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Introduction to Design Thinking
Lee-Sean Huang
In this course, you will learn the basics of Design Thinking methods and mindsets, which have been used by Fortune 500 companies and top design firms like IDEO to innovate new products and services. Design Thinking is a way for professionals from all backgrounds, both designers and non-designers, to work together to solve problems and create new business opportunities. It begins with empathy and gaining an understanding of potential customers’ needs. It also provides a way to quickly and cheaply sketch and prototype concepts that can be tested and further developed. By the end of this course,...
Product Management Toolkit
Rich Headley
What separates decent product managers from the elite, special operators that always get the job done swiftly and effectively? It often comes down to the tools they bring on their mission to use during the ideation, discovery, design, prototyping, user testing, development, launch, and iteration phases of the product lifecycle. This course will teach you when and how to use the tools and techniques that will level up your product management game. If used right, they'll give you an unfair tactical advantage in the trenches with your engineers and confidence-inspiring strategic persuasiveness...
Starting a Freelance Business: Ten Essential Tips
K.C. Finn
Working for yourself is a dream that many people aspire to, but how do you turn your skills into a fully operational freelance life that earns the most money in the least amount of time, and all from the comfort of your own home? This course covers the ten essential components which you’ll need to consider and develop in order to set your business up for success.
Managing Your Manager
Jordan Thibodeau and Joe Ternasky
Many people instinctively know how to be managed, but few people possess the skills needed to take an active part in their relationship with their manager. By learning how to properly manage your manager, you will provide yourself with opportunities to expand your impact within your organization and put yourself in a position to advance your career. This course will help you learn the skills you need to find success and satisfaction within your workplace by developing an effective relationship with your direct manager and key partners. Some fundamental concepts we will cover in this class...
Presentation Skills
Barry Brophy
In conversations, people use concrete language to communicate with stories, examples, analogies, demonstrations, interaction, images and videos. Coupled with this, they use their voice, eyes, hands, body and emotions to add emphasis and punch. In presentations, however, people tend to speak in the abstract, fill their slides with bullet points, go way over time and speak without emotion or tone. This course explains why presenters do this and how to put it right. It gives many tips on creating content that you can present as naturally and energetically as you would in a chat with a friend.
How to Ace Any Professional Job Interview
Ken Liu
You’ve just been invited for a job interview. After the initial excitement wears off, you start getting nervous about the whole thing. You have no idea what kinds of questions the interviewer will ask you, let alone how to answer them with confidence. That’s where this course comes in. It will help you simplify the whole interview process, guiding you from the moment you receive your invitation to the moment you walk out of the interview room. Just remember, your interview starts way before you meet your interviewer. If you want to ace your interview, you have to start your preparations right...
Becoming a More Strategic Product Manager
Todd Birzer
Product management—done right—should span a healthy mix of the tactical and strategic. However, too many product managers get buried in the tactical and underinvest in the strategic. This course will help you, as a product manager, become more strategic. You’ll learn what work to say “yes” and “no” to and how to amplify your impact on your company and its long-term product portfolio.
How to Be Good at Stress
Dr. Kimberlee Bonura
Stress is bad for your health, right? In fact, stress is a lot like blood pressure: Too high is bad for your health, too low is bad for your health, and the only time you have none is when you’re dead. Research indicates that stress is actually related to having meaning and purpose in your life. In this course, you’ll spend ten days transforming your relationship with stress. Practical exercises will help you build resilience by purposefully challenging yourself through good stress, re-channel anxiety into excitement, and rest and recover effectively. Are you ready to be good at stress?
How to Boost Your Studying and Test-Taking Skills
Valeria Shvediuk
Would you like to improve your grades or get the perfect test score? In only ten audio lessons, you’ll turn into a test-taking champion, as this crash course teaches you powerful and proven techniques to optimize your study routine, boost your cognitive performance, decrease your exam-related stress, and much more. The lessons are packed with actionable advice and practical tips that draw on the latest findings of neuroscience and psychology to “hack” your brain by taking advantage of the way it works. This course is suitable for students and learners of any age or occupation.
Negotiation Skills
Chris Croft
In this negotiation course, you will learn simple but effective techniques that can save you money both at home and at work, buying or selling. Whether you’ve never negotiated before or you’ve been doing it for a while, this course will certainly give you some new practical tips to use straight away.