January 1, 2024
The Benefits of Certified Scrum Master Online Course for Women of Color
June 29, 2023
Mastering AI
- Enhance or advance career opportunities in high-demand industries in healthcare, finance, manufacturing, marketing, and more.
- Increase efficiency and productivity by automating routine tasks, streamlining processes, providing data-driven insights, and leveraging technologies to improve efficiency, productivity, and decision-making in their respective roles.
- Reshape the job market by future-proofing careers against automatic and technological advancements.
- Enable professionals to extract valuable insights from large datasets to make informed decisions, optimize strategies, and drive innovation within their organizations.
- Develop creative solutions, explore new opportunities, and drive transformative change within their respective fields.
- Help professionals bridge gaps between multiple disciplines, fostering collaboration and innovation across diverse teams.
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)
February 26, 2022
It's a Good Time to be a Technical Writer
- Content Writers
- Documentation Specialists
- Information Developers
- Manual Writers
- Policy Writers
- Technical Illustrators
- Technical Trainers
- Web Content Writers
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 13, 2021
Microsoft Office Specialist 2019
- Microsoft Access 2019 - Beginners
- Microsoft Access 2019 – Advanced
- Microsoft Word 2019 - Complete Training
- Microsoft Excel 2019 - Beginners
- Microsoft Excel 2019 - Advanced
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 - Complete Training
- Microsoft Project 2019 - Beginners
- Microsoft Project 2019 – Advanced
- Microsoft Outlook 2019 - Complete Training
- Microsoft Teams - Complete Training (Bonus Course)
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 28, 2021
Autism 101
- What is ASD?
- The cause of ASD
- The signs of ASD
- ASD symptoms
July 31, 2019
Stop Thinking Like an Employee
- Trade your gifts, time, and talents for money
- Your boss, coworkers, and vendors are your customers
- Do more than what’s expected, and make things happen
- Be a problem-solver
- Use diplomacy to get along with people who don’t look, think, or act like you
- Work to make a difference
- Operate with integrity and flexibility
- Build or engage in a network
- Be a Power Broker to help others achieve their goals
- Stay focused on your goals; not your feelings
- Be accountable, and
- Build your brand from your work ethics.
April 26, 2019
Technical Communication - an Emphasis in Project Management
April 25, 2019
Communicate with Confidence
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.
June 26, 2017
Stand Out from the Crowd!
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.
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.
June 3, 2013
Training is a waste of time and money
Government waste didn’t start in this Administration; it has been a normal way of business to avoid a decrease in appropriation dollars for each fiscal year. When an agency learns that it has an excess in appropriation dollars towards the end of their fiscal year, many government employees reap the benefits of training, conferences, and/or new equipment.
Training should never be used as a last resort to save appropriation dollars that will result in waste. This strategy decreases the value of education and training. If a government agency can operate on less money than originally appropriated, this money should be returned to Congress to bring down the deficit.
March 26, 2012
Who's Tooting Your Horn?
- When we’ve closed the deal on a sale? Toot!
- When we’ve written a book? Toot!
- When we’ve made our first million? Toot!
- Appeared on TV or radio? Toot!
- When we’ve been embraced by an elite or exclusive group? Toot!
- Received a degree from an Ivy League college? Toot!
- Best Business of the Year Award recipient? Toot!
If our clients aren’t tooting our horns, is our horn tooting in vain? Who's tooting yours?
October 6, 2011
Can't Find a Job - Create Your Own
- Develop a winning attitude and embrace the challenge to take charge of your life.
- Define and create your dream job description without thinking about your bills or the economy. Just dream big!
- Make a two-column list and write the required skills/resources needed to fulfill this dream job on the left side and your skills on the right.
- Create an interim dream job description if you don’t have 80 percent of the required skills for your ultimate dream job.
- Create a target-list of people/businesses that can benefit from your skills.
- Identify your working/business relationship (e.g., contractor, W2 employee, consultant)
- Make a list of people currently working your dream job and define what makes you stand out from them.
- Write and send a one-page letter to business owners with your knowledge and interest, passion and skills, a value statement, and business quote from someone that has experienced your work. Also, keep a log of businesses you sent letters to.
- Send a note or post card expressing your gratitude for business owners taking time to read your letter. Do this repeatedly until you receive a response.
- Network with people that are employed and have winning attitudes.
- If you’re low on funds consider the library, churches, community colleges, or volunteerism as resources to acquire the needed skills to create the job of your dreams.
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.