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Training and Facilitation: Coaching Skills 


MAXIM TRAINING Learn how to coach successfully
Effective organisations ensure their employees' skills are continuously expanded and enhanced and coaching makes an important contribution to this process. This
Coaching Skills course shows how to assess a
Learner's needs, draw up a learning plan, assess competence and review progress. It also looks at the various roles and skills required by a
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Training for Non Trainers 


Learn how non trainers can train successfully The pace of change is accelerating which means employees must
CONTINUOUSLY update and learn new skills. Developing people involves many activities, of which training is perhaps the most important. You don't have to become a professional trainer, but the techniques covered in this course will ensure you can achieve the right results.
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Health and Safety 


Adopting safe and healthy practices at work makes good business sense. An unsafe, unhealthy work environment is dangerous, unpleasant and unproductive. It is important that employees should be aware that is their duty to:
Take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and the people who may be affected by what they do and don't do. Comply with health and safety regulations
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Investors in People 


...Employees of an organisation looking to become recognised or already recognised as an
Investor in
People Personnel and Training specialists/consultants needing to understand how the
Standard operates
Senior managers of organisations considering seeking
Investors in
People recognition The course puts Investors in People into context with the background information required to understand what
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KAZ (Keyboard AZ) Typing Tutor 


...k. In this ever-changing and challenging economic climate employees' skills have never had a more direct impact on the bottom line of a business. Increased productivity through learning is the key to competitive advantage and what skill could be more fundamental to productivity than typing? Most employees will work with a PC keyboard to get the job done. Outlook,
Word and
PowerPoint are the
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Implementing an Organization-wide Mentoring Program 
...employees the extra edge they need to succeed? In this course, you'll learn about the purposes, advantages, and procedures involved in developing a mentoring program. You'll examine the program coordinator's role and the guidelines that should be in place before the program begins. You'll learn about selecting and matching mentors and proteges and motivating their progress. Finally, you'll
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Telecommunications Industry Overview Version 1 
Connecting the world, the telecommunications industry stands as one of the most essential elements of the business world. It is also one of the most volatile. Plagued by regulatory discord and economic uncertainty, telecom carriers have struggled to maintain sound footing and a competitive edge, all the while endeavoring to provide crucial, uninterrupted service to their customers. In an age of
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ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management 
Organizations that provide IT services to internal or external customers need to provide excellent services to increase the quality of, and the profits for, the organization. The IT infrastructure library (
ITIL) can help organizations achieve these goals. At the same time, ITIL can help organizations to increase external and internal customer satisfaction. The delivery and support of IT services
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Inbound Call Center Management Leadership 
Did you know that your personality can greatly affect your leadership skills? Are you aware that even if you are a fabulous manager, you may not be an effective leader? As a call center manager, how can you motivate everyone, including senior management, to work together toward a common goal? As you progress through this "
Inbound Call Center Management:
Leadership" course, you will become aware
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Excellence in Internal Customer Service 
In today's fast-changing and highly competitive business climate, offering excellent customer service has never been so important. But what about taking a different approach? Has your organization tried looking inwardly to find the answers to offering great service? Organizations consist of an independent chain of individuals and functional units, each taking inputs from one another and turning
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Working With Internal Customers 
...ance of meeting the needs and expectations of your fellow employees, your internal customers. By helping other people within your organization, you enable it to succeed. Great internal customer service improves people's morale, productivity, and external customer service, and ultimately makes your organization more financially secure. Giving great service to your internal customers means that
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Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems 
...nd break down barriers? At times like these, you and your employees need to act swiftly and proactively to solve the problem, and regain the customer's trust. In this course, you'll learn the art of sustaining excellent service, and recovering the situation when things go wrong. By examining the pitfalls that can occur, and following a set of useful techniques and guidelines, you can salvage
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Identifying Your Customer s Expectations 
...me, they have a strong influence on how your company, its employees, products, and services are perceived. In the first lesson of this course, you'll be shown what characteristics customers want to see demonstrated, what external influences generate customers' expectations, and how your company's ability to fulfill expectations at various levels impacts on customer satisfaction. Too often, the
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Bridge The Expectations Gap 
...ut from either the customers themselves, or the frontline employees who are the best qualified to know what customers want. Maybe your company's advertising is making promises that your employees can't keep, no matter how hard they try. Directed towards "the usual suspects" in this way, you can make some basic checks in the areas that precipitate custo
Customer service managers, supervisors,
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Leading A Customer-Focused Team 
The quality of your customer service is in the hands of the people who deliver it. As their leader it's your responsibility to give them the direction, resources, and support they need to succeed. This course shows you how to work with them to create a customer-focused environment that fulfills customers' expectations while still achieving corporate goals. The first lesson explains how to work
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Discovering What Your Customers Want 
The data are in, and there's no doubt about it: The return on customer loyalty goes directly to your company's bottom line. Too often, however, organizations seeking to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty begin with a survey. To build a successful customer satisfaction system, you have to begin with the basics. When customer satisfaction programs begin with a survey, and not a plan, the
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Developing Customer Satisfaction Surveys 
By the time most people have the chance to develop their first survey, they've seen so many that it seems like developing one will be a piece of cake. To an extent, they're right. Developing a
GIGO (
Garbage In/
Garbage Out) survey is a no-brainer. Developing a survey that gets valid, reliable data, however, is both science and art. In this course, you'll learn to use the principles of survey design
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Customer Satisfaction Analysis and Implementation 
What you get out of a well-designed customer satisfaction survey will depend largely on the power of the analytical tools you apply to the data and the effectiveness of actions taken based on the resulting information. Although the analysis itself is best conducted by your statistical team, you'll be able to use survey results more effectively if you understand how key analytical tools are
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Measuring Customer Satisfaction Simulation 
Stratoscape
Creations is an industry-leading producer of multimedia and gaming products. They are responsible for bringing to the market some of the most popular flight simulators and first-person adventure games of the last decade. But competition has grown increasingly fierce in the industry, and
Stratoscape is starting to feel the bite of an up-and-coming company,
Tempest's
Core. It's game time
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Project Leadership Overcoming Obstacles 
Project
Leadership:
Overcoming Obstacles covers the benefits of initiating change, how to handle employee responses to change, and how to encourage change. It also outlines how to recognize and reduce stress, as well as how to improve work habits. In addition, the program details how to manage and resolve team conflict. The target audience for this series is project managers who are responsible
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Project Management Fundamentals 
...understanding of the products they produce. More and more employees are getting promoted from within to become project managers as they fully understand what they are trying to produce and how best to meet the quality and quantity requirements set forth by upper management. Project management, as a process, is the supervision and control of the work required to complete the project deliverable.
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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
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Stakeholder Interests and Cultural Diversity PMBOK aligned 
As the project manager, you're in the center of the storm. The competing interests of stakeholders--including those of the client, the company, the legal and social environment, and the team itself--are your responsibility. Weighing these interests in the most fair and productive manner is an acquired art you can't afford to neglect. But that's not all. In an increasingly global network, project
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The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation 
...r reason for it? As more and more organizations encourage employees to propose creative and innovative ideas in the workplace, it's imperative that you understand the foundations of creativity and innovation, how creative thought happens, and what is needed to stimulate it further. This course begins with definitions and an exploration of the science of creativity, including biological and
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The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations 
...lanning, 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 attention and generate productive ideas. They are intellectually competent to chart new directions. This course
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Critical Thinking Strategies Simulation 
...result, the company has had to hire a large number of new employees. Fred and
Larry were successful managing
RMS as a small company. However, neither has experience managing a larger entity, which is why they have hired you as general manager. Your primary responsibility, at least initially, will be to ease the company's transition from a small to a mid-size organization. You will need to use
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Personal Accountability Working for Your Inner Boss 
...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
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Self-empowerment Managing from Within 
Have you ever thought that you could be the best boss you've ever had? By developing attitudes and skills that empower you, you can manage from within and become your own best boss. Self-empowerment is the process of taking responsibility for your attitudes, behaviors, and actions at work to maximize your effectiveness. As an empowered employee, you will be driven by ownership, initiative, and
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Developing a Positive Attitude 
Oftentimes your success or failure depends not only on the situation you are in, but how you react to that situation. Your reaction to the situations you encounter is significantly influenced by your attitude. Having a positive attitude involves looking for the best in a situation, being realistic about possibilities and consequences, and having the courage to believe that you can succeed. It
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Successful Lifelong Learning 
Today's successful individual understands that the business world is constantly changing the way people work and the way work is accomplished. How often have you heard these terms: lifelong learning, self-directed learning, continuous learning, and knowledge worker? If you wonder what these terms really mean, why they are important, and how you rate as a worker and learner for the
21st century,
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Organizational Communication The Fundamentals 
Organizational
Communication:
The Fundamentals gives the student a background in communication terms and organization basics. The program also gives the student guidelines for communicating effectively and motivating employees, as well as methods for overcoming barriers to organizational communication. By applying the provided guidelines, the student will be able to communicate effectively,
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Effective Feedback for Employees and Colleagues Simulation 
... an essential element of successful businesses. Managers, employees, customers, and suppliers alike all benefit from the exchange of meaningful, germane feedback. But feedback is a double-edged sword. Given thoughtlessly, without proper preparation and consideration, it is likely to be ignored by the recipient or worse yet, give offense. On the other hand, when given properly, feedback is a
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Leadership Without Authority 
...ebody."
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 culture, where middle management and the concept of seniority are being replaced by a flat organization
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Getting Results from the Boss 
What does the word "boss" mean to you? Does it stand for
Big Old Stubborn Sourpuss? Or does "boss" conjure an image of a level-headed, flexible, and thoughtful co-worker? Whatever the case, as an employee working in a subordinate role, it's up to you to learn how to get the results you desire. That means knowing how to do everything from building a relationship with your boss to dealing
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Remote Manager Practices - Motivating Employees 
In this course, you will learn the importance of setting effective goals for telecommuting employees. Additionally, you will learn how to use motivational techniques to keep telecommuting employees engaged, interested, and productive. The target audience for this course is new and experienced managers that are managing a telecommuting employee for the first time.
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Talent Management Knowing Talent 
This course explains what talent is and how it differs from skills and knowledge. It also introduces the process of talent management and compares this process with traditional processes. Finally, it covers the importance of recognizing and retaining talent. This course is for HR professionals and managers within a company responsible for managing and developing employees.
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Talent Management Selecting Talent 
This course will provide an overview of the talent management process, focusing on the three areas of attracting, developing, and retaining talented people in an organization. The course deals with the issue of talent management from the company?s, as well as the employee?s perspective. This course will emphasize on developing the individuals within a company. HR professionals and managers within
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Performance Appraisal Simulation 
... how you've performed? Contrary to the experience of many employees, performance appraisals require more than a once-a-year feedback session to be effective--they require ongoing dialogue. Unfortunately, most managers view appraisals as an unwelcome intrusion to their already busy schedules. As such, they rush to get through the whole experience, neglecting the benefits of an otherwise very
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Reviewing Performance 
Appraisal interviews are the culmination of the ongoing performance appraisal process. The first part of this process begins with modeling an effective performance discussion. Then, when a manager actually knows what he is aiming for, he can use this knowledge to plan and conduct a really worthwhile, efficient performance meeting. Appraisal meetings aren't always easy encounters, even when they
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Organizational Behavior The Organizational System 
Organizational
Behavior:
The Organizational System defines organizational structure and culture and explains their impact on employees. It also teaches how to perform a job analysis to determine whether an organization's job designs are appropriate and gives options for job redesign. Managers, supervisors, team members, and anyone who is interested in improving the behavior variables within their
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Continuous Performance Assessment 
... remote. The
21st century manager has to plan to appraise employees he may rarely see. The second stage is changing the annual performance meeting into ongoing communication about performance between the manager and employee. The manager must review and monitor performance, and respond to it by motivating the effective worker and helping the less successful worker. In this way, performance
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The Mentoring Manager 
Looking for ways to enhance your managing skills? In this course, you'll acquire expertise as a mentor that will benefit your employees, your organization, and your own career. You'll examine how mentoring differs from managing, and you'll brush up on essential communication skills. Finally, you'll learn to use mentoring to improve on team organization, dynamics, and performance. Managers,
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Understanding Technical Professionals 
...ey could be? This course explains the ways in which these employees differ from other workers and how you can apply more appropriate and effective management techniques. You will also learn how business has responded with new corporate structures and management strategies to meet the challenges of the new high-technology economy with its increasing number of technical professionals. As a result
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Attracting Motivating and Retaining Technical Professionals 
...ers need to find ways to attract top-performing technical employees and keep them once they're on the job. In fact, surveys show that managers list attracting, motivating, and retaining these technical professionals as one of their most challenging tasks. This course is designed to help managers meet that challenge. In it you will learn the factors and techniques that can attract competent
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Models for Managing Technical Professionals 
...se this often-frustrating yet extremely valuable group of employees, you need to figure out the best way to do it. And this "best way" may vary from company to company and from individual to individual. In this course you'll learn a variety of ways to motivate, manage, and lead technical professionals and how to get and keep your technical teams working together efficiently and effectively.
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Leadership Development for Technical Professionals 
Managers must direct the activities of workers to address tactical or short-term issues while still maintaining a vision of the strategic or long-term goal. Therefore, the skills needed for an effective leader are varied and complex. For you, the technical professional, this means evaluating your current leadership skills. It also includes the development of more refined managerial skills such as
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Transitioning From Technical Professional to Management 
...epartment manager. Yet success isn't quite assured. Other employees in the department vie for the same position. Participants will have to outshine these competitors by demonstrating their qualifications to management before being selected as the final candidate. Then once promoted, the job has only just begun. Numerous challenges await the learner as a fledgling ma
Technical professionals who
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Addressing Problem Performance Simulation 
You're the head writer for
The Jackie Lewis Show, a TV talk show on a basic cable channel. The six other writers and the writers assistant report to you. Unfortunately, several of these workers have become problem performers of one type or another. As their supervisor, you will need to inform them of these problem performance issues as well as facilitate improved performance using various methods,
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Mentoring Strategies in the 21st Century 
Current business trends--including acquisitions and reorganizations, emerging technology needs, and a changing work force--are all creating unique mentoring needs. This course addresses how mentoring strategies can benefit your organization in the current business climate. It explores the ways that mentoring can capitalize on gender, age, and cultural issues. Finally, it provides instruction on
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Achieving Success with the help of a Mentor 
Perhaps you want to ask an expert in your field or organization to mentor you. Maybe a manager has offered to guide you up the organization ladder. Or perhaps you're participating in an organizationwide mentoring program. Whatever the case, you'll want to make the most of having a mentor in your corner. In "
Achieving Success with the
Help of a
Mentor," you'll learn how a mentor can help you guide
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e-Mentoring 
Rapid changes in the way organizations look and do business have generated a new business tool: e-Mentoring. Here's an opportunity to examine the challenges and advantages of e-Mentoring and explore how to adapt communication skills to electronic media. Learn how to grow and manage e-Mentoring relationships by effectively selecting and matching e-Mentors and proteges, developing trust, using
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Lead and Communicate Effectively as a New Manager 
...Employees want decisive leadership from their managers. Organizations, too, need their managers to be clear about their objectives, and how their teams can achieve them. As a new manager, it is important that you understand 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
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Preventing Problem Performance 
...ou want to avoid problem performance, it is essential for employees to see clearly what is expected of them. No employee can be criticized for problem performance when no one has explained to him or her the required standard of work. But telling workers what is expected of them is not the end of the story. Performance management is an on-going process and, to be effective at it, a manager must
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Energizing and Empowering Employees 
...me to a screeching halt. And without energized, empowered employees, your part of global industry will make far less progress. This course introduces you to the importance of energizing and empowering employees. By doing so, you multiply the benefits to your department, team, and organization. The course begins by showing you ways to cultivate employee energy as well as the reasons why it's
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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
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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
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Dynamics of Leadership 
Can anyone, regardless of company status, be a leader? Yes
Leaders can be found at all levels in the work force. When you're learning how to lead, is it possible also to be responsible for discovering new future leaders? You bet it is. Even though you aren't in management, do you have the power to influence someone to change his behavior? Again, the answer is yes. In this course, you'll learn how
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Leading Silent Generation and Baby Boom Workers 
...employees working today have unique needs and habits. Their experience and value sets are markedly different. Silent and baby boom generation workers cooperate well in some respects, but are capable of taking very different approaches to work-related issues. This course covers definitional material and applied management techniques concerning members of the silent and baby boom generations. It
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Leading Generations X and Next 
This course deals with the characteristics and needs of the two youngest generations in the work force--Generations X and
Next. These two generations have quite different attitudes toward work and career development. The first lesson identifies the needs of younger people with regard to their unique position in modern markets, desire for flexibility, desired work rewards, and career development
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Making Cross-generational Teams Work 
Teams in the modern workplace may include members from as many as four different generations. For a team to work effectively, its manager must understand generational distinctions. Individual team members may subscribe to different values, practice different work habits, or seek different goals. Lessons in this course cover the benefits and challenges of teaming silent generation, baby boom
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Succession Planning Management 
So, you have a succession plan and you've identified some problems. What do you do now? By taking this course, you will learn how to establish a leadership and talent development program that will ensure your succession plan achieves its goals. You will also learn how to overcome some common challenges that management teams face when trying to find the right people for a position. Since succession
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Implementing a Succession Plan Simulation 
Ulema
Inc. is a market research firm providing consulting, market analysis, strategic planning and technology forecasting services. The
Ulema Reports Group (
URG), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Ulema Inc., produces single and multi-client studies on fast moving market sectors. The lifecycles for these studies are often as little as 6 months to one year from the start of development, so in order
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About 360-Degree Performance Feedback 
Are you ready for a change in the way your company evaluates and develops its management staff? Perhaps you are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of your current efforts to help your managers work to their potential? The
360-degree performance feedback process may be the solution to your needs. Although the use of 360-degree feedback is relatively new (approximately ten years old), public,
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Elements of a 360-degree Performance Review 
Are you familiar with the elements of the
360-degree performance review process? Are your participants familiar with them? Implementing a 360-degree performance review within your organization is a large undertaking; however, with proper preparation of your participants, the resulting feedback is far more likely to be accurate and useful. Failure to consider the crucial elements of the review
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Delivering 360-Degree Performance Feedback 
Are you familiar with how to give
360-degree performance feedback? Do you know how to make 360-degree feedback meaningful? The effective delivery of 360-degree performance feedback can make or break your performance review program. You can ensure that performance feedback is effective when you, or your company, use good interviewing techniques, conduct an effective performance interview, and
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Delegation Basics 
...to consider sharing some of those tasks with your skilled employees. As you progress through this "
Delegation Basics" course in the "
Effective Delegation" series, you will discover what delegating is all about, what you need to do to prepare for and implement this process, and how to ensure that you and your employees will effectively complete those delegated tasks. By participating in this
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Effective Delegation Simulation 
... of child safety products. Working closely with three key employees, the learner will progress through the various stages of delegation, moving from assignment of tasks to overcoming delegation resistance. The simulation is comprised of four scenarios; each will cover a facet of the delegation process. Based on the
Effective Delegation series, this simulation has links to the following courses:
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Managing and Rewarding Top Performers 
...licy in place for hiring and retaining its top-performing employees? Would you know how to convince valuable employees to stay if they were to hand in their resignation? It is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to retain their top-level employees in today's competitive market. This course examines how to attract and ultimately retain top performers through a combination of benefits
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Knowledge as Strategy Performance Improvement 
In the
21st century--the
Knowledge Age--corporations will see workers as intellectual capital. Workers themselves, rather than just information, will become the resources that allow organizations to respond quickly and effectively to rapid change. Learning is at the core of these demands--whether it's learning a new skill, knowing how to manage existing and new knowledge, or creating
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Goal Setting Goal Setting Tools for Managers 
In ''Goal
Setting:
Goal Setting Tools for
Managers,'' you will learn how to guide employees and mentees through the goal-setting process. You will learn how to foster an enthusiastic and supportive environment for goal setting as well as how to motivate individuals to continually set new and challenging goals. The target audience for this program is administrators, managers,
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The Mark of a Leader 
Do you feel that your people can't get along without you? If you're not available, do your people lack direction and therefore, productivity suffers? If you feel that you've been overmanaging and underleading, this course is for you. There is a strong difference between activities and roles of effective managers and those of successful leaders. You'll discover what some of those key differences
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Recruiting for the 21st Century The Market 
It's the beginning of a new century and a new millennium, and the employment market is hot, hot, hot. Employee attitudes have shifted from "I'm sure glad I have a job" to "
What have you done for me lately?"
Boomers, members of the sociological phenomenon that has defined our culture since 1946, are getting ready to retire, and fewer workers from succeeding generations are available to step in. But
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Communicating a Shared Vision 
If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt
Disney's words ring as true today as they did many years ago when they were first displayed above the
Epcot Center. The importance of a vision cannot be denied. Neither can the importance of communicating that vision to the people responsible for supporting it. Communicating your vision gives purpose and meaning to the work that people do, and pursuing and
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Offers Contracts and Organizational Exit HRCI PHR 
Human
Resource (HR) professionals today have to deal with particularly sensitive subjects regarding employment. This course examines employment offers for prospective candidates, contract creation, and record-keeping requirements. In addition, the complex issues of organizational exit--including downsizing, severance, and termination--are explored. The Human Resource Certification Institute's
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