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Cisco Internetwork Design Part 2: TCP/IP Network Design 


The second course in the
Cisco Internetwork Design series covers IP Addressing. It focuses on routing protocols and considerations as well as security considerations that you will need to consider with a
TCP/IP network. It also covers the various addressing choices you have when designing a TCP/IP network and how to manage your IP addressing options. It also covers multicast addressing
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JDBC Application Development Part 1: Introduction and Architecture 
This first course in the series provides the foundation for the rest of the course series. It introduces learners to the
JDBC API and explains how it is used to access any database from
Java. It also covers the basics of working with relational database systems, how to use
JDBC to design multi-tier database applications, and an overview of the major steps in the JDBC program.
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Java Servlets Part 2: Creating Servlets 
This second course in the series provides the core information needed to teach learners how to create and use servlets. The first course is more of an introductory course and the final course in the series teaches advanced features of servlets. This course teaches how the servlet receives information and requests; how the servlet sends information, including standard
HTML and multimedia content;
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Implementing an Organization-wide Mentoring Program 
Would a mentoring program give your employees the extra edge they need to succeed? In this course, you'll learn about the purposes, advantages, and procedures involved in developing a mentoring program. You'll examine the program coordinator's role and the guidelines that should be in place before the program begins. You'll learn about selecting and matching mentors and proteges and motivating
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Win2000 Dir Serve Man Optimizing Active Dir Components 
This course provides an explanation of
Active Directory components and how to best manage these components. First, you will learn about the different types of user accounts in
Windows 2000, and how to create and manage local and domain user accounts. Next, you will learn how to locate, move and control access to Active Directory objects, as well as how to manage permission inheritance between
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Large Network Case Studies 
In this module, we explore network availability, performance, and
Internet connectivity. As you work through this module, you will come to appreciate that all network design issues are highly interrelated. Likewise, real-world design projects often include multiple broad goals, often creating large and complex trade-offs.
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Overview of Business Process Management 
In today's business world, competition is tough. Organizations are under a great deal of pressure to become more productive and more efficient while developing new, innovative products and services more rapidly than ever before. Management is demanding improved quality, reduced costs, and increased productivity with fewer resources. How can organizations respond to these pressures while remaining
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Process Analysis and Documentation 
The
Six Sigma DMAIC system is a roadmap that points the way to process and performance improvement. The second phase in this methodology is
Measure. You cannot hope to improve processes and performance without first knowing where you are, assessing where you want to be, and then planning how to get there, while measuring progress toward the goal all along the way. In the words of an old adage,
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Customer Relationship Management Implementing CRM 
...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 within an organization who wants to
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Implementing Project Human Resource Management 
Most project managers have experienced the synergy of a well-functioning project team. When such a team exists, a project seems to run itself. A few of the secrets to a project's success include building a project team through obtaining the necessary human resources, developing team competencies, and monitoring performance to boost project performance. Project
Human Resource Management is
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Introduction to IT Project Management 
Do you want to increase your effectiveness as a leader in project management? Are you unsure of the key skills needed for managing an information technology (IT) project? As you proceed through this "
Introduction to IT Project
Management" course in the "
Project Management for IT Professionals" series, you will gain valuable insight into project management with a special focus on managing IT
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The Life Cycle of an IT Project 
Did you know that your information technology (IT) project becomes more vulnerable as it goes through the various stages of development? That's because during each stage of development the project becomes more complex, increasing the chances of something going wrong. Incorporating a structured framework for developing IT projects, also known as a life cycle, enables your corporation to implement
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Program Lifecycle and Organization 
...st within their context and act as the infrastructure for implementing strategies. Effective program managers must be mindful of how different industries can impact program life cycles and the benefits they are designed to reap, and must continually refine their skills for adapting program life cycles to strategic goals. This course will describe some of the key program management life-cycle
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Expanding Time Focus on What is Important 
Expanding
Time:
Focus on
What is
Important, is the seventh of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the steps that convert goals into prioritized tasks, list guidelines for effective scheduling and list guidelines for successfully implementing a prioritized and scheduled task list. The
Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted
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Talent Management Knowing Talent 
This course explains what talent is and how it differs from skills and knowledge. It also introduces the process of talent management and compares this process with traditional processes. Finally, it covers the importance of recognizing and retaining talent. This course is for HR professionals and managers within a company responsible for managing and developing employees.
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Managing High Performers Training Career and Rewards 
...Implementing
Recognition Programs, takes the learner through the importance of developing effective recognition programs which will ensure the retention of your company s high performers. Effective coaching, mentoring, and feedback delivered in tandem with a recognition program are the focus in this course, and learners will find invaluable guidelines for each. The audience for this curriculum
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Balanced Scorecard Implementing 
...Implementing the
Balanced Scorecard, you will learn the importance of using a balanced scorecard as a tool to measure corporate performance relative to your company's strategies. You will also identify the four perspectives of a balanced scorecard, understand how to apply the steps to build a balanced scorecard for your organization, and learn how to construct a strategy map to support your
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Succession Planning and Human Resources 
Once you decide to conduct succession planning, how will you determine the human resources that you need? This course answers this question and other human resource issues. You will learn how to assess present and future needs as part of the succession planning process. For these two assessments, you will learn how to identify key positions, determine work requirements, and assess individual
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Implementing a Succession Plan Simulation 
Ulema
Inc. is a market research firm providing consulting, market analysis, strategic planning and technology forecasting services. The
Ulema Reports Group (
URG), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Ulema Inc., produces single and multi-client studies on fast moving market sectors. The lifecycles for these studies are often as little as 6 months to one year from the start of development, so in order
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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,
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Elements of a 360-degree Performance Review 
...review process? Are your participants familiar with them? Implementing a
360-degree performance review within your organization is a large undertaking; however, with proper preparation of your participants, the resulting feedback is far more likely to be accurate and useful. Failure to consider the crucial elements of the review process could result in misspent time and resources and be
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Managing in a Global Business Environment 
Companies now face intense competition all around the globe. In this challenging environment companies seek to adopt strategies that sustain their business growth. As a result organizations are changing the way they conduct and operate their businesses, transforming themselves in order to cope with these demanding circumstances. For today's business managers the need to comprehend these strategic
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Managing Cross-Functions 
...ue chains. These developments place a premium on managers implementing new strategies to develop organizational learning and knowledge management which are key drivers in delivering success. The target for this path is senior level directors, senior managers of strategic business units and advanced level managers. It would also be of interest to managers working in a governmental agency or
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E-Learning Essentials Pt 1 E-Learning and Successful Strategy 
...pe of e-learning and the various challenges that arise in implementing an e-learning solution. It places e-learning within the context of learning and knowledge management and the role of e-learning in harnassing an organizations's intellectual and human assests. The course covers the importance of a clear and effective strategy in successfully implementing an e-learning solution, the need
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E-Learning Essentials Pt 2 Marketing Your Solution 
This course covers the aspects of marketing that are essential to marketing an e-learning solution within an organization. It focuses on the required change of organizational mindset to one that supports anytime, anywhere learning. The three important marketing channels are covered - through a champion, culture change and communication plan. The course then looks at each of the key player groups
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E-Learning Essentials Pt 3 Deploying and Measuring Your Solution 
The third course in this curriculum focuses on issues of deployment and measurement of an e-learning solution. Regarding deployment, technological, interoperability and multi-site challenges are addressed, as well as using the
Internet, choosing the right platform, managing learners and learning objects. The final area to be covered is that of measuring the e-learning solution, integrating
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Employee Compensation HRCI PHR 
The Human Resource Certification Institute's (
HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including the theories and applications associated with effective compensation. As a human resources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the current and
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Developing Employees HRCI PHR 
The Human Resource Certification Institute's (
HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including the theories and applications of employee training and training program development. As a human resources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet
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Compensating Employees HRCI PHR 
The Human Resource Certification Institute's (
HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including the theories and applications associated with effective compensation. As a human resources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the current and
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Management of the HR Process HRCI SPHR 
As HR moves into the twenty-first century, its role is becoming key in developing organizational strategy. As a result, it is crucial for HR professionals to have a working knowledge of other functional areas of the business, so that they can provide the operational and administrative support necessary to attract and retain qualified employees. This course explains how to strategically diagnose
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Strategic Approaches to Risk Management HRCI SPHR 
Risk management, the safeguarding of the health, safety, and security of employees, is essential for business success and of particular concern to HR professionals. This course explains how to apply common occupational health, safety, and security guidelines and programs. It also outlines how security risk analysis can be used to avoid future emergencies. This course prepares HR professionals and
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Employee Development HRCI PHR 
The Human Resource Certification Institute's (
HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including the theories and applications of employee training and training program development. As a human resources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet
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Partnering with Your Boss 
You may have noticed that the traditional secretary has gone the way of the dinosaur. However, your boss may not yet have entered this new age in which administrative support professionals are working as partners with their managers and supervisors. This course will equip you to make the transition from working as a subordinate who follows orders, to partnering with your boss as an empowered 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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Redesigning Your Organization Part II 
What do you do after you've created an idealized design for your organization? This course will provide you with the skills you'll need to successfully implement an idealized design in your organization. You'll study the groundwork for learning, including how to use adaptive learning and how to be an advocate for adaptive learning. You'll learn about democratic hierarchies, decision-making
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Total Quality Management Principles 
In
Total Quality Management Principles you will build on the fundamentals by examining the principles of customer satisfaction and quality teamwork. It teaches the importance of training and motivation, performance excellence and shared quality, as well as the first steps in implementing an improvement process. This curriculum is aimed at all individuals who wish to input to and improve quality
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