Chris Croft
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn practical ways to maximize motivation for remote individuals and teams.
Remote teams are here to stay, but how do we successfully manage and motivate individuals and teams who we rarely see? How do we keep enough control while still giving them enough freedom to enjoy their work and perform at their best? In this groundbreaking course, thought leader Chris Croft looks at how to optimize the level of involvement in planning and the level of...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn methods for recognizing the characteristics of some of the most common types of difficult people, and discover how to deal with these individuals more effectively.
In every workplace, you're likely to perceive some colleagues are being more difficult to work with than others. Before you rush to judgment, you should determine if and how you might be contributing to the situation. (After all, it's entirely possible that you're the problem.) If...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Find more time for what's most important. Learn key time management strategies (from saying "no" to overcoming perfectionism) to reduce distractions and focus on what matters.
Everybody wants more time. While you can't make more hours in the day, you can find more time for the most important things in your life. In this course, Chris Croft introduces 5 simple time management tips to reduce distractions and stay focused on what matters. The first—saying...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Get concrete strategies for increasing your profits by reducing how much your business spends. Learn how to more effectively manage labor costs, streamline processes, and more.
Cost reduction is about making more out of less. By cutting some of its most significant sources of waste and overspending, a company can increase its earnings—all without generating any growth in sales. In this course, instructor Chris Croft conducts a detailed tour of...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn the basic project management skills you need to succeed as a business professional.
Almost everything you do in the workplace is a project, from the smallest task to the largest endeavor. All of this work can benefit from some basic project management skills. Once mastered, you will be able to transfer this valuable skillset to any project, of any size, in any industry. In this course, management trainer Chris Croft outlines the twelve steps...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn about how to negotiate in a wide variety of business situations, from asking for a raise to negotiating prices with vendors.
Negotiation theory is all very well, but how can you apply it in real situations? Which tactics should you use when? In this comprehensive course, instructor Chris Croft outlines the negotiating process and applies it to real-life negotiation situations, talking you through exactly what you should do in order to get the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This course presents dozens of tips in short videos that can help make you a better manager.
What kind of manager are you? Do you even know? It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day duties of being a boss—reacting to problems, figuring out who needs help—but taking the time to do a self-audit and evaluate yourself as a manager will serve you well in the long run. In this course, management and leadership expert Chris Croft provides a handbook...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Approach project management from a new perspective: by exploring what NOT to do. Learn the 10 most common mistakes project managers make and how to avoid them.
Approach project management from a new perspective: by exploring what not to do. Using real-world examples, real-world-experienced instructor Chris Croft introduces the 10 most common mistakes project managers make and explains how to avoid them. The course delivers practical advice on how...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the influencing process and practical tactics for influencing different types of people.
Influencing is happening in every meeting you have. Other people are influencing you, and you are influencing them. It's a vital life skill. In this course, instructor Chris Croft brings an engineer's mind to the subject. Chris presents a six-step process that you can follow in any influencing situation, with techniques that you can use at each stage,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to spot people who play mind games and keep their attempts at sabotage and manipulation from getting under your skin.
Psychological games players—those who actively seek to undermine, sabotage, and manipulate others—can be found in nearly every workplace and social gathering. This course was designed to help you spot these individuals and keep their mind games from getting under your skin. Instructor Chris Croft delves into the theory...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn skills and tactics that can help you succeed in every negotiation, whether you're asking for a raise or buying a car.
Negotiation skills aren't just important for the sales professionals among us. With a little practice, anyone can learn the simple rules of negotiation to get a great deal on a new car or house, or achieve greater success at work by getting better deals with suppliers, customers, and even colleagues. In this course, master negotiator...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Project management trainer and consultant Chris Croft provides tips and tricks for creating a Gantt chart to manage your projects.
What is a Gantt chart? A Gantt chart is an incredibly helpful way to illustrate the critical deadlines associated with any project—connecting start and end dates of individual tasks and their interdependencies. In this course, project management trainer and Gantt chart aficionado Chris Croft explains how to create and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to deal with a bad boss. Find out how to handle 16 types of difficult managers: the boss that doesn't listen, that plays favorites, or that engages in other bad behaviors.
Bad bosses are everywhere. In every industry, at every level. Dealing with a difficult manager is frustrating and impacts anyone's job performance. This course describes all sixteen different types of bad bosses—and their underlying issues—and gives you a playbook...
14) Happiness Tips
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Get happiness tips to help you create the life you want. Start every Monday with a new tip for finding more time for the things you love and maximizing your day-to-day happiness.
Get a new happiness tip to help you live a happier life. Coach Chris Croft provides practical, actionable techniques for finding more time for the things you love and maximizing your day-to-day happiness. He's released over 50 tips, on topics such as understanding your options,...
15) Success Habits
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Take a short break for learning and learn a new success habit. Get tips to increase your satisfaction and success at work and in life.
Habits have been identified as the key to success over the long term. Take a short break for learning and learn a new success habit. Join experienced and insightful instructor Chris Croft as he delivers valuable and practical success tips. He covers topics such as the relationship between success, money, and happiness;...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn the qualities of effective teams and the role you, as a team member, play in creating a healthy, productive team.
Whatever job you do, it’s likely you work in a team. Your performance will depend on your ability to work successfully with other people. Learn the qualities of effective teams and the role you, as a team member, play in creating a healthy, productive team in this course taught by management trainer Chris Croft. In addition to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Get practical leadership skills you can use every day. Explore the qualities of a great leader, theories of motivation, leadership styles, and delegation techniques.
Get practical leadership skills you can use every day. This course provides leaders and managers of all levels with an introduction to the basic skills they need to lead their teams to success. Based on theories instructor Chris Croft has acquired over 20 years of teaching, it explores...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Professional PM trainer Chris Croft outlines techniques for addressing the most common people, quality, cost, and time-management problems that arise when working on projects.
When you're balancing the triple constraints of project management (cost/quality/time) and trying to accomplish something new, problems are bound to crop up. In the course, project management trainer Chris Croft shows how to solve the most common problems that arise when working...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to better manage the processes—and thus the outcomes—of your project or business.
The objective of management is to make improvements—not only to products and services but also to entire processes. The difficult thing is to know what needs improving, and then whether your interventions have made a positive difference. This course provides an overview of the basic tools used for process improvement, such as statistical process control,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This course provides a roadmap for anyone trying to solve the interrelated challenges of career and life planning.
Determining what you want for yourself, both professionally and personally, is an ongoing challenge. This course was designed to help you find your way. Instructor Chris Croft provides a roadmap for anyone trying to solve the interrelated challenges of career and life planning. Chris shares tips for figuring out your ideal career, discussing...