Business Skills

Learn how to prepare for and successfully have difficult conversations with employees, managers, and colleagues.

Learn six creative disciplines that are common to high-performing organizations.

Cultivate leadership traits that will help you inspire your team, successfully manage change and conflict, and better serve the needs of your organization.

Learn how to interview job candidates and find the right hire for your team.

Tips to ace your interview and land the job you want.

Transition your freelance design career into a small business, one step at a time.

Learn to motivate, communicate with, and manage a team.

Discover how to proactively manage project schedules.

Learn how to coach, transform, and empower employees and teams in ways that increase retention and improve the bottom line.

Learn to establish your identity as a leader and connect with your team when you first step into a management position.

Prepare yourself for a new career or transition to freelancing.

Explores how delegating helps your team build experience while meeting business goals and introduces a four-phase model to delegate tasks and projects large and small.

Dig into the craft of writing a compelling story, with practical how-to advice and before-and-after writing samples.

Develop the skill set needed to successfully manage smaller projects.

Discover how to get the most from your meetings—turning them into productive avenues for communicating, connecting, and accomplishing real work.

Uncover your strengths and talents and build a plan to apply them professionally.

Apply your expertise and authority by cultivating your presence as a thought leader in your industry.

Discover and learn to focus on your most valuable activities in order to enhance your productivity.

Grow your professional network and influence by building meaningful and lasting relationships.

Develop your strategic leadership by studying and making insightful connections between your company, your market, and your customer.

Discover how to improve your relationships with your coworkers, clients, reports, and supervisors and find your way through conflict back to cooperation.

Discover how to set up and run effective one-on-one meetings.

Teaches smart ways to set up a foundation for negotiating your salary, discuss your strengths, and follow up to achieve agreement.

Marketing thought leader Lorrie Thomas Ross shares candid advice from her years of developing successful online marketing campaigns, and explains how to find new customers and clients by making a more personal connection online.

Author C.C. Chapman teaches how storytelling—creating a compelling narrative around your content or product—is at the heart of both marketing and business, using examples from his own career.

College career coach Valerie Sutton answers common questions about early career development.

Explains what SEO is and how you can start optimizing your website for search and achieve greater visibility and traffic.

Teaches the fundamentals of effective sales, from communication and listening skills to creating and achieving realistic sales goals.

Develop the confidence and skills you need to deliver an outstanding speech or presentation.

Demonstrates the skills empowered communicators use to achieve mutual benefit at the negotiation table.

Walks through the basics of branding your business or yourself through consistency, communication, and effective collateral.

Teaches the latest techniques for finding the right position for your interests, skills, and experience.

Learn to proactively manage your career by building a career profile that guides your future growth.

Get a glimpse of what it takes to start and successfully run a business in this candid interview with seasoned business coach and author Dave Crenshaw.

Set yourself up for success by learning to set realistic goals that can be broken into meaningful action steps.

Lays out a set of principles for managing projects efficiently from beginning to end.

Introduces web marketers, web designers, business owners, and executives to the world of online marketing.

Explains how to manage time in order to accomplish more.

Provides step-by-step guidance on creating resumes that highlight accomplishments and specifically target a potential employer's needs.

Executives and product managers from Google, Apple, and Adobe share how to effectively move projects and product ideas forward.