Sales And Business Short Courses

As a manager, success is predicated on your ability to achieve goals working with your team. The good news is that management is a skill that can be learned. This path is designed to provide you with the key considerations, skills and competencies to help you become and succeed as a manager.

• Learn the critical skills and competencies for new managers.
• Discover essential interview techniques and questions.
• Create cultures of motivation and accountability.

Sales managers lead professional teams to success by utilizing a variety of skills, from directing team focus and analyzing data to mentoring and developing a sales plan. Build the solid foundation you need to hit the ground running as a new sales manager.

• Learn how to recruit, train, retain, and manage a high-performing sales team.
• Motivate individual salespeople and teams with compensation and quotas.
• Understand how to create and manage sales territories.

Six Sigma Yellow Belts understand the fundamentals of Lean Six Sigma methodology and operational excellence. Learn how to help your team navigate more complex process improvement projects with Six Sigma Yellow Belt skills.

• Identify and practice essential Lean Six Sigma techniques.
• Apply operational excellence to processes and services.
• Develop skills including project management and statistics.

Social media has become a critical part of how most successful organizations engage with potential customers. As a result, social media advertising specialists have become an extremely vital part of a marketing department. Get the skills you need to become a specialist in this exciting field.

• Discover important concepts in modern online marketing.
• Identify the most appropriate platform for your strategy.
• Craft and execute an advertising plan.

Black Belts operate under Master Black Belts to apply Six Sigma methodology to specific projects. This learning path gives you the training you need to operate as a Six Sigma Black Belt.

• Review foundational Six Sigma course work.
• Explore and practice Six Sigma Black Belt content.
• Demonstrate your mastery of Six Sigma principles, philosophies, and related tools by becoming a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Learn how to generate innovative solutions in work situations. Review how to develop, design, and create new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, and products. Discover how to use creative and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

• Identify what creativity is and how it thrives.
• Learn how to drive success through innovation.
• Develop behaviors to generate creative and innovative ideas.

Digital transformation is an ongoing force in business today. But what is it exactly and how can leaders navigate it? In this learning path, business leaders can understand the larger context for this massive change and strategy effort, begin to see where their company lies along the continuum, and discover how best to navigate through the complex terrain long term. This path complements the Digital Transformation in Practice and Digital Transformation for Tech Leaders learning paths, highlighting what leaders need to know and consider as they evolve their strategy.

• Understand the essentials of digital transformation.
• Identify where your company is along the continuum of digital transformation.
• Discover what you need to do to bring your organization up to speed.

New to Microsoft 365? Get up to speed fast with the core Office 365 tools—Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook—as well as newer collaboration apps like Teams and Planner. Plus, learn the basics of the Windows 10 operating system.

• Learn to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and SharePoint.
• Explore the new teamwork and collaboration tools in Office 365.
• Familiarize yourself with the Windows 10 operating system.

Learn how to improve business processes and execute your business strategy more consistently and reliably over time. In this learning path, discover how to apply operational excellence techniques to improve your organization’s processes, products, and services.

• Identify and implement effective business processes.
• Learn the components of quality and supply chain management.
• Explore operational excellence concepts and tools.

As data strategies become pervasive in all business and institutional sectors, Excel will become even more popular as a bridge tool for non-data scientists doing more work, more often, with data. This learning path is the perfect entry point to the world of data-centric projects and skills.

• Master statistics functions in Excel.
• Learn the data analytics and modeling capabilities of Excel.
• Explore how to work with R, a tool for advanced data work.

New to Microsoft PowerPoint? Get up to speed fast with this popular presentation software. In this learning path, you can learn the basics of creating engaging presentations in PowerPoint.

• Create, format, and organize presentations.
• Enhance slides with images, audio, and video.
• Learn time-saving tips.