In this 13-video course, learners discover how to align organizational activities with a strategic goal of adding value to customers through value-based management. Explore key value drivers and the role of the Value Manager and Value Management Office (VMO), along with several other topics. Begin by learning the importance of value in business strategy, and also basic concepts of value-based management. Examine the growth, efficiency, and financial value types that drive value-based management; recognize value drivers for a value-based organization, and processes involved in value-based management. Discover how value analysis and value engineering differ, but work together to build a value-based organization. Examine tools and techniques for assessing stakeholder value. Learn about ethical leadership and how making sound, ethical business decisions adds value, and how managing a multicultural, diverse team adds value for internal stakeholders or an organization. Explore aligning projects to organizational goals to deliver product requirements, benefits and value, and finally, learn how the performance-based earned value (PBEV) tool is used to evaluate effectiveness of value-based management.

Have you ever paid attention to your inner voice? How do you combat negative self-talk and its harmful effects? Award-winning psychologist and bestselling author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness it, Ethan Kross explores how the dialogues we have with ourselves impact our lives in more ways than we realize. In this talk, Kross shows us how we can mute our inner critic to become more resilient leaders.

Communication conveys information. Whether we communicate through sound or through today's technology of touch screens and automated voice recognition systems, information gets expressed both verbally and nonverbally. In this course, you'll learn to recognize the outcomes of nonverbal messages conveyed using facial expressions, body movement, and gestures on your communication. You'll explore how to convey messages of confidence, respect, and sympathy through nonverbal communication means. You'll also learn best practices for communicating nonverbally in a virtual environment and how to identify the nonverbal communication areas that can vary between individuals and in different cultural contexts.

You might think the term "growth mindset" refers to the growth of an organization, or even economic growth. While the effects of a growth mindset ripple throughout the business, it starts with an individual believing they are capable of growing, evolving, and learning. In this course, you'll learn how a growth mindset manifests, and why it can make life and work better in many ways. You'll also learn tools to build your growth mindset, challenge the fixed mindset thinking that can mire you in negativity, and employ resilience techniques to help you maintain an attitude of possibility, learning, and growth even in the face of setbacks.

Especially in times of disruption and change, your health and wellness - both physical and mental - can sometimes take a backburner to urgent and pressing needs. Prioritizing your wellness can be life-changing on a personal level, with the added benefits to employers of increased productivity, employee engagement, and retention. In this course, you'll learn to identify the elements of well-being at work and understand how common work and home factors can cause wellness to go out of balance. You'll also learn how to recognize signs of stress in yourself and in others, and what strategies help build resilience and promote wellness in all of life's dimensions: at work and at home; in mind, body, and human connections.

When faced with business challenges, defining the problem is an important step, but it's only the first in a series of steps. Now comes the hard part: finding ways to solve the problem. Generating multiple solutions allows you to open up your thinking and reexamine your opportunities and possibilities. Studies have found that when decision makers considered two or more possible solutions, the average failure rate of an implemented solution dropped from 50% to 30%. Generating alternative solutions sets the stage for creativity, innovation, and success. It allows your company to pursue not just a good solution, but the best solution. In this course, you will explore the process of generating alternative solutions to business problems. You'll look at the types of information you need to gather before you can begin, ways to brainstorm creatively and productively, and how to use the ideas that come from it to fashion and solidify actionable solutions. Finally, you'll learn to identify potential pitfalls to generating solutions and how to mitigate or avoid them.

The future of work is here and it's inclusive, equitable, and diverse. We must consider how to create a company culture that ensures work is meaningful for ALL employees. Leaders must develop proactive and innovative solutions to help mitigate any discomfort or fear associated with doing the right - and sometimes the hard - thing. Ultimately, this will cultivate sustainable accountability and produce tangible business outcomes. The Evolution of the Black Corporate Experience is a webinar for employees, leaders, coaches, and HR professionals who are genuinely interested in attracting, developing, and retaining Black talent. This webinar offers transformative solutions to generate meaningful change. By the end of the webinar, you will: Discover practical solutions for attracting, developing, and retaining Black talent Explore strategies to lessen the emotional tax levied against Black employees Implement restorative practices in the workplace Understand the benefits of intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship in the Black corporate experience Join La'Wana Harris on as she provides practical solutions embracing and amplifying the evolving experience of the Black corporate workforce.