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Efficient Reading Improving Speed and Comprehension This course encourages the self-development of reading skills for faster, more efficient reading with increased comprehension. more...

Significantly Increase the Value of Any Property--Instructor-Led ...Improving your property can do more than just pay for itself -- it can increase your resale value higher than you might imagine. But the wrong change is like throwing money away. This course shows how to get the biggest possible 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 more...

Conducting Performance Reviews Course description -- Performance reviews are one of the most challenging responsibilities that leaders have, and this course will walk you through the process step by step and help you avoid many common pitfalls. There are ways to get the employee involved in the review process, and techniques to use in the performance discussion itself. Youa ll be given techniques for dealing with challenging more...

Safety Sense Series: Improving Safety Performance XEBEC: Health and Safety issues are becoming more and more crucial in today's workplace. Each year, on average, 500 people die at work and over 400,000 injuries or accidents are reported. The vast majority of these accidents are in some way attributable to 'human factors' - in other words, they could and should have been prevented. Under current legislation, the responsibility for providing a safe 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...

Training and Facilitation: Decision Making MAXIM TRAINING Improving the effectiveness of decision making has many benefits for individuals and the organisation. This course demonstrates an effective decision making process which will help you improve your performance. The overall objective is to help you increase the effectiveness of decisions you make at work. When you've completed the course you will be able to: more...

Finance for the Non Financial : What is a Budget? 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 will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. It shows you what relevance budgets have to you and how they affect all more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Preparing a Budget From the corporate world to the corner store, from running a diner to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. Budgets are an excellent management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. This course examines a 3 step process for preparing budgets and applies this process to a practical case study more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Budgeting for Different Business Conditions 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 will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. It will show you how different types of cost behave and how their behaviour more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Using a Budget to Manage 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 will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. You can explore the power of budgets to help with decision making and more...

Interpreting Budget Variancies 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 will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. You can examine how to systematically analyse budget variances and go about more...

Managing People : Improving Working Relationships When you're dealing with colleagues or members of your team, do you ever feel like a judge, a nursery teacher or even a simpering child? This course will help you to analyse your behaviour and that of your team. It will help you to understand how to adjust your approach to each person to gain maximum response. And it will help you work towards achieving the benefits of an adult/adult relationship, more...

The Appraisal Interview If you are judged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. But if you think appraisal is about handing down judgements from above... think again. This course will help you for when you're in the hot seat. It will show how to structure more...

Organisational Communication : Improving Safety 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, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will more...

Managing Yourself Learn how to manage yourself better One aspect of improving performance is to manage yourself better. This course presents a range of techniques for improving your performance at work - and they require no-one else but YOU to make them work. The techniques will enable you to: Take responsibility for your performance at work Develop your expertise in self management techniques and above all more...

Employee Performance: Providing Feedback Employee Performance: Providing Feedback helps managers and employees develop the skills needed to give constructive feedback-both praise and criticism-to subordinates or peers. They learn the role feedback plays in improving performance and when and how to deliver feedback so that it can be 'heard' by the recipient. more...

Project Management: Communications In this program, participants develop the skills they need to create or open communication channels and disseminate project information in an effective and timely manner. They learn how to develop a communication management plan and acquire techniques for improving the communication of information. more...

Presenting Your Proposition Even the most confident sales people can feel their self-assurance dissolve when required to make a formal sales presentation. This course is about giving you the confidence, not only to present, but also to get commitment from your customer. Demonstrating a structure that can be adapted to most situations, this course will equip you with the skills needed to deal with the most intimidating more...

Sales Negotiations Fundamentals of Negotiation ...l negotiation relationships, as well as best practices in improving your negotiation communication among new and existing business relationships. Additionally, you will learn how to prepare a strong foundation by exploring specific pre-negotiation steps that will leave you feeling confident and prepared for your next negotiation session. The target audience for this course is the experienced more...

Inbound Call Center Technology ...within the inbound call center is constantly changing and improving. How can you, as a call center manager, keep up with this advancing technology? Moreover, why should you? This course will explain the fundamentals of inbound call center technology, and explore ways current technology might evolve. It examines different methods of obtaining this technology, and outlines how to protect your 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...

Working With Internal Customers Excellent customer service lies at the heart of any successful business. However, you should not overlook the importance of meeting the needs and expectations of your fellow employees, your internal customers. By helping other people within your organization, you enable it to succeed. Great internal customer service improves people's morale, productivity, and external customer service, and more...

Using Surveys to Measure Customer Satisfaction If you're lucky, your customers will complain when they are dissatisfied with your company's service. If you're not so lucky, they'll say nothing and just take their business elsewhere. It's essential that you keep your fingers on the pulse of customer opinion if you are to prevent them defecting to the competition. You need to measure customer satisfaction on a regular basis, and this course will more...

Managing a Customer-focused Department Simulation Attracting new customers is important, but retaining them is an even greater challenge. It takes only a moment--a single lapse in service; an unmet expectation; a delay in delivery--to lose a customer forever and tarnish a company's reputation. To counter this, customer service representatives must remain vigilante, on top of their game at all times. As a customer service manager, it's your job to more...

Interacting with the Customer Failing to realize the importance of customer service and effective complaint handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to overcome more...

Essentials of External Consulting You may already have a reputation as something of an area specialist or problem solver. You may have a number of years of general management experience, or you may have recently acquired a management qualification. Perhaps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an external consulting role. What do external consultants really do? Although they may work in a variety of disciplines, more...

Consulting with the Internal Client Simulation Internal consultants have become more and more prevalent in the business world today. Rather than hiring an outside firm, many companies are building their own internal consulting units. These units are faster, cheaper, and more connected to the projects they manage. Internal consultants within these units must have strong communication, research, diagnostic, and presentation skills. In this more...

Internal Consulting Skills ...opportunity to review your existing abilities and ways of improving your current performance. Internal consulting is not only about your specialist or technical knowledge. It's about your ability to communicate. If you fail to get your message across to other people, your ideas will be lost, and even your best plans will fail. Fundamentally important are your abilities to communicate more...

Functions of IT Project Management ...n. 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 managers continues to grow as technology continues to soar. As you proceed through this course, you will learn valuable techniques more...

Communications Planning and Information Distribution Any project requires 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 more...

Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills You may not need an MBA to succeed in the corporate arena, but regardless of position or industry, you do need to be able to analyze, reason, and communicate effectively. These and other critical thinking skills are increasingly consequential as organizational planning and decision making become more distributed and reliant on written and verbal communication factors. Developing Fundamental more...

Personal Accountability Working for Your Inner Boss Most employees in business organizations must answer to someone else. From the top of the organization chart to the bottom, nearly every manager and employee must look to a supervisor, a director, or even a customer to establish priorities, assign tasks, set deadlines, and evaluate results. Whoever gives this direction is called the boss. On one level, the boss decides how employees will perform more...

Goals and Goal Setting Most achievements, great or small, begin with an important first step: setting a goal. A clearly defined, attainable goal embodies a vision of what is possible. It's a guide star for those who navigate a course through obstacles to a desired accomplishment. However, the process of setting appropriate goals is often oversimplified or overlooked entirely. A well-constructed goal is challenging, yet more...

Business Professionalism Simulation Everyday business activities require a determined effort to fulfill. Schedules must be kept; deadlines must be met. To ensure productivity remains on target, business professionals must possess refined skills in setting priorities, managing daily tasks, and maintaining personal accountability. The Business Professionalism Simulation is designed to enable participants to develop the skills more...

Listening for Comprehension Do you need to better understand the basic meaning of a conversation or presentation? If you need to be able to identify what is said to you in a more effective manner, then this course is for you. This course teaches you how to comprehend verbal and visual messages to maximize your understanding of others. Because this course teaches listening skills, certain sections of this course deviate from more...

Enhancing Your Listening Skills Have you ever been taken by surprise by an unexpected deadline? Have you ever left a meeting unsure about what was decided? Have you ever asked a supervisor for advice, only to later forget what your supervisor told you? You can avoid problems like these by using effective listening skills. Effective listening helps you to know what's going on in your organization, get cooperation from your more...

Coping with Criticism and Feedback We all need feedback so that we can learn and improve. What we often get is criticism, or feedback given to us in such a way that we feel defensive or angry. When your emotions get involved, it is difficult to be objective and to use the feedback effectively. This course links the concept of emotional intelligence, and EQ, to the practice of receiving feedback. By doing this, it provides you with more...

Giving Feedback A Manager s Guide The performance of your business depends upon the performance of every member of your staff. Thus a key skill for all who manage staff is the ability to provide candid, constructive feedback about performance. The purpose of this course is to enable you to enhance your skills in giving feedback. The course starts by exploring the nature of feedback, and it then develops a practical approach to the more...

Effective Feedback for Employees and Colleagues Simulation ...and, when given properly, feedback is a powerful tool for improving performance and increasing productivity. In order to achieve such positive results and avoid negative reactions, individuals must be aware of how others receive and employ feedback and learn the process of providing effective critiques. The Effective Use of Feedback for Employees and Colleagues Simulation will provide more...

Optimizing Email at Work In today's business world, e-mail is used to do everything from processing orders to supplying information. Because of the limitations of telephone communication when people who are very busy or sometimes in different time zones work together, e-mail use is on the rise in U.S. E-mail offers a plenitude of new opportunities for business, but understanding how to properly use it is essential in more...

Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence In today's workplace, you need to have both the intellectual skills to do the job and the emotional intelligence to interact effectively with co-workers. The successful leaders and managers around you outshine others because of their stellar people skills. Most people believe that emotions are automatic responses that they have no control over. Few realize that their emotions are determined by more...

Getting Results through Communication When you want something done, you have to either do it yourself or see to it that someone else does it. As adept as you may be at multi-tasking, there will be times when you'll need a colleague's help or buy-in to perform a task. But how can you effectively achieve results without any formal authority within the organization? Communication is the answer. Through the effective use of the various more...

Getting Results from the Boss What does the word "boss" mean to you? Does it stand for Big Old Stubborn Sourpuss? Or does "boss" conjure an image of a level-headed, flexible, and thoughtful co-worker? Whatever the case, as an employee working in a subordinate role, it's up to you to learn how to get the results you desire. That means knowing how to do everything from building a relationship with your boss to dealing more...

Improving Your Cross-cultural Communications Picture the scene. You've been asked to contact some new clients based over 3,000 miles away. You've never spoken with them before and you're not sure what response you'll get. This is a familiar situation that is played out daily in many organizations around the world. How many times have you found yourself in this situation? Thankfully, there are things you can do to improve your cross-cultural more...

The Process of Interpersonal Communications It is almost impossible to be productive in today's business environment without being an effective communicator. This is particularly true if achievement of your goals depends on your ability to influence others. You need to be able to communicate your ideas, instructions, thoughts, and feelings accurately. This is not as easy as it may seem, and ineffective communication is often at the core of more...

Organizational Behavior Organizational Dynamics for Individuals Organizational Behavior: Organizational Dynamics for Individuals defines organizational behavior and identifies the variables and characteristics that influence an individual's behavior in the workplace. Managers, supervisors, team members, and anyone who is interested in improving the behavior variables within their organization. more...

Organizational Behavior Organizational Group Dynamics Organizational Behavior: Organizational Group Dynamics defines groups and teams and explains processes for decision making and managing conflict within the organization. It also covers the communication styles and channels used by members of an organization. Managers, supervisors, team members, and anyone who is interested in improving the behavior variables within their organization. more...

Organizational Behavior The Organizational System Organizational Behavior: The Organizational System defines organizational structure and culture and explains their impact on employees. It also teaches how to perform a job analysis to determine whether an organization's job designs are appropriate and gives options for job redesign. Managers, supervisors, team members, and anyone who is interested in improving the behavior variables within their 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...

A New Manager s Role in the Company s Future Perhaps one of the most exciting and challenging changes that comes with moving into a management role is the need to take a more strategic view of the work you are doing. You need to develop a greater awareness of how your own work, and the work of those in your department, fits with the strategic vision of the company. You will also need to have a greater understanding of the impact that the more...

Coaching for Business Coaching is a vital component of any business that aims to be a winner in the new economy. However, unless coaches are clear in their own minds exactly what their function is, and why they are 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 more...

Managing Upward Relationships ...improving collaboration with superiors so that subordinate managers can reap the best personal and organizational results. Managers share the responsibility for managing the relationship with the top management and Board of Directors of the company. Taking advantage of that responsibility will strengthen motivation, productivity, and overall life quality of all concerned. This course attempts more...

Successful Coaching Relationships Coaching is a set of practical skills and a style of relating that develop the potential of both the individual being coached and the coach. For this development to take place, there must be a working relationship between a coach and a willing coachee, a relationship based on mutual trust, respect, commitment and confidentiality. Within this collaborative framework, the coach uses a repertoire of more...

Key Stages in Coaching Coaching has many uses in organizations, and the sequence of coaching activities is similar in all of them. This course will involve learners in the continuous process of discovery, goal setting, action planning, and follow-up that distinguishes coaching from other development methods. This course is for anyone in an organization who has a role in improving the performance of co-workers, keeping more...

Coaching Skills At its simplest, a coaching session is a conversation, a dialog between coach and coachee, and so all coaching interventions depend totally on communication. Within that simplicity however, are layers of subtle interaction, which a coachee needs to be aware of, alert to what both "sides" of the conversation are actually communicating--verbally, visually, and vocally. The first requirement for a more...

Mindsets Emotions and Coaching What makes coachees receptive to your advice? What makes them willing to listen? Much of your success depends on the mindset, moods, and emotions of the people you coach. If they are feeling negative about the coaching experience or overcome with anxiety about poor workplace performance, they are unlikely to be receptive--no matter how valuable your insight may be. Getting in tune with your more...

Coaching Trends When is a 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 more...

Coach with Confidence Simulation ...u are a food scientist responsible for developing new, or improving existing, candy lines based on marketing specifications. Unsatisfied with simply following written specifications, you keep in close contact with the marketing managers and occasionally speak directly to focus group participants to clarify vague and subjective requests. You even interact with production engineers to ensure that more...

Coaching Personalities and Teams Simulation You are a marketing manager for Dulce Confections, a leading maker of chocolates and other fine candies. Due to changing consumer tastes and an increase in the average age of Dulce's core customer, the company is anxious to change the dated packaging on its flagship candy bar, the Dulce bar. The challenge of the repackaging initiative is to appeal to a younger demographic while not alienating the more...

Exit Interviewing Skills The Termination Process Exit Interviewing: The Termination Process covers how to monitor and guide your employees' performance, as well as how to terminate employment lawfully. The program also covers how to explain performance standards to employees, how to document performance and misconduct issues, and how to improve employees' performance. In addition, it teaches how to discipline employee misconduct, prepare for a 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...

Six Sigma--Lean Tools for Control ...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, restructuring the manufacturing more...

Six Sigma--Measurement System Re-analysis ...is re-assessed to ensure it remains adequate for the ever-improving process capability. You will focus on improving measurement system capability as the process capability improves. You'll learn about ongoing measures and Candidates for Black Belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the implementation of Six Sigma in their organization; consultants involved in more...

Six Sigma Team Dynamics and Performance ...ynamics and Performance, is a guide for understanding and improving Six Sigma teamwork. You'll learn about team member roles, responsibilities, and interaction styles, as well as methods for resolving team and people problems. In addition, you'll learn about that all-important organizat Candidates for black belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the more...

Scoping the Six Sigma Project ...ojects that will truly impact customer service while also improving the bottom line can be challenging. When pressure mounts, it's tempting to act too quickly and possibly solve the wrong problem. In this course, you'll learn what a Six Sigma team should focus on, and more importantly, what the team should avoid in order to make Six Sigma projects successful. You'll learn to avoid common more...

Six Sigma Introduction There has been an increased interest in Six Sigma in recent years. But what is Six Sigma? This course will introduce you to the foundational concepts of the Six Sigma philosophy and process. It will help you successfully participate in your organization's Six Sigma program. First, you will learn how poor quality harms your business. You will explore what Six Sigma means and the critical elements more...

Operations Management Operations Management Tools ...perations Management Tools offers the student options for improving operations management within the organization. The program provides processes for making decisions and solving problems. In addition, the program offers the student examples of maintenance strategies, ways to apply learning curves to operations, and E-commerce options that can enhance operations management. The target audience more...

Evaluating Brand Effectiveness Your company spends a lot of time and energy creating and building brand name products. From the most memorable name, to the most enticing packaging, to the perfect combination of media, you want everything to be right. Now the question is: Is it working? This course explores why you need measurement systems to examine your brand's effectiveness with consumers and to evaluate your brand equity. more...

Customer Focused Management Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, is reputed to have said, "There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else." Effective quality management processes focus on the customer. In today's global marketplace, customers have more choices than ever before. To achieve success, it is vital for enterprises to more...

Lean Strategies You may have all the proper ingredients, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can make the ultimate dish, especially if you are creating it for the first time. Adding the right amount of each ingredient in the proper sequence with specific techniques improves your chances for success. An understanding of lean manufacturing principles and techniques will give you the ingredients you need for more...

Building Brand Equity Every time a corporate merger or buy-out occurs, you are sure to see plenty of headlines about the number of subsidiary companies each corporation owns. Here's why: brand equity. It's a fact that each subsidiary of a corporation has a value linked to its brand names, in addition to its base dollar-value. This value is measured by the consumer's attitudes and loyalties toward the brand. more...

The Iterative Process in User-Centered Design To design usability tests and surveys, organize focus groups, and analyze feedback and implement findings for improving product design 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...

UNIX Editing Printing and Text Formatting ...nd describes hoe to use perviously specified patterns for improving editing efficiency. The student will learn how to display file on the screen and printing options as well as other editing and printing programs. The course introduces to the functions of predefined and user-defined macros and how to create a mac This course is designed for UNIX application users. It is also designed for more...

Windows 2000 - Network Design Addressing and Naming Services To provide an overview of DHCP, DNS, and WINS services in Windows 2000 and to analyze and design a requirement and implementation strategy using these services Students preparing for Microsoft exam 70-221; personnel in medium to very large computing environments that use the Windows 2000 network operating system more...

Windows 2000 - Network Design Networking To provide an overview of Windows 2000 networking services and to analyze and design a TCP/IP requirement and implementation strategy Students preparing for Microsoft exam 70-221; personnel in medium to very large computing environments that use the Windows 2000 network operating system more...

Tuning Memory Structures in Oracle9i To describe how to tune Oracle9i memory structures Anyone wishing to learn about Oracle9i database performance tuning more...

Paint Shop Pro 9 - Introduction This course introduces you to various elements on the Paint Shop Pro main window. You'll also learn how to import photos into Paint Shop Pro and use the Paint Shop Pro Browser window. You'll also learn about basic methods for enhancing, fixing, and improving photos. Finally, you'll learn about removing flaws from photos. This course is intended for home user with an interest in digital photography more...

Protect and Share Digital Movies Pinnacle Instant VideoAlbum This course covers the use of Pinnacle Instant VideoAlbum to preserve and share recorded home videos onto DVD. Instant VideoAlbum is designed to provide the highest quality results with easy to use features and functions. The software includes tools for trimming unwanted video and improving poorly lit shots. PC owners with a good understanding of PCs and their uses. more...

Supply Chain Management - Building a Sustained Competitive Advantage This course provides the learner with an understanding of utilizing collaboration and technology to maximize the effect of supply chain processing. Product design 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 more...

Supply Chain Management - Using Models This course provides the learner with an understanding of efficiency and cost savings strategies utilizing collaboration and technology to maximize the effect of supply chain processing and product design 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.  more...

Listening Skills: The Fundamentals of Listening This course highlights general benefits and misconceptions about listening as a means of introducing the concept of listening. It also teaches the learner how to interpret messages and identifies three common types of listening. It provides a step-by-step process on how to become a critical listener and explains the benefits of providing feedback to speakers. It details how to provide feedback by more...

Listening Skills: Listening Challenges This course's aim is to help the learner overcome listening problems and enable him or her to communicate more effectively. It identifies barriers to listening and provides useful guidelines for improving the learner's listening skills. This course concentrates on how to interpret use and improve body language as a form of communication. Finally it identifies common listening styles so the more...

Employee Performance: Providing Feedback In "Employee Performance: Providing Feedback " you will learn to develop the skills needed to give constructive feedback-both praise and criticism-to subordinates or peers. You will also learn the role feedback plays in improving performance and when and how to deliver feedback so that it can be 'heard' by the recipient.  more...

e-Business Part 1: Facing the e-Business Challenge The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business. more...

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

CIW Database Specialist Part 4: Advanced JDBC This is the final course in a four part series that teaches metadata improving JDBC programs and building applications using JDBC. Topics covered include introduction to metadata and to ResultSetMetaData SQL exceptions scrollable and updatable result sets batch updates and prepared statements. Finally the Building Applications Using JDBC teaches about Swing the Layout Manager UML and Application more...

Oracle8i Performance Tuning: Optimizing Sorts and Minimizing Contention ...ries. This interactive course introduces the participants improving performance for sort operations. The student will be able to identify the SQL operations that require sorts ensure that sorting is done in memory where possible use direct writes for large sorts and allocate temporary space appropriately. The student will use Oracle tools to diagnose and resolve contention given the possible more...

Oracle8 Performance Tuning: Optimizing Sorts and Minimizing Contention ...ce Tuning series. This course introduces the participants improving performance for sort operations. The student will be able to identify the SQL operations that require sorts ensure that sorting is done in memory where possible use direct writes for large sorts and allocate temporary space appropriately. The student will use Oracle tools to diagnose and resolve contention given the possible more...

Self Development: Improving Your Memory Self-Development: Improving Your Memory offers the student an overview of information required to understand and enhance his or her memory as well as information about how to become organized. The program details how to overcome everyday forgetfulness how to use mnemonic devices and how to manage information. In addition the program examines how lifestyle can affect the performance of the more...

Essentials of Management: Maintaining a Productive Workforce In Essentials of Management: Maintaining a Productive Workforce students learn various ways to improve a job process to provide support to help employees stay productive to offer employees feedback and to apply strategies for improving productivity. In addition managers learn how to help employees overcome three main productivity problems encountered in the workplace.  more...

Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 6: Developing Applications for Web Clients This is the sixth course in a nine part series for webmasters application developers and graphic designers that will introduce Notes/Domino features web-specific tasks and basic system administration tasks to be up on the web quickly and to use Domino to create Web sites and Web applications. At the completion of this course students will learn how to identify the features of Notes applications more...

Lotus Domino R5 System Administration Part 5: Advanced Notes Mail Routing This is the fifth course in a ten part series for system administrators who are responsible for Domino server and Notes client. At the completion of this course students will learn how to identify the contents of the different mail routing documents in a Domino directory; configure mailing options such as forwarding address messaging size priorities and shared mail; and implement mail more...