General Stan McCrystal: What Every Leader Must Possess - Empathy and Perspective

Empathy means understanding the other person's perspective-your employees, customers, suppliers, the media. Try to see things through their eyes. Empathic people make the best decisions. Don't be afraid to say you don't know, and seek advice.

Length: 00:02:00

Tammy Erickson: Managing Generation X

Gen Xers are people in their 30's and 40's. They make good leaders because they tend to think about options; they keep doors open. They are also excellent parents, which helps them balance personal commitments with work priorities.

Length: 00:03:00

QuickTalks: Jonas Ridderstrale: Engaging and Reenergizing your Team: Investing in Psychological Capital

To truly engage employees, you must tap into their emotional side in addition to their intellect. Intellectual capability is associated with only 28% of high performance; psychological factors explain more. Confidence, for example, explains 38%. Add hope, optimism, and resiliency and it becomes clear that psychological capital is as important as intellectual capital. The best employees possess not only high skill but also high will: skill + will. A different leadership style is needed to energize both skill and will. Pamper your employees as you do your customers.

Length: 00:03:00

Quicktalks: Shawn Achor: Creating Positive Team Environments

Praising people is important, but how you praise matters more. Instead of praising outcomes like report cards and work products, praise the process. This shows that behavior matters. Praise the process that leads to the desired outcomes.

Length: 00:03:00

QuickTalks: Lynda Gratton: Raising Performance and Collaboration in Virtual Teams

What it takes to be successful in a team that is co-located is not the same as what it takes to be successful in a virtual team. Virtual teams are more likely to be motivated and energized if they have a great task that pulls the team together. Second, after a virtual team has worked together for a while, relationships begin to break down. To counter this, face-to-face or video-enabled meetings should be scheduled from time to time, to pull the team together.

Length: 00:02:00

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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.

Length: 01:00:00

Using Emotional Intelligence on the Job

In this course, you'll learn the value of emotions and how they can affect your workplace for better or for worse. You'll gain an understanding of how emotional forces can influence performance and decision making, learn how you can leverage emotions in a way that maximizes performance, and discover how you can shape your own and others' emotions in positive and mutually satisfying ways. The course will focus on using of empathy, particularly in confrontation scenarios, and on helping others to develop their own emotional self-awareness and empathy, leading to more positive exchanges on the job.

Length: 01:00:00

Manager as Coach and Counsellor

Coaching is what cultivates employee growth, not to mention employee loyalty. In The Manager as Coach and Counsellor, you'll learn to take people from adequacy to excellence. And as you build their self-esteem, confidence, and competence, you'll be building on the bottom line. This course explores four coaching styles, and the methodology to use them all. You'll also discover techniques to overcome employee resistance.

Length: 03:30.00

Workplace Harassment for Employees

Harassment at work can have a corrosive effect on an organization's culture and can lead to low employee morale, reduced productivity, and even criminal liability. Focusing on the forms of harassment prohibited by federal law, this course will provide an overview of the types of behaviors that can give rise to harassment claims, including those based on gender, race, color, national origin, religion, age, and disability. It will also discuss the benefits of and strategies for promoting a respectful work environment that is free of all forms of harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.

Length: 00:30:00

Social Networking for Users

This course will focus on using social networking services in a business context, and will include a discussion on the services available, instruction on using services in a professional manner, and a discussion of potential issues arising from social networking usage in the workplace.

Length: 01:00:00

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 Word 2011, 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.

Length: 01:00:00

Hazardous Materials in the Workplace

This course discusses proper handling of chemicals in the workplace and actions that can be taken to protect the workers, the public, and the environment. It also covers the roles and responsibilities of those responding to events involving hazardous materials. The content in this course is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements.

Length: 01:00:00

IT & Desktop Performance Support Video Promo

These mobile-friendly videos enable organizations to address skill gaps in a timely manner, saving money and freeing up resources for innovative thinking. The new Skillsoft IT and Desktop Videos are short, 3-5 minutes in length, covering nearly 1,000 desktop and IT topics including Microsoft® Office and security.

Length: 01:51:00

Android Application Development: Working with the Emulator

Length: 00:03:23

Microsft Visio: Simplifying Organization Chart Creation

Length: 00:04:31

Microsoft Lync Server Management Shell: Validate the Configuration

Length: 00:03:41

Microsoft OneNote 2013: Outlook 2013 Integration

Length: 00:03:00

Visual Studio 2012: Deploying with Install Shield

Length: 00:05:23

Managing Agile Software Development

In this 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.

Length: 01:30:00

Office 2010 Core Features

This course explores key new features and enhancements in the Office 2010 suite of products. It also introduces product-specific new features and enhancements in the 2010 releases of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. These new and enhanced features include Office Backstage, Live Preview Paste, Sparklines, Slicers, graphic and video creation and editing tools, PowerPoint Broadcast Service, screenshot capture and clipping tools, Web Apps and Office Mobile.

Length: 01:00:00

Oracle Database 11G: Perfomance Tuning Methodology and Tools

This course provides an introduction to performance tuning methodologies, effective tuning goals, and the types of performance data that can be gathered by diagnostic tools available in Oracle Database 11g. It also demonstrates how to use Time Model and Enterprise Manager to diagnose performance issues, and discusses using the various dynamic performance views (V$ views) to perform statistical analysis when diagnosing problems. The use of alert logs, user trace files, and wait events analysis are also explored in this introduction to performance tuning. This course helps to prepare you for the Oracle Database 11g: Performance Tuning exam which counts towards the Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Certified Expert designation.

Length: 01:30:00

Oracle Database 11G: Introduction to Database Security and Solutions

This course describes business security requirements and defines least privilege, authorization, and authentication. It also covers security policies, the concept of in-depth security, and applies these concepts to prevent SQL injection. Maintaining data integrity, protecting data, and controlling data access are also covered.

Length: 01:30:00

Microsoft Windows 8 - Configuring: Getting Started with Windows 8

This course provides an overview of the various Windows 8 installation components including WIM images, the setup executable, the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE), the boot environment, and answer files. You can perform a basic clean install on a new system, but Windows 8 can also be installed to an existing computer as a dual boot - either using another partition or by installing Windows 8 to a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) or native VHD/VHDX boot. This course applies to objectives of the 70-687: Configuring Windows 8 exam of the MCSA: Windows 8 designation.

Length: 02:30:00

CISSP 2012 Domain: Cryptography

This course covers the invention of cryptography, the use of algorithms and ciphers, and the secure mechanisms used for message authentication and certificate authority. 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.

Length: 02:00:00

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.

Length: 01:30:00

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V: Manage & Optimize the Hyper-V Server

Virtual Hard Disk, or VHDs are the basic unit of Hyper-V virtualization and they can be implemented in various ways. Hyper-V Manager is the main administrative interface for small and medium installations of Hyper-V, and this course takes you through the basic management tasks you can carry out. Resource Monitor, Performance Monitor, Task Manager, Reliability Monitor and SCVMM can all be used to optimize the host server and VMs in a Hyper-V system and this course reviews each.

Length: 01:30:00

Cisco VPN 2.0: Deploying High Availability Features in Cisco ASA VPNs

This course discusses the methods of deploying high availability: redundant peering, active/standby failover, cluster load balancing, and server load balancing (SLB). This course explains the troubleshooting methods that can be employed to investigate high availability problems.

Length: 01:00:00

KC Tour Professional Foundations

Skillport Tour

Length: 00:03:00

ICND1.1 Session 2: Cisco LAN Switching

This Live Learning course covers topics related to Cisco LAN Switching, including understanding the challenges of shared LANs, solving network challenges with switched LAN Technology, exploring the packet delivery process, operating Cisco IOS Software and starting a switch.

Length: 01:00:00

Windows 8 Encore Session 1 Installing, Upgrading, Migrating to Windows 8

This course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system. The course covers such topics as installation, migration, Window 8 style applications, user and group accounts, security, networking, client virtualization, and advanced configuration. The course is designed to help IT professionals understand and support the technologies within Microsoft Windows 8.

Length: 01:00:00

PMP Encore Session 4: Project Cost Management and Project Quality Management

This course is intended to enhance a your project experience with global terminology and the proven framework for leading and directing project teams and in delivering project results within the constraints of schedule, budget and resources.

Length: 01:00:00

VmWare Encore Session 3: vCenter Servicer and ESXi Host Management

This course provides instruction in the use of the following hardware/software technologies: VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus, ESXi version 5, vCenter server standard, vSphere client and the vCenter web interface, virtual machine management, virtual networking introduction and virtual storage introduction.

Length: 01:00:00

Skillsoft Leadership Advantage Tour

Length: 00:06:12

Skillsoft Leadership Advantage Tour - German

Length: 00:07:34

Skillsoft Professional Advantage Tour

Skillsoft Professional Advantage is a targeted professional development program focusing on key, essential competencies for non-managerial business professionals in the workplace. Recognizing that today's learners are busier than ever, each learning track provides choices for accessing the right amount of learning, in the right mode, for that moment in time. The multiple modes of instruction, including text, video, and interactive activities, keep the learning quick, easy, and engaging.

Length: 00:08:26

Skillsoft Sales Advantage Tour

Skillsoft Sales Advantage is aimed at experienced sales professionals selling into corporate and technical environments involving complex, extended sales cycles and consultative relationships. Recognizing that sales people are busier than ever, each learning track provides choices for accessing the right learning, in the right mode, at the right time. Flexibility is built in. You access learning your way... The multiple modes of instruction, including text, video, and interactive activities, ensure the learning is quick, easy, and engaging.

Length: 00:08:34