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Creating an Effective Sales Team ...ment of a sales forcea s success, and it has some unique challenges. In this course, a sales force leader will learn how to get a sales team organized, motivated, and focused on results. There are suggestions and tools for creating a cohesive team, developing a high level of commitment to goals, and coaching sales professionals for improved performance. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE)  more...

Leadership Assessment Profile ...Leadership Profile indicates your potential to handle the challenges of responsibility. Your online assessment tells you if you are likely to achieve what you want, and points to the areas you need to work on to increase the likelihood of success.Students may complete this course within a reasonable period of time. Contact Hours give an indication of how much time is needed to take this class.  more...

Pharmacy Technician National Certification Exam Preparation Course Would you like to become a Nationally Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)? Take your career to the next level and get this credential. Many Pharmacy Technicians who become certified receive financial compensation and several states are even requiring Certification for employment. Keep your employment opportunities open and make the most of your career by becoming Certified. The Pharmacy  more...

Attract Financial Prosperity - An Effective Program to Manifest Financial Abundance Are you ready to eliminate financial struggles? Take control of your life with this one-month transformative program that incorporates a spiritual approach to solving your prosperity challenges through aromatherapy oil recipes, meditations, affirmations, and much more.  more...

How To Master Time Management This course is designed to show students how to use the tools of Microsoft Outlook 2002 to manage time. It combines the best of the old and new theories of research of time management. Students will be encouraged to understand their time management challenges and adapt the suggestions to fit their management style/needs.  more...

LBD: Behavior Reduction and Challenges Describes behavior reduction strategies, such as employing effective procedures to handle various challenging behaviors.  more...

Royce Hotel Case Study 1: Understanding the Business Operations planning and Operations Management has never been more sophisticated, nor more demanding. The pressure to improve quality; the need to manage materials and people more cost effectively; the drive to manage capacity more flexibly; and develop control systems which highlight problems while there's still time to do something about them, conspire to make the role of Operations Manager one  more...

Internetworking Technologies - Part 2 This is the second course in a four-part series on Internetworking Technologies 2.0. This series will help students to understand terms, concepts, technologies, and devices commonly used in networking. This course will cover Wide Area Network technologies, switching technologies, and source-route bridging technology.  more...

Grammar Skills: Punctuation, Mechanics and Word Usage In Grammar Skills: Punctuation, Mechanics, and Word Usage, participants learn proper word choice and usage, review rules for punctuation and mechanics, and receive guidance on spotting confusing homonyms and overcoming common spelling challenges and errors.  more...

Distributed Application Design and Development using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - Part 1 This is the first course in a three part series designed for developers. This series will introduce them to the opportunities and challenges of creating enterprise-level applications. Participants will see how creating such flexible and scalable applications can be challenging and will learn how to address these challenges by employing appropriate design, tools, and technology.  more...

Distributed Application Design and Development using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - Part 2 This is the second course in a three part series designed for developers. This series will introduce them to the opportunities and challenges of creating enterprise-level applications. Participants will see how creating such flexible and scalable applications can be challenging and will learn how to address these challenges by employing appropriate design, tools, and technology.  more...

Distributed Application Design and Development using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - Part 3 This is the final course in a three part series designed for developers. This series will introduce them to the opportunities and challenges of creating enterprise-level applications. Participants will see how creating such flexible and scalable applications can be challenging and will learn how to address these challenges by employing appropriate design, tools, and technology.  more...

Large Network Case Studies In this module, we explore network availability, performance, and Internet connectivity. As you work through this module, you will come to appreciate that all network design issues are highly interrelated. Likewise, real-world design projects often include multiple broad goals, often creating large and complex trade-offs.  more...

Federal Government Industry Overview Version 1 ...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 implementation of e-government, and strategic management and  more...

The Automotive Industry Overview Version 2 Trends in the automotive industry are considered a barometer of a mature economy. The industry has been going through some dramatic changes in the last few years, and major manufacturers, including the Big Three (General Motors, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler) and their suppliers, are reorganizing to be competitive in the global marketplace. In the unrelenting push for lower costs, operational  more...

The Oil and Gas Industry Overview Version 2 ... the oil and gas industry. While oil companies face tough challenges in finding new sources of oil and gas to replace the old ones, the emerging oil demand and supply equation renders some of the world's most powerful nations increasingly dependent on some of the world's most unstable regions. As a result, companies are applying advanced technologies and improved processes to meet growing  more...

The Pharmaceutical Industry Overview Version 2 Billions of people around the world depend on the pharmaceutical industry to help them live longer, healthier, and happier lives. However, the pharmaceutical industry is continually tasked with alleviating its own ailments, including slow growth and declining profitability owing to pricing, safety, marketing and regulatory issues. In order for companies to remain competitive in a highly regulated  more...

The Food and Beverage Industry Overview Version 2 The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star, says Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in his famous work, The Physiology of Taste. However, when leading food and beverage manufacturers introduce more than 15,000 new products every year with an average success rate of only 25 , such happiness can be fleeting. Few industries have as much pressure placed upon them  more...

The Health Care Industry Overview Version 2 There is growing evidence that the current health systems around the world will be unsustainable if they go unchanged over the coming years. The health care industry is under constant pressure to streamline operations and cut extraneous spending, while providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to its patients. In addition, operating in a highly regulated environment, industry players need  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 Manufacturing Industry Overview Version 2 Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. Companies in the manufacturing industry seem to be taking this lesson from the legendary management guru, Peter F. Drucker, very seriously now. The manufacturing industry - the powerhouse driving many economies - has been reeling under the most challenging time in its history. Manufacturers are striving to be more innovative, compete  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...

The Insurance Industry Overview Version 2 The insurance industry has its share of risks and opportunities. While providing risk coverage to individuals and businesses, insurers are striving hard to manage their own risks in the wake of natural and human-made disasters, financial setbacks, and governance scandals. As margins are squeezed in the face of low underwriting profitability and the cushion of investment returns begins to shrink,  more...

Telecommunications Industry Overview Version 1 Connecting the world, the telecommunications industry stands as one of the most essential elements of the 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  more...

ITIL Financial and Security Management ...challenges every day. Two of the biggest challenges are to become and stay profitable and to protect their systems from unauthorized access. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help IT organizations set up rigorous processes to aid in their efforts to become and remain solvent and to keep their systems secure. The  more...

Technical Support Essentials These days, technical support agents (TSAs) can't provide world-class technical service and support unless they understand contact center technology. They also need to understand the various elements and stages of a call--and what to do with the information gained. This course explains contact center technology and TSA activities. It covers the technology that links the TSA to the customer and to  more...

The Inbound Call Center ...enter managers of this century will face many of the same challenges that their counterparts faced in the 20th century. The emphasis will still be on the development and acquisition of cost-effective methods to provide customers with the service they demand. By ensuring that you have a good knowledge base of the inbound call center industry, you are establishing a sturdy framework for success.  more...

Managing Challenges in Customer Service ... impatient, and infuriated. CSAs are expected to meet the challenges of handling all of these calls and customers with speed, skill, accuracy, and composure. This course helps CSAs to manage these challenges successfully. It teaches CSAs effective techniques for handling aggressive callers, such as controlling, outraged, and threatening customers. It also teaches CSAs practical methods of  more...

Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call ...l events have forced companies to cope with a host of new challenges by being flexible. Flexibility is a key factor in customer call centers. As a customer service agent (CSA), you handle dozens of calls a day, effectively helping customers by providing efficient solutions. At the end of this positive interaction, it makes sense to recommend additional or better products that will further aid  more...

Information Technology IT Industry Overview Version 1 Though estimates on global spending for information and communications technologies run in the trillions of dollars, this giant industry continues to struggle through fluctuating markets and must concentrate on continuous improvement to survive. Most agree that the demand for IT products and services will continue to increase, but at the same time, the customer is demanding more value per dollar  more...

Diagnosing and Planning ...ation is unique: there are different people and different challenges. One size does not fit all. You cannot respond to each and every organization in the same way. Rapidly learning about the peculiarities of each business is one of the biggest challenges you face. Take the time to plan what you deliver to clients. Time spent planning implementation--the resources and budget that you'll  more...

A Workable Solution for Internal Clients ...challenges of working as an internal consultant is that of "making things happen." But making decisions isn't always easy. There are so many options and you may encounter resistance to changes you propose during internal consulting assignments. How should you deal with this? And how can you be so sure that working practices won't simply revert back once you're "off the scene?" You don't want to  more...

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  more...

Project Leadership Leading the Project Team Project Leadership: Leading the Project Team covers how to lead a project team in a way that ensures project success. The program details desirable project manager characteristics, skills, and styles, as well as how project managers can motivate project teams. In addition, the program covers how to manage project risk, guarantee on-time project completion, and prioritize projects. The target  more...

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  more...

Stakeholder Interests and Cultural Diversity PMBOK aligned As the project manager, you're in the center of the storm. The competing interests of stakeholders--including those of the client, the company, the legal and social environment, and the team itself--are your responsibility. Weighing these interests in the most fair and productive manner is an acquired art you can't afford to neglect. But that's not all. In an increasingly global network, project  more...

Working with Difficult People Respond to Challenges ...Challenges, is the thirteenth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to demonstrate several techniques to effectively handle minor and periodic personality differences. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common barriers to success..  more...

Solving Problems Logically Solve Problems Together This course helps learners to recognize and identify the groups and individual roles in the problem solving process. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Solving Problems Logically The Problem Solving Process This course outlines the fundamental steps for effective problem solving and identifies attitudinal characteristics that facilitate success. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Defining the Issue Determine the Real Problem This course describes how to create a focused problem statement using the Occam s Razor method. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Investigating the Problem Use Investigative Tools This course introduces process-oriented methods that assist in the analysis of various elements associated with a stated problem. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Investigating the Problem Gather Evidence This course describes several data gathering techniques that can be used to improve problem analysis procedures and the resulting decisions. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Investigating the Problem Interpret Data This course explains how to use visual tools to interpret data. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Selecting the Solution Solve Problems Methodically This course introduces Force Field Analysis and Solutions Fishbone Diagram problem solving techniques. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Selecting the Solution Group-Based Solutions This course introduces Modified-Delphi, swapping, and visualization problem solving techniques. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Selecting the Solution Cost-Benefit Solutions This course helps learners to recognize and apply cost-benefit analysis procedures. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Accepting the Decision Sell Your Solution This course provides a series of helpful tips to persuade decision-makers to approve the proposed solution. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Accepting the Decision Implement Decisions This course helps learners to identify progress points and areas for future improvement at the conclusion of the problem resolution process. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

Making Group Decisions Working Together This course introduces several strategies to recognize and overcome challenges that can hamper a general group consensus. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  more...

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.  more...

Making Group Decisions Ensure Group Success This course describes four methods to generate successful problem solving decisions. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.  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...

Effective Mentoring Perhaps your organization has asked you to help induct a new employee. Maybe a junior colleague has approached you for guidance. Or perhaps you want to "fast track" a rising star into a particular leadership position. Whatever the case, before you sign on as a mentor you'll want to learn all you can about the process, from how mentoring benefits you and your career to how you can best assist your  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. The target audience for this series is managers,  more...

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  more...

Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals ...ood for your company, and good for you. One of your major challenges as a manager of technical people is retaining them. And you may also need to recruit technical people to fill higher-level positions in your company. This course will help you use career development as a technique to both motivate and retain technical professionals, as well as to place some of them on career paths that will  more...

Transitioning From Technical Professional to Management For candidates considering the move from positions as technical professionals to management, certain professional traits and skills are necessary. Effective communication skills, efficient strategies, and managerial competencies must all be mastered and continuously honed. The Transitioning from Technical Professional to Management Simulation will provide participants with the opportunity to  more...

e-Mentoring ...s tool: e-Mentoring. Here's an opportunity to examine the challenges and advantages of e-Mentoring and explore how to adapt communication skills to electronic media. Learn how to grow and manage e-Mentoring relationships by effectively selecting and matching e-Mentors and proteges, developing trust, using technology effectively, setting expectations, providing feedback, and addressing  more...

Leadership in Management Simulation ...nager of the department. But with the new title comes new challenges--some from sources you may never have expected. But challenges like these are all part of moving into management and assuming the mantle of leadership. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series "Moving into a Management Role" and contains links to the following courses: MGMT0002, MGMT0003, and MGMT0004. Anyone who is  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...

Making Cross-generational Teams Work Teams in the modern workplace may include members from as many as four different generations. For a team to work effectively, its manager must understand generational distinctions. Individual team members may subscribe to different values, practice different work habits, or seek different goals. Lessons in this course cover the benefits and challenges of teaming silent generation, baby boom  more...

Cross-generational Workers in the 21st Century This course deals with preparing the work force generations (silent generation, baby boomers, Generation X, and Generation Next) for the workplace of the 21st century. The course's first lesson identifies the contributions each generational group makes to the workplace today. Contributions will center on the concepts of outlook, work ethic, and preferred leadership style. The second lesson in the  more...

Succession Planning Overview Do you have people in your organization that are indispensable for its success? Would losing them create a hole that would be hard to fill? Have you planned to fill these vacancies? This course introduces you to succession planning--the planning process of identifying, assessing, and developing leadership and talent for future vacancies. This course will familiarize you with the key concepts that  more...

Succession Planning Management ...ts goals. You will also learn how to overcome some common challenges that management teams face when trying to find the right people for a position. Since succession planning is an ongoing process, you will also learn how to evaluate your succession program to ensure that it meets your organization's present and future needs. Managers, executives, succession planners (consultants), and HR  more...

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,  more...

Managing Cross-Functions ...challenges of the current global business environment. Managers must now rely upon other divisions, departments, or functions in order to allocate resources, prioritize their staff time, and cooperate with each other. This requires that managers develop a degree of systems thinking where managers operate in a large interconnected system of value chains. These developments place a premium on  more...

Managing For High Performance ...challenges. Often they must rely on their best personnel to get them out of a jam. But do they have the necessary skills and strategies for managing these key people? This course will examine what organizations need to do to ensure that they attract high performers, how they allow this talent to thrive, and, most importantly, how to avoid losing the talent to the competition. In addition,  more...

Organizational Learning Transferring Knowledge within an Organization In Organizational Learning: Transferring Knowledge within an Organization, you will learn to use management tools and identify challenges encountered when using technology for knowledge transfer. You will also learn how to encourage knowledge transfer through employee empowerment and incentives, as well as how to address and overcome transfer reluctance. Managers, supervisors, and executives who  more...

E-Learning Essentials Pt 1 E-Learning and Successful Strategy ... offerings within the scope of e-learning and the various challenges that arise in implementing an e-learning solution. It places e-learning within the context of learning and knowledge management and the role of e-learning in harnassing an organizations's intellectual and human assests. The course covers the importance of a clear and effective strategy in successfully implementing an  more...

E-Learning Essentials Pt 3 Deploying and Measuring Your Solution ...eployment, technological, interoperability and multi-site challenges are addressed, as well as using the Internet, choosing the right platform, managing learners and learning objects. The final area to be covered is that of measuring the e-learning solution, integrating measurement with the solution deployment, how to carry out effective measurement and present results. The course closes with  more...

Behavior Putting Your Best Foot Forward ...u like your job to be more interesting, to offer you more challenges? Today's workplace offers more opportunities than ever for administrative support professionals to assume more responsibility and be more active in office decision-making. This course will show you some ways to assess yourself to ensure you're ready to work towards a new role. It will also show you some techniques for  more...

Partnering with Your Boss You may have noticed that the traditional secretary has gone the way of the dinosaur. However, your boss may not yet have entered this new age in which administrative support professionals are working as partners with their managers and supervisors. This course will equip you to make the transition from working as a subordinate who follows orders, to partnering with your boss as an empowered and  more...

Advanced Administrative Support Simulation ...d avoiding the influence of negative people are among the challenges you'll face. If you take Maxine's advice and successfully improve your skills, you'll then try to establish a partnership with her. This will involve effectively pitching your partnership proposal. If she agrees to the proposal, you'll then have to implement the partnership plan. Also, as Maxine's partner, you'll need to  more...

Advancing Your Administrative Career Getting a position as an administrative support professional is a great accomplishment. However, have you considered what your next move should be? This course will show you how to advance on the job by providing you with important information about having a professional image and a successful attitude. You will learn valuable leadership skills and methods for motivating others. You will gain  more...

Effective Administrative Support Professional Simulation ...u'll experience the full spectrum of responsibilities and challenges that face administrative professionals. Whether greeting visiting clients, drafting memos or dealing with office politics, you'll want to stay sharp, keeping the ultimate goal in mind--administrative excellence. This simulation provides links to the following SkillSoft courses: ADM0101, ADM0102 and ADM0103. Administrative  more...

International Finance Perhaps you have wondered how one can successfully navigate the maze of options and opportunities offered by the international financial markets. Are there ways to maximize profits while effectively minimizing risk when it comes to dealing on the global level? This course will demonstrate why you would want to transform your purely domestic firm into a multinational corporation; how you decide  more...

Globalization and Your Company This course will help you decide if globalization really makes sense for your product or service. You'll learn about the challenges of taking a product or service global, and ways to determine global readiness. You'll also explore business approaches for globalization, including the development of foreign operations. Executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and other business professionals  more...

Managing from a Global Viewpoint The process of managing on a global scale requires a step up from domestic management. In this course, you'll learn what it takes to be a global manager or team leader. You'll start with establishing a global mind-set and learning about the attributes of a global manager. Then, you'll explore cross-cultural communication and ways to effectively support and work with a globally based team.  more...

IT Challenges Present and Future With 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...

The Six Sigma Project Charter and Plan What constitutes a project charter? How do you know whether you've set the right goals for your project? What tools can best help you plan your project? As you advance in this course--which focuses on project charter elements as well as planning tools and project documentation--you will obtain the skills and knowledge required to manage your project charter and plan. Six Sigma is a registered  more...

Lean Concepts ...turns 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 processes. This course explores how businesses that implement Lean Thinking learn how to reduce waste, streamline production and improve operational flexibility. Practical  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...

Six Sigma DMAIC Defining the Problem ...ic, objective, and measurable process for quantifying the challenges facing your organization. In lesson one, "The Project Charter," you'll learn guidelines for developing a problem statement, measuring your Six Sigma project, and determining its goal. In the second lesson, "The SIPOC Diagram," you'll learn how to create, and then apply, this useful tool to your unique situation. Finally, in  more...

Leadership ...ores the concepts of organizational design and leadership challenges. It is aligned with the Quality Management Division of the American Society for Quality's Certification Handbook and is designed to assist learners as part of their preparation for the ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence certification exam. Corporate directors of quality, quality managers, and executives  more...

Scoping Your Internet Project Research Accurate Data This course helps learners to recognize the challenges associated with online research, and how to effectively research accurate, ethical, and useful data through searches and surveys on the Internet. Professionals who want to create and promote an online marketing strategy  more...

Doing Business with the Government This course explains how to identify, win, and manage contracts with the largest consumer of goods and services in the world--the U.S. government. Each year the federal government awards contracts worth over $200 billion to businesses of all sizes and diversity. Of the 20 percent of contracts designated for small businesses, one quarter are aimed at women-owned businesses and another quarter for  more...

HIPAA Implementing Privacy Rules ...ivacy rules is mandatory. These rules present significant challenges to the day-to-day operations of organizations involved in the healthcare industry. Organizations that don't change internal procedures to comply with HIPAA regulations risk significant fines. This course offers a practical guide to implementing and complying with the HIPAA privacy rules. The course helps healthcare  more...

Introducing User-Centered Design To identify the principles and benefits of user-centered design and to determine a practical approach to promoting user-centered design methodology in organizations This path is targeted primarily at software architects and project managers working on high level design. This path will also target programmers and developers looking to improve their skills in user centered software design.  more...

OS 390 MQ Series This course teaches the fundamentals of using IBM MQSeries messaging technology with specific emphasis towards 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  more...

Web Security This WestNet e-Learning module covers Security Considerations, Security Management, and Firewall Considerations. With the increasing number of transactions occurring on the World Wide Web (Web), a logical, thorough security policy is crit-ical to maintaining consistent operations and ensuring quality content. Deciding what type of software services will be allowed on your site and what kind of  more...

Troubleshooting Wireless LAN Installations In this module, we discuss the more common obstacles to successful implementation of a wireless LAN, and how to troubleshoot them. Wireless LANs have their own set of challenges, mainly dealing with the behavior of RF signals. There are different methods of discovering when these challenges exist and each of the challenges discussed has its remedies and workarounds.  more...

4G Implementations To outline 4G wireless networks and applications Technical professionals; IT and business managers who need to learn about emerging broadband wireless technologies; students studying or researching broadband wireless communications and technologies  more...

e-Business Part 4 Securing Your Infrastructure The fourth course in the e-Business curriculum examines the security risks and requirements of an e-Business environment e.g. viruses and hoaxes etc. It covers the inherent lack of Internet security and goes on to cover creating security strategies and policies. It also covers security schemas and tools. It also explains the role of cryptology and cryptographic tools. It introduces client and  more...

Large Network Implementation Case Studies In this WestNet e-Learning module, we consider general implementation goals, such as Internet connectivity, network performance, convergence, and remote access.  more...

VoIP Network Engineering Management and Support This module explores telecommunications and converged network design and engineering principles. We review the Erlang and Poisson traffic estimation formulas. We learn the steps necessary to plan, design, and engineer a converged network. We discover methods we can use to measure the converged network s voice quality, and how we can determine the effects the final network design has on overall  more...

Building and Securing VoIP Networks To identify how to implement numbering plans and scalable dial plans for VoIP networks, calculate existing bandwidth and additional bandwidth requirements for voice and data traffic, and recognize the implications of implementing security measures in IP networks that transport voice IT professionals responsible for preparing, configuring, and maintaining a voice and data network; candidates  more...

Cisco ISCW 1 0 Network Connectivity To recognize Cisco architectural framework models and network requirements, and how remote connections are established Network administrators; network engineers; network managers; systems managers; network designers who wish to validate their ability to install, configure and troubleshoot converged local and wide area networks with 100 to 500 nodes  more...

Networking Overview for Oracle9i Administrators To provide an overview of the networking solutions and the components of the network architecture in an Oracle9i database Oracle database administrators and database operators  more...

Organizational Crisis Management - Managing a Crisis ...nagement during and after a crisis. It starts by covering challenges presented by crises the importance of crisis recognition and immediate management strategies on sudden crisis outbreak. It then moves on to management of information decision-making and managing with regard to legal issues. The final section covers guidelines for managing specific crisis types for example product recalls  more...

Listening Skills: Listening Challenges This course's aim is to help the learner overcome listening problems and enable him or her to communicate more effectively. It identifies barriers to listening and provides useful guidelines for improving the learner's listening skills. This course concentrates on how to interpret use and improve body language as a form of communication. Finally it identifies common listening styles so the  more...

Project Management: The Fundamentals This program covers the terms and concepts that serve as the foundation of project management training. Students learn how projects are initiated, how project and product management differ, and the five project management process groups. In addition, students will gain an understanding of the environmental and socioeconomic issues that affect projects and how they are managed. This program also  more...

Value Chain Management: Managing the Transition to a Value Chain ...challenges involved in value chain management. Moving from and old supply chain model to a new value chain model involves greater collaboration between business units and partners. The course also focuses on some challenges in the execution of your business design and strategy. The course also covers managing the transition to the optimal value chain. It looks at various models for change that  more...

Internetworking Technologies - Part 2 This is the second course in a four-part series on Internetworking Technologies 2.0. This series will help students to understand terms, concepts, technologies, and devices commonly used in networking. This course will cover Wide Area Network technologies, switching technologies, and source-route bridging technology.  more...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000: Part 1 - Introduction to BizTalk Server 2000 This is the first course in a five part series that introduces the learner to the context of BizTalk operations identifying the main challenges of EAI and B2B communications. BizTalk is contextualized in terms of a solution to these various challenges. This course covers the BizTalk administration model and its tools and services. It also covers the installation requirements for BizTalk and the  more...

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Technology Overview: Part 1 - .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET ...er to the .NET Framework placing it in the context of the challenges of application integration and the solution it offers in terms on distributed computing. Central elements of the .NET Framework are introduced - The Common Language Runtime Class Libraries the IDE and benefits of the Framework. The course also provides a high-level introduction to Visual Studio.NET and discusses its most  more...

Building XML-Based Web Applications Part 1: XML Introduction and Technologies ...ontext of its use as a solution to information processing challenges and its uses within commercial and business environments. This course introduces the learner to a history of XML and its response to the challenges of data structuring and information processing. The core W3C specifications for XML and the business and commercial uses of XML are introduced. The course goes also covers the  more...

Time Management: Overcoming Challenges ...Challenges gives students an overall view of how to control time in order to improve productivity. The program covers how to control productivity by dealing with people and managing information and offers the student techniques to overcome time management challenges. The program also covers handling interruptions keeping meetings productive and organizing paperwork identifying and overcoming  more...

Call Center: Inbound Customer Service In Call Center: Inbound Customer Service you will identify what challenges come from the situation the caller