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Financial Management This financial management training unit can be taken alone or can form part of our BTEC Management Studies Diploma, Certificate or Award. And within the Unit, it is also possible to just study individual modules. Whatever you decide to do, we offer a totally flexible training methodology. You decide when to start as well as when and where to do so. Our BTEC Management Studies  more...

Sales Closing the Sale Concluding the Sale: Closing the Sale, is the fourteenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the buying signals that tell you when to close the sale and close a sale using a three-stage approach. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line  more...

Making Team Decisions Decide Through Silent Voting This course describes the Nominal Group technique of silent voting with limited discussion as a means to gain consensus on sensitive and controversial topics. Professionals who want to collaborate more effectively within a group.  more...

Essentials of Internal Consulting You may already have a reputation as something of an area specialist. Perhaps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an internal consulting role. Or maybe you've always been attracted to this role and you would now like to find out more? What will it mean for you? What does an internal consultant do? How do you become one? And if you have just become one, what is expected of you? This  more...

Initiating and Planning a Project Initiating and Planning are crucial phases in developing and executing any successful project. Companies that are embarking on a new project initiative must assign people to gather facts and decide what exactly they want to produce and how they are going to produce it. This course examines which factors should weigh in during the project selection process and how to effectively plan a project from  more...

Personal Accountability Working for Your Inner Boss Most employees in business organizations must answer to someone else. From the top of the organization chart to the bottom, nearly every manager and employee must look to a supervisor, a director, or even a customer to establish priorities, assign tasks, set deadlines, and evaluate results. Whoever gives this direction is called the boss. On one level, the boss decides how employees will perform  more...

An Essential Guide to Giving Feedback The performance of any business depends upon the performance of everyone within the organization. To ensure that all staff are meeting their potential it is essential that there is a culture which enables feedback to be given and received. This course enables you to become familiar with the key aspects of giving candid, constructive feedback about performance. The purpose of this course is to  more...

Leading Change from the Front Line Have you ever wanted something at work to change, but no one ever addressed the issue, so you just put up with it? Maybe you didn't bring it up because you thought you were the only person who didn't like it. Maybe you didn't want to make a fool of yourself by making it an issue. Or maybe you thought your boss would be irritated if you mentioned it. If any of this sounds familiar, this course is  more...

Succession Planning and Human Resources Once you decide to conduct succession planning, how will you determine the human resources that you need? This course answers this question and other human resource issues. You will learn how to assess present and future needs as part of the succession planning process. For these two assessments, you will learn how to identify key positions, determine work requirements, and assess individual  more...

About 360-Degree Performance Feedback ...he completion of this course, you will be able to soundly decide if 360-degree performance feedback is right for your organization. As well, you will be aware of issues and potential barriers to 360-degree feedback, and feel equipped to meet these challenges head-on. Executives and Human Resource Development staff within companies of adequate size to ensure reviewer anonymity. These courses  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 ...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 who want to initiate  more...

Pricing for Profitability Nothing can be more harmful to the success of your new product or service than incorrect pricing and other financial projections In this course, you will not only learn how to gather pertinent revenue and expense information to help you price your product, but also how to determine your objectives and policies to correctly position your product in its market niche. You'll examine three methods and  more...

Analyzing Process Capability Process capability is determined by a range of variables including people, machines, materials and measurements. The cumulative result must be quantified numerically to determine current performance and project future potential. To do so requires a knowledge of control limits, specification limits, capability indices, and the difference between short- and long-term variability. This course teaches  more...

Dealing with Sexual Harassment Simulation You're a junior underwriter at HWCK Insurance Company. The company has over 20,000 employees, and you began working there just ten months ago. Sexual harassment training was an element of your new employee orientation. Your boss, the life underwriting manager, has always been nice to you, but lately has begun complimenting your appearance in ways that you feel are inappropriate. When your boss  more...

Managing Sexual Harassment Problems Simulation You're the manager of consolidations at the corporate headquarters of QXT Chemical Company, a large global corporation. You supervise a team of accountants. When one of them, Shelly Jones, tells you that another of your direct reports, Damon Beasley, has been sexually harassing her, you will need to take action to deal with the situation. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series  more...

Antitrust--Talking with the Competition Collaboration is an agreement to engage in some form of economic activity with another party. In modern markets, competitors may decide to collaborate for a number of reasons. These include funding innovation projects, sharing marketing or distribution costs, or implementing best practices in production or services. Collaborating with a competitor can help your company to cut costs and deliver a  more...

Win2000 Active Directory Design Active Directory Security and Replication Strategies This course helps you plan your use of Active Directory in Windows 2000, through a discussion of Active Directory security and replication strategies. First, the course explains group policies, different types of group policy objects (GPOs), group policy inheritance and precedence, and how to administer and manage a group policy. You will learn about operations masters, their relation to domain  more...

Web Development Process In this WestNet e-Learning module, we show how Web developers can benefit by applying formal software engineering processes to site projects. Many Web developers are still learning the lesson that the softwaredevelopment community learned 20 years ago: process pays. It pays in shorter schedules, better designs, and higher user satisfaction.  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...

Finance for the Non Financial : Preparing a Budget From the corporate world to the corner store, from running a diner to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. Budgets are an excellent management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. This course examines a 3 step process for preparing budgets and applies this process to a practical case study  more...

Managing People : Planning a Meeting Meetings are opportunities: to share information, exchange ideas and contribute to decisions. They're excellent vehicles for building teams, gaining commitment and encouraging participation but only when they're properly planned and executed by everyone involved. This course looks at how to make the most of every business meeting through planning and preparation. It will help you decide whether  more...

Managing People : When to Coach If you're a manager, .... or a specialist .... or just good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. You'll find out how to spot coaching opportunities and decide when coaching  more...

Managing People : Selecting a Coaching Candidate If you're a manager, .... or a specialist .... or just good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. You may have someone in mind that you want to coach. In this course you'll  more...

Managing People : Reviewing a Coaching Experience If you're a manager, .... or a specialist .... or just good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. If you have recently coached a person the experience may have been positive  more...

Organisational Communication :Setting Safety Standards Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will  more...

Organisational Communication : Dealing with Authorities Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether its simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will help  more...

Organisational Communication : Improving Safety Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will  more...

Keeping Safe at Work Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will equip  more...

Safety in Industry Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course looks at  more...

Dealing with Emergancies Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Defining a Team's Direction Where people are working together, two plus two can equal more than four. People can achieve more than they would on their own as part of a cohesive and effective team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. Whether a team is in its early stages of growth or in need of some refocusing on a project, it is essential that  more...

Motivation: Empowering to Increase Motivation In Motivation: Empowering to Increase Motivation you will learn about empowerment by seeing how it can be used to increase motivation. You will learn how empowerment affects the workplace how to overcome barriers that hinder empowerment and how an empowerment plan can be developed. You will also learn how to recognize empowerment the benefits of empowerment and how to prepare to empower  more...