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Instructor Led-Search Engine Training Workshop ...ffic comes from the major search engines. Therefore it is crucial that you learn how to get your web site ranked high in the engines. Using our unique software program will provide you with valuable information about your rankings in the search engines and will inform you when those rankings change. For the program to be of maximum benefit, you must ?tweak? your website by analyzing it and  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Crisis and Continuity Planning This course will help you plan for business-disrupting events and make certain that you can continue operation of your business if one of these events occur.You will receive as a bonus 1 year unlimited access to this course from the day of enrollment. If attempting to accelerate your learning (1-2 weeks or less), please pay special attention to key points so you may successfully apply the  more...

Sales Communications Foundations William Safire, a columnist for the New York Times, said, "To communicate, put your thoughts in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce." This is true especially for the sales professional. As a sales professional, you are a professional persuader. You must possess the communications skills to effectively instruct your prospective customers and help  more...

Improving Your Image Lee Iacocca. Madeleine Albright. Colin Powell. Are these people who suffer from an image problem? Hardly. Do you think they were born projecting the strong, self-assured images they do? Probably not. Like other powerful leaders in business, government, and the military, they likely received training in how to project, how to impress, how to lead. A confident, positive self image is no less crucial  more...

Analyzing the Market This course will walk you through four crucial elements of analyzing your market. First, you'll learn to scan your environment, considering the economical, technological, social, and political impacts on your organization. Then you'll learn how market segmentation can assist you in developing products and marketing strategies. You'll be given a set of tools that can be utilized for developing and  more...

Communication Skills for Successful Management Effective communication is a crucial component of your success as a manager. As a technical professional, you developed various communication skills that helped you to succeed. But, as a manager, you will need additional communication skills to be effective. This course will examine various aspects of successful communication strategies and skills. You will analyze the strategies of nonverbal  more...

The EXCEL Acronym Instilling Service Excellence In advancing to new levels of customer service commitment, it's helpful to have an easy way to remember additional concepts that can make you a service superstar. Since the goal is customer service excellence, this course uses the word E-X-C-E-L as an acronym for five important behaviors that impact the service mindset. It might surprise you, but seeking help and knowing where to find it can  more...

Evaluation and Review ...crucial that you take time to review your completed project and confirm the outcomes. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned? And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an external consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This course will help you review any  more...

A Workable Solution for Internal Clients One of the many 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  more...

Evaluating Internal Assignments ...crucial that you take time to review your project and confirm outcomes on completion. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned?And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an internal consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This course will help you to review  more...

Team Feedback A Guide Teamwork is playing an increasingly significant role in the majority of today's top companies. This is based on the assumption that working in teams leads to better business performance. In that case, you must ensure that team performance is managed effectively--feedback being of crucial importance. Feedback about how the team is performing, how individuals are contributing to the team's  more...

Communicating for Results For many people, success in the workplace depends on their abilities to influence others to take a particular course of action. This course gives a practical demonstration of how to communicate for best results in three common, but sometimes difficult, situations. Firstly, you will learn the communication skills required to ensure the collaboration and cooperation of your colleagues and peers when  more...

Participating Effectively in a Business Meeting A meeting is a gathering of people to present or exchange information, plan joint activities, make decisions, or carry out actions already agreed upon. Almost every group activity or project requires a meeting, or meetings, of some sort. Knowing how to hold efficient and effective meetings can help make projects successful. In a good meeting, participants' ideas are heard, decisions are made  more...

Leading without Authority Lily Tomlin said, "I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody." Tomlin could have been speaking on behalf of many employees in the corporate world who, despite having little authority, take it upon themselves to become leaders nonetheless. Becoming a leader, and getting results, without authority is especially important in today's corporate  more...

Overview of Project Managing a PRINCE2-aligned Project Project-based operations have become the norm in today's business world. In essence, almost every work effort is a project, from constructing a new building to designing and delivering a new information management system. As projects become the primary method for getting things done and effecting organisational change, it is crucial to choose a good and proven method for managing projects. This  more...

Tomorrow s Managers Competencies "It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." Lewis Carroll's words in Through the Looking Glass, have never been more applicable than today. The workplace is changing. Today's managers are competing for skilled workers, facing high turnover, and coping with technology changes that occur at warp speed. Effective managers must be less product-oriented, and more people-oriented.  more...

Tomorrow s Managers Development Tools "A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams gets to the heart of what dynamic senior executives are doing to develop the managers who drive front-line performance. Teaching with influence is the key. Trained managers are more than systems and process supervisors. They lead and develop others. You and your managers will know precisely what to expect  more...

Managing as Coach and Counselor "The ripest peach is highest on the tree." "A man's reach should exceed his grasp." How do you motivate employees to go after "the ripest peach," or reach for the skill level that seems beyond their grasp? You do it by coaching. Coaching is what cultivates employee growth, not to mention employee loyalty. In Managing as Coach and Counselor, you'll learn to take people from adequacy to excellence.  more...

Managing as Project Champion Albert Einstein said, "The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts." Are you a person who can drive a project on the outside, and hold yourself responsible from within? Can you be the force, the influence, and the point person who holds the keys to ultimate success? That's what it takes to be a project champion. This is not a course about the  more...

A Primer for Ensuring Accountability "You are either part of the solution or part of the problem." That assertion from Eldridge Cleaver is a perspective that you must impart to each and every employee you supervise. There are many effective ways to get them to see this valuable viewpoint. And that's what you'll learn in this course. As a manager you are on the line when things go wrong. This course is designed to enhance your ability  more...

Becoming a Manager Leading and Communicating ...that leadership is about giving direction, but it is also crucial that you realize that it also involves trusting and empowering your staff. You will undoubtedly have been very good at your last job, but now you will need to resist the temptation to continue doing it. For some time to come, it may be true that you could do it quicker or better, but an important part of your new role is  more...

Pricing and Profitability for Product Managers A crucial aspect of a product manager's job is deciding what price to charge for a given product. It's equally important to understand that pricing decisions do not happen in a vacuum; the product manager will be held accountable for the success of the products he prices. Clearly, it's important for the product manager to understand the financial implications of his decisions. In this course,  more...

Accrual Accounting Procedures It's the end of the fiscal year and all transactions must be accounted for. But there are some transactions that aren't complete, such as paying interest or delivering services. Do you record them or ignore them? The accrual basis of accounting is guided by the principle that says the revenue earned by a business must match all the expenses incurred to generate that revenue. This course will  more...