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Learn how to manage your manager. In this course, adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, Mary Abbajay explains how to build a good relationship with your boss.

Learn how to create and manage apps with SCCM and prepare for Microsoft certification exam 70-703. See how to deploy apps using PowerShell scripts, and deploy App-V virtual apps.

Boost your retail skills with our concise and practical course, "Introduction to Merchandising: Driving Sales and Profitability." In just one hour, you'll learn essential merchandising techniques to increase sales and profitability. Understand the basics of consumer behavior, develop effective retail strategies, and master inventory management. Discover how to create eye-catching store layouts and displays that attract customers. With real-world examples and actionable insights, you'll gain practical skills to enhance your retail success. After this course, learners will be able to apply merchandising techniques, analyze consumer behavior, develop retail strategies, manage inventory effectively, design attractive store layouts, and implement real-world insights to enhance sales and drive business growth. Join us to learn the fundamentals of merchandising and start driving your business growth today! This course is for retail professionals, including Retail Managers, Merchandisers, Store Owners, Business Strategists, Marketing Professionals, and Inventory and Supply Chain Managers. It is ideal for those looking to enhance their understanding of merchandising strategies, improve store performance, and create compelling customer experiences. Participants should have a basic understanding of merchandising, retail management, business strategies, and marketing concepts. This course is ideal for those with prior experience in the retail industry, as it builds on foundational knowledge to explore advanced merchandising and strategic planning. By the end of this course, participants will be able to analyze the key concepts and benefits of advanced merchandising techniques, understanding their impact on retail success. They will also gain insights into the psychological principles that shape core consumer behaviors and influence purchasing decisions. Additionally, participants will learn to apply merchandising principles in designing effective retail strategies and store layouts, enabling them to create appealing shopping environments that enhance customer engagement and satisfaction.

Study the theory and practice of visual merchandising with Visual Merchandising Theory & Practice. The course contains short lessons and self-assessments that can help you quickly review visual merchandising basics for upcoming exams, homework, projects or professional purposes.

Great leadership doesn't happen by chance—it happens by design. This course helps you create and evolve a personalized leadership checklist that keeps you focused on what matters most. You'll learn the core components of an effective checklist, from daily practices to strategic responsibilities, and how to structure them for clarity and action. Through practical tools, case examples, and hands-on activities, you'll build a Version 1 of your leadership checklist, test it against real challenges, and refine it as your role evolves.

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Retail Management: Mastering Retail Business, Merchandising, Category Management, and Marketing Analytics What you'll learn: Master core retail principles, distinguish between retail formats, and curate the optimal product mix to meet target market needs.Leverage data analytics and CRM insights to predict shopper behavior, make informed decisions, and drive retail business success.Design innovative, technology-enhanced store experiences that seamlessly bridge the gap between offline and online retail channels.Develop effective marketing strategies, build strong brand narratives, optimize supply chain and inventory management for efficiency.Analyze successful retail innovators, assess market size, and implement strategies for sustainable and ethical retail practices.Understand financial acumen, manage working capital, and navigate the challenges and opportunities of global retail expansion.Explore the role of product managers in retail, optimize packaging design, and build strategic offline partnerships for growth.Stay ahead of current and emerging retail trends, preparing for the future of retail and charting a path forward in the industry. Title: Mastering Retail Management: Strategies for Success in the Dynamic World of Retail Course Description: Embark on a comprehensive journey through the ever-evolving landscape of retail management with our cutting-edge course, "Mastering Retail Management: Strategies for Success in the Dynamic World of Retail." This course is meticulously designed to equip aspiring retail professionals, entrepreneurs, and current retail managers with the essential knowledge, skills, and insights necessary to thrive in today's competitive retail environment. Topics Covered: 1. Understanding Retail Formats and Location Analysis2. Crafting the Optimal Product Mix and Assortment Planning3. Designing Immersive Store Layouts and Visual Merchandising Strategies4. Navigating the Digital Landscape: E-commerce and Omnichannel Retailing5. Data-Driven Decision Making: Analytics, CRM, and Shopper Insights6. Effective Inventory Management and Supply Chain Optimization7. Mastering Financial Acumen: Retail Economics and Working Capital Management8. Developing Targeted Marketing and Promotional Campaigns9. Leveraging Social Media Platforms for Retail Success10. Building Strategic Offline Partnerships and Collaborations11. Optimizing Packaging Design for Enhanced Customer Experience12. Navigating Sustainability and Ethical Practices in Retail13. Case Studies: Learning from Successful Retailers and Industry Leaders Throughout this immersive learning experience, you'll explore a wide range of topics crucial to effective retail management. Gain a deep understanding of various retail formats, from traditional brick-and-mortar stores to innovative pop-up shops and e-commerce platforms. Learn how to craft a winning product mix, curate engaging store designs, and create seamless omnichannel experiences that captivate and delight customers. Dive into the world of data-driven retailing and discover how to leverage advanced analytics, CRM systems, and market insights to make informed decisions, optimize inventory management, and predict shopper behavior. Explore the art of visual merchandising and learn proven strategies for designing immersive, customer-centric retail spaces that drive sales and build brand loyalty. This course also emphasizes the importance of effective marketing and promotional strategies in the retail context. Gain expertise in developing targeted campaigns, harnessing the power of social media platforms like Instagram, and crafting compelling brand narratives that resonate with your target audience. You'll also learn how to build strategic offline partnerships, collaborate with influencers, and optimize your packaging to enhance the customer experience and boost brand perception. Furthermore, we'll delve into the critical aspects of financial acumen and working capital management in retail. Understand key retail economics concepts, master strategies for optimizing asset and margin management, and learn how to maintain a positive working capital position. Through real-world case studies and practical exercises, you'll gain hands-on experience in analyzing financial data, making data-driven decisions, and developing effective financial strategies. Throughout the course, you'll have the opportunity to engage with industry experts, network with like-minded professionals, and gain valuable insights from real-world case studies of successful retailers. By the end of this transformative learning journey, you'll possess the comprehensive skill set and strategic mindset needed to excel in the dynamic world of retail management. Whether you're an aspiring retail professional looking to launch your career, an entrepreneur seeking to start your own retail venture, or a seasoned manager aiming to stay ahead of the curve, "Mastering Retail Management: Strategies for Success in the Dynamic World of Retail" is your gateway to unlocking your full potential in this exciting and rewarding industry. Join us today and embark on a path towards retail management mastery!

Mastering Inventory Accounting: From Merchandising Transactions to Cost Flow Assumptions What you'll learn: Understand and process various types of merchandising transactions, including the purchase and sale of inventory.Comprehend and apply knowledge of sales discounts, purchase discounts, sales returns, allowances, and inventory shrinkage.Calculate and interpret the cost of goods sold in different types of businesses.Differentiate between perpetual and periodic inventory systems and identify the pros and cons of each.Understand what is included in the cost of inventory, including freight costs, insurance costs, and discounts.Grasp inventory flow assumptions such as specific identification, first in first out (FIFO), last in first out (LIFO), and weighted average methods.Apply FIFO, LIFO, and weighted average methods under both periodic and perpetual inventory systems.Recognize the intricacies and challenges of inventory tracking.Prepare and interpret financial statements of a merchandising company.Solve comprehensive problems covering the full accounting cycle for a merchandising company, including recording financial transactions, adjusting entries, andImprove their test-taking skills and tackle multiple choice questions and short calculation questions related to inventory accounting. Dive deep into the world of inventory accounting with this comprehensive course focused on merchandising transactions and cost flow assumptions. This course is perfect for anyone seeking a thorough understanding of how to handle inventory costs, cost flows, and various related transactions.Starting with the essentials, we will examine the purchase and sale of inventory, including important associated topics like sales discounts, purchase discounts, sales return, and allowances. You will learn how to account for shrinkage and how to perform a cost of goods sold (COGS) calculation, both crucial aspects of inventory management.We will then broaden your knowledge of different inventory systems. By comparing and contrasting perpetual and periodic inventory systems, you will gain insights into the benefits and drawbacks of each. Understanding when to use which system in practice is a key skill this course aims to instill.Delving deeper, we'll explore inventory costs and cost flows. You'll discover what's included in the inventory cost and how to account for various inventory-associated costs, such as freight, insurance, and discounts. This knowledge will equip you to accurately represent inventory value in financial reporting.A critical part of this course is dedicated to inventory flow assumptions. Here, we study specific identification, first in first out (FIFO), last in first out (LIFO), and weighted average methods. These methods will be examined in the context of both perpetual and periodic inventory systems, giving you a comprehensive understanding of their application.The course employs a variety of engaging materials to aid learning:Downloadable PDF Files - These serve as handy offline references.Excel Practice Files - Preformatted files for honing your Excel skills and practicing adjustments.Multiple Choice Practice Questions - Perfect for enhancing test-taking abilities and understanding course material.Short Calculation Practice Questions - These focus on reducing complex problems to simpler calculations.Discussion Questions - Offering the chance to explore topics with your instructor and fellow students.Our instructor, a certified public accountant (CPA) and chartered global management accountant (CGMA) with a master's in taxation, brings a wealth of practical and teaching experience. Having dealt with a multitude of technical accounting issues and taught numerous accounting classes, he knows how to help students learn best. His experience in curriculum development ensures the course is logically structured, making complex topics and software accessible.By the end of this course, you'll have a robust understanding of merchandising transactions, inventory tracking methods, inventory costs, and much more. Our comprehensive problems provide practical application, simulating real-world accounting scenarios. This course is an invaluable resource for anyone keen to master inventory accounting.

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Business 203: Introduction to Retail Merchandising has been evaluated and recommended for 3 semester hours and may be transferred to over 2,000 colleges and universities. With this self-paced course, you get engaging lessons, expert instructors who make even the most challenging business topics simple, and an excellent resource for getting a head start on your degree.

The essentials of merchandise management, buying, range planning, product development and many more What you'll learn: Understand how the field of buying and merchandising worksObtain an all-round picture of the topic from a practical and industry perspectiveBecome familiar with concepts, jargon and acronymsDecide whether you want to pursue a career in buying and merchandisingBuild a solid foundation for more in-depth courses in the subject matterUnderstand basic metrics and how to set up spreadsheets for analysing data in retail merchandising Retail buying and merchandising is a very exciting field that looks at how retail enterprises go about planning the buying and selling of the right products, at the right place, right time, in the correct quantities, to the correct customer and at the correct price.However, it isn't an easy topic to get your head around and that's largely due to the fact that the subject matter is littered with specialised terminology, concepts, jargon, acronyms, etc. For individuals who are new to the field it can be quite daunting to understand what these concepts mean, let alone getting a full picture of how everything ties in together to realise the complex clockwork of the buying and merchandising cycle.This beginnercourse in retail buying and merchandising is quite special - special in the sense that it isn't your regular textbook or mishmash of explanations and it doesn't make assumptions on prior knowledge. This means that you'll be able to connect with the concepts regardless of your educational or professional background.Furthermore, the course decomposes the topic into a number of fundamental but interrelated perspectives that describe the subject matter in a logical way. These perspectives define the course structure and also allow the discussion of useful examples taking into account the real-life industry aspects.The course comprises of a range of audio-visual lectures with exercises towards the end of each relevant section to test your understanding of the topic.So, are you ready to go from newcomer to all-rounder in retail buying and merchandising? You've stopped at the right course that's going to fast track your learning in record time!

This course focuses on understanding why managers are crucial to team success and the positive impact they can have. It covers recognizing both effective and ineffective management behaviors and highlights the unique value managers bring to their teams.

Learn how to transition from individual contributor to Manager and Leader with confidence! What you'll learn: Welcome to your career in management. But most important…Welcome to leadership. Even for the most gifted individuals, the process of becoming a leader is a rigorous and many times an exhausting journey. The rewards, however, can be enormous. I surveyed a group of managers across many disciplines and asked the question, “As a new manager, what do you wish you learned early in your career?” What follows in this course, is a result of the responses, as well as my personal experience coaching and mentoring new managers. I will open this course by asking you to be patient with yourself. You do not develop leadership skills overnight. It takes practice, it takes trying new things, it takes making mistakes. Yes, sometimes you will fail. That is ok. It is ok to acknowledge when something doesn’t work, it is ok to celebrate and build on your successes. I have broken this course into individual modules. These are small bite sized modules that you can view either one after the other, or one at a time as you drink your morning coffee. Feel free to jump around and view the modules that are of the most importance to you. Take what works, challenge what doesn’t, try new things. I’m excited to join you in this journey. It’s time to think about success. Let’s Get Started. Welcome to your career in management. But most important…Welcome to leadership. Why did you make this big move? To grow personally and professionally? To make a difference? To lead others to realize their success? All of the above?All this, and more! Even for the most gifted individuals, the process of becoming a leader is a rigorous and many times an exhausting journey. The rewards, however, can be enormous. I surveyed a group of managers across many disciplines and asked the question, “As a new manager, what do you wish you learned early in your career?” What follows in this course, is a result of the responses, as well as my personal experience coaching and mentoring new managers. I will begin by asking you to be patient with yourself. You do not develop leadership skills overnight. It takes practice, it takes trying new things, it takes making mistakes. Yes, sometimes you will fail. That is ok. It is ok to acknowledge when something doesn’t work, it is ok to celebrate and build on your successes. I have broken this course into individual modules. These are small bite sized modules that you can view either one after the other, or one at a time as you drink your morning coffee. Feel free to jump around and view the modules that are of the most importance to you. Take what works, challenge what doesn’t, try new things.The Chapters include:Introduction to ManagementDeveloping Your Leadership StyleLeadership ResponsibilitiesLeadership CommunicationTeam DevelopmentYour Growth and DevelopmentManagers Toolkit I’m excited to join you in this journey. It’s time to think about success. Let’s Get Started.

Learn the skills you need as a middle manager, including how to build strong hybrid teams, onboard new employees, conduct performance reviews and give feedback, develop OKRs to drive business alignment, trust your teams to do their best work, build visibility online as a remote leader, and communicate across cultures virtually. After completing this learning path, advance your skills with Manage Remote and Hybrid Teams as a Senior Manager.Build strong hybrid/remote teams.Onboard new employees effectively.Create OKRs that drive alignment, autonomy, and accountability.Communicate across cultures virtually.

Discover what it means to lead at a distance. As a new manager, learn how to run effective virtual and hybrid meetings, build a virtual team culture, communicate across cultures, whether working virtually or in person, and drive engagement, productivity, and growth. After completing this learning path, advance your skills with Manage Remote and Hybrid Teams as a Middle Manager.Discover what it means to lead at a distance.Drive engagement, productivity, and growth remotely.Run effective virtual and hybrid meetings.Communicate across cultures virtually.

As a senior manager, you're leading distributed teams remotely, in an office setting or both. In this learning path, you’ll learn how to plan for and embrace this new reality, including how to run collaborative hybrid teams, communicate across cultures and create great employee experiences, coach your people, and drive results and resolve conflict.Plan for the work-from-anywhere organization.Build a high-performance work culture.Communicate across cultures virtually.Drive results and resolve conflict.

Explore the critical transition from engineering manager to manager of managers in this 23-minute conference talk that addresses the surprising lack of guidance available for this pivotal career step. Learn from practical insights gained during a year-long journey of scaling from managing one engineering team to overseeing five teams. Discover the key similarities and differences between managing individual contributors and managing other managers, while identifying which existing strengths to leverage and where new skills need development. Examine the biggest challenges faced during this transition alongside debunking common misconceptions about the role. Gain practical tips and templates for navigating information flow within organizations, influencing decisions effectively, and understanding the evolving nature of problems and their resolution at this leadership level. Whether considering this career path, currently in transition, or working alongside senior engineering leaders, acquire actionable strategies to make this professional evolution both smooth and successful while building confidence that complex leadership challenges are indeed "figurable."

Explore Azure Monitor System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Managed Instance in this 21-minute video tutorial. Learn about the differences between DIY SCOM and SCOM MI, customer responsibilities, Microsoft-managed aspects, connectivity options, management tooling, and supported agents. Discover supported management packs, resiliency and scaling features, enhanced agent log capture, and updating processes. Gain insights into pricing models and migration strategies from existing SCOM deployments. Dive into key topics such as connectivity, management tools, and the benefits of Microsoft-managed infrastructure to understand how SCOM MI can streamline your monitoring responsibilities while maintaining familiar SCOM functionality.

Always wanted to start making stickers of your art, but aren’t ready to commit to ordering hundreds at a time? Then let me show you how to make high-quality stickers at home that are ready to sell! Hello, I’m Taylor! As well as being a full-time artist and Skillshare top teacher, I also run a cat-themed stationery brand out of my home in Virginia. It’s grown from creating stickers of my work at home for fun to use in my planner to a full-fledged shop that sells hundreds of stickers to people all over the US. Being able to create stickers of my designs anytime I want has allowed me to test products on a smaller scale to see what my customers want before shelling out big money to have them manufactured in the hundreds, which has allowed me to grow my business in a more sustainable way. It's also super fun to be able to create a sticker of anything and everything! In this class, you'll learn how to: Choose what artwork will create the best stickers Prep your artwork for sticker making Use your Silhouette cutting machine Troubleshoot any technical issues that may come up Overall, this class is perfect for anyone who already owns a cutting machine but needs help getting into sticker making. Or anyone who is looking into making their own stickers at home, but would love to see the whole process before taking the plunge to purchase your own machine! Other than some high-quality sticker paper, all you need is some artwork, a Silhouette (or Cricut) machine, and access to a printer. I also have lots of other suggestions for fun things you can invest in to make your sticker-making process easier! By the end of this class, you’ll be able to create all kinds of stickers at home from your artwork anytime you’d like. More about me & my work at: www.taylorcarrollart.com Like the class? Leave a review and follow me for more! Taylor Carroll - Skillshare

Looking for an easy way to start making products? Stickers are a great way to dip your toes into product manufacturing. Everyone loves stickers! Whether it’s to hoard them or stick them everywhere, it’s a product that hits many different age groups and has a low selling cost for anyone on a budget. Let’s go over all the information you need to get started making stickers! Hello there, I’m Taylor! As well as being a full-time artist and Skillshare top teacher, I also run a cat-themed stationery brand out of my home in Virginia called The Stray Shop. I started the shop over two years ago with a handful of sticker designs and almost no money. I now have products in over 10+ retail locations across the US and have sold over 3,500+ stickers in the last year alone. It was our top revenue driver for over 6 months and allowed us to scale our business to what it is now. While it may seem limiting at first, creating artwork with the intention of turning it into a sticker has so many advantages. I have turned my sticker designs into everything from transfers for apparel and totes to bookmarks, earrings, and more to flesh out full-blown collections! Psst… I’ll touch more on this in the bonus lesson! In this class, you’ll learn how to: Come up with concepts that people want to buy Sketch your ideas and choose the best ones to turn into stickers Set up your files to produce the best quality at the right size Digitally illustrate your stickers for maximum cuteness and readability Create clean-cut lines two ways This class is great for any artist who wants to begin creating stickers to make extra income but is unsure where or how to start. All you will need is your creativity and a way to make digital illustrations! I will be using Adobe Fresco in this class but will provide Procreate tips along the way. Any digital art software will work perfectly. Let’s go draw some stickers! Want to see the stickers I’ve created for my own shop? Check them out here! Like the class? Please leave a review and follow me for more!