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Professional Bar Management Mastery Level Certification
...ar, creating a demand for skilled managers. One challenge facing bar and restaurant owners and managers is that most hospitality programs are long-term and expensive. This is due to the wide range of subject material, much of which is never applied in the real world. Thus, too many managers go without any formal training and often find themselves overwhelmed on the job. Professional Bar
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How To Master Performance Management



...ing employee performance is the single greatest challenge facing supervisors and other leaders in today's competitive and fast-paced organizations. Learn how to maximize the contributions of each employee by setting effective goals, monitoring accomplishments, recognizing achievements, and disciplining or redirecting those who are not meeting performance requirements. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET
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Accelerate your Business Growth--Instructor-Led
...t in five distinct stages Here is the situation you`ll be facing: a local gym owner has a great idea for a new product but doesn`t know what to do with it. Your job is to help him develop a "new product strategy " that will get his product to the right customers and generate revenues. The steps to developing this strategy will be spread out over the course of five assignments. When your work is
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Accelerate your Business Growth--Self-Directed
...t in five distinct stages Here is the situation you`ll be facing: a local gym owner has a great idea for a new product but doesn`t know what to do with it. Your job is to help him develop a "new product strategy " that will get his product to the right customers and generate revenues. The steps to developing this strategy will be spread out over the course of five assignments. When your work is
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How To Master Personal And Family



Course description -- It wasn't so long ago that companies expected employees to give their all to the job and sacrifice their lives in order to get ahead. Now most organizations understand that employees are whole people who show up for work each day, people who want to be effective not just on the job, but in their personal lives as well. This bundle helps employees deal with some of the thorny
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From 123-CBT Computer Based Training
Strategies for Transitioning into Management
Making a smooth transition from technical professional to management is critical to your success as a manager. You've already demonstrated your technical expertise; now you're ready to take that next step. In your new role as a manager, you'll use technology in different ways -- focusing on managing production, not production itself. This course outlines management tactics for becoming an
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Strategies for Transitioning into Management
Industry Overview Federal Government
The Federal Government is the largest contractor and buyer of services and products in the U.S., spending over $200 billion annually. Regardless of what business you are in, chances are there is a government agency in need of your product or service. Winning a government contract can be challenging, and millions of dollars in potential contracts are lost to companies who do not understand
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The Automotive Industry Overview Version 2
Trends in the automotive industry are considered a barometer of a mature economy. The industry has been going through some dramatic changes in the last few years, and major manufacturers, including the Big Three (General Motors, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler) and their suppliers, are reorganizing to be competitive in the global marketplace. In the unrelenting push for lower costs, operational
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The Pharmaceutical Industry Overview Version 2
Billions of people around the world depend on the pharmaceutical industry to help them live longer, healthier, and happier lives. However, the pharmaceutical industry is continually tasked with alleviating its own ailments, including slow growth and declining profitability owing to pricing, safety, marketing and regulatory issues. In order for companies to remain competitive in a highly regulated
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The Food and Beverage Industry Overview Version 2
"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star," says Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in his famous work, The Physiology of Taste. However, when leading food and beverage manufacturers introduce more than 15,000 new products every year with an average success rate of only 25 , such happiness can be fleeting. Few industries have as much pressure placed upon
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The Health Care Industry Overview Version 2
There is growing evidence that the current health systems around the world will be unsustainable if they go unchanged over the coming years. The health care industry is under constant pressure to streamline operations and cut extraneous spending, while providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to its patients. In addition, operating in a highly regulated environment, industry players need
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The Banking Industry Overview Version 2
Can you imagine a world without banks? In the past, banks focused on loans and deposits, debits, and credits. Now, due to dramatic changes in the world economy, banking is a far more complex business. On a daily basis, the industry must deal with margin pressures, consolidation, and technological and marketing challenges, not to mention unforeseen financial and political crises. However, with cash
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The Manufacturing Industry Overview Version 2
"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation." Companies in the manufacturing industry seem to be taking this lesson from the legendary management guru, Peter F. Drucker, very seriously now. The manufacturing industry - the powerhouse driving many economies - has been reeling under the most challenging time in its history. Manufacturers are striving to be more innovative, compete
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The Retail Industry Overview Version 2
Retail is one of the largest industries and one of the most visible to consumers. The retail industry includes businesses such as automobile dealers, retail gas stations, and department stores. Over the years, it has gone through various sales-channel shifts, from catalog sales to online selling. Yet, throughout these changes, the brick-and-mortar stores have remained strong. In today's retail
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Essentials of External Consulting
...rganization.For such a role, you'll need excellent client-facing skills. These include communication and listening, presenting, report-writing, meetings and negotiation. Combining this with, in equal measure, qualities of leadership, creativity, and emotional intelligence.In this course, you'll find out more about the role of an external consultant. You'll also see how, with the key skills and
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Making Decisions Dynamically
... your decisions represent the fundamental tool you use in facing the opportunities, challenges, and uncertainties of life. It's not a case, however, of "make a decision, any decision." The increased complexity and competition of the 21st century marketplace calls for dynamic decision making--the kind of decision making that significantly boosts productivity. The objective of this course is to
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Six Sigma DMAIC Defining the Problem
...ve, and measurable process for quantifying the challenges facing your organization. In lesson one, "The Project Charter," you'll learn guidelines for developing a problem statement, measuring your Six Sigma project, and determining its goal. In the second lesson, "The SIPOC Diagram," you'll learn how to create, and then apply, this useful tool to your unique situation. Finally, in "Stakeholder
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Tomorrow s Managers Competencies
...ging. Today's managers are competing for skilled workers, facing high turnover, and coping with technology changes that occur at warp speed. Effective managers must be less product-oriented, and more people-oriented. In order to thrive in these shifting times, you need skills that will help you maximize the potential of your workforce. Tomorrow's Managers' Competencies will teach you how to
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Creating a Business Execution Culture
In today's fast-paced, high tech world, change comes more rapidly than ever before. Businesses must be in a state of constant evolution and continuous improvement just to keep up. An organization's ability to execute is paramount to its survival. After all, how can a company be constantly evolving and improving if no one within the organization is getting anything done? In companies that execute
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Training for Business Results
...facing tight budgets and a focus on results for training dollars spent. This challenge is forcing you to demonstrate the effectiveness of your company's training investments. While most organizations evaluate participants' reactions to training, they rarely measure the effect of that training on job performance behaviors and organizational objectives. Many companies understand that evaluation
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Economics Products and Markets

... To Describe the decisions facing all firms. Recognize how firms maximize profits in the short run. Generate a long run cost curve. Recognize how price is determined in a perfectly competitive industry. Recognize how a monopoly can arise. Audience
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Leadership Development Motivation

...rcome motivation problems and encourage employees who are facing various obstacles Learn To Identify the factors that can lead to low motivation. Understand the difference between personal and social needs. Choose the best motivator for a given circumstance. Differentiate between
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Leading the Way Learning to Lead

...current status. The team is two weeks behind schedule and facing a 30-day deadline for the final design specs, so you'll need to get to work quickly. To do so, you need to demonstrate the characteristics of effective leadership and avoid common leadership pitfalls. Unit 2 : The Follower (0.5 - 1.5 hours) Identify follower attributes that a leader needs to understand.
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Managing Change Overcoming Change Obstacles

...l Learning Time 2 to 4 hours Objectives Unit 1: Facing Obstacles to Change (0.5 - 1 hour) Identify the guidelines for easing the tension caused by change. Identify the causes of complacency. Identify the ways you can prevent crises from occurring. Simulation Overview: You will meet with
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Organizational Crisis Mgmt Managing a Crisis

...ur) Identify the main challenges facing managers at a time of crisis. Identify guidelines for managing crisis stress. Identify reasons for determining the real crisis. Identify reasons for focusing during a crisis. Identify the purposes of a five-minute audit.
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E-Business Curriculum

...lum includes the following courses: E-Business Part 1: Facing the E-Business Challenge E-Business Part 2: Building the Infrastructure E-Business Part 3: Choosing Tools and Technologies E-Business Part 4: Securing Your Infrastructure E-Business Part 5: Understanding the Applications E-Business Part 6: Working with Employees E-Business Part 7: Satisfying the Customer E-Business Part 8:
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E-Business Part 1 Facing the E-Business Challenge

The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business. Learn To: a Identify types of e-Business. a Identify e-Business technologies. a Identify the phases of e-Business. a Identify major trends in e-Business. a Identify the
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Moving from Technical Professional to Mgr Managing the IT Dept

...you have called an urgent meeting to discuss the problems facing the IT department. The department has undergone many changes recently and is running behind in many areas. It has been decided to set up a new help desk to create a more structured approach to dealing with system downtime and disaster recovery. You are meeting with Mike Miller, Team Lead for the new help desk, to discuss the
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From Radiofrequency Safety International Corporation
RF Site Safety Awareness

...irements and safety solutions. With all the safety issues facing the telecommunications market today, your company cannot afford to be unprepared.
RSI uses real world examples and experience to bring these issues into focus with appropriate work practices for the student's understanding. Radiofrequency Safety Internationala s a RF Site Safety Awarenessa a training is recommended in
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From Serebra Learning Corporation
Progressing through the Complex Sale
High-value purchases impact across the whole organization. So it's not surprising that these buying decisions are made by those at the top. But getting to these decision-makers isn't easy, which is why selling at an executive level is a more complex operation that requires all the resources of the highly skilled salesperson. This course is directed at supplying those resources. Salespeople who are
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Presenting Your Proposition
Even the most confident sales people can feel their self-assurance dissolve when required to make a formal sales presentation. This course is about giving you the confidence, not only to present, but also to get commitment from your customer. Demonstrating a structure that can be adapted to most situations, this course will equip you with the skills needed to deal with the most intimidating
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Negotiating to Mutual Benefit
The key to being a skilled negotiator is understanding the difference between negotiating and giving money away. This course demonstrates the stages and rules that will gain you a win/win solution, and with it long-term business. If you follow the guidelines set out here, you will be able to handle customer strategies and still close the deal on terms that keep both your company and your customer
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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
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Preparing for the Executive-level Sale Simulation
You are a regional account representative with DME Corporation, a national direct mail service provider. Your company has recently made a large investment toward the goal of becoming a "one-stop" shop with its new Fulfillment Division. You are charged with selling the new fulfillment service to your existing client base, as well as prospecting for new accounts. As you begin preparing to sell the
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Progressing through the Complex Sale Simulation
You are a regional account representative with DME Corporation, a national direct marketing firm, which has recently opened its Fulfillment Services Division. You are charged with selling this service and have identified a potential prospect. In this simulation, the second of three in this series, you have gained access to the buying influences at MicroGalaxy, an electronic component supply
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Closing Executive-level Sales Simulation
You are a regional account executive with DME Corporation, a national direct mail service provider. Your company recently made a large investment toward the goal of becoming a "one-stop" shop and now offers fulfillment services. You are responsible for selling these new services to your existing client base, as well as prospecting for new accounts. You have previously identified, researched, and
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The Strategic Account Sales Approach
A successful sales track record doesn't come from a hit-or-miss approach. It comes from 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
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Understanding Your Customer
Can you imagine trying to sell a product or service to a customer you know nothing about? You probably wouldn't succeed. The better you know your customer, the higher your chance for success. In this course, you'll learn about the first major component of the strategic account sales (SAS) approach: research. You'll start by learning about the key areas to research using the SAS approach and where
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Conducting Effective Sales Research Meetings
Researching your target accounts is important for understanding your customer's business. But only by conducting research meetings will you learn the "inside" information you need to truly understand the business fit between your company and your customer. In this course, you'll learn about bringing your research and communication skills together in strategic account sales (SAS) research meetings.
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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
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Delivering High-Impact Sales Presentations
The most important meeting you'll have with your client is when you show the decision makers that you have the right business fit for their needs. You've done a lot of hard work, so when the curtain goes up on your sales presentation, you want an award-winning performance. In this course, you'll learn about the third major component of the strategic account sales (SAS) approach--presentation.
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Strategic Account Sales Skills Simulation
You're an architectural renovation sales consultant for The Architectural Services Company (TASC). You sell design and project control services to commercial businesses. After attending a crowded book reading at Bigler's Books, you determine that the store is a potential customer for your company's services. You use a strategic account sales approach to do research on your own and then conduct
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The Territorial Account Sales Approach
A successful sales track record doesn't come from a hit-or-miss approach. It comes from 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,
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Understanding Your Target Customer s Business
Imagine trying to sell a product or service to a customer that you know nothing about. Do you think it would be an easy process? Probably not. The better you know your customer, the better your chances for success. In this course, you'll learn about the first major component of the territorial account sales (TAS) approach--research. You'll gain an understanding of the benefits of good research and
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Effectively Using Customer-focused Research Meetings
In this course, you'll learn about bringing your research and communication skills together in territorial account research meetings. By conducting research meetings, you'll get the inside perspective you need to truly understand your customer. You'll start by learning how to prepare for an effective research meeting. Next, you'll explore how to conduct research meetings to gather desired
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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
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Delivering High-impact Territorial Account Sales TAS Presentations
In this course, you'll learn about the third major component of the territorial account sales approach--presentation. Your presentation is the most important meeting you'll have with your client. This is when you show the decision makers that you have the right product and business fit for their needs. You've done a lot of hard work, so when you make your sales presentation, you want it to
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Territorial Account Sales Skills Simulation
You're a salesperson for Soft Hands Shipping Company, a San Francisco, California based firm that specializes in the ground transportation of fragile items. You sell the company s shipping services to all types of organizations. Wine Cellar of California sells wine to restaurants throughout the state, and it becomes one of your target accounts. You will do some preliminary research on this company
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Planning Your Field Sales Approach
What factors mark the difference between mediocre and great field sales performance? One characteristic of highly effective field sales representatives is their ability to efficiently plan their sales approach for both existing customers and prospects, as well as managing their time and territories effectively. Planning Your Field Sales Approach provides practical tools for determining call and
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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
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Sales Seller Behaviors


The Selling Process: Seller Behaviors, is the first of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the basic criteria for success in sales and identify the seven seller behaviors in buyer-focused selling. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line
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Sales Buyer Behaviors


The Selling Process: Buyers Behaviors, is the second of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the criteria that influence buying decisions and identify the seven typical buyer behaviors in a sales interaction. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize
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Relationship Management Building the Client Relationship
In Relationship Management - Building the Client Relationship, you will learn about the importance of developing a relationship with a client in which you serve not as a salesperson, but as a trusted advisor. You will learn how to create and conduct an effective needs assessment and how to turn this needs assessment into a shared vision with your client. You will also learn specific action items
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Sales Buyer-Focused Selling


The Selling Process: Buyer-Focused Selling, is the third of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to respond effectively to buyers at each stage of a sales interaction and identify categories of buyer needs. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line
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Sales The Selling Cycle


The Selling Process: The Selling Cycle, is the fourth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the steps in the selling cycle, match the steps in the selling cycle to the buyer-focused selling model, calculate the key ratios in the selling cycle, and analyze the key ratios in the selling cycle. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales
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Sales Telephone Communications


Communicating & Managing: Telephone Communication, is the fifth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify barriers to communication, identify techniques to overcome the limitations to communicating by telephone and implement guidelines for good telephone communication. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down
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Sales Communication Skills


Communicating & Managing: Communication Skills, is the sixth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the background information that helps you to qualify prospects, list sources of prospects, identify guidelines for canvassing and list the criteria for identifying the decision-maker in an organization. The PrimeSales curriculum engages
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Sales Written Communications


Communicating & Managing: Written Communication, is the seventh of sixteen courses in this curriculum. Writing a good sales proposal helps to convince the buyer of the Seller's merits and of the benefits of buying from him or her. Written Communications highlights the reasons for and benefits of writing a sales proposal. sellers become familiar with the twelve components that constitute a good
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Sales Managing a Territory


Communicating & Managing: Managing a Territory, is the eighth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the customer information you need to record, list the steps in drawing up a calling cycle, and sequence the steps involved in routing and scheduling calls. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out
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Sales Gathering Information


Starting the Sale: Gathering Information, is the ninth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the background information that helps you to qualify prospects, list sources of prospects, identify guidelines for canvassing, and list the criteria for identifying the decision-maker in an organization. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales
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Sales Planning a Sales Call


Starting the Sale: Planning a Sales Call, is the tenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the steps involved in planning a sales call and identify the essential elements of a sales objective. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line
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Sales The Sales Call


Starting the Sale: The Sales Call, is the eleventh of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the guidelines for opening a sales call, list the steps in making an opening statement, and identify opening statement variations according to the type of call. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of
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Sales Probing and Questioning


Starting the Sale: Probing and Questioning, is the twelfth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to distinguish between open and closed questions, and develop buyer needs using the four question types. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line
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Sales Presenting Solutions


Concluding the Sale: Presenting Solutions, is the thirteenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the differences between features, advantages and benefits, and present a solution to a buyer. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line
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Sales Closing the Sale


Concluding the Sale: Closing the Sale, is the fourteenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the buying signals that tell you when to close the sale and close a sale using a three-stage approach. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line
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Sales Buyer Reactions


Concluding the Sale: Buyer Reactions, is the fifteenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the steps involved in supporting a favorable reaction, identify guidelines for dealing with low reactors, list the steps in handling objections, and manage objections using a five-step approach. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales
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Sales Concluding a Call


Concluding the Sale: Concluding a Call, is the sixteenth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the guidelines for concluding a call, and conclude a call using the six steps . The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line results. New and
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Relationship Management Preparing the Client Relationship
In Relationship Management - Preparing the Client Relationship, you will learn about the importance of developing a relationship with a client in which you serve not as a salesperson, but as a trusted advisor. You will learn what unique needs clients have as a result of the Information Age and the importance that trust plays in turning clients into loyal customers. You will also learn what
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Customer Relationship Management Fundamentals of CRM
Customer Relationship Management: Fundamentals of CRM introduces the student to the benefits of creating customer loyalty, developing a market intelligence enterprise, and incorporating customer relationship management into your company. The program also details the three steps a company can take to create customer loyalty, the four marketing tiers, the four types of CRM, and the four steps of the
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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'
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Federal Government Industry Overview Version 1
...dget shortfalls, redundant spending, and other challenges facing the government have resulted in new initiatives to streamline the procurement process. This course will provide you with an understanding of how the government works with businesses, the regulatory and business factors driving change, the challenges facing the implementation of e-government, and strategic management and enterprise
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The Automotive Industry Overview Version 2
Trends in the automotive industry are considered a barometer of a mature economy. The industry has been going through some dramatic changes in the last few years, and major manufacturers, including the Big Three (General Motors, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler) and their suppliers, are reorganizing to be competitive in the global marketplace. In the unrelenting push for lower costs, operational
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The Oil and Gas Industry Overview Version 2
Has there ever been a more flourishing time in the history of the oil and gas industry? The continued growth in demand and an industry struggling to meet this voracious demand have pushed oil prices to an all-time high. Big oil companies, even while investing heavily in exploration, technology, operational improvement, and research and development, are still left with huge surpluses in an industry
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The Pharmaceutical Industry Overview Version 2
...course explores the issues that the industry is currently facing in North America and globally, and examines strategic and innovative solutions the industry is using to overcome them. The overall purpose of this course is help learners get a feel for the industry Consulting houses, corporations and small-to-medium-sized enterprises that sell products or services to other sectors and industries;
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The Food and Beverage Industry Overview Version 2
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star, says Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in his famous work, The Physiology of Taste. However, when leading food and beverage manufacturers introduce more than 15,000 new products every year with an average success rate of only 25 , such happiness can be fleeting. Few industries have as much pressure placed upon them
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The Health Care Industry Overview Version 2
There is growing evidence that the current health systems around the world will be unsustainable if they go unchanged over the coming years. The health care industry is under constant pressure to streamline operations and cut extraneous spending, while providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to its patients. In addition, operating in a highly regulated environment, industry players need
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The Banking Industry Overview Version 2
Can you imagine a world without banks? In the past, banks focused on loans and deposits, debits, and credits. Now, due to dramatic changes in the world economy, banking is a far more complex business. On a daily basis, the industry must deal with margin pressures, consolidation, and technological and marketing challenges, not to mention unforeseen financial and political crises. However, with cash
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The Manufacturing Industry Overview Version 2
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. Companies in the manufacturing industry seem to be taking this lesson from the legendary management guru, Peter F. Drucker, very seriously now. The manufacturing industry - the powerhouse driving many economies - has been reeling under the most challenging time in its history. Manufacturers are striving to be more innovative, compete
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The Retail Industry Overview Version 2
Retail is one of the largest industries and one of the most visible to consumers. The retail industry includes businesses such as automobile dealers, retail gas stations, and department stores. Over the years, it has gone through various sales-channel shifts, from catalog sales to online selling. Yet, throughout these changes, the brick-and-mortar stores have remained strong. In today's retail
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The Telecommunications Industry Overview Version 2
Connecting the globe, the telecommunications industry is an essential element of the modern business world. It is also one of the most volatile. Plagued by regulatory discord and economic uncertainty, telecom carriers have struggled to maintain sound footing and a competitive edge, all the while endeavoring to provide crucial, uninterrupted service to their customers. In an age of rapidly
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The Insurance Industry Overview Version 2
The insurance industry has its share of risks and opportunities. While providing risk coverage to individuals and businesses, insurers are striving hard to manage their own risks in the wake of natural and human-made disasters, financial setbacks, and governance scandals. As margins are squeezed in the face of low underwriting profitability and the cushion of investment returns begins to shrink,
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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
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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.
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Preparing for Outbound Sales Calls
The most successful outbound sales calls begin long before the salesperson places the call. Successful inside selling is all about planning and being prepared. Being prepared means knowing what to expect from your customer and planning your responses. In this course, you will learn about the common perceptions customers have of salespeople. You will also learn the three premises of the inside
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Initiating Outbound Sales Calls
Fifteen seconds doesn't sound like very much time, does it? As an inside sales consultant, you will have a lot riding on what happens in those few seconds. That is usually all the time you have to make a solid, positive impression on your customer. Knowing how to initiate an inside sales call is a key to your success. In this course, you will learn the strategies for dealing with voice mail and
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Completing Outbound Sales Calls
You might have heard the saying, "it ain't over 'til it's over." This is especially true with inside sales calls. To be a successful inside sales consultant, you need to know how to keep your customer's attention all the way through the close of the sale. In this course, you will learn strategies for contacting the decision maker and for dealing with gatekeepers. You will learn the steps involved
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Preparing for Inbound Sales Calls
Do you think selling means waiting for the phone to ring? A successful inside sales agent begins planning long before the customer calls. Successful inside selling is all about being prepared, and that means thinking ahead on customer inquiries and responses you will give. This course identifies the common perceptions that customers have of salespeople. In the course, you will learn the three
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Completing Inbound Sales Calls
Everything you do in an inbound sales call leads up to the completion of the sale. A successful inside sales consultant knows how to keep a customer's attention all the way through the close of the sale. In this course, you will learn the process for assessing a sales opportunity, the four factors used to qualify a sales opportunity, and strategies for qualifying a sales opportunity. You will also
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Inside Sales Skills Simulation
You are an inside sales representative for Muscle-Bound Fitness, a franchise of fitness facilities with a unique corporate wellness offering. In this simulation, your boss has asked you to contact a potential new customer. This new lead, a network television station known as TV-22, is a perfect candidate for Muscle-Bound's corporate wellness program, and your job is to convince them of such by
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Relationship Management Maintaining the Client Relationship
In Relationship Management - Maintaining the Client Relationship, you will learn about the differences between short-term and long-term customer relationships, as well as the causes and advantages of these relationships. You will also identify methods of keeping and extending the client relationship into future endeavors. Finally, you will learn about techniques for measuring success in the client
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Sales Forecasting Forecasting for Success
In Sales Forecasting - Forecasting for Success, you will cover the skills and information necessary to understand the importance of sales forecasting, develop a sales forecast, and emphasize teamwork to realize your goals. This three-part series is for sales professionals and sales managers who have a fundamental understanding of the sales process. There are no prerequisites required for this
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Sales Forecasting Forecasting Your Own Accounts
In Sales Forecasting - Forecasting Your Own Accounts, you will learn how to apply the principles of forecasting to your own accounts. Specifically, you will learn how to use different types of forecasting, as well as how to avoid excessive detail in your forecasts. You will also learn how to reduce forecasting errors and how to predict the likelihood of winning a sale. Finally, you will learn how
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Sales Forecasting Applying Forecasting Methods
In Sales Forecasting - Applying Forecasting Methods, you will learn how to apply quantitative and qualitative forecasting methods to your accounts. You will learn the fundamentals of time series and regression forecasting methods. You will also learn how to use market research and expert judgement to create forecasts. Finally, you will learn how to integrate, implement, and evaluate forecasting
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Sales Negotiations Fundamentals of Negotiation
In Sales Negotiations - Fundamentals of Negotiation, you will learn advanced ways to approach negotiation and how best to prepare effective negotiation strategies to increase profitability in your sales cycle. You will also learn what it takes to develop and build mutually beneficial negotiation relationships, as well as best practices in improving your negotiation communication among new and
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Sales Negotiations Negotiation Strategies
In Negotiation Strategies, you will learn about common negotiating strategies, factors that should be considered when choosing a strategy, and how to create the proper atmosphere for negotiations. You will also learn about elements that can derail negotiations as well as guidelines to help keep them on track. In addition, you will learn how to deal with demanding clients and how to adapt when
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Sales Negotiations Negotiation Execution
In Sales Negotiations ? Negotiation Execution, you will learn about the negotiation process, the key players in a negotiation, and ways to maintain control of the negotiation. Additionally, this course covers guidelines for dealing with difficult people and strategies for dealing with less-than-ideal scenarios and outcomes. After completing this course, you will be prepared to negotiate
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Call Center Structures The Call Center Profession
This course describes the functions, structure and key players of a typical call center, and underscores the uniqueness of the profession. Agents who need an understanding of the fundamental structures and relationships in the call center profession.
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Call Center Operations Performance Measurement
This course describes how the manager must balance the sometimes conflicting interests of the center s stakeholders. It also demonstrates how KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are applied to evaluate both agent and call center performance. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance
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Call Center Operations Workforce Management
This course describes forecasting, scheduling, occupancy and staffing principles, and explains their impact on the life of an agent and the success of a call center. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance measurement for both agents and call centers.
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Call Center Operations Call Center Technologies
This course shows how technology can lead to excellence in customer service, through call routing applications at the agent level and performance management tools at managerial level. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance measurement for both agents and call centers.
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Telecommunications Industry Overview Version 1
Connecting the world, the telecommunications industry stands as one of the most essential elements of the business world. It is also one of the most volatile. Plagued by regulatory discord and economic uncertainty, telecom carriers have struggled to maintain sound footing and a competitive edge, all the while endeavoring to provide crucial, uninterrupted service to their customers. In an age of
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Call Center Structures Customer Relationships
This course defines the long-term value of a customer and illustrates how CRM (Customer Relationship Management) principles are applied to recognize, prize and respond preferentially to high-value customers. Agents who need an understanding of the fundamental structures and relationships in the call center profession.
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Introducing Contact Centers Contact Center Essentials
This course introduces the functions of customer contact centers and the roles of customer service representatives (CSRs) to provide exemplary customer service. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies
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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
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Introducing Contact Centers Customer Response Etiquette
This course introduces the functions of customer contact centers and the roles of customer service representatives (CSRs) to provide exemplary customer service. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies
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Communicating Effectively Build Customer Rapport 1
This course will help learners adapt their communication styles to build a successful rapport with others. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies
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Communicating Effectively Build Customer Rapport 2
This course provides learners tips and techniques to improve verbal and written communication skills in order to deliver excellent customer service. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies
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Handling Contacts Professionally Maximize Call Performance 1
This course reviews the stages of a typical customer call flow and introduces several strategies to use to initiate a positive rapport with your client. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies
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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
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Preparing for Mutual Success Satisfy Customer Needs
This course helps learners to distinguish different customer characteristics, recognize appropriate techniques to successfully respond to each type of person and convert difficult situations into a positive experience. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies
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Preparing for Mutual Success Reduce CSR Stress
This course provides several strategies to help CSRs cope with stressful customer situations while maintaining a courteous and professional demeanor. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies
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ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management
Organizations that provide IT services to internal or external customers need to provide excellent services to increase the quality of, and the profits for, the organization. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) can help organizations achieve these goals. At the same time, ITIL can help organizations to increase external and internal customer satisfaction. The delivery and support of IT services
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ITIL Configuration and Release Management
Organizations make substantial investments in their information technology infrastructures. That investment pays off only if the organization uses its information resources to increase productivity. Information technology planners and managers must understand how the components of the IT infrastructure interact if they want to eliminate waste and improve service to the users of the system. The
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ITIL Service Level and Capacity Management
IT service can be a balancing act. For example, organizations must achieve and maintain a balance between the quality of IT service given and received in a manner that is both customer focused and cost effective. Simultaneously, organizations need to provide the required capacity for data processing and storage, at the right time and in a cost effective way. The delivery and support of IT services
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ITIL Problem and Change Management
Every information technology (IT) system suffers unexpected problems and errors. These unexpected interruptions can be extremely costly in terms of lost productivity and lost customer satisfaction. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help organizations set up rigorous processes to identify, classify, and resolve
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ITIL Continuity and Availability Management
American businesses have had to 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
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ITIL Financial and Security Management
IT organizations 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
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The Contact Center and Technical Support Agent
In the last few years, organizations have realized that it is easier to generate revenue from an existing customer base than to find new customers. Retaining customers has become paramount, and technical support has become a valuable resource. Driven by Customer Relationship Management (CRM) principles, this course explains how the role of the technical support agent (TSA) has changed as
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Technical Support Essentials
These days, technical support agents (TSAs) can't provide world-class technical service and support unless they understand contact center technology. They also need to understand the various elements and stages of a call--and what to do with the information gained. This course explains contact center technology and TSA activities. It covers the technology that links the TSA to the customer and to
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Assessing Customer Behavior
In the modern customer-centric business model, dealing with all customers in a positive and efficient manner is paramount. But this goal can become daunting to a TSA who has not developed the ability to identify various behavior types and apply appropriate techniques to deal with them in a way that builds a positive relationship between the customer and the company. This course instructs agents in
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Technical Support Agent Survival Skills
Coping with stress is an everyday issue for the Technical Support Agent (TSA). The focus of this course is specifically directed to the situations that TSAs encounter. The course will help the TSA avoid burnout and manage job responsibilities by identifying the causes of stress, prevention methods, and time management skills. Technical Support Agents seeking to acquire new skills or improve the
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Technical Support Agent Skills Simulation
Having evolved far beyond the "break-fix" model, today's technical support centers are staffed with TSA professionals who must add to their technical repertoire a high standard of customer-relations management, sales skills, and keen problem-solving ability. To test these skills, you will assume the role of a Level-1 TSA for Masterson Tool and Equipment. Through its catalog and web site, Masterson
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The Inbound Call Center
Inbound call center managers of this century will 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
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Inbound Call Center Management Leadership
Did you know that your personality can greatly affect your leadership skills? Are you aware that even if you are a fabulous manager, you may not be an effective leader? As a call center manager, how can you motivate everyone, including senior management, to work together toward a common goal? As you progress through this "Inbound Call Center Management: Leadership" course, you will become aware
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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
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Inbound Call Center Technology
Today, the technology within the inbound call center is constantly changing and improving. How can you, as a call center manager, keep up with this advancing technology? Moreover, why should you? This course will explain the fundamentals of inbound call center technology, and explore ways current technology might evolve. It examines different methods of obtaining this technology, and outlines how
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Performance Metrics for an Inbound Call Center
The call center environment typifies the active, fast pace of the business world. In this hectic environment, is there time to consider how things are being done? There should be. As the call center industry slowly transforms into a customer management industry, the impetus will be on call center managers to ensure customers receive the best service possible. But where do you look to analyze
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Excellence in Internal Customer Service
In today's fast-changing and highly competitive business climate, offering excellent customer service has never been so important. But what about taking a different approach? Has your organization tried looking inwardly to find the answers to offering great service? Organizations consist of an independent chain of individuals and functional units, each taking inputs from one another and turning
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Working With Internal Customers
Excellent customer service lies at the heart of any successful business. However, you should not overlook the importance of meeting the needs and expectations of your fellow employees, your internal customers. By helping other people within your organization, you enable it to succeed. Great internal customer service improves people's morale, productivity, and external customer service, and
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Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems
Managing relationships with your internal customers isn't always smooth sailing. When internal customer service does not go according to plan, problems occur, or communication breaks down, what can you do to get your plans back on track, and break down barriers? At times like these, you and your employees need to act swiftly and proactively to solve the problem, and regain the customer's trust. In
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Internal Customer Service Conflict and Complaints Simulation
Complaints are an inherent part of customer service, and this is especially true of internal customer service. No matter the level of vigilance, problems will arise, and when they do, they 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
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The Customer Service Agent in Action
There are now some 7 million customer service agents (CSAs) working in nearly 80,000 call centers in the United States. Call centers are burgeoning in Europe and the Pacific Rim as well, and experts predict that the number of CSAs will grow by 20 percent each year. Worldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the
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Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents
As a customer service agent (CSA), the focus of your job is to solve customers' problems within a short amount of time. To do this, you have to understand the optimum methods for professionally processing a large volume of customers representing many different personality types. This can be a challenging task. You can successfully handle an agent's workload while satisfying customers by mastering
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Managing Challenges in Customer Service
During an average working day in a call center, customer service agents (CSAs) handle dozens of customer calls. The calls may range from simple requests for product information to urgent demands for solutions to complex problems. The callers may range from quiet, logical, and professional in their manner to noisy, impatient, and infuriated. CSAs are expected to meet the challenges of handling all
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Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call
If there's one advantage most companies have learned to appreciate in recent years, it's "flexibility". Technology, the economy, and global events have forced companies to cope with a host of new challenges by being flexible. Flexibility is a key factor in customer call centers. As a customer service agent (CSA), you handle dozens of calls a day, effectively helping customers by providing
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Customer Service Agent Skills Simulation
Kenworth Domestic Appliances (KDA) is a national manufacturer and direct seller of household devices, offering a line of products that ranges from toasters to central-air conditioning units. Post-sales support is critical to their operation, and KDA prides itself on superior customer service. For the duration of this simulation, the learner will assume the role of customer service agent generalist
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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
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Using Surveys to Measure Customer Satisfaction
If you're lucky, your customers will complain when they are dissatisfied with your company's service. If you're not so lucky, they'll say nothing and just take their business elsewhere. It's essential that you keep your fingers on the pulse of customer opinion if you are to prevent them defecting to the competition. You need to measure customer satisfaction on a regular basis, and this course will
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Bridge The Expectations Gap
You have to be prepared to walk a mile in their shoes to understand more fully what customers experience when they deal with your company. There's nothing more effective in emphasizing the gap between what you believe their experiences to be and their realities than thinking and acting like a customer. This course takes you through several processes for doing exactly that, and you'll be shown how
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Leading A Customer-Focused Team
The quality of your customer service is in the hands of the people who deliver it. As their leader it's your responsibility to give them the direction, resources, and support they need to succeed. This course shows you how to work with them to create a customer-focused environment that fulfills customers' expectations while still achieving corporate goals. The first lesson explains how to work
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Managing a Customer-focused Department Simulation
Attracting new customers is important, but retaining them is an even greater challenge. It takes only a moment--a single lapse in service; an unmet expectation; a delay in delivery--to lose a customer forever and tarnish a company's reputation. To counter this, customer service representatives must remain vigilante, on top of their game at all times. As a customer service manager, it's your job to
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Discovering What Your Customers Want
The data are in, and there's no doubt about it: The return on customer loyalty goes directly to your company's bottom line. Too often, however, organizations seeking to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty begin with a survey. To build a successful customer satisfaction system, you have to begin with the basics. When customer satisfaction programs begin with a survey, and not a plan, the
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Developing Customer Satisfaction Surveys
By the time most people have the chance to develop their first survey, they've seen so many that it seems like developing one will be a piece of cake. To an extent, they're right. Developing a GIGO (Garbage In/Garbage Out) survey is a no-brainer. Developing a survey that gets valid, reliable data, however, is both science and art. In this course, you'll learn to use the principles of survey design
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Customer Satisfaction Analysis and Implementation
What you get out of a well-designed customer satisfaction survey will depend largely on the power of the analytical tools you apply to the data and the effectiveness of actions taken based on the resulting information. Although the analysis itself is best conducted by your statistical team, you'll be able to use survey results more effectively if you understand how key analytical tools are
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Measuring Customer Satisfaction Simulation
Stratoscape Creations is an industry-leading producer of multimedia and gaming products. They are responsible for bringing to the market some of the most popular flight simulators and first-person adventure games of the last decade. But competition has grown increasingly fierce in the industry, and Stratoscape is starting to feel the bite of an up-and-coming company, Tempest's Core. It's game time
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Information Technology IT Industry Overview Version 1
Though estimates on global spending for information and communications technologies run in the trillions of dollars, this giant industry continues to struggle through fluctuating markets and must concentrate on continuous improvement to survive. Most agree that the demand for IT products and services will continue to increase, but at the same time, the customer is demanding more value per dollar
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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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Interacting with the Customer
Failing to realize the importance of customer service and effective complaint handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to overcome
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Essentials of External Consulting
...ganization. For such a role, you'll need excellent client-facing skills. These include communication and listening, presenting, report-writing, meetings and negotiation. Combining this with, in equal measure, qualities of leadership, creativity, and emotional intelligence. In this course, you'll find out more about the role of an external consultant. You'll also see how, with the key skills and
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Government Contracting Overview of Government Contracts
This course begins by defining the rules for doing business with the USG. It then defines the suppliers, how and where to search for opportunities with the USG. The course also provides a review of a sample RFP. Small Business Owners/Small Business Buyers/Small Disadvantaged Business Owners/Small Disadvantaged Business Buyers/New Buyers at Prime Contractors to the USG.
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Government Contracting Working with Government Contracts
This course reviews a sample RFP & SOW and interactively sets up a Proposal; it reviews a Contract from the USG with information regarding types of contracts. Small Business Owners/Small Business Buyers Small Disadvantaged Business Owners/Small Disadvantaged Business Buyers New Buyers at Prime Contractors to the USG.
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The Call Center Industry
When people pick up a phone and hear someone greeting them from the XYZ Company, they put little thought into the people, process, or technology behind the phone call. To them, the person on the phone is just a voice on the other end of the line. This course will examine all of the aspects of a call center. In order to facilitate this examination, this course has been broken down into three parts:
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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.
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Call Center Communication Skills
Communication skills are very important for a successful career in customer service and sales. This is especially true in a call center environment. Call centers can be high pressure, fast-paced environments where you may have to deal with hundreds of people in one day. That is why it is so important to fine tune your communication skills. This course will examine handling different personalities,
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Consulting with the Internal Client Simulation
Internal consultants have become more and more prevalent in the business world today. Rather than hiring an outside firm, many companies are building their own internal consulting units. These units are faster, cheaper, and more connected to the projects they manage. Internal consultants within these units must have strong communication, research, diagnostic, and presentation skills. In this
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Evaluating Internal Assignments
So, is it success or failure? It's crucial that you take time to review your project and confirm outcomes on completion. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned? And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an internal consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This
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Essentials of Internal Consulting
You may already have a reputation as something of an area specialist. Perhaps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an internal consulting role. Or maybe you've always been attracted to this role and you would now like to find out more? What will it mean for you? What does an internal consultant do? How do you become one? And if you have just become one, what is expected of you? This
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Consulting with the External Client Simulation
Modern corporations employ consultants for their experience, knowledge, and skills. The primary responsibility of these consultants is to facilitate decision making for senior management. To do this, external consultants gather information using proven techniques, analyze current business situations with specific diagnostic methods, and make recommendations based on those processes. In this
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Evaluation and Review
So, is it success or failure? It's crucial that you take time to review your completed project and confirm the outcomes. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned? And how have you performed personally? 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
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Managing Delivery
Delivering 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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Call Center Telephone Sales
How many times have you attempted to get your point across over the phone, only for it to end up unsuccessful? Would you like to improve your conversational skills? When you take this course, you will learn how to save your and your customer's time. Learn which principles and techniques of selling, professional presentation approaches, and telemarketing laws apply to you. Using your time
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Internal Consulting Skills
What skills do you need to be a successful internal consultant? What skills do you have already, and which should you develop further? This course gives you the opportunity to review your existing abilities and ways of improving your current performance. Internal consulting is not only about your specialist or technical knowledge. It's about your ability to communicate. If you fail to get your
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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
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Managing Conflict Stress and Time
Each customer wants her problem to be the most important problem to the Customer Support Specialist (CSS). For the CSS, adapting to each customer's communication style, understanding each customer's emotional response, and solving each customer's problem can be an enormously stressful and time-consuming process. This course is intended to show the proper methods needed to resolve conflicts, manage
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Customer Support Specialist Simulation
You are a call center representative for BroadBandCast Inc., one of the world's leading communication companies. Digital cable TV, high-speed Internet, and phone service are among the company's products. You are a recent hire. An added challenge to your new position is that you have been assigned to work the graveyard shift. Your challenge is to figure out how to handle dealing with angry,
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Customer Service Procedures
Failing to realize the importance of customer service and effective complaints handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to provide
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Managing the Quality of the Customer Support Service Center
Customers who experience problems with your service represent a significant challenge to your company. If the support center is able to deal with incidents efficiently, your company can benefit enormously. Reputation and customer satisfaction can be restored and procedures can be established to recognize and prevent future incidents. This course examines the processes involved in incident
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Management Tools and Metrics
Customers contacting Support Centers expect the same level of professionalism each time they 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
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The Customer Support Specialist CSS
It costs a business much more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. So it makes sense that a business must do everything it can to support and satisfy existing customers. Handling complaints effectively and efficiently can result in increased customer loyalty. Today's Customer Support Specialists (CSS) and support centers have a vital role to play in ensuring customers'
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The Support Center Service
This course is intended to instruct the learner in the Help Desk Institute's (HDI) basic levels of service commitments and attitude. Best practices, personal accountability, enhancing the image of the organization, and the work environment are covered. Individuals interested in the Help Desk Institute's (HDI) Customer Support Specialist (CSS) certification
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Establishing Team and Customer Relationships
This course will familiarize the learner with the underlying benefits and skills needed to establish team and customer relationships. Teamwork is a critical component of a Support Center. This course looks at the individual responsibilities of each team member, as well as the team as a whole. It also addresses the role of strong leadership in building and maintaining successful teams. In a
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The Technical Professional as Internal Consultant
Traditionally, consultants have been seen as experts outside an organization who are hired to appraise a situation and recommend paths toward improvement. These agents of change may be brought in to downsize a company, recommend efficiency improvements, recommend ways to improve employee morale, or facilitate other changes. Today, companies are selecting technical professionals within the
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Creating Effective Contracts
When you hear the word "contract", you may think of a written, legal document. However, when it comes to consulting relationships, contracts are more about setting expectations and involving the right people instead of setting legal parameters. In this course, you'll examine how to approach contracting, the considerations that are most important, and how you should approach the contracting
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Project Management for Non-Project Managers Simulation
...management skills in a secure, virtual environment before facing the challenge of an actual, real-world project. Over the course of the simulation, participants will be tested on the objectives of transitioning to project manager, managing an imposed project team, demonstrating effective leadership, monitoring project activities and quality, maintaining control of a project, and problem solving
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Strategies for Transitioning into Management
...ement success. In addition, you'll develop techniques for facing the realities of management, such as understanding the impact of the Information Age on your management role, working effectively with your peers and maintaining a good relationship with your manager. After completing this course, you'll be ready to switch gears from technical professional to effective manager, armed with the
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Leading Change from the Front Line
Have you ever wanted something at work to change, but no one ever addressed the issue, so you just put up with it? Maybe you didn't bring it up because you thought you were the only person who didn't like it. Maybe you didn't want to make a fool of yourself by making it an issue. Or maybe you thought your boss would be irritated if you mentioned it. If any of this sounds familiar, this course is
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Succession Planning Overview
Do you have people in your organization that are indispensable for its success? Would losing them create a hole that would be hard to fill? Have you planned to fill these vacancies? This course introduces you to succession planning--the planning process of identifying, assessing, and developing leadership and talent for future vacancies. This course will familiarize you with the key concepts that
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Succession Planning Management
So, you have a succession plan and you've identified some problems. What do you do now? By taking this course, you will learn how to establish a leadership and talent development program that will ensure your succession plan achieves its goals. You will also learn how to overcome some common challenges that management teams face when trying to find the right people for a position. Since succession
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The Mark of a Leader
Do you feel that your people can't get along without you? If you're not available, do your people lack direction and therefore, productivity suffers? If you feel that you've been overmanaging and underleading, this course is for you. There is a strong difference between activities and roles of effective managers and those of successful leaders. You'll discover what some of those key differences
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Introduction to Economics Products and Markets
Having covered the basics of markets and consumers, learners can now examine the relationships between producers and the markets in which they sell in this course Products and Markets . Learners discover what drives short and long-run costs as well as what makes markets competitive. Different market types and producer theory are also explained. This course is aimed at Managers, Directors, and
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Financial Risk Management
Do you like to take risks or do you prefer to avoid them? Do you only take a risk if you know you will be compensated for it in the end? Everyone is exposed to risk at some time--it is unavoidable. Having the proper tools to deal with risk can save you money and help you avoid financial hardship. This course familiarizes you with the strategies and products used to manage corporate risk. You will
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Six Sigma DMAIC Defining the Problem
...ve, and measurable process for quantifying the challenges facing your organization. In lesson one, "The Project Charter," you'll learn guidelines for developing a problem statement, measuring your Six Sigma project, and determining its goal. In the second lesson, "The SIPOC Diagram," you'll learn how to create, and then apply, this useful tool to your unique situation. Finally, in "Stakeholder
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Introducing User-Centered Design
To identify the principles and benefits of user-centered design and to determine a practical approach to promoting user-centered design methodology in organizations This path is targeted primarily at software architects and project managers working on high level design. This path will also target programmers and developers looking to improve their skills in user centered software design.
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Installation of ISA Server 2004
To demonstrate how to install ISA Server 2004 and configure web proxy, firewall, and SecureNAT clients IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing Web servers; IT
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ISA Server 2004 Management and Clientele
To demonstrate how to install ISA Server 2004 clients and to secure and maintain ISA Server 2004 IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing Web servers; IT
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Access Configuration in ISA Server 2004
To demonstrate how to enable access to Internet resources and to configure access to internal resources IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing Web servers; IT
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VPN and Exchange with ISA Server 2004
To show how to configure ISA Server 2004 to enable VPNs and to integrate ISA Server 2004 with Microsoft Exchange Server IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing
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Firewall Configuration on ISA Server 2004
To give an overview of firewall configuration in ISA Server 2004 IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing Web servers; IT professionals who have a need to
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Caching Configuration on an ISA Server 2004
To provide an overview of caching configuration in ISA Server 2004 IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing Web servers; IT professionals who have a need to
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Monitoring and Reporting in ISA Server 2004
To provide an overview of the monitoring options available in ISA Server 2004 IT professionals responsible for implementing network and perimeter security measures, including Internet firewalls, application layer filters, and screened networks; IT professionals responsible for implementing caching servers and additional mechanisms to protect public-facing Web servers; IT professionals who have a
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e-Business Part 1 Facing the e-Business Challenge
The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business. The target audience is those individuals tasked with planning/implementing e-Business strategies within an organization (primarily technical and business managers, as opposed to programmers, network engineers,
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Introduction to QoS and QoS Implementation
To identify the fundamental issues associated with implementing QoS on converged networks, and to define QoS policy implementation and management methods IT professionals with a thorough knowledge of networking concepts and Cisco technology basics who wish to extend their knowledge in the specific area of Quality of Service
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Organisational Communication : Harassment


...facing discrimination, prejudice and unfair treatment merely because they are different in some way from the majority. These differences may be the colour of someone's skin, ethnic origin, their sexual orientation, their gender, their religion or they may have some kind of disability. Harassment can occur anywhere at work and it has a negative effect on everyone who works in an environment
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Organisational Communication : Discrimination


In our everyday lives, there are people facing discrimination and prejudice merely because they are different in some way from the majority. These differences may be the colour of someone's skin, ethnic origin, their sexual orientation, their gender, their religion or they may have some kind of disability. Equal Opportunities is about getting rid of inequality and unfairness so that everyone has
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Applying Financial Strategy: The Moore Corporation Case Study


In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores how the principles of financial strategy
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Royce Hotel Case Study 1: Understanding the Business


Operations planning and Operations Management has never been more sophisticated, nor more demanding. The pressure to improve quality; the need to manage materials and people more cost effectively; the drive to manage capacity more flexibly; and develop control systems which highlight problems while there's still time to do something about them, conspire to make the role of Operations Manager one
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Customer Relationship Management Implementing CRM
Customer Relationship Management: Implementing CRM introduces the student to the goals of CRM, the costs of CRM, and ways to modify operations costs to become customer focused. The program also details CRM pre-implementation strategies, the CRM implementation process, and tactics used to test CRM. This series is intended for managers, supervisors, customer service representatives, and anyone
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Customer Relationship Management eCRM
Customer Relationship Management: eCRM introduces the students to managing customer relationships over the Internet. The program details the characteristics of eCRM, how departments can use eCRM to automate processes, and how to customize eCRM interfaces for each type of eCRM user. This series is intended for managers, supervisors, customer service representatives, and anyone within an
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e-Business Part 1: Facing the e-Business Challenge


The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business.
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Leadership Development: Motivation
In Leadership Development: Motivation you will develop the skills needed to enhance employee and team motivation. Throughout the simulations you will be provided with the opportunity to overcome motivation problems and encourage employees who are facing various obstacles.
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e-Business Part 1: Facing the e-Business Challenge
The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history trends and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business.
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From Business Performance Pty Ltd
Management and Business Coaching
...g overwhelmed.
If you are a business owner, you may be facing these challenges on your own. If you are a manager, you may be reluctant to ask for help from your peers. Our professional coach can help you regain focus, clarify your thoughts and develop and implement an action plan.
Coaching sessions are delivered by fixed telephone line or VoIP internet telephone and backed up with email
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From Training Link Education S.E.A
Certificate in Air Passenger Health, Safety and Lifestyle

Aim:
At the end of the course students will be able to:
Identify the specific issues of health & safety which affect airline passengers
Understand the responsibilities of airline staff toward their passengers
Demonstrate an understanding of common problems and emergencies which arise in an air passenger environment
Describe how to respond appropriately to a range of medical
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From BrainStorm Group
BPM 101 Introduction to Business Process Management


BPMInstitute.org defines Business Process Management (BPM) as the deliberative, collaborative, and increasingly technology-aided definition, improvement and management of a firma s end-to-end enterprise business processes in order to achieve three outcomes crucial to a performance-based, customer-driven firm. These are: 1) clarity on strategic direction, 2) alignment of the firma s resources,
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