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Guardianship Decisions for Elderly Loved Ones Course description -- Being designated as a guardian for an elderly or otherwise disabled loved one can be a daunting responsibility. This course will remove some of the apprehension and fear by providing specific directions for determining appropriate care alternatives, alerting you to pitfalls, giving you ideas for maintaining the loved onea s quality of life, and enlisting the support of more...

Organizing Your Workspace Course description -- The stacks, books, and little pieces of paper can seem overwhelming. Disorganization hinders work performance and creates feelings of stress and anxiety. By learning to organize your workspace, you can reach better levels of performance. This course will identify techniques for organizing your work areas, shelves, drawers, and files. It will also give you tips for maintaining more...

Recognizing and Avoiding Burnout Course description -- The Strategies and Tips in this course will give you the tools to assess your own emotional state, locate the stressors in your life, and evaluate your expectations, a major contributor to burnout. You will be given guidelines to identify the various stages of burnout and methods to recognize where you are in the process. The course focuses on giving you practical techniques more...

Intercultural Business Etiquette Course description -- International business is common, as companies expand and sell on the Internet. This course addresses how to build positive business relationships with other cultures using tools and techniques to help you interpret body language, respect customs, and understand audiences. There are suggestions for recognizing and responding to conflicting priorities, different dress codes, more...

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

Phone Skills : Taking and Leaving Phone Messages In today's world the phone dominates business communications. You can buy, sell, research new markets, provide quality customer service and make impressions that last using the telephone. This course will help you use the phone naturally and well. It will help you identify what makes an effective phone message and give you guidance on giving and taking messages that people can act on successfully. more...

Phone Skills : Giving & Getting Information by Phone In today's world the phone dominates business communications. You can buy, sell, research new markets, provide quality customer service and make impressions that last using the telephone. This course will help you use the phone naturally and well. It will help you to prepare to give or receive information by phone and give you some practical tips and hints for communicating information well. It more...

Presentation Skills : Preparation ...giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! This course will help you to maximise your chances of success by preparing effectively. It will help you establish crystal clear objectives so that you can focus your energies on more...

Presentation Skills : Writing your Presentation ...giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! This course will help you develop a presentation with impact that makes the most of these opportunities. It will guide you in structuring and writing a presentation, from the more...

Presentation Skills : Visual Aids ...giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! This course will help you develop a presentation with impact that makes the most of these opportunities. It will guide you in designing and creating visual aids that bring your more...

Presentation Skills : Your Delivery ...giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! This course will help you overcome your nerves and grasp these opportunities to shine. It will give you tips and techniques on managing the way you look and the way you sound to more...

Presentation Skills : Handling Questions ...giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! Question sessions are often your final opportunity to grasp these opportunities to shine. This course will give you the skills and confidence you need for handling those tricky more...

Measuring and Recording Performance ... about handing down judgements from above ...think again. Giving feedback & appraising people is fraught with potential pitfalls. This course is packed full of valuable information to help you avoid them. The course explores what you can appraise, what you can realistically hope to achieve and what you can't appraise. It looks at different assessment approaches and recording systems along with more...

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

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

Role Play Preparation Skills ...giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! This course will help you rise to the occasion, by putting your preparatory skills to the test. From within a fictitious but realistic case study you can step through the more...

Role Play Delivery ...giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! This course will help you rise to the occasion, by putting your preparatory skills to the test. From within a fictitious but realistic case study you can step through 5 key more...

Preparing Presentations ...Giving presentations is one of the most daunting and unpopular tasks we face. Experienced managers and even experienced speakers often dread the prospect of speaking in public. For most of us, giving presentations does not come naturally. The key to successful presentations lies with effective PREPARATION. Being well prepared maximises your confidence and ensures you're in control. This course more...

Giving Presentations Learn how to give successful presentations Presentations may be formal presentations to your team, senior managers or clients. They can also be informal. For instance, presenting some new ideas for discussion with your peers. If you are skilled at giving presentations, then you can persuade, influence and convince others. Getting your points across in a structured and interesting manner is more...

Project Management: Time Management In Project Management: Time Management, participants learn how to identify the activities involved with a project and construct a network diagram based on those activities. They learn how to determine the critical path for a project. They also learn about several mathematical analysis techniques, such as CPM and PERT, to develop project schedules. more...

Presenting Your Proposition ...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 circumstances with consummate ease. Sales people who are tasked with selling at an executive more...

Negotiating to Mutual Benefit ...r 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 happy. Salespeople who sell at an more...

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

Working With Internal Customers ...timately makes your organization more financially secure. Giving great service to your internal customers means that people you work with can see, hear, and feel that they are valued. When employees value one another, the result is increased performance, which contributes to the success of the entire organization, and creates a positive and productive working environment. Customer service more...

An Essential Guide to Giving Feedback ...se enables you to become familiar with the key aspects of giving candid, constructive feedback about performance. The purpose of this course is to enable you to enhance your skills in giving feedback. The course starts by exploring the nature of feedback, and it then develops a practical approach to the feedback process. Giving feedback is not always straightforward however, and so the final more...

Giving Feedback to Colleagues Everyone needs good quality feedback in order to improve performance at work. In this course, you will discover how to provide effective feedback to colleagues at the same level as yourself, and to those above you, in the hierarchy of the organization. You will also learn how to deal effectively with challenging situations. In addition to considering the effectiveness of feedback, you will learn a more...

Team Feedback A guide Teamwork is playing an increasingly significant role in the majority of today's top companies. This is based on the assumption that working in teams leads to better business performance. In that case, you must ensure that team performance is managed effectively--feedback being of crucial importance. Feedback about how the team is performing, how individuals are contributing to the team's more...

Giving Feedback A Manager s Guide ...of this course is to enable you to enhance your skills in giving feedback. The course starts by exploring the nature of feedback, and it then develops a practical approach to the feedback process, detailing five logical steps. However, in some situations it is not always sensible to use a standard approach and so the course concludes by considering how to cope with challenging situations, such more...

Effective Use of Feedback for Teams Simulation Effective feedback is an essential element of successful teamwork. Periodic reviews and discussions of how the team is performing, how individuals are contributing to the team's performance, and how the team is being managed, are all vital to ensuring that the team continues to perform at peak level. As a team leader, your ability to give and receive feedback will seriously impact the more...

Presenting Your Case Have you ever attended a presentation that failed because the presenter was ill prepared or ineffective in his approach? A successful presenter must possess the proper skills to plan and deliver an effective business case presentation and employ strategies to establish and maintain the audience's attention. This course examines the careful planning and delivery of a business case presentation. It more...

Mentoring Essentials Simulation You are a Team Leader for the Wireless Technology Group, a research department within The Research Company that focuses on collecting and analyzing data on wireless technologies. You are heading up a new research project that deals with forecasting advertising revenue for wireless communication tools over the next five years. While managing this project, you have also been assigned Tilly Newman, a more...

Lead and Communicate Effectively as a New Manager ...is important that you understand that leadership is about giving direction, but it is also crucial that you realize that it also involves trusting and empowering your staff. You will undoubtedly have been very good at your last job, but now you will need to resist the temptation to continue doing it. For some time to come, it may be true that you could do it quicker or better, but an important more...

Averting Problem Performance Simulation You're the head writer for The Jackie Lewis Show, a TV talk show on a basic cable channel. The six other writers for the show report to you. Recently, one of these writers resigned, so you need to hire a replacement. You will need to avoid hiring a problem performer by selecting the right person. Once you select that person, you'll need to communicate job requirements and provide resources in more...

Preventing Problem Performance Obviously, one of the starting points for managing problem performance is to prevent it from becoming so. This is a general part of effective management, focusing on those aspects of the managerial task specific to preventing problem performance. This means employing an effective selection procedure that is based on an accurate identification of the job requirements, and then using the first more...

Communicating a Shared Vision If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney's words ring as true today as they did many years ago when they were first displayed above the Epcot Center. The importance of a vision cannot be denied. Neither can the importance of communicating that vision to the people responsible for supporting it. Communicating your vision gives purpose and meaning to the work that people do, and pursuing and more...

Organizational Crisis Management - Resolving Crises in Organizations This course underlines the vital importance of effective and controlled communications. Guidelines are presented on handling calls controlling the communication flow messages and audiences and communicating in the crisis aftermath. The course looks at communication with non-media stakeholders giving particular attention to employees. The final section covers communication with the media providing more...

Advanced Business Communication: Guidelines for Effective Communication In the Advanced Business Communication: Guidelines for Effective Communication you will be introduced to the world of business communication in general and to areas that are fundamental to effective business communication today. You will learn about typical barriers to effective communication and guidelines for overcoming them. You will also learn about steps in the communication process uses of more...

Business Code of Conduct - Bribery and Kickbacks This course defines bribery and kickbacks giving concrete examples of each and guidelines for employees who find themselves the subject of bribery or kickback overtures. This course also covers the consequences of taking a bribe or a kickback.  more...

Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Proficient User This course will address the core features of FrontPage 2003 giving learners a solid foundation in essential FrontPage 2003 skills.  more...

Customer Care: You Make the Difference Customer Care: You Make the Difference is the second of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify guidelines for improving customer satisfaction apply human touch guidelines to improve customer care and identify the benefits to you of giving good customer care. The PrimeCustomer Care curriculum offers a useful toolkit of practical customer more...

Six Sigma Part 2: Deploying Six Sigma In Deploying Six Sigma you will learn the fundamentals of beginning a Six Sigma project. It begins by giving assistance in prioritizing projects and selecting key people before then helping the learner to define measure analyze improve and control the selected process. It also looks at process capability studies and how they should be directed.  more...

Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Building Relationships Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Building Relationships offers the student guidelines for asking and answering questions using nonverbal communication and power and giving feedback when building relationships. The program also describes the various communication styles and offers techniques to use when communicating with them.  more...

IBM Wireless LAN Security Part 1 Specifications and Standards This course begins by giving an overview on of the basic concepts of security. It then covers authentication and encryption. It also covers the importance of security and how to secure the enterprise network. Finally it covers wireless LAN Standards and security specification standards.  more...