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Managing Projects Course description -- The Strategies and Tips in this course will take you through the steps of managing a project, from defining the requirements to managing the implementation. You will be given tools and methods for organizing the project activities, focusing on customer needs, and leading the project team to successful completion. There are suggestions for resolving plan and budget conflicts, more...

Laboratory Audit Essentials ...are of the highest quality to avoid costly resampling and budget overruns. The goal of this course is to provide information so that an individual can conduct an environmental laboratory audit. A laboratory audit ensures that the laboratory has quality systems in place, follows good laboratory practices, and generates data of integrity and quality. This course can be completed as quickly as you more...

Newsletter Writing for Non-Profit Organizations The Student will learn how to create a quality newsletter from concept through mailing on a limited budget. more...

How to Successfully Manage a Small Business Pay Per Click Advertising Budget Pay Per Click Marketing Techniques that will save you time and make you money. more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance - Budgeting Basics MAXIM TRAINING At work, as managers, we're all involved in the budgeting process in some way or another. But few of us understand why budgeting is so important. Before you begin budgeting yourself, you need to grasp some key concepts. This course explores some basic questions about budgeting: What is a budget? Why are budgets necessary? What's involved at each stage of the budgeting process? more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Preparing your Budget ...budget for the first time can be a daunting task. Many of us approach our first budget with little or no formal training. It can be a nightmare! Effective budgeting is crucial to both you and your department. And because it's important, it's vital you budget properly. Too many managers make half-hearted attempts and then wonder why ACTUAL spend is nothing like expected. This course provides a more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Managing your Budget ...budget and following it through to approval involves a lot of work. But it's only the beginning! Once approved, the budget needs careful management to ensure your plans become a reality. This process starts from day one and continues throughout the year. This course provides a structured approach for managing your budget. It shows how to: Review your budget to identify the key elements more...

Leadership and Team Development: Project Management MAXIM TRAINING Bringing in projects on time and in budget is for many people the most crucial measure of success at work. This course covers the essential steps in managing projects to achieve this success. more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Using Cash Flows to Manage From the corporate world to the corner shop, from running a restaurant to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. The timing of cash flow in a business is crucial and the actions you take as manager can affect that cash flow. This course helps you understand why cash flow forecasts are important tools when it comes to making viable business decisions. It more...

Finance for the Non Financial : What is a Budget? From the corporate world to the corner shop, from running a restaurant to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. This course will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. It shows you what relevance budgets have to you and how they affect all more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Preparing a Budget ...ine -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. Budgets are an excellent management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. This course examines a 3 step process for preparing budgets and applies this process to a practical case study business. It explores how to evaluate different budgeted options to decide which is best for the more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Budgeting for Different Business Conditions From the corporate world to the corner shop, from running a restaurant to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. This course will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. It will show you how different types of cost behave and how their behaviour more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Using a Budget to Manage ...nd money. This course will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. You can explore the power of budgets to help with decision making and planning as circumstances change from plan, and their value in keeping the business on track towards its goals. The course gives you practical hands-on more...

Identifying Budget Variancies When you're dealing with colleagues or members of your team, do you ever feel like a judge, a nursery teacher or even a simpering child? This course will help you to analyse your behaviour and that of your team. It will help you to understand how to adjust your approach to each person to gain maximum response. And it will help you work towards achieving the benefits of an adult/adult relationship, more...

Interpreting Budget Variancies ...nd money. This course will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. You can examine how to systematically analyse budget variances and go about interpreting them, so that you can effectively monitor and control the business as circumstances change from plan. You can explore how to use this more...

Financial Management: Budgeting Essentials In Financial Management: Budgeting Essentials, participants learn how to create and enforce a budget by analyzing financial statements, setting objectives, and monitoring performance. more...

Oracle Applications 11i General Ledger: Advanced Features The course covers the concepts of defining budgets and budget organization, creating master and detail budgets, entering budget amounts. more...

Federal Government Industry Overview Version 1 ...not understand government procurement processes. However, budget shortfalls, redundant spending, and other challenges facing the government have resulted in new initiatives to streamline the procurement process. This course will provide you with an understanding of how the government works with businesses, the regulatory and business factors driving change, the challenges facing the more...

Managing Delivery ... your reputation intact, delivering to time, quality, and budget is the very least that you must achieve. To ensure that clients remain enthusiastic about what you can offer them, you must deliver effective project management throughout the consulting assignment. Set milestones to check on performance regularly, and implement monitoring and control systems. Keeping motivated and focused will more...

Diagnosing and Planning Your success as a consultant depends on your ability to diagnose each situation correctly. You need to use your previous experience, and bring fresh ideas to every new contract. Frameworks and models help you to make an effective diagnosis. They help you to evaluate the strategic position of the client organization, which is vital. To deliver solutions that are relevant and appropriate to the more...

Internal Consulting Skills What skills do you need to be a successful internal consultant? What skills do you have already, and which should you develop further? This course gives you the opportunity to review your existing abilities and ways of improving your current performance. Internal consulting is not only about your specialist or technical knowledge. It's about your ability to communicate. If you fail to get your more...

Elements of Project Human Resource Management ... delivering creative project solutions on time and within budget, they must select and manage a team of experienced and competent professionals who can meet the challenge. This requires that project managers understand the Project Human Resource Management processes of planning, selecting, developing, and managing a project team. Such an understanding enables project managers to lead the more...

An Introduction to Project Management PMBOK-Third Edition aligned Imagine trying to control the unexpected and unpredictable through processes in such a way that you meet the cost, quality, and time expectations of all invested parties in order to accomplish a temporary endeavor. This is the mission of project management. Challenging? Yes. Impossible? No. All industries employ project managers to implement processes as a way to control business. In fact, the more...

Project Lifecycles and Stakeholders ... the more easily one can keep the project on track and on budget. Organizations might "fast track" projects by overlapping phases, or "single track" projects by having set criteria to be met and deliverables to be handed off before moving forward. The choice of how to handle the project life cycle will depend on the type of project, particular industry, and specific deliverables. To make these more...

Project Planning In the early planning phases, project managers and team members have the most potential influence on the outcomes of a project. Yet, lots of planning does not guarantee successful planning. Just as project success can be planned, project disasters can be predestined if team members are not careful about the assumptions they make. A project management team that can balance the need for more...

Managing the Execution and Control of IT Projects Did you know that the average IT project has cost overruns of nearly 200 percent, and that almost 30 percent of all IT projects fail? Why do you think IT projects are so vulnerable to cost overruns and failure? How can you ensure that your project does not end up as one of these statistics? You can avoid being a statistic by managing project scope, cost, and scheduling. As you go through this more...

Program Planning The planning phase in PMI's PMBOK is considered one of the most important phases; without a properly defined plan your projects have a much greater chance of not succeeding. This assumption can also be made for program management; however, with program management, an entire program can fail, which could include several projects. The cost and loss of benefits that are associated with a failed more...

Project Management Project Cost Project Management: Planning Project Costs, is the fifth of eight courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to sequence the steps involved in creating a personnel resources matrix, identify three strategies for estimating project costs and list the steps in creating a budget. The Prime-Project Management Fundamentals curriculum provides the foundation for the more...

Cross-cultural Communications Simulation ...mprove the team's on-field performance without going over budget. First, you'll meet with Maria Adalberto, the coach of the Springfield Strikers who is from Spain, to discuss the status of the team and her performance in the past season. Later in the simulation, you will try to sign foreign free agents to play for the Strikers. These conversations will put your cross-cultural communication and more...

A New Manager s Responsibilities and Fears Promotion to management is obviously welcome and something to celebrate, but when the initial excitement is over, you may begin to wonder about your new responsibilities. Your main focus is now on managing the activities of others and ensuring that the company's resources are used effectively. Apprehensions about whether you are able to do the job are natural--it merely indicates a healthy respect more...

PrimeFinance How to Budget This course describes how to interpret and control budgets. Project managers and department managers who need to take on budgetary responsibilities and input into business decisions . more...

Introduction to Economics Basic Concepts in Microeconomics Basic Concepts in Microeconomics builds on the general principles introduced in The Principles of Economics by introducing the learner to microeconomic concepts and issues. Such things as market behavior and decision-making, consumer choice and preference and the factors that motivate firms are covered across a range of informative lessons situated in real-life scenarios. This course is aimed at more...

Master Budgets ... fortune teller. It will require the creation of a master budget. No matter the size of your company, if you are to succeed and continue to grow, you must carefully plan for your company's future. Master budgets can be used to predict the future success of your company and serve as a overall plan to indicate in which direction your company should grow. Individuals who require knowledge of the more...

Setting the Stage for IT Success How have the responsibilities of IT professionals changed over time? What can you do to bring together the diverse concerns of the IT department and top business managers? What are the best ways to convince management that your IT solutions are grounded in reality? Answers to these questions are presented in this course examining strategies that learners should know to understand the role of IT more...

Writing the Marketing Plan Creative Strategy You've completed the first part of your marketing plan. Now it's time to write about your marketing tactics. You'll discover just how to match your product with your target market, determining exactly what the competitive advantages of your particular product are. Then you'll explore the price-setting strategies that will help make your product a success. Marketing managers, supervisors or team more...

Financial Analysis for Successful Marketing Whether you have a "head" for numbers, or a "dread" of numbers, no strategic marketing plan will be successful without a thorough financial analysis. The final course in this series takes a user-friendly, interactive approach to help you master the numbers game. You will analyze typical financial parameters associated with setting up a financial budget as part of an overall marketing strategy. more...

Principles of Marketing Promotion Strategy Principles of Marketing: Promotion Strategy offers the student an overview of the information required to identify the elements of the promotional mix, determine appropriate promotional objectives, and select the advertising types and public relations tools to implement. The program details the procedures for creating an advertising campaign, the types of promotional strategies, and the steps of more...

Scoping Your Internet Project Create an eMarketing Budget While the Internet is renowned for being cost-effective, one stills need to budget for the activities associated with bringing the organization online. This course teaches learners how to create a comprehensive budget. Professionals who want to create and promote an online marketing strategy more...

Project Management Fundamentals ... products in the stipulated time and within the allocated budget. To achieve these goals, you must use the latest project management techniques that enable you to control a project from start to finish and motivate project teams to deliver best results. For smooth project execution, it is important that the student understand the basic concepts related to a project, such as the different phases more...

Logical Network Design This module focuses on technological design considerations, such as physical media characteristics, wide-area performance, network management, security, and Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) addressing. more...

Physical Network Design This module provides an overview of transmission media basics, including a look at structured wiring systems, cable characteristics, wireless LANs, and installation. more...

Physical Layer Implementation This WestNet e-Learning module provides an overview of transmission media basics, including a look at structured wiring systems, cable characteristics, wireless LANs, and installation. more...

Oracle 11i Oracle Projects and Task Definition I To define project setup options and project types to manage project structuring, resources, and workflow Functional Implementers; Project Managers; Sales Consultants more...

Oracle 11i Oracle Projects and Task Definition I To define project setup options and project types to manage project structuring, resources, and workflow Functional Implementers; Project Managers; Sales Consultants more...

Quicken 2005 Deluxe - Managing Your Personal Finances Quicken 2005 Deluxe - Managing Your Personal Finances teaches you the benefits of managing your finances using Quicken Deluxe 2005 on your home computer. You learn about the user interface of the Quicken software. Once familiar with the basic set up, the course moves you through working with categories, accounts, transactions, budgets, reports, and more. You also learn about the benefits of using more...

Creating and Designing a Project ...ssignment and management, resource allocation, costs, and budget control in an easy and intuitive way. Microsoft Office Project 2007 also enables the collection and sharing of project progress information with a project's team members and stakeholders. This course outlines the basics of project management, and shows how to create and manage a new project using Microsoft Office Project 2007. more...

Project Management - Project Cost Management In Project Management - Project Cost Management you will learn how to manage the Cost Management processes so that you can complete a project within an approved budget. You will learn how to make accurate estimates in order to improve project decisions create accurate budgets and effectively control costs throughout the project.  more...

Project Management: Estimating Costs This course covers resource identification, life cycle costing, the tools used to identify necessary project resources, and how to assign resources to activities. This program also includes instruction on how to use the work breakdown structure to complete cost approximation, how to use resource rates, estimating publications, historical information, and how to use a chart of accounts when more...

Managing Finances using Money 2002 The Managing Finances using Money 2002 course is the second course in the Works Suite 2002 curriculum. The course introduces the user to the fundamentals of Microsoft Money. Additionally the course details information about performing basic activities such as creating a Money file and managing accounts. It also details the processes involved in maintaining transaction details and creating and more...

Oracle Financial Analyzer for End-Users This course introduces the learner to the interface and functionality of an Oracle Financial Analyzer Budget workstation. Participants will be able to use Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA) to enter modify analyze display and submit financial data. This course covers the OFA interface reports graphs worksheets solve definitions models Web components and spreadsheet functionality. It also covers more...

Oracle Financial Analyzer 11i for End-Users ...ty of Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA) 11i (release 6.3.2) budget workstation interactive Web environment and Express Spreadsheet Add-In. Learners also will use case-study scenarios to explore the OFA and Oracle Express Server consolidated multidimensional database system. Additionally learners will design and analyze financial documents such as budgets and forecasts and enter and modify more...

Budgeting: Creating and Analyzing a Budget Budgeting: Creating and Analyzing a Budget gives the student an overview of the purpose of budgeting the types of budgets and the elements of a successful budget. The program includes a process for creating a budget ways to analyze and compare budgets and important guidelines to apply during the budgeting process.  more...

Budgeting: Capital Budgeting Budgeting: Capital Budgeting gives the student an overview of capital budgeting basics methods for discounting cash flows and how discount rates are determined. This program includes a process for assembling a capital budget and one for justifying a capital budget. Additionally the program outlines how capital budgets are evaluated and approved.  more...

Project Management Essentials: Project Scheduling and Budgeting Project Management Essentials: Project Scheduling and Budgeting offers the student an overview of the information required to develop a project schedule and budget. The program details types of network diagrams Gantt charts CPM scheduling and activity duration compression. In addition the program details actions for optimizing project activities and factors that influence cost estimating.  more...

Project Management Essentials: Controlling and Closing a Project Project Management Essentials: Controlling and Closing a Project offers the student an overview of the information required to control project changes measure project performance and use project performance reports. The program details steps for accommodating change actions for controlling the project schedule and budget and steps for closing a project.  more...

SAP R/3 IM Investment Management This course deals with investment programs (structure planning and budget) internal orders investment procedures (characteristics master data postings accounts receivable depreciation settlement) and the information system (research planned values and budget values).  more...

MS Excel 95 In this course, students will learn to use the various features of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel (version. 7.0) for Windows 95. The focus is on the creation of a home budget which includes advanced formatting, formulas, linked worksheets, OLE objects, and charts. more...