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Online Course: Predictive Analytics Applied Online Edition ...er's in-person trainees rated the class Excellent or Very Good. Predictive analytics is business intelligence technology that produces a predictive score for each customer or prospect. Each customer's predictive score informs actions to be taken with that customer business intelligence just doesn't get more actionable than that. Predictive Analytics Applied - Online Edition is a more...

Writers At Work A Review for Professionals - Part I Covers the most basic aspects of good writing on the job. more...

Applying Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace ...escription -- Having logical intelligence will give you a good start in succeeding in your job. But to be more effective you must also develop your emotional intelligence. Using the two together, you will get along much better with your colleagues and know how to get ahead at work. You will learn how to handle your emotions and gear them towards a positive outcome. This course will teach you more...

Presentation Skills Course description -- One of the biggest fears for managers and others is speaking in public. You will receive worksheets and checklists to help you plan and present your remarks for the most impact, and you will learn how to deal with the anxiety that so often accompanies such assignments. The course includes tools and techniques to help you determine what the audience wants and needs, methods to more...

Providing Effective Feedback ...good intentions to provide helpful feedback, but dona t know the simple rules and techniques for doing it. This course includes tools to develop helpful feedback and use it to motivate employees. It has techniques and methods to foster a nurturing environment, convey your improvement ideas, check for understanding, and help others learn from their mistakes. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER more...

So You Wanna Be A Java Programmer You will get started on the Java track, with a good start, your leraning curve will be shortened significanly, you will be able to proceed effectively in learning & in using the skills. more...

Laboratory Audit Essentials ...that the laboratory has quality systems in place, follows good laboratory practices, and generates data of integrity and quality. This course can be completed as quickly as you care to, depending on how much time you can devote to it. Note that we have set a 90 day period with further extensions up to 6 months if needed. It is always a best practice to take your time and make sure that you more...

Advanced Business Spanish This course has been specially designed for students with a good command of the Spanish language who desire to apply their knowledge of the language to the business world. more...

The Entrepreneurship Certificate in Marketing Mastery Program ... Course- Starting a new business means more than having a good idea. The hottest concept will cool off in a minute if it isna t fueled by the knowledge and skills that are needed to transform it into a real and sustainable business. Students will be given an opportunity to work on their own business concepts. Students may complete this course within a reasonable period of time. Contact Hours more...

How to Write a Good Mystery Writing the mystery novel. more...

Access 2000 This course teaches students the basic database elements, good database design, Microsoft Access tools, and database maintenance and security, among many other skills. more...

A Day 4 - Chapters 14-18 This course is designed to teach the computer technician the skills needed to pass the CompTIA A+ Certification tests. This fourth of a 4-part or day (i.e. "day" - a really full day - about 10 hours of training) course covers the skills needed to work with Windows 2000, including the alerter service, the Recovery Console, communications, and file protection. This section also explains networks and more...

Linux Operating System Linux Operating System will get you started in the Linux world of networking and administration. This is a basic course to give you a good foundation from which to build on that will lead to certification and more. more...

Training and Facilitation: Setting Objectives MAXIM TRAINING Objectives form a crucial part of every manager's job. They guide everything important we do at work. If we are trying to achieve the wrong objectives, we can't possibly perform well. Yet setting good, clear objectives is difficult to do. The course's overall aim is to show you how to set effective objectives. These could be objectives for yourself, other individuals, your team or more...

Training and Facilitation: The MCI Good Manager's Guide MAXIM TRAINING Operational Management: Managing Activities, Managing People, Managing Resources, Managing Information Strategic Management: Reviewing the Environment, Setting the Strategy Planning, Implementation and Control, Evaluating and Improving Performance more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Managing Working Capital From the corporate world to the corner shop, from running a restaurant to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. This course explores a number of ways to improve your company's cash flow. It gives hints on how to minimise the amount of stock you hold without jeopardising the way you do business. It also examines the benefits of having credit and more...

Managing People : Planning a Meeting Meetings are opportunities: to share information, exchange ideas and contribute to decisions. They're excellent vehicles for building teams, gaining commitment and encouraging participation but only when they're properly planned and executed by everyone involved. This course looks at how to make the most of every business meeting through planning and preparation. It will help you decide whether more...

Managing People : When to Coach ...good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. You'll find out how to spot coaching opportunities and decide when coaching can make the difference. You'll examine the role of more...

Managing People : Practical Coaching Situations ...good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. In this course you'll investigate how you can use coaching in a variety of different situations: changing jobs, generating sales more...

Managing People : Selecting a Coaching Candidate ...good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. You may have someone in mind that you want to coach. In this course you'll use a set of questions to help you decide whether more...

Managing People : Reviewing a Coaching Experience ...good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. If you have recently coached a person the experience may have been positive or not so positive. In this course you'll examine a more...

Phone Skills : Preparing for a Call 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. Leaving a good impression is as important as making initial contact. This course covers the tactics you can use to steer a call to the conclusion you've planned. It also shows you how important it is to keep your more...

Phone Skills : Ending a Call and Following Up 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. Leaving a good impression is as important as making initial contact. This course covers the tactics you can use to steer a call to the conclusion you've planned. It also shows you how important it is to keep your more...

Phone Skills : Negotiating on the 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 for concluding negotiations on the phone. It will help you stay in control and get results when you're negotiating, through effective preparation and more...

Phone Skills : Cold Calling & Selling 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 stay in control and get results when you're cold calling or selling over the phone, through effective preparation and good more...

Phone Skills : Making Difficult Calls In today's world the phone dominates business communications. You can buy, sell, research new markets, provide quality customer service and make impressions that last using the telephone. This course will help you use the phone naturally and well. It will help you stay in control and get results when you're making those difficult calls - through effective preparation and good communication skills. more...

Managing People : Your Coaching Style ...good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. When you coach you'll adopt a particular coaching style: you'll use different behaviours, techniques and actions to help the more...

Managing People : How to Coach If you're a manager, .... or a specialist .... or just good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. more...

Working with Numbers Learn how to work with numbers successfully Anyone who's "good with figures" uses various tips and tricks to make numbers easier to work with. Working with Numbers concentrates on useful short cuts rather than "classroom theory" that underlies many everyday activities. 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...

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...

Health and Safety ...good business sense. An unsafe, unhealthy work environment is dangerous, unpleasant and unproductive. It is important that employees should be aware that is their duty to: Take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and the people who may be affected by what they do and don't do. Comply with health and safety regulations applicable to their work area This course will give more...

Safety in Industry Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course looks at more...

Windmaster Case Study 7: Strategy Implementation Competing in the business world isn't a peaceful game. Companies are fighting to win; to build new levels of competitive advantage; to secure customers, market share and profits. The winners rarely succeed by accident. They develop strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course examines the issues involved in implementing a more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Creating a Collaborative Team Environment Where people are working together, two plus two can equal more than four. People can achieve more than they would on their own as part of a cohesive and effective team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course will show you what good team communication means and how you can create a team environment that's more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Handling Difficult Team Members Where people are working together, two plus two can equal more than four. People can achieve more than they would on their own as part of a cohesive and effective team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course will show you how to take power by taking action and gain control in difficult situations. You can more...

Coping with Stress Series: Long-Term Coping Strategies Stress management requires commitment. You will need time, discipline and willpower to succeed; and it comes with a health warning - it may change you for good, into a better, more confident person with a new outlook on life. While you may have coping skills to manage low or average levels of pressure, when the pressure starts rising and you feel that stress is taking a toll on your life, it's more...

Conflict Management Series: Personal Reactions to Conflict Conflict happens. Whether it's individuals clashing, organisational change or demanding customers, conflict is a normal part of working life. But it's something that people can find hard to handle and, if you don't manage it carefully, everyone can lose out: you, the organisation and your team. This course will identify why you should consider the importance of good judgement and how this can be more...

The Professional Teller: Providing Customer Service The Professional Teller: Providing Customer Service offers the student an overview of the customer service process and how it affects relationships with customers. The program also covers how to understand the needs of angry customers, as well as how to serve them using a process designed specifically for serving angry customers. In addition, the program instructs the student how to use verbal and more...

Professional Assertiveness ...es? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it's a good time to learn to be an assertive business professional. This course will guide you as you move into a proactive, responsible, professional style. You'll learn methods to help you identify an appropriate assertive style and strategies to prepare you use that style. You'll also learn how to implement the assertive style in your work more...

The Process of Globalizing a Product or Service ...geographic location for your corporate goals and create a good plan for globalizing the product or service you're working with. Then "globalize" your product or service and let the world know you're open for business. Finally, explore using the Internet to support and expand your reach into global markets. Executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and other business professionals who more...

Closing Executive-level Sales Simulation ...your cross-functional account team effectively to provide good customer support and to ultimately move the relationship to the partnership stage. This simulation is based on the "Selling at the Executive Level" series and contains links to the following SkillSoft courses: SAL Salespeople who sell at an executive level and obtain and maintain key accounts; salespeople who want to move into more...

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 more...

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 more...

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

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 more...

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 more...

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 more...

Sales Written Communications ... 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 proposal, as well as the guidelines for developing more...

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 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...

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 more...

The Inbound Call Center ...with the service they demand. By ensuring that you have a good knowledge base of the inbound call center industry, you are establishing a sturdy framework for success. This course will provide you with the knowledge needed to identify customer care benefits resulting from key events in the history of call center technology; recognize the effect of environmental factors on productivity; apply more...

Inbound Call Centers People Management ...ant 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 select the best candidates, accommodate agent diversity, and become aware of union and nonunion personnel more...

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 more...

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 more...

Building Dynamic Teams Thrive on Teamwork This course describes techniques that will enable teams to streamline communications and improve overall performance. Professionals who want to work more effectively with others to achieve shared goals. more...

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, more...

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 more...

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 more...

Functions of IT Project Management ...hieve greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them." Good information technology (IT) project managers are trained, not born. As an IT project manager, you can achieve greatness by improving and developing your own skills through continued education and experience. Your management skills will become better each time a project is delivered successfully. The need for skilled IT project more...

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

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

Selecting Your Strategy Collaborate for Solutions ... collaborative game, identify the keys and obstacles to a good collaborative negotiation, identify the four major steps in carrying out a collaborative negotiation and identify tactics to help a collaborative negotiation run smoothly. The Negotiation Strategies curriculum helps today's busy professional identify and implement proven methods for moving from conflict to resolution as efficiently more...

Effective Telephone Techniques ...ides the learner with critical information about making a good impression when communicating over the telephone. It emphasizes the importance of good telephone etiquette, offers tips for building trust over the telephone, and discusses important non-verbal actions that are present in most telephone interactions. Additionally, it helps the learner make the most out of technology when using more...

Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace Simulation ...kills for coping with conflict and putting it to work for good. Conflict is inevitable in the workplace. Everybody has their own ideas about how things should run. Eventually, these ideas will collide. When they do, you don't need to be unprepared. Above and beyond all the skills you can possibly learn for coping with conflict, effective communication skills will prove to be the most more...

Leading Effective Business Meetings ... meetings held every day in the United States, there is a good chance that your life is full of meetings. There is a general agreement among business professionals that most meetings are not well run. They often waste your time, drain your energy, seem to have no purpose, and bear few positive results. Are you tired of attending meetings like this? Are you tired of your meetings ending up like more...

Participating Effectively in Business Meetings ...ffective meetings can help make projects successful. In a good meeting, participants' ideas are heard, decisions are made through group discussion and with reasonable speed, and activities are focused on desired results. Good meetings help generate enthusiasm for a project, build skills for future projects, and provide participants with techniques that may benefit them in their future careers. more...

Giving Feedback to Colleagues ...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 logical more...

Building Relationships to Get Results You are not the boss. You've been called "peer," "esteemed colleague," "invaluable staff member," and "friend," but no one's even come close to calling you "boss." When you stop to think about it, you realize you have no real authority whatsoever. In fact, you have much more power than you think, even if you are on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. As Jack London said, "Life is not always a more...

Gaining Allies Creating Change If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Is this an effective strategy for gaining allies to create change? How about, "If you do it my way, you'll feel better about yourself"? Finding and winning partners for the purpose of creating change is not easy in the intensely competitive and harried environment of the corporate world. It's especially difficult when you lack authority. The people whose more...

Getting Results without Authority Simulation You have been hired within the last year as a design engineer at Autorad, a company that manufactures automotive components. Historically, the company specialized in custom-designed components for limited production runs. In recent years, the company has moved into more mainstream applications and must adapt to a mass-production mind-set. Your team has been working on a new steering wheel design more...

Preparing a Business Case Why put time and effort into preparing, writing, and presenting a business case for new projects? Why not just talk to the manager and get his approval for the project? The answers to these questions lie in the fact that organizational budgets for new projects are typically very tight and, as such, your project will be competing against other projects for funding. Without a written business case, more...

Writing a Business Case ...ents are being subjected to increased scrutiny. Writing a good business case will help you justify resource allocation to key decision makers and secure funding for your project. Otherwise, you may be eaten alive by the competition In this course, you will learn how to plan, write, and present a business case to persuade key decision makers in your organization that your proposal is a winning more...

Assertiveness from the Inside Out ...uations where assertive negotiations are needed? Now is a good time to enhance your professional assertiveness skills if you answered "yes" to any of these questions. This course will guide you as you move into a more decisive, more effective professional style. You'll learn about methods that can help you build and strengthen your assertive style and strategies to prepare you to act more more...

Managing Anger in the Workplace Simulation ...se your temper and voice your anger, but is this really a good idea? What will your coworkers or manager think of your outburst? While confronting anger in the workplace is inevitable, it's important to minimize your angry thoughts, emotions and behaviors, and channel your energy into more constructive activities. Your role: As a Product Manager for the high-tech company SafeCom, deadlines on more...

Reviewing Performance ... will have to tell an employee that his performance isn't good enough--despite all earlier efforts. This course gives sound practical advice about how to handle the appraisal of someone who is a consistently poor performer. Appraisees aren't always passive recipients of their manager's assessments, so this course prepares managers for the more difficult reactions they will encounter. All this more...

Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals ...r the technical professionals you supervise? Because it's good for them, good for your company, and good for you. One of your major challenges as a manager of technical people is retaining them. And you may also need to recruit technical people to fill higher-level positions in your company. This course will help you use career development as a technique to both motivate and retain technical more...

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 more...

Achieving Success with the help of a Mentor Perhaps you want to ask an expert in your field or organization to mentor you. Maybe a manager has offered to guide you up the organization ladder. Or perhaps you're participating in an organizationwide mentoring program. Whatever the case, you'll want to make the most of having a mentor in your corner. In "Achieving Success with the Help of a Mentor," you'll learn how a mentor can help you guide more...

Becoming a Manager ...ecoming a manager involve? What skills are needed to be a good one, and what will others expect of you? These are all natural questions for anyone who is about to become a manager, or who has recently been promoted. Moving into a first management role represents possibly one of the biggest changes in your working life. The transition from player to manager is an exciting, but challenging, one. more...

Lead and Communicate Effectively as a New Manager ...mpowering 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 part of your new role is delegating tasks to others. You will not have time to do everything yourself, and your staff members will need to know that you more...

Balanced Scorecard Measuring Business Objectives ...ing Business Objectives, you will learn the importance of good communication when using the balanced scorecard, the reasons for creating a balanced scorecard for each business unit, and the ways your organization can support the critical success factors outlined in a balanced scorecard. You will also learn the steps for gathering and implementing feedback about your organization?s balanced more...

Coaching for Business ...re performing a coaching role, they may do more harm than good. Therefore, it is important to understand how coaching originated as a business tool, and the ways it impacted traditional managerial attitudes and behavior. This course ensures that those responsible for coaching will know what their roles are, and thus be better placed to unlock the potential of individuals and teams, to maximize more...

Energizing and Empowering Employees Energy. Without it, the wheels and gigabytes of industry come to a screeching halt. And without energized, empowered employees, your part of global industry will make far less progress. This course introduces you to the importance of energizing and empowering employees. By doing so, you multiply the benefits to your department, team, and organization. The course begins by showing you ways to more...

Leading Change from the Front Line Have you ever wanted something at work to change, but no one ever addressed the issue, so you just put up with it? Maybe you didn't bring it up because you thought you were the only person who didn't like it. Maybe you didn't want to make a fool of yourself by making it an issue. Or maybe you thought your boss would be irritated if you mentioned it. If any of this sounds familiar, this course is more...

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 more...

About 360-Degree Performance Feedback Are you ready for a change in the way your company evaluates and develops its management staff? Perhaps you are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of your current efforts to help your managers work to their potential? The 360-degree performance feedback process may be the solution to your needs. Although the use of 360-degree feedback is relatively new (approximately ten years old), public, more...

Delivering 360-Degree Performance Feedback ...ance feedback is effective when you, or your company, use good interviewing techniques, conduct an effective performance interview, and maintain the 360-degree performance feedback process. When you use the techniques contained in this course, you will help ensure that your 360-degree performance review feedback and process are the best they can be. Executives and human resource development more...

Coaching Trends ...good time to coach? And what is the business case for coaching? Is coaching just another popular fad, or can organizations really benefit from it? Every coach should be aware of the strategic uses of coaching: the organizational benefits that are offered, how coaching can be used to help coachees deal with positive and negative change, and ways of coaching innovators and mavericks. What factors more...

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 more...

Hiring Considerations ...s wrong is expensive, time consuming, and damaging to the good name of the company. This course will give you a brief overview of the major employment legislation that affects recruitment. Then the course will explore the options that any manager has when faced with hiring a new employee. Hiring is an expensive process, so the course explores a cost-benefit analysis of the various hiring more...

Selecting the Best Applicant Making decisions is always difficult, and that applies particularly to choosing a new employee. This course will show you the most effective methods for evaluating and choosing the best applicants. It will show you how to analyze the information from the interview--by working in a focused framework--and how to compare candidates. You will examine and avoid the most common problems with decision more...

Strategic Approaches to Labor Relations HRCI SPHR ...n the lookout for strategies that allow them to develop a good working relationship between the employee and employer. This course covers strategies that actively improve and maintain good relationships, such as employee involvement strategies and strategies that foster positive employee relations. It also covers those strategies that resolve conflict in an amicable manner, such as formal more...

Union Work Environments HRCI PHR The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certifications, including PHR (Professional in Human Resources), cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including those affecting employee and labor relations. The HRCI certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating Human Resource professionals' competencies. HRCI is an affiliate more...

Managing Yourself and Those Around You ...good managers. This means managing their own time and energies, as well as cooperatively working with their boss and co-workers. This course teaches successful strategies for dealing with the myriad demands on the time, resources, communication skills, and organizational powers of administrative assistants. Administrative support professionals and executive secretaries who wish to improve their more...

Communicating with Power and Confidence Do you want to be an effective and powerful communicator? Do you want to take charge, welcome responsibility and view challenge as an opportunity? In today's workplace, when administrative support professionals talk, supervisors listen. They have been empowered and given many managerial responsibilities. They can now work alongside rather than as subordinates to their managers. They no longer only more...

Managing from a Global Viewpoint The process of managing on a global scale requires a step up from domestic management. In this course, you'll learn what it takes to be a global manager or team leader. You'll start with establishing a global mind-set and learning about the attributes of a global manager. Then, you'll explore cross-cultural communication and ways to effectively support and work with a globally based team. more...

Sustaining Competitive Advantage ...good as the competition is not enough. An organization must devise strategies and develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies to set it apart from the competition. In this course business strategies are examined that can help a company gain and sustain competitive advantage. Companies build their strength around three key strategic areas: competitive positioning, core competence, and more...

Thinking Strategically ...thinking. Being lean and mean and process efficient is no good if you don't have the correct business strategy. But what is strategic thinking and what does it look like in the context of your business? This course is focused on discovering and using the key elements of successful strategic thinking. Those in management who are engaged in or preparing for a more strategic role in their more...

Defining and Mapping the Six Sigma Process Maps are incredible tools. They show--on one page--where you are, where you want to go, the best way to get there, and endless alternate routes. Without maps, we would be left to wander unknown paths to uncertain destinations, encountering untold pitfalls along the way. Maps are also important tools in guiding Six Sigma teams in the quest for process improvement; it is impossible to improve a more...

Design and Analysis In the Six Sigma Improve phase, organizations are aiming to evaluate which process inputs have the most significant impact on the process output. Only by effective experimental design and subsequent analysis can organizations pinpoint areas for improvement. This course will enable you to choose between process methods, determine the most effective process, and take into account all of the more...

Collecting and Summarizing Data The Six Sigma DMAIC system is a roadmap that shows the way to process and performance improvement. The second phase in the roadmap, the Measure phase, provides a methodology and tools for establishing a baseline of current processes. This baseline is your starting point for process improvement. A critical part of establishing baselines is collecting data that will enable you to learn the current more...

Measurement Systems ...tself can be problematic. A measurement system is only as good as the measuring instruments and the operators, and both are responsible for a certain amount of variation. An important part of process improvement--conducted before collecting measurement data--is analyzing the measuring system to ensure that measurements are made without bias, are reproducible by all measuring instruments, and more...

Operations Management Operations Components Operations Management: Operations Components offers the student an overview of seven components of operations management. The program defines each of the components and introduces the student to the responsibilities of an operations manager. In addition, the program offers examples of how each component is applied to a company s operations. The target audience for this series is managers, more...

Marketing Management ... that team to success? How can you tell if you're doing a good job? In this course you'll look at marketing management from top to bottom--starting from the basic skills you need as a marketing manager, through creating a multifunctional marketing team, positioning the company for success, and setting up systems to see how you're doing. You'll also learn to avoid common mistakes made by more...

Leadership ...p is fundamental in driving quality in an organization. A good leader's actions and words filter down to all organizational levels to create a quality culture. The concepts of organizational leadership are built on a foundation of core business elements. A clear understanding of these elements is key in developing an organization's strategic plan and vision. These core elements include: more...

Training and Development The most valued resource of any organization is its people. In today's corporate landscape of technological advancement, employees must be trained to align with the strategic direction of the business. Managers of quality should know that improvements in workplace productivity contribute positively to the overall well-being of the organization. This course explores the importance of investing in more...

A Manager s Introduction to Business Law This course introduces managers to the fundamental concepts of business law. It begins by exposing some prevalent legal misconceptions shared by management and establishes the true role that law plays in society and business. The relationship between business ethics and law is explained and how managers serve as vital role models for demonstrating ethical business practices. This course also more...

Attorney-Client Privilege This course covers the attorney-client privilege that protects communications between attorneys and their clients and ensures their confidentiality. Many corporate businesspeople are not sure of their rights under the attorney-client privilege, and as such risk destroying the privilege and losing their rights. This course defines attorney-client responsibilities and examines how the privilege more...

Union Awareness According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2004, 12.5 percent of wage and salary workers were union members--down from 12.9 percent in 2003. Why is membership declining? Perhaps the growing number of laws in place to protect workers prevents the necessity of unions, or perhaps the nature of the work itself has changed. Regardless of the decline, workers still have more...

Rightful Termination ...urse, the best way to avoid firing an employee is to do a good job of hiring and managing performance. Therefore, you will learn how to prevent this unpleasant task by interviewing effectively, and by using progressive discipline. This SkillSoft product has been reviewed by the Employment Practice Group of Sheehan Phinney Bass Green. As of the date reviewed, the content of this course is in more...

GUI Design In this WestNet e-Learning module, you will learn the basics of graphical user interface (GUI) design. more...

Programming Logic and Techniques This course is meant for end users. It aims to teach users the basic concepts of computing and programming language, and the usage of programming methods and elements. People who want to have a fairly good knowledge of the concepts of programming logic and techniques. more...

Programming Techniques and Strategies To outline the high-level considerations for producing good code Professional application developers or programmers, with at least 2 years experience, who want to learn the latest recommended techniques for developing high quality software more...

Developing an Application Using User-Centered Design To conduct user research and to design effective user interface and interaction elements 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. more...

Practical Examples of User-Centered Design To design user-centered Windows applications and web sites 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. more...

Project Management ...good time and cost control and an effective, motivated team. Both can be achieved through a participator