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Business Skills Course Collection
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Executives are constantly looking for breakthrough strategies that will give their companies a competitive edge. Once those strategies are formulated they become operating plans and departments are charged with carrying out specific activities. Finally, it's up to individual employees to execute within their daily jobs in support of those plans. But what happens if the strategies are not well communicated throughout the organization? What if employees lack essential skills to accomplish their work? What if cultural barriers stand in the way of progress?
Unique Strength in Business Skills
Companies around the globe turn to SkillSoft when they recognize a need to upgrade employees' soft skills and business knowledge. With our Business Skills Courseware Collection, the world's largest collection of business skills courses, and the BusinessPro™ Collection, the largest repository of online reference content in the industry, SkillSoft is the ideal long-term partner for any enterprise.
Multi-Modal Resources
The Business Skills Course Collection includes an array of online courses and supporting resources including:
- Online Courses — Thousands of hours of interactive instruction provide broad support for skill development in the business areas you need.
- SkillSims — Rich, multi-path simulations complement learning with realistic scenario-based practice.
- Blended Learning Toolkits — A variety of tools and activities enable learners to leverage new knowledge and skills in the workplace.
- PMI® Mentoring — Certified PMP®s are available live to support your project managers seeking certification by PMI®.
- PMI® TestPrep Exam — Practice PMP® certification exam for project managers seeking certification by PMI®.
Academic and Credential Partnerships
An important testament to the quality of SkillSoft content is the credit recognition these courses have achieved from a growing number of colleges and professional certification programs. Several colleges and universities award college degree credit to learners who successfully complete SkillSoft courses, including the University of Phoenix and Drexel University. SkillSoft courses have also been approved for Continuing Professional Education credit by programs such as Project Management Institute's PMP certification, NASBA, Institute of Supply Management (ISM) and more.
e-Learning Design Excellence in Business Skills Instruction
SkillSoft's award-winning business skills courseware incorporates proven learning design methodology for effective and engaging interactive learning. Our instructional design model is based primarily on the proven concepts of performance-oriented instruction, mastery and the sequencing of instructional activities and strategies. The model draws heavily from adult learning principles that emphasize learner initiative, self-management and experiential learning. The design of each SkillSoft business course starts with the definition of learner-focused performance objectives and then proceeds to the selection and implementation of instructional strategies and learning activities appropriate for those objectives. Frequent practice questions or exercises, along with assessments, measure learners' achievement of those objectives.
Competency Based Learning
Organizations are continually challenged with the need to quickly determine what learning programs are relevant and necessary to develop their employees' competencies and skills while accomplishing business objectives. To respond to this growing demand, SkillSoft has created Curriculum Guides that identify courses related to needed competencies and job functions. It combines a broad, yet simple, competency model listing key behaviors, along with course suggestions to help associate required learning with your organization's development needs.
Language Support
SkillSoft leads the e-learning industry in translating our business courseware into a wide range of languages. When translating content for other global markets, SkillSoft also takes care to localize the content to reflect relevant differences in business cultures.
To date, SkillSoft has created over 1,400 localized business courses. Currently, SkillSoft offers business courses in the following languages (not all courses are available in all languages):
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Chinese Cantonese
- Chinese Mandarin
- Chinese Traditional
- English (US)
- English (UK)
- French (European)
- French (Canadian)
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Russian
- Spanish (European)
- Spanish (Latin American)
