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Project Management Training: Understanding Project Management, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$297.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 24 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview This in-depth course will take you through all aspects of project management. First, you will consider what a project is and what a project manager does. Then, you will work through the four stages of the project life cycle: conceptual, planning, execution, and termination. You will also learn some supporting skills, like teamwork, communication, and presentation. -
How to Develop an Entertainment Performance Agreement with Global Business Strategies, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$297.00Course Length: 16 Weeks Course Hours: 24 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview This course provides an overview of the various factors that a business must consider before going global. Students will also begin considering how they can expand their business to the global marketplace using a variety of planning techniques. We strongly recommend that participants complete our Entrepreneurship 101 and our Basic Business Management programs before taking this course. -
21st Century ABC’s Style of Artist Management, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview This course will help you overcome many of the problems that you will encounter as a workplace leader. Topics include transitioning to a supervisory role, attitudes to cultivate, setting goals, personal productivity, communication skills, feedback techniques, conflict resolution, managing difficult conversations, and establishing credibility. -
The Entertainment Lawyer’s Steps to Successful Networking, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 8 Weeks Course Hours: 16 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview In this course, you will learn how to identify opportunities, create a positive first impression, develop a memorable intro, start conversations, shake hands well, handle business cards, manage sticky situations, follow up with others, and organize your network. You'll also learn how to network in online spaces, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. -
Creating, Building and Managing the Artist Brand and How to Pitch to Corporate America, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Understanding, interpreting, clarifying and ultimately, mastering your brand management in a corporation is not only a dynamic learning technique but essential to maintaining career viability in today’s global workforce. This course will get you started on the road to creating a perfect brand. You'll learn how to develop a visual identity from start to finish, the basics of graphic design, and how to keep your brand energized and alive. -
Digital Modern Marketing Social Media and Artist Representation, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________Course Overview In this course, you will learn how to develop a social media marketing plan as a part of an overall marketing strategy, determine who should be on your team, and choose how you will measure what is taking place. In addition, you will learn about blogging, explore some of the major social media sites (such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook), and look at how specialty sites and social media management tools can take your social media marketing to the next level. -
Effective Planning and Scheduling
$180.00Course Length: 8 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview This course will teach you how to use a variety of planning and scheduling tools, including the work breakdown structure, network diagrams, program evaluation and review technique (PERT), and Gantt charts. You will also learn how to properly estimate time, schedule resources, identify task dependencies, manage risks, communicate your schedule, and keep the schedule updated. -
How to be an Active Listener
$180.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________ Course Overview In this course, you will learn what active listening is and what qualities active listeners have. You will also learn how to manage your body language, create a positive listening attitude, encourage conversation, build relationships, and overcoming listening roadblocks. -
Effective Communications Strategies
$180.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview This course will teach you all about the various aspects of communication. You'll learn about asking questions, probing for information, active listening, and body language. Supporting skills are also covered, such as self-esteem, building relationships with others, and assertiveness. -
Public Speaking Under Pressure
$180.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 _______________________________________________________________ Course Overview This course will take you through preparing an effective presentation. Topics include planning your speech, identifying your audience, connecting with the listener, developing key themes and sentences, structuring your ideas, and managing nervousness and body language. You'll focus on short responses and learn ways to expand a basic presentation. -
Critical Thinking
$180.00In this course, you'll learn what critical thinking is all about, what characteristics a critical thinker has, and what skills you may want to work on. Then, you'll work your way through a seven-step critical thinking model. Supporting skills, such as asking good questions, applying common sense, and thinking creatively, are also covered. -
Marketing and sales
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview A small marketing budget doesn’t mean you can’t meet your goals and business objectives. You just have to be more creative in your marketing tactics. This course will show you how to get maximum exposure at minimum cost. You will learn effective, low-cost, and non-cost strategies to improve sales, develop your company’s image, and build your bottom line. -
Managing the virtual workplace
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Virtual workers and virtual teams are an essential part of today’s workforce. More than ever, people are using technology to work anywhere, anytime. There are big benefits to today’s virtual workplace, but there can be big challenges, too. This course will teach managers and supervisors how to prepare employees for the virtual workplace, create telework programs, build virtual teams, leverage technology, and overcome cultural barriers. -
Making your business better
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Starting and building a business begins with a great idea. At this moment, there are millions of ‘great ideas’ seeking attention and success. Some of those ‘great ideas’ may be very much like your own. To make your idea not only stand out, but to take root and grow a sustainable, successful business, you need the right team, tools, and expertise. This course will highlight the essentials of business acumen, from relationship selling to team building, through to planning and marketing, that will position your company to grow and thrive today and in the future. -
Growth hacking
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview The new economy calls for a new way of attracting customers and sales. Growth hacking is to the new economy what marketing was to the last millennium. The goal is to share a message and make a sale. The difference is in how those customer connections are discovered, created, and nurtured. This course will highlight the essentials of growth hacking — from learning the new growth hacking mindset and discovering the need your product or service can fill, through planning, delivery and optimization — that will position your company to grow and thrive today and in the future. -
From Boss to leader
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Bad bosses. Almost everyone has had at least one in their working career. You do not want to be the bad boss in your work environment, the one who causes good employees to cringe when you enter the room. Or worse yet, you do not want to be the one who causes good people to leave the company. You want to be the type of manager that employees are willing to go the extra mile for. You want to nurture and inspire your team, giving them the confidence to do their jobs well. You want to provide guidance and motivation, while showing integrity and modelling the behaviors you want to see in your team. You want to be more than a boss, you want to be a leader. This course will arm you with the tips and general information you need to enhance your skills and transform from a boss to a great leader. -
Fostering Innovation
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Innovation in its purest form means to create something new, but it can also mean better solutions, new methods of doing something, finding more efficient and effective ways of completing a task, or creating new processes or workflows. Innovation is what drives companies; by coming up with new and fresh ideas, companies are able to remain relevant and drive success. Innovation is what propels businesses into the future, and allows them to forge a new path of relevance, profit, and success. -
Collaboration
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Collaboration is a skill that is utilized with one or more people to produce or create a result or shared goal. Everyone in the group has a shared vision or outcome. The group not only has to work together, they must think together, and the product comes from group effort. Collaborators are equal partners. Do we know what it takes to achieve successful collaboration with colleagues? What are the importance and benefits of collaboration in the workplace and how can employers create a collaborative environment and reward employees for collaborative efforts? -
10-Minute Presentations
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview In the filled calendars of busy customers and investors, time is literally money. In 10-Minute Presentations, you will learn how to craft and polish an engaging, professional presentation that shares your message and call to action swiftly and clearly. This will maximize your impact, conversions and productivity. -
How to Establish an Intermediate Project Management Merchandising Brand Plan, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview In this course, you will focus on the last three stages of the project life cycle: planning, execution, and termination. This includes identifying tasks and resources; using scheduling techniques like the work breakdown structure, Gantt charts, and network diagrams; preparing a budget; executing a project; and controlling changes. -
How to Develop and Execute an Advanced Project Management Plan in Merchandising Products, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview In this course, you will focus on two areas of advanced project management. The first area is advanced project management techniques, such as communication plans and status meetings. The second area is general management skills, such as building a winning team and rewarding team members. -
How Misreading Body Language can Ruin a Performance Negotiating Meeting, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours Course Overview In this course, you will learn how to interpret personal space, gestures, facial expressions, body movements, and posture. You'll also learn how to send the right message with body language, dress, and personal interactions. -
How to Optimize Through The Art Of Delegating Effectively, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview This course will teach you how delegation can make you more successful, ways that you can delegate, techniques for giving instructions, how to monitor delegation results, and how to give good feedback. You will also learn an eight-step delegation process that you can customize for any situation. -
Influence and Persuasion
$69.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 Hours ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview In this course, you will learn how to speak persuasively, communicate with confidence, build rapport, develop a strong presentation, and leverage storytelling. You'll also receive an introduction to basic neuro linguistic programming techniques. -
How to be a Creative Innovative Thinker with Music Publisher Agreements, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$69.00In this course, you will identify ways to develop your creative side and build a creative environment. You'll also learn a basic problem-solving process, individual creative thinking tools (such as the RAP model, shoe swap technique, mind mapping, metaphors, and toys), and team-based creative thinking tools (such as brainstorming, brain writing, role storming, the stepladder technique, and slip writing). -
How to Overcome Objections to Nail the Deal in Entertainment Law, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$69.00In this course, you will learn how to overcome objections, identify buying signals, and close the sale. You will also learn supporting skills, like building credibility, being observant, and communicating well.