This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills required for effective public communication. We will examine the key roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards in public communication and describe the ways in which board members can earn and maintain public trust. We will also discuss best practices for creating a communications plan and describe various channels for communication. Finally, we will identify strategies for reaching a diverse audience and explore best practices for handling crisis communications.

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This course, aimed at nonprofit board members, is designed to help them apply basic strategic-planning skills to their nonprofit organizations. Self-paced and highly interactive, the course covers the six stages of the formal strategic planning process — Preparation; Mission and Vision; Strategic Assessment; Strategy Formulation; Implementation; and Evaluation — as well as approaches for rapidly developing strategies for situations not anticipated by the strategic plan. It includes three case studies that allow learners to apply what they have learned to real-world situations and it allows learners to download materials that they can use to develop strategies for their own organizations.

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This course, aimed at nonprofit executive directors, leaders, and aspiring leaders, is designed to help them apply basic strategic-planning skills to their nonprofit organizations. In this course, leaders will learn the difference between long-term planning and real-time strategy, and why their nonprofit needs to practice both. They will become familiar with the different types of strategic assessments, including SWOT analysis, and learn how to ask the Big Questions that will guide their strategic planning efforts. They will figure out the differences between strategic goals, SMART objectives, and organizational tactics. And they will come to understand the different roles that leaders and board members play in the strategic planning process.

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This completely online and self-paced program provides comprehensive preparation for the Online Marketing Certified Associate (OMCA™) certification exam. It includes a voucher for the OMCA™ online exam (retail value 225) and a code for two practice exams.

The requirements for OMCA™ certification include:

A passing score on the OMCA™ exam

A secondary degree or equivalent (e.g., High School diploma or GED)

Either successfully completing this MindEdge Test Prep Bundle or 600 hours of experience

Developed by OMCP, an industry association, the OMCA™ certification is a worldwide standard for digital marketing that verifies the skills, education, and experience necessary to drive digital marketing initiatives. More than 900 universities and training institutes teach to OMCA standards worldwide. Thousands of leading companies prefer to hire professionals with OMCA and OMCP credentials.

MindEdge is an OMCP Registered Education Provider.

Courses in this program cover the strategic issues, marketing methods and tactics, industry terminology, and best practices. Each course offers examples, videos from industry-leading practitioners, interactive games, and review questions to ensure mastery of the material.

We recommend beginning with Digital Marketing Strategy first, and then other courses can be taken in any order. Upon successful completion, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion, and redeem your voucher for the OMCA™ online exam.

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This online course focuses on those critical thinking, decision-making, and cognitive skills vital to effective project management. To be effective, project practitioners need to do more than just apply tools and techniques. They need to think critically about their projects and make good decisions that will put themselves - and their teammates - in positions to succeed.

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This online course focuses on how project managers can resolve conflicts in a project setting. Any time you convene a group of people to work together as closely as project teams do, conflicts are bound to happen. Project team members will likely have different views, personalities, and work styles that may clash as project objectives and goals are pursued.

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In this simulation, you'll act as a project consultant helping a small company quickly assimilate new employees into their operations. The simulation, designed for adult learners with some organizational relationship experience, will ask you to make decisions as you confront common interpersonal problems. Each decision you make will include tradeoffs that will increase satisfaction in some areas but may hinder others—your job will be to select the option that best benefits the organization.

As you make your choices, an adaptive scoreboard will reflect the impact of those choices on organizational success. Your goal will be to optimize your score across six organizational factors—change management, communication, conflict management, critical thinking/decision making, leadership, and team development—and use the results of your actions to inform subsequent simulation decisions.

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As a project leader, one of your main responsibilities will be to not only collect project data but to also analyze that data to uncover any patterns and trends in project outputs. You will then have to mesh those data analysis skills with creative problem-solving techniques to keep your project on pace and aligned to meet its goals. This self-paced, fully online course will help you develop the expertise you'll need to assess information, define problems, and uncover their root causes. You'll learn how to develop and implement solutions in ways that will resolve issues without creating new risks. And you'll begin to recognize the key role that analysis plays in your decision-making and problem-solving approaches, so you can efficiently guide projects to their successful conclusion.

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