From Serebra Learning Corporation
The Art of Global Communication 
Considering that communication is something you do every day, how many people actually stop to consider what is happening before they speak? Can you just talk without thinking too much about the target audience, the message to be communicated, and a host of other information? Communication is too important to be left to chance. The subtleties of language, expressions, and gestures all enrich the
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Working with Your Customer s Key Players 
Strong customer relationships are essential for long-term sales success. In this course, you'll learn about the second major component of the
Strategic Account Sales (
SAS) approach--communication. You'll start by learning about developing coach relationships in your target account. A vital part of your sales effectiveness depends on finding contacts at target accounts that can become part of an
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Sales Seller Behaviors 


...Behaviors, is the first of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the basic criteria for success in sales and identify the seven seller behaviors in buyer-focused selling. The
PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line results. New and
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Sales Buyer Behaviors 


...Behaviors, is the second of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the criteria that influence buying decisions and identify the seven typical buyer behaviors in a sales interaction. The
PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line results. New
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Sales Communication Skills 


Communicating &
Managing:
Communication Skills, is the sixth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the background information that helps you to qualify prospects, list sources of prospects, identify guidelines for canvassing and list the criteria for identifying the decision-maker in an organization. The
PrimeSales curriculum engages
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Bridge The Expectations Gap 
You have to be prepared to walk a mile in their shoes to understand more fully what customers experience when they deal with your company. There's nothing more effective in emphasizing the gap between what you believe their experiences to be and their realities than thinking and acting like a customer. This course takes you through several processes for doing exactly that, and you'll be shown how
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Customer Service Procedures 
Failing to realize the importance of customer service and effective complaints handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to provide
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The Technical Professional as Internal Consultant 
Traditionally, consultants have been seen as experts outside an organization who are hired to appraise a situation and recommend paths toward improvement. These agents of change may be brought in to downsize a company, recommend efficiency improvements, recommend ways to improve employee morale, or facilitate other changes. Today, companies are selecting technical professionals within the
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Making Group Decisions The Nature of Groups 
This course provides insightful perspectives into the unpredictability of group dynamics. Tips to recognize challenging behaviors and suggestions for successfully managing group responses are presented. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.
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Self-empowerment Managing from Within 
... 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 performance. This course focuses on attitudes and behaviors that promote self-empowerment. It provides strategies for empowering yourself through self-coaching, approaches for developing an
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Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace Simulation 
What are your thoughts on conflict in the workplace? Do you dread it? Quietly try to avoid it? Or do you rush headlong to meet it with enthusiasm, certain it will bring renewed vigor and badly-needed change to your organization? No matter your answer, the
Dealing with
Conflict in the
Workplace Simulation will provide you with the opportunity to practice skills for coping with conflict and putting
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Delivering Your Message 
So, the presentation is prepared and practiced. Great. But this means nothing to the audience. When you stand there in front of them, all that matters to them is what you look like and what you say. This course is about delivering your message, and the techniques you need to do this. First of all, you have to make a positive first impression on your audience members by how and where you stand, by
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Enhancing Your Listening Skills 
Have you ever been taken by surprise by an unexpected deadline? Have you ever left a meeting unsure about what was decided? Have you ever asked a supervisor for advice, only to later forget what your supervisor told you? You can avoid problems like these by using effective listening skills. Effective listening helps you to know what's going on in your organization, get cooperation from your
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What Is Emotional Intelligence 
Does IQ determine your destiny? For years, that was an overriding belief. However, new behavioral research shows that IQ provides, at best, a narrow view of human intelligence. Factors such as self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, zeal, self-motivation, empathy, and social deftness contribute greatly to an individual's success. These qualities, termed "emotional intelligence," often
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Teamwork and Emotional Intelligence 
Elizabeth and
Cassandra started with the same company at the same time in similar positions. Both were bright women. Both were at the top of the class at prestigious universities. Both had exceptional technical skills. Yet, after six months in the organization,
Elizabeth seemed to be making a bigger impact and enjoying more success. She was friendly with members of her own department and knew many
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The Impact of Culture on Communication 
Everything you say is influenced by culture. You operate with a set of invisible beliefs, values, and assumptions that become apparent to other people in the way you behave. Culture is important to the way you communicate, even though it is often hidden. Understanding more about culture can be a real bonus when working as part of any global organization. Showing your customers and coworkers in
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Managing Anger in the Workplace Simulation 
...s important to minimize your angry thoughts, emotions and behaviors, and channel your energy into more constructive activities. Your role: As a
Product Manager for the high-tech company
SafeCom, deadlines on your current campaign are fast approaching. A rocky relationship with your coworker with whom you share responsibility for the campaign and an overworked boss with little time to mediate
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Understanding Technical Professionals 
As a manager, have you felt that technical professionals are sometimes difficult to understand? Do you find that the usual management models are not as effective as they could be? This course explains the ways in which these employees differ from other workers and how you can apply more appropriate and effective management techniques. You will also learn how business has responded with new
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Attracting Motivating and Retaining Technical Professionals 
If you're having problems finding and keeping technical professionals, you're not alone. In our financially competitive and technologically advanced business world, technical professionals are in great demand. Managers need to find ways to attract top-performing technical employees and keep them once they're on the job. In fact, surveys show that managers list attracting, motivating, and retaining
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Management Development for Technical Professionals 
If you have ever considered moving up to a managerial position, certain personal and professional traits will be necessary when you make that move. In addition to the skills you have as a technical professional, you need to develop the skills of effective managers. This course will assist you in a self-assessment process that is essential to your efforts to become an effective manager. You will
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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
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Moving into Management Simulation 
...ill involve confronting and overcoming their concerns and behaviors. You will also need to resolve conflict between team members. As a new manager, you will need to resist the temptation to continue doing your old job. When
Sonya assigns your team to handle the launch of your company's newest electric car, you will need to effectively delegate the tasks involved, resisting the urge to do most
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Leading the Workforce Generations Simulation 
The twenty-first century marks a new development in the workplace. Technology has changed the way we do business. We are faster, busier, and more knowledgeable. Not only do we have vast technological resources available to us; we are also the first to have personnel resources. The workforce today has seen and experienced the world change in different ways. It would not be uncommon for one worker
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About 360-Degree Performance Feedback 
Are you ready for a change in the way your company evaluates and develops its management staff? Perhaps you are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of your current efforts to help your managers work to their potential? The
360-degree performance feedback process may be the solution to your needs. Although the use of 360-degree feedback is relatively new (approximately ten years old), public,
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Goal Setting Reaching Individual Goals 
In ''Goal
Setting:
Reaching Individual Goals,'' you will learn about personal behaviors that relate to and affect goal setting. You will also learn the characteristics of effective goals, the individual goal-setting process, and guidelines for maximizing your achievement potential. The target audience for this program is administrators, managers, supervisors and front-line staff.
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Employee Sexual Harassment Awareness 
...ts identify two types of sexual harassment, and recognize behaviors that may be considered sexually harassing in the workplace. Participants will also learn about courses of action available to victims, as well as the rights of employees, and the responsibilities of employers relative to sexual harassment in the workplace. This one-hour course can help your company demonstrate its commitment to
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Harassment in the Workplace 
Harassment in the workplace is not confined to sexual harassment. Harassment can be based on all protected characteristics, including race, color, national origin, religion, age, and disability. Depending on state law and other circumstances, additional characteristics such as sexual orientation and marital status may also be protected. An effective harassment prevention training program must
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Win2000 Active Directory Design Planning a Domain Structure in Win2000 
...e models, and the various types of group scopes and their behaviors. You will also learn about designing the domain, single and multiple domain structures, guidelines for selecting the optimum domain model based on organizational requirements, and accessing inter-domain resources. Finally, you will learn how to promote the first server to a domain controller, create new domains and
OUs, manage
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IP QoS Building Blocks 
To identify the features of different
QoS implementation models, how to apply QoS mechanisms, and how packets traverse
QoS-enabled networks IT professionals with a thorough knowledge of networking concepts and
Cisco technology basics who wish to extend their knowledge in the specific area of
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Sexual Harassment: What Employees Should Know 
Sexual
Harassment:
What Employees Should Know offers the student an overview of what sexual harassment is and how it affects organizations. The program details how to recognize harassing behaviors and what factors should be considered when determining whether behavior rises to the level of sexual harassment. In addition the program teaches the learner actions to prevent or stop sexual harassment.
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Mentoring: Developing Your Mentoring Skills 
Mentoring:
Developing Your Mentoring Skills offers the student an overview of a mentor's job and competencies how to develop strong mentoring relationships and how to mentor effectively. The program covers steps for choosing mentees elements that make mentoring work and behaviors mentors should avoid. It also covers learning styles how to maximize mentees' learning potential and how to manage
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Advanced Features of Dreamweaver 4 
The
Advanced Features of
Dreamweaver 4 course is the third course in the Dreamweaver 4 curriculum. The course describes the process of creating interactive
Web sites using behaviors and templates. Additionally it provides an overview of designing a navigation structure for a Web site and rectifying problems in the site design. The course also introduces users to the process of planning and
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From 123-CBT Computer Based Training
Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Proficient User 

This course will address the core features of
FrontPage 2003, giving learners a solid foundation in essential FrontPage 2003 skills.
Learn To:
Match elements of the FrontPage 2003 environment with their functions.
Identify the
Web editing views.
Identify functions of the basic toolbar buttons.
Identify methods for formatting text.
Identify the different text alignments.
Match
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Diversity Managing Diversity in the Workplace 

...e integration paradigm for managing inclusion. Identify behaviors that can be adopted to manage a diverse workforce. Unit 3:
Leading the
Inclusive Team (0.5 hours) Identify preconditions for making the paradigm shift. Identify guidelines for avoiding pitfalls when making the paradigm shift. Identify possible ways of creating incentives and motivation for implementing change.
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Stress Management Fundamentals for Managers 

...managing stress within the organization.
Learn how your behaviors as a manager can cause stress for employees and how time management and communication can reduce employee stress.
Audience:
The target audience for this course is managers who want to improve their stress management skills to enhance organizational effectiveness. It is recommended that individuals take the first course in
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Sexual Harassment What Employees Should Know 

...nizations. The program details how to recognize harassing behaviors and what factors should be considered when determining whether behavior rises to the level of sexual harassment. In addition, the program teaches the learner actions to prevent or stop sexual harassment. Learn To Identify the law sexual harassment violates. Identify
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Workplace Aggression Recognizing Aggressive Behavior 

...tion (0.5 - 1 hour) Identify the behaviors that are considered workplace aggression. Fulfill your responsibility regarding workplace aggression. List the ways that workplace aggression can affect an organization. Recognize aggressive behavior that could turn violent. Simulation
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Leadership Development Delegation 

In
Leadership Development:
Delegation, you will develop the skills needed to fulfill the role of a delegator and then use the delegation process to achieve organizational success. This program will help you use delegation to achieve greater results that will benefit everyone in your organization. Learn To Identify a delegator's responsibilities.
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Goal Setting Reaching Individual Goals 

...eaching
Individual Goals,'' you will learn about personal behaviors that relate to and affect goal setting. You will also learn the characteristics of effective goals, the individual goal-setting process, and guidelines for maximizing your achievement potential. Learn To Identify the benefits of setting goals. Identify the types of
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Essentials of Management Creating a Positive Workplace 

... Differentiate between positive and negative employee behaviors. List the three steps you can take to promote a positive workplace. Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will meet with
Carla Jackson, an Icon International Human Resources Assistant, to discuss the benefits of a positive workplace, how an employee's
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Facilitation The Effective Facilitator 

...itation and leadership. Apply behaviors to succeed as a facilitator. Enhance their credibility as a facilitator using neutrality. Apply techniques to show assertiveness during a meeting. Apply guidelines for asking appropriate questions and offering appropriate feedback. Audience
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Virtual Teams Participating in Virtual Meetings 

... Develop a set of norms that outline a virtual team's behaviors. Use team-building activities to enhance relationships among virtual team members. Identify the importance of trust among members serving on a virtual team. Build trust with members of a virtual team. List three characteristics
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Achieving Success Without Authority Personal Accountability 

... Differentiate between positive and negative coaching behaviors. Differentiate between accountability and responsibility. Differentiate between direct and indirect accountability. Differentiate between influence and manipulation. Audience This series is aimed at all employees in supervisory or management
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Telephone Skills Handling Difficult Calls 

... Identify guidelines for building rapport. Recognize behaviors that callers appreciate. Identify steps to implement effective customer care. Identify guidelines for maintaining confidentiality. Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you are a telephone account executive at one of
Icon's call centers, where questions relating to orders and deliveries are diverted. Every order
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Mentoring Developing Your Mentoring Skills 

... choosing mentees, elements that make mentoring work, and behaviors mentors should avoid. It also covers learning styles, how to maximize mentees' learning potential, and how to manage mentees appropriately. Learn To Select the four styles of mentoring you should avoid. Follow the steps for choosing a mentee.
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