NEW COURSES

Learn English for Rio 2016
The Olympic Games is coming to Rio in 2016, with tens of thousands of tourists descending on the city. Many of these will be English speaking or may use English to communicate if they don't speak Portuguese. This course will introduce you to the key words and phrases required for working in tourist information offices, including how to provide directions, conduct guided tours and explain a tour itinerary.

https://alison.com/courses/caregiving-skills-for-the-elderly-and-disabled?utm_campaign=471_mlr_february&utm_source=outbound+marketing&utm_medium=email

Introduction to Strategic Management
Learn about strategic management and how to develop and implement major goals and initiatives in your business with ALISON’s latest free online course, Introduction to Strategic Management. This course explores mission statements, outlining what they can achieve for a business, and examines how strategic plans can help determine long-term decisions and courses of action.
Introduction to Strategic Management explains the difference between operating decisions and strategic decisions and what a strategic management decision process involves. It will be of huge interest to management professionals involved in making strategic decisions and those who would like to learn more about the role of strategic management in business.

E-Commerce Web Strategy Organizations must learn strategies to attract and retain online customers, and must tailor their websites to adapt to their customers' needs. This free online course introduces learners to various strategies to attract and retain customers, the different types of attractors and the attractiveness factors associated with these attractors. Read More

Applied Psychology - Matching Marketing Strategies to Consumer Personalities This free online course will be of great interest to all marketing professionals who would like to learn more about consumer personality. Understanding this aspect of consumer behavior will help marketers design more effective and efficient marketing strategies.

Sociology Studies - Social Inequality Delve deeper into sociology with ALISON’s latest course, which focuses on inequalities in society and their causes. The free course Sociology Studies - Social Inequality examines open and closed stratification systems, including caste and class systems, along with the idea of an ideal system based on merit. You will explore race, ethnicity and minorities, the prejudices and discrimination that occur and why they persist in a society. This course looks at gender, gender identity and gender roles and why these are commonly associated with inequality. You will learn about inequalities in education and how prejudices often persist at an institutional level. This free course will be of great interest to anyone with an interest in areas as diverse as medicine, politics, law, urban organization and marketing, and anybody who would like to know more about inequalities within a society. Study Now

ALISON Blogs You Might Have Missed

Why You Didn’t Get the Job Keep getting called for a job interview, but keep getting turned down for the job? Find out what you’re doing wrong with ALISON’s Top 5 Biggest Interview Mistakes. Avoid these common oversights and you could be looking at a new career! Read More

'ALISON Has Given Me Hope for the Future’ – Rebuilding Life After Jail Following a conviction for a drug offence in 2005, 50-year-old ALISON Learner Diane Davidson from California, USA has been struggling to find employment. Since taking up online learning online, however, her confidence in her future has been renewed.

Elderly Care and Caring for the Disabled

The need for home health aides is on the rise, with demand expected to almost double between 2012 and 2022. This new caregiving course from ALISON will give you the caregiving skills you need to provide effective care to any elderly or disabled people in your care. It examines the aging process, while also exploring spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries.

Diploma in Strategic Management

ALISON's Diploma in Strategic Management will show you how to craft a mission statement to focus your organization's efforts. It will show you how to come up with and execute a strategic plan, and how to evaluate that plan. It will also introduce you to the tools and techniques that are used as part of the corporate strategy process.