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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.
Save up to 20% by purchasing course suites!
Note: Course suites contain all of the courses in a category and must be purchased separately from individual courses and other suites.

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... more
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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... more
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Communications Suite
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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... more
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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.... more
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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... more
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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... more
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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... more
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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... more
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Finance Suite
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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... more
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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,... more
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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... more
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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... more
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Innovation and Critical Thinking Suite
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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... more
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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... more
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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... more
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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... more
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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... more
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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... more
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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,... more
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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... more
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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... more
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Non-Profit Management Suite
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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... more
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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.... more
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