Facilitating On-site and Virtual Teams Knowing how to facilitate maturing on-site and virtual teams is critical, because it is at this time that teams typically reach peak performance. Mature teams begin to perform independently, and it's important that the leader's role changes to that of a facilitator. This course will cover the facilitation of on-site and virtual teams as teams mature. It will introduce the development stages of more...
Essentials of External Consulting ...ing this with, in equal measure, qualities of leadership, creativity, and emotional intelligence. In this course, you'll find out more about the role of an external consultant. You'll also see how, with the key skills and qualities, you can deliver outstanding performance to clients, guaranteeing they'll want you to return again in the future. Anyone with some specialist knowledge and general more...
Consulting with the External Client Simulation Modern corporations employ consultants for their experience, knowledge, and skills. The primary responsibility of these consultants is to facilitate decision making for senior management. To do this, external consultants gather information using proven techniques, analyze current business situations with specific diagnostic methods, and make recommendations based on those processes. In this more...
The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation ...creativity, and how does it affect the brain? Why is it that people often have many of their best ideas once they leave work, when performing the most mundane tasks? Is this a coincidence, or is there a particular reason for it? As more and more organizations encourage employees to propose creative and innovative ideas in the workplace, it's imperative that you understand the foundations of more...
Managing the Expert Developing a Successful Environment Managing the Expert: Developing a Successful Environment explains management strategies, incentive programs, and the challenges of maximizing experts' creative potential. It identifies the processes for designing and implementing expert-appropriate incentive programs, managing renegade creativity, and managing barriers to expert creativity. The target audience for this series is managers, more...
Energizing and Empowering Employees Energy. Without it, the wheels and gigabytes of industry come to a screeching halt. And without energized, empowered employees, your part of global industry will make far less progress. This course introduces you to the importance of energizing and empowering employees. By doing so, you multiply the benefits to your department, team, and organization. The course begins by showing you ways to more...
Coaching Personalities and Teams Simulation You are a marketing manager for Dulce Confections, a leading maker of chocolates and other fine candies. Due to changing consumer tastes and an increase in the average age of Dulce's core customer, the company is anxious to change the dated packaging on its flagship candy bar, the Dulce bar. The challenge of the repackaging initiative is to appeal to a younger demographic while not alienating the more...
Problem Solving and Process Management Tools Albert Einstein is reputed to have said, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." To solve quality and process-related problems, managers should continuously enhance their knowledge of organizational processes and quality management tools. These tools help managers find root causes of problems, an important step toward more...
Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity ...Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity offers the student information required to mentally and physically prepare for creativity; incorporate innocence intuition and adventure into creative thinking; and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The program describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the most more...
Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity offers the student information required to organize creative teams conduct effective team sessions and avoid roadblocks to team creativity. The program covers activities that can be used to increase creativity in a team and describes the creative problem-solving process. more...
Sales Skills The Fundamentals ...tion. Take actions to enhance your creativity. Identify the skills and characteristics of successful salespeople. Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will meet with Mary Winford, Icon's Vice President of Sales. Mary has extensive experience in the area of sales, and she knows the personal more...
Creativity Innovation Thinking Creatively ...Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively, you will learn to meet the demands of creative thinking in the workplace. This program will help you develop your creative thinking skills and allow you to practice using the creative thinking process. Learn To Identify the stages of the creative process. Recognize techniques that will more...
Creativity Innovation Increasing Personal Creativity ...Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity offers the student information required to mentally and physically prepare for creativity; incorporate innocence, intuition, and adventure into creative thinking; and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The program describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the more...
Creativity Innovation Fostering a Ceative Environment ...Creativity and Innovation: Fostering a Creative Environment offers the student information required to recruit and retain creative individuals, perform a creativity audit, and to communicate with creative people. In addition, the program explains creative rhythm and gives suggestions for implementing a creative culture. Learn To Recognize the factors that more...
Creativity Innovation Promoting Team Creativity ...Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity offers the student information required to organize creative teams, conduct effective team sessions, and avoid roadblocks to team creativity. The program covers activities that can be used to increase creativity in a team and describes the creative problem-solving process. Learn To Demonstrate characteristics more...
Managing the Expert Developing a Successful Environment ... expert-appropriate incentive programs, managing renegade creativity, and managing barriers to expert creativity. Learn To Provide feedback during a performance evaluation. Follow the guidelines for preventing resistance to change. Design an expert-appropriate incentive program. more...
Managing Change Overcoming Change Obstacles ...eactions to change. Encourage creativity in your employees. Develop commitment to change in your employees. Identify the reasons why change teams are needed in times of change. Audience This course is suitable for anyone involved in formal or informal change management. Deployment Options e-Learning more...
Creativity and Innovation Series ...Creativity and Innovation Series includes the following courses: Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity Creativity and Innovation: Fostering a Creative Environment Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired more...
Multimedia Training ...creativity can learn Multimedia. This course is more software oriented and we teach you to master these software. Creativity is the core of Multimedia. Techniques and different software help you in unleashing your creativity.
The new batches will start every Friday. We also have separate weekend batches.
Learn online through our Virtual Classroom. Having a PC with broadband connection is more...
Breaking Barriers by Brainstorming Incorporate brainstorming as an effective problem-solving tool to conquer business challenges. Whether you are a small business owner, department head, or team leader, you can benefit from this invaluable asset in today s competitive business environment. Learn how to creatively generate ideas and conduct productive brainstorming sessions. more...
Cultivating Creativity Each of us is born creative, even if we are not artists or sculptors. Creativity is what gives us the power to find alternative solutions to everyday problems, and is therefore invaluable in business. Learn some practical strategies and tips on how to become more innovative based on ideas and practices drawn from experts in the field of creativity. more...
Simple Steps to Super Slogans To develop and preserve a positive corporate image, organizations inevitably rely on slogans. The information presented here offers valuable tools on how to identify a successful slogan, determine the right type of slogan to use for your product, and how to go about writing and testing effective slogans. more...
Warm Up with Icebreakers Start your training session with an icebreaker that sets a positive tone. Consider the factors affecting your choice of icebreaker and explore tips on where to find great ideas. Outlined here are six examples of proven icebreakers that work in a variety of training environments. more...
What's in a Name? How people initially perceive and respond to your business, product, or service, will often be determined by its name. If you are faced with the challenge of creating a name to brand a product, service, or business, follow this helpful guide to learn some basic strategies, creative techniques, and caveats involved in new name generation. This JEDlet does not cover legal trademark or copyrighting more...
quark basics Book publishing, magazines, newspapers, corporate reports, catalogues, promotional materials . . . there's almost no limit to what can be done using QuarkXPress, Quark's tried-and-true layout, design, and production tool.
In this six-lesson course, you'll master all the basics of this "must-know" program. Through a series of hands-on projects, you'll create a flyer, a brochure, a newsletter, a more...
intro to web design ...of Web design rewards a unique blend of technical skills, creativity, visual communication, information science, and entrepreneurship.
In this introductory class, you'll learn how the Web evolved, cover the technical fundamentals, and learn the design principles that characterize the leading sites. Through exposure to best (and worst) practices on the Web, you'll learn how to intelligently more...
Adobe Photoshop for Photographers 3rd Edition ...chniques, supercharging user workflow, and releasing user creativity. VTC author, Gavin Phillips, shows users how to greatly increase workflow and productivity using Photoshop, while also becoming more "business creative" in the process. Learn how to create tasteful and marketable artistic effects in less than five minutes using custom actions, all of which are included on the tutorial. To more...
Apple Motion ...creativity with the real time motion graphics and compositing powerhouse, Apple Motion . VTC author, Scott Simmons, shows users how to take advantage of Motion's powerful toolset. Motion's behavioral animation tools and presets afford unprecedented freedom to produce natural and complex animations with little time or effort. You'll be designing motion graphics quickly as you adopt your own more...
Apple Motion 2 ...creativity with the real time motion graphics and compositing powerhouse, Apple Motion 2 . VTC author, Scott Simmons, shows users how to take advantage of the Motion 2 toolset. Motion's behavioral animation tools and presets afford unprecedented freedom to produce natural and complex animations with little time or effort. You'll be designing motion graphics quickly as you adopt your own more...
Painter 6 0 Corel Painter 6 is a digital painting resource that simulates hand drawing and painting. Painter 6 is the perfect tool for artists, designers, and animators. It realistically recreates the effects of real media with its vast array of brushes and imaging options such as felt-pens, watercolors, oil paints, and more. Author Andrew Hathaway guides you through this incredible tutorial, where you will more...
Macromedia Director 8 ...d online learning applications. Director 8 unleashes your creativity by providing you with the tools that allow you to combine graphics, sound, animation, text, and video into compelling content that will grab your audience. Let author Scott Doucet give you the knowledge necessary to use these tools. He will make it so much easier for you to create, import, animate, and control media. You can more...
Elements of Effective Writing III: Creativity & Expression from Writers Online Workshops In this workshop we ll look at ways to take your writing to the next level no matter what kind of writing you do. In each session you ll learn techniques to add depth, texture and emotion to your writing.
To get the most from this workshop you should already have a good grasp of grammar, mechanics and composition (Elements of Effective Writing I and II, while not prerequisites, are recommended more...
Creating Dynamic Characters workshop from Writers Online Workshops Creating believable characters and bringing them to life on the page requires observation, understanding, imagination and skill in the techniques of character development and characterization.
In this workshop, you ll build these skills and apply what you ve learned to specific fictional characters of your own choosing. You can bring characters from works in progress if you like, but the focus more...
Essentials of Romance Writing from Writers Online Workshops Do you yearn to write a romantic story? If so, you need to know what sets romance writing apart from other types of fiction. This course explores why romance is the same, yet different. Some essential components of romance are unique to the genre, while some romance requirements are identical to those of any good fiction story. Neither Stephen King nor Tom Clancy could sit down and write a romance more...
Essentials of Scrapbook Journaling from Writers Online Workshops ...journaling techniques and to encourage through the use of creativity exercises, hands-on writing assignments and constructive feedback the development of your individual journaling style and creative expression.
Learn how to create a more complete chronicle of the important times in the lives of those you love with this four-week course on scrapbook journaling. This online workshop will help more...
Extended Getting Started in Writing workshop from Writers Online Workshops ...iques to improve your narrative skills through the use of creativity exercises, hands-on writing assignments and constructive critical feedback no matter what kind of writing you choose to pursue. Plus! In the Extended version of this workshop, you will have more time to work on your reading and writing assignments. This is the ideal starting place for those whose busy lives don't allow for more...
Getting Started in Writing workshop from Writers Online Workshops ...iques to improve your narrative skills through the use of creativity exercises, hands-on writing assignments and constructive critical feedback no matter what kind of writing you choose to pursue.
Please note: This workshop is intended to be an overview and introduction to a number of types of writing from fillers, to short stories to books. You will not be expected to submit fully-developed, more...
Fundamentals of Fiction Writing from Writers Online Workshops ...undamental techniques and to encourage through the use of creativity exercises, hands-on writing assignments and constructive critical feedback the development of your individual style and creative expression.
You don't have to decide yet whether your ultimate goal is a collection of short stories or The Great American Novel, because the focus in this workshop will be on the development of more...
Fundamentals of Nonfiction Writing workshop from Writers Online Workshops Nonfiction appeals to the amateur historian/anthropologist/psychologist/biographer in all of us. But contemporary nonfiction is about a lot more than just facts and figures and interview quotes. Contemporary readers expect their nonfiction to be engaging, compelling and entertaining as well as informative.
In this workshop we ll concentrate on the basic creative (yes, creative) techniques more...
Fundamentals of Life Stories Writing from Writers Online Workshops In this workshop you will learn fundamental creative writing techniques that will help you explore personal and family stories and record life experiences in ways that are creative, entertaining and personally meaningful. This class encourages personal discovery and the development of individual style through the use of directed journaling, hands-on writing exercises, and constructive critical more...
Fundamentals of Poetry Writing workshop from Writers Online Workshops In this workshop, you will gain a working knowledge of the basic poetic forms and the fundamental techniques of writing both rhymed and free verse. But this is not a class for beginners only it is also for more experienced poets looking to take their work to the next level through a thorough understanding of classical poetic structures and techniques. This workshop encourages personal discovery more...
Fundamentals of Writing for Children from Writers Online Workshops ...ies for young readers and to encourage through the use of creativity exercises, hands-on writing assignments and constructive critical feedback the development of your individual style and creative expression. While the focus will be on fiction, you can apply these techniques to children's nonfiction as well. You may work on one or several projects of your choice in this workshop anything for more...
ASTA North American Rail Travel Specialist ...x array of motivation, skills, knowledge, persistence and creativity. While a single course is not likely to provide you with everything you need to earn your place among rail travel experts, this course will lay the foundation for a successful rail travel specialty by answering three basic questions: Why should you specialize in North American rail travel? What should you know about passenger more...
Pump Up Your Prose: Snagging Attention with Sayings I Spice-up your verbal and written business communication. Become a more compelling speaker, communicator and negotiator. This is the first of a two-part series that explores the use and origins of English expressions. Learning these sayings, expressions and idioms will help you use the right words in the right place for maximum impact. more...
Advanced Graphic Design Course ...ency and constancy into practice.
LESSON 3 Constructing Creativity Graphic designers as the blue-collar workers of the art world. Lesson Three looks at the building blocks of a design project: investigating the nature of creativity, mapping out stages in the design process, and looking at how cliches can be transformed to create something new. You will study some tried-and-true methods used more...
Advanced Layout Design Course ... is a necessary element in all design and a complement to creativity. Lesson Two explores creative applications for a geometrical approach to page composition. Classic proportional systems are explored, including such as the golden section, golden spiral, Fibonacci sequence, root 2 rectangle, and the rule of thirds. You'll also investigate how to use lines and shapes as graphic elements to more...
Advanced Logo Design ...ng are discussed, with an emphasis on opening the door to creativity and productivity. The exercise provides practice in both brainstorming and creative logo identity evolution.
LESSON 4 Identity Imperatives A s uccessful logo conveys the essential identity of a company or individual saying "I'm friendly" or "strong" or "smart." Lesson Four explores the various techniques logo designers use more...
Advanced Packaging Design Course ...gne and fragrance cartons.
A major course emphasis is on creativity and portfolio-quality work. Whether you're looking to branch out into package design or simply add some knockout pieces to your graphic design portfolio, this course will stretch your abilities.
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LESSON 1 Seeing in 3D Package design requires you to see and design in a whole new way in three dimensions. In this more...