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Business Skills Training Courses and Seminars

TrainUp.com is your one-stop source for the best virtual business skills training and live courses nationwide. Start your search now and browse among 398 live instructor-led business skills training classes near you, from the industry's best business skills training companies such as SkillSoft, BizLibrary, and American Management Association International TrainUp.com also lists more than 4309 self-paced online business skills training courses, micro-learning videos, and eLearning bundles. If you have a team to train, we can conduct a course just for you. Check out our onsite on-site business skills training page to request a custom virtual or in-person training quote today.

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TrainUp.com is your one-stop source for the best virtual business skills training and live courses nationwide. Start your search now and browse among 398 live instructor-led business skills training classes near you, from the industry's best business skills training companies such as SkillSoft, BizLibrary, and American Management Association International TrainUp.com also lists more than 4309 self-paced online business skills training courses, micro-learning videos, and eLearning bundles. If you have a team to train, we can conduct a course just for you. Check out our onsite on-site business skills training page to request a custom virtual or in-person training quote today.

Word Tips, Tricks and Timesavers Training

This one-day Microsoft Word Training class offers tips, tricks and timesavers that will help you get the most out of Word. It is a multi-faceted, fast-paced class that will touch on most of the popular Word features and how to access them efficiently. This is a great course for individuals with prior Word experience who want to quickly update their skills and learn the latest tips, tricks and timesavers. This course is for individuals using Word 365, 2019 or 2016 software. However, there are very few differences between the 365 and 2016 versions from an end-user's perspective. Our instructors have used all versions and will be able to quickly highlight the several small changes to the user interface. Users of any of the versions of Word will have no problem learning in the 2019 software environment....
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Fundamental Selling Techniques for the New or Prospective Salesperson

<p>Because of the mounting pressure facing salespersons in today’s landscape, this challenging profession is becoming even more competitive. But many prospective sales professionals don’t have the necessary sales training and understanding of the fundamentals of selling. This intensive, highly interactive 2-day introduction to the art of selling will equip you with the tools and techniques you need to achieve sales success and improve your performance. </p>...
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Facilitating an Effective Strategic Planning Process

Regardless of goals, there’s one thing that can be said about every strategic planning process: The stakes are high. So you need to get equipped with a complete and agile toolbox of facilitation techniques and skills. How can you get the right people—and get them to actively contribute? How can you prevent assertive personalities from taking the session off-track? How can you make sure your goals are effectively defined and that you have all the right elements in place? This course combines e...
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2 Days
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AMA Business Boot Camp: Management and Leadership Essentials

<p>Based on the book <em>AMA Business Boot Camp</em>, edited by Edward T. Reilly, former President and CEO of AMA.</p> <p>This virtually delivered&nbsp;course encompasses AMA’s years of trusted wisdom and training expertise, covering the most vital, time-tested management skills, tools and strategies. Your staff will complete the Golden Personality Type Profiler&nbsp;prior to class to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and others. As they work through each lesson, they’ll refer back to...
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4 Days
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4 Days
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Partnering with Your Boss: Strategic Skills for Administrative Professionals

Attend this seminar and master techniques for effective goal setting, prioritizing, planning, decision making, relationship building and listening. Learn how to communicate confidently and assertively—and develop and use power and authority. You’ll return to work better able to support your organization’s/boss’s goals, adapt to various communication styles to successfully influence and work with your boss and others, establish trust, credibility and authority to strengthen your relationship w...
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2 Days
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2 Days
Price: $1995 VIEW DETAILS

Strategic Sales Negotiations

<p>Discover how to influence them and improve your profits! Regain the seller’s advantage over today’s more sophisticated purchaser with the help of this strategic sales negotiation training. Learn the tools, techniques and savvy sales negotiation tactics that enable you to influence your buyer’s perception of cost, value and benefits. Close the sale by maintaining a flexible position that successfully counters your buyer’s negotiating moves.</p> ...
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Making the Transition from Staff Member to Supervisor

Feel empowered to hit the ground running with the skills learned in this course. Be ready to take on any task and bring your best self to the job, while adopting new habits that will quickly get you on the path to greater success. In this high-impact, 2-day seminar, our faculty will help new supervisors like you avoid common pitfalls. Get the secrets and essential skills of managing people, from delivering corrective feedback and coaching to conflict resolution and delegation. With expertly g...
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6
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6 EVENTS
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2 Days
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2 Days
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Managing the "Unmanageable": Tough People Tough Situations

Be empowered to deal with challenges that impede morale and productivity
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2 Days
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2 Days
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Advanced Sales Management

<p>In three days of advanced sales management training, you’ll get skills to keep pace with all the issues that are revolutionizing sales force management. It’s the sales management training seminar to choose if you want to become a more effective manager—and advance further, faster, in your career. You'll discover the can't-fail techniques that have already benefited thousands of your colleagues. Here is advanced sales management training that will help you learn how to achieve peak performance...
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3 Days
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3 Days
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AMA's Comprehensive Project Management Workshop

Delays, cost overruns, or quality problems can wreck your project. Keep it on course with this 5-day overview of project management. Aligned with PMI’s PMBOK®, this project management workshop helps you master the entire PM process. You’ll earn 35 professional development units (PDUs) pre-approved by PMI, and you’ll gain skills and in-depth knowledge that prepare you for the next level: the Project Management Professional certification. You Will Learn How To: Manage projects with con...
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3
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3 EVENTS
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5 Days
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5 Days
Price: $3295 VIEW DETAILS

Secrets to Boosting Productivity

The truth is that your work will continue to pile up if all you do is check tasks off of your to-do list. <p>Improve your productivity and efficiency by taking control of the pile of work that is driving you crazy.</p> <p>You need to develop&nbsp;a goal-driven plan and a step-by step method of helping you meet your deadlines. This instructor-led, online workshop shows you how to examine what needs to be done and determine the best approaches to complete your work in the time you are given mak...
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1 Days
Price: $279 VIEW DETAILS

Successful Product Management

<p>Discover the tools and techniques you need to effectively manage the increasingly complex product management process and gain more control of the myriad tasks at hand.</p> <p>In this powerful seminar, you’ll focus on strategy…product portfolio planning…key tasks of a product manager…understanding critical reports…and how to calculate break-even sales formulas. Then you’ll put it all together using a case study on product marketing plan development so you can prepare your marketing plan.</p...
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Duration
3 Days
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3 Days
Price: $2495 VIEW DETAILS

Leadership Skills for Supervisors

<p>You will explore how to maintain technical expertise while demonstrating the right type of supervisory leadership. This seminar will give you the personal, interpersonal and group skills to be influential in one-on-one situations, facilitate group performance and become an effective leader.</p> ...
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2
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2 EVENTS
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3 Days
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3 Days
Price: $2595 VIEW DETAILS

7 Interpersonal Skills of Great Managers

<p>Broaden your managerial effectiveness to ensure your success in today’s hyper-speed, technology-driven and diverse workplace.</p> <p>Impact, engagement and results depend on a situationally balanced combination of technical, function-related, operational and interpersonal proficiencies. Interpersonal skills are pivotal to building credibility, trust, accountability and commitment in your team. This 2-day, interactive, hands-on, action planning and skill-building experience will equip you w...
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1 EVENTS
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2 Days
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2 Days
Price: $2695 VIEW DETAILS

The Effective Facilitator: Maximizing Involvement and Results

Want superior facilitation experiences? Look no further. This is your go-to course to hone in on core facilitation skills to create positive and seamless flow. Your role as a facilitator demands exceptional interpersonal skills, keen observation, insight and tact. Like a conductor, you must bring out the best in individual players and orchestrate successful group efforts. This course provides maximum practice, group interaction and feedback as you explore your role as a facilitator in a varie...
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2 Days
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2 Days
Price: $2695 VIEW DETAILS

Mastering the Art of Critical Conversations

<p>If you're like most people, you run into trouble when conversations turn from routine to crucial. Your body’s natural fight-or-flight response takes over. The knee-jerk response is to run and dodge the topic, hide behind an email, or just wing it and hope for the best.</p> <p>Productivity stems from face-to-face communication, as well as your ability to express controversial and risky opinions effectively. Attend this course and practice using real-life models to conduct difficult conversa...
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2 Days
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2 Days
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Inventory Management Techniques: Planning Replenishment and Activities Control

These inventory management techniques will improve your inventory turnover ratio and transform frozen assets into cash!...
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1 EVENTS
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3 Days
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3 Days
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Leadership and Team Development for Managerial Success

<p>When should you be a motivator...and when should you be a coach? Can you empower team members to self-manage? Or do your teams fall apart when you're not there?</p> <p>Learn how to foster team cohesiveness and collaboration. You'll step up to&nbsp;be a leader, a coach, a persuasive communicator and much more. Sharpen your team-building skills and discover&nbsp;new ways to drive&nbsp;performance and&nbsp;productivity.</p> ...
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2 EVENTS
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2 Days
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2 Days
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Instructional Design Certificate Program

This comprehensive program for powerful instructional design takes you through the steps of building a training program: analyzing training needs, planning an interactive program, creating engaging activities that accelerate learner’s comprehension and application, preparing others to teach the course, and evaluating course effectiveness.&nbsp;&nbsp; At this workshop, you’ll apply what you are learning to create a short training session that addresses some of your company’s specific training nee...
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3 Days
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3 Days
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Getting Results Without Authority

Whether you’re dealing with bosses, colleagues, staff members or senior management, the ability to win respect, influence people and cultivate cooperation is absolutely essential to career success. In this persuasive skills training, you’ll focus on the key elements of influencing others when there is lack of authority—personal power, persuasion and negotiation.<br> <br> Learn how to influence people by building your power base using the Personal Power Model…understand exchange and reciprocity...
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3
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3 EVENTS
Duration
4 Days
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4 Days
Price: $2695 VIEW DETAILS

AMA's Comprehensive Budgeting Workshop

<p>Your Immediate Take-Aways</p> <ul> <li>Use&nbsp;and analyze robust budgets</li> <li>Use budgeting to help determine strategic direction</li> </ul> <p>Being responsible for the budgeting means you’re playing a vital role in your organization’s future.&nbsp;Your budget enables you to pinpoint critical variables that impact profit so your company can successfully pursue business goals and create value.<br> <br> In this seminar, you will learn how to work with, develop and present bu...
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2 Days
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2 Days
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Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers

Can you demonstrate your value and ROI to your boss? Are you able to interpret financial reports and make decisions based on the data they provide? Can you draft an accurate budget? Can you justify your ideas in dollars and cents? You didn’t get to this point in your career only to be held back by weak financial skills. This program for non-financial managers makes the basics of finance accessible to anyone in just&nbsp;2 days.<br> <br> You’ll learn how to: Interpret and respond appro...
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7
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7 EVENTS
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4 Days
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4 Days
Price: $2595 VIEW DETAILS

Assertiveness Training for Women in Business

In todays ever changing business environment it is vital for women to have an assertive voice in business. Assertiveness techniques, when used effectively, can enhance almost every aspect of your job and life — Knowing which tools and techniques to use, and how and when to use them, is critical. AMA’s assertiveness training for women is a 3-day seminar that addresses the unique challenges women face in business and provides them with the assertiveness techniques essential for survival and advanc...
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3
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3 EVENTS
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4 Days
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4 Days
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Essentials of Project Management for the Non-Project Manager

To work together effectively on any project, everyone on the team needs to use a common language and have a clear understanding of all expectations. This unique project manager training seminar is designed for individuals with little or no prior knowledge of project management who serve on project management teams, those who simply want to know more about PM or those who are making the transition to project management. In just two days, you’ll develop an understanding of essential terminology an...
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2
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2 EVENTS
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2 Days
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2 Days
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Time Management

<p>Do you find yourself overloaded with work? Feel so stretched to the limit you can't set priorities? Exhaust yourself daily without accomplishing your goals?</p> <p>Remember, every minute of your day impacts the business. If you answer yes to one or more of the above, it's time to make real choices about how to manage your time. This seminar is designed to combat the pitfalls of time management. It will help you identify causes of procrastination and indecision, pinpoint personal time-waste...
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4 Days
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4 Days
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31 minutes
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64 minutes
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64 minutes
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Essential Phone Techniques for Customer Service

Essential Phone Techniques for Customer Service
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1 Days
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1 Days
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77 minutes
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Helpful Microsoft Excel � Uses for Savvy Paralegals

Get comfortable utilizing Microsoft Excel to process and analyze data in a legal environment. Microsoft Excel is all about managing data....
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1 Days
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1 Days
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59 minutes
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59 minutes
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Common Customer Service Legal Issues

Common Customer Service Legal Issues
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Business Ethics

Business Ethics
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Price: $249 VIEW DETAILS

Apple Safari Basics for the New User

Apple Safari Basics for the New User
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3
Price: $119 VIEW DETAILS

Building Presentations with Prezi Classic

Building Presentations with Prezi Classic
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Price: $171 VIEW DETAILS

Dealing With Difficult People

Dealing With Difficult People
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Perseverance and Resilience

Perseverance and Resilience
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Price: $199 VIEW DETAILS

Solution Selling

Solution Selling
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Price: $239 VIEW DETAILS

Essential Selling Skills Part 3

Essential Selling Skills Part 3
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Operations Management Part 1

Operations Management Part 1
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Price: $169 VIEW DETAILS

Microsoft Office 2016 - SharePoint for End Users

Microsoft Office 2016 - SharePoint for End Users
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Price: $193 VIEW DETAILS

Business Coaching Essentials

Business Coaching Essentials
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Price: $219 VIEW DETAILS

What's New in Office 2013 and Windows 8?

What's New in Office 2013 and Windows 8?
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Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) 2013 Part 1

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) 2013 Part 1
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Price: $239 VIEW DETAILS

CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 Core Essentials

CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 Core Essentials
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10
Price: $299 VIEW DETAILS

Public Speaking Strategies and Handling Pressure

Public Speaking Strategies and Handling Pressure
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Price: $199 VIEW DETAILS

Listening Essentials

Listening Essentials
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Price: $199 VIEW DETAILS

Emotional Intelligence

In this video collection, you'll learn what it means to bring intelligence to emotions. You will learn how to use your Emotional IQ to better understand yourself and those around you. You will also ex...
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12
Price: $69 VIEW DETAILS

Creating, Designing, Tracking, and Reporting with Project 2013

Creating, Designing, Tracking, and Reporting with Project 2013
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13
Price: $219 VIEW DETAILS

Optimizing Your Work/Life Balance

Optimizing Your Work/Life Balance
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Building Team Performance and Communication

Building Team Performance and Communication
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Managing Organizational Change

Managing Organizational Change
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Navigating and Achieving Emotional Intelligence

Navigating and Achieving Emotional Intelligence
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Sales Negotiations Part 1

Sales Negotiations Part 1
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Sharing and Editing Posts on Instagram for iOS

Sharing and Editing Posts on Instagram for iOS
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Organize and Manage Work with Asana for Web

Organize and Manage Work with Asana for Web
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Customer Focus and Advocacy Part 2

Customer Focus and Advocacy Part 2
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TrainUp.com is your one-stop source for the best virtual business skills training and live courses nationwide. Start your search now and browse among 398 live instructor-led business skills training classes near you, from the industry's best business skills training companies such as SkillSoft, BizLibrary, and American Management Association International TrainUp.com also lists more than 4309 self-paced online business skills training courses, micro-learning videos, and eLearning bundles. If you have a team to train, we can conduct a course just for you. Check out our onsite on-site business skills training page to request a custom virtual or in-person training quote today.

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Business Skills Courses and Workshops

As the tools that businesses use have changed, so have the skills necessary to succeed in the workplace.  Business skills impact every department within an organization and employees must be skilled in the latest technologies.  Business skills in sales, marketing, human resources, accounting, IT, communications, leadership, customer service, or management are essential skills to maintain within your career.

The most effective and efficient employees have a wide range of business skills that are applicable to any industry, with knowledge and skills that can transfer into various roles in any organization.  Business skills, regardless of the business environment, have remained one of the most important skills employers seek when recruiting new employees and is the fastest way to elevate your career.


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What is business skills training?

Business skills training focuses on mastering areas like communication, critical thinking, finance, leadership, negotiation and problem-solving. These are key areas of knowledge in business. It is important for individuals in business to understand the big picture of both organizational and consumer behavior, as it impacts everyday decisions and overall how they run a business.

What training is needed for business management?

Employers typically seek to hire individuals with a bachelor's degree in business administration, or business management, for positions in business management at a company. Beyond this, additional training may also be needed. Possible postions held by a business management professional are sales, advertising, operations management, and human resources.

What are basic business skills?

Basic business skills are skills that help you perform essential functions within the business world. These include communication, critical thinking, problem solving, writing, leadership, and negotiation. Management and Leadership skills are very important, as is the ability to work well with others in a team. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential for employees operating at every level of business.

How can I improve my business skills?

The best way to improve your business skills is to attend training. Trainup.com is one such place where you can find training over a variety of business skills. In addition to training, it is helpful to keep up with the latest business articles, as well as join professional networking groups, or groups focused on learning and sharing informaiton about business skills.

What is the difference between soft skills and business skills?

Some business skills are considered to be hard skills, while some are considered soft skills. Hard skills are said to be more measurable and include abilities such as writing, reading, and math. On the other hand, soft skills refer to the abilities that make you a good employee, leader, and coworker. Examples of soft skills are etiquette, communication, and getting along with other people. Although soft skills aren't as measurable as hard skills, they are equally as important to your success on the job.

What skills are essential for business professionals?

Some of the essential business skills in today's workforce include the ability to manage your finances, marketing, sales, and customer service. These things all incorporate a person's hard and soft skills such as communication, negotiation, Leadership, project planning, delegation, time management, problem-solving, networking, and more.

What is the difference between managers and supervisors?

In the simplest terms, a manager relies more heavily on his or her people management skills and business strategy skills, while a supervisor is responsible for running the day-to-day work done by the employees, and overseeing that tasks are completed on time. Therefore, a manager has a more strategical role than a supervisor. And a supervisor has more of an objective-driven responsibility in running the daily business operations that are outlined in that strategy.

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