The Cloud and Business Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand what the cloud is
Recognize risks and benefits
Communicate effectively
Employ business processes
Monitor performance
Telework and Telecommuting Workshop
What you'll learn
Know the skills required for working outside the office
Learn keys to proper self-management
Learn ways to manage time efficiently
Know different methods of organization and planning
Identify various forms of communication and their proper use
Address and resolve challenges that teleworkers can face
Project Management
What you'll learn
Define projects and project management
Explore the changes with the 7th edition and past editions
Recognize the factors that contribute to a system for value delivery
Identify the ethics that are most important for project management
Explore the 12 Project Management Principles
Identify the 8 Project Performance Domains
Understand the Tailoring Process
Define and explore models, methods, and artifacts
Personal Branding
What you'll learn
Define your image
Control your image
Understand how to sharpen your brand
Use social media appropriately
Manage your brand in a crisis
Develop a professional appearance
Entrepreneurship Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand how to start a business
Develop a business plan
Get financing for your business
Hire and train employees
Run your business
Grow your business
Digital Citizenship Workshop
What you'll learn
Define digital citizenship
Use technology appropriately
Use social networking to create your brand
Protect your reputation online
Practice safe use of technology
Understand digital etiquette
Developing Creativity Workshop
What you'll learn
Define creativity
Act with confidence
Engage in curiosity
Stop acting out of fear
Learn from introspection
Take risks
Creative Problem Solving Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand problems and the creative problem solving process
Identify types of information to gather and key questions to ask in problem solving
Identify the importance of defining a problem correctly
Identify and use four different problem definition tools
Write concrete problem statements
Use basic brainstorming tools to generate ideas for solutions
Evaluate potential solutions against criteria, including cost/benefit analysis and group voting
Perform a final analysis to select a solution
Understand the roles that fact and intuition play in selecting a solution
Understand the need to refine the shortlist and redefine it
Understand how to identify the tasks and resources necessary to implement solutions
Evaluate and adapt solutions to reality
Communication Strategies Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand what communication is
Identify ways that communication can happen
Identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them
Develop their non-verbal and paraverbal communication skills
Use the STAR method to speak on the spot
Listen actively and effectively
Ask good questions
Use appreciative inquiry as a communication tool
Adeptly converse and network with others
Identify and mitigate precipitating factors
Establish common ground with others
Use “I” messages