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How To Master Performance Management ...n -- Managing employee performance is the single greatest challenge facing supervisors and other leaders in today's competitive and fast-paced organizations. Learn how to maximize the contributions of each employee by setting effective goals, monitoring accomplishments, recognizing achievements, and disciplining or redirecting those who are not meeting performance requirements. IMPORTANT NOTE: more...

How To Master Supervision ...scription -- Supervisors in all functions face a daunting challenge as they bridge the gap between individual contributors and management. This bundle addresses four critical competence areas, beginning with an overview of successful supervision and attacking three major supervisory responsibilitiesa leading meetings, managing projects, and delegating. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) more...

The Banking Industry Overview Version 2 ...pressures, consolidation, and technological and marketing challenges, not to mention unforeseen financial and political crises. However, with cash and capital, banks are positioning themselves to succeed in the future, while coping with regulatory compliance, global competition, and financial and operational risk.This course provides an overview of the banking industry. First, this course more...

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 more...

The Telecommunications Industry Overview Version 2 Connecting the globe, the telecommunications industry is an essential element of the modern business world. It is also one of the most volatile. Plagued by regulatory discord and economic uncertainty, telecom carriers have struggled to maintain sound footing and a competitive edge, all the while endeavoring to provide crucial, uninterrupted service to their customers. In an age of rapidly more...

Call Center Operations Workforce Management This course describes forecasting, scheduling, occupancy and staffing principles, and explains their impact on the life of an agent and the success of a call center. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance measurement for both agents and call centers. more...

Managing a Customer-focused Department Simulation ...omers is important, but retaining them is an even greater challenge. It takes only a moment--a single lapse in service; an unmet expectation; a delay in delivery--to lose a customer forever and tarnish a company's reputation. To counter this, customer service representatives must remain vigilante, on top of their game at all times. As a customer service manager, it's your job to help your more...

Managing Delivery ...rol systems. Keeping motivated and focused will also be a challenge, particularly if the project is lengthy and demanding. It is unlikely that everything will run smoothly. You may experience difficulties that push you to the limit. But all is not lost. The way that you handle problems will be the deciding factor as to whether you gain repeat business or not. Most of all, as an external more...

Customer Support Specialist Simulation ...g the company's products. You are a recent hire. An added challenge to your new position is that you have been assigned to work the graveyard shift. Your challenge is to figure out how to handle dealing with angry, difficult, and demanding phone customers before stress gets the best of you. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series "HDI - Customer Support Specialist" and contains links more...

Managing the Quality of the Customer Support Service Center ...rience problems with your service represent a significant challenge to your company. If the support center is able to deal with incidents efficiently, your company can benefit enormously. Reputation and customer satisfaction can be restored and procedures can be established to recognize and prevent future incidents. This course examines the processes involved in incident management and how a more...

Elements of Project Human Resource Management ... 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 project team to project completion and success. This course will emphasize the importance of Project Human more...

Project Management for Non-Project Managers Simulation ...skills in a secure, virtual environment before facing the challenge of an actual, real-world project. Over the course of the simulation, participants will be tested on the objectives of transitioning to project manager, managing an imposed project team, demonstrating effective leadership, monitoring project activities and quality, maintaining control of a project, and problem solving and more...

Making Telephone Calls Count ...he telephone merely satisfactory, or is it superior? When challenges present themselves, how well do you handle yourself? What do your actions say about your company? You may think telephone interactions are all simple and straightforward. The customer talks. You listen. But how well do you listen on the telephone? Are you missing key opportunities to address the caller's needs? Does the caller more...

Developing a Positive Attitude Oftentimes your success or failure depends not only on the situation you are in, but how you react to that situation. Your reaction to the situations you encounter is significantly influenced by your attitude. Having a positive attitude involves looking for the best in a situation, being realistic about possibilities and consequences, and having the courage to believe that you can succeed. It more...

Managing Conflict in the Workplace Simulation Conflict is inevitable in the workplace. Everybody has their own ideas about how things should run. Eventually, these ideas will collide. When they do, you don't need to be unprepared to manage the fallout. Above and beyond all the skills you can possibly learn for managing conflict, effective communication skills will prove to be the most beneficial. Without open lines of honest communication in more...

Getting Results without Authority Simulation You have been hired within the last year as a design engineer at Autorad, a company that manufactures automotive components. Historically, the company specialized in custom-designed components for limited production runs. In recent years, the company has moved into more mainstream applications and must adapt to a mass-production mind-set. Your team has been working on a new steering wheel design more...

Continuous Performance Assessment ... Even with conventional roles and relationships this is a challenge, but for many organizations, the role of the employee is more flexible, and reporting arrangements are more remote. The 21st century manager has to plan to appraise employees he may rarely see. The second stage is changing the annual performance meeting into ongoing communication about performance between the manager and more...

Attracting Motivating and Retaining Technical Professionals ...tasks. This course is designed to help managers meet that challenge. In it you will learn the factors and techniques that can attract competent technical people to a job, and you will learn how to apply these techniques to your own company. Plus, you will explore how to create the kind of work environment that will support and delight these professionals so they will continue to improve their more...

Leading Generations X and Next This course deals with the characteristics and needs of the two youngest generations in the work force--Generations X and Next. These two generations have quite different attitudes toward work and career development. The first lesson identifies the needs of younger people with regard to their unique position in modern markets, desire for flexibility, desired work rewards, and career development more...

Managing Managers ...ess strategy. Managing managers is likely to be a greater challenge than ever before. It requires a new set of skills, insights, and competencies to drive performance and improve the bottom line. Successful managers must not only have the ability to continuously drive their managers to respond to change and stay ahead of the learning curve, they must also cope with any performance impediments, more...

Coaching Personalities and Teams Simulation ...d packaging on its flagship candy bar, the Dulce bar. The challenge of the repackaging initiative is to appeal to a younger demographic while not alienating the candy's older and loyal consumers. The Marketing Director and Team Lead at Dulce Confections has asked you to assume the role of project manager and coach for this initiative. Within your team there is great support and enthusiasm for 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...

Communicating with Power and Confidence ... you want to take charge, welcome responsibility and view challenge as an opportunity? In today's workplace, when administrative support professionals talk, supervisors listen. They have been empowered and given many managerial responsibilities. They can now work alongside rather than as subordinates to their managers. They no longer only proofread, make coffee, or take notes. Today they run more...

IT Challenges Present and Future ...ith every improvement in information technology comes new challenge. Whether trying to upgrade systems, enhance e-commerce opportunities, or simply make projects more successful, your job as IT manager is to avoid the pitfalls inherent in each task. Meanwhile, new and demanding responsibilities are on the horizon for governance, cybersecurity, and incident response, fields that are still under more...

Lean Concepts ...iness processes are 90 waste and 10 value-added work. The challenge for businesses today is to find new ways to dramatically reduce costs and improve investment returns while better serving their customers. To meet these challenges, organizations have turned to Lean Thinking, which seeks the elimination of all forms of waste, strives for continuous improvement, and simplifies business more...

Six Sigma Introduction ...ization. You will then examine how you can meet Six Sigma challenges and the skills you will need to grow in a Six Sigma organization. As a result of taking this course, you will have an internal understanding of Six Sigma. You will then be able to recognize processes that need improving. You will be able to meet the Six Sigma challenge and assist in building a Six S This course is designed for more...

OS 390 MQ Series ...s its use on the OS/390 platform. It begins by describing challenge fundamental to applications running across networks consisting of diverse platforms, then proposes MQSeries as the key middleware solution. The benefits of messaging and queuing are explored. Additional problematic applications scenarios are discussed, and MQSeries is shown to be an effective solution to each. Various types of more...

e-Business Part 1 Facing the e-Business Challenge The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business. The target audience is those individuals tasked with planning/implementing e-Business strategies within an organization (primarily technical and business managers, as opposed to programmers, network engineers, more...

e-Business Part 1: Facing the e-Business Challenge The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business. more...

Rising to the Customer Challenge: Turn Complaints into Delight Rising to the Customer Challenge: Turn Complaints into Delight is the tenth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the benefits of customer complaints and identify the steps in the service recovery process. The PrimeCustomer Care curriculum offers a useful toolkit of practical customer care techniques and job aids for today's more...

Rising to the Customer Challenge: Engage Difficult Customers ...Challenge: Engage Difficult Customers is the eleventh of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the five guidelines for handling the unreasonable customer identify the four guidelines for handling the angry customer and identify the four guidelines for handling the unhelpful colleague. The PrimeCustomer Care curriculum offers a useful more...

Administrative Assistant Skills: Enhancing Your Skills In Administrative Assistant Skills: Enhancing Your Skills you will learn how to communicate effectively be a team player and encourage cooperation when you do not have formal authority over others. You will also learn how to project a professional image dress professionally and practice effective conflict resolution when dealing with difficult people. In addition you will learn how to manage more...

Managing Performance: Overcoming Performance Appraisal Challenges In Managing Performance: Overcoming Performance Appraisal Challenges you will learn how to encourage regular communication how to conduct a status meeting and how to document ongoing communication. You will also learn how to respond to a defensive employee and how to resolve conflict in an appraisal discussion. In addition you will learn about the laws governing the appraisal process so you can more...

e-Business Part 1: Facing the e-Business Challenge The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history trends and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business.  more...