How to Start a Startup
How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures initially given at Stanford University in Fall 2014; the course was taught by Sam Altman. In this path, Sam will lead the learner through 20 lectures with the likes...
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The Frustrated Facilitators' Guide to Great Remote Meetings
With 50% of employees expected to work remotely from next year, mastering remote meetings is fast becoming a critical skill. As in any meeting, you need to get together to get something done: to make decisions, present ideas, collaborate creatively...
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Steering Clear of Classroom Disasters
A "classroom" can be any place where learning should take place. Whether online, physical, or hybrid spaces, there are some common disasters that can occur. These can happen when: A) There's no clear purpose or goal to the training B)...
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Keeping Each Generation Happy in the Workplace
This path will introduce characteristics and tendencies of the different generations and will help the learner understand the values, communication styles, and working styles of each. At the end of the path, learners will be able to identify ways of...
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You Resolved Your Customer's Issues. What's Next?
A customer presented you with an issue. After several minutes of back and forth, you solved it. The hard part has been accomplished. Whew! But now, you've hit another wall. What should you do after the customer issue has been...
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Leadership Skills for Managers
Management and leadership aren't mutually exclusive. Managers need leadership skills to drive engagement in their team, which can create the alignment needed to achieve organizational goals. This path will cover topics like giving feedback, motivat...
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Shift Your Life
About the Curators Tracy Latz, M.D., M.S. (on left is an Integrative Psychiatrist, Multidimensional Healer and has served as an Associate Clinical Faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She...
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Navigating Your Career
If there is one thing that school doesn’t teach you, it’s how to navigate your career properly. Instead, you’re left to rely on advice from your (well-meaning but often misguided) family members--and somehow decide which of the million career resources...
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Forging Your Career Path: Tips for New Professionals
Your first days as a new professional can be tough. This path has resources to help guide you through several aspects of this new phase of your life, including communication and personal branding.
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Becoming a Master Negotiator
Calling all negotiators! Are you looking to take your skills to the next level and become a master of persuasion? This path has been crafted just for you. You will learn how to: write the contract following the negotiation, receive...
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Appraising Your Staff's Performance
The opportunity to appraise staff performance opens doors to improvement in workplace communication, employee engagement, and organizational goal alignment. In many workplaces, the performance management process culminates with an annual performance...
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Toxic Relationships at Work: Signs, Help, and What To Do
Think about all of the relationships in your life—coworkers, bosses, partners, friendships, family members, neighbors. Do any of these relationships leave you feeling drained, depleted, cautious, avoidant, on edge, nervous, anxious, guilty, or tense? You may be experiencing a toxic...
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A Sales Guide to the Galaxy (Just the Basics)
Essentially, everything you do on a daily basis involves sales. Whether you are selling an idea, a product, or a service (or being sold to), you are constantly engaged in the process of capturing an audience's attention, presenting some level...
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2016
Any user new to PowerPoint 2016 will benefit from this path, which is based on the Goodwill Community Foundation's video tutorials. These bite-sized videos cover basic and advanced functions of Microsoft PowerPoint, including creating and saving...
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Education is Marketing is Education
Good education is about engaging your audience, providing multiple pathways about learning more, and giving people options for expressing what they’ve learned. Good marketing builds upon the same foundation. Marketers are still tasked with engaging...
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Measuring Recruiting Success
Most training and development specialists develop a keen eye for talent and create strategic ways to fit the right person in the right position. Recruitment is a team effort that requires insight and technical know-how. Luckily there are metrics that...
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A Basic Guide to Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence, the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others, can be used to your advantage in work and in life. After completing this path, you should be able to define emotional intelligence, determine...
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Evaluating instructor performance
Attending a great training can leave you feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to dig in. Conversely, attending a poor training session can leave you feeling just the opposite. Sometimes poor training experiences can leave a sour taste in your mouth,...
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The Basics of B2B Marketing Strategy
Learn some fundamental B2B marketing strategies to help your company get ahead in this digital marketplace. Content marketing, lead capturing, and funnel optimization are all covered in this path.
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Sales Skills Focus: Cold-Calling
Sales expert Brian Tracy once said, "Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service." Cold-calling can cause anxiety for some but others see...
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Finding Your Voice
Author, social media influencer, and Catcat guest curator Najwa Zebian helps us navigate through the steps needed to find our voices. By uncovering our authentic selves and finding the right words, we're able to share our stories and build our...
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Feedback: The Gift You Might Not Want but Receive Anyway
Someone once told me, "Feedback is a gift." This may be true, but constructive criticism (even when it's well-intentioned) can often be hard to take. This path is part of my own learning journey -- I've gathered these resources to...
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Creating Influence through Trust
Assuming that we understand what our clients want, need, and desire is dangerous. We need to look beyond our own point of view and understanding of the world and discover how others interpret it. That is why asking questions is...
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There’s Speaking. And there’s Public Speaking.
If you’re reading this, you’re interested in the way you speak. Too fast? Not fast enough? To many ummms and errrs? Too ‘flat’? Sounding boring? Everyone has their own voice and communication style. Sometimes really informal. Chatting to...
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