Business and Professional

Every business, no matter how large or small, must “keep books” and as organizations increase and financial regulations become stricter, there is a greater demand for Certified, Professional Bookkeepers. Our Professional Bookkeeping course will cover the multitude of areas that a bookkeeper may address during the work day - how to handle payroll, purchases, billings, cash, fixed assets, inventory, and create financial statements.

This course, offered by our accredited school partners, provides an introduction to key topics in accounting and finance for those involved in new ventures. It reviews financial accounting basics, including GAAP Principles and financial statements, and also covers key issues in finance, broadly defined as any financial or monetary activity that involves a company. Learning Outcomes • Understand and explain the assumptions and principles that underlie Generally Accepted Accounting Principles...

This course, offered by our accredited school partners, focuses on career planning, enhancing resume writing, and improving interviewing skills for those seeking employment. Part One of the course, "Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for a Perfect Fit," will help learners craft a resume that is targeted, elegant, and effective. Part Two, "Interviewing Skills: Make the Right Impression," focuses on the preparation job candidates need in advance of an interview, and on the five stages of the...

As an office professional, you only have to do one thing: everything! And there never seems to be enough time to do it all, much less learn how. But if you really want to ramp up your job performance – and add value to your employer – you need to take this Administrative Assistant course. This course, offered by our accredited school partners, offers an almost endless supply of savvy advice, great tips, proven tools, and powerful strategies for dealing with both everyday job responsibilities...

This course, offered by our accredited school partners, provides an introduction to marketing and marketing planning, and addressing the definition of marketing, the marketing mix (the Four Ps), the strategic importance of marketing, and customer values and satisfaction. Enroll through one of our accredited university or college partners today!

Quality customer service can make or break brands in today's world. The transparency of the internet means that companies are constantly trying to improve their ability to handle customer complaints and enhance user experience. The reputation of a brand starts the second a potential client comes into contact with it, which means one bad review could destroy a company's reputation. This is why good customer service training is invaluable to businesses everywhere, and makes customer service...

Learn how to use your strengths, optimism, and sense of belonging, power and energy to prevail in service of a purpose in our Balanced Leadership for Women course. Listen to stories told by amazing women leaders and learn from their failures and success. Discover techniques for balancing work and life through centered leadership with tools for connecting, engaging, and energizing yourself and others. This course, offered by our accredited school partners, starts with you and helps you build...

Do you feel like people walk all over you? Do you want to learn to be a more confident, assertive individual? If so, this course is for you. This class, offered by our accredited school partners, will teach you the necessary skills to be decisive and in control of your life. The course will teach you to improve your relationships, move your career forward, and earn the respect of your friends, family, spouse, co-workers, even your boss. Enroll through one of our accredited university or...

First time managers have their work cut out for them, many new skills to learn, having to deal with different personalities, and greater responsibilities to accomplish. This Becoming a First Time Manager course, offered by our accredited school partners, provides a new, friendly approach for those charged with the task of management. This course encourages managers to take on the challenges of supervision and provides fast, powerful lessons to help increase productivity, unlock hidden talent,...

Are you looking to demonstrate more value to customers or employers? By using today’s hottest social media platforms you are able to build the powerful personal brand that gets you what you want. In this class, offered by our accredited school partners, you'll learn to use social media to attract new business and grow your readership. From Facebook to Pinterest to video sharing, this class will teach you the techniques and ideas that are practical, easy, and effective for your brand....

This course covers budgets and how they are used in nonprofit organizational settings. You will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of budgets and the relationship between strategic budgeting and tactical budgeting. You will also learn about the organization-wide budget and different budget systems. The course, offered by our accredited school partners, will continue on to slightly more advanced budgeting topics such as capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets....

This course, offered by our accredited school partners, covers the basics of business law for an entrepreneur. It reviews legal structures for a new venture, intellectual property, employment law, contracts, government regulation, and personal and real property. Enroll through one of our accredited university or college partners today!

Interactive tools and pre-assessments are designed to help you retain federal real estate exam topics.  Build your skills with helpful flashcards, vocabulary matching tools, dynamic feedback, and more.  Mobile-friendly, so you have the flexibility to study anytime, anywhere.  Take unlimited practice tests and keep track of your progress with our innovative Readiness Tracker.  Take simulated tests that mirror your actual state exam.  Listen on the...

Because corporate higher-ups and stakeholders can't support your ideas—or recognize you for them—without first understanding what they are, communicating clearly and concisely in written and oral formats is critical to your professional success. From clarifying and structuring your ideas to designing the PowerPoint slides that will best complement them, the techniques, interactive exercises, and checklists in this suite, offered by our accredited school partners, will help you create...

Digital marketing helps organizations promote and sell products and services through online marketing methods such as social media messaging, website ads, Facebook marketing campaigns, Google Adwords, and more. It's vital to develop a marketing strategy that keeps up with the technology. This Certificate in Digital Marketing, delivered through our school partners, covers the strategic issues, marketing methods and tactics, industry terminology, and best practices. Each of the nine courses in...

This online certificate program, offered by our accredited school partners, introduces key issues in entrepreneurship for those looking to start a business on their own. What does it take to build and grow a business from scratch? What personal characteristics are shared by successful entrepreneurs? What types of resources are available to budding entrepreneurs, and where can you find them? Learners who complete this program will have the answers to those questions and others that are...

This online certificate program, offered by our accredited school partners, introduces non-financial managers to the essentials of finance. The course will help you become conversant in critical financial terminology, and you'll learn how to calculate key financial management indicators. You will learn how to assess your organization's financial health by reviewing balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow, and you will discover how finance and accounting tools can be used...

An effective human resource management strategy is a valuable asset to any company, but those running small businesses often cannot justify designating a full-time HR professional to manage employee relations, compensation, policy-making, performance management, and employee appraisals. This suite of courses, offered by our accredited school partners, will teach you the basics of managing the benefits and policies that support an effective staff. What does an employer need to know about...

Because organizations must innovate to stay alive in today's highly competitive marketplace, organizations need employees who can channel their creativity and innovation toward organizational challenges and goals. This suite of courses, offered by our accredited school partners, will first help you become re-acquainted with your own stores of creativity and innovation. Next, you are given a set of tools that allow you to leverage your creativity to identify and solve organizational problems....

What is leadership and why is it important? How does a leader encourage change without triggering fearful resistance? What are the key elements to leading an effective team? What is the role of charisma in leadership? How can a leader achieve work-life balance? This suite of courses addresses all of these questions and many more. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, the courses in this suite, offered by our accredited...

This online certificate program, offered by our accredited school partners, introduces learners to key current management issues for nonprofit organizations. Fundraising, board and volunteer development, budgeting, reading financial statements, leadership, marketing, and setting strategic direction are all addressed, and video commentary on these crucial topics will give you insight into how nonprofit professionals apply key concepts in their own organizations. Enroll through one of our...

This online certificate program, offered by our accredited school partners, introduces learners to key current management issues for nonprofit organizations. Fundraising, board and volunteer development, budgeting, reading financial statements, leadership, marketing, and setting strategic direction are all addressed, and video commentary on these crucial topics will give you insight into how nonprofit professionals apply key concepts in their own organizations. Enroll through one of our...

If you’d like to manage larger projects and gain more responsibility or add project management skills into your current role, then the Certified Associate in Project Management program, offered by our accredited school partners, is right for you. Learn to master the most proven methods in project management as well as exciting new techniques emerging from current industry and today's most recent research. This course introduces manual techniques perfected during the past 50 years and...

Learn about the exciting world of today's Human Resources Management throughout this online course. This HR management course, offered by our accredited school partners, weaves together solid human resource principles and real word scenarios companies and managers face, such as recruiting, training, developing, managing, compensation, benefits, safety, and work motivation. This course highlights important challenges facing managers and employees in today's business climate. Interesting case...

Dispensary Life Module 1 - Licensing, Applying, and Interviewing Each state has its own process for applying for a cannabis license. In this module we discuss the application process for medical and recreational licenses in legalized states. We also identify steps for applying and interviewing for your new budtending job. Dispensary Life Module 2 - Understanding how Cannabinoids Work This module discusses aspects of a typical dispensary environment, including the roles of the people involved....

Cannabis Pharmacy Module 1 - Cannabis as a Medicine People have cultivated cannabis longer than any other plant. It has been grown for fiber, medicine, and inebriation for at least 12,000 years. This first module describes how cannabis works within the body and how to affects your Endocannabinoid system. We also discuss possible adverse side effects. Cannabis Pharmacy Module 2 - Using Medical Cannabis Cannabis can be used in a variety of forms. It can be eaten, smoked, vaporized, applied...

Cannabis Commercial Growing Module 1 - Cannabis and System Basics The needs of the cannabis plant are actually very basic! Our first module introduces you to the anatomy of the cannabis plant and how to identify the gender. Then we move into the symbiotic rotation process and items needed to start developing your growroom and/or greenhouse. Cannabis Commercial Growing Module 2 - Ventilation, Temperature, Lighting, Germination Our second module discusses growing mediums, ventilation, heat, CO2,...

This course, offered by our accredited school partners, provides an introduction to the historical, theoretical, and developmental foundations for educating young children, with an emphasis on creating inclusive environments and curricula that are responsive to the needs of diverse children and their families. Topics include historical influences, program types, guidance strategies, professionalism, current trends and issues, and advocacy. Child Care Workers are responsible to care for...

Event planners need professional caliber information that explains everything from how to decorate, to the use of technology, and everything in between. In this course, offered by our accredited school partners, you will learn that information and much more. It is through planned events that we remember our shared history, our friends, family, and community. We include information on greener events, corporate social responsibility, international best practices, and the expanding event field....

The term "Human Resources" covers a wide range of activities and employment positions. As a HR Professional, there are many careers you can pursue including Specialist, Expert, Manager, Executive, Consultant, Training & Development Manager, or even an International Specialist. Some of the activities that fall to HR professionals include hiring and firing employees, managing employee communications, settling employee disputes, creating benefits programs, navigating government regulations, and...

Our Life Skills Coaching Program will help you learn the skills you need to become a successful Life Skills Coach while also helping you create the business you want. Throughout this course you will be working on your business plan and creating a quick comprehensive overview of the elements you want in your new business while also learning how to help clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity. Life Skills Coaching is...

Marketing &PR Marketing and PR – when it comes to marketing in business, knowing about money isn’t the only aspect. In our course we will teach you the marketing tricks of big business and learn how to apply them to your brand or small business. The rules of marketing and strategies learned in our course will teach you about the pioneering of future marketing as well as a step-by-step action plan for using these marketing techniques to effectively communicate with buyers directly, raise...

Paralegal 1: An Introduction uses real-world examples to cover all the topics a student needs to know to prepare for their paralegal career. Topics covered include career development, ethics and professional responsibility, pretrial preparation, trial proceedings, and legal interviewing and investigation. Learn guidelines for performing legal research and analysis and standards for legal communications and writing. Take the steps to develop your Paralegal career today! The topics handled in...

You can find PMPs leading projects in nearly every country and, unlike other certifications that focus on a particular geography or domain, the PMP® is truly global. As a PMP, you can work in virtually any industry, with any methodology and in any location. The PMP also increases your earning potential. PMP certification holders can earn up to 20 percent more than their non-certified peers. The PMP signifies that you speak and understand the global language of project management and connects...

Love working with children and want to learn techniques for supporting their development? This Child Care Worker course, offered by our accredited school partners, provides practical advice to prepare you for your role as an educator of young children. Learn the principles of providing ultimate learning environments, developing engaging curricula for various developmental stages, meeting children’s social-emotional needs and interests, and communicating and interacting with parents and staff...

Do you love being around children? Have you ever thought about becoming a child care worker or wondered if you could start a home day care business? Child day care management distance learning course can provide you with the information to take the first step toward earning an attractive child care worker salary. With this child day care management distance learning course, offered by our accredited school partners, you can learn the key concepts involved in being a child care worker. You...

The coaching profession continues to evolve as a skill set and communication form that can be applied to many situations at work and in life. With the coaching profession on the rise it is important that coaches are trained in the most up-to-date methods of coaching their clients. This course, offered by our accredited school partners, uses the Co-Active Coaching Model to help you develop your skills in communication, relationships, and coaching to achieve transformational change in others....

Communicating effectively with team members and groups has become more important as organizations have relied on collaborative work to advance their goals. This course, offered by our accredited school partners, will help you improve your collaborative communication by providing best practices and effective tips and techniques. Enroll through one of our accredited university or college partners today!

This course looks at spurring creativity and innovation in teams and organizations. Drawing on the latest academic thinking, it outlines the key factors for creative teams. Further, this course, offered by our accredited school partners, focuses on tools and techniques designed to yield more productive thinking in collective settings. Participants learn about a number of targeted tools (including brainstorming, Discussion 66, Provocation, and others) to generate fresh thinking in smaller group...

In this Customer Service Survival Skills course, offered by our accredited school partners, students will learn how to get to the heart of customer service; a challenging but not impossible achievement. Customers expect quality service and in return will provide loyalty. Businesses today understand that customer service loyalty contributes to the success and growth of a business. This is why it is important understand the importance in learning, developing and improving the skills needed to...

There are difficult people in all our lives. These people spend their time not doing what we want them to do, or doing things you don’t want them to do. This course, offered by our accredited school partners, will help you identify those difficult people, understand why they act that way, and teach you to not be their victim anymore. You will look at the ways to identify and assemble effective communication skills that will allow you to understand those difficult people, and focus on...

The demand for skilled professional bookkeepers is rapidly growing. If you are interested in a dynamic career in a high demand, rewarding profession, this course is for you. This course provides a look into becoming a bookkeeper and their day to day responsibilities. We will take a deep dive into the training and requirements for pursuing a successful career in this field. Lastly, this course will look at the evolution, current trends, and facts of working in the bookkeeping area.

The demand for skilled HR professionals is rapidly growing. If you are interested in a dynamic career in a high paced business profession, this course is for you. This course provides a look into becoming a HR professional and the day to day responsibilities of a HR specialist. We will take a deep dive into the training and requirements for pursuing a successful career in this field. Lastly, this course will look at the evolution, current trends, and facts of working in the human resources...

The demand for skilled medical assisting professionals is rapidly growing. If you are interested in a dynamic career in a high demand, rewarding profession, this course is for you. This course provides a look into becoming a medical assistant and their day to day responsibilities. We will take a deep dive into the training and requirements for pursuing a successful career in this field. Lastly, this course will look at the evolution, current trends, and facts of working in the medical field in...

The demand for skilled paralegal is rapidly growing. If you are interested in a dynamic career in a high demand, rewarding profession, this course is for you. This course provides a look into becoming a paralegal and their day to day responsibilities. We will take a deep dive into the training and requirements for pursuing a successful career in this field. Lastly, this course will look at the evolution, current trends, and facts of working in the legal industry as a paralegal.

The demand for skilled photographers is on the rise. If you are interested in a dynamic career in a high demand, rewarding profession, this course is for you. This course provides a look into taking a passion for photography and turning it into a professional career. It will look at the day to day responsibilities of a professional photographer. We will take a deep dive into the training and requirements for pursuing a successful career in this field. Lastly, this course will look at the...

The demand for skilled project managers is rapidly growing. If you are interested in a dynamic career in a high demand, rewarding profession, this course is for you. This course provides a look into becoming a project manager and their day to day responsibilities. We will take a deep dive into the training and requirements for pursuing a successful career in this field. Lastly, this course will look at the evolution, current trends, and facts of working in project management.

Communicating clearly and concisely in written formats like email, memos, and letters is very important in a workplace setting. This course, offered by our accredited school partners, will help you improve your use of these common business communication vehicles by providing best practices and effective tips and techniques. Enroll through one of our accredited university or college partners today!