X Factor, in partnership with the Winchester Center for Management Development, is pleased to offer online Professional Development training.
Career Development
Ace Your Job Search!
Cost: $79.00
This course focuses on career planning, enhancing resume writing, and improving interviewing skills for those seeking employment. Part One of the course, "Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for a Perfect Fit," will help learners craft a resume that is targeted, elegant, and effective. Part... more
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Entrepreneurship
Accounting and Finance for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
This course provides an introduction to key topics in accounting and finance for those involved in new ventures. It reviews financial accounting basics, including GAAP Principles and financial statements, and also covers key issues in finance, broadly defined as any financial or monetary activity that... more
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Business Law for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
This course covers the basics of business law for an entrepreneur. It reviews legal structures for a new venture, intellectual property, employment law, contracts, government regulation, and personal and real property. After completing this course, you should be able to discuss the following topics:... more
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Cost: $129.00
This course explores the different aspects of entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs create and establish successful new ventures. It reviews issues and activities involved in starting a new business, including the decisions that must be made before an enterprise can be launched and established.... more
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Leadership and Management for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
This course explores the leadership and management issues entrepreneurs face as they create and establish successful new ventures. It reviews the key managerial roles of planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling and their application in entrepreneurial settings. Further, the course addresses self-management for the entrepreneur--how... more
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Strategic Marketing for Entrepreneurs
Cost: $129.00
This course reviews the strategic issues that an entrepreneur faces while starting a new venture or business, and highlights the questions about market acceptance that must be answered during every stage of the entrepreneurial process After completing this course, you should be... more
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Nonprofit Management
Budgeting in a Nonprofit Organization
Cost: $79.00
This course covers budgets and how they are used in nonprofit organizational settings. You will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of budgets and the relationship between strategic budgeting and tactical budgeting. You will also learn about the organization-wide budget and different budget... more
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Fundraising for Nonprofit Organizations
Cost: $150.00
Fundraising is one of the central activities of a nonprofit organization. To help finance operating budgets, nonprofits must raise money every year. In addition, special projects and improvements to facilities may be needed. In these situations, fundraisers will often launch large capital campaigns or apply... more
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How to Read a Nonprofit Financial Statement
Cost: $79.00
This course will develop your ability to appropriately interpret the major financial accounting statements that are used by nonprofit organizations. Ideally, you will gain an understanding of the types of financial statements that are used by nonprofit organizations, and how they differ from for-profit financial... more
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Leadership in a Nonprofit Organization
Cost: $99.00
This course addresses the key issues surrounding leadership. What is leadership? Why is it important? What does it require to be a leader? How does leadership in a nonprofit environment differ from the private sector? What is visionary leadership? What role should ethics play? This... more
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Nonprofit Board and Volunteer Development
Cost: $150.00
Volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofit organizations. Board members are a special type of volunteer. They help to guide the direction of a nonprofit, to promote the organization in the community, and ensure that the nonprofit's mission is fulfilled. After completing this course,... more
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Principles of Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations
Cost: $79.00
When we think of marketing, we typically think of the activities that a for-profit company engages in. However, marketing is an important function for nonprofit organizations as well. Marketing is the way that nonprofits determine the needs of their clients and their donors. As in... more
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Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations
Cost: $79.00
We hear a lot about for-profit companies, such as Apple Computer or Wal-Mart, and the successful strategies they have developed. Even though nonprofit organizations are not concerned with profit maximization, they too can benefit from following a strategy. A nonprofit's strategy constitutes its... more
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Simulation
Leading the Courtney Museum - Simulation
Cost: $399.00
Leading the Courtney Museum is a simulation designed to challenge and engage participants while exploring key real-world leadership issues confronted by nonprofit managers. The learner assumes the role of executive director of the troubled Courtney Museum, and deals with a series of personnel, marketing,... more
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Return to Mars: Leading a Complex Project - Simulation
Cost: $595.00
Return to Mars, an online simulation-based project leadership course was developed for NASA by the Palatine Group. This case-based interactive, media-rich learning experience recreates NASA's innovative Pathfinder Mission to Mars (PMI's Project of Year). Learning Design: Return to Mars blends 40 flash movies,... more
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