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Project Management Professional Time Management II 


Project
Management:
Time Management II, is the fourth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to determine the appropriate project activities to crash, determine the appropriate project activities to fast track and identify the implications of resource leveling. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project
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ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management 
...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 are divided into core processes within ITIL. This
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Excellence in Internal Customer Service 
... taking inputs from one another and turning them out into external customer service. If everyone within the organization works to provide their "internal" customers with better service, then the end customers will receive a much higher quality service in the long run. Focusing on your internal customers not only helps your organization to survive and prosper, but also has the added benefit of
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Working With Internal Customers 
...tomer 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 people you work with can see, hear, and feel that they are valued. When employees value one another, the result is increased performance, which contributes to the success of the entire
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Identifying Your Customer s Expectations 
... 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 service that customers receive is based more on the needs of the company than the wants of the customer. For example, customer interface technologies are usually
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The Client-Consultant Relationship 
Getting to know your clients and their needs are the vital first steps to establishing productive working relationships. Understanding more about their organizations and what they expect from you will be essential if you are to provide a high-quality service that will excite them. You will also need to know how to recognize all the stakeholders and the real decision makers within an organization,
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Essentials of External Consulting 
...haps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an external consulting role. What do external consultants really do? Although they may work in a variety of disciplines, clearly the role means being an advocate or representative of your organization. For such a role, you'll need excellent client-facing skills. These include communication and listening, presenting, report-writing, meetings
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Evaluation and Review 
...sonally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an external consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This course will help you review any consulting project, bring about successful handoff to the client, and enable you to identify improvement opportunities to continue your own personal development. Anyone with
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Managing Delivery 
...ering to clients is the most important thing you do as an external consultant. Everything else--the selling and the fighting to win the contract--stands for nothing if you fail to deliver outstanding results time and time again. To keep your reputation intact, delivering to time, quality, and budget is the very least that you must achieve. To ensure that clients remain enthusiastic about what
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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
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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
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Establishing a Relationship with Internal Clients 
Even if your clients are internal to your organization, you still need to spend time getting to know them, and understanding what it is they require from you. When you are dealing with internal clients, there may be a temptation to think you know everything about them, and about the project. This course will stop you from making that mistake. It will enable you to understand your clients' needs
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Project Management Professional Scope Management 


Project
Management:
Scope Management, is the second of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify sources of scope creep, identify the steps in controlling scope creep and identify the steps in scope verification. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas
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Project Management Professional Time Management I 


Project
Management:
Time Management I, is the third of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to calculate the critical path, calculate float and identify essential network concepts. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas of organization, resource management,
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Project Management Professional Cost Management 


Project
Management:
Cost Management, is the fifth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to calculate a cost performance index, calculate a schedule performance index and calculate your estimate at completion using three different methods . The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination
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Project Management Professional Risk Management 


Project
Management:
Risk Management, is the ninth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the four responses to risk, identify methods of prioritizing risks and calculate the expected monetary value for different decisions. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques
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Making Group Decisions Working Together 
This course introduces several strategies to recognize and overcome challenges that can hamper a general group consensus. Professionals who want to resolve workplace challenges more effectively.
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Personal Accountability Working for Your Inner Boss 
...r criticism. On another level however, the judgment of an external boss isn't enough to make a job personally fulfilling and rewarding. That's something all employees of an organization decide for themselves. Everyone who works must also answer to an inner boss, a personal, internal voice that provides guidance on whether a job is worth doing and whether it is done well. Accepting personal
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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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A New Manager s Role in the Company s Future 
Perhaps one of the most exciting and challenging changes that comes with moving into a management role is the need to take a more strategic view of the work you are doing. You need to develop a greater awareness of how your own work, and the work of those in your department, fits with the strategic vision of the company. You will also need to have a greater understanding of the impact that the
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Six Sigma and the Voice of the Customer 
Do you know the phrase, "caveat emptor"? It's a
Latin term that means, "
Let the buyer beware." It's also a legal principle stating that consumers must purchase goods at their own risk, because unless specifically asked, the seller is generally under no obligation to disclose defects. Caveat emptor once struck fear in the hearts of many wary consumers. Fortunately, the tide has turned. Increased
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Competitive Factors in Strategic Marketing 
You've got a great idea for a new product or service for your organization, or a major enhancement for an existing one. Now you've got to present the case to the decision-makers to go forward. What kinds of topics should you include in your strategic marketing plan? In this course you'll learn exactly what to consider as you develop and present your plan, including market data and competitor
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Elements of Marketing Strategy 
You want to develop a powerful, and well-documented marketing strategy in order to get your new product or service approved. This course is designed to give you a strong start in developing your marketing vision, direction, and ultimately a plan. You'll get an overview of the key factors encompassing the broad scope of strategic marketing. You'll be able to discuss cost structures and their
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Code of Conduct - The Work Place 
This course enables you to identify guidelines for working in a secure and healthy environment and to recognize the importance of clear boundaries and effective communication both internal and external to the company. Compliance areas covered include discrimination and harassment,
EEO, violence, safety and health, environmental safety, political activities, quality communications, and crisis
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Intellectual Property Overview 
...unicating the company's identity or ideas to internal and external customers. How does management perform this function effectively while keeping the law on its side? This course explains the basic types of intellectual property, the legal protections in place, and the potential consequences of violating intellectual property rights. The course covers current copyright, patent, and trademark
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Advanced HTML Design Elements 
To describe, and equip students to use, advanced
HTML elements such as complex tables, frames and framesets, metadata and the
META tag, and style sheets
Web authors, webmasters, marketing and communications professionals, PR professionals, graphic designers, desktop designers, technical writers, and library scientists
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Adding Services and Components in C 
To demonstrate how to add services and components in C# Application developers with some experience in C# who wish to become familiar with developing user services in the .NET Framework, especially those who wish to attain the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (
MCSD) or Microsoft Certified Application Developer (
MCAD) for
Microsoft .NET credentials
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Adding Services and Components in VB NET 
To demonstrate how to add services and components in VB.NET Application developers with some experience in
Visual Basic .NET who wish to become familiar with developing user services in the .NET Framework, especially those who wish to attain the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (
MCSD) or Microsoft Certified Application Developer (
MCAD) for
Microsoft .NET credentials
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Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Features 
To introduce students to the communication and advanced features of Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Technical personnel at IT solution companies who wish to deploy Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 to small businesses and network administrators of small businesses
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Evaluating e-Commerce Options 
This course is intended for students who wish to consider some of the costs as well as the potential benefits of e-commerce. A survey of e-commerce strategies and an overview containing implementation descriptions will help the student better understand the basis of costs associated with e-commerce. This course is intended for
Managers and technical staff who are in a position to provide
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Operation and Configuration of Cisco IOS Switches 
To use the available configuration tools to establish connectivity to the appropriate network device in order to complete initial switch configurations and to verify the default configuration and status of switch devices
Individuals new to networking concepts and terminology; individuals preparing to take the Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (
ICND) learning path; anyone preparing for the
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SAP R 3 4 6 CO Cost Object Controlling 
The course
SAP R/3 4.6 CO Cost
Object Controlling gives employees, working within internal accounting, an overview of tasks within cost element accounting dealing with all the costs related to the production process and important for the product cost calculation. The initial unit provides an introduction to SAP R/3 4.6 s fundamental features; explaining how to log on to the system as well as
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Advanced Data Manipulation Features in Word 2007 
...Word 2007. Forms contain form fields that you can link to external data sources, and
Word 2007 contains security features to protect forms from tampering by other users. Inserting fields has been simplified in Word 2007 by means of built-in commands and content controls. The mail merge feature is also improved and simplified in Word 2007, enabling users to merge content into letters, e-mail
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Using Advanced Data Management Techniques 
...s the procedures involved in importing data in
Excel from external sources, such as
Access databases, text files, and
Web pages. The course also takes the user through the process of creating and managing
PivotTables and
PivotCharts as well as scenarios and reports to analyze data. Users can also learn how to create and use macros to automate long and repetitive tasks in Excel. This course is
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Adobe GoLive CS2 Web Page Layout 
This course introduces you to the basics of entering text on an
HTML page, formatting the text, and creating style sheets to maintain consistency across
Web pages. You will learn how to create tables and add text and images to them. You will also learn about properties of images for the Web and how to modify these properties. The audience consists of Web designers and developers involved with the
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Business Code of Conduct: Ethical Responsibility 
This course examines ethical responsibility in the workplace by focusing on relationships with customers prospects competition suppliers creditors and employees. identify effects of ethical behavior on the internal constituencies of a company. identify effects of ethical behavior on the external constituencies of a company. identify features of a corporate code of conduct. identify issues that a
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Server+ Certification Part 2: Upgrading 


The is the second course in a four-part series on
CompTIA's
Server+ Certification. This course covers performing different types of backups and how to verify that a backup has taken place. Different types of upgrades that can be performed, such as adding a processor and hard drive, increasing memory, upgrading
BIOS/firmware are covered. In addition, upgrading both internal and external peripheral
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Mastering MS Excel 97 


This course covers the advance features of
Excel and teaches the student how to use Excel for customizing workbooks, managing data lists, interpreting data, and working with external data.
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CIW Perl Fundamentals Part 2: Manipulating Scripts 
This is the second course in a three part series that students will learn both theoretical and practical instruction on external data
Perl scripts. This course will also cover regular expressions and pattern matching subroutines and file access and manipulation.
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Server+ Certification Part 2: Upgrading 
The is the second course in a four-part series on
CompTIA's
Server+ Certification. This course covers performing different types of backups and how to verify that a backup has taken place. Different types of upgrades that can be performed such as adding a processor and hard drive increasing memory upgrading
BIOS/firmware are covered. In addition upgrading both internal and external peripheral
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SAP R/3 Information Systems with FI 
The FI/IS component of R/3 provides sophisticated services for enterprise wide data management and reporting. This course will provide R/3 users with the knowledge and skills to perform regular tasks and procedures including customizing activities. The course illustrates the analysis of:
Accounts Receivable and
Accounts Payable information systems G/L information systems
Assets information
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