From Serebra Learning Corporation
Design Team - Business Process Modelling 


...ess engineering. This course teaches the whole process of applying each technique - from information gathering through to final verification. The diagrammatic standards within the course are compatible with all major proprietary tools and methodologies, including the
SAP R3 3.0 "
Reference Model". This course teaches the whole process of business process modelling. It uses interactive problem
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Safety Sense Series: Keeping Yourself Safe 


...f the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to provide a safe and healthy working environment. Xebec's new
Safety Sense series provides your
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Safety Sense Series: Safety Standards and Systems 


...f the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to provide a safe and healthy working environment. Xebec's new
Safety Sense series provides your
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Safety Sense Series: The Safety Authorities 


...f the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to provide a safe and healthy working environment. Xebec's new
Safety Sense series provides your
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Safety Sense Series: Improving Safety Performance 


...f the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to provide a safe and healthy working environment. Xebec's new
Safety Sense series provides your
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Launching Successful On-site and Virtual Teams 
One factor that defines team success is the way in which a team is launched. Quickly moving an on-site or a virtual team into high-performance mode takes planning, strategizing, and a seamless launch. In this course, you'll learn techniques for setting up a successful team that can be applied to an on-site or a virtual environment. First, you'll learn strategies for selecting high-performing team
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Negotiating to Mutual Benefit 
The key to being a skilled negotiator is understanding the difference between negotiating and giving money away. This course demonstrates the stages and rules that will gain you a win/win solution, and with it long-term business. If you follow the guidelines set out here, you will be able to handle customer strategies and still close the deal on terms that keep both your company and your customer
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Understanding Your Customer 
Can you imagine trying to sell a product or service to a customer you know nothing about? You probably wouldn't succeed. The better you know your customer, the higher your chance for success. In this course, you'll learn about the first major component of the strategic account sales (
SAS) approach: research. You'll start by learning about the key areas to research using the SAS approach and where
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Applying Your Field Sales Approach 
...he sales professional applies the essentials presented in
Applying Your Field Sales Approach. This course provides sales strategies to change your customers' perceptions of you from vendor to sales consultant by addressing these important factors: asking the right questions and listening to customer needs, avoiding actions that impede sales calls, identifying sales opportunities, and targeting
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The Oil and Gas Industry Overview Version 2 
Has there ever been a more flourishing time in the history of the oil and gas industry? The continued growth in demand and an industry struggling to meet this voracious demand have pushed oil prices to an all-time high. Big oil companies, even while investing heavily in exploration, technology, operational improvement, and research and development, are still left with huge surpluses in an industry
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The Banking Industry Overview Version 2 
Can you imagine a world without banks? In the past, banks focused on loans and deposits, debits, and credits. Now, due to dramatic changes in the world economy, banking is a far more complex business. On a daily basis, the industry must deal with margin pressures, consolidation, and technological and marketing challenges, not to mention unforeseen financial and political crises. However, with cash
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The Retail Industry Overview Version 2 
Retail is one of the largest industries and one of the most visible to consumers. The retail industry includes businesses such as automobile dealers, retail gas stations, and department stores. Over the years, it has gone through various sales-channel shifts, from catalog sales to online selling. Yet, throughout these changes, the brick-and-mortar stores have remained strong. In today's retail
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Sales Forecasting Applying Forecasting Methods 
...Applying
Forecasting Methods, you will learn how to apply quantitative and qualitative forecasting methods to your accounts. You will learn the fundamentals of time series and regression forecasting methods. You will also learn how to use market research and expert judgement to create forecasts. Finally, you will learn how to integrate, implement, and evaluate forecasting methods. The target
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Discovering What Your Customers Want 
The data are in, and there's no doubt about it: The return on customer loyalty goes directly to your company's bottom line. Too often, however, organizations seeking to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty begin with a survey. To build a successful customer satisfaction system, you have to begin with the basics. When customer satisfaction programs begin with a survey, and not a plan, the
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Customer Satisfaction Analysis and Implementation 
What you get out of a well-designed customer satisfaction survey will depend largely on the power of the analytical tools you apply to the data and the effectiveness of actions taken based on the resulting information. Although the analysis itself is best conducted by your statistical team, you'll be able to use survey results more effectively if you understand how key analytical tools are
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Measuring Customer Satisfaction Simulation 
Stratoscape
Creations is an industry-leading producer of multimedia and gaming products. They are responsible for bringing to the market some of the most popular flight simulators and first-person adventure games of the last decade. But competition has grown increasingly fierce in the industry, and
Stratoscape is starting to feel the bite of an up-and-coming company,
Tempest's
Core. It's game time
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Call Center Communication Skills 
Communication skills are very important for a successful career in customer service and sales. This is especially true in a call center environment. Call centers can be high pressure, fast-paced environments where you may have to deal with hundreds of people in one day. That is why it is so important to fine tune your communication skills. This course will examine handling different personalities,
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Consulting with the External Client Simulation 
Modern corporations employ consultants for their experience, knowledge, and skills. The primary responsibility of these consultants is to facilitate decision making for senior management. To do this, external consultants gather information using proven techniques, analyze current business situations with specific diagnostic methods, and make recommendations based on those processes. In this
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Evaluation and Review 
So, is it success or failure? It's crucial that you take time to review your completed project and confirm the outcomes. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned? And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an external consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This
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Functions of IT Project Management 
...ourse, you will learn valuable techniques and methods for applying these techniques to your projects. You will acquire a knowledge and essential skills needed to deliver projects successfully, time after time. This course is specifically targeted at IT project managers, and IT professionals preparing to take on IT project management responsibilities. Managers who support IT project managers,
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Managing Efficiencies of IT Projects 
Are you delivering quality application systems? Do you know how you can ensure that your projects deliver value to your organization? The key to delivering value is "process."
Organizations are becoming more aware of the importance of following the same process for each project. In this course, you will learn how to converge methodologies with other project management techniques and process
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Ethics and Professional Knowledge PMBOK aligned 
What does being ethical mean? How does one make the best ethical choice in a complex project management environment? What are legal requirements, and how can you spot the moment when conflict of interest has occurred? In today's world, project managers must have a clear comprehension of these ethical responsibilities. Project managers must also be aware of their professional duty to contribute to
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Self-empowerment Managing from Within 
Have you ever thought that you could be the best boss you've ever had? By developing attitudes and skills that empower you, you can manage from within and become your own best boss. Self-empowerment is the process of taking responsibility for your attitudes, behaviors, and actions at work to maximize your effectiveness. As an empowered employee, you will be driven by ownership, initiative, and
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Organizational Communication The Fundamentals 
Organizational
Communication:
The Fundamentals gives the student a background in communication terms and organization basics. The program also gives the student guidelines for communicating effectively and motivating employees, as well as methods for overcoming barriers to organizational communication. By applying the provided guidelines, the student will be able to communicate effectively,
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Effective Listening Skills Simulation 
Although relatively straightforward in theory, the process that transforms effective listening into successful communication requires great skill, awareness and practice. In the course of this simulation, you will attend a day-long seminar, studying the topic of
Effective Listening Skills through various exercises, lectures, quizzes and small-group activities. The day's events will be guided by an
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Giving Feedback A Manager s Guide 
The performance of your business depends upon the performance of every member of your staff. Thus a key skill for all who manage staff is the ability to provide candid, constructive feedback about performance. The purpose of this course is to enable you to enhance your skills in giving feedback. The course starts by exploring the nature of feedback, and it then develops a practical approach to the
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Effective Feedback for Employees and Colleagues Simulation 
Feedback is an essential element of successful businesses. Managers, employees, customers, and suppliers alike all benefit from the exchange of meaningful, germane feedback. But feedback is a double-edged sword. Given thoughtlessly, without proper preparation and consideration, it is likely to be ignored by the recipient or worse yet, give offense. On the other hand, when given properly, feedback
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Effective Use of Feedback for Teams Simulation 
Effective feedback is an essential element of successful teamwork. Periodic reviews and discussions of how the team is performing, how individuals are contributing to the team's performance, and how the team is being managed, are all vital to ensuring that the team continues to perform at peak level. As a team leader, your ability to give and receive feedback will seriously impact the
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Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Simulation 
Does intelligence alone determine success? Or do self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, zeal, self-motivation, empathy, and social deftness factor heavily into the equation? While not as readily quantified as IQ, these qualities, collectively termed "emotional intelligence," often determine whether or not people excel in life, relationships, and the workplace. In this simulation, you'll
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Leadership Without Authority 
Lily
Tomlin said, "I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody." Tomlin could have been speaking on behalf of many employees in the corporate world who, despite having little authority, take it upon themselves to become leaders nonetheless. Becoming a leader, and getting results, without authority is especially important in today's corporate
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Process Management Skills 
Efficiency, in software terms, can be the difference between ineffective, poorly designed software, and elegant, intuitive software. Efficiency in manufacturing is the difference between processes that yield top quality products at a reasonable price, and processes that spit out shoddy products regardless of price. Likewise, efficiency is critical to the effectiveness of a manager and to the
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Strategies for Transitioning into Management 
Making a smooth transition from technical professional to management is critical to your success as a manager. You've already demonstrated your technical expertise; now you're ready to take that next step. In your new role as a manager, you'll use technology in different ways -- focusing on managing production, not production itself. This course outlines management tactics for becoming an
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Key Stages in Coaching 
Coaching has many uses in organizations, and the sequence of coaching activities is similar in all of them. This course will involve learners in the continuous process of discovery, goal setting, action planning, and follow-up that distinguishes coaching from other development methods. This course is for anyone in an organization who has a role in improving the performance of co-workers, keeping
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Accounting Fundamentals 
How does a business achieve and maintain profitability? An understanding and an accurate application of accounting practices are hallmarks of a successful and financially progressive business. Accounting is a distinct discipline, with its own standards and language. Understanding accounting procedures requires a prerequisite knowledge of certain principles, concepts, terms, and common accounting
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Accounting for Merchandising Businesses 
A merchandising business is a business that buys goods and sells them for profit. Merchandising businesses, which include wholesalers and retailers, typically handle inventory, therefore accounting procedures exist to record the cost of goods sold or not sold. This course will provide practical information about maintaining accounts and generating financial statements specifically for
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The Imperatives of Innovation and Leadership in Strategy 
This course is designed for individuals aspiring to become strategically focused in their business operations and to innovate and lead change in their organizations. As organizations strive to keep abreast of a fast-changing business environment, the need for innovation increases. While some companies focus on incremental and continuous innovations, other companies have managed to create
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Lean Tools 
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Lean seeks to eliminate waste from the organization. By applying Lean tools and techniques, organizations can become more competitive, agile, and responsive to customer demands. This course highlights the implementation of Lean tools in the production and manufacturing environment. These tools have derived largely from the development of the
Toyota Production System (
TPS). In addition, the
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Properties and Applications of Probability Distributions 
Whether calculating future process capability or the length of time before product failure, probability distributions are essential to the
Six Sigma Black Belt. Distributions and their random variables are the key to determining supportable conclusions for hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. This course discusses the general use of probability distributions, and reviews the applications of
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Lean Value 
Finding methods to capture customer-driven value is not a new activity. You've probably analyzed processes, conducting customer surveys, and used audits to determine what customers want. Yet, according to lean thinkers these techniques don't go far enough. They still departmentalize the value concept. Lean experts propose a more holistic view of value that stretches beyond organizational
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Lean Logic 
Suppose a friend told you that it was more efficient to put on your shoes before your pants when getting dressed. What is the logic behind taking an action that seems so counterintuitive? You probably wouldn't implement this new methodology without a thorough explanation of its origin and logic, right? Some of the lean manufacturing suggestions may also strike you as counterintuitive. That's
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Maintaining Quality Code 
To outline the primary techniques of refactoring, and to discuss the best practices for reviewing, testing, and debugging code
Professional application developers or programmers, with at least 2 years experience, who want to learn the latest recommended techniques for developing high quality software
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OOAD OO Design Patterns 
This course covers the key concepts related to the use of
Class diagrams,
Component diagrams, and
Deployment diagrams for static modeling. It also covers the features, elements, and considerations for using these diagrams. In addition, the course covers the modeling of three types of compartments in a class: name, attributes, and operations. Further, it discusses the concept and application of
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Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Part 2 
The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003:
Part 2 course covers concepts related to
Windows Server 2003. These include creating and managing user accounts and managing templates for user accounts. The course also covers features and types of groups and the steps for creating groups. Further, it covers the steps for creating shared folders, options for managing shared folders, and the steps
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Web Development Process 
In this
WestNet e-Learning module, we show how
Web developers can benefit by applying formal software engineering processes to site projects. Many Web developers are still learning the lesson that the softwaredevelopment community learned 20 years ago: process pays. It pays in shorter schedules, better designs, and higher user satisfaction.
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Legal Ethical Social Global and Taxation Issues 
This
WestNet e-Learning module provides a look at some of the legal and social issues to consider in your work as a
Web professional. As the Web has become more entwined with our personal and professional lives, the laws, rules, and customs of the day-to-day real world have necessarily followed. In some cases, this has meant applying existing laws and customs to the
Internet. In others, new laws
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Food Safety and Handling 
Each year, bacteria in food cause millions of illnesses in the US. According to the
Food and
Drug Administration, between 2 and 3 of all foodborne illnesses result in secondary long-term illnesses. Some strains of E. coli can cause kidney failure in infants, and salmonella can lead to reactive arthritis and serious infections. In addition to the risks from badly prepared or handled food, there is
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Adobe Illustrator CS2 Establishing Depth Dimension 
This course teaches advanced concepts and skills for working with
Adobe Illustrator CS2 to create complex illustrations. The topics in this course cover tools of
Illustrator that enable the learner to create advanced illustrations using fills, strokes, layers, and colors. The course is intended for the basic end user who wishes to use Adobe Illustrator CS2 to construct vector illustrations and
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Essentials of Business Law: Contract Law 
Essentials of
Business Law:
Contract Law offers the student an overview of contract law essentials. This program identifies the elements of contract formation classifications of contracts and contract strategies applying to validity and successful contract negotiations. The program also covers rules of consideration validity illegality the statute of frauds third-party rights and breach of
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Brand Management: Developing a Brand Strategy 
Brand
Management:
Developing a
Brand Strategy gives you information on building defending and developing brand equity as well as introducing new brands. The program also explains the processes for developing secondary and sub-brands. Additionally the program provides you with guidelines for building brand extensions and releasing a brand internationally. By applying the information in this
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Brand Management: Integrated Marketing 
Brand
Management:
Integrated Marketing gives you information about integrated brands. The program provides you a process for integrating a brand throughout your company. Additionally the program defines brand diver components and how these components can be used to communicate an integrated brand through the appropriate media. The program also provides you with guidelines and processes for
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Brand Management: Branding on the Web 
Brand
Management:
Branding on the
Web gives you information about branding on the
Internet. The program provides you with processes for branding on the Internet creating a secondary brand on the Internet and how to introduce a brand on the Internet. Additionally the program provides you with guidelines for each process as well as guidelines for developing effective Internet brand names. By
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Coaching: Applying the Coaching Process 
In
Coaching:
Applying the
Coaching Process you will learn how to establish coaching objectives identify the best opportunities to coach and communicate your goals and expectations to your employees in a clear and effective manner. You will also learn how to differentiate between performance goals and long-term goals implement an appropriate reward system and monitor your employees' performance.
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Software Configuration Management 


In this course, the student will learn that
Software Configuration Management (
SCM or CM) is one of the key characteristics of successful software development organizations. By applying configuration management techniques, effective organization and integration of changes can occur. This course provides a practical introduction to the disciplines, techniques, and tools that are a part of software
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