Free Course of the Day: Introduction to Finance

In this free online course you will learn the principles of financial management, how to read and interpret financial information, and how to apply meaningful financial information.

All Global Mindset 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. 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 Finance, Accounting, Calculations, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Finance and Accounting • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Introduction to Finance • Gross Margins • Financing Your Business • Financing Your Startup • Financial Impact on Employees from Corporate Bankruptcy • How to Request a Social Security Statement • Memoirs of the Money Lady • TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 101 • TestPrep Final Exam: Advanced Business Finance • TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 102 • The Principles of Financial Management

Free Course of the Day: International Trade Services

International Trade Services is a free online course. It is an enriching package of the 9 individual financial e-Learning courses, reflective of real-world operational issues, best and confirming practices by the parties involved in International Trade services.

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Listen for Understanding • Giving an Effective Presentation • 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 Click here for the International Trade Services course

LatitudeU Free Course of the Day: Sliding Hip Screw Demonstration

This free online course is an example of an interactive simulation course created in mySmartSimulations's authoring tool WILD (Worldwide Interactive Learning Designer).

Key Concepts:

Medical, Hip Screw, free course, free training

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Other • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Communication for Retail Managers • Stock Market Trading 101 • Intelligent Venture Evolution -- Summary • Intelligent Ventures Framework • A GREAT, FREE CORPORATE H/R BENEFIT FOR EMPLOYEES...V.A. Program--Aging Parent Financial Support PART 1 • Best Practices Teachers & Guidance Counsellors --- Tips on Writing Student College Recommendations • Profit From Prices- Stock Market Trading Book • A GREAT, FREE CORPORATE H/R BENEFIT FOR EMPLOYEES...Filing with Veteran's Administration for Financial Help for Aging Parents • Oil And Gas Careers...How to Become a Landman • ForEx Trade • Red Cross - Preparing for a Disaster

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Free Course of the Day: Keep Them Calling...Providing Superior Customer Service on the Telephone

This free online course addresses: Polishing phone performance, Creating positive phone relationships, The basics of phone performance, Communicating with style, Effective voice messaging, Handling angry callers effectively, Abusive callers and other challenges, Action plan: Setting goals

All Global Mindset 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 course 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:

Call Center, Customer Service, Free Training, Free Courses

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Customer Service • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Quality Service in the Public Sector • Effective Change Management • But I Don't Have Customers • Building Customer Loyalty • Continuous Improvement in the Workplace • Customer Service Excellence • Creating Loyal Customers for Associates • Creating Loyal Customers for Leaders • Keep Them Calling...Providing Superior Customer Service on the Telephone • Quick Start Training Camp -- Developing Customer Loyalty • Quality Service in the Public Sector

Click here for the Providing Superior Customer Service on the Telephone course

Free Course of the Day: Human Touch Performance Appraisals

This free online course teaches how to implement a performance appraisal system that puts people first.

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, Performance Appraisal, Human Resources, Management, Employee Performance, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Management >> Performance Appraisal • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Planning Your Job Performance • Performance Management • Performance Appraisal Simulation: Replaced • Continuous Performance Assessment: Replaced • Reviewing Performance: Replaced Click here for the Human Touch Performance Appraisals course

Free Course of the Day: Gross Margins

This free online course helps you maximize profits by understanding gross margin components and learning to calculate markups. This free 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 quick reference sheet of relevant equations

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 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 course 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:

Finance, Profitability, Gross Margins, Calculations, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Finance and Accounting • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Introduction to Finance • Financing Your Business • Financing Your Startup • Financial Impact on Employees from Corporate Bankruptcy • How to Request a Social Security Statement • Memoirs of the Money Lady • TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 101 • TestPrep Final Exam: Advanced Business Finance • TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 102 • The Principles of Financial Management

Click here for the Gross Margins course

Free Course of the Day: Office Safety/The Safety Secret

This free online course presents the fundamental office safety information that employees and managers need to ensure a safe work environment. The learning path uses workplace examples to introduce common areas of concern in office safety. These areas of concern include slips and falls, fire hazards, and workstation posture. Office safety isn't just a legal issue but a productivity and morale issue as well. This course also offers simple and effective ways in which all members of an office can prevent office accidents.

All Global Mindset 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. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:

Office Safety, Human Resources, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Environmental, Safety and Health, and Transportation >> Environmental, Safety & Health, and Transportation >> Safety and Health • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Office Safety/The Safety Secret • Safe Food Service • Basic Immunology • Mold Awareness • Lead and Cadmium • Chlorine Safety • Cryogenic Safety • Food Safety and Handling • NFPA 70E Electrical Safety in the Workplace • Electrostatic Discharge Safety Training • Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Persons Click here for the Office Safety/The Safety Secret course

Free Course of the Day: Communication for Retail Managers

This free online course is for retail managers looking to deal with the challenges of managing staff performance. This online learning path focuses on enhancing six key communication skills for communicating to employees, motivating employees, and maximizing productivity.

All Global Mindset 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. 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, Business Communication, Communicate Effectively, Effective Communication, Performance Management, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Communication • Other • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Listen for Understanding • Giving an Effective Presentation • Communication Fundamentals • Leading Meetings to Success • Effective Business Meetings • Supervising Difficult Behaviors • Dealing with Difficult Workplace Behaviors • Conflict Management • Four Steps to Presentations that Motivate • Feedback Solutions

Click here for the Communication for Retail Managers course

Free Course of the Day: Feedback Solutions

This free online course demonstrates how to structure specific, balanced, feedback that encourages employees to take responsibility for giving feedback to others. It demonstrates how to contract with employees to improve performance and how to deal with emotional or negative responses to feedback. The student gains the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively receive constructive feedback about job performance, behavior, ideas, and suggestions. It then teaches the student to use this feedback to improve their job performance. Students will also learn how to actively seek feedback and handle difficult feedback situations.

All Global Mindset 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. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:

Performance Management, Employee Feedback, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Communication >> Effective Use of Feedback for Business • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Feedback Solutions • Getting Feedback, Delivering Results • The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback • Effective Feedback for Employees and Colleagues Simulation • An Essential Guide to Giving Feedback • Coping with Criticism and Feedback • Giving Feedback to Colleagues • Team Feedback: A Guide • Giving Feedback: A Manager's Guide • Effective Use of Feedback for Teams Simulation • The Sid Story Click here for the Feedback Solutions course

Free Course of the Day: Discrimination/Legal Issues for Businesses

This free online course addresses age, disability, race, religion, and gender discrimination. Termination issues in situations of theft, poor performance and downsizing.

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:

Job Discrimination, Legal, Free Training, HR Compliance, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Legal Compliance >> HR Series • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Defusing Workplace Violence • Ethics in the Workplace • Discrimination/Legal Issues for Businesses • Discipline Documentation • No Privacy Legal Issues in Email • Handling Terminations with Care and Control • Copyrights: What Professionals Need to Know • Documenting Discipline • Drug-free Workplace • Sarbanes-Oxley: Whistleblower Protection • Code of Conduct Awareness Click here for the Discrimination/Legal Issues for Businesses course

Free Course of the Day: Ethics in the Workplace

This free online course demonstrates the principles of business ethics and how they apply to a variety of situations in the workplace. Proper ethics aren't JUST something organizations should foster for legal reasons but for pragmatic reasons as well. Ethics sits as the foundation of everything that happens by and to an organization and is ultimately a key determinant of success.

This ethics training course describes guidelines for applying these principles in assessing what course of action to take under specific workplace situations. Exercises throughout the learning path provide the learner with the opportunity to practice applying business ethics principles.

All Global Mindset 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. 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 Ethics, Human Resources, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Personal Development >> Ethics in Business • Legal Compliance >> HR Series • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Ethics in Business Simulation: Replaced • Ethical Decision Making: Replaced • Managerial Business Ethics: Replaced • Organizational Ethics: Replaced • Corporate Social Responsibility: Replaced

Click here for the Ethics in the Workplace course

Free Course of the Day: Introduction to Finance

In this free online course you will learn the principles of financial management, how to read and interpret financial information, and how to apply meaningful financial information.

All Global Mindset 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. 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 Finance, Accounting, Calculations, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Finance and Accounting • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Introduction to Finance • Gross Margins • Financing Your Business • Financing Your Startup • Financial Impact on Employees from Corporate Bankruptcy • How to Request a Social Security Statement • Memoirs of the Money Lady • TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 101 • TestPrep Final Exam: Advanced Business Finance • TestPrep Final Exam: Accounting 102 • The Principles of Financial Management Click here for the Introduction to Finance course

Free Course of the Day: Quick Start Sales Training

This free online course is a fast track guide to selling across the life-cycle including arrival, selection, decision-making and purchasing periods of selling. GREAT GUIDE for new sales personnel to help them become productive very quickly.

All Global Mindset 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 course 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:

Sales, Business Development

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Sales • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Five Key Steps to Turn a Prospect into a Sale • Double Your Business in 12 Steps • NETWORKING: I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What??? • Introduction to Online Business Networking (Online Business Networking) • The Home Run Hitter's Guide to Fundraising • Creating Your Elevator Pitch...30 Seconds Which Make or Break Selling • Tales form the Networking Community • Online Networking • Nine steps to online network your way to a meeting • Seven Lessons to Learn from Great Salespeople (New on LatitudeU)

Click here for the Quick Start Sales Training course

Free Course of the Day: Continuous Improvement in the Workplace

This free online course will help you understand why continuous improvement is critical to your competitiveness in the global marketplace. This free training course explains how to improve quality in all levels of an organization – from the front-line worker to senior management. It demonstrates how to define customer needs and expectations. It further shows how to analyze, measure, and improve work processes so that they meet the needs and expectations of customers. It explains how employees can continuously improve their work processes and thereby ultimately improve the quality of the products and services they provide.

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, Continuous Improvement, Customer Service, Employee Performance, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Customer Service • Business Skills >> Operations • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Quality Service in the Public Sector • Effective Change Management • Excellence in Internal Customer Service • Working with Internal Customers • Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems • Customer Service Agent Skills Simulation • The Customer Service Agent in Action • Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents • Managing Challenges in Customer Service • Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call • Technical Support Agent Skills Simulation

Click here for the Continuous Improvement in the Workplace course

Free Course of the Day: Effective On-the-Job Training

This free online course provides guidelines for planning and conducting on the-job training. It describes a four-step model for executing a training plan. It also provides tools and examples to assist organizations and trainers with on-the-job training.

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:

On-the-job Training, Training, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Knowledge Management >> Achieving Measurable Performance Impact from Training • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Training Other People to Train • Training for Business Results

Click here for the Effective On-the-Job Training course

Free Course of the Day: Building Customer Loyalty

Learn how to improve customer service skills and build customer loyalty. This free online course divides lessons into small bites with slide examples and interactive exercises to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Topics covered include customer service principles, communicating effectively with customers, managing the customer encounter, handling complaints and conflicts, and continuously improving customer service.

Key Concepts:

Customer Service, Retail, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Customer Service • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Effective Change Management • Building Customer Loyalty • Customer Service Excellence • Superior Customer Service • ITIL: The Service Desk and Incident Management • ITIL: Configuration and Release Management • ITIL: Service Level and Capacity Management • ITIL: Problem and Change Management • ITIL: Continuity and Availability Management • ITIL: Financial and Security Management • ITIL V3 - ITIL and the Service Lifecycle

Click here for the Building Customer Loyalty course

Free Course of the Day: Introduction to Online Business Networking

Are you and your organization prepared to engage The Relationship Economy? It’s time to Stake your claim! This FREE course is complete in every way, and can be distinguished from other Link To Your Education courses only by looking at the price. Our team has designed a thought-provoking, message-retaining program to enhance your experience and help you process several of the foundational principles in this introductory course. This is the introductory module for the course designed to accompany Teten & Allen's "The Virtual Handshake." To download a free e-book or purchase the paperback, please visit http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com. Take our introductory class to get a feel for what we have in store for you! Do you want to engage the social networking communities and find the business opportunities? This program was designed for you! Our team specializes in simplifying the process of venturing into uncharted territory by providing step-by-step directions. You will have direct access to our team for questions along the way. You will see success at every step as you apply what you have learned and build on previous learning modules. Make sure to follow up this course with Module 1 - Know Thy Virtual Self

Key Concepts:

link to your world, link to your education, social media, social network, social networking, social networking education, social networking training, linked in, students, facebook, bebo, xing, orkut, networking, certification, e-Learning, elearner, learning, classes, training, knowledge, training, elearning, business, online, education, blended learning, hybrid, learning management system, best practices, corporate training, business skills, custom, classroom training, online references, chat rooms, e-mail, chat, video, digital, whiteboard

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Consulting Skills • Business Skills >> Marketing • Business Skills >> Sales • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Consulting Careers -- Tips from a Consulting Veteran • Fundamentals of Negotiations • Introduction to Online Business Networking (Online Business Networking) • Presenting the Complex in a Simple Manner • Consulting with the External Client Simulation • Essentials of External Consulting • The Client-Consultant Relationship • Diagnosing and Planning • Managing Delivery • Evaluation and Review • Consulting with the Internal Client Simulation Click here for the Introduction to Online Business Networking course

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Ann Arbor Spark

The Ann Arbor SPARK mission is to advance the economic development of innovation-based businesses in the Ann Arbor region by offering programs, resources, and proactive support to business at every stage, from start-ups to large organizations looking for expansion opportunities. Ann Arbor is the Address of Innovation™. Ann Arbor SPARK is committed to making that address known worldwide. Visit our website at www.aaspark.org.

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Free Course of the Day: Planning Your Job Performance

This free online course helps you improve organizational performance by establishing clear job and performance expectations and by effectively managing change. Lessons are divided into small bites with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. This free course explains how to reinvent the traditional appraisal process with the performance management cycle.

All Global Mindset 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. 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, Employee Orientation, Career Planning, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

• Business Skills >> Management >> Performance Appraisal • Business Skills >> Personal Development • Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:

• Planning Your Job Performance • Performance Appraisal Simulation: Replaced • Continuous Performance Assessment: Replaced • Reviewing Performance: Replaced Click here for the Planning Your Job Performance course

Free Course of the Day: Customer Service Excellence

This free online course outlines how to maintain excellence in customer service. Positive or negative customer service can be the ultimate determinant of success or failure in any business. When customer service is negative the word is spread to Everyone. When it is positive it is spread but not nearly at the rate of negative impressions.

After completing this course you will understand the difference between traditional and exceptional customer services and how to develop stronger relationships with your customer.

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: Customer Service, Customer Relationship Management, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Customer Service >> Excelling at Customer Service
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Customer Service Excellence
• Corporate Culture: Building the Service Foundation
• The Fundamentals of Exceptional Customer Service
• The Customer's Voice
• Advancing Service Expertise
• Customers, Confrontation and Conflict
• Overcoming Difficult Service Situations
• The EXCEL Acronym: Instilling Service Excellence
• Service Teams and Service Stars
• Excel at Customer Service Simulation
• Providing Customer Service Simulation


Click here for the Effective Business Teams course