Online Decision Making eLearning Training

Management & Leadership Decision Support Systems Training Program This course will teach you how to effectively and efficiently implement a system of management and leadership Decision Support and decision making.  more...

Communication Skills: Persuading with Numbers MAXIM TRAINING This course will help you handle the numerical information required for problem solving and decision making in the workplace. It will help you understand basic statistical methods, interpret simple data and focuses on how to interpret and use Graphs and Charts in both presentations and reports. There are some calculations so, to make the most of the course, it is recommended that  more...

Training and Facilitation: Decision Making MAXIM TRAINING Improving the effectiveness of decision making has many benefits for individuals and the organisation. This course demonstrates an effective decision making process which will help you improve your performance. The overall objective is to help you increase the effectiveness of decisions you make at work. When you've completed the course you will be able to:  more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Using a Budget to Manage From the corporate world to the corner shop, from running a restaurant to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. This course will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. You can explore the power of budgets to help with decision making and  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Making Decisions as a Team 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. This course will show you the steps in an effective decision-making process and the benefits to the team of using  more...

Framing the Problem When you frame a picture, you intend for the viewer to examine everything within that border. Problem framing is similar in that you must not only consider what objectively makes up the problem itself but also what subjective tendencies influence your view of the situation. This course is designed to help you effectively frame problems so that you're sure your line of sight is aimed straight  more...

Making Team Decisions Brainstorm as a Team This course presents a team decision-making model and describes the decision-making methods of Brainstorming and List Reduction. Professionals who want to collaborate more effectively within a group.  more...

Consulting with the External Client Simulation ...mary responsibility of these consultants is to facilitate decision making for senior management. To do this, external consultants gather information using proven techniques, analyze current business situations with specific diagnostic methods, and make recommendations based on those processes. In this simulation, you are a consultant at LocoMotion Think Tank. Your assignment is to advise  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...

Project Leadership Communicating Within a Project Team Project Leadership: Communicating Within a Project Team covers how to promote team communication, why communication fails, and the types of communication styles. It also details how project managers should conduct meetings and manage decisions. In addition, it covers the types of project documents used to convey information and how to present that information to the various levels of stakeholders  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...

The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations In the organizational arena, applied critical thinking skills provide an essential foundation for all effective planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities. Employees who can analyze and reason consistently and proficiently furnish a cost-efficient resource that results in a distinctive competitive advantage. Workers who are skeptical of quick fixes and operational dogma pay  more...

Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills ...increasingly consequential as organizational planning and decision making become more distributed and reliant on written and verbal communication factors. Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills coaches you through the acquisition of an array of critical skills that can help you improve your information processing and delivery agility. You also will learn how to maximize your  more...

Critical Thinking Skills for Managing ...decision making is linear and is what you do when you put your facts in order. Intuition is looking at those facts and trying to see a pattern-and the patterns aren't always evident because the patterns aren't always linear. The two together are an extremely powerful combination. Joel Kurtzman, President, Kurtzman Associates and former editor, Harvard Business Review. The Critical Thinking  more...

Organizational Behavior Organizational Group Dynamics Organizational Behavior: Organizational Group Dynamics defines groups and teams and explains processes for decision making and managing conflict within the organization. It also covers the communication styles and channels used by members of an organization. Managers, supervisors, team members, and anyone who is interested in improving the behavior variables within their organization.  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...

Becoming a Manager What does becoming a manager involve? What skills are needed to be a good one, and what will others expect of you? These are all natural questions for anyone who is about to become a manager, or who has recently been promoted. Moving into a first management role represents possibly one of the biggest changes in your working life. The transition from player to manager is an exciting, but  more...

Leadership and the Knowledge Worker What are your company's most valuable assets? For many of today's companies, it's the knowledge and experience of their workers. Does your company know how to best use this intellectual capital? Is your company a nurturing environment for knowledge workers? In this course, you'll learn about intellectual capital, how to lead your company from the front line to retain and increase its intellectual  more...

Leading from the Front Line Simulation In this simulation, you will be tasked with serving as a networker, dealing with the issues that arise when informal leaders take the initiative and lead from the front line. As the Manager for the Customer Service Team for Cross & Witherson, Unlimited, you have been made aware of a growing problem with product returns. Using your management and persuasive skills, you must convince both your  more...

Managing the Delegated Environment ...e insight into several areas including change management, decision making, and developing performance standards. You will also acquire skills in supervising, empowering, and providing effective feedback in a monitored situation. By participating in this course, you will become a proficient manager of a delegated environment. Individuals who have the opportunity to distribute their workload;  more...

Selecting the Best Applicant Making decisions 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  more...

Managerial Decisions and Capital Budgeting Business decisions involve 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  more...

Introduction to Economics Basic Concepts in Microeconomics Basic Concepts in Microeconomics builds on the general principles introduced in The Principles of Economics by introducing the learner to microeconomic concepts and issues. Such things as market behavior and decision-making, consumer choice and preference and the factors that motivate firms are covered across a range of informative lessons situated in real-life scenarios. This course is aimed at  more...

PrimeFinance Making Investment Decisions This course describes the decision points that support capital budgeting within an organization, and continues to explore how a range of techniques (including CVP, NPV, payback, IRR, and ARR) can be used to conduct short- and long-term project evaluations within this process. Department managers who need to take on budgetary responsibilities, input into business decisions and participate  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...

Redesigning Your Organization Part II What do you do after you've created an idealized design for your organization? This course will provide you with the skills you'll need to successfully implement an idealized design in your organization. You'll study the groundwork for learning, including how to use adaptive learning and how to be an advocate for adaptive learning. You'll learn about democratic hierarchies, decision-making  more...

Strategic Decision Making The field of IT management continues to evolve as new methodologies and technologies are made available and adopted by the marketplace at large. Deciding what kinds of work your firm should outsource, whether to lease or buy, and the kinds of projects best kept in-house are matters of crucial concern to any IT manager. At the same time, an array of resource planning and management tools--CRM, ERP,  more...

Operations Management Operations Management Tools Operations Management: Operations Management Tools offers the student options for improving operations management within the organization. The program provides processes for making decisions and solving problems. In addition, the program offers the student examples of maintenance strategies, ways to apply learning curves to operations, and E-commerce options that can enhance operations management.  more...

A Manager s Introduction to Business Law This course introduces managers to the fundamental concepts of business law. It begins by exposing some prevalent legal misconceptions shared by management and establishes the true role that law plays in society and business. The relationship between business ethics and law is explained and how managers serve as vital role models for demonstrating ethical business practices. This course also  more...

Programming Logic and Techniques This course is meant for end users. It aims to teach users the basic concepts of computing and programming language, and the usage of programming methods and elements. People who want to have a fairly good knowledge of the concepts of programming logic and techniques.  more...

Fundamentals of C Programming This course introduces the C language and the concept of object-orientation to students. The students also learn about objects and classes and their relation to functions. Finally, the students learn how to create functions, pass arguments and return values. Programmers who have functional experience in programming using a structured language like C or Pascal constitute the primary audience for  more...

e-Business Part 6 Working with Employees This course covers establishing acceptable use policies, email etiquette, company-employee communication and employee-employee communication. Finally, it needs to cover guidelines for building the Intranet and establishing document sharing. Technical Manager, Business Manager, Project Managers who have an understanding of business principles and knowledge of how to use a browser. The sixth course  more...

Organizational Crisis Management - Managing a Crisis This course focuses on management 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  more...

MS Win Servr 2003 Planning Network Infra. Pt 3 This is the third course in a four-course curriculum that prepares the learner for Exam 70-293 Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. The course covers three areas - IPSec Network access - connection methods policy authentication strategy and troubleshooting - and troubleshooting remote access. The course contains scenario-based NLOs that allow the  more...

Oracle Application Server 10g Administration Part 2 Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated standards-based software platform that allows organizations of all sizes to be more responsive to changing business requirements. This course covers managing application server Oracle iHat tool Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Oracle Internet Directory (OID) Oracle HTTP server and Oracle Web Cache. The course encourages decision-making  more...

MS Windows Server 2003 Planning Network Infra. Pt 1 This is the first course in a four-course curriculum that prepares the learner for Exam 70-293 Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. The course covers three areas - TCP/IP configuration Routing planning and troubleshooting and DHCP management and troubleshooting. The course contains scenario-based NLOs that allow the learner participate in parts of the  more...

MS Windows Server 2003 Planning Network Infra. Pt 2 This is the second course in a four-course curriculum that prepares the learner for Exam 70-293 Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. This course focuses on the area of DNS - including servers namespaces zones and DNS/WINS integration. Comprehensive coverage is given to the areas of optimizing and troubleshooting DNS and WINS. The course contains  more...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Designing Security Part 1 The course covers designing a secure network infrastructure. Topics include assembling the design team modeling threats and analyzing security risks in order to meet business requirements for securing computers in a networked environment. The course encourages decision-making skills through an interactive tool that simulates real-life scenarios that the target audience may encounter. This course  more...

MS Windows Server 2003 Planning Network Infra. Pt 1 This is the first course in a four-course curriculum that prepares the learner for Exam 70-293, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. The course covers three areas - TCP/IP configuration, Routing planning and troubleshooting, and DHCP management and troubleshooting. The course contains scenario-based NLOs that allow the learner participate in parts of the  more...

MS Windows Server 2003 Planning Network Infra. Pt 2 This is the second course in a four-course curriculum that prepares the learner for Exam 70-293, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. This course focuses on the area of DNS - including servers, namespaces, zones, and DNS/WINS integration. Comprehensive coverage is given to the areas of optimizing and troubleshooting DNS and WINS. The course contains  more...

MS Windows Server 2003 Planning Network Infra. Pt 3 This is the third course in a four-course curriculum that prepares the learner for Exam 70-293, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. The course covers three areas - IPSec, Network access - connection methods, policy, authentication, strategy, and troubleshooting -, and troubleshooting remote access. The course contains scenario-based NLOs that allow the  more...

MS Office 2000: Excel for Experts I This course teaches the student how to customize the Excel interface, automate tasks and perform complex calculations. The student will also look at generating customized reports to facilitate analysis and decision-making.  more...

Microsoft Windows 2000: Upgrading from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Part 1 ...decision making processes which a System Administrator and other IT decision makers undergo when moving from an NT 4.0 environment to Windows 2000. As the title suggests the emphasis in this course is on the planning activities necessary to ensure a successful migration. In addition this course also details the assessment and possible upgrade of components in the IT environment which should be  more...

Strategic Management: Establishing Strategic Focus Strategic Management: Establishing Strategic Focus offers the student an overview of the information required to identify appropriate terms and language associated with strategic management recognize benefits gained from a successful strategic plan and learn why some organizations avoid implementing strategic management. The program describes the proper steps for effective decision making and the  more...

Sales Skills: The Fundamentals In Sales Skills: The Fundamentals participants will learn the six basic steps of the sales process how to understand their client's decision-making practices and the meanings of commonly used sales terms. In addition participants will learn how to establish credibility and how to take a proactive approach to sales.  more...

Sales Skills: Prospecting and Addressing Needs In Sales Skills: Prospecting and Addressing Needs participants will learn how to understand their client's decision-making practices. They will also learn how to research prospective clients how to apply guidelines for making a sales call and how to build a sales network. In addition they will learn how to create win-win situations when finding solutions for clients.  more...

Decision Making & Problem Solving: Decision Making Fundamentals Decision Making & Problem Solving: Decision Making Fundamentals teaches you a variety of decision making techniques. You will develop the skills that are necessary to make important decisions with various people and ensure the results of your decisions.  more...

Decision Making & Problem Solving: Problem Solving Fundamentals In Decision Making & Problem Solving: Problem Solving Fundamentals you will learn to use a systematic approach to solve problems. In this program you will face several problems in your organization and successfully use your problem solving skills in order to produce a positive outcome.  more...

Strategic Decision Making: Preparing to Make Decisions Strategic Decision Making: Preparing to Make Decisions offers the student an overview of how to plan frame and research decisions. The program details how to define your decisions and apply appropriate decisions frames. In addition the program teaches the learner how to avoid the problems of overconfidence and how to deal with uncertainty in decision making.  more...

Strategic Decision Making: Making the Right Decision Strategic Decision Making: Making the Right Decision offers the student an overview of how to generate options and select the best one. The program details how to develop numerous high-quality options as well as how to evaluate the options and make a final choice. In addition the program teaches the learner how to review and learn from his or her experience and the experiences of others.  more...

Strategic Decision Making: Advanced Decision Making In Strategic Decision Making: Advanced Decision Making you will learn how to use scenario planning to identify optimal decision outcomes and how to identify and manage linked decisions. You will also learn how your organization can benefit from employing strategic decision-making techniques. In addition you will learn how to use decision-making strategies to improve your negotiation skills.  more...

Conducting Meetings: Managing a Meeting Conducting Meetings: Managing a Meeting enables participants to improve their ability as a meeting leader. They acquire the knowledge and skills they need to facilitate situation analysis brainstorming and decision making in a meeting as well as techniques for fostering creative thinking and for managing conflict among meeting participants.  more...

Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making In Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making you will learn about ethical dilemmas in business and a decision making process for solving them. You will also learn barriers and consequences to consider when making ethical decisions and the process for blowing the whistle when unethical situations arise.  more...

Team Participation: Decision Making in Teams In Team Participation: Decision Making in Teams participants explore the process of reaching consensus examine the challenges of doing so and develop the ability to make positive contributions to team decisions.  more...