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Consulting Skills Building Consulting Relationships ... In this simulation, you will meet with Bruce Madison and Ron Spear to discuss the need for a consultant. Plant 1 has been the subject of internal criticism because its production rate has slowed and errors have occurred more frequently, and as Plant 1's director, it is your responsibility to address these problems. In response, you are meeting to determine the need for an more...

Time Management Planning Your Day ... In this simulation, you will meet with Bruce Madison, Icon's Director of Information Services. Through his questions and your answers, you will learn about how to use technology to save time and the guidelines for making good decisions about technology. Also, you will learn how to use computers to help manage your time, and what guidelines you should follow to not waste time more...

Career Development Developing a Career Strategy ... In this simulation, you will meet with Bruce Madison, one of Icon's Human Resource Specialists, to discuss defining your career aspirations. You are satisfied with your position at Icon, but you've decided to start looking into different careers that could better suit your professional goals and your personal lifestyle. Bruce will ask you a series of questions designed to more...

Career Development Excelling in Your Career ... In this simulation, you will meet with Bruce Madison, one of Icon's Human Resource Specialists, to discuss maintaining productivity and keeping professionalism high. Bruce will present you with scenarios and ask you a series of questions to help you understand how to facilitate productivity and be professional. Unit 2: Marketing Yourself (0.5 - 1 hour) more...

Emotional Intelligence Applying Emotional Intell in the Workplace ... In this simulation, you will be meeting with Bruce Madison, Marcus Robinson, and Robin Carlson, three of your employees in Icon's Quality Assurance Department. Your team has been widely recognized for its quality work. In recent weeks, however, the number of defective products making it through the production process has increased and you have started receiving a number of customer more...

Effective Presentations Planning a Presentation ...ternational's East Coast Vice President of Marketing, and Bruce Madison, Icon's Director of Information Services, to gather information for the presentation about Icon's Worldwide Network Solution. As a member of the marketing team, you need to decide what types of information to include in the presentation for the industry journalists. Unit 3: Building the Presentation (0.5 - 1 hour) more...

Effective Presentations The Presentation Process ... In this simulation, you will be meeting with Bruce Madison, Icon International's Director of Information Services. Through your questions, you will identify what extemporaneous speaking is, why it is beneficial, and how to prepare an extemporaneous presentation. Unit 2: Preparing to Speak (0.5 - 1 hour) Apply four steps to help reduce your fear of more...

Recruiting Retention Keeping Your Good Employees ... Next, you will conduct an informal feedback session with Bruce Madison, a Line Supervisor for the second shift. Bruce has recently lost three key employees from his team, so your goal during this session is to determine why the employees left, as well as what can be done to prevent this from happening in the future. Unit 3: Job Structure and Coaching (1 - 2 hours) more...

Managerial Leadership Creating a Vision ...nager, Robin Carlson, one of Icon's Product Managers, and Bruce Madison, Icon's Director of Information Services. As a Project Manager for the new Aries Server product line, it is your job to help guide the team in rewriting Icon's vision statement, so it emphasizes the Aries Server. You will want to explore how to define an organizational vision and lead the group through the process of more...

Six Sigma Deploying Six Sigma ...he simulation at the end of this unit, you will meet with Bruce Madison, Director of Information Services at Icon International, and Janet Porter, Director of Business Development. You will discuss the guidelines for Six Sigma projects and identify the characteristics of the Six Sigma team roles. You will also outline the steps for choosing a Six Sigma team. Unit 2: Six Sigma in Action (0.5 - more...

Six Sigma Managing Six Sigma Projects ...gie Roberts, Vice President of Products and Services, and Bruce Madison, Director of Information Services, to discuss creating an internal support network. Unit 2: Advanced Six Sigma (0.5 - 1 hour) Identify the principles of design of experiment (DOE). Identify the advantages of the statistical approach to design of experiment (DOE). more...

Correcting Performance Problems Addressing Performance Problems In Correcting Performance Problems: Addressing Performance Problems, you will learn a process for conducting effective feedback sessions with employees who have a performance problems. You will also learn guidelines for explaining to employees the impact of their problem behavior. In addition, you will learn the correct way to address negative employee responses, as well as how to respond when to more...

Managing the Expert Developing a Successful Environment Managing the Expert: Developing a Successful Environment explains management strategies, incentive programs, and the challenges of maximizing experts' creative potential. It identifies the processes for designing and implementing expert-appropriate incentive programs, managing renegade creativity, and managing barriers to expert creativity. Learn To Provide more...

Managing the Expert Managing the Unique Needs of Experts ...oftware Division. You have recently hired as a consultant Bruce Madison, a Scientific Systems Analyst with an expertise in Numerical Analysis. Bruce has a history of pushing companies to the cutting edge of technology and integrating that technology with the Internet. Recently, Market Researchers have tracked an increase in popularity of Internet-accessible training software. The trend has some more...

Six Sigma Six Sigma Essentials In Six Sigma: Six Sigma Essentials you will learn the history and background of the Six Sigma quality initiative as well as some essential information on how it impacts on business processes. Putting Six Sigma in context, the course then goes on to look at some of the principal tools used in a Six Sigma project before examining strategies for preparing your organization for this new quality more...

Principles of Marketing Pricing Strategy ... In this simulation, you will meet with Bruce Madison and Elizabeth Williams to brainstorm about next year's pricing strategies for two video camera products. The purpose of the meeting is to develop initial recommendations to present to the Vice President of Marketing, Brian Smith. You will need to use your knowledge of pricing strategies and objectives to create more...

Principles of Marketing Writing a Marketing Plan ...ing with Kristen Anderson, a Market Research Analyst, and Bruce Madison, the Product Manager for the system, you'll need to outline the elements of the product's marketing plan. As the Marketing Manager for this product, you'll need to lead the team in developing possible marketing strategies and explain the importance of market research. Unit 3: Creating a Marketing Plan (1 - 2 hours) more...

Cross-Functional Teams Cross-Functional Team Development Cross-Functional Teams: Cross-Functional Team Development offers the student an overview of the information needed to develop communication, achievement, and synergy tools for cross-functional teams. The program details how to develop time lines and how to make consensus decisions. The program also provides information about encountering and overcoming task achievement challenges, as well as more...

Managerial Leadership Motivating Employees ... In this simulation, you will meet with Bruce Madison, a current member of the Wee PC engineering team. Bruce is an excellent engineer, but other members of his team have called his work on the Wee PC line into question. You need to meet with Bruce to establish what his priorities are and how those priorities affect the Wee PC line's performance. To do this, you need to more...

Frontline Leadership Preparing to Lead ...s Advisor for Icon. You will meet with Maggie Roberts and Bruce Madison, two recruiters from the Champion Recruiting Firm. Icon recently purchased this firm, so Maggie and Bruce are new employees to the organization. Although their job duties will remain the same, you will need to communicate the organizational differences between Champion and Icon. In addition, it will be important to help more...

Operations Management Operations Management Tools ... In this simulation, you will meet with Bruce Madison, a senior Transportation analyst, to discuss transportation models and operation maintenance. As a relatively new employee in Operations, you need to demonstrate your knowledge of transportation models as well as strategies for operations maintenance. Bruce will present a series of situations for you to evaluate, and more...

Project Leadership Overcoming Obstacles ... In this simulation, you will be meeting with Bruce Madison, Icon's Senior Product Development Manager. Bruce has been leading you through some management training sessions and developing your project leadership skills. To further prepare you for leading project teams, Bruce will ask you a series of questions regarding how to communicate effectively with project teams and the more...