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University of Hawai'i at Manoa Outreach College is pleased to partner with MindEdge, a leading provider of online training, to offer interactive, self-paced online continuing education courses. These self-paced programs are accessible 24 hours per day and 7 days per week allowing you to fit learning into your schedule when it is convenient for you. You can register for individual courses and receive thirty (30) day access beginning from the date of registration. Or, register for a suite of courses to save up to 20% and gain thirty day course access per course within the suite. | |||||||||||||
Note: Course suites contain all of the courses in a category and must be purchased separately from individual courses and other suites. | |||||||||||||
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Communications Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Business Writing More Effective Cost: $95.00 The ability to write clearly and directly is highly prized in organizations. This course focuses on improving business writing. The ideas, techniques, and checklists in this course apply to all forms of business writing: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. Other topics include... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Presentations More Effective Cost: $95.00 The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is increasingly important in organizational settings. This course helps learners organize, structure, and create effective presentations. Since many organizations use PowerPoint as a way of communicating information, this course offers advice and guidance on the most effective and... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out
Finance Business Essentials: Financial Planning and Control Cost: $79.00 This course considers practical finance and accounting tools for decision-making within organizations. You will learn about cost benefit analysis, return on investment (ROI), fixed and variable costs, breakeven and CVP (cost-volume-profit) analysis, tracking and performance measures, and the Balanced Scorecard and its varied uses. After... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Business Essentials: How to Read a Financial Statement Cost: $79.00 This course covers financial reports and their meaning. You will learn the fundamentals and important of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows, and how they can be used to manage a business. You will also be exposed to financial (ratio) analysis.... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Business Essentials: Introduction to Business Statistics Cost: $75.00 This course will introduce you to the importance of statistics in the business world. Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, and analyzing data in order to make more effective decisions. Understanding statistical techniques can help any manager responsible for marketing, management, accounting, sales, or... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Business Essentials: Introduction to Finance Cost: $79.00 This course introduces the discipline of finance in an organizational setting. Among the basics covered: responsibilities of financial managers; roles of finance in a typical business organization; legal forms of businesses; agency relationships; and relevant financial markets of interest to financial managers. Further you will... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Business Essentials: Time Value of Money and Risk Cost: $75.00 This finance course covers Time Value of Money (TVM) principles and Risk and Return. You will review the basic TVM techniques used in evaluating all financial decisions and their cash flow implications. For Risk and Return, you will learn how risk influences investment decisions, and... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Business Essentials: Understanding and Managing Budgets Cost: $79.00 This course covers budgets and how they are used in organizational settings. You will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of master budgets, operating budgets, sales, production and cost of goods sold budgets, and cash budgets. You will also learn how organizations are... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out
Innovation and Critical Thinking Creativity & Innovation: Creativity in Teams and Organizations Cost: $75.00 This course looks at spurring creativity and innovation in teams and organizations. Drawing on the latest academic thinking, it outlines the key factors for creative teams. Further, the course focuses on tools and techniques designed to yield more productive thinking in collective settings. Participants... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Creativity & Innovation: Innovation in Organizations Cost: $75.00 This course looks at innovation in corporations and the public sector. It reviews the latest academic thinking on innovation, including Clay Christensen's seminal thinking on disruptive technology and the proper response. Further, it explores some of the internal responses to the need for creativity,... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Creativity & Innovation: Personal Creativity Cost: $55.00 This course addresses Personal Creativity. Through tools and exercises drawn from Adrian Brown's book, Creativity & Innovation, it seeks to help unlock the creativity within individuals. By stimulating creativity through various techniques (mind-mapping, DO-IT, SCAMPER, right and left brain thinking) participants learn to tap... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Introduction to Critical Thinking Cost: $95.00 This course is an introduction to the importance of critical thinking in the business world. Critical thinking is an intellectual model for reasoning through issues to reach well-founded conclusions about them. Asking questions is at the heart of critical thinking.This program is designed to help... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out
Marketing Connecting with Customers: An Overview of Marketing Cost: $79.00 This course provides an introduction to marketing and marketing planning, and addressing the definition of marketing, the marketing mix (the Four Ps), the strategic importance of marketing, and customer values and satisfaction. After completing this course, you should be able to: Define marketing... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Connecting with Customers: Marketing Planning Cost: $79.00 This course reviews the marketing planning process, the components of an effective marketing plan, and the role of market research and how marketers segment, target and position their product or service. The course then looks at planning and the Four Ps (product, pricing, promotion, and... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Non-Profit Management Budgeting in a Non-Profit Organization Cost: $79.00 This course covers budgets and how they are used in non-profit 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... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Fundraising for Non-Profit Organizations Cost: $150.00 Fundraising is one of the central activities of a non-profit organization. To help finance operating budgets, non-profits 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... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out How to Read a Non-Profit Financial Statement Cost: $79.00 This course will develop your ability to appropriately interpret the major financial accounting statements that are used by non-profit organizations. Ideally, you will gain an understanding of the types of financial statements that are used by non-profit organizations, and how they differ from for-profit financial... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Leadership in a Non-Profit 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 non-profit environment differ from the private sector? What is visionary leadership? What role should ethics play? This... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Non-Profit Board and Volunteer Development Cost: $150.00 Volunteers are the lifeblood of most non-profit organizations. Board members are a special type of volunteer. They help to guide the direction of a non-profit, to promote the organization in the community, and ensure that the non-profit's mission is fulfilled. After completing this course,... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Principles of Marketing for Non-Profit 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 non-profit organizations as well. Marketing is the way that non-profits determine the needs of their clients and their donors. As in... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Strategy for Non-Profit 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 non-profit organizations are not concerned with profit maximization, they too can benefit from following a strategy. A non-profit's strategy constitutes its... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out
Strategy Fundamentals of Strategy: Strategy and Competition Cost: $55.00 Strategic planning does not occur in a vacuum: competitive factors and forces are perhaps the most significant issues confronting those responsible for developing an organization's strategy. This course reviews the key theories about how strategy should be developed in a competitive environment. After completing... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out Fundamentals of Strategy: What is Strategy? Cost: $79.00 This course draws on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Management, a text used at Harvard Business School. The course provides a basic understanding of the strategic planning process and its success factors, as well as discussing the importance of mission statements and budgeting.... moreadd to cart | view cart | proceed to secure check out |
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