This leadership course provides the skills you need to lead a medical team. It suits any team leaders who have just assumed their new position of authority. We explain how to set collective goals and keep team members motivated as they pursue them. We show you how to inspire loyalty and create a supportive and inclusive work environment. Sign up to acquire the skills required to lead a team and take your first steps along a management track.Respect for team leaders comes from their performance more than their position. This leadership course provides the skills required by team leaders as...

Would you like to repair and maintain your electronic and electrical devices? This free online course will teach you what you need to know about troubleshooting. You'll learn about testing fuses, bulbs and switches and everything about electronic and electrical maintenance. Troubleshooting procedures will be covered, along with practical explanations. In addition to this, the course will disclose the use of capacitors, inductors and transistors.You use many electronic and electrical devices in your home daily. What will you do if these devices break down? You might want to resort to troubleshooting your electronic equipment. In this course, you will learn...

This free online bookkeeping and accounting course teaches you about double entry accounting. It will give you an introduction to double-entry accounting and teach you how to carry out double-entry accounting and bookkeeping for transactions on the receivables ledger, on the payables ledger, and for bank and cash transactions. This course will get your accounting career started, or help you to ace your professional accounting exams!You will learn about the accounting equation and double entry and the prepare for T-accounts. From the activities, you will get the opportunity to a) Prepare double-entry transactions and b) Prepare and record transactions in...

How can risks be identified, measured and managed? When should risk be accepted or rejected? Enterprise risk management is an integral technique that empowers a business with the necessary tools to adequately identify, analyze and mitigate potential risks. In this course, you will learn strategies and approaches to risk management as well as how to undertake sound decisions and obtain a competitive advantage.With the advent of technology and the impacts it has made on businesses, companies are taking on increased levels of risk. This creates a need for companies to employ appropriate enterprise risk management strategies to monitor and mitigate...

This free online course in starting a business or social enterprise will teach you how to set up your business the Stone Soup Way. To be successful in any pursuit, you must have a passion for it. This is especially true for entrepreneurs, particularly those who work towards creating social change. On top of their passion, however, every successful entrepreneur needs effective training and access to key business skills and knowledge.This course will give you an overview of business entrepreneurship and social enterprise skills that will really aid your decision-making. You will learn effective team-building techniques and study the characteristics...

This free course introduces you to business performance management: an approach that an organisation uses to guide its activities towards established goals. You will learn the principles of effective performance management and how to set up performance measures based on the critical success factors of the organisation. You will also learn tools for effectively analysing and reporting data for decision-making and improving business performance.Every organisation sets out to create value for its customers and shareholders. Management defines this goal in its mission statement and writes out strategic objectives to ensure the overall purpose of the business is attained. The essential...

Laboratory technicians are professionals that perform varieties of laboratory-based investigations through scientific procedures. They receive, label and analyse types of specimens and then design and execute standard procedures for testing them under defined conditions. In this course, we teach you the roles of a laboratory technician, various laboratory approaches and how to use and maintain laboratory equipment.The work of laboratory technicians greatly aids the accurate diagnosis and treatment of patients. They assist researchers and test subjects in their work, performing analyses on human fluids and tissues. What qualifications must a laboratory technician possess to be considered competent? This course provides...

A real estate agent facilitates the sale, rental or purchase of properties for their clients. This course explains how to ‘list’ properties by finding sellers. We go through the valuation process and examine property letting strategies, digital marketing and regulations relevant to estate agents. We also sharpen your negotiation skills to help you find buyers. This course provides the skills required to work as an employee or independent agent.Real estate agents earn their living by helping people to sell or buy property. If you like talking to people and thrive on making social contacts, this offers a rewarding and promising...

The Covid-19 pandemic seriously disrupts our lives at home or in the workplace and this free online course provides tools to help you manage and overcome the crisis. We offer a new perspective on how to manage your professional and personal life during these difficult times. While much of the world stands still, life goes on and this course can help you find your feet and face tomorrow with more confidence.The worldwide Covid-19 pandemic has affected every person on the planet and this course raises many questions regarding how we look at the pandemic and its impact. Can another pandemic...

Learn more about PLC programming and gain all the necessary skills you need to become a successful PLC developer in this free online course. We'll show you the basic principles of programming your first PLC program. We also cover the advanced techniques that involve the Human Machine Interface (HMI), manipulation of internal PLC registers, and SCADA systems. Improve your PLC programming knowledge and skills by studying this comprehensive course.Are you looking to become an accomplished Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) developer? This course is designed to help people with no prior PLC programming skills, and it will provide you with the...