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Advanced Product Quality Planning Session Information Session Date: July 17, 2008 Start time: 1:00 pm Duration: 2 hours Session Fee: $200 per participant Presenter: Norma S. Simons /Kathy Paris Host: Duane Cole Host email: duanecole@simons-white.com Description: Advanced Product Quality Planning Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is a methodology that encompasses all the activities and processes needed between customer more...

How To Master Team Building Course description -- Meeting business objectives and maximizing resources requires effective teamwork, and this bundle will build the basic competencies that will ensure your teams are organized, goal-oriented, and customer-focused. Together they provide a toolkit of effective techniques and strategies for building high-performing teams in any function or discipline. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET more...

Parent Conferencing and Communication Explores ideas to ensure successful communication between teachers and parents of children with disabilities. more...

Design Team - Business Process Modelling Design Team - Business Process Modelling enables communication between staff working upon the analysis and design of processes and information boundaries in an organisation and the boundaries and scope of a system. The Modelling activity produces diagrams which form the basis of both new information systems and business process engineering. This course teaches the whole process of applying each more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Managing your Budget MAXIM TRAINING Preparing a budget and following it through to approval involves a lot of work. But it's only the beginning! Once approved, the budget needs careful management to ensure your plans become a reality. This process starts from day one and continues throughout the year. This course provides a structured approach for managing your budget. It shows how to: Review your budget to identify more...

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 Coach more...

Training and Facilitation: Mentoring Skills MAXIM TRAINING Mentoring is becoming increasingly popular in the workplace. What was once chiefly an informal process applied arbitrarily, has now been formalised by many organisations as a vital part of their staff development programmes. The overall aim of the course is to explain how to ensure mentoring is effectively implemented in an organisation. more...

Leadership and Team Development: The Effective Leader MAXIM TRAINING This course will make you a more effective leader - whether you're responsible for leading a project, a team, a a department or even a company! Whatever your role, we're assuming you must lead people in order to achieve results. This course focuses on ACTION you can take to ensure people follow you so you get results. more...

Leadership and Team Development: Performance Troubleshooting MAXIM TRAINING Performance Troubleshooting is all about identifying causes and solving performance problems at work. But to solve a problem, first you must be able to describe it. This course gives a systematic and highly effective approach to describing performance and analysing problems at work. It's called the Human Performance System, or HPS. The overall aim of the course is to ensure you can more...

Managing People: Motivating your Team ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. This course will help you understand what motivates members of your team. It will help you analyse how to work with each person to improve their performance and realise their full more...

Managing People : Agreeing Objectives ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Setting effective objectives is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. But if you think objective setting means handing down targets from above ...think again! This course will help you understand what makes a powerful objective. It will help you more...

Managing People: Giving Feedback and Praise to your Team ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Giving regular feedback is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. This course will help you understand why timely feedback is vital. It stresses the importance of praise and gives tips and hints on how to deliver constructive criticism and more...

Managing People : What's behind Appraisal? ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. But if you think appraisal is about handing down judgements from above ...think again. This course will help you understand how the appraisal process works, and how to involve people in more...

Managing People : Preparing for a Formal Appraisal ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. This course will help you understand how to prepare for appraisal. It will show you how to get team members in the right frame of mind for their appraisal, and to get the stage set for a more...

Managing People : Questioning Techniques for Appraisals ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance and the questioning techniques used by the appraiser are key to its success. This course will help you analyse different question types and the responses they encourage. It will show you more...

Managing People : Leading 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 shows you how to make the most of every business meeting. It will help you become a dynamic and effective leader whose more...

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. more...

Measuring and Recording Performance ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. But if you think appraisal is about handing down judgements from above ...think again. Giving feedback & appraising people is fraught with potential pitfalls. This course is packed full more...

The Appraisal Interview ...ged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. But if you think appraisal is about handing down judgements from above... think again. This course will help you for when you're in the hot seat. It will show how to structure the more...

Organisational Communication : Dealing with Authorities ... help you use your resources effectively to establish and ensure safe working practices. It will encourage you to promote a safe working environment with your team, and it will help you comply with your legal responsibilities for health and safety. Developing safety sense requires investment, but the payoff is the knowledge that you, your team and your customers are safe and sound. Developing more...

Organisational Communication : Improving Safety ...ou to use your resources effectively and to establish and ensure safe working practices. You'll see how you can reduce losses, by actively preventing accidents, investigating them when they do occur and using the information to improve the safety system even further. It will explain all areas of a safety audit and why they are important for an organisation. Developing safety sense requires more...

Preparing Presentations Learn how to prepare for presentations successfully Giving presentations is one of the most daunting and unpopular tasks we face. Experienced managers and even experienced speakers often dread the prospect of speaking in public. For most of us, giving presentations does not come naturally. The key to successful presentations lies with effective PREPARATION. Being well prepared maximises your more...

Putting Customers First Learn why you must care for your customers In today's business environment there's often little to choose between one organisation's products/services and another's. Quality of customer service can be the crucial difference between success and failure. This course will help ensure your customers have POSITIVE feelings about you and your organisation and so build customer loyalty. more...

Linux Red Hat Advanced System Administration Part 5: Security and Operational Administration The fifth and final course in the Linux Red Hat Advanced System Administration series covers security issues and some operational administration topics. The course begins by examining NIS and basic security. It also covers system logging, internetworking and services security which are designed to help administrators ensure that their systems are secure. more...

Recruitment & Selection Series: Rating Canditates to a Set Standard If you are judged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to hire the best people for the job. Unfortunately, recruitment decisions are often based on gut feelings and irrelevant details instead of hard evidence of suitability for the job; but employing someone who is not ideally suited can be an expensive mistake. Deciding who actually gets the job is rarely an easy choice. Candidates more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Undertsanding Team Roles 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 help you gain an insight into the typical roles that you and other team members adopt. You'll more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Handling Difficult Team Members 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 how to take power by taking action and gain control in difficult situations. You can more...

KAZ (Keyboard AZ) Typing Tutor ... react to word association is used to transfer skills and ensure they are retained Five basic reaction principles are used to ensure the user reacts and interacts with the keyboard efficiently Interactive tasks are fun and engaging, allowing the user to assimilate new typing skills quickly without the use of boring repetitive exercises You can learn to touch type in just 90 minutes More more...

The Professional Teller: Following Security Procedures ... banks take, what procedures the student should follow to ensure bank security, and what actions the student should take in response to angry or violent customers and/or suspicious activity. The program also covers the common types of crimes committed against banks, including robbery, kidnapping, and bomb threats, as well as appropriate reactions to such situations. In addition, the program more...

Financial Management: Fundamental Accounting Concepts In Financial Management: Fundamental Accounting Concepts, participants become familiar with basic accounting concepts and terms, enabling them to track business transactions that affect assets, liabilities, and owner's equity. They learn how use universal accounting tools-such as the general journal, general ledger, and trial balance-to ensure an organization follows sound accounting practices. more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Database Access Part I ...ated in databases, and what technologies are available to ensure cross-platform and uniform access to database information. This course describes the fundamentals of viewing and modifying information in databases using the industry standard Structured Query Language (SQL). It explains how SQL is used with client tools built in Visual Basic, to create powerful queries and statements for a more...

From Executive-level Sale to Strategic Partnership Selling at an executive level doesn't stop when the contract is signed. To develop the business and prevent attack from the competition, major accounts need nurturing. This course illustrates how knowledge of various corporate cultures will give you a customer compatible approach that safeguards and maximizes your account revenue. Salespeople who sell at an executive level and obtain and maintain more...

The Strategic Account Sales Approach ...om the implementation of step-by-step processes that help ensure predictable, repeatable, and measurable results. In this course, you'll learn about the strategic account sales (SAS) approach for successful sales. You'll start by gaining an understanding of the premises and strategy behind the approach. Then you'll learn how to select target accounts based on specific selection criteria and more...

Working with Your Customer s Key Players Strong customer relationships are essential for long-term sales success. In this course, you'll learn about the second major component of the Strategic Account Sales (SAS) approach--communication. You'll start by learning about developing coach relationships in your target account. A vital part of your sales effectiveness depends on finding contacts at target accounts that can become part of an more...

The Territorial Account Sales Approach ...the implementation of step-by-step processes that help to ensure predictable, repeatable, and measurable results. In this course, you'll learn about the territorial account sales approach for successful sales. You'll start by gaining an understanding of the premises and strategy behind the approach. Then, you'll learn how to select target accounts based upon specific selection criteria and more...

Gaining Access to Key Personnel at Your Target Accounts In this course, you'll learn about the second major component of the territorial account sales approach: communication. You'll start by learning about coaching relationships. A vital part of your sales effectiveness depends on finding a key contact in each target account that can become your internal coach for the sales process. Then, you'll learn about gaining access to the right level at your more...

Introducing Contact Centers CSR Success Criteria This course describes the essential skills and qualities that will ensure successful customer service operations. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies more...

Handling Contacts Professionally Maximize Call Performance 2 This course discusses several methods that learners can employ to ensure that the customer contact is a positive experience. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies more...

Inbound Call Centers People Management Inbound call centers are often the only link between a company and its customers. As a call center manager, you want to hire agents with special customer service "genes." Good call center agents do a better job on the telephone, are happier with their work, and genuinely enjoy helping customers. This course will help you staff your call center with the right people for the job. You'll learn how to more...

Performance Metrics for an Inbound Call Center ... industry, the impetus will be on call center managers to ensure customers receive the best service possible. But where do you look to analyze performance? Is performance quantifiable? Yes it is Call center performance metrics outlines the path to improved operations. This course will explore the full range of call center performance metrics. It will look at where the metrics come from, what more...

Internal Customer Service Conflict and Complaints Simulation ...hey must be greeted with quick and effective responses to ensure that business can proceed. The Internal Customer Service: Conflict and Complaints Simulation has been designed to allow participants to practice handling customer service complaints within the relative safety of a learning environment. Over the course of the simulation, participants will apply their conflict-handling skills to more...

Identifying Your Customer s Expectations Customers have expectations of all the companies with which they transact business. These expectations may be predominantly unspoken but, all the same, 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 more...

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 more...

Call Center Customer Service Have you just become a call center customer service representative? Maybe you are experiencing some feelings of anxiety, as do many novice agents. You may be concerned about dealing with customers' issues one-on-one. Fortunately, there is a comprehensive training course for people in your situation. This course will help you overcome reservations about customer service in a call center setting. more...

Managing Delivery ...y, and budget is the very least that you must achieve. To ensure that clients remain enthusiastic about what you can offer them, you must deliver effective project management throughout the consulting assignment. Set milestones to check on performance regularly, and implement monitoring and control systems. Keeping motivated and focused will also be a challenge, particularly if the project is more...

Diagnosing and Planning Your success as a consultant depends on your ability to diagnose each situation correctly. You need to use your previous experience, and bring fresh ideas to every new contract. Frameworks and models help you to make an effective diagnosis. They help you to evaluate the strategic position of the client organization, which is vital. To deliver solutions that are relevant and appropriate to the more...

Effective Communication Skills Effective communication is essential to the success of any customer-oriented business. Each customer will have their own style of communication as well as an emotional response to contacting a support center. In order to effectively communicate, the Customer Support Specialist (CSS) must understand how to adapt to these different styles and emotions before the customer's problems can be dealt more...

Management Tools and Metrics ...hey interact with a Customer Support Specialist (CSS). To ensure this consistently high level of service, the CSS can draw an array of management tools and processes that both guide and measure his performance. This course is intended to demonstrate the management and measurement tools a professional CSS is expected to use when dealing with individual customers and participating in the overall more...

Project Leadership Leading the Project Team ...ject Team covers how to lead a project team in a way that ensures project success. The program details desirable project manager characteristics, skills, and styles, as well as how project managers can motivate project teams. In addition, the program covers how to manage project risk, guarantee on-time project completion, and prioritize projects. The target audience for this series is project more...

Project Management Government This course focuses on project management for Federal Government agencies. Specifically, the course focuses on the differences between project management in a private organization and in the federal government This course series is designed for project managers who have a fundamental understanding of project management concepts, but are looking to apply these concepts within their government more...

Managing the Execution and Control of IT Projects ...e so vulnerable to cost overruns and failure? How can you ensure that your project does not end up as one of these statistics? You can avoid being a statistic by managing project scope, cost, and scheduling. As you go through this course, you will learn valuable strategies for managing your project. You will learn about tools to manage scope, time, and cost that will aid in the successful more...

Managing Efficiencies of IT Projects ...ring quality application systems? Do you know how you can ensure that your projects deliver value to your organization? The key to delivering value is "process." Organizations are becoming more aware of the importance of following the same process for each project. In this course, you will learn how to converge methodologies with other project management techniques and process management more...

Managing a Project The factors of a successful project almost always end up depending on how much money and time is needed to create a product worthy of the customer. This course will help you manage the constraints of time, money, and schedules, and how they relate to the overall quality of your project and product. This course is targeted toward a diverse range of managers and staff members who wish to acquire the more...

Planning Project Procurement and Requesting Seller Responses ...roposals from potential sellers--all vital processes that ensure that you are able to procure the products, services, or results that will enable you to achieve project success. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK Guide) - Third Edition, published by the Project Manage Project managers who are seeking to further their project management more...

Communications Planning and Information Distribution ...s good communications to manage day-to-day activities and ensure success of the project. Project managers need to understand the processes of Project Communications Management, and how those processes help promote success and resolve differences among project stakeholders. Project managers need to plan out a strategy to ensure that needed information is gathered and produced efficiently. more...

The Execution Process Group ...oncerned with following established policies and plans to ensure effective benefits and stakeholder management, as well as program governance. Management of this process is complex involving costing, quality assurance, and scheduling, among other activities. This course is designed to help program managers understand the processes that support the Executing process group. This course is aligned more...

Monitoring Controlling and Closing Programs ...ows you to ascertain the current benefit delivery status, ensure adequate resources are in place, and that changes are properly managed. Closing a program is a time for celebration. However, to be successful and ensure program benefits are achieved, monitoring, controlling, and closing processes must be followed. Such activities require a great effort on the part of the program team and all more...

Program Management Processes and the Initiating Process Group ...ues between projects and to offer a coordinated effort to ensure program benefits.This course is designed to help program managers describe the processes that support the program management life cycle themes. It also explains the difference between the program management process groups and the project management process groups, including the common inputs to program management processes and the more...

Performance Reporting and Stakeholder Management ...es good communication to manage day-to-day activities and ensure success of the project--project managers need to understand what a communications model is, and how it helps promote success and resolve differences. They need to plan out a strategy to ensure that needed information is gathered and produced efficiently. Finally, the project manager is responsible for distributing information to more...

Advanced Project Management Managing Accelerated Projects Advanced Project Management: Managing Accelerated Projects teaches learners the limitations of project management scheduling packages, schedule compression techniques, and the risks of using the different techniques. It also covers how ERP benefits project management, how to calculate the percent efficiency of resources, and what elements project managers should consider when planning for more...

Accepting the Decision Sell Your Solution This course provides a series of helpful tips to persuade decision-makers to approve the proposed solution. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively. more...

Making Group Decisions Ensure Group Success This course describes four methods to generate successful problem solving decisions. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively. more...

Business Travel Safety International Travel In ''Business Travel Safety: International Travel,'' you will learn how to make travel preparations and international travel arrangements. You will also learn how to increase your safety during air and ground transportation and at destinations, such as hotels, restaurants, and business events. Finally, you will learn how to avoid and handle physical and nonphysical crimes in more...

Strategies for Facilitating Critical Thinking Workplaces are not typically associated with reflection or critical self-reflection, ideas that are often considered 'soft' to the bottom-line, results-oriented world of business.... Yet, paradoxically, reflection is becoming more part of the lifeblood of organizations in today's economic environment. Victoria Marsick's words illustrate why businesses can no longer thrive on the unexamined more...

Business Professionalism Simulation ...ulfill. Schedules must be kept; deadlines must be met. To ensure productivity remains on target, business professionals must possess refined skills in setting priorities, managing daily tasks, and maintaining personal accountability. The Business Professionalism Simulation is designed to enable participants to develop the skills necessary for increasing personal accountability and business more...

An Essential Guide to Giving Feedback ...n 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 enable you to enhance your skills in giving more...

Coping with Criticism and Feedback We all need feedback so that we can learn and improve. What we often get is criticism, or feedback given to us in such a way that we feel defensive or angry. When your emotions get involved, it is difficult to be objective and to use the feedback effectively. This course links the concept of emotional intelligence, and EQ, to the practice of receiving feedback. By doing this, it provides you with more...

Team Feedback A guide ...ds 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 performance, and how the team is being managed, are all vital. Managing team performance is complex, because effective teams depend on synergy between more...

Improving Your Cross-cultural Communications ... can do to improve your cross-cultural communications and ensure that your clients or coworkers across the world become your greatest allies. In this course, you'll find out how to build rapport, appeal to receivers' motivations, and consider the importance of rank and respect in global communication. Cross-cultural communication is often boosted by global e-communication including electronic more...

Management Development for Technical Professionals If you have ever considered moving up to a managerial position, certain personal and professional traits will be necessary when you make that move. In addition to the skills you have as a technical professional, you need to develop the skills of effective managers. This course will assist you in a self-assessment process that is essential to your efforts to become an effective manager. You will more...

Moving into Management Simulation You work for The Electric Car Company. Recently your boss, Sonya Black, promoted you to Marketing Manager. Your main focus is now on managing the activities of others. You'll initially find that some of your coworkers' expectations of you have changed. Some of your former colleagues will have trouble accepting your promotion, and you will need to respond appropriately to their negative reactions. more...

Managing High Performers Training Career and Rewards ...e of developing effective recognition programs which will ensure the retention of your company s high performers. Effective coaching, mentoring, and feedback delivered in tandem with a recognition program are the focus in this course, and learners will find invaluable guidelines for each. The audience for this curriculum is anyone in middle/ senior management, or anyone involved in employee more...

Succession Planning Strategies You've decided to create a succession plan for your organization, but where do you start? This course explains how to begin the succession planning process. You will discover how to initiate a succession planning process from the conceptualization of the problem to developing an action plan. You will also discover opportunities for customizing the succession plan. Your understanding of succession more...

Succession Planning Management ...ish 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 planning is an ongoing process, you will also learn how to evaluate your succession program to ensure that it meets your organization's more...

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, more...

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 more...

Delivering 360-Degree Performance Feedback ...an 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 maintain the 360-degree performance feedback process. When you use the techniques contained in this course, you will help ensure that your 360-degree performance review feedback and more...

360-Degree Performance Appraisal Simulation In this simulation, you will assume the role of Northeast Regional Director of Sales for IpSwitch Components, a seller and service provider of computer networking hardware. Recently, the company decided to experiment with a 360-degree performance feedback system, hoping to replace the traditional manager-level review process. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series 360-Degree Performance more...

Managing For High Performance ...This course will examine what organizations need to do to ensure that they attract high performers, how they allow this talent to thrive, and, most importantly, how to avoid losing the talent to the competition. In addition, managers need to be able to evaluate an individual's performance and provide clearly defined outcome-based performance standards that create a benchmark for success. This more...

Managing Managers ...are also expected to deal with their own line managers to ensure that the organization's strategy is translated into action. These managers often need guidance, feedback, and appraisal on the application of business strategy. Managing managers is likely to be a greater challenge than ever before. It requires a new set of skills, insights, and competencies to drive performance and improve the more...

Key Stages in Coaching Coaching has many uses in organizations, and the sequence of coaching activities is similar in all of them. This course will involve learners in the continuous process of discovery, goal setting, action planning, and follow-up that distinguishes coaching from other development methods. This course is for anyone in an organization who has a role in improving the performance of co-workers, keeping more...

Coach with Confidence Simulation ... requests. You even interact with production engineers to ensure that the integrity of the product can be maintained when produced in large quantities. As a result of your extra effort, the products you are involved in have a high success rate, both with marketers and in the market, and you are often assigned a lead role on interdisciplinary R&D projects. Seizing on your unique ability to blend more...

Delegation Basics ... 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 course, you will discover how delegating tasks can enhance and accentuate your management skills. This course is for individuals who have the opportunity to distribute their workload; managers and business leaders who want to more...

Employee Compensation HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the current and future needs of the company. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the area of employee compensation. You will learn methods for effective total compensation. This course will also help you more...

Offers Contracts and Organizational Exit HRCI PHR ...resource professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices with regard to employment offers, contracts, and exits are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in this area. All the topics in this course are more...

Affirmative Action and the EEO HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action. In the area of EEO, more...

Employment Management HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of federal anti-discrimination legislation and workforce management. In this more...

Offers Contracts and Exit from the Organization HRCI PHR ...resource professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices with regard to employment offers, contracts, and exits are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in this area. All the topics in this course are more...

Developing Employees HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the current and future needs of the company. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of employee training and development. In the area of employee training, you will learn methods for effectively more...

Developing Human Resources HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employees have maximized their potential for growth and development. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of human resources development and performance management. In the area of human resource development, you will learn effective methods for both leadership more...

Compensating Employees HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the current and future needs of the company. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the area of employee compensation. You will learn methods for effective total compensation. This course will also help you more...

Strategic Approaches to Workforce Planning and Employment HRCI SPHR ...ain competitive in the business world, organizations must ensure that they employ the right people in the right numbers at the right time. Workforce planning and employment involves the processes of planning, developing, implementing, administering, and ongoing evaluation of recruiting and hiring to ensure that the workforce will meet the organization's strategic goals and objectives. This more...

EEO and Affirmative Action HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action. In the area of EEO, more...

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the area of sexual harassment. In this course, you'll learn about the many aspects of more...

Managing Employment HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of federal anti-discrimination legislation and workforce management. In this more...

Employee Relations HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employee relations are positive and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of employee relations, employee and individual rights and relations, and Equal Employment more...

Non-union Work Environments HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are in line with work rules of non-union environments and that employee issues are resolved in a legally defensible manner. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of work regulations and employee issue resolution. In the areas more...

Union Work Environments HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices are in line with work rules of union environments and that union-employer issues are resolved in a legally defensible manner. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of work regulations and employee issue resolution. This more...

Employee Benefit Programs HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's practices comply with any legislation governing employee benefits and that the benefit programs are competitive enough to attract and retain employees. These are some of the topics you will need to understand to prepare for the Human Resource Certification Institute's Professional in Human Resources more...

Employee Development HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the current and future needs of the company. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of employee training and development. In the area of employee training, you will learn methods for effectively more...

Human Resource Development HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employees have maximized their potential for growth and development. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of human resources development and performance management. In the area of human resource development, you will learn effective methods for both leadership more...

Occupational Health and Safety HRCI PHR ...esources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company meets particular standards and requirements for safety and health, most notably those established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations with regard to OSHA and the OSH Act. In this course, you'll more...

Behavior Putting Your Best Foot Forward ...This course will show you some ways to assess yourself to ensure you're ready to work towards a new role. It will also show you some techniques for interacting with co-workers, subordinates, and superiors. In addition, you'll see how to project self-confidence and to become the kind of person to whom people give their loyalty and trust. Administrative support professionals and executive more...

Accrual Accounting Procedures ...nue, and depreciation. Accrual accounting procedures will ensure that your financial information about the business's performance is accurate. After all, accurate financial information is the basis for making crucial decisions in any successful business. Individuals who require knowledge of the basics of accounting, who are starting a business, who are learning to manage the accounting more...

Accounting for Cash Control ...nd money orders. Accounting procedures are established to ensure that cash receipts and cash disbursements are protected. This course explores the accounting methods for internal control of cash such as petty cash, bank reconciliation, and payroll. Understanding the processing, recording, and safekeeping of cash are vital to the financial stability of a business. Individuals who require more...

Accounting for Partnerships ..., or experience. Accounting procedures are established to ensure that each partner gets his/her share of the business income or loss. This course explores the accounting methods that pertain to partnerships and the division of its assets. This course is intended for individuals who require knowledge of the basics of accounting, who are starting a business or interested in becoming a partner, more...

The Imperatives of Innovation and Leadership in Strategy ...d, as not all managers have the leadership qualities that ensure success. This course focuses on preparing operational managers to appreciate the relationship between innovation and leadership. This path is for those in management who are engaging in or preparing for a more strategic role within their organization. This includes senior executives, operational managers, consultants, and business more...

Six Sigma--Lean Tools for Control ...rol phase. The purpose of Six Sigma's Control phase is to ensure that the previous improvements made by the Six Sigma team remain fixed, or in control, into the future. "Control" is the final step in the Six Sigma process improvement model, DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Candidates for Black Belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the implementation more...

Six Sigma--Measurement System Re-analysis ...is phase, measurement system capability is re-assessed to ensure it remains adequate for the ever-improving process capability. You will focus on improving measurement system capability as the process capability improves. You'll learn about ongoing measures and Candidates for Black Belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the implementation of Six Sigma in their more...

Taguchi and Quality Improvement Well-designed experiments result in effective process design or redesign, and ultimately, improved organizations. The Taguchi Method is a technique for designing and performing experiments to investigate processes where the output depends on many variables. The Taguchi Method allows the Six Sigma teams to avoid the tedious and costly task of running a process using all possible combinations of more...

Total Productive Maintenance TPM ...ensure that the maintenance requirements of physical assets are met as cheaply and effectively as possible? The goal is to reduce downtime and minimize maintenance costs. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a systematic approach to eliminating waste associated with production equipment and machinery. It is an approach that seeks to engage all levels and functions in an organization to more...

Measurement Systems ...ng measurement data--is analyzing the measuring system to ensure that measurements are made without bias, are reproducible by all measuring instruments, and are repeatable by all operators. In this course, you will learn about Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA). You will see how to assess properties of a measurement system, including how to plan and conduct a Gauge R&R. You will learn some more...

Six Sigma Listening to the Voice of the Customer Let the buyer beware. That old business maxim of caveat emptor once struck fear in the hearts of many wary consumers. Now there's a new reality: Competition for consumer attention is intense across all industries and markets, so now it's the company itself which is being admonished to beware. That means businesses should be looking for the best way to gauge what its customers really need and want. more...

Six Sigma DMAIC Measuring the Process Would you use your thumb and forefinger to measure how much carpet you need to buy for a new room in your house? By the same token, do you have the right tools for measuring a process in your organization that just isn't working? "Six Sigma DMAIC: Measuring the Process," provides Six Sigma Green Belts and team members with techniques for precisely pinpointing the source of problems--and precisely more...

Organizational Goals and Objectives ...ffective improvement model are crucial tasks that help to ensure your company is pointed in the right direction. Performing risk analysis while avoiding pitfalls common to Six Sigma projects is also important to prevent project failure. Finally, performing a tollgate assessment emphasizes process management to ensure your ultimate goal of customer satisfaction. This course provides an overview more...

Financial Analysis for Successful Marketing Whether you have a "head" for numbers, or a "dread" of numbers, no strategic marketing plan will be successful without a thorough financial analysis. The final course in this series takes a user-friendly, interactive approach to help you master the numbers game. You will analyze typical financial parameters associated with setting up a financial budget as part of an overall marketing strategy. more...

Supply Chain Management At what level are your suppliers performing? Are the relationships with your suppliers benefiting the organization? A quality-centered relationship with a supplier can play a vital role in the success of organizations, providing a competitive advantage in today's aggressive global marketplace. Without sound performance measurement and communication strategies, the relationship between you and your more...

Quality-minded Management The ISO 9000:2000 family of standards structures its Quality Management System (QMS) model into four major clauses: Management Responsibility, Resource Management, Product Realization, and Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement. This course provides an overview of the clause "Management Responsibility." It details management's role in establishing a quality policy and its responsibility to support more...

Processes for Quality Products and Services The ISO 9000:2000 standard structures its Quality Management System (QMS) model into four major areas: Management Responsibility,