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Setting and Achieving Your Goals If you do not have a set of goals and a plan for achieving them, you are going to work about as well as a ship without a rudder. Defining what the goals should be and how to attain them is vital to success, whether you run a small business, a Fortune 500 company, or something in between. The Setting and Achieving Goals e-workbook provides a simple, step-by-step approach to finding your company  more...

Making Meetings Work Objective Participants leave the workshop with strategies for both leading and attending more productive meetings. Content Determining when to hold a meeting; Developing agendas; Selecting attendees; Getting information when you aren t the leader; Defining roles; Establishing meeting ground rules; Making decisions; Managing group dynamics; Taking minutes; Keeping to the agenda; Managing  more...

Interviewing and Selection Objective: Participants will leave the workshop with the confidence and the tools they ll need to select the right person for the job. Content Analyzing the job; reviewing applications and resumes; defining skills needed; developing behavioral questions; planning group interviews; opening and building rapport; asking questions and probing for details; following legal guidelines; responding to  more...

Delegation: The Gift that Grows Objective Each participant will leave the workshop with a plan for successfully delegating tasks in their real-world environment. Content Benefits of delegation; Overcoming barriers; Selecting tasks to delegate; Choosing the right person for the task; Assessing risk; Explaining the task and goals; Defining work standards; Sharing information; Encouraging input from the delegate; Establishing  more...

Adventures in Good Writing Objective: Participants leave the workshop with a plan and the tools to improve the quality and the speed of their writing. Content: Defining the message; identifying the content; selecting the method of writing; document layout; standard formats in business; organizing content; writing the first draft; refining the document; editing; proper grammar; proofreading  more...

Task Management Objective: This workshop introduces participants to a structured process for managing a small project and has them apply that process to an actual project they must complete. Content: Project Scope: Uncovering expectations, Determining deliverables, Agreeing on success measures, Identifying stakeholders, Testing and negotiating expectations. Project Plan: Developing a strategy, Identifying  more...

Project Management Objective This workshop introduces participants to a structured process for managing a project and project team, and has them apply that process to an actual project they must complete. Content Project Scope; Uncovering expectations; Determining deliverables; Agreeing on success measures; Identifying stakeholders; Testing and negotiating expectations; Developing a strategy; Identifying tasks,  more...

Instructional Design Workshop ...-based, educationally-sound training programs. Content: Defining the scope of the design project, Assessing needs, Defining performance barriers, Developing the performance improvement strategy, Understanding adult learners and learning styles, Writing three types of objectives, Selecting training media and formats, Writing design documents, Working with subject matter experts, Creating  more...