Student Ready Courses

In this module, you’ll be introduced to a simple planning process that’ll save you time and help you become a consistently effective business writer. You’ll learn structuring strategies to help make your messages easy to read and engaging. You’ll also review tips to streamline your message and proofreading tips to reduce errors.

Effective communication is routinely identified by business leaders as one of the most important skills in the workplace Executives say it’s one of only a handful of skills that won’t be automated anytime soon, improving job security for those who master it. Being an effective communicator increases your chances of securing a great job, advancing your career, or building a successful company of your own.

This module provides practical tips to help you gain confidence when speaking to small and large-sized audiences. Non-verbal techniques, such as posture, gestures, and walking patterns, are explored to help you engage with your audience and fully utilize the stage. Additional considerations, like structuring content and leveraging notes, are also explored to enhance the presenter’s delivery.

Time management helps you identify your priorities, so you can focus your attention on the tasks that matter most to you. One of the biggest mistakes that people make is trying to do everything for everyone when it is sometimes impossible to fit such a large number of tasks within a limited time frame.

Search engines, particularly Google, are the top internet channels used for brand discovery, spanning almost all age groups. It comes as no surprise then that today the global search engine optimization services market is worth a staggering $50 billion, or that search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and search engine optimization are among the most in-demand digital skills.

Art, music, and writing have become the go-to understanding of creativity. But creativity is not just artistry – although artistry can be creative. It’s about innovation and problem-solving.

Being a young professional is rewarding and exciting, but it isn’t always easy. Economic challenges, health crises, complex technology, and fewer on-the-job training programs have made it harder to get started. Whether it’s a stressful project or a full-blown pandemic, as a young professional you’ll face a lot of challenges that are outside of your control. So it’s worth learning how to not only survive but thrive.

In this workshop, if you possess very limited Excel skills, you will learn more complex functions that are commonly used for analysis. Using a test data set, you will be able to manipulate the data with pivot tables and learn to illustrate your analysis with different graphs. 

Have you ever set a goal only to look back a year later and realize you’ve made very little progress? Not achieving a goal, does not necessarily mean you are unmotivated. It happens because you have a lot of day-to-day things that take up your attention, such as work, school, or family, so these “projects” get put on the backburner. Project Management and Time Management skills can help you plan and execute your goals to make the most of your time and efforts professionally and personally.