January 1, 2024
The Benefits of Certified Scrum Master Online Course for Women of Color
December 30, 2022
Your Pathway to Cybersecurity Career
- CompTIA FC0-U61: IT Fundamentals
- CompTIA A+ 220-1001 (Core 1) and CompTIA A+ 220-1002 (Core 2)
- CompTIA N10-007: CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA SY0-501: Security+
- CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CSA+)
- CompTIA CAS-001: Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP)
July 23, 2021
Don't Live Within Your Means
- Write your big dreams and read them daily
- Create a vision board with images that coincide with your dreams
- Review, envision, and mediate daily of you achieving your dreams
- Surround yourself with people who have what you desire
- Strive for purpose and not security
- Live by faith and not fear
July 20, 2021
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Certification
- Entrepreneurship
- Recognizing and evaluating opportunities
- Planning, starting, and operating a business
- Marketing and sales
- Business financials and funding
July 15, 2021
Don't Shoot The Messenger
July 8, 2021
Management Essentials
- Giving Clear Work Priorities
- What Employees Need
- Reinforce Great Teamwork
- Valuing Employees
- Listening to Others’ Ideas and Opinions
- Problem Solving Expectations
- The Right Workload for Employees
- The Great Things Employees Do
- An Ethics and Integrity Discussion
- Perform a Performance Review
- Creating Challenging Work
- Receive Feedback From Your
- Creating a Great Work Situation
- Evaluating Performance in the Right Way
- Perform a Departure Review
June 24, 2021
Getting Unstuck
Post-DOS days, the technical instructor realized these questions apply to our everyday lives, and we believe these questions can help individuals get unstuck in their careers, relationships, or finances. If you feel stuck, click here and download our guide that can help you get unstuck.
April 26, 2019
Technical Communication - an Emphasis in Project Management
April 24, 2019
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
- An Introduction to Deep Learning & Computer Vision
- Recommendation Systems in Python
- Machine Learning: Decision Trees & Random Forests
- Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Python
- Python Programming: From Beginner to Intermediate
- Quant Trading Using Machine Learning
- Factor Analysis
- Linear & Logistic Regression
- Discover Core Machine Learning Concepts & Build an Artificial Neural Network.
- Build a movie recommendation system in Python.
- Learn Intuitive Machine Learning Techniques by Exploring a Classic Problem.
- Use Python and the Twitter API to build your own sentiment analyzer.
- Go from beginner to intermediate level Python user.
- Apply Machine Learning techniques to Quant Trading.
- Use Principal Components Analysis to Extract Factors.
- Build Regression Models with Principal Components in Excel, R, Python.
- Understand the risks involved in regression and avoid common pitfalls.
- Use simple & multiple regressions to explain variance & predict an outcome.
- Project Files & Supplemental Material included with each course.
April 4, 2019
Choose Yourself
March 17, 2019
Do Not Worry!
July 22, 2016
Ten D’s of Women Trailblazers
- Dreamers – Where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs 29:18a). You have to envision where you want to be so your actions can follow.
- Destined – Always begin with the end in mind. Women trailblazers predetermine how they want to end their struggle and work towards ending it.
- Driven – What's the force behind your actions - your spirit, struggles or faith?
- Determined – Women trailblazers have the will power to carry out their mission to improve the social, economical, and educational stance of women.
- Devoted – Whatever you do, have a passion for it. When you have a passion, you’ll work without wanting anything in return.
- Disciplined – Women trailblazers prepare themselves to face challenges and/or obstacles.
- Dignity – Women trailblazers think highly of themselves and present themselves with high regard and honor.
- Diligent – Women trailblazers are perseveres. They stay on course regardless of the challenges they may face in life.
- Daring – Women trailblazers have unshakable faith and aren't ashamed to be different.
- Decisive – Women trailblazers do not waiver in their decisions and actions to advance the lives of all women.
July 21, 2016
You Can Have a Great Career
- Take Inventory of Your Strengths - What are your current strengths and how have you added value to your clients through your place of employment or business? If you can't answer these questions with clarity or certainty, a career assessment can help you develop a framework to discover your true passion, personal, or vocational traits.
- Develop a Contribution Plan - Once you’ve discovered your passion and strengths, create a plan to determine the contribution(s) and impact your passion and strength will make in the lives of others.
- Invest in Your Strengths – When you invest in yourself, your strengths will come into fruition and grow stronger as you elevate others. You can read books, periodicals, take an online course, enroll in a non-credit course, or join a networking group. Just don't tell yourself you don't have time or money to invest in your greatness.
June 8, 2015
Feelings vs. Facts
If you’ve experienced an offence at work, think before you respond or react. And if you want an apology or resolve from the offender, here are a few things to consider:
- Was the offence intentional? If so, can you prove it?
- What was your emotional state when the offence occurred?
- Are you viewing the current offence through the lens of your past?
- What impact does the offence have on you and the company as a whole if it’s not addressed and resolved?
February 2, 2015
Twelve ways to ‘C’ your way through 2015
- Clarity – Get clear on who you want to become and what you want to achieve.
- Completion – What will be the positive or negative result if you achieve or don’t achieve your desired outcome?
- Confide – Tell at least one person that will hold you accountable to creating change in your life.
- Commitment – Create a plan and system to be steadfast and unmovable.
- Chase – Pursue only your dreams; not the dreams of others.
- Control – Take control of the forces (e.g., habits, people, or substances) that can create barriers to achieving your inner-most desires.
- Confidence – You have everything within you to succeed. Do not base your success on external conditions.
- Condition – We are what we think. Defeated thoughts will lead to a defeated life. Train your mind to win.
- Courage – Be audacious and create your own path for success.
- Contentment – Be satisfied with what you have and don’t compare yourself to others.
- Character – Who are you or who will you become as a result of you reaching your goal(s)?
- Contribute – Sow into the lives of others as you strive for success. You will be amazed of what you will reap.
December 2, 2014
Invest in yourself
"If my company wants me to stay, they should pay for my training."
"As soon as I get my MBA, I’m out of here!"
"I only enroll in workshops or classes that are free."
If your company pays for training, who’s investing in your professional development, you or your company? If your company pays, what do they get in return? If you pay, what’s the ROI (Return on Investment) for your growth and development?
Imagine hiring a contracting company that specializes in home renovations showing up at your doorstep without the skills, tools, or resources to perform the job. Would you pay for the training and resources the contracting company needs to complete the job? Or, would you hire another contracting company equipped with resources and expertise to meet your requirements and deadline to renovate?
Corporations are discovering better ways to yield returns on their resources and investments. And unfortunately, this doesn’t include ‘human’ capital because too many corporations have witnessed and experienced their education and training investments walk out the door.
If your career has come to a screeching halt, evaluate where you invest most of your time and money. If you plan to excel in your current or future place of employment, you have to transition to self-directed and life-long learners. The library is replete with ‘free’ resources for professional or career development and some organizations are replete with ‘fee-based’ resources. The resource you choose would be based on what you’re trying to achieve and why?
Education has been recognized as an integral path to economic empowerment and wealth. Not designer bags, shoes, or acrylic nails. If you’ve been blessed with these things great! But, if you invest more in these things than yourself, evaluate how these things have positioned you to create the foundation to your financial independence and stability?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, “We buy what we want and beg for what we need”. Education is a needed commodity to evolve and thrive in today’s society and your growth will be measured by what you endow to yourself.
March 12, 2014
Hate your job, what are you doing about it?
Staying at a job you hate may seem logical with the high percentage of unemployed and underemployed people. But if you choose to stay, why hate it? Why waste your time and your employer's? It’s challenging to have a servant attitude through hatred. If you’re not willing to serve, you’re not willing to work at your best capacity.
Work isn’t solely about us! It’s about service. If we’re filled with hatred about our work, does it mean we’re too full of ourselves? Sure, people can be difficult and challenging, but their actions should not contribute to our hatred. Every day we show up for work, we should know our purpose and the contribution we will make on our employer's bottom line and their clients.
Don’t allow finances and fear hold you hostage to a job you hate. You have the power to transform your job into a career you enjoy and love. If you're ready, you can start here.
August 28, 2012
The Power of The Tongue
Proverbs 18:21 states, Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. So, words can hurt or empower!
How will you use your use your tongue today? Will you speak life or death into the lives of others? What will you speak into yourself? If you choose death, why bother speaking?
September 30, 2011
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
- Get Real With Yourself - Identify and deal with the source of negative emotions because nothing positive derives from them. Suppressing or camouflaging these emotions with shopping, smoking, or eating are temporary coping mechanisms that can lead to other challenges.
- Know Your Role – Be clear on your purpose for working; the benefits and impact your contributions have on your employer’s bottom-line, and how your role coincides with their mission and core values.
- Don’t React, Get the Facts – There are many women reacting to events based on their emotions instead of facts. Feelings should never be used as a deciding factor in the workplace because they aren’t tangible and cannot be validated.
- Define Your Outcome – For every task you perform, you should have a desired outcome that links to your personal mission and your employer's. Working without a personal mission is like accomplishing empty victories because there isn't a connection to your uniqueness.
- Begin with the End in Mind – Start your day with a clear vision of its direction and destination. What you envision in your mind (direction) will lead to your destination. This is achievable when your emotions are under control.
Want more help to chart your course to emotional intelligence, visit SOFEI Online.