologies

Balaji Velpuri completed BS in Computer Science, PG Diploma in Computer Applications and BSc in Science Communication. He has MCSD, and Cleared various Brainbench Certifications C#, ASP.net and C.

Click here for Navya Technologies' listing

Free Course of the Day: A Problem-free Approach to Problem-solving

This FREE online course helps you learn several different techniques and tools to aid workplace problem-solving. The online course is divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings.

Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout. Supporting resources include a printable worksheet for the Janusian problem-solving method. You can return to the self-study as needed to complete all lessons and can review any lesson as often as you would like.

All Global Mindset free training courses are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Problem Sovling, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Other
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Communication Fundamentals
• Legal Issues in Management
• Continuous Improvement in the Workplace
• Conflict Management
• Four Steps to Presentations that Motivate
• You Be The Judge In Interviewing
• Thinking Creatively about Business Decisions
• Defusing Workplace Violence
• Facilitating Improvement
• Effective Project Management
• Ethics in the Workplace


Click here for the Problem-free Approach to Problem-solving course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Springboard Ventures, Inc.

After many years as an educator, Shelley Rot became interested in making money, thus her sales career began. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies as well as start up technology businesses. She is a business advisor and coach to many clients. Check out her website at www.springboardworks.coms. Shelley Roth Springboard works!

Click here for Springboard Ventures' listing

Free Course of the Day: Empowerment in the Workplace

This FREE online course allows project managers, retail managers, and other business managers, as well as employees to learn the background and concepts necessary to develop empowerment initiatives in the workplace. This online learning path outlines the benefits of empowerment, and provides tools and techniques to help promote empowerment at all levels of the organization.

All Global Mindset free training courses are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Business Training, Project Managers, Retail Managers, Coaching, Empowerment, Employee Performance, Free Training, Free Course


Course Appears in these Categories:
• Communication Fundamentals
• Legal Issues in Management
• Continuous Improvement in the Workplace
• Conflict Management
• Four Steps to Presentations that Motivate
• You Be The Judge In Interviewing
• Thinking Creatively about Business Decisions
• Defusing Workplace Violence
• Facilitating Improvement
• Effective Project Management
• Ethics in the Workplace


Click here for the Empowerment in the Workplace course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: eTraining, Inc.

eTraining's creative features are designed to reduce operational expense, increase employee productivity, and ensure compliance with regulating bodies.

* Custom Content
Excellent training modules are available in a broad range of areas; ready to use.
* Thorough Documentation and Compilation Procedures
Embedded technology records each participant’s training performance and transfers a report to the participant’s HR file.
* Compliance
Specific modules have been carefuly developed to address compliance requirements of OSHA and other governmental regulating bodies

Click here for eTraining's listing