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How To Master Supervision ...face a daunting challenge as they bridge the gap between individual contributors and management. This bundle addresses four critical competence areas, beginning with an overview of successful supervision and attacking three major supervisory responsibilitiesa leading meetings, managing projects, and delegating. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) BROWSER REQUIRED - can't use Netscape or more...

Safety Sense Series: Keeping Yourself Safe ...cidents rests fully with the organisation itself. You can face heavy fines for simply being unaware of the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to more...

Safety Sense Series: Safety Standards and Systems ...cidents rests fully with the organisation itself. You can face heavy fines for simply being unaware of the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to more...

Safety Sense Series: The Safety Authorities ...cidents rests fully with the organisation itself. You can face heavy fines for simply being unaware of the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to more...

Safety Sense Series: Improving Safety Performance ...cidents rests fully with the organisation itself. You can face heavy fines for simply being unaware of the rules, regulations and procedures let alone for not applying them. This combined with the need to understand your obligations and the potential penalties under EU regulations, plus the expense of lost time and money resulting from absenteeism, all add up to the absolute need for you to more...

Customer Service : Handling Customer Complaints Not every encounter with customers begins as a positive experience. But nearly every one can be turned around. The customer whose complaint has been handled well is likely to be your customer for life. This course shows you how to deal with difficult customer situations. It will help you build the confidence to cope with demanding customers. It will help you to take a professional approach to more...

Customer Service : Handling Angry Customers Not every encounter with customers begins as a positive experience. But nearly every one can be turned around. The customer who's complaint has been handled well is likely to be your customer for life. This course shows you how to deal with difficult customer situations. It will help you build the confidence to cope with angry customers and diffuse the tension. It will help you to take a more...

Face to Face Communications : Active Listening Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course will help you sharpen up your active listening skills. It will help you give and receive the right message and make the most of every conversation you're involved in. Developing excellent communication skills requires investment, more...

Phone Skills : Handling Angry Callers In today's world the phone dominates business communications. You can buy, sell, research new markets, provide quality customer service and make impressions that last using the telephone. This course will help you use the phone naturally and well. It will help you stay in control and reduce your stress levels when you're dealing with angry callers over the phone, through effective communication more...

Face to Face Communications : Making a Contribution to a Meeting Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. Meetings are the primary tool businesses use for group communication. This course shows you how to make meetings as productive as possible. It demonstrates how careful preparation ensures you get the best out of meetings and shows how you can more...

Face to Face Communications : Effective Questioning Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course focuses on the art of questioning. It examines the difference between open and closed questions and when to use them for best effect. It demonstrates how to use strategic questioning techniques to defuse a difficult situation, more...

Face to Face Communications : Non-verbal Communication Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course will help you sharpen your communication skills. It will show you how to interpret other people's body language and tone, ensuring that you receive the right message. It will also help you to develop an awareness of the signals more...

Face to Face Communications : Making your Point Positively Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course concentrates on the art of getting heard and putting your point across. It will help you make the most and the best of every communication and discussion you're involved in, by highlighting communication problems and giving tips on more...

Face to Face Communications : Face to Face Role Play Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course gives you the opportunity to practise and explore your listening, questioning and non-verbal communication skills in a comprehensive and entertaining simulation Developing excellent communication skills requires investment, but the more...

Preparing Presentations ...ations 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 confidence and ensures you're in control. This course goes through more...

Caring For Your Customers ... customer relationships If YOU deal with customers either face-to-face or on the phone, you're the point of contact between customers and the organisation! It's your approach to customers that ensures, or denies, their satisfaction and determines whether they come back. The quality of service you provide to your internal customers, like your colleagues or people in other teams, departments etc, more...

Windmaster Case Study 1: The 3 Phases of Strategic Planning Competing in the business world isn't a peaceful game. Companies are fighting to win; to build new levels of competitive advantage; to secure customers, market share and profits. The winners rarely succeed by accident. They develop strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. more...

Windmaster Case Study 2: Industry Analysis ...op strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course examines the role analysis plays in strategic planning and introduces you to industry analysis. You will see how to fit the results of industry analysis into your strategic plan. You can explore different tools for industry analysis, including business system analysis, surplus more...

Windmaster Case Study 3: Company Analysis ...op strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course introduces you to company analysis and explains its aim of assessing how well a business is performing and where it could improve. You can examine 3 generic strategies for competition, Cost Leadership, Differentiation and Focus. You can explore different tools for company more...

Windmaster Case Study 4: Portfolio Analysis ...op strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course introduces you to portfolio analysis as means of reviewing an organisation's range of products. You will discover techniques for analysing products including the market attractiveness model and the Boston Consulting Group growth share matrix which defines a product as a rising more...

Analysis Question Bank Competing in the business world isn't a peaceful game. Companies are fighting to win; to build new levels of competitive advantage; to secure customers, market share and profits. The winners rarely succeed by accident. They develop strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. more...

Windmaster Case Study 5: Identifying Strategic Options ...op strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course takes you onto the second stage of strategic planning, choice, and shows you how to identify the various elements that make up this process. You will examine Porter's 3 generic strategies as a concept for identifying the basis on which business competes. You will explore more...

Windmaster Case Study 6: Evaluating Strategic Options ...op strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course examines evaluation and selection, the final critical steps of strategic choice. You will investigate a framework for making choices and the importance of tempering this with judgement. You can analyse 3 types of criteria to apply to the options, suitability, feasibility and more...

Choice Question Bank Competing in the business world isn't a peaceful game. Companies are fighting to win; to build new levels of competitive advantage; to secure customers, market share and profits. The winners rarely succeed by accident. They develop strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. more...

Windmaster Case Study 7: Strategy Implementation ...op strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course examines the issues involved in implementing a strategy and its complex and iterative nature. You will see the effect of implementation on activities and resources at a corporate and business unit level and how value chain analysis is a good place to start when considering more...

Implementation Question Bank Competing in the business world isn't a peaceful game. Companies are fighting to win; to build new levels of competitive advantage; to secure customers, market share and profits. The winners rarely succeed by accident. They develop strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. more...

Apply the 4 Phase Process: First Pacific Case Study ...op strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course examines how the theories and principles of strategic analysis stand up to real world events using a case study company First Pacific. You can ask various questions to the managers of this real-life investment and management company based in Hong Kong with a turnover in excess more...

Progressing through the Complex Sale Simulation ... and to enter the negotiation phase. Your effort includes face-to-face meetings, thorough research, and preparation culminating in a key presentation to the major decision-makers within MicroGalaxy. You will also practice Salespeople who are tasked with selling at an executive level and who are currently involved with obtaining major accounts. Also, those sales people wanting to move up into more...

Planning Your Field Sales Approach ...eeting objectives and developing appropriate openings for face-to-face selling situations. Included in the course are detailed descriptions of the six customer buying roles a field salesperson typically encounters and tips for working effectively with each. This course demonstrates how to generate effective account profiles, emphasizing the information needed for effective field sales pre-call more...

Field Sales Foundations Many field sales representatives are set loose on their assigned territories armed only with a few sales tips and some information about the products and services they're selling. This course builds the foundation for a strategy that changes the customer's perception of the salesperson from a mere vendor to a consultant and true business resource. Field Sales Foundations introduces you to the more...

Applying Your Field Sales Approach A unique quality of effective field sales representatives is their ability to assess their customers' needs, determine sales opportunities, and access the decision makers--often in one or two sales calls. Sound impossible? It's not if the sales professional applies the essentials presented in Applying Your Field Sales Approach. This course provides sales strategies to change your customers' more...

The Oil and Gas Industry Overview Version 2 ...ng time for the oil and gas industry. While oil companies face tough challenges in finding new sources of oil and gas to replace the old ones, the emerging oil demand and supply equation renders some of the world's most powerful nations increasingly dependent on some of the world's most unstable regions. As a result, companies are applying advanced technologies and improved processes to meet more...

The Insurance Industry Overview Version 2 ..., and governance scandals. As margins are squeezed in the face of low underwriting profitability and the cushion of investment returns begins to shrink, insurance companies are looking to sharpen their marketing efforts, cut overheads, and reduce claims leakage. They are also finding ways to optimize the use of technology to cope with the changing regulatory and competitive landscape, and more...

Completing Your Field Sales Approach What does it take to successfully present valuable solutions and close sales while achieving a sense of accomplishment and trust between you and your customer? Completing Your Field Sales Approach highlights how to present sales solutions and close sales with your customers. Included in the course are steps and tips for overcoming customer objections effectively. You'll have opportunities to more...

Field Sales Skills Simulation You are a salesperson for a wholesale supplier of natural herbs and remedies called Vita-Boost. With allergy season right around the corner, Vita-Boost's latest product, Ally-Tabs, looks to be a promising product. These tablets are just as effective as a preventative measure as they are at treating symptoms. Since they are all natural, there are no side effects associated with taking the pills. more...

ITIL Continuity and Availability Management ...face many disasters since the onset of the new millennium. There have been fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, large-scale power outages, terrorist attacks, and damaging computer viruses, just to name a few. As businesses become more dependent on IT services, disasters such as these can disable or even ruin companies in the blink of an eye. The delivery and support of IT services are divided more...

ITIL Financial and Security Management ...face numerous challenges every day. Two of the biggest challenges are to become and stay profitable and to protect their systems from unauthorized access. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help IT organizations set up rigorous processes to aid in their efforts to become and remain solvent and to keep their more...

The Inbound Call Center ...face many of the same challenges that their counterparts faced in the 20th century. The emphasis will still be on the development and acquisition of cost-effective methods to provide customers with the service they demand. By ensuring that you have a good knowledge base of the inbound call center industry, you are establishing a sturdy framework for success. This course will provide you with 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...

Project Integration Executing and Completing a Project ...face tough decisions about where to concentrate project resources when met with competing priorities and demands. Project integration management helps with these decisions by ensuring the proper coordination of project processes during project plan development and execution. Successful project managers use project integration management throughout the project life cycle to integrate project more...

Transitioning into a Project Management Role Many people find themselves thrust into a project management role with no formal training or experience. When this occurs, it is important to be prepared to deal with the significant changes in your role. Your responsibilities broaden from managing yourself to managing others, from short-term to long-term goals, and from tangible to intangible issues. Time and experience will develop and refine more...

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 more...

A New Manager s Responsibilities and Fears Promotion to management is obviously welcome and something to celebrate, but when the initial excitement is over, you may begin to wonder about your new responsibilities. Your main focus is now on managing the activities of others and ensuring that the company's resources are used effectively. Apprehensions about whether you are able to do the job are natural--it merely indicates a healthy respect more...

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 more...

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 more...

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 more...

Managing in a Global Business Environment ...face intense competition all around the globe. In this challenging environment companies seek to adopt strategies that sustain their business growth. As a result organizations are changing the way they conduct and operate their businesses, transforming themselves in order to cope with these demanding circumstances. For today's business managers the need to comprehend these strategic drivers for more...

Mindsets Emotions and Coaching ... personality or emotions about the current situation they face. Are they feeling nervous, poorly motivated, or out of control? You need to read the signals correctly and respond accordingly to improve their mental states. Of course, your own frame of mind also has an impact on the effectiveness of your coaching sessions. If you feel out of your depth or challenged by the content of the session, more...

Advanced Administrative Support Simulation ...luence of negative people are among the challenges you'll face. If you take Maxine's advice and successfully improve your skills, you'll then try to establish a partnership with her. This will involve effectively pitching your partnership proposal. If she agrees to the proposal, you'll then have to implement the partnership plan. Also, as Maxine's partner, you'll need to represent her with more...

Effective Administrative Support Professional Simulation Today's office setting is high-tech and fast-paced. Successful administrative support professionals must keep up with the requirements of the modern-day office environment, and this simulation tests the skills and procedures that will help you do just that. As administrative assistant to the VP of Sales for the Northeast Division of BMS Printed Circuits, you'll experience the full spectrum of more...

Taking Systems Thinking into Your Personal Life ...face defeat again? Do you look at your relationships and see the same problems coming up and feel incapable of changing them? Does it feel like you're butting your head up against the same wall with no relief in sight? Using systems thinking in your personal life can be a new and effective way to tackle and change issues at their core. It is possible to change old habits. You can learn to more...

Managing Business Risk Developing a Risk Management Plan Managing Business Risk: Developing a Risk Management Plan teaches learners about the various risk management models as well as factors that influence the risk management function in organizations. Students will also learn about the risk management environment that organizations face and the methods used to assess those risks. The target audience for this program is Team Leaders, Directors, and more...

Strategic IT Planning Simulation ... region) of Easton National Bank. As a new hire, you will face lingering legacy issues and a senior management staff that is increasingly skeptical of IT value in light of costly expenditures that have yielded little return on investment. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series "Strategic IT Planning" and contains links to the following courses: STGY0221, STGY0222, and STGY0223. IT more...

Managing and Maintaining Brand Equity There's a common saying: "The only thing constant in life is change." This is especially true when it comes to managing brands. Look at Coca-Cola and how it spawned several brand extensions such as Diet Coke and Cherry Coke. Then there was a brief, but widely publicized, brand crisis caused by New Coke, which resulted in the reintroduction of Coca-Cola Classic. This is an example of how, over more...

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 more...

Problem Solving and Process Management Tools ...ein is reputed to have said, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." To solve quality and process-related problems, managers should continuously enhance their knowledge of organizational processes and quality management tools. These tools help managers find root causes of problems, an important step toward removing them. more...

Transitioning from ISO 9000 1994 to ISO 9001 2000 ...ply with these changes within the specified time frame or face losing their certification. The ISO 9001:2000 edition uses a new process-focused approach as illustrated in their Quality Management System model. This QMS model is structured into four areas: Management Responsibility, Resource Management, Product Realization, and Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement. An additional emphasis on more...

Independent Contractors and Temporary Employees Many companies are hiring contract or temporary employees to meet their changing staffing needs. Before hiring an independent contractor or temporary employee--also referred to as a contingency worker--companies should be aware of the costs involved along with the relevant legal and taxation issues. It is important that both parties have a clear understanding of the terms of their agreement with more...

Win2000 Professional Custom Desktop Environment ...ly, you will be introduced to possible problems you might face, and guidelines and procedures for troubleshooting those problems. Related Exam: Microsoft Exam #070-210: Implementing and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000. The course addresses the training needs of system administrators, network designers, and IT consultants. This course also addresses the needs of IT professionals who want to more...

Regulatory Compliance Series - Electronic Fund Transfer Act (Reg E) ...ithin bank operations are digital the exposure that banks face under Regulation E which implements the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) is greater than ever. The EFTA prohibits the abuse of new technologies so widely used in banking today. The EFTA establishes rights responsibilities and liabilities to banks and consumers when funds are deposited transferred or dispensed electronically. This more...

Industrial Safety - Personal Protective Equipment This course details types of personal protection equipment including protection for eyes face dead ears feet and hands. It also explains the importance of using personal protection equipment.  more...

Industrial Safety - Eye and Face Protection Each year eye injuries account for a large percentage of all workplace injuries. Employees can avoid most of these injuries by wearing proper eye and face protectors and adopting suitable safety measures. This course covers different types of eye and face injuries in various industries and explores the causes and effects of such injuries. The course then details the protective equipment employees more...

Communicating with Customers: Service Face to Face ...Face to Face is the seventh of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the six categories of face-to-face communication identify the critical success factors in face-to-face communication and identify the benefits of active listening to customer care. The PrimeCustomer Care curriculum offers a useful toolkit of practical customer care more...

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

Coaching: Communicating with Employees In Coaching: Communicating with Employees you will learn how to use appropriate language during a coaching session recognize factors that can distort your message and how to interpret your employees' nonverbal communication correctly. You will also learn how to ask the right questions during a coaching session how to conduct effective face-to-face meetings and the best approach to take when more...