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Business Etiquette (10 hours)
Business Presentations (15 hours)
Effective Business Writing (10 hours)
The 4-Hour Workweek (10 hours)
Getting Your Way (5 hours)
Having it All (10 hours)
How Successful People Think (5 hours)
Make Today Count (5 hours)
Master Your Workday (15 hours) **NEW**
Mastering the Art of Doing it Now (10 hours)
The Myth of Multitasking (5 hours)
Organize Your Life (10 hours)
Personal Efficiency (15 hours)
The Power of an Hour (10 hours)
Teamwork 101 (5 hours) **NEW**
Qualities of a Leader (10 hours)
Total Money Makeover (15 hours)
Why Smart Executives Fail (15 hours)
| This course gives you the tools you need to be confident in any business setting--from pitch to presentation, from networking to contract negotiations, and everything in between. You will easily master the art of small talk, the protocol of the perfect business introduction, and the many nuances of the business lunch. More than simple good manners, business protocol is a set of tools that allows you to move with confidence through any business setting and act with ease in any meeting or presentation. Course level: Basic. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: PD305 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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| The text for this course differentiates itself from other books on communication, presentation, and media relations because it directly confronts the biggest challenges facing anyone who needs to communicate anything today: listeners' time constraints and distractions. It offers a unique "modular" approach that will enable you to say what you need to say, in a way that it can best be heard and remembered, in a time frame that can be suited to any situation and offers time-sensitive, flexible strategies for one-on-one communication, group presentations, and media interviews that are guaranteed to get results. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: PD815 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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Provides a simple ten-step system for mastering the art of effective, persuasive business or technical writing. Teaches you how to transform data and ideas into meaningful information necessary to make profitable decisions as well as clear and concise reports, letters, and other documents with minimal effort. You will learn how to understand your audience and subject matter; develop a simple, five-part purpose statement to keep you on track; organize your main points into a coherent, sensible order; edit your work for clarity, coherence, organization, and logic; economize your words to craft a concise, powerful document; and make your documents easily readable for any audience. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD949 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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| The author, Tim Ferriss, has spent years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who have abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles now. Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new life. The author will teach you how to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist, how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour, and how to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent "mini-retirements". Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: PD725 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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Because persuasion occurs in so many different areas of life and business, the author leads you from mental readiness to the principles of getting your way and the power that persuasion offers. It demonstrates how to change a presentation into a performance and shows how this can be done in any environment. But because persuasion most often takes place in business, he draws special emphasis to your ability to write and sell persuasively. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD727 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $30.00. | |
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Imagine having someone take you by the hand to help you evaluate where you stand in your health (both mental and physical), relationships (significant other, friends and family), finances, and career/business, and then helping you lay out your goals in each of those areas. Well, now that you've imagined, visualized, and felt it, that is exactly what this course will do for you. The author’s materials and goal setting procedures help you understand why they work, and why other things don't work. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD844 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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This course is a perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. It guides you through the 11 secrets successful people know and will teach you how to expand your thinking and achieve yourr dreams. The 11 keys to successful thinking include: Big-Picture Thinking - seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas; Focused Thinking - removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential; Creative Thinking - thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs; Shared Thinking - working with others to compound results; Reflective Thinking - looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future; and more. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD969 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $25.00. | |
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John C. Maxwell, known as America's expert on leadership, speaks in person to hundreds of thousands of people each year. He makes the great point that what you become is the result of what you do today. The only way to change your life is to change what you do daily. This course covers each of the 12 areas that he considers to be critical to success -- Attitude, Priorities, Health, Family, Thinking, Commitment, Finances, Faith, Relationships, Generosity, Values, and Growth. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD821 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $25.00. | |
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| This course gives you solutions to your overwhelmed workday and to mastering a productive life. Contained in the text are great ideas to help you focus, concentrate, and get more things done faster than ever before. It offers a multilayered method for getting a better handle on your day by organizing your tasks, activities and goals more efficiently and precisely. If you follow these practices, your daily tasks and e-mails will be well managed, your goals will be clear and achievable, and your career will be on track. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: PD1053 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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Mastering the Art of Doing it Now
| Almost everyone procrastinates. For most people, procrastination is
a troublesome habit we would like to overcome. This course will help you
to get started. It includes proven tips and techniques for: identifying
how and why you put things off; motivating yourself to begin -- and finish
-- unpleasant tasks; organizing your time and efforts to achieve your goals;
and more. The text is filled with useful advice and real-life stories of
people who have overcome procrastination. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites:
None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading
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Course Number: PD262 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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| The text for this course is written as a business fable - so if you like stories, you will enjoy the book. If you prefer concrete “facts only” books, this one will not be to your liking. This simple yet powerful book shows clearly why multitasking is a lie that wastes time and costs money. Far from being efficient, multitasking actually damages productivity and relationships at work and at home. The author offers clear solutions for dealing with distractions such as co-workers, e-mail, phone calls, and more. He will help you recognize why multitasking is a false construct and understand the difference between background-tasking and switchtasking. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: PD804 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $25.00. | |
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| In this course, you'll discover eight simple steps to regain control of your life, learn how to plan and prioritize to save time, and get things done. Whether you're overwhelmed by things to do (errands, phone calls, picking up, or putting away) or things you have (clothing you never wear, piles of paperwork, overflowing closets, and stuffed storage boxes), this course is filled with easy tools and tips to get organized in every area of your life. |  |
Course Number: PD871 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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| Find out how to get organized at work, get more done, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. This course will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing up more time for the life you live outside the office. The text is the ultimate labor-saving, stress-busting, career-boosting guide designed to help you take complete control of every challenge and chore you face at work. Course level: Basic. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: PD510 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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| Great businesses are built on great leaders, and changing your business for the better often means changing yourself first. This course identifies specific core areas of personal, professional, and business improvement, and then guides you through a step-by-step process that keeps you focused so you can reinvent your life and business. You'll learn about managing your time, improving your personal relationships for the good of yourself and your business, dealing with customers, managing employees, and creating and following a vision of your future success. Course level: Basic. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
Course Number: PD632 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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| John C. Maxwell, known as America's expert on leadership, speaks in person to hundreds of thousands of people each year. In this course, he provides a concise, accessible leadership book that will help you become a more effective leader from the inside out. The text highlights twenty-one essential leadership qualities and includes "Reflecting On It" and "Bringing It Home" sections to help you integrate and apply each section of the material. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD823 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $50.00. | |
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John C. Maxwell believes that "teamwork is at the heart of great achievement." This concise, power-packed game plan can help leaders create an environment that brings about victory and fulfillment to the whole team. You will learn to build a team that lasts, create positive energy on the team, harness a team's creativity, identify weak players who negatively impact a team, and judge whether the team can accomplish the dream. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD1056 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $25.00. | |
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In this course, respected financial expert Dave Ramsey offers a comprehensive plan for getting out of debt and achieving financial health. Against a playful backdrop of fitness terminology, Dave gives solid, hard-hitting advice needed to make your goals a reality. Filled with both the “hope” and the “how-to,” the text includes: useful worksheets and forms; readable and informative charts and graphs; the four factors that keep people from getting in shape financially; and more. Course level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |
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Course Number: PD852 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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| A company is voted one of the most admired in the world. Then it's in dire financial trouble. What goes wrong in these cases? Usually it seems that the top management made some incredibly stupid mistake. But the people responsible are almost always remarkably intelligent and usually have terrific track records. How does this happen? To answer these questions, the author has carried out the largest research program ever devoted to business breakdowns and he uncovers the causes regularly responsible for major business breakdowns. The text relates the stories of great business disasters and demonstrates that there are specific, identifiable ways in which many businesses regularly make themselves vulnerable to failure. Course level: Basic. Course includes text, interactive study guide, final exam, and grading service. |  |
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Course Number: PD513 |
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| If you already have the book, you can order the rest of the course for $75.00. | |
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