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This free course aims to provide healthcare line managers and department heads with an introduction to managing occupational health and safety. The full course consists of six modules and is suitable for all healthcare settings. <br /><br /> This module, <b>Module 5</b>, introduces you to <b>Physical Hazards in Healthcare</b>. It can be studied as a stand alone module or as part of the full course. <br /><br /> <b>Module 5</b> is split into six topics: <ul style="font-size: 0.9em;"> <li>Topic 1: Slips, Trips And Falls, </li> <li>Topic 2: Slips, Trips and Falls Risk Assessment, </li> <li>Topic 3: Implementing Control Measures, </li> <li>Topic 4: Manual Handling and Patient Handling, </li> <li>Topic 5: Manual Handling Risk Assessment, and </li> <li>Topic 6: Manual Handling Implementing Control Measures. </li> </ul> <br /> Please note that the module is intended as an overview and may need to be supplemented by more specific training and / or specialised advice.<br />

This free course aims to provide healthcare line managers and department heads with an introduction to managing occupational health and safety. The full course consists of six modules and is suitable for all healthcare settings. <br /><br /> This module, <b>Module 6</b>, introduces you to <b>Psychosocial Hazards in Healthcare</b>. It can be studied as a stand alone module or as part of the full course. <br /><br /> <b>Module 6</b> is split into three topics: <ul style="font-size: 0.9em;"> <li>Topic 1: Violence and Aggression, </li> <li>Topic 2: Risk Assessment, and </li> <li>Topic 3: Implementing Control Measures. <br /><br /></li> </ul> Please note that the module is intended as an overview and may need to be supplemented by more specific training and / or specialised advice.<br />

This free course aims to provide healthcare line managers and department heads with an introduction to managing occupational health and safety. The full course consists of six modules and is suitable for all healthcare settings. <br /><br /> This module, <b> Module 2</b> , introduces you to <b> Safety Management in Healthcare</b> . It can be studied as a stand alone module or as part of the full course. <br /><br /> <b> Module 2</b> is split into five topics: <ul style="font-size: 0.9em;"> <li>Topic 1: Safety Statement,</li> <li>Topic 2: Safe Systems Of Work,</li> <li>Topic 3: Safety Consultation,</li> <li>Topic 4: Information, Instruction, Training And Supervision, and </li> <li>Topic 5: Investigation Of Accidents And Incidents. </li> </ul> <br /><br /> Please note that the module is intended as an overview and may need to be supplemented by more specific training and / or specialised advice.<br />

In this business and management course, we will analyze contemporary issues in the management of human capital in the hotel and tourism industry, within both macro- and micro-perspectives.

You will learn how organizational culture impacts human capital, how to effectively staff your team, leadership skills and how to manage employee motivation. We will also discuss how different cultures approach human resource management (HRM).

Note that this course is priced at USD $150.

With identity as the new perimeter in today’s security landscape, it’s important to keep up on the latest ways to manage it. Identity—which defines what protocols you’re allowed to use, who you’re allowed to interact with, and what you’re allowed to do—has evolved significantly in the last few years.

In this security course, go beyond the firewall and ports, and learn practical steps and prescriptive guidance on identity management, based on proven, real-world experience from Microsoft Incident Response teams.

Start with a conceptual look at identity, explore Active Directory best practices, find out how to secure Azure Active Directory, and then get hands-on with a combination of videos, text, and hosted labs.

You will create a protective bastion host for an existing domain, configure Privilege Access Management (PAM) and Just in Time Administration (JIT), install JRE, and set up Microsoft Identity Manager. With successful course completion, you will understand the hows and whys of improving the security posture of your environment, and get started implementing and managing identity as part of your cybersecurity defense plan.

This course discusses the basics every manager needs to organize successful technology-driven innovation in both entrepreneurial and established firms. We start by examining innovation-based strategies as a source of competitive advantage and then examine how to build organizations that excel at identifying, building and commercializing technological innovations. Major topics include how the innovation process works; creating an organizational environment that rewards innovation and entrepreneurship; designing appropriate innovation processes (e.g. stage-gate, portfolio management); organizing to take advantage of internal and external sources of innovation; and structuring entrepreneurial and established organizations for effective innovation. The course examines how entrepreneurs can shape their firms so that they continuously build and commercialize valuable innovations. Many of the examples also focus on how established firms can become more entrepreneurial in their approach to innovation.

Important emerging trends in innovation are identified, and their implications for innovation management are explored. Major topics to be discussed include the trend to open information ("open source") rather than protected intellectual property; the distribution of innovation over many independent but collaborating actors; and toolkits that empower users to innovate for themselves.

Marketing within the hotel and tourism industry presents unique challenges, as marketers are tasked with selling services and memories rather than goods. In this hospitality management course, you will learn how to apply marketing knowledge and skills to the hotel and tourism industry. You will learn best practices for building customer loyalty and creating a strong brand and learn how to efficiently communicate to stakeholders through integrated marketing communications. You will also learn about the importance of marketing to both previous and new customers.

Students’ learning experience will be enhanced through the use of creative approaches to solve marketing problems in hotel and tourism settings.

Note that this course is priced at USD $150.

In this computer science course, you will learn how to set up and use Exchange Online, a hosted messaging application within Microsoft Office 365 that provides organizations with access to the full-featured version of Exchange Server. You will learn how to run your messaging system in Office 365. We will cover the various types of email recipients that are available and how to manage the email domains for them. We will guide you through the email protection capabilities of Office 365 and will show you how to manage the clients and mobile devices accessing their email in Office 365. You will learn about the archiving and security features in Exchange Online. Finally, you will learn how to move your existing messaging system to Office 365.

Windows Server administrators must be able to implement Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). AD DS is the foundation for centralized management of an organization’s users and resources.

Through videos, discussions, hands-on labs and assessments, you will put in place a secure and scalable AD DS infrastructure for Windows Server users and resources.

Gain the skills to manage your personal finances: managing budgets, debts, investments, property purchase, pensions and insurance.

An examination of current economic and policy issues in the electric power industry, focusing on nuclear power and its fuel cycle. Introduces techniques for analyzing private and public policy alternatives, including discounted cash flow methods and other techniques in engineering economics. Application to specific problem areas, including nuclear waste management and weapons proliferation. Other topics include deregulation and restructuring in the electric power industry.

In this business and management course, you will learn how to achieve organizational success through positive and growth focused employee management.

You will learn current strategies for managing people in a complex, volatile global context. Starting with the basics of achieving optimal team success and the importance of managing both task and process. You will also focus on the characteristics found among high performing teams, as well as characteristics needed for success in exceptional genius/virtuoso, virtual and multicultural teams. You will also examine how to shape others’ behaviors in a global environment via basics of operant conditioning, the “3 Rs” and reward design.

Additionally, the course explores the concept of culture as applied to organizational and location-based perspectives. You will examine personal experiences of workplace change, concepts and strategies for overcoming resistance and managing change. Relating in a multicultural environment, you will also explore strategies for balancing generosity and productivity, as well as how to avert, evaluate and overcome conflict among employees.

People are much more than a source of labour; we are complex and are all different from each other.

Learn to manage project risk by identifying, analyzing, and communicating inevitable changes to project scope and objectives

Do you have a portfolio of projects to manage? Are you trying to optimize resource capacity planning across projects? Do you wish to drive alignment of your project portfolio with the business strategy?

In this management course, you will learn industry standard best practices for project and portfolio management, using Microsoft PPM, a cloud-delivered solution. With over 20 million users, Microsoft PPM has become the go to solution for Portfolio Managers, PMOs (Project Management Office), Project Managers, Resource Managers and Project Team Members This course offers relevant capabilities for a diverse audience. You will learn how to align project portfolio investments with a business strategy, how to gain visibility into a project’s portfolio, how to perform deep scheduling, address issues and risk management and understand project financials and reporting through the web experience and cloud-delivered desktop client.

By the end of this course, you will know how to perform optimal resource capacity planning and tracking, how to take advantage of the built-in Microsoft Office 365 collaboration capabilities and how to set up and customize solutions to meet your business needs.

Want to master project management? Have a project to manage but unsure where to begin?

With over 20 million users, Microsoft Project is the go to app for project managers. In this project management course, you will learn industry standard best practices for project management using Microsoft Project, the cloud-delivered desktop client. You will learn how to do deep scheduling, resource capacity planning, progress tracking and status reporting.

No previous project management knowledge needed. Join us as you start your journey as a project manager.

Work on your competence to solve tasks and problems related to sustainability, responsibility and ethics. Translate this competence to management practices in your area of expertise and learn to navigate the complexities, struggles and paradoxes that can occur when changing practices at multiple levels from individuals to organizations and systems.

School principals, managers and teachers should know about health and safety when engaged in work or as future members of the workforce. This short course introduces the management of school safety and health. Health and safety in the workplace or school is the responsibility of everyone - managers, teachers, employees, and the students. This free online course covers, in a general way, various health and safety regulations. <br />

When a database is in use by an application, it needs to be built to withstand simultaneous use, or multiple actions that all need to be certain to happen together. In this computer science course, you'll learn about techniques to add this functionality to your database. You'll learn about transactions, isolation levels, and locking.

This course is part of the Microsoft SQL Database Development XSeries.