Brought to you by Jacob Gan, PhD (Michigan)
General Business Education/Skills
Courses

You can have information about a very extensive
collection of web-based continuing education courses in
the area of general business education/skills from the
world's best elearning organizations and authors.  

These eLearning courses are made possible as a result of
collaborating with respected online training corporations
and institutions worldwide.
Career Development Streaming Videos
The Career Development Series streaming videos comprise the following titles.

1. Been There, Done That...Now What? Video Length: 00:19:44
Programme Overview
Feel stuck in your job and don't know what to do about it? Have you ever said to yourself, Been there,
done that...now what? If so, this programme will help you answer the critical Now what? You'll learn how
to recondition yourself for success, create actions to support your work goals and how to challenge the
status quo.

2. The Influence Edge and Your Career Video Length: 00:11:52
Programme Overview
You are the main influencer of your career. Therefore, you need to know how to put together clear
strategies for your development. During this programme, you'll learn the steps of career development
and the influence strategies to help you stay on track to reach your goals. In addition, you'll learn how to
influence others to help make your development and career plans a reality.


Certificat du programme d’excellence
Motivez vos employés, améliorez l’efficacité de votre entreprise et faites la promotion des objectifs d’
entreprise en vous basant sur des critères qui mettent l’accent sur l’excellence. Ces critères ont fait
leurs preuves. Explorez les sept moteurs de l’excellence afin que votre entreprise puisse progresser et
atteindre son plein potentiel.


Certified Global Business Professional
The North American Small Business International Trade Educators Association (NASBITE) Certified
Global Business Professional Credential (CGBP) provides a standard for proficiency in worldwide
business. The CGBP label demonstrates an person’s ability to perform worldwide commerce including
Global Business Management, Global Marketing, Supply Chain Management, and Trade Finance. For
candidates experienced in global business, the qualification certifies that knowledge. For aspirants just
commencing, it establishes a professional advancement objective to make certain a thorough
understanding of the profession. For corporations, it ensures that staffs are capable to perform
international commerce at the professional level necessary in today's cutthroat environment.

This web-based foundation course for the examination leading to the Certified Global Business
Professional Credential is a celebrated recognition of global business proficiency.

The Program
The North American Small Business International Trade Educators Association (NASBITE) Certified
Global Business Professional credential is attained by taking a qualifying examination. A foundation
program for the examination is offered in four modules through Gatlin Education Services. The four
modules include:

Global Management
This component provides a general idea of critical skills for the performance of management in a
worldwide commerce environment. It covers practical applications of management including: setting a
mission and vision for the international business enterprise; developing an international commerce
plan; performing research in a global environment; understanding the nuances of cultural, legal,
political and regulatory differences; and by means of technology to carry out international trade.

Global Marketing
This module presents a general idea of critical skills for the performance of marketing in an global
commerce context. It covers practical applications of marketing including: assessing the external
environment, performing strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT) analysis, carrying out
global market research, developing a marketing plan and budget, determining the global marketing mix
(product, price, placement, and promotional strategies), and performing competitor analysis. Material is
presented in the form of readings, e-lectures, practical applications, and self assessments.

Supply Chain Management
This module provides an outline of vital skills for running supply-chain logistics in a global commerce
context. It covers practical applications of supply-chain management including: transportation modes;
taxes, duties and quotas; trade agreements; packaging requirements; use of intermediaries;
documentation requirements; legal and regulatory requirements; insurance; trade conventions; and the
offshore procurement process.

Trade Finance
This component provides an overview of vital skills for managing financial transactions in a global trade.
It covers practical applications of trade finance including: political and economic risks, foreign exchange
tactics and risks, credit and payment risks, optimal terms of payment, arranging financing, and setting
the business's overall financial plan.


Change Management for Employees (Includes Simulation)
In this course, you will identify ways to solve problems related to change on the job, including
recognizing, anticipating, and effectively managing change. You will also define change management,
identify change-management strategies, define the psychological process of moving through change,
identify ways of preparing for change, and explore ways to embrace change on an ongoing basis.


Coaching for Success
Coaching for Success provides managers, supervisors, team leads and mentors with the knowledge
and skills necessary to assess, plan, and carry out a performance coaching dialogue with an employee
or person being mentored. Additionally, this course provides techniques for ongoing performance
feedback and skills for recognizing a coaching opportunity. It will encourage students to become
involved, on an ongoing basis, with the performance growth of other employees to develop and enhance
their skills. At the end of the course, students will participate in a simulated coaching dialogue to
practice applying these skills in a typical coaching situation."

Code of Conduct
Written from the point of view of your organization and designed to replace or complement your code of
conduct, this course provides employees with a wide-ranging awareness program covering all
compliance areas. The curriculum helps learners appreciate the core compliance issues governing the
workplace and how we do business.


Comercio electrónico
Estudiaremos el comercio electrónico referido a las ventas generadas por Internet, cable o TV
interactiva y que se realizan con pagos on line.
Con este temario se le introduce al alumno en el mundo del comercio electrónico, mostrándole
muchas de sus funciones y utilidades para los comercios. La presencia cada vez mayor del comercio
electrónico gracias a lo fácil que es acceder a Internet, teniendo en cuenta, las diferentes formas de
hacer los trámites por Internet seguros.


Competition and Change
The changing nature of the general business environment offers organisations both opportunities and
threats. We can identify key drivers for specific organisations within this environment. The monitoring of
the environment is a key activity for all businesses. We need to look at the competition and what is
happening in the competitive environment, the environment that is closest to the organisation and has
the most immediate impact on it. Once we have analysed the competitive environment, we need to
develop strategies, and then formulate and implement actions to put the strategy into practice. This will
require change, so we look briefly at some of the factors concerned with successful change in an
organisation.

Stakeholders are the customers, suppliers, employees, owners, shareholders, pressure and
consumer groups, regulators, professional organisations, competitors and any individual or
organisation that has an interest in what an organisation does and how it does it. Some of these
groups, such as consumer and pressure groups, are part of what we term the business environment.
Some stakeholders such as employees are part of the organisation but, as customers, shareholders,
members of pressure groups and members of professional organisations, they are also part of the
competitive environment. So, not only are the boundaries between the business and competitive
environment blurred, but these influential stakeholders also blur the boundaries between the
organisation and the competitive environment. Therefore, before we look in depth at the competitive
environment and how the organisation can respond to changes in it, we need to investigate
stakeholders in more detail as they affect what the organisation is and what it does, and how it
responds to the opportunities and threats in the business and the competitive environment.

We usually view the organisation as discrete and distinct from its environment. However, the precise
boundaries of the organisation flex and change at the interface between the organisation and its
environment. This occurs as the requirements of the organisation, the interests of the people of
influence in the organisation and the shape of the environment changes. We use Porter�s five forces
model to analyse an organisation�s immediate environment, its industry, and the activities of the
organisation�s competitors in the industry. We identify some responses the organisation can make.

We look at the sources of environmental information. We need to select and use appropriate
information from the vast amounts of available data. We analyse an organisation�s competitive and
general environments, identify what we need to do with this information and see how the organisation
responds to subsequent changes. This leads into an overall discussion of the nature of change in an
organisation.

In the final section, we look at the way that business has been changing over recent years and identify
some current trends that may provide direction for the future. In today�s competitive world, the concept
of competitive advantage needs to become an integral part of the culture of an organisation; one that
manifests itself in the structure and in all functions. Success is achieved by efficiency in all business
functions, in good overall co-ordination within the organisation and by effectiveness in achieving the
mission and corporate objectives.


Conflict Intervention
In this course you will explore how to intervene when others are in a conflict. You will examine how to
assess the climate of a conflict, understand the issues, gather information, neutralize the situation, and
define the conflict. You will explore techniques for brokering a win/win situation, gaining commitment
from all parties, and following through for complete resolution.

After completing this course you will be able to assess the climate of a conflict, set the stage, suggest a
resolution, and follow up on the resolution.


Continuity and Change
In this Course, we consider change and transition and the reasons for this process of change,
particularly as it affects the organisations and institutions of our society. If we were somehow
transported in time back to the mid-nineteenth century, we know that many things would be unfamiliar,
strange or unusual. While nineteenth-century Britain would be unmistakably British, many things such
as transport, patterns of behaviour and other structures and processes would be virtually
unrecognisable.

Similarly, if we were projected into the twenty-third century, many of the current institutions, structures
and processes with which we are familiar would have changed beyond all recognition or have ceased to
exist altogether.

When you have completed this course, you should be able to understand why change occurs in a
society and to illustrate the process of change by examples from trade unions and work organisations.
You should also be able to appreciate the major change processes affecting organisations and society
as well as being able to identify and explain post-industrialism and post-modernism as central
concepts of change.


Corporate Finance
This bundle contains the following courses:
Introduction to Corporate Finance
Capital Asset Pricing Model   
Cost of Capital   
Introduction to Capital Budgeting  
Capital Budgeting - Deriving the Cash Flows   
Capital Structure   
Dividend Policy  
Time Value of Money   


Corporate Governance and Ethics
The Corporate Control and Governance online program employs a stakeholder management
framework, emphasizing business' social and ethical responsibilities to both external and internal
stakeholder groups. A twin theme of business ethics illustrates how ethical or moral considerations are
included the public issues facing organizations and the decision-making process of managers. This
innovative program teaches companies and professionals how to reduce fraud losses-and how to
effectively work to eliminate future frauds. It offers comprehensive coverage of fraud detection, fraud
warning signs, technology tools, investigation techniques (for auditors, security personnel, and
managers), financial statement screening, fraud risk in e-commerce, pro-active fraud risk and much
more.  


Corrective Action
In Corrective Action, students will learn how to facilitate their employees' improvement, instead of merely
disciplining them. The course covers when and how to apply corrective action, and provides strategies
for motivating employees to improve. Students will learn to use a range of corrective modes in a
balanced and objective manner, including applying the progressive disciplinary model, documenting
corrective action through a standard documentation template, and counseling employees towards
improvement in a professional manner."


Creating and Maintaining Life Balance (Includes Simulation)
In this course, you will explore how to measure stress, solutions for stress, stress relieving habits, and
how to devise a stress control plan.


Cross Cultural Training
The number of people who travel abroad for work, study and pleasure is on the increase. It is essential
that international travellers have a basic understanding of cultural differences and how those
differences affect communications, work and social relationships. This program provides an
introduction to cultural differences.


Culture of Organisations
Organisational culture is an extremely difficult issue to define since there are so many inter-relating
components:
Power -- Who holds the legitimate authority and who makes the decisions in the organisation? These
authority figures and decision makers may not be the same people.
Politics -- What types of different relationships exist in the organisation and whose views have unofficial
influence?
Values and beliefs -- What do the decision makers believe in, and how well are these values accepted
by the rest of the people in the organisation?
Ideologies -- What underlying philosophies influence management style and procedures? Is there a
recognisable policy of how to deal with people?
Social influences -- What are the different social pressures on behaviour?
Sponsored Links





Jacob.TheeLearningCentre.com Business Education Courses