Course catalogue

Across the world, there has been a movement from traditional to modern eating, including a movement of traditional eating patterns from their origin culture to new cultures, and the emergence of new foods and eating behaviors. In this course Dr Sheth explores how consumption habits of people changes with regards to food and how one can understand their consumers better by studying these aspects.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:​

-Describe the symbiotic relation between people’s genes and diet.​

-Explain the impact of modernization on this relation, and​

-Map the various climatic zones as per the nature of people’s diet in those regions.

Social activism has long been used as a means of bringing about social issues to light while working toward the reform of institutions, behaviors, relations, and expectations in society. Common social movements for activists include racial equality, gender equality, immigration reform, human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and religious freedom. ESG on the other hand, refers to a broad set of considerations that could impact a company’s performance and its ability to execute its business strategy and create long-term value. Socially conscious stakeholders use ESG to measure the sustainability and societal impact of a company and its business activities. While ESG factors can affect a company’s bottom line directly, they can also affect a company’s reputation, and investors and business leaders are increasingly applying these non-financial factors in their analysis to identify the material risks and growth opportunities of a company.

In this course, you will:

- Gain an understanding of Social Activism and its types

- Go through case studies of socially active businesses

- Learn how social causes can be advanced through ESG Investing

- Understand the impact of recent examples of social activism on organizations

Mental wellness at the workplace has emotional, psychosocial and safety aspects and its implementation benefits employees as well as the organization.

This training is meant for:

• Anyone

Leadership is a crucial aspect of any workplace, as it involves guiding and motivating individuals and teams toward achieving organizational goals. Applying leadership techniques in the workplace involves utilizing various strategies and skills to inspire and influence employees to work effectively and efficiently. Leadership techniques include communication skills, goal setting, conflict resolution, delegation, motivation, and performance management. Effective leadership can increase employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention and improve organizational performance.

This training is meant for:

• Anyone

The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

 -Patrick Lencioni 

An important part of planning a successful meeting is deciding who should attend the meeting. In the previous course, we have learned that less is more. Invite only those persons who are necessary to achieve the vision and are committed to getting the work completed. Similarly, it is equally important to define and assign specific roles and responsibilities to the team members attending the meeting. This is a critical part of pre-planning. Careful planning ahead of time will result in less resentment, less time wasted, better decisions, and greater ownership of the process by each member of the team.

• State the different roles played in a meeting 

• Determine the roles and responsibilities of a meeting leader

Social scientists have studied and designed leadership theories for decades to understand and explain how great leaders are made. They have compiled lists of leadership traits and constructed frameworks and models to illustrate the leadership phenomenon. And while these theories are detailed, thoroughly researched, and insightful, none provide “the” singular leadership model that works for every high-level manager aspiring to lead their team effectively and successfully.

What they do provide is an abundant source of leadership data that can be used to create your own flexible brand of leadership. Leaders face a wide range of tasks, responsibilities, and challenges—both anticipated and unexpected—every day.

Assembling a toolkit of leadership options that can address them is something smart leaders do. Let’s study the specifics of some core leadership theories and how you might use them in different business scenarios.

• Identify the Traits and Contingency theories

• Describe the Behavioral theory

• Explain the Transformational Leadership theory

Managers are often called to present to the groups of customers, cross-departmental teams, or in-house decision-makers. The process of crafting and delivering a presentation requires organizational skills, insight, technical abilities, and courage. Public speaking can be intimidating. But, by taking the time to methodically plan and execute the necessary details, you can be prepared and confident to deliver an effective presentation. This course will walk you through the steps you’ll need to plan and organize your topic, choose visual aids, consider technology tools, and practice delivering your speech. 

• Research, decide, and plan your presentation  

• Create a presentation with additional aid   

• Practice and make the presentation

Legal contracting in supply chain is used when an organization's needs exceed their capacity and they need to outsource a certain task. For example, a company may have a complex demand forecast system that has traditionally been completed by an expert on staff, but due to lack of resources or time, they instead subcontract this work to a specialist. This is a form of legal contracting in supply chain because it involves the exchange of goods, services, or money at an agreed-upon price and within a certain time frame. Legal contracts are used throughout the four major areas of supply chain: supplier relationship management, customer relationship management, transportation and logistics management, and procurement and operations management.

Brand loyalty means that consumers have a special interest in a particular brand, so when they continue to purchase such products, they only recognize the brand, thus giving up the attempt of other brands. Brands can exceed the product life cycle and are an intangible asset. In this course Dr. Jagdish Sheth provides an explains how institutions can play a major role in developing brand loyalty in their people.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:​

-List the four sub-categories of institutional theory,​

-Understand religion is a very powerful socializer of brands, and​

-Understand that government policy is the biggest mechanism for creating brand loyalty.​

Sterilization is a process by which microorganisms present on instruments and devices are destroyed to prevent transmission of disease on that instrument. Items that must be sterilized are those that have contact with body tissues or bodily fluids and have the potential to transmit disease to a second patient. Health organizations must sterilize instruments and devices prior to patient use. This course is intended for medical professionals who interact with patients and provide immediate sterilization of instruments and devices.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Understand the cycle of sterilization

• Name best practices in sterilizing instruments and devices

• Understand the difference between high-level and low-level sterilization

With the changing times traditional concepts are fading and newer concepts are emerging. this will have a major impact in the demographics of the consumers. In this course Dr. Jagdish Sheth explains why it is important to understand the modern ideas in order to understand your consumers and discusses the consumption behavior with regards to the way kitchen is redesigned. 

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Interpret the role of kitchen as the family nerve center.​

Explain how convenience has turned into a necessity.​

Explain the growth of virtual communities and how friendship has replaced kinship.​

Agile leadership endorses leaders who become the change rather than just being change evangelists. There are two key leadership competencies in agile leadership: walking the talk, and leading by example. Both of these are critical and crucial for leaders today as they are expected to communicate, commit, and collaborate. Good communication leads to self-discovery for both leader and the team which further leads to development of the individual, reflection, and learning. To draw out commitment from the team, the leader engages, inspires, and involves the team. To ensure that the team collaborates, a leader must empower, reward, recognize, and allow the team to come up with fresh ideas on which they could work together. Agile leadership works best when leaders are able to bring in fresh thinking and keep their brains fit.

This training is meant for:

● HR Leaders

● Business Leaders

● Change Leaders

● Business Transformation Leaders

In this course, you will:

● Understand the neuroscience of agile leadership

● You’ll recognize the elements of agile leadership

● And you’ll learn tips on keeping your brain fit to become an agile leader

Executive presence isn’t something you’re born with, it’s a combination of learned behaviors and characteristics that can be developed. Depending upon your personality, industry, business goals and challenges, executive presence can be manifested in different ways. 

Having great presentation skills and making a strong first impression based on your clothing and demeanor is not executive presence. You need more substantive abilities to face daily business challenges, speak your mind while maintaining your composure, or inspire your team to commit to a demanding new goal. Executive presence is a purposefully developed hybrid of internal character and external presentation. Let’s look at the qualities that distinguish great leaders from mediocre ones.

• Identify the attributes of executive presence

• Gauge your executive presence and gain insight

• Receive feedback in different forms

• Develop your own executive presence

Intergenerational conflict refers to the collective tension, strain, and antagonism between older and younger generations due to difference in ideologies and way of living. In this course Dr. Jagdish Sheth discusses the conflicts that arise due to the differing values and inherited wealth.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explain how multiple generations result in intergenerational conflicts.​

Interpret how NGOs are playing an important part in caregiving, and​

Explain the concepts of robot-assisted living and telematics.​

People generally do business with people they like or look up to, and not just with a company. This means that successful leaders build their personal brand, resulting in the achievement of organizational goals. A personal brand can elevate you above the crowd and help you achieve your personal and professional goals. It is a constant and ever-changing process of identifying your goals, setting up a plan, and monitoring it consistently. Your brand is a combination of the skills you develop and the behavior you display. In this course, you will look at the traits of building a successful personal brand.

• Define personal brand

• Enlist strategy to build a personal brand

• State the steps to build a successful personal brand

Modernization is the transformation from a traditional, rural, agrarian society to a secular, urban, industrial society. With newer generations exploring these phenomena further there has been many changes in the way people live as compared to the traditional ways. in this course Dr. Jagdish Sheth discusses the way of life of people in the cities and their consumtion behaviors.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Discover how rising number of families are now living as roommates, with a decreasing amount of discretionary time to spend together, and ​

Explain how rise of roommate family will bring about social, political and economic changes to the society​.

In you work or personal life, it has been difficult not to have heard of cloud computing and more particularly AWS (Amazon Web Services). Understanding the basics of cloud computing and how it could help you transform your operations and grow your business has become vital in today’s world. The way you handle your IT services impacts every aspect of your business operations, from how much it costs you financially to how fast you can innovate. With the proper knowledge and resources, you can successfully navigate the complex world of cloud computing and stay on top of the technological curve and beat your competitors.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Have a good comprehension of what Cloud Computing and AWS is

• Understand how your company could benefit from using AWS

• Know what to look out for when switching to a Cloud Service Provider