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A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a High-Performing Team In sports, at work or on the job, high-performing teams always come out ahead! This is why organizations spend billions of dollars yearly on efforts to cultivate and sustain them. Building a successful team does not have to be so expensive. Certain attributes are common to all teams that continuously excel. If you know these attributes, understand how to cultivate them, and have the discipline to  more...

A Step-by-Step Guide to Conflict Resolution Have you heard employees use the words a bullya , a victima , a paina , or a sadista to describe coworkers? These common labels indicate the potential for or presence of conflict in the workplace. Although conflict occurs in every organization, if not properly managed, it has the potential to destroy relationships, increase absenteeism, create health problems, and lead to waste of time,  more...

Leadership and Management for Entrepreneurs The online course, Leadership and Management for Entrepreneurs, discusses the challenges entrepreneurs face as they develop and establish successful new ventures. This course explores the key management roles of staffing, controlling and leading, organizing, planning, and their application in entrepreneurial settings. Additionally, this course addresses self-management for the entrepreneur, how a  more...

Project Management Team Leadership In today's organizations the vast majority of project work is done in a team environment. In this setting, leaders in the project management arena have a great degree of responsibility and opportunity to create and exhibit leadership abilities. The online course, Project Management Team Leadership, first covers the roles and responsibilities of the team leader, particularly their responsibility  more...

Facilitating On-site and Virtual Teams Knowing how to facilitate maturing on-site and virtual teams is critical, because it is at this time that teams typically reach peak performance. Mature teams begin to perform independently, and it's important that the leader's role changes to that of a facilitator. This course will cover the facilitation of on-site and virtual teams as teams mature. It will introduce the development stages of  more...

Project Management Fundamentals The evolution of business strategies has increased the importance of management having a thorough understanding of the products they produce. More and more employees are getting promoted from within to become project managers as they fully understand what they are trying to produce and how best to meet the quality and quantity requirements set forth by upper management. Project management, as a  more...

Advanced Project Leadership Organization Strategy and Business Needs Advanced Project Leadership: Organization, Strategy and Business Needs teaches project managers how to be successful managing high profile projects in large corporations by learning how to navigate different organization types, and what role project management plays in the different organization types. You will acquire the skills necessary to determine company strategy and the process to use that  more...

Cultivating Great Teams Create an Invincible Team This course enables participants to assess the individuals who make up the team and discusses methods to enhance the entire team performance. All levels of professionals who supervise the performance of other staff members.  more...

Continuous Performance Assessment This course shows you how to make performance appraisal a continuous process. The first stage of continuous performance assessment is planning. Appraisal must be linked to performance goals that matter, and these goals need to encompass both the organization and the individual before a performance plan can be agreed on by appraiser and appraisee. Even with conventional roles and relationships this  more...

Effective Mentoring Perhaps your organization has asked you to help induct a new employee. Maybe a junior colleague has approached you for guidance. Or perhaps you want to "fast track" a rising star into a particular leadership position. Whatever the case, before you sign on as a mentor you'll want to learn all you can about the process, from how mentoring benefits you and your career to how you can best assist your  more...

The Mentoring Manager Looking for ways to enhance your managing skills? In this course, you'll acquire expertise as a mentor that will benefit your employees, your organization, and your own career. You'll examine how mentoring differs from managing, and you'll brush up on essential communication skills. Finally, you'll learn to use mentoring to improve on team organization, dynamics, and performance. Managers,  more...

Developing as a Manager The Many Roles of a Manager This course introduces the multi-faceted role of an effective manager. A series of self evaluation exercises assist the participant to create a personal development plan to enhance their current managerial skill set. All levels of professionals who supervise the performance of other staff members.  more...

Models for Managing Technical Professionals Because technical professionals set a high value on autonomy, managing their time and resources can be a difficult task. But, since it's your job to supervise this often-frustrating yet extremely valuable group of employees, you need to figure out the best way to do it. And this "best way" may vary from company to company and from individual to individual. In this course you'll learn a variety of  more...

Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals Why should you be interested in career development for the technical professionals you supervise? Because it's good for them, good for your company, and good for you. One of your major challenges as a manager of technical people is retaining them. And you may also need to recruit technical people to fill higher-level positions in your company. This course will help you use career development as a  more...

Leadership Development for Technical Professionals Managers must direct the activities of workers to address tactical or short-term issues while still maintaining a vision of the strategic or long-term goal. Therefore, the skills needed for an effective leader are varied and complex. For you, the technical professional, this means evaluating your current leadership skills. It also includes the development of more refined managerial skills such as  more...

Lead and Communicate Effectively as a New Manager Employees want decisive leadership from their managers. Organizations, too, need their managers to be clear about their objectives, and how their teams can achieve them. As a new manager, it is important that you understand that leadership is about giving direction, but it is also crucial that you realize that it also involves trusting and empowering your staff. You will undoubtedly have been very  more...

Leadership in Management Simulation Specializing in the film and television industries, Limelight Connections is a web-based, career-search company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As part of the marketing team, you have been with Limelight for just under two years. Your dedication, industry knowledge and hard work have paid off, recently earning you a promotion to manager of the department. But with the new title comes new  more...

Coaching for Business Coaching is a vital component of any business that aims to be a winner in the new economy. However, unless coaches are clear in their own minds exactly what their function is, and why they are performing a coaching role, they may do more harm than good. Therefore, it is important to understand how coaching originated as a business tool, and the ways it impacted traditional managerial attitudes and  more...

Successful Coaching Relationships Coaching is a set of practical skills and a style of relating that develop the potential of both the individual being coached and the coach. For this development to take place, there must be a working relationship between a coach and a willing coachee, a relationship based on mutual trust, respect, commitment and confidentiality. Within this collaborative framework, the coach uses a repertoire of  more...

The Mark of a Leader Do you feel that your people can't get along without you? If you're not available, do your people lack direction and therefore, productivity suffers? If you feel that you've been overmanaging and underleading, this course is for you. There is a strong difference between activities and roles of effective managers and those of successful leaders. You'll discover what some of those key differences  more...

Redesigning Your Organization Part II What do you do after you've created an idealized design for your organization? This course will provide you with the skills you'll need to successfully implement an idealized design in your organization. You'll study the groundwork for learning, including how to use adaptive learning and how to be an advocate for adaptive learning. You'll learn about democratic hierarchies, decision-making  more...

Six Sigma Team Leadership By addressing customer needs, streamlining processes, minimizing variance, and addressing poor quality and inefficiency, Six Sigma can encourage a more profitable and sustainable business. The development and leadership of an effective team is critical if these outcomes are to be achieved. An effective Six Sigma team comprises the right people using their skills in collaboration with each other to  more...

Leadership in Six Sigma Six Sigma has become synonymous with quality in the business world, but there is no prescriptive process for planning and launching a Six Sigma initiative. Each business must learn to call upon the strengths and abilities of its diverse professionals, from executives to highly trained technical specialists. What are the roles of each in the Six Sigma process? What planning should take place to  more...

Leadership Leadership is fundamental in driving quality in an organization. A good leader's actions and words filter down to all organizational levels to create a quality culture. The concepts of organizational leadership are built on a foundation of core business elements. A clear understanding of these elements is key in developing an organization's strategic plan and vision. These core elements include:  more...

Virtual Team Management Managing Virtual Team Relationships In Virtual Team Management: Managing Virtual Team Relationships, you will learn how to be an effective virtual team manager. You will learn the seven functions that virtual team managers must perform and the four factors that can hamper a virtual team manager's success. In addition, you will learn about the importance of boundary management and how virtual team managers can be effective boundary  more...

Women in Leadership: Leadership Roles and Styles In Women In Leadership: Leadership Roles and Styles you will learn about characteristics of the old and new constructs of leadership and business such as the role gender has played in shaping leadership. In addition you will learn the steps you should follow when addressing barriers to women's leadership as well as the process for encouraging leadership growth in others.  more...

Managerial Leadership: Motivating Employees Managerial Leadership: Motivating Employees offers the student an overview of the various roles leaders have in organizations as well as how leaders can help employees discover and learn their roles in organizations. This program includes guidelines for helping employees align their goals with those of the organization for evaluating employees' performance and for motivating employees. In  more...

Executive Level Leadership: Becoming an Executive Leader Executive Level Leadership: Becoming an Executive Leader offers the student an overview of executive leadership roles and how power and politics affect an organization. This program also explains the importance of developing an organizational vision and the need for executives to understand the types of business focus that impact their industry. In addition it emphasizes the importance of  more...

Cross-Functional Teams: Selecting Cross-Functional Team Members Cross-Functional Teams: Selecting Cross-Functional Team Members covers how to identify and select cross-functional team leaders and members and how to ensure cross-functional team success. The program also covers roles in cross-functional teams how key stakeholders are important to the success of cross-functional teams and the reasons that cross-functional team member/upper management  more...

Small Group Tour Leadership This timely course is designed to assist you, the travel professional, in becoming a small group tour leader. Determine if you have the skills, knowledge, abilities and traits you need to be an effective tour leader. Study tour leader roles and responsibilities. Learn conflict-resolution skills and prepare to manage a tour group. See how to polish your resume and market yourself to find a tour  more...