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Stakeholder Mapping with Kumu

Stakeholder Mapping with Kumu

This free data science course explains how to make beautiful relationship maps with Kumu and how visualisation tools can help organisations map stakeholders.

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Standup Comedy Complete: Humorous Public Speaking, & Becoming Funnier

Standup Comedy Complete: Humorous Public Speaking, & Becoming Funnier

Learn how to be funny in public in this course that provides tricks and techniques to help you develop your own stage routine to become a professional comic.

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Start Your Business NOW— and Integrate Sustainability

Start Your Business NOW— and Integrate Sustainability

Learn about the crucial marketing and financial strategies, and entrepreneurial skills required to successfully launch a sustainable and profitable business.

Certificate Free 6 hours
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Start a Side Hustle

Start a Side Hustle

Seeking extra income? Take our free online course to learn everything you need to know to start a side hustle and earn extra money.

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Starting a Business in Retirement

Starting a Business in Retirement

Learn how to start, plan, market, and sustain a retirement business that fits your lifestyle, builds income, and supports purpose and balance.

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Starting a Business or Social Enterprise - The Stone Soup Way

Starting a Business or Social Enterprise - The Stone Soup Way

Stone Soup - The Secret Recipe for Making Something from Nothing - start a business using 26 ingredients & knowing what makes a socially minded entrepreneur.

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Startup Failure Prevention for First Time Founders

Startup Failure Prevention for First Time Founders

Prevent startup failure by validating demand, protecting runway, clarifying founder roles, focusing execution, and scaling from evidence.

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Stata Level 1: Fundamentals of Data Analysis

Stata Level 1: Fundamentals of Data Analysis

This free online course will equip you with the skills needed to create, manipulate and join variables using Stata for data analysis purposes.

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Stay Healthy at the Workplace

Stay Healthy at the Workplace

Enhance your work performance and well-being with healthy habits covering physical, mental health and social wellness practices.

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Steam Production and Boilers

Steam Production and Boilers

Steam production and boilers will teach you about all the processes, chemicals, equipment, and operations involved in the production of steam.

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The Acting Series with Emma Paunil

The Acting Series with Emma Paunil

Explore acting with an industry insider as we show you how to get started and provide proven tips and tricks to beat the odds in this free online drama course.

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The American Revolution and Its Legacy: From Rebellion to Governance

The American Revolution and Its Legacy: From Rebellion to Governance

Discover everything needed to understand the history and ideologies of the American Revolution.

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The Art and Practice of Mindful Listening

The Art and Practice of Mindful Listening

This free online course discusses core principles of mindful listening to enhance your communication skills and build meaningful connections and relationships.

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The Art of Persuasion

The Art of Persuasion

Learn how to successfully persuade, influence and negotiate with people to reach your desired goal and how to conquer stage fright in this communications course

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The Art of Tattooing: Dotwork

The Art of Tattooing: Dotwork

Learn how to design and apply dotwork tattoos in this body art course that provides the technical and creative skills you need to work as a tattoo artist.

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The Basics of Business Budgeting

The Basics of Business Budgeting

This finance course explains how to draw up a business plan and use budgeting and analysis to make smart decisions, enhance performance and attract investors.

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The Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Guide

The Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Guide

This course is dedicated to developing your skills in business process reengineering. Study its techniques and strategies and lead organizational change.

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The Complete Guide to Feeding Dogs Raw Food

The Complete Guide to Feeding Dogs Raw Food

Learn how to improve your dogs’ health with the balanced raw food diets provided in this animal care course that covers nutrition, treats, safety and more.

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The Gothic Novel Parody

The Gothic Novel Parody

In this course, you will learn how Jane Austen satirizes Gothic Parody due to a huge obsession with gothic novels in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Certificate Free 10 hours
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The Great Irish Famine: History, Diaspora, and Global Legacy

The Great Irish Famine: History, Diaspora, and Global Legacy

Learn the history of the Great Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) in this free course. Explore 19th-century context, ancestral research records, and the Irish diaspora

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The History of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain

The History of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain

Learn about the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain in the eighteenth century - the inventions, developments, and their contributors.

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The Process of Becoming a British Citizen

The Process of Becoming a British Citizen

This UK citizenship course teaches about the several categories of British citizenship. It examines UK nationality, immigration, and law.

Certificate Free 6 hours
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The Process of Organizational Development

The Process of Organizational Development

This management training course explains how to implement enterprise planning and strategic organizational development to improve your company’s performance.

Certificate Free 4 hours
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The Psychology of Art and Colors

The Psychology of Art and Colors

Explore color theory and the universal symbolic language of colors in this psychology course that explains how colors affect our thoughts and feelings.

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