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Choosing a Childcare Provider Course description -- There are numerous options from which to choose a child care provider, and ita s important to find the one that meets your needs the best. This course has guidelines and tools for identifying the essential services that you should expect, determining the competence of the child care staff, matching a childa s needs with the providera s capabilities, and assuring that the  more...

How To Master Personal And Family Course description -- It wasn't so long ago that companies expected employees to give their all to the job and sacrifice their lives in order to get ahead. Now most organizations understand that employees are whole people who show up for work each day, people who want to be effective not just on the job, but in their personal lives as well. This bundle helps employees deal with some of the thorny  more...

Basics of Effective Communication Course description -- Basics of Effective Communication examines the fundamental elements of communication and describes how you can send clear and consistent messages to a Receiver. It gives tips for choosing the right communication method and considering other important factors that impact effectiveness. It covers effective listening and feedback skills in practical and immediately useful  more...

Effective Presentations 3: Put Your Skills To The Test XEBEC: The final part of the Effective Presentations series concentrates on putting the presenter's skills to the test. From within a fictitious but very realistic simulation, they can evaluate their progress through each stage, choosing how to proceed in the most effective manner through to a successful outcome. Even highly experienced presenters can use this course to access, hone and perfect  more...

Role Play Preparation Skills The thought of giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! This course will help you rise to the occasion, by putting your preparatory skills to the test. From within a fictitious but realistic case study you can step through  more...

Microsoft Windows Architecture II: User Interface, Internet/Intranet and Choosing Technologies This course is the final part of the four part series for the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems and Services Architecture (WOSA) exams I and II.  more...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 1: Naming and Delegation Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 1: Naming and Delegation Strategy is the first course in this series. Its focus is showing the learner how to analyze company's organizational requirements. It also covers how to design for the common architectural elements of Active Directory. It also covers the design considerations in relation to Naming strategy, Domain  more...

The Process of Globalizing a Product or Service Actually going global takes both planning and doing. In this course, you'll learn about the three major steps you need to cover to globalize a product or service. First, pick the right geographic location for your corporate goals and create a good plan for globalizing the product or service you're working with. Then "globalize" your product or service and let the world know you're open for  more...

Launching Successful On-site and Virtual Teams One factor that defines team success is the way in which a team is launched. Quickly moving an on-site or a virtual team into high-performance mode takes planning, strategizing, and a seamless launch. In this course, you'll learn techniques for setting up a successful team that can be applied to an on-site or a virtual environment. First, you'll learn strategies for selecting high-performing team  more...

Field Sales Foundations Many field sales representatives are set loose on their assigned territories armed only with a few sales tips and some information about the products and services they're selling. This course builds the foundation for a strategy that changes the customer's perception of the salesperson from a mere vendor to a consultant and true business resource. Field Sales Foundations introduces you to the  more...

Customer Relationship Management Fundamentals of CRM Customer Relationship Management: Fundamentals of CRM introduces the student to the benefits of creating customer loyalty, developing a market intelligence enterprise, and incorporating customer relationship management into your company. The program also details the three steps a company can take to create customer loyalty, the four marketing tiers, the four types of CRM, and the four steps of the  more...

Sales Negotiations Negotiation Strategies ...iating strategies, factors that should be considered when choosing a strategy, and how to create the proper atmosphere for negotiations. You will also learn about elements that can derail negotiations as well as guidelines to help keep them on track. In addition, you will learn how to deal with demanding clients and how to adapt when competitors are fighting for your business. You will also  more...

Measuring Team Performance Select the Right Metrics This course provides guidelines for choosing the metrics that best reflect the critical points for successful team performance. Professionals who want to collaborate more effectively within a group.  more...

Choosing Sellers and Administering and Closing Contracts How do you choose among potential sellers? Why is it important to manage the contract and relationship between the buyer and seller? What's the most effective way to complete and settle contracts? As you advance in this course, which focuses on seller selection, contract administration, and contract closure, you will obtain the skills and knowledge required to manage these areas of Project  more...

Selecting Your Strategy Choosing Not to Negotiate ...Choosing Not to Negotiate, is the tenth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the accommodating game, identify the advantages and disadvantages of the avoiding game and identify avoiding game tactics. The Negotiation Strategies curriculum helps today's busy professional identify and implement  more...

Effective Business Meetings Simulation As the lead project coordinator for Pantheon Electronics, a national reseller of home and office electronics, you will oversee the daily activities of a project management group. Functioning as both a meeting coordinator and a conference chair person, you will test your skills in a broad range of situations, running the gamut from materials procurement to conflict mediation. This simulation is  more...

Preventing Problem Performance Obviously, one of the starting points for managing problem performance is to prevent it from becoming so. This is a general part of effective management, focusing on those aspects of the managerial task specific to preventing problem performance. This means employing an effective selection procedure that is based on an accurate identification of the job requirements, and then using the first  more...

E-Learning Essentials Pt 3 Deploying and Measuring Your Solution ... 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 some consideration of directions within e-learning and  more...

Selecting the Best Applicant ...ons is always difficult, and that applies particularly to choosing a new employee. This course will show you the most effective methods for evaluating and choosing the best applicants. It will show you how to analyze the information from the interview--by working in a focused framework--and how to compare candidates. You will examine and avoid the most common problems with decision making, and  more...

Managerial Decisions and Capital Budgeting ...choosing between alternative courses of action and developing formal plans for future action. This course explains several methods of analysis that can help business managers to choose alternatives that offer the highest rate of return on investment or the greatest reduction in costs. In this course, topics such as capital budgeting and managerial decisions provide you with the concepts,  more...

Introduction to Advanced Finance ...choosing appropriate investment projects. If you are a corporate manager faced with choosing between different investment projects, this course will be helpful. You will review Time Value of Money concepts, and learn how to choose corporate projects using accounting models and cash flow models. This course is designed specifically for business managers, financial professionals, and other  more...

Investment Project Analysis and Selection ...choosing appropriate investment projects. If you are a corporate manager faced with choosing between different investment projects, this course will be helpful. You will learn how to choose corporate projects based on the different project analysis models and advanced analysis tools. This course is designed specifically for business managers, financial professionals, and other business  more...

Define the Six Sigma Opportunity ... course, Define the Six Sigma Opportunity, is a guide for choosing those processes that will reap the greatest corporate benefit from Six Sigma projects. Besides being given guidelines for establishing an improvement opportunity, you'll learn specific methods for capturing the voice of the customer, and how to use the Kano model to discern and categorize those customers' needs. You'll also  more...

Taguchi and Quality Improvement ...all possible combinations of variables. By systematically choosing certain combinations of variables, the Taguchi Method makes it possible to separate their individual effects. Unlike traditional Design of Experiments, the Taguchi Method focuses on optimizing design parameters to minimize variation BEFORE optimizing design to hit mean target values for output parameters. Six Sigma is a  more...

Organizational Goals and Objectives ...efined. Determining selection of appropriate projects and choosing an effective improvement model are crucial tasks that help to ensure your company is pointed in the right direction. Performing risk analysis while avoiding pitfalls common to Six Sigma projects is also important to prevent project failure. Finally, performing a tollgate assessment emphasizes process management to ensure your  more...

Windows 2000 - Network Design Networking To provide an overview of Windows 2000 networking services and to analyze and design a TCP/IP requirement and implementation strategy Students preparing for Microsoft exam 70-221; personnel in medium to very large computing environments that use the Windows 2000 network operating system  more...

Planning Implementing and Maintaining Network Infrastructure To identify the basic components and design criteria of a network infrastructure Prospective systems engineers; technical support engineers, and technical consultants seeking competency in Windows Server 2003; systems and network analysts seeking competency in Windows Server 2003  more...

e-Business Part 3 Choosing Tools and Technologies The third course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the tools, languages and technologies that help drive the e-Business infrastructure. It also covers the strengths and weaknesses of each tool, language and technology. It also covers higher-level software and hardware choices such as web browsers, web servers, web application servers and web enabled databases. The target audience is those  more...

How Wide Area Networks Work This WestNet e-Learning module discusses the technologies used to connect two or more local area networks (LANs) over an extended distance, resulting in either a metropolitan area network (MAN) or wide area network (WAN). The difference between a MAN and a WAN will also be explored.  more...

Connecting Computers This WestNet e-Learning module reviews the Physical Layer components and moves on to explain the deeper technical details of these media.  more...

Types of Telephone Systems This WestNet e-Learning module will focus on the three main types of systems that manage multiple telephone lines: key systems, Central Office Exchange (Centrex), and private branch exchange (PBX). Additionally, we will introduce voice mail systems and automated attendants.  more...

CCNT Basic Data Communications v6 0 Part 3 This course teaches students about data communications equipment and media. The LANs and Communications equipment section teaches about the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), analog and digital communication, modulation, multiplexers, and the Synchronous Optical Networks (SONET) protocol. The Transmission Media section teaches about transmission media cables and wireless  more...

Globalization and Auditing in Oracle9i To describe how to manage globalization support in an Oracle9i database and how to audit an Oracle9i database Anyone wanting to learn about Oracle9i database administration  more...

Laser Safety Training This one-hour course is designed to provide awareness of the fundamentals of Class IIIB (moderate) and IV (high-power) lasers or laser systems. The content in this course is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. discuss what a laser is and how a laser works name the types and classes of lasers describe non-beam laser hazards recall the biological  more...

Understanding Digital Printing This course will cover digital printing. It will include defining digital printing, understanding the resources you need for digital printing, choosing a printer, understanding print quality, paper, ink, and printer speed, planning for a digital print, and configuring the print job. Individuals new to printing digital images on their home inkjet printers. A computer user, who has some computer  more...

Display Digital Images Electronically This course will provide users information on cool ways to display digital images using electronic photo albums, screen savers, and slideshows. This will include understanding output options, and help in choosing the best application for your needs. PC owners with a good understanding of PCs and their uses.  more...

Oracle Application Server 10g - Administration II Part 1 ...ent topologies of Oracle Application Server 10g to enable choosing the appropriate topology according to your business needs. To provide a stable and highly available environment that performs well you learn the concepts for high availability (HA) and scalability. You also learn to configure various OracleAS components such as Web cache clusters OC4J and business intelligence components.  more...

Microsoft Exchange 2000 Infrastructure Design Part 1 This course will cover Active Directory design considerations, network design for Exchange 2000, and designing a backup and security strategy for the Exchange 2000 server. The focus of the course is showing the learner how to analyze company's organizational requirements. It is important to understand the design decisions in Active Directory that are specific to Exchange server. These decisions  more...

e-Business Part 3: Choosing Tools and Technologies The third course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the tools, languages and technologies that help drive the e-Business infrastructure. It also covers the strengths and weaknesses of each tool, language and technology. It also covers higher-level software and hardware choices such as web browsers, web servers, web application servers and web enabled databases.  more...

Interviewing Skills: Conducting an Interview In Interviewing Skills: Conducting an Interview participants are provided with step-by-step guidance for interviewing candidates researching their references evaluating candidates and choosing among them objectively and appropriately following up with both the chosen candidate as well as those not offered the position. Participants also learn how to handle difficult candidates.  more...

Career Development: Professional Networking Career Development: Professional Networking offers the student an overview of how to network for career advancement seek career guidance and develop a career network. The program covers in detail the steps for networking effectively steps for communicating effectively steps for building beneficial relationships inside and outside an organization the difference between a mentor and coach and the  more...

Sales Management: Leading a Sales Team In Sales Management: Leading a Sales Team you will learn steps for choosing a territory strategy and what factors you need to consider when conducting territory reviews. You will also learn what forecasts sales managers usually develop the four factors to define when referring to a forecast and how forecasts are used. In addition you will learn steps for conducting sales meetings and the best  more...

Interpersonal Communication: Effective Communication Interpersonal Communication: Effective Communication will help you develop the skills needed to communicate a message effectively by identifying the receiver choosing a proper channel and responding to feedback. In this program you will also learn how to overcome a variety of common forms of interference.  more...

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  more...

Mentoring: Using a Mentor to Your Advantage Mentoring: Using a Mentor to Your Advantage offers the student guidance for becoming an effective mentee building a strong mentoring relationship and maximizing the benefits of mentoring. The program covers the mentee's job possible learning styles how to set effective goals and how to become an effective learner. It also covers steps for choosing a mentor and the guidelines for developing  more...

e-Business Part 3: Choosing Tools and Technologies The third course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the tools languages and technologies that help drive the e-Business infrastructure. It also covers the strengths and weaknesses of each tool language and technology. It also covers higher-level software and hardware choices such as web browsers web servers web application servers and web enabled databases.  more...

Software Engineering Concepts In this course, the student will learn to apply the appropriate development strategy and life cycle model by examining their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages and comparing these with the needs of the project. The students also learn the basic concepts of Configuration Management, Verification and Validation and Software Quality Assurance.  more...