» Engaging Top Performers How do you move your company to drive results and take a prominent place in the market? By engaging those employees who consistently bring high levels of performance and positively influence the culture of your organization. Managers and leaders need to recognize who their top performers are, how they’re different from other employees, and how to ensure they maintain a deep connection with their work. In this course, you’ll learn how to improve your workplace so that it both attracts and meets the needs of top performers and how to work with four communication styles, including the one typically used by top performers, to help you recognize and adjust your own style for more effective communication. » Lean Tools for Process Control in Six Sigma In the final stages of a Six Sigma project, teams need to control the improved process in order to sustain the improvements. Process control involves applying tools to continuously monitor and maintain each improvedprocess, and to prevent it from reverting to its previous state. Two tools from the Lean toolset specifically help here. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a proactive equipment maintenance program that seeks to engage employees at all levels and functions in an organization to maximize the overall effectiveness of existing processes and equipment. In this course you’ll learn how TPM can be used to control the improved process and maintain process gains. » Leadership Essentials: Leading Innovation This course provides you with an understanding of what an innovative culture is and what qualities a leader needs to best foster innovation. It also provides you with practical techniques for cultivating and leading innovation. » Business Writing: How to Write Clearly and Concisely This course describes ways to make your writing more clear. Specifically, it covers the importance of using short, familiar words, appropriate connotations, concrete and specific language, and transitional wordsand phrases. The course also discusses ways to be more concise and explains some best practices for organizing content logically and appropriately. » Interpersonal Communication: Communicating with Confidence The course shows you how the essential elements of trust, credibility, and specific confident communication behaviors bring about confident communication and enhance your influence. It highlights the advantages of communicating with confidence, explores the construction of trust and credibility, and clarifies how trust and credibility result in confident communications. » Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas: Verifying and Building on Ideas This course covers a variety of techniques used to verify and build on creative ideas. It outlines when to use research and when to use simulations to check the workability of an idea. In addition, it discusses ways to build on ideas effectively. » Managing Your Career: Creating a Plan This course provides examples of roles in which youcould use those strengths. It also provides tips on how to deal with any weaknesses that are holding you back. » Being an Effective Team Member This course covers strategies and techniques to help you become an effective and valued member of your team. Specifically, you’ll explore ways for adopting a positive approach to being on a team, like recognizing the benefits of working on a team and learning to tolerate team member differences. You’ll also learn how to work proactively and collaboratively with members of your team as you achieve your team’s goals. » Office 365: Working with Online Files and Calendars Microsoft Office 365 includes hosted Exchange for meetings and shared calendars, and SharePoint. This course covers scheduling meetings and sharing calendars, creating announcements on SharePoint, chatting using Lync IM, and working with Office document files. » Manipulating Data in Excel 2013 Excel 2013 provides multiple features for organizing and managing data, includingsorting and filtering tools that are essential to data analysis. Using data organization features, you can sort, filter, and group and outline data so that you can focus on its key parts. Properly arranged data using the commands in the Data tab allows you to present your data in a logical and easy to understand manner. This course explores organizing data in Excel 2013 using the built-in features. It also covers converting text to columns for easy of splitting text. This course will help prepare learners for the Microsoft Certification Exam 77-420: Excel 2013 which certifies individuals as Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS): Excel 2013. » Navigating, Lists, Libraries, Alerts, and Document Sets in SharePoint 2013 This course covers how to navigate within the SharePoint 2013 interface using the Quick Launch and top link bar, as well as the Settings menu and the Newsfeed, SkyDrive, and Sites tabs. It also explores list and library management, including adding new items, adjusting itemproperties, and removing items. It demonstrates how to set alerts on list and libraries, as well as how to set an alert on search query results. Creating and adding files to document sets is also covered. This course will help prepare learners for the Microsoft Certification Exam 77-425: SharePoint 2013 which certifies individuals as Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS): SharePoint 2013. » Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 Word for Mac 2011 is the newest version of Microsoft’s word processing tool for the Mac platform. It offers a streamlined interface and features that allow you to create attractive and engaging documents. The ribbon, which is unique to Microsoft Office, organizes Word’s many features into related tabs and makes it easier to quickly access those you need. And if you don’t want to start your document with a blank white page, you can easily choose from a variety of templates using the Word Document Gallery. This course explores these topics and many other basics of using Word2011, including opening the application, creating new documents, opening documents, basic text editing, and an introduction to the many tools that will help you create and edit your documents » Getting Started with AngularJS AngularJS is designed to simplify the task of building single page Model, View, Controller apps. This course introduces the AngularJS environment, using controllers, and working with user input and formatted output. » Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 - Developing Core Solutions: Planning Sites Planning and designing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 sites involves creating and managing content, provisioning sites, and managing site lifecycles. This course covers the activities involved in creating content types, managing content behaviors, provisioning, and maintaining sites throughout their lifecycle. This course is part of a series of courses that cover the objectives for exam 70-488. This exam is required for the certification Microsoft Certified SolutionsDeveloper (MCSD): SharePoint Applications. » Preparing and Packaging Applications For Deployment This course covers the key aspects of and approaches to packaging .NET applications for deployment and is one of a series that prepares students for Microsoft exam 70-487. » Planning and Monitoring Iterations on an Agile Project This course focuses on the activities performed during the planning and execution of a project iteration, or sprint. During release planning – the previous phase in the overall agile planning process – the team creates an ordered list of project features in the form of the product backlog. Iteration planning is the process of creating an iteration (sprint) backlog that contains more specific detail regarding work items that have been assigned to the upcoming iteration. The first part of the course provides a look at the iteration planning process and the creation of the iteration backlog. It also explores how to create a schedule and use principles of buffering. Thesecond section of the course covers key tools and methods used by agile teams to monitor and report project progress, both at the iteration level and at the overall project or release level. This course is intended for project managers, program managers, or anyone who wants to efficiently participate in agile projects. It is aligned with the Agile Certified Practitioner exam objectives developed by the Project Management Institute® and Certified ScrumMaster learning objectives. » Microsoft Security Fundamentals: Network Security One of the building blocks of successful IT security practices is a fundamental understanding of network security. This course introduces key concepts about dedicated firewalls and methods including packet filtering, circuit-level, application-level, and stateful multilevel firewalls. This course also covers types of inspection, and stateful v. stateless inspection. Finally, this course covers best practices for Network Access Protection, network isolationmethods, and protocol security concepts including common network attack methods. This course is one of a series in the learning path that covers the objectives for the Microsoft Security Fundamentals: MTA 98-367 exam. » HTML5 and JavaScript HTML5 and JavaScript is the standard for creating highly interactive and responsive web pages. Using the latest features of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript can minimize development time while providing a rich environment for the users who interact with your web site. In this course, you will learn the basic building blocks of JavaScript and how it can interact and manipulate HTML5 and CSS3. » CISM 2013: Information Security Governance (Part 1) Information Security Governance is a major part of the job role of an Information Security Manager. The goal of information security governance is to establish and maintain a framework to provide assurance that information security strategies are aligned with the business objectives and consistent with applicablelaws and regulations. This course looks at the role of information security governance in an organization, the need for senior management support for all policies and procedures that are put in place, the actual role the information security manager, and the core principles and metrics that are used at part of this process. This course prepares you for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam. » Junior Level LPIC-1 Exam 101: Linux Package Management Package management systems are used for installing, uninstalling, and upgrading software in Linux. This course describes the most common package management systems – dpkg, which is the system used with Debian packages, rpm used with Red Hat-based packages, and yum, adapted by Red Hat to deal with dependency issues. This course is part of a series that prepares the learner for CompTIA Linux+ exam LX0-101 and Linux Professional Institute (LPI) LPIC-1 Junior Level Administrator exam 101. » Managing Agile Software Development Inthis course you will be introduced to the principles of agile project management during software development iterations. You will become familiar with agile practices in relation to project management tasks such as work scheduling, team meetings, change and risk management, progress monitoring, reports and reviews, and project scaling » Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v8: Hacking and Penetration Testing Hacking involves gaining unauthorized access to a computer system. Penetration testing is performed by ethical hackers using the same hacking techniques as an attacker would use, in order to uncover real and potential security vulnerabilities. In this course we discuss hacking concepts, methods, and penetration testing. An ethical hacker is a person who attacks an organization’s security on behalf of its owners in order to discover vulnerabilities. Instead of taking advantage of these vulnerabilities, the ethical hacker reports them to the organization who can then put in place theappropriate countermeasures to protect themselves against malicious hackers. This course is the first in a series of courses which can used in preparation for the Certified Ethical Hacker v8, 312-50, exam. The course has been developed in partnership with EC-Council and is based on their Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures V8 course materials and labs. » ICND2 2.0: VLANs and Spanning-Tree This course starts with a review of VLAN and trunk technology. Understanding how VLANs and trunks operate and which protocols are associated with them is important for configuring, verifying, and troubleshooting VLANs and trunks on Cisco access switches. This course also addresses some of the common reasons that port connectivity, VLAN configuration, and trunk establishment can fail. It describes what information to look for to identify the source of the problem and determine how to solve it. Switched networks introduce redundancy, so an STP loop-avoidance mechanism is needed to prevent undesirableloops. » Oracle Database 12c: Managing Security Oracle Database 12c has provided some new security features to better enable security within a database instance. This includes unified auditing to consolidate all audit trails and to improve auditing performance, new administrative privileges and the ability to analyze privileges on users. It also provide a feature called Oracle Data Redaction, which enables sensitive data to be shielded from applications and users on-the-fly before results are sent to the end-user or application. This course will discuss and explain how to use and implement these features in Oracle Database 12c. This course is one in a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the 1Z0-060: Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c certification exam. » Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 - Core Solutions: Deployment Exchange Server 2013 is Microsoft’s latest release of their popular messaging and communications server. A variety of features have been added orexpanded upon with this release, most notably the consolidation of server roles. This courses discusses the Exchange Prerequisites and network requirements for installing Exchange Server in your organization. Also, demonstrated is the installation of Exchange Server 2013 and the new Exchange Administration Center (EAC). This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 exam 70-341 Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. This exam is one of the requirements for the MCSE: Messaging certification path. » CISSP 2013 Domain: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Business continuity is an essential part of any enterprise. When a disaster occurs, it is imperative that a company be prepared, and has policies and people in place to step in and restore normal business operations. This course discusses the processes that are used to create a business continuity and disaster recovery plan andstrategies for critical resource recovery. This course guides you through the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) recommended by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) for its Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. The CISSP credential certifies student expertise in ten different knowledge domains. » Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Querying Basics and Modifying Data This course also demonstrates how to use joins in queries in combine data from multiple tables and how to use subqueries. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the exam 70-461: Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Querying. This exam is one of the requirements for the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associated (MCSA): SQL Server 2012 certification. » Installing, Upgrading, and Migrating to Windows 7 The majority of computer users interact with desktop operating systems more than any other type of computer operatingsystem today. This course will show you how to install Windows 7 in a single and multiboot environment, along with showing the process involved in migrating or upgrading from previous Microsoft operating systems. This course maps to exam 70-680: TS: Windows 7 Configuring. This exam is required for the certification MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration. » Planning for Windows 7 Deployment Microsoft has improved and added new tools to help deploy Windows 7 throughout networks using images. Administrators can use tools provided by Microsoft to analyze their IT networks to determine the best deployment strategy. This course will discuss the deployment tools and methods, Windows 7 editions and requirements, and licensing. It also demonstrates how to analyze the current client computers for hardware and compatibility issues. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Microsoft exam: 70-686. Pro: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator.Passing this exam will earn the learner Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator certification. » Introducing Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 represents the next generation of server operating systems from Microsoft. With this release come notable improvements in security, remote access, networking, and performance monitoring. » Communications and Security in Windows Server 2008 This course discusses various policies, such as Group Policies, Default Domain Security Policies, Account Policies, and Password Policies, that are used to implement security in your organization. » VoIP Technologies This course covers such VoIP elements as analog and digital interfaces; numbering and dial plans; gateways and gatekeepers; and the various protocols used in VoIP operation. » Introducing Agile Software Development In this course you will be introduced to the principles of agile software development, and you will be provided with an overview of someof the principle agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming(XP) and Scrum. You will also consider the issues involved in applying an agile methodology in an organization.