Courses

  • 12 Lessons

    Career Strategy: Master Best Practices of Fortune 500 Firms

    Master career strategy best practices used by successful Fortune 500 firm leaders taught by globally-renowned expert

    Who is this course for?
    Current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve their career strategy using Fortune 500 firm methods will get the most benefit from this course, as case studies and examples are best suited to their needs. Everyone else who wants to improve their career strategy by learning the methods used by Fortune 500 firm leaders will also benefit from this course, even if the case studies and examples will be less relevant to them Your career strategy will determine whether you thrive in our increasingly-disrupted future.

    Yet traditional advice to "go with your gut" in career strategic development and decision making so often leads to disasters, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

    So how do the leaders in Fortune 500 companies make the right calls on even the toughest decisions and strategies in their careers? They recognize that behavioral science has revealed that our typical approach to career strategy and decisions suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. These mental blindspots often lead us into decision and strategic disasters. Fortunately, recent scholarship has revealed effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases. In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for career strategy and decision making drawing on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 companies.

    After taking this course, you will:

    • Master career strategy best practices used by successful Fortune 500 firm leaders to seize competitive advantage in their careers 

    • Feel truly confident about whether you made the right call in your career strategy to achieve your full career potential, income, and job security 

    • Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the methods used by Fortune 500 firm leaders for their successful career strategy 

    • Discover the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases that lead to career disasters & how Fortune 500 firm leaders defeat them via scientific methods 

    • Free yourself of constant ruminations, numerous grey zones, and mental blindspots that plague typical career strategic planning and decision making
  • 9 Lessons

    Coaching the Analytical Mind: Best Practices of Fortune 500 Firms (IFC Approved Course)

    Master best practices on coaching analytically minded clients from Fortune 500 firms taught by globally-renowned expert

    Who is this course for?
    Coaches who want to dramatically improve their ability to coach analytically minded clients You’re struggling to connect with an analytically-minded client, and just don’t know what to do. The client is skeptical: pushing back against your efforts to help them solve problems, pulling back when you try to build trust, demanding hard data instead of your tried-and-true intuitions. You’re worried that you’ll never be your best self with such analytically-minded clients, who often include CEOs, CFOs, engineers, doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants, programmers, and so many others who come to us for coaching.

    Fortunately, behavioral science research on emotional and social intelligence can help you help them get the coaching support they need. This course offers best practices and case studies on effective use of emotional and social intelligence-based strategies by a coach who has worked for over 20 years with executives from Fortune 500 companies as well as dozens of middle-market firms to empower the growth of analytically-minded people in ways that align with ICF Core Competencies. It provides you with clear take-aways to help you become an outstanding coach for such clients.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Identify how to solve typical challenges experienced by coaches in dealing with analytical clients at Fortune 500 firms and elsewhere

    • Master emotional and social intelligence research-based tools to connect with and coach analytically minded clients

    • Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the best practices on coaching analytically minded clients tested at Fortune 500 firms

    • Empower your analytically-minded clients by helping them learn critical emotional and social intelligence-based strategies

    • Gain the ability to align these strategies with International Coaching Federation Core Competencies

    ICF CEU information Coaching the Analytical Mind is an ICF Approved Course. Upon completion of the course you will receive 12 continuing coaching education (CCE) credits, including 5 core competency credits and 7 resource development credits. (Resource Development includes training formerly called Personal Development, Business Development, or Other Skills and Tools.) These credits are for ICF accredited coaches. For more information, please visit coachfederation.org. ICF Core Competencies Covered in the Course

    • Creating awareness in analytically-minded clients of their emotions and situations when their analytical mindset may be causing them problems
    • Direct communication with analytically-minded clients, balancing hard data and research with than stories and questions
    • Establishing trust and intimacy with the client, through using the kind of evidence that’s convincing to analytically-minded clients
    • Active listening, to determine whether your analytical client’s learning style is deductive or inductive and targeting their specific information consumption needs
    • Establishing the coaching agreement, focusing on preparing for the almost-inevitable conflicts and addressing emotions

     

  • 11 Lessons

    Creating a Social Media Strategy

    In this course participants will learn how to create an effective social media strategy that will generate sales and leads.

    You will learn how social media can contribute to the overall internet marketing strategy and how to turn followers into buying customers.

    By the end of the course participants will be able:

    • To know why social media marketing is important for every business.

    • To understand some of the basic terminology of social media

    • To apply the process that will turn followers into buyers

    • To identify their target audience

    • To create posts that you audience love to watch

    • To build online relationships with your followers

    • To use social media to build your email list.

    • To increase your sales with the use of social media

    • To evaluate your social media advertising campaigns and place emphasis on those with higher return on investment.

  • 12 Lessons

    Decision Making of Fortune 500 Firms: Master Best Practices

    Master all decision making practices (quick, major, & strategic) of Fortune 500 firms taught by world-renowned expert.

    Who is this course for?
    Current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve all of their decision making (quick, major, and strategic) by using best practices from Fortune 500 leaders will get the most benefit from this course for their business and career goals, because case studies and examples are best suited to their needs.Everyone else who wants to make the best quick, major, and strategic decisions will also benefit from this course, even if the case studies and examples will be less relevant to them Your ability to master decision making best practices in all scenarios (quick, major, and strategic) will determine whether you reach your business and career goals in our increasingly-disrupted future.

    Yet traditional advice to "go with your gut" in decision making so often leads to disasters that devastate company bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

    So what are the best practices used by the leaders of Fortune 500 companies to make the right calls in all types of scenarios on even the toughest decisions to maximize company bottom lines and advance their own careers? These leaders recognize that science has revealed how our typical approach to decision making suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases.

    These mental blindspots often lead us into decision making disasters that drastically undermine our desired outcomes and goals. Fortunately, recent scholarship has shown effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases and help optimize your bottom line and your career. In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for all decision making scenarios (quick, major, complex, and strategic) drawing on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 company leaders to help you and your teams reach your professional goals.

    After taking this course, you will:

    • Master all decision making best practices (quick, major, strategic) used by Fortune 500 leaders to seize competitive advantage for their bottom line and career 

    • Free yourself of constant ruminations, numerous grey zones, and mental blindspots that plague decision making and block business and career goal achievement 

    • Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the best practices used by Fortune 500 leaders for quick, major, and strategic decision making 

    • Discover the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases that lead to decision making disasters for your business objectives 

    • Maximize your desired outcomes by overcoming cognitive biases via science-based decision making techniques used by Fortune 500 leaders 

    • Feel truly confident about whether you made the right call in your quick, major, and strategic decisions to reach your business and career goals
  • 13 Lessons

    Executive Management Course Suite

    Learn How To develop Professional Management Skills And Build Your Dream Team! 

    This course is beginner friendly and will walk you through on how to grow as a great manager, founder and CEO plus the benefits of how to use incentives in your business.

    You’ll learn what it takes to keep your workplace running and functioning like a well-oiled machine by learning new skills, tips, and insights that will help you deal with people.

    Through the course, we will discuss and explore the best strategies and tools for management, strategic planning and employee recruitment that will help you to grow, manage and scale your company business fast!

    The executive management course with acquired professional skills is the hidden skill for growing and scaling your business & company. This will become a catalyst for transforming your business for longevity with your dream team. You will learn the fundamentals and advanced key features of using employee incentives and how to implement it like a pro in building your business.

    You will also learn management skills to be able to set yourself up for success for your business online and offline.

    After going through this executive course, you will be able to manage and grow your team

    What You Will Learn:

    -Management -Better Meetings -Team Work -Employee Incentives -Conflict Resolutions -Strategic Planning -Project Management -Company Culture

    And so much more!

    Who is this course for?
    • Companies and businesses that wants to grow and scale
    • Managers, Founders and CEOS who are curious about building a dream team.
    • Beginners and established business owners.
  • 15 Lessons

    Leading Hybrid Teams: Best Practices From Fortune 500 Firms

    Master hybrid team leadership best practices of Fortune 500 leaders taught by world-renowned expert on hybrid teams

    Who is this course for?
    Current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve their skills in leading hybrid teams using Fortune 500 firm methods will get the most benefit from this course, as case studies and examples are best suited to their needs Leading hybrid teams is the key new skill that leaders must master for leadership success in the new normal for your bottom line and career: the future is hybrid.

    Unfortunately, our intuitive leadership style is adapted to in-office collaboration, and is poorly suited to hybrid teams. Our gut reactions on hybrid teams can’t be trusted, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

    So how do the leaders of Fortune 500 companies make the right calls on leading hybrid teams to achieve their business objectives? They follow evidence-based best practices on leading hybrid teams and returning to the office as revealed by such research. In this course, you will master techniques for leading hybrid teams drawing on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 companies.

    After taking this course, you will:

    • Master the best practices in leading hybrid teams used by Fortune 500 leaders to seize competitive advantage for their bottom lines and careers 

    • Discover how to collaborate and innovate most effectively in hybrid teams, while holding team members accountable for deliverables 

    • Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the best practices used by Fortune 500 companies for leading hybrid teams 

    • Arrange the most effective post-vaccine return to office through a hybrid-first model that maximizes your business objectives 

    • Learn the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases that undermine successful hybrid team leadership and how Fortune 500 firms defeat them 

    • Gain the skills to maximize productivity, engagement, retention, and morale for hybrid teams for your team's bottom line and your own career 

    • Feel truly confident about whether you make the right calls in leading hybrid teams to achieve your desired leadership goals
  • 82 Lessons

    Learn Data Science and Machine Learning with R from A-Z

    Become a professional Data Scientist with R and learn Machine Learning, Data Analysis + Visualization, Web Apps + more!

    What you'll learn:

    • Become a professional Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Data Analyst or Consultant
    • How to write complex R programs for practical industry scenarios
    • Learn data cleaning, processing, wrangling and manipulation
    • Learn Plotting in R (graphs, charts, plots, histograms etc)
    • How to create resume and land your first job as a Data Scientist
    • Step by step practical knowledge of R programming language
    • Learn Machine Learning and it's various practical applications
    • Building web apps and online, interactive dashboards with R Shiny
    • Learn Data and File Management in R
    • Use R to clean, analyze, and visualize data
    • Learn the Tidyverse
    • Learn Operators, Vectors, Lists and their application
    • Data visualization (ggplot2)
    • Data extraction and web scraping
    • Full-stack data science development
    • Building custom data solutions
    • Automating dynamic report generation
    • Data science for business

    Welcome to the Learn Data Science and Machine Learning with R from A-Z Course!
    In this practical, hands-on course you’ll learn how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis, visualization and how to make use of that data in a practical manner.
    You will learn how to install and configure software necessary for a statistical programming environment and describe generic programming language concepts as they are implemented in a high-level statistical language.

    Our main objective is to give you the education not just to understand the ins and outs of the R programming language, but also to learn exactly how to become a professional Data Scientist with R and land your first job.

    The course covers practical issues in statistical computing which include programming in R, reading data into R, accessing R packages, writing R functions, debugging, profiling R code, and organizing and commenting on R code.
    Blending practical work with solid theoretical training, we take you from the basics of R Programming to mastery. We understand that theory is important to build a solid foundation, we understand that theory alone isn’t going to get the job done so that’s why this course is packed with practical hands-on examples that you can follow step by step.
    Even if you already have some coding experience, or want to learn about the advanced features of the R programming language, this course is for you!
    R coding experience is either required or recommended in job postings for data scientists, machine learning engineers, big data engineers, IT specialists, database developers and much more.

    Adding R coding language skills to your resume will help you in any one of these data specializations requiring mastery of statistical techniques. Together we’re going to give you the foundational education that you need to know not just on how to write code in R, analyze and visualize data but also how to get paid for your newly developed programming skills.

    The course covers 6 main areas:  

    1: DS + ML COURSE + R INTRO This intro section gives you a full introduction to the R programming language, data science industry and marketplace, job opportunities and salaries, and the various data science job roles.

    • Intro to Data Science + Machine Learning
    • Data Science Industry and Marketplace
    • Data Science Job Opportunities
    • R Introduction
    • Getting Started with R

    2: DATA TYPES/STRUCTURES IN R This section gives you a full introduction to the data types and structures in R with hands-on step by step training.

    • Vectors
    • Matrices
    • Lists
    • Data Frames
    • Operators
    • Loops
    • Functions
    • Databases + more!

    3: DATA MANIPULATION IN R This section gives you a full introduction to the Data Manipulation in R with hands-on step by step training.

    • Tidy Data
    • Pipe Operator
    • dplyr verbs: Filter, Select, Mutate, Arrange + more!
    • String Manipulation
    • Web Scraping

    4: DATA VISUALIZATION IN R This section gives you a full introduction to the Data Visualization in R with hands-on step by step training.

    • Aesthetics Mappings
    • Single Variable Plots
    • Two-Variable Plots
    • Facets, Layering, and Coordinate System

    5: MACHINE LEARNING This section gives you a full introduction to Machine Learning with hands-on step by step training.

    • Intro to Machine Learning
    • Data Preprocessing
    • Linear Regression
    • Logistic Regression
    • Support Vector Machines
    • K-Means Clustering
    • Ensemble Learning
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Neural Nets

    6: STARTING A DATA SCIENCE CAREER This section gives you a full introduction to starting a career as a Data Scientist with hands-on step by step training.

    • Creating a Resume
    • Personal Branding
    • Freelancing + Freelance websites
    • Importance of Having a Website
    • Networking

    By the end of the course you’ll be a professional Data Scientist with R and confidently apply for jobs and feel good knowing that you have the skills and knowledge to back it up.

  • 121 Lessons

    Learn Python Programming from A-Z: Beginner To Expert Course

    Become a professional Python Developer and learn how to easily create programs, apps, scripts, games and so much more...

    What you will learn:

    • How to become a professional Python Developer
    • How to land your first job as a Python Developer
    • How to use the basic Python structures: strings, lists, and dictionaries
    • How to write Python scripts to perform automated actions
    • How to use Python Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
    • How to create your own Python programs from scratch
    • How to use core programming tools such as functions and loops
    • How to use variables to store, retrieve and calculate information

    Welcome to the Learn Python Programming From A-Z: Beginner To Expert Course - Where you’re going to learn how to become a professional Python Developer and create programs, apps, scripts, games and so much more... In this practical, hands-on course our main objective is to give you the education not just to understand the ins and outs of Python Programming, but also to learn exactly how the software development industry works, the different roles within a team, and how to land a Python Programming job without a degree.

    Blending practical work with solid theoretical training, we take you from the basics of Python Programming to mastery, giving you the training you need not just to create software programs, scrape websites, and build automations, but also the foundational understanding of data science and visualization so you can become a well-rounded Python Programmer.

    We understand that theory is important to build a solid foundation, we understand that theory alone isn’t going to get the job done so that’s why this course is packed with practical hands-on examples that you can follow step by step. Even if you already have some coding experience, or want to learn about the advanced features of Python, this course is for you!

    In this course, you’ll learn Python 3. Python is the number one programming language choice for machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. In order to get those high paying programming jobs, you need the skills and knowledge of how to become an expert Python Programmer, and that’s exactly what you’ll learn in this course. Together we’re going to give you the foundational education that you need to know not just on how to write code in Python, create various scripts and softwares but also how to get paid for your newly developed programming skills.

    By the end of the course you’ll be a professional Python Programmer and confidently apply for jobs and feel good knowing that you have the skills and knowledge to back it up.

    The course covers 6 main areas:

    1: PYTHON COURSE INTRO This intro section gives you a full introduction to the Python industry and marketplace, job opportunities and salaries, and the various Python job roles.

    • - Python Industry and Marketplace
    • - Python Job Opportunities
    • - Landing a Job w/o a Degree

    2: BASIC/ADVANCED DATA TYPES This section gives you a full introduction to the Python basic and advanced data types with hands-on step by step training.

    • - Python Variables
    • - Integers, Floats, and Complex Numbers
    • - Strings
    • - Operators
    • - Lists, Tuples, Sets & Dictionary

    3: PYTHON CONTROL FLOW This section gives you a full introduction to the Python Control Flow with hands-on step by step training.

    • - Basic/Complex Conditional Statements
    • - For Loops, While Loops
    • - Break/Continue Statements
    • - Zip/Enumerate Keywords

    4: BASIC/ADVANCED FUNCTIONS This section gives you a full introduction to the Python basic and advanced functions with hands-on step by step training.

    • - Help/Defining Function
    • - Error Handling
    • - Variable Scope
    • - Doc Strings
    • - Lambda Functions
    • - Iterators + Generators
    • - Map/Filter Functions

    5: SCRIPTING & LIBRARIES (includes numpy, pandas) This section gives you a full introduction to the scripting and libraries with hands-on step by step training.

    • - Scripting Basics
    • - Python IDEs
    • - Python Text Editors
    • - Third Party Libraries
    • - Numpy + Pandas
    • - Data Visualization
    • - Webscraping

      6: STARTING A CAREER IN PYTHON This section gives you a full introduction to starting a career as a Python Programmer with hands-on step by step training.

    • - Building a Brand
    • - Personal Branding
    • - Freelancing + Freelance websites
    • - Importance of Having a website
    • - Networking
    • - Creating a Resume

    Course Level: Beginners Topic: Business Skills Category: Technology Sub Category: Python Audience: Consultants, Developers, End users, IT/Business Analysts, Project team members, system administrators Prerequisites: Basic computer skills  

  • 12 Lessons

    Social Intelligence and Stakeholder Engagement: Fortune 500

    Master social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills of Fortune 500 leaders taught by world-renowned expert

    Who is this course for?
    This course is for current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve their social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills using Fortune 500 company best practices. They will get the most benefit from this course, as case studies and examples are best suited to their need to seize a competitive advantage in the hybrid and remote future of work.

    Your ability to master social intelligence and stakeholder engagement best practices will determine whether you reach your business and career goals in our increasingly-disrupted post-COVID future of work.
    Yet traditional advice to "go with your gut" in social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios so often leads to disasters that devastate company bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

    So what are the What are best practices used by the leaders of Fortune 500 companies to make the right calls in even the toughest social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios to maximize company bottom lines and advance their own careers? These leaders recognize that science has revealed how our typical approach to social intelligence and stakeholder engagement situations suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. These mental blindspots often lead us into social intelligence and stakeholder engagement disasters that drastically undermine our desired outcomes and goals.
    Fortunately, recent scholarship has shown effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases and help optimize your bottom line and your career.

    In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for all types of social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios. You will draw on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 company leaders to help you and your teams reach your professional goals.

    After taking this course, you will:

    • Master social intelligence and stakeholder engagement best practices used by Fortune 500 leaders to seize competitive advantage for their bottom line and career

    • Free yourself of constant ruminations, numerous grey zones, and blindspots that plague social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills, blocking your goal achievement

    • Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the best practices used by Fortune 500 leaders for social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios

    • Discover the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases that lead to social intelligence and stakeholder engagement disasters for your business objectives

    • Maximize your desired outcomes by defeating cognitive biases via science-based social intelligence and stakeholder engagement techniques used by Fortune 500 leaders

    • Feel truly confident about whether you made the right call in social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios to reach your business and career goals
  • 70 Lessons

    Social Media for Business Owners

    Turn the likers, viewers and followers into paying customers!

    Your first step as a business owner is to truly understand how social media works. Choose the channels that matter to your ideal client and your business. Then build the strategies to reach your audience in the most effective way and turn the likers, viewers and followers into paying customers. With 5 years of experience as a digital marketing consultant, I know just the way to do all that. I've done it! My approach works any day, any time, without a fail.

    What to Expect from this course:

    • Get clear understanding how different social media platforms work

    • Discover who uses different social media channels and whether they are your ideal client

    • Learn what mistakes to avoid, to save money and maximise results

    • Get the tools to build content and marketing strategies to attract, retain and convert your audience

    • Learn how to manage your social media accounts well until you are able to outsource

    • Get clear on what to expect from a social media manager, marketing assistant or a virtual assistant -Understand what remains your responsibility as the business owner
  • 37 Lessons

    The Alteryx Masterclass- Beginner to Advanced

    Are you interested in data analytics and business intelligence? Great! You have chosen not only a highly rewarding profession but also one of the most interesting ones of the future!

    Data is the oil of our century, and getting the right insights at the right time will be the key competitive advantage for businesses. Companies need highly skilled people to help them analyze their data. Data aggregation and cleaning is the most challenging part of this process. 80% of data analysts and data scientists' time is spent on data preparation.

    This can be a cumbersome process but is crucial to derive valuable insights - b
    ecause: "Trash in: trash out!"

    Hence we need to explore fast and efficient ways to prepare our data, which we want to visualize in powerful tools like Tableau or Power BI. And now for the most interesting question? How exactly can we achieve this? What are the best tools to help accomplish this AND do not require extreme programming skills? Meet Alteryx! One of the best ETL / data preparation tools on the market.

    This incredible tool with an "Apple flair design" and drag and drop functionality will help us to prepare and combine even the worst kinds of data sources. In this course, we will start from scratch with a fully functional trial version of the software to follow along. The only thing you need to bring with you is your personal interest and willingness to learn in a data driven age. If that sounds like you then.. Let's dive into the course together! Are you ready? 

    Who is this course for?

    • You want to become a data analyst
    • Students who have taken Alteryx Masterclass - a crashcourse for beginners
    • You want to go into a data analyst or data scientist career
    • You want to learn how to effectively clean your data
    • You want to extend your knowlegde beyond Tableau and Power BI
    • You encountered various data issues (e.g. format,...) in the past and are looking for a solid solution
    • You want to take advantage of the data driven opportunity ahead

    Requirements:

    • Your interest in data preparation and data analytics, visual analytics is key!
    • This MasterClass starts from scratch - we learn the basics and build a solid foundation during the case study
    • Alteryx Designer must be downloaded (fully functional trial version available for free)
    • The case study course Alteryx Masterclass - a crashcourse for beginners is optional but not required