Applied Statistics for Calibration Technicians This course is the second course of a three part series of courses covering the applied math and statistics body of knowledge for the ASQ Certified Calibration Technician exam, although this course does go a little further into the topic than is covered in the exam. The topic of this course is probability and statistics. more...
Communicate With Confidence This fun course improves written and spoken communication by correcting common grammatical mistakes, and reviews basic grammatical and structural sentence solutions and conventional punctuation and mechanics used in every-day written and verbal communications. more...
Brilliant Business Writing and Communication This course helps business professionals write with confidence and precision while learning the principles of effective communication with their own writing coach. more...
Communicate With Confidence This fun course improves written and spoken communication by correcting common grammatical mistakes, and reviews basic grammatical and structural sentence solutions and conventional punctuation and mechanics used in every-day written and verbal communications. more...
Effective Presentations 1: Creating Your Presentation XEBEC: Presentations are opportunities - to communicate, to persuade, to sell, to gain commitment. But nerves and anxiety can make it hard to take real advantage of the occasion. The Effective Presentations Series takes a structured and down to earth approach to presentation skills that helps students build confidence and overcome their natural fear of public performance. The CD-ROM self study more...
Effective Presentations 2: Delivering Your Presentation XEBEC: Presentations are opportunities - to communicate, to persuade, to sell, to gain commitment. But nerves and anxiety can make it hard to take real advantage of the occasion. The Effective Presentations Series takes a structured and down to earth approach to presentation skills that helps students build confidence and overcome their natural fear of public performance. The CD-ROM self study more...
Customer Service : Handling Customer Complaints Not every encounter with customers begins as a positive experience. But nearly every one can be turned around. The customer whose complaint has been handled well is likely to be your customer for life. This course shows you how to deal with difficult customer situations. It will help you build the confidence to cope with demanding customers. It will help you to take a professional approach to more...
Customer Service : Handling Angry Customers Not every encounter with customers begins as a positive experience. But nearly every one can be turned around. The customer who's complaint has been handled well is likely to be your customer for life. This course shows you how to deal with difficult customer situations. It will help you build the confidence to cope with angry customers and diffuse the tension. It will help you to take a more...
Presentation Skills : Your Delivery 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 overcome your nerves and grasp these opportunities to shine. It will give you tips and techniques on managing the way you look and the way more...
Presentation Skills : Handling Questions 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! Question sessions are often your final opportunity to grasp these opportunities to shine. This course will give you the skills and confidence you need for handling more...
Customer Service : CARE for your Customers In today's volatile business environment organisations recognise that customer service is the key differentiator that makes their products and services tower above the competition. They also recognise that it's no longer enough to give satisfactory service that meets customers' expectations. To get customers coming back time after time, you must beat their expectations. This course introduces the more...
Preparing Presentations Learn how to prepare for presentations successfully Giving presentations is one of the most daunting and unpopular tasks we face. Experienced managers and even experienced speakers often dread the prospect of speaking in public. For most of us, giving presentations does not come naturally. The key to successful presentations lies with effective PREPARATION. Being well prepared maximises your more...
Presenting Your Proposition ...l sales presentation. This course is about giving you the confidence, not only to present, but also to get commitment from your customer. Demonstrating a structure that can be adapted to most situations, this course will equip you with the skills needed to deal with the most intimidating circumstances with consummate ease. Sales people who are tasked with selling at an executive level and who more...
Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents ...es and techniques for handling calls and gaining customer confidence; and questioning and listening skills to help you address customer concerns more effectively. You will learn skills that help CSAs to efficiently and respectfully gather customer information and, where appropriate, take action to place a customer on hold without offending the customer or losing the call. When combined, the more...
Call Center Customer Service Have you just become a call center customer service representative? Maybe you are experiencing some feelings of anxiety, as do many novice agents. You may be concerned about dealing with customers' issues one-on-one. Fortunately, there is a comprehensive training course for people in your situation. This course will help you overcome reservations about customer service in a call center setting. more...
Managing Conflict Stress and Time Each customer wants her problem to be the most important problem to the Customer Support Specialist (CSS). For the CSS, adapting to each customer's communication style, understanding each customer's emotional response, and solving each customer's problem can be an enormously stressful and time-consuming process. This course is intended to show the proper methods needed to resolve conflicts, manage more...
Emotional Intelligence at Work What makes someone a top performer in the world of work? If you think high IQ, advanced degrees, analytical skills, and technical expertise are the answer, it's time to think again. Experts now agree that Emotional Intelligence often determines who will climb the corporate ladder and who will be passed over. Exciting new research shows that, unlike IQ, Emotional Intelligence can be developed and more...
Building Relationships to Get Results You are not the boss. You've been called "peer," "esteemed colleague," "invaluable staff member," and "friend," but no one's even come close to calling you "boss." When you stop to think about it, you realize you have no real authority whatsoever. In fact, you have much more power than you think, even if you are on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. As Jack London said, "Life is not always a more...
Communicating Successfully Assert to Achieve This course assesses the benefits of assertive behavior and provides suggestions to implement these strategies to maintain confidence and control of potentially difficult situations without resorting to submissive or aggressive behavior. All levels of professionals who supervise the performance of other staff members. more...
Coaching for Business Coaching is a vital component of any business that aims to be a winner in the new economy. However, unless coaches are clear in their own minds exactly what their function is, and why they are performing a coaching role, they may do more harm than good. Therefore, it is important to understand how coaching originated as a business tool, and the ways it impacted traditional managerial attitudes and more...
Successful Coaching Relationships Coaching is a set of practical skills and a style of relating that develop the potential of both the individual being coached and the coach. For this development to take place, there must be a working relationship between a coach and a willing coachee, a relationship based on mutual trust, respect, commitment and confidentiality. Within this collaborative framework, the coach uses a repertoire of more...
Key Stages in Coaching Coaching has many uses in organizations, and the sequence of coaching activities is similar in all of them. This course will involve learners in the continuous process of discovery, goal setting, action planning, and follow-up that distinguishes coaching from other development methods. This course is for anyone in an organization who has a role in improving the performance of co-workers, keeping more...
Coaching Skills At its simplest, a coaching session is a conversation, a dialog between coach and coachee, and so all coaching interventions depend totally on communication. Within that simplicity however, are layers of subtle interaction, which a coachee needs to be aware of, alert to what both "sides" of the conversation are actually communicating--verbally, visually, and vocally. The first requirement for a more...
Mindsets Emotions and Coaching What makes coachees receptive to your advice? What makes them willing to listen? Much of your success depends on the mindset, moods, and emotions of the people you coach. If they are feeling negative about the coaching experience or overcome with anxiety about poor workplace performance, they are unlikely to be receptive--no matter how valuable your insight may be. Getting in tune with your more...
Coaching Trends When is a good time to coach? And what is the business case for coaching? Is coaching just another popular fad, or can organizations really benefit from it? Every coach should be aware of the strategic uses of coaching: the organizational benefits that are offered, how coaching can be used to help coachees deal with positive and negative change, and ways of coaching innovators and mavericks. What more...
Coach with Confidence Simulation Dulce Confections is known for its innovative management style. You are a food scientist responsible for developing new, or improving existing, candy lines based on marketing specifications. Unsatisfied with simply following written specifications, you keep in close contact with the marketing managers and occasionally speak directly to focus group participants to clarify vague and subjective more...
Coaching Personalities and Teams Simulation You are a marketing manager for Dulce Confections, a leading maker of chocolates and other fine candies. Due to changing consumer tastes and an increase in the average age of Dulce's core customer, the company is anxious to change the dated 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 more...
The Personal Approach in Delegation Have you delegated tasks only to later find out that the task wasn't completed properly or that it wouldn't be completed on time? Perhaps you need to reevaluate your delegation skills. This course will help you work more effectively with employees in a delegation situation. As you progress through "The Personal Approach in Delegation" course in the "Effective Delegation" series, you will discover more...
Behavior Putting Your Best Foot Forward Are you interested in taking charge of your career? Would you 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 more...
Communicating with Power and Confidence Do you want to be an effective and powerful communicator? Do 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 more...
Advanced Administrative Support Simulation You're an administrative assistant at the corporate headquarters of King's Stores Company, a chain of retail stores, and report to Maxine Washington, Merchandising Manager. Recently, you were disappointed when Maxine turned you down for a promotion. During a meeting with Maxine, you'll have the opportunity to find out to why she didn't promote you. You'll need to listen actively and effectively to more...
Probability and Statistics The Measure step of the DMAIC system used in Six Sigma relies on the use of probability and statistics to produce information on variations in process. Black Belt candidates must be proficient in descriptive, inferential, and process-oriented statistical thinking; must understand how to stratify data; and must appreciate the uses of the Central Limit Theorem and inferential statistics to interpret more...
Insider Trading ...ion of property rights, and the undermining of investors' confidence in the market. This course will provide examples of illegal insider trading and list the main provisions under law governing legal insider trading. It also discusses the civil and criminal penalties incurred by insider traders and the companies that they work for. It identifies the main procedures that companies should take to more...
Welcome to Your PC This course will provide learners with essential computer skills and knowledge. This course can aid career development and help users gain confidence working with computers. This course is designed for learners with minimal computer skills. more...
Working with SAP R/3 - Rel 4.x To fully exploit the functionality of R/3 business users need to be both confident and proficient in the use of all the main navigational features and system functionalities of SAP. This course is essential study for users of all R/3 modules regardless of the organization's business activities. While confidence in the use of Windows applications is a prerequisite to using Working with SAP R/3 no more...
Working with SAP R/3 3.0f To fully exploit the functionality of R/3 3.0 business users need to be both confident and proficient in the use of all the main navigational features and systems functionality of SAP. This course is essential study for users of all R/3 modules regardless of the organizationa s business activities. While confidence in the use of Windows applications is a prerequisite to using Working with R/3 more...
Bartending to the Max Online This course is designed for those who want a better bartending position or who would like to enter the area of management. Bartending to the Max will prepare you to work as a bartender in all types of establishments. If you are serious about the bar business, this course will also expand your knowledge into management of the bar, including inventory, profits and staff issues.
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Working with SAP R 3 v4 x ...gardless of the organization's business activities. While confidence in the use of Windows applications is a prerequisite to using Working with SAP R/3, no other IT experience is presumed. Please note that the skills taught in this program will not be repeated in any of the following SAP R/3 courses. This course is a prerequisite to all NETg's R/3 courses. L earn To: Enter a personal more...
SAP R 3 Working with v3 0 ...s of the organization a a s business activities. While confidence in the use of Windows applications is a prerequisite to using Working with R/3 3.0, no other IT experience is presumed. Please note that the skills taught in this program will not be repeated in any of the following SAP R/3 courses. This course is a prerequisite to all NETg a a s R/3 3.0 courses.
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Field Service Professional Customer service is not a one-size-fits-all skill. Engineers who provide field service face specific challenges that require on the spot thinking and a high level of confidence and control, while building and maintaining customer rapport. This blended learning course will teach both experienced and new field service engineers unique customer service skills to ensure success in their high more...
Cold Calling with Confidence Brush up on successful methods for cold calling to market products or services. Learn effective techniques for landing that first appointment, turning rejection into a potential sale, and building strategies for maintaining contact over time. Whether you are a beginner in sales, or in need of a refresher, developing a wide array of skills and strategies helps build confidence throughout the sales more...
EnterTrain Explore a selection of entertainment tools and strategies to captivate an audience, invite their continued interest and inspire group participation. These winning strategies, tactics and techniques will quickly illustrate why some trainers are called on for encore performances. more...
Equipping for a Presentation Discover several techniques to overcome the fear of public speaking. Regardless of the purpose of a presentation, there are a number of tools that enable you to make it powerful. Learn how to present your ideas clearly, in a convincing and compelling speech. more...
Writing Well: The Grammar Game Hone your grammar skills using enjoyable exercises that incorporate simple analogies, common sense approaches, and interactive games to illustrate basic concepts and rules. Decipher sentence structure and identify the roles various parts of speech play. Increase your confidence in both spoken and written English. more...
Civility/Etiquette ONLINE LEARNING CENTER Canada's leading civility experts now offer 40 online courses on topics ranging from corporate courtesy, to networking and business dining, to cultural etiquette. For only $29 per course you can take civility training in the privacy of your own home or office when it is convenient for you.
Some of the courses available include:
Communicating Respect and Leadership
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writing javascript and dhtml ...tructed by experts in the field, the course will give you confidence in your coding skills and W3C compliance. Throughout, the focus is on creating useful scripts that will add life and user friendliness to your sites. The goal is to enable you to write your own scripts based on course concepts, putting you in complete control.
Note: Sessions Fundamentals of JavaScript and CSS Essentialsmore...
Ontario's Virtual Career Resource Centre Our services are all offered online. They are convenient, anonymous, flexible, professional and customized. We offer career counselling, resume writing, interview skills, career/life planning, and customized programs including leadership, communication skills, problem solving, conflict resolution, community action, customer service, assertiveness, confidence building; and will develop curriculum more...
Novell Netware 4.11 Advanced Systems Administration This course provides readers with the opportunity to learn the advanced aspects of NetWare 4.11 security concepts, troubleshooting and performance tuning. At the end of the course readers will be able to optimise and troubleshoot complex NetWare 4.11 networks with confidence. more...
Novell Netware 5.0 Systems Administration This course identifies the fundamentals of network management and covers the use of NetWare utilities to set up and manage users and other network resources. At the end of the course delegates will be able to manage a NetWare 5.0 network with confidence. more...
PC Support Basics This course aims to provide those new to personal computers support with the confidence to engage with current technology. Readers will examine the hardware and learn how the different components of Screen, Keyboard, Printer and System Box work together. They will be introduced to both systems software - MS DOS and Windows 3.x environments and networking basics. more...
QuarkXpress 3.3 for Windows and the Macintosh Introduction This course is designed to provide delegates with a knowledge of the fundamentals of QuarkXpress and all the key skills necessary to achieve professional-looking results with ease. Readers will learn how to combine text, pictures and other graphic elements with in different page formats for both one-off or regular production. In addition, readers will learn how to prepare files for output to a more...
QuarkXpress 4.0 for Windows and the Macintosh Introduction This course is designed to provide readers with a knowledge of the fundamentals of QuarkXpress and all the key skills necessary to achieve professional-looking results with ease. Readers will learn how to combine text, pictures and other graphic elements with in different page formats for both one-off or regular production. In addition, readers will learn how to prepare files for output to a more...
Borland Paradox 7.0 Advanced The course is designed to introduce existing Paradox for Windows 95 users to some of the more advanced features and facilities of this software; to encourage confidence, control and creative use of Paradox by taking a structured look at some of the more advanced functions; to help users plan and develop their applications systematically, efficiently and economically; to promote good design and more...
Corel Paradox 8.0 Advanced The course is designed to introduce existing Paradox 8.0 users to some of the more advanced features and facilities of this software; to encourage confidence, control and creative use of Paradox by taking a structured look at some of the more advanced functions; to help users plan and develop their applications systematically, efficiently and economically; to promote good design and development more...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 Internet Introduction This course is a self-paced introduction to browsing the internet and sending e-mail using MS Internet Explorer and MS Outlook Express. You can work through the step-by-step examples in your own time and at your own speed. Completing the lessons will allow you to browse the world wide web and send e-mail with confidence. As well as browsing and e-mail, topics of study include the background and more...
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Intermediate This course is designed to extend the Visual Basic users understanding of the more advanced features and facilities of this software. The course will encourage confidence and control in using Visual BASIC by focusing on creating and manipulating relevant Objects and interfaces, data manipulation, grids and production of reports. more...
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Programming The course is designed to introduce existing FoxPro 5.0 users to some of the more advanced features and facilities of this software accessed through the programming language; to encourage confidence, control and creative use of FoxPro by taking a structured look at some of the more advanced functions; to help users plan and develop their applications systematically, efficiently and economically; more...
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Programming Part 1 This intensive course is designed to introduce new MS SQL developers to some of the more advanced features and facilities of this software. To encourage confidence, control and creative use of MS SQL by taking a structured look at some of the more advanced functions. To help developers plan their applications systematically, efficiently and economically and to promote good design and development more...
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Programming Part 2 This intensive course is designed to introduce new MS SQL developers to some of the more advanced features and facilities of this software. To encourage confidence, control and creative use of MS SQL by taking a structured look at some of the more advanced functions. To help developers plan their applications systematically, efficiently and economically and to promote good design and development more...
Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Programming This intensive course is designed to introduce new MS SQL developers to some of the more advanced features and facilities of this software; to encourage confidence, control and creative use of MS SQL by taking a structured look at some of the more advanced functions to help developers plan their applications systematically, efficiently and economically; to promote good design and development more...
Microsoft DOS 6.x Introduction The course aims to provide new MS-DOS users with the basic knowledge and skills to enable them to run their software applications and to give them the confidence to manage their data, files and directories in an effective and efficient manner. more...
Microsoft DOS 5.0 Introduction The course aims to provide new MS-DOS users with the basic knowledge and skills to enable them to run their software applications and to give them the confidence to manage their data, files and directories in an effective and efficient manner. more...
LINUX Overview To provide technical users new to Linux with a sound appreciation of the operating system. The course provides readers with knowledge and confidence in the most useful Linux tools and utilities. more...
Microsoft Access 97 Developer This intensive course is designed to introduce new MS Access 97 developers to some of the more advanced features and facilities of this software and to encourage confidence, control and creative use of MS Access. The course takes a structured look at some of the more advanced features, many using VBA. Access 97 features covered include writing Class Modules, programmatically changing menus and more...
Microsoft Access 97 Visual Basic for Applications This intensive course is designed to introduce new MS Access 97 programmers to features and facilities of the VBA programming language; to encourage confidence, control and creative use of MS Access by taking a structured look at MS Access VBA; to help developers plan their applications systematically, efficiently and economically; to promote good design and development techniques. more...
Microsoft Access 2002 (XP) Professional To introduce existing Microsoft Access 2002 users to administrative functions of the application, along with the techniques required to create a fully-functioning, automated RDBMS. By the end of the course you will have confidence in your ability to design and build robust databases that provide a consistent and clear interface to your users. more...
Microsoft Word 2002 (XP) Advanced Microsoft Word 2002 (XP) is the latest version of the popular word processing application from Microsoft. This course teaches the reader to use advanced features of the word processing application MS Word 2002. By the end of this course, you will have confidence in your ability to create and manage longer documents, use advanced page layout features and graphics, and set up mail merge documents. more...
Microsoft Word 2002 (XP) Advanced Microsoft Word 2002 (XP) is the latest version of the popular word processing application from Microsoft. This course teaches the reader to use advanced features of the word processing application MS Word 2002. By the end of this course, you will have confidence in your ability to create and manage longer documents, use advanced page layout features and graphics, and set up mail merge documents. more...
Microsoft Access 2002 (XP) Professional To introduce existing Microsoft Access 2002 users to administrative functions of the application, along with the techniques required to create a fully-functioning, automated RDBMS. By the end of the course you will have confidence in your ability to design and build robust databases that provide a consistent and clear interface to your users. more...
Essentials of Business Writing from Writers Online Workshops ...ess.
6) Enjoy writing instead of dreading it! Write with confidence!
The workshop will consist of six one-week sessions, each of which includes online lectures as well as creative and practice exercises. Each session, you ll submit an assignment to the instructor for private review. Optional writing assignments will be posted for group review and feedback. You will be able to evaluate your more...
Grammar counts ...confidence.
A yearlong grammar seminar for your entire workforce for just $10 a week.
Grammar Counts provides to your company a daily e-mail with a grammar, punctuation, or usage tip. The e-mail can be distributed to any or all of your employees for no extra charge.
The lessons take only minutes a day to read, and the knowledge accumulates at an amazing rate.
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Advanced Flash Multimedia Projects Course ...d integrating high-end technology into your projects with confidence. You'll discover how to become a multimedia "team of one," sourcing and editing your own bitmap, text, audio, and video files to bring your projects to life.
Note: The Sessions Flash ActionScript Programming course (or equivalent experience) is a requirement for taking this class.
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e-commerce Shopping at Amazon.com may be easy, but building an e-commerce Web site is a serious challenge. What with business plans, technology, hosting, architecture, accounting, shopping cart, security, and legal issues, it's no wonder most designers leave e-commerce Web design to the pros.
In this hands-on course, you'll learn how to build a well-conceived, fully functional e-commerce Web site for your more...