Online Improvement eLearning - Training Resources

Typing Pal--The Best Online Typing Course ...un, Typing Pal offers: ? 60 exercises and many customized improvement exercises; ? 65 practice paragraphs ? Fun animations ? Advice on ergonomics. System requirements: ?You must be connected to Internet while taking this course. ?Windows ?Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher or ?Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher ?Flash plug-in from Macromedia (to view Web site animation) ?Java enabled Macintosh  more...

Typing Pal--The Best Online Typing Course ...un, Typing Pal offers: ? 60 exercises and many customized improvement exercises; ? 65 practice paragraphs ? Fun animations ? Advice on ergonomics. System requirements: ?You must be connected to Internet while taking this course. ?Windows ?Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher or ?Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher ?Flash plug-in from Macromedia (to view Web site animation) ?Java enabled Macintosh  more...

Typing Pal--The Best Online Typing Course ...un, Typing Pal offers: ? 60 exercises and many customized improvement exercises; ? 65 practice paragraphs ? Fun animations ? Advice on ergonomics. System requirements: ?You must be connected to Internet while taking this course. ?Windows ?Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher or ?Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher ?Flash plug-in from Macromedia (to view Web site animation) ?Java enabled Macintosh  more...

The Power of being Different ...rve an innovative spirit and assure impulses for constant improvement. The course will also emphasize on the disadvantages of being risk-averse, no matter how comfortable the status quo may be. Issues such as diversity, change of daily rituals, and empathic listening to the self and others, will be conferred. The points of view of several management gurus on revolutionary management will be  more...

Significantly Increase the Value of Any Property--Instructor-Led ...ble financial benefit from every dollar spent on property improvements. You`ll even learn to grow value by improving the neighborhood!Students may complete this course within a reasonable period of time. Contact Hours give an indication of how much time is needed to take this class. As an extra added value, registered students will have unlimited access to course materials for 12 months from  more...

Six Sigma Black Belt Personal Training Library ... make immediate contributions to quality and productivity improvement efforts. (3 Units; 3 Assessments; Approximately 7 hours of training.) The Advanced SPC course will help you develop a comprehensive understanding of advanced statistical process control techniques. Training topics include selecting and setting up SPC control charts, determining the best control charts formats to use for a  more...

Providing Effective Feedback ...nd methods to foster a nurturing environment, convey your improvement ideas, check for understanding, and help others learn from their mistakes. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) BROWSER REQUIRED - can`t use Netscape or other browsers for this training. Many people have good intentions to provide helpful feedback, but don?t know the simple rules and techniques for doing it. This course  more...

Poetry For Profit and Play This course is designed to help the inexperienced poet write for profit or pleasure. This course is primarily designed to help the inexperienced poet write for profit or pleasure. Students learn basic forms of poetry such as: metrical, sonnet, rhyme, haiku and free verse. They are then given exercises designed to help them learn the various forms. Each student hands in samples of their work and  more...

Manufacturing Statistics Personal Training Library ...ed to get the most from this powerful statistical quality improvement technique. (3 Units; 3 Assessments; Approximately 8 hours of training.) The Measurement System Analysis (MSA) course includes detailed tutorials on many measurement system analysis techniques including how to conduct and analyze GR&R (Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility) Studies. A GR&R is the accepted techniques for  more...

Management & Leadership Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Program ... and efficiently implement a system of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) for your organization. In the 21st Century, and its global economy, the skill of continually improving quality is vitally important to an organization's longevity and success. Whether you are in the service or production business, this course provides a proactive method of effective and efficient Continuous Quality  more...

Lean Manufacturing Personal Training Library ...n, TPM, Visual Factory, Support Processes, and Continuous Improvement are explored in Unit 2. Lean implementation strategies and practices are covered in Unit 3. (3 Units; 3 Assessments; Approximately 10 hours of training.) In the 5S: Workplace Organization course, the student will learn the fundamental concepts of the 5S?s that help improve quality and productivity. (The 5S?s stand for Sort,  more...

ISO 13485 Medical Devices General Employee Training ISO 13485:2003 is a Quality Management System (QMS) specific to organizations providing medical devices, regardless of the type or size of the organization. This course provides a basic understanding of ISO 13485: what it is and what it requires from a company. The student has up to 1 year to access the training. However, it must be completed at one sitting, it cannot be saved and restarted  more...

ISO 9001:2000 General Employee Training ISO 9001:2000 is the standard for quality management systems, and a good tool to improve overall business execution. This course provides a basic understanding of ISO 9001:2000: what it is and what it requires from a company. The student has up to 1 year to access the training. However, it must be completed at one sitting, it cannot be saved and restarted later. ISO 9001:2000 General Employee  more...

ESL for Business - Letters and Memos In this instructor-led course, students will work on improving their written English skills through doing self-test grammar exercises and writing practice letters and memos aimed toward a particular audience (customers and peers). Instructor feedback on written assignments will guide students in improving their skills. Full Description Many times in business, your written words are your "calling  more...

ESL for Business - Special Documents In this instructor-led course, students will work on improving their written English skills through dong self-test grammar exercises and working on documents they use every day in their job. Instructor feedback on written assignments will guide students in improving their skills. Full Description Many times in business, your written words are your "calling card" to customers, vendors, and even  more...

ESL for Business - E-mail Communication In this instructor-led course, students will work on improving their written English skills through doing self-test grammar exercises and writing practice e-mails aimed toward a particular audience (peers, customers, and management). Instructor feedback on written assignments will guide students in improving their skills. Full Description Many times in business, your written words are your  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Performance Improvement ...ur particular business situation. Facilitate Performance Improvement with Performance Appraisals This course will help you facilitate performance appraisals in order to improve the effectiveness of your workforce. The class includes video, text, and downloadable resources. Description of Course Performance Improvement explores the following areas: Before the appraisal process Midstream  more...

AS9100 Aerospace Standard General Employee Training ... of the system and using a process approach for continual improvement of the system, much like ISO 9000. After you place your order, you will receive a user name, password and log-in instructions. You will log-in and work through our interactive training for approximately 1/2 hour. The training includes slides, audio and quizzes. You will be able to work at your own pace, and will be required  more...

Management & Leadership Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Program This course will teach you how to effectively and efficiently implement a system of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) for your organization.  more...

Decisions and Risk Your success as an organizational leader depends on your ability to make decisions. Even though you may have extensive experience making tough business choices, a constantly changing business environment demands relentless skill improvement. This course sheds light on the decision-making process by moving from practical methodologies to decision-making intelligence. Build both quality and  more...

Integrating Change in Your Organization ...tmosphere that allows open and frank discussion about how improvements can continue to be made. Effective teams, performance management, and well-placed policies are needed if your organization is to truly benefit from the change process. "Incorporating Change in Your Organization" provides you with the skills and strategies you need to embed and sustain change, and then move forward toward  more...

Problem Performance Improvement ... of monitoring performance to ensure that the planned for improvement has in fact taken place. But performance improvement also requires that the worker be given support to develop his or her skills, knowledge or whatever has caused the performance problem. It is essential that the manager is able then to apply three techniques to support the under achieving worker. These are to use a specific  more...

Industry Overview Information Technology ...gh 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 in order to justify IT spending. Rather than ad hoc purchasing to solve a specific problem, customers are evaluating IT purchases in light of how they will serve  more...

The Oil and Gas Industry Overview Version 2 ...investing heavily in exploration, technology, operational improvement, and research and development, are still left with huge surpluses in an industry so far known only as a modest return. In reality, there has never been a more challenging time for the oil and gas industry. While oil companies face tough challenges in finding new sources of oil and gas to replace the old ones, the emerging oil  more...

ITIL V3 - Continual Service Improvement Fundamentals ...improvement continually throughout the lifecycle of every service they provide to their customers. Within ITIL, Continual Service Improvement (CSI) is a phase of the Service Lifecycle that provides IT organizations the tools and processes necessary to continually improve their services. This course is intended to help learners understand how CSI will improve the services they offer their  more...

Leading a Customer-focused Team ...hat don't. You'll also learn how to coach for performance improvement, using the method that's the most appropriate for the situation.No prescribed service system, no matter how finely tuned, can legislate for every eventuality, and there will be occasions when customer satisfaction is dependent on an individual's ability to step outside the norm and use his or her own initiative. That's why  more...

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  more...

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  more...

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  more...

The Technical Professional as Internal Consultant ... 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 organization to accomplish similar results. This course is designed to provide technical  more...

Performing Quality Assurance and Control The ultimate measure of success for any project is whether the results satisfy the project customer. After all, it's the project customer who determines whether the results of a project were worth the time and money that went into it. However, project managers can't wait until a project is complete to find out whether the results meet the customer's needs. At the scheduled conclusion of a project,  more...

The Path to Peace and Harmony A saying goes, " We will never be better as a team than we are with each other." The road to peace and harmony involves working with every team member toward mutual goals. Each team member must be involved to set the stage for success. Continuous improvement and teamwork are vital to creating a team that works and stays together. How can your team reach harmony? At the end of this course, you'll  more...

Tools for Planning and Managing Six Sigma Project Opportunities ...uccess. This assertion holds true for process and quality improvement strategies, and Six Sigma and quality improvement teams throughout the world use a set of management and planning tools to analyze and understand a variety of issues. This course will examine the tools used in Six Sigma to help organizations make decisions and plan and communicate findings. These tools include affinity  more...

Using Six Sigma Analysis Tools and Metrics for Project Decisions ...improvement methodology that begins by comparing the current state of a company's products and processes to their desired levels. The goal of the Define phase in the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology is to identify improvement opportunities that have the maximum potential for return on time, money, and resource investments. Knowing what projects to select for improvement requires an assessment and  more...

Data Classification and Collection in Six Sigma ...ent processes is a very significant step in any Six Sigma improvement journey. As such, sample data from existing processes needs to be identified, collected, presented, and analyzed. Collecting data that is correct and useful is one of the first steps in the measurement process. Various types of data exist, and they all need appropriate treatment during the collection, presentation, and  more...

Six Sigma and Lean in the Organization ...improvement program that helps companies focus on eliminating defects in any process and delivering near-perfect products and services. Six Sigma has been globally accepted as a profitable and winning business strategy. More and more companies are embracing Six Sigma in a time when competition and sluggish markets have left operational efficiency and quality improvement as the only way to  more...

Introduction to Six Sigma ...Six Sigma's recognition as a powerful method for business improvement in organizations. So, what is Six Sigma and why do so many successful organizations attribute their success to it? This course largely deals with answering these questions. The course traces Six Sigma's roots in traditional quality concepts, but also shows that it is not just about quality; it is also a metric, a philosophy,  more...

Six Sigma Process Improvement ...nd business requirements. Whenever you delve into process improvement, you have the option to create new processes altogether or replace old processes with new ones. Six Sigma Champions generally choose to improve upon existing processes. This course is designed to help Champions learn how to use Six Sigma's Define - Measure - Analyze - Improve - Control (DMAIC) methodology to upgrade current  more...

Six Sigma Projects and Project Teams "Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing," says Warren Bennis, Ph.D. in his book "On Becoming a Leader." Champions are leaders. Selecting the right Six Sigma projects and the right people, and leading them to achieve business goals, is vital to the leadership of Champions. This course deals with these important roles of Champions. It also provides  more...

Control Charts and the Pre-control Process ... However, in the Control phase of the Six Sigma?? process improvement system, teams go further and verify that improved processes continue to perform at the improved levels. This course will present control charts, which are used to determine with statistical precision the extent to which improved processes maintain improvement level performance with minimum variation and are, thus, under  more...

Six Sigma--Lean Tools for Control Two key methodologies for improving operations in the manufacturing world are lean manufacturing and Six Sigma??. Both are designed to reduce variation, yet each takes a different track. While Six Sigma utilizes data and statistical analysis to measure and improve a company's operational performance, lean manufacturing collocates all of an organization's processes in sequential order,  more...

Six Sigma--Measurement System Re-analysis Have you ever tried to change your life with a diet or exercise program, only to backslide and lose all the positive changes you made? It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal--improved health and fitness--after reaching your goal weight and fitness level. Maintaining positive changes takes just as much effort and vigilance as making the changes initially. Likewise for businesses--the benefits  more...

Define the Six Sigma Opportunity ...f this is a company that begins to make organization-wide improvements before identifying which improvements would provide optimal benefits. This course, Define the Six Sigma Opportunity, is a guide for choosing those processes that will reap the greatest corporate benefit from Six Sigma?? projects. Besides being given guidelines for establishing an improvement opportunity, you'll learn  more...

Six Sigma Team Dynamics and Performance ... unequivocally that without effective teamwork, a process improvement project will fail. So how is effective teamwork ensured? The best way is by understanding Six Sigma team dynamics--that is, the way in which team members work together and interact. The more that team members understand team dynamics, the greater the team's collective performance is likely to be. This course, Six Sigma Team  more...

Six Sigma Management and Planning Tools In the 1970s, a group of seven "new" tools for quality management were developed in Japan. When they reached America in the 1980s and 1990s, they were renamed the Management and Planning (MP) tools. Used separately or in combination, they are powerful tools in the Six Sigma?? approach for insuring quality and continuous improvement. This course will cover the seven tools--affinity diagrams,  more...

Defining and Mapping the Six Sigma Process ...ols in guiding Six Sigma?? teams in the quest for process improvement; it is impossible to improve a process that you don't fully understand. In this course, you will be introduced to the mapmaker's art as it applies to Six Sigma. You will learn techniques to help you survey the business landscape from a high level. You will then learn how to fill in the details and sharpen the focus by using a  more...

Design of Experiments DOE By the time they reach the Six Sigma?? Improve phase, organizations have a solid understanding of how and why their processes fail to meet customers' expectations. Organizations use the Design of Experiments (DOE), a key methodology of the Six Sigma Improve phase, to quantify with statistical precision the factors that are causing this gap. Well-designed experiments result in effective process  more...

Design and Analysis ... 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 necessary factors by designing and analyzing full factorial experiments, fractional factorial experiments, and experiments for special cases, such as Plackett-Burman, Box-Behnken, and Central  more...

Taguchi and Quality Improvement Well-designed experiments result in effective process design or redesign, and ultimately, improved organizations. The Taguchi Method is a technique for designing and performing experiments to investigate processes where the output depends on many variables. The Taguchi Method allows the Six Sigma teams to avoid the tedious and costly task of running a process using all possible combinations of  more...

Experimenting for Process Improvement ...ncerns locating the optimal conditions of a process. Many improvement techniques used in Six Sigma concentrate on the impact of single factors on response or yield. In order to achieve breakthrough improvements, however, it is necessary to determine how multiple interacting factors impact response.This course introduces the sophisticated statistical tools used to optimize performance during the  more...

Lean Concepts Most business processes are 90 waste and 10 value-added work. The challenge for businesses today is to find new ways to dramatically reduce costs and improve investment returns while better serving their customers. To meet these challenges, organizations have turned to Lean Thinking, which seeks the elimination of all forms of waste, strives for continuous improvement, and simplifies business  more...

Lean Tools At its heart, being Lean seeks to eliminate waste from the organization. By applying Lean tools and techniques, organizations can become more competitive, agile, and responsive to customer demands. This course highlights the implementation of Lean tools in the production and manufacturing environment. These tools have derived largely from the development of the Toyota Production System (TPS). In  more...

Total Productive Maintenance How do you ensure that the maintenance requirements of physical assets are met as cheaply and effectively as possible? The goal is to reduce downtime and minimize maintenance costs. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a systematic approach to eliminating waste associated with production equipment and machinery. It is an approach that seeks to engage all levels and functions in an organization to  more...

Process Analysis and Documentation ... 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, what gets measured, gets  more...

Collecting and Summarizing Data ...s 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 status of performance and  more...

Measurement Systems ...s 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 collecting data and establishing baseline measures of current processes. However, measurement itself can be problematic. A measurement system is only as good as the measuring instruments and the operators, and both are responsible for a  more...

Processes and Customer Analysis in Six Sigma Projects ...hat customers need, identify opportunities for change and improvement, and translate customer needs into goals and customer deliverables. In this course, learners will examine how to analyze process components and stakeholders in an organization. They will also learn about concepts and tools for collecting and analyzing customer information and feedback. The course also explains how customer  more...

Planning a Diversity Initiative Organizations often rave about the great job they do at managing diversity; however, diversity isn't something that needs to be managed. Rather, diversity is an initiative that must permeate the company culture to be truly successful. Perhaps you've asked yourself, "How can I create an environment in which all team members, with their diverse backgrounds, can contribute to their full potential?"  more...

A Primer for Ensuring Accountability ...ce your ability to communicate a philosophy of continuous improvement, what you expect of your staff, and what they must expect of themselves. This is a primer on multiple approaches to performance appraisal. It's much easier to hold people accountable for their work if they know exactly what's expected, and more importantly, why it's expected. Acting on the lessons in this course will pay off  more...

Benchmarking for Best Practices Benchmarking is an old idea with a new slant toward performance improvement. Learning from other companies to improve the practices of your own is not just making site visits or talking to other companies about how they operate. It's a disciplined process requiring careful research and analysis. Find out who should benchmark, how to benchmark, and what to do with the benchmarked data once you've  more...

Creating a Business Execution Culture ...s 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 well, the principles of business execution permeate the entire organization and become part  more...

Knowledge as Strategy Performance Improvement In the 21st century--the Knowledge Age--corporations will see workers as intellectual capital. Workers themselves, rather than just information, will become the resources that allow organizations to respond quickly and effectively to rapid change. Learning is at the core of these demands--whether it's learning a new skill, knowing how to manage existing and new knowledge, or creating  more...

Quality Management - Business Process Improvement Quality Management: Business Process Improvement offers the student an overview of how to prepare and implement quality changes. The program details how to select processes for improvement, assign a process manager, and establish a process improvement team. In addition, the program teaches the learner how to flowchart and streamline a process, as well as how to measure process performance.  more...

Total Quality Management - Principles "Total Quality Management: Deploying TQM Principles": This course builds 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.  more...

Design of Experiments and Validation of Solutions in Six Sigma ...improvement, for we are making experiments," said Benjamin Franklin. In the Improve stage of the DMAIC process, Six Sigma teams design and conduct experiments to study the nature of relationships between input variables and the response variable(s). They do this by controlling and changing the input variables and observing the effects on the response variable(s). After determining what and how  more...

Statistical Process Control and Control Plans in Six Sigma ...l stages of the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology, once process improvement opportunities are identified and implemented, you need to make sure that the improved processes are controlled to sustain the process improvement gains. Statistical process control (SPC) provides tools which can be used to ensure that the processes are continuously monitored, that results are evaluated through the use of  more...

Supply Chain Management Using Models ...sign and product life cycle management as elements of the improvement effort. In addition to, performance measures and metrics, and models for improving all major processes within a supply chain. Learn To: Identify factors that help in transforming the supply chain. Identify steps for developing a superior supply chain strategy. Identify characteristics of the quadrants of the  more...

Sales Management Motivating Sales Teams to Win In Sales Management: Motivating Sales Teams to Win, you will learn what you can do to motivate members of your sales team and factors to consider when evaluating motivation levels. You will also learn about various compensation practices to help you keep top performers, as well as how to identify opportunities to improve and how to address substandard performance. Learn To  more...

Quality Management Quality Management Tools ...istograms, select the one that shows a process that needs improvement. Create a histogram. Calculate the number of classes for a histogram. Calculate the class width of a histogram. Sequence the steps for creating a run chart. Identify characteristics of control charts.  more...

Advanced Six Sigma The Improve Control Phases of DMAIC ...iterative nature of DMAIC for a process. Understand how improvement affects the people involved in a process. Apply Six Sigma to maintain a newly improved process. Use control plans to sustain the improvements made to a process. Evaluate success of the improvement effort. Audience: This course is intended for individuals pursuing a Six Sigma Green Belt or Six Sigma team members  more...

Quality Management Business Process Improvement ...Improvement offers the student an overview of how to prepare and implement quality changes. The program details how to select processes for improvement, assign a process manager, and establish a process improvement team. In addition, the program teaches the learner how to flowchart and streamline a process, as well as how to measure process performance. Learn To  more...

XML Programming--Part 1 Components Style Sheets ...XML document. Identify the issues to consider for schema improvement in XML. Identify the functions and features of XML schemas. Identify the features and functions of data types in XML. Write an XML schema. Identify the features of XML vocabularies in different fields of business. Unit 3: XML Documents: Presenting Duration: 2 Hour(s) Identify key stages in the development of  more...

XML Programming--Part 1 Components Style Sheets ...XML document. Identify the issues to consider for schema improvement in XML. Identify the functions and features of XML schemas. Identify the features and functions of data types in XML. Write an XML schema. Identify the features of XML vocabularies in different fields of business. Unit 3: XML Documents: Presenting Duration: 2 Hour(s) Identify key stages in the development of  more...

Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence for Executives ...ng Division in Boston. You are the Vice President of Home Improvement Solutions, a group that produces siding and other home improvement supplies sold to the consumer market. While the product group is profitable, it is the only consumer-targeted group under the Boston division. In addition, the manufacturing facilities and most employees are in Arkansas and Indiana, while only a small  more...

Excellence in Service Establishing Service Standards ... against these standards to identify areas for continuous improvement. Learn To: Identify the importance of understanding customer expectations by evaluating the criteria customers use to assess the quality of your company's service. Identify the methods for setting, developing, and implementing service standards. Identify ways to monitor service standards. Audience:  more...

360-Degree Feedback Experiencing 360-Degree Feedback ...agreement about the feedback, and steps for developing an improvement plan. Learn To Identify the types of information that should be covered in 360-degree feedback. Identify the characteristics of effective 360-degree feedback programs. Identify criteria for selecting raters.  more...

360-Degree Feedback Implementing a 360-Degree Program ...as how to analyze 360-degree feedback results, develop an improvement plan, and present 360-degree feedback results. Learn To Sequence the steps for creating a 360-degree feedback questionnaire. Identify the methods for collecting 360-degree feedback. Demonstrate an understanding of how to select raters  more...

Six Sigma Managing Six Sigma Projects In Managing Six Sigma Projects you will learn This course teaches about management and team support structures for Six Sigma projects as well as some of the more advanced tools required by those engaged in the quality initiative. Finally, it offers help on implementing Six Sigma and on some leadership strategies for project champions. Learn To Identify effective  more...

Total Quality Management Principles ...ed quality, as well as the first steps in implementing an improvement process. Learn To Recognize how to develop a customer needs map. Identify the four stages of team development. Identify steps in developing a methodology for process improvement. Identify steps for generating a  more...

Six Sigma Six Sigma Essentials ... Identify the aims of a Six Sigma business process improvement strategy. Identify the phases of Six Sigma implementation. Recognize the characteristics of online analytical processing. Identify ways of using data-mining to explore business data. Identify the benefits of  more...

Windows 2000 Planning Implementing Active Directories - Part 3 ...s that influence the placement of servers for performance improvement. Unit 2: Data Recovery and Maintenance Duration: 1 - 2 Hour(s) Identify the way files are processed in the Active Directory data store model. Identify the Active Directory store files. Identify the features of the Active Directory database file. Identify the features and functions of transaction log files.  more...

Quality Management Series The Quality Management Series includes the following courses: Quality Management: The Quality Management Process Quality Management: Quality Management Tools Quality Management: Business Process Improvement To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).  more...

Commerce Server 2000 Design Impl Part 5 Infra Sec Admin ...and development servers, and covering network performance improvement by using switches to connect servers. The course focuses on providing network security, including configuring firewalls and securing Commerce Server files and resources. Topics covering the administration of Commerce Server 2000, including performance monitoring, resource maintenance, and Data Warehousing are also covered.  more...

Executive Level Leadership Leadership Communication ...ee's performance as exceptional, effective, or in need of improvement. Assess the appropriate aspects of an employee's performance as a leader. Identify the four key issues that affect performance problems. List the five steps used to develop quality leaders. Simulation Overview:  more...

Supply Chain Management Building a Sustained Competitive Advantage ...sign and product life cycle management as elements of the improvement effort, and performance measures and metrics. Models for improving all major processes within a supply chain, and extensive case examples to validate the principles and recommendations. Learn To: Identify the features of Level 3. Identify guidelines to make a successful transition to level 3. Identify obstacles  more...