Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he demonstrates ways to discover what you're truly best at doing and how to leverage those strengths and abilities in your professional life. This course reveals how to uncover your strengths and talents, match them to job responsibilities, and develop a path to apply those strengths at work. Set yourself up for continued success with self-assessments and the ability to invest in yourself and make continual improvements as your career grows.

This course is one of a series of five Dave Crenshaw courses based on his Invaluable teaching methodology for professional development.
Topics include:

Identifying gifts, loves, and skills
Assessing personal performance
Applying your strengths and talents at work
Making continual improvements that impact your career

Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he shows you the key to enhancing your productivity—focusing on your most valuable activities and minimizing the distractions that waste your time. This course shows you how to determine where you make the most valuable contributions to your company while minimizing and offloading distractions. Create a plan to mind your time and effort and help coworkers and employees discover their most valuable activities, which can result in an office-wide productivity boost.

This course is one of a series of five Dave Crenshaw courses based on his Invaluable teaching methodology for professional development.
Topics include:

Discovering your most valuable activities
Focusing by offloading tasks that weigh you down
Enhancing productivity around the office
Eliminating distractions

Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he shows you how to build your professional connections by increasing your network and influence. This course reveals strategies to connect with people in person, build casual acquaintances into real connections, and leverage social media to increase your sphere of influence. Learn ways to build both communication channels and community as you serve your network and make yourself available for new introductions and opportunities.

This course is one of a series of five Dave Crenshaw courses based on his Invaluable teaching methodology for professional development.
Topics include:

Understanding how networking enhances your career
Getting out of your comfort zone
Making recurring connections
Using a customer relationship management (CRM) system
Building relationships through social networking

Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he shows you the company, market, and customer focus that strategic leaders employ to make business decisions and anticipate new trends. This course shows you how to make crucial and insightful connections between your company's needs and future and those of the market you operate in and the customers you serve.

Discover how you can identify trends, gather and address customer feedback, and proactively deliver what your company needs for competitive advantage.

This course is one of a series of five Dave Crenshaw courses based on his Invaluable teaching methodology for professional development.
Topics include:

Understanding what makes your company money
Discovering market trends
Understanding your competition
Knowing your customers and how to better serve them

Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he shows you the keys to becoming a respected thought leader and authority in your field. Whether you're already a visible professional or hoping to improve your presence, decision-making ability, and influence, this course can prepare you to take a meaningful step forward. Being recognized as a thought leader and authority inside and outside your company builds career capital and paves the way for new opportunities. This course demonstrates a step-by-step process to help you identify your thought leadership focus, find a mentor, develop expertise within your company, build a meaningful network externally, and develop personal publicity.

This course is one of a series of five Dave Crenshaw courses based on his Invaluable teaching methodology for professional development.
Topics include:

Discovering areas where you can contribute thought leadership
Developing company knowledge that makes you an expert
Building an authority ladder externally
Gaining publicity

Effective time management is an indispensible skill. In Time Management Fundamentals, Dave Crenshaw explains how to sensibly allocate time in order to achieve greater productivity. Starting with an exploration of productivity styles, Dave details a set of principles for staying organized, consolidating the workspace, keeping a clear mind, and developing a time budget. Also covered are techniques for managing a full inbox, processing email, and reserving time for the most important activities. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

Understanding the principles of productivity
Avoiding the pitfalls of multitasking
Practicing mind-clearing techniques
Saying no with tact
Choosing the appropriate calendaring software
Mastering the What, When, Where processing system
Processing email vs. checking email
Maintaining productivity gains