General Interest Classes

Build entrepreneurial skills and develop a solution-oriented approach to problem solving through real-world examples and interactive branching activities. This course covers entrepreneurship fundamentals, including the entrepreneurial perspective, identifying opportunities, and crafting your entrepreneurial story. Offering a solid foundation for anyone interested in developing entrepreneurial skills.

Launching a Business Venture is the second course in this series, designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs like you take action and learn the critical steps needed to strategically advance a business idea from planning to launch. You will step into the shoes of an entrepreneur through immersive real-world scenarios and discover the secrets of successful business launches and the top reasons why ventures fail. This course covers a comprehensive mix of topics like Marketing Techniques and Tools for Entrepreneurs, Launching the Imperfect Business: Lean Startup, Sales and Customer Service and more!

Managing a Business Venture, the final course in our comprehensive 3-part entrepreneurship series, guides savvy entrepreneurs like you through strategic business management and startup operational planning. Gain practical skills in entrepreneurial finance and accounting, including creating financial statements and projections. Discover the right business structure for your venture and understand its legal, tax, and risk implications. You'll also learn the art of networking to build your dream entrepreneurial team. Get started today and gain the skills you need to steer your business towards a sustainable future.

Stakeholders play a critical role in every project. Learning to effectively engage them is a core skill for you to develop in any workplace. In this course, learners gain the insights and tools to identify, prioritize, and engage with stakeholders for success. This is a Professional Skills course that teaches learners essential personal and social skills in the context of actual work scenarios

Effective communication is an essential skill for any professional, and reports are the foundation of business communication. They deliver important information and shape business decisions. Knowing how to develop impactful reports is a superpower that can help you stand out in your career. Creating Compelling Reports will teach you the business value of reports, how to craft persuasive messages, and making authoring decisions that resonate. This course covers different types of reports such as emails, oral reports, and written reports. Learn how to write effective reports for free with the help of Cisco Networking Academy. Sign up today.

Unlock your potential in AI with this comprehensive course from IBM SkillsBuild. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is among the hottest technologies reshaping the future of work! Here's your opportunity to build your knowledge, understand what AI can mean for your future, and visualize yourself in an AI-driven career. You'll begin by exploring AI's history, then discover how it can change the world around you. As you progress, you will delve into how AI understands language, interprets images, and learns using neural networks modeled after the human brain. You'll complete a series of simulations to build and test a machine learning model using IBM Watson Studio, then you'll learn about AI ethics and finish with tips on how to navigate the fast growing AI job market. Get started today and take the first step toward becoming an integral part of the future AI workforce.

This introductory course takes you inside the world of data science. You will learn the basics of data science, data analytics, and data engineering to understand how machine learning is shaping the future of business, healthcare, education, and more. Data science professionals who can provide actionable insights for data-driven decisions are in high demand all over the world.

This data analytics essentials course teaches you the fundamental tools of a data analyst. You will learn to transform, organize, and visualize data with spreadsheet tools such as Excel. You will also learn how to query data from a relational database using SQL and how to improve your data presentations using powerful business intelligence tools like Tableau. By the end of the course, you will have an analytics portfolio complete with an analysis of the popular movies dataset, showcasing your skills in Excel, SQL and Tableau.