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Leadership and Team Development: Appraisal Interviewing 


MAXIM TRAINING Appraisal
Interviewing is one of the key management techniques for evaluating and monitoring peoples' performance at work. Most organisations have their own formal appraisal interviewing system. This course supplies a comprehensive guide to developing your skills in appraisal interviewing whatever the formal system adopted by your organisation. The course looks at all aspects of
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Negotiating to Mutual Benefit 
The key to being a skilled negotiator is understanding the difference between negotiating and giving money away. This course demonstrates the stages and rules that will gain you a win/win solution, and with it long-term business. If you follow the guidelines set out here, you will be able to handle customer strategies and still close the deal on terms that keep both your company and your customer
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Sales Negotiations Fundamentals of Negotiation 
...d how best to prepare effective negotiation strategies to increase profitability in your sales cycle. You will also learn what it takes to develop and build mutually beneficial 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
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ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management 
... 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 are divided into core processes within ITIL. This
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ITIL Configuration and Release Management 
...nly if the organization uses its information resources to increase productivity. Information technology planners and managers must understand how the components of the IT infrastructure interact if they want to eliminate waste and improve service to the users of the system. The delivery and support of IT services are divided into core processes within the IT infrastructure library (
ITIL). This
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Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems 
Managing relationships with your internal customers isn't always smooth sailing. When internal customer service does not go according to plan, problems occur, or communication breaks down, what can you do to get your plans back on track, and break down barriers? At times like these, you and your employees need to act swiftly and proactively to solve the problem, and regain the customer's trust. In
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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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Information Technology IT Industry Overview Version 1 
... 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 strategic business needs and fulfill more fully defined processes and architectures. This
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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
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Evaluation and Review 
...n external consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This course will help you review any consulting project, bring about successful handoff to the client, and enable you to identify improvement opportunities to continue your own personal development. Anyone with some specialist knowledge and general management
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Introduction to IT Project Management 
...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 projects. You will
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The Life Cycle of an IT Project 
... that will decrease the risk of something going wrong and increase your chances of a successful project. "
The Life Cycle of an IT Project" will give you the knowledge and skills you need to define the activities involved in your project's development process. You'll learn how to determine whether each phase of development meets the requirements of the life cycle structure. You'll also learn
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Managing Efficiencies of IT Projects 
Are you delivering quality application systems? Do you know how you can ensure that your projects deliver value to your organization? The key to delivering value is "process."
Organizations are becoming more aware of the importance of following the same process for each project. In this course, you will learn how to converge methodologies with other project management techniques and process
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Project IT Management Simulation - The Early Stages 
...ch, the company has been very successful and continues to increase its customer base. To further simplify the buying process,
American Auto has recently embraced the idea of upgrading its web site's virtual showroom to allow for online purchasing of vehicles for national delivery. With the new web site, a customer will be able to choose the year, model, and options of their new vehicle and then
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Project IT Management Simulation - Design to Rollout 
... company has been very successful and enjoys a continuous increase in its customer base. To further simplify the buying process,
American Auto has recently embraced the idea of upgrading its web site's virtual showroom to allow for online purchasing of vehicles for national delivery. With the new web site, a customer will be able to choose the year, model, and options of their new vehicle and
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Expanding Time Develop SMART Goals 
Expanding
Time:
Develop SMART Goals, is the fifth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to pinpoint the benefits of time management and identify the guidelines for defining goals. The
Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common barriers to
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Expanding Time Remove Your Barriers 
Expanding
Time:
Break Time Barriers, is the sixth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the steps you should take to avoid procrastination, identify how to minimize interruptions from people at work and identify how to avoid perfectionist tendencies in your work. The
Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques
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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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Business Travel Safety Domestic Travel 
In ''Business
Travel Safety:
Domestic Travel,'' you will learn how to make travel preparations, including researching your destination and then making appropriate travel arrangements. You will also learn how to increase your safety during air and ground transportation and at destinations, such as hotels, restaurants, and business events. The target audience for this program is
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Business Travel Safety International Travel 
In ''Business
Travel Safety:
International Travel,'' you will learn how to make travel preparations and international travel arrangements. You will also learn how to increase your safety during air and ground transportation and at destinations, such as hotels, restaurants, and business events. Finally, you will learn how to avoid and handle physical and nonphysical crimes in
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Balancing Stress Measuring Stress 
Balancing
Stress:
Measuring Stress, is the first of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to describe the social and personal costs of stress and assess your stress levels. The
Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common barriers to success. All
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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
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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
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Self-empowerment Managing from Within 
Have you ever thought that you could be the best boss you've ever had? By developing attitudes and skills that empower you, you can manage from within and become your own best boss. Self-empowerment is the process of taking responsibility for your attitudes, behaviors, and actions at work to maximize your effectiveness. As an empowered employee, you will be driven by ownership, initiative, and
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Managing Anger in the Workplace Simulation 
Like most people, you have probably become angry at work. A disagreement with a coworker or manager could make you lose your temper and voice your anger, but is this really a good idea? What will your coworkers or manager think of your outburst? While confronting anger in the workplace is inevitable, it's important to minimize your angry thoughts, emotions and behaviors, and channel your energy
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Leadership and the Knowledge Worker 
What are your company's most valuable assets? For many of today's companies, it's the knowledge and experience of their workers. Does your company know how to best use this intellectual capital? Is your company a nurturing environment for knowledge workers? In this course, you'll learn about intellectual capital, how to lead your company from the front line to retain and increase its intellectual
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Coaching Personalities and Teams Simulation 
...ther 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 candy's older and loyal consumers. The
Marketing Director and
Team Lead at Dulce
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Managing and Rewarding Top Performers 
Does your company have a policy in place for hiring and retaining its top-performing employees? Would you know how to convince valuable employees to stay if they were to hand in their resignation? It is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to retain their top-level employees in today's competitive market. This course examines how to attract and ultimately retain top performers through a
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Behavior Putting Your Best Foot Forward 
Are you interested in taking charge of your career? Would you like your job to be more interesting, to offer you more challenges? Today's workplace offers more opportunities than ever for administrative support professionals to assume more responsibility and be more active in office decision-making. This course will show you some ways to assess yourself to ensure you're ready to work towards a new
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Elements of Marketing Strategy 
You want to develop a powerful, and well-documented marketing strategy in order to get your new product or service approved. This course is designed to give you a strong start in developing your marketing vision, direction, and ultimately a plan. You'll get an overview of the key factors encompassing the broad scope of strategic marketing. You'll be able to discuss cost structures and their
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Record Retention 
... and federal law. While disposing of too many records can increase a company's legal exposure, disposing of too few records increases the costs of storing the records. In this one-hour course, you'll learn how to identify which records must be retained and for how long, the different formats in which records may be stored, techniques for record disposal, and how to make sure your record
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 
On
July 30, 2002,
President Bush signed into law the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Sparked by a wave of dramatic corporate and accounting scandals, this federal securities legislation attempts to combat corporate fraud and to enhance the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws. The act's provisions have helped to enhance audit committee responsibility
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Web Server Concepts 
E-business defines the future of the organization today. Getting the right information to the right person at the right time defines success. The use of the
World Wide Web has tremendously increased in the recent times. The server technology plays an important role in the development of the World Wide Web. With the increasing use of the
Internet, there has been a significant increase in the use of
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OS 390 MVS JCL Intermediate 
...38053). This intermediate course introduces techniques to increase the student's effectiveness as a system user and
JCL programmer. The course discusses special DD statements that can extend the student's capabilities and provide relief from repetitive coding in JCL. In particular, students will learn to use backward references that copy data set specifications from one DD statement to another.
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OS 390 MVS JCL Advanced 
...53, 38054). This advanced course introduces techniques to increase effectiveness as a system user and
JCL programmer. The course reviews and extends basic concepts and skills related to the use of procedures. A review of addition, override, and nullification statements that enable procedures to be modified at execution time to meet particular processing needs is included in this course. The
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OS 390 Introduction to ISPF 
...m, and has been used extensively by OS/390 programmers to increase productivity of host-based application development projects. The course also provides an overview perspective of the Software Configuration Library Manager (
SCLM) an installable option of
ISPF and
ISPF Client/
Server.This course is designed for programmers who develop ISPF application dialogs, system analysts, and system
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Troubleshooting Wireless LAN Installations 
In this module, we discuss the more common obstacles to successful implementation of a wireless
LAN, and how to troubleshoot them. Wireless
LANs have their own set of challenges, mainly dealing with the behavior of RF signals. There are different methods of discovering when these challenges exist and each of the challenges discussed has its remedies and workarounds.
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Home Networking with Windows XP 
...ership, advancements in telecommunications technology and increase in teleworking and home business. Windows XP facilitates easy setup of a small network. This course introduces the concept of home networking, the technologies involved and the various possible topologies. It then covers planning and setup of a home network, security considerations and firewall use and troubleshooting guidelines
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Intro to Outlook 2003 
The
Introduction to
Outlook 2003 course is the first course in the
Microsoft Outlook 2003 curriculum. This course introduces the Microsoft Outlook 2003 environment and describes its features. The course provides the students hands on training on the concepts of configuring e-mail accounts for composing, customizing, sending and receiving e-mail messages. The course also teaches the students to
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Advanced Six Sigma - The Define Phase of DMAIC 
Six
Sigma is a focused concerted effort to achieve a zero-defect quality level. Using
Six Sigma you can measure how many defects you have in a process and systematically eliminate them to arrive at a near zero-defect product or process. In this advanced course of implementing Six Sigma you will use the concepts of Six Sigma and apply them to an organization. You will identify problems customer
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Industrial Safety - Back Safety 
Back discomfort and body fatigue can result if work has to be preformed in awkward postures or involves excessive lifting. This course is designed to identify and correct these. By identifying and correcting these actions employee health and morale will increase. Employers will also benefit from the decreasing medical costs and employee turnover as well as increasing productivity and product
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Excelling at Customer Care: Increase Sales via Service 
...Increase
Sales via
Service is the sixth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the benefits of being sales oriented identify the difference between features and benefits and identify questioning techniques that increase sales and customer satisfaction. The
PrimeCustomer Care curriculum offers a useful toolkit of practical customer
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Time Management: Planning Your Day 
Time
Management:
Planning Your Day gives students an overall view of how to manage their time on a daily basis to increase their productivity. The program covers how to develop a daily plan how to manage technology and how say ''no'' to doing too much. The program focuses on planning scheduling and concentration skills. It also covers how to handle e-mail the
Internet and the telephone
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Motivation: Fostering Employee Motivation 
In
Motivation:
Fostering Employee Motivation you will learn how managers can successfully motivate employees by measuring and building the motivation levels of their employees how to determine motivational responsibility and how to recognize motivators and de-motivators. You will also learn how to motivate employees with specific needs how to build relationships that increase motivation and how
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Motivation: Empowering to Increase Motivation 
...Increase
Motivation you will learn about empowerment by seeing how it can be used to increase motivation. You will learn how empowerment affects the workplace how to overcome barriers that hinder empowerment and how an empowerment plan can be developed. You will also learn how to recognize empowerment the benefits of empowerment and how to prepare to empower employees. By learning how to decide
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From 123-CBT Computer Based Training
Oracle8 Performance Tuning Optimizing Sorts and Minimizing Contention 

... transactions.
Identify storage parameters settings that increase rollback segment efficiency.
Query the V$TRANSACTION and V$SESSION views to help estimate the volume of rollback data.
Estimate the volume of rollback data.
Identify actions that reduce the amount of rollback.
Select the appropriate actions that increase the probability of successful completion when executing a large
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Professional Selling Over the Phone Preparation Strategies 

...ive voice, listening to feedback, and asking questions to increase sales. Learn To Sequence the steps for preparing to write an effective telesales script. Apply the steps for preparing to write an effective telesales script. Select qualities of an effective telesales voice.
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Sales Management Building a Championship Sales Team 

... Sequence the steps for building relationships that increase motivation. Follow the steps for building relationships that increase motivation. Select the steps for building trust among sales team members. Follow steps for building trust between sales professionals and yourself. Simulation Overview:
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Essentials of Business Law Employment Law 

...esource managers, to discuss employment laws. In order to increase your understanding of workplace privacy rights and the components of wrongful discharge,
Ron will be presenting a series of scenarios for you to evaluate. These scenarios will cover a wide range of topics, from employment regulations to labor and management issues, and they will test your ability to make the correct decision
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Sales Management Motivating Sales Teams to Win 

... Identify actions you can take to increase your sales team's motivation. Sequence the steps for addressing substandard sales performance. Audience The target audience for this series is new sales managers, sales team leaders, or current sales managers who want to improve their management skills. This series is also recommended for marketing
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Project 2000 Proficient User 

...aster project. Create a cross-project link to a master. Increase the priority of a selected task. Record the status of a task in the sheet format in
Project 2000 by using the
Project menu. Modify the availability of a resource for a specific period of time by using the resource sheet. Specify the fixed cost of a material resource. Create a new template from a project plan. Create a new
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Time Management Overcoming Challenges 

...ive. Through
Kathy's questions and your answers, you will increase your understanding of ways to minimize interruptions from visitors and co-workers, and you will learn some steps to making your meetings more productive. Unit 2:
Controlling Information (0.5 - 1 hour) Follow steps to distinguish important information from unimportant information.
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Time Management Planning Your Day 

...rall view of how to manage their time on a daily basis to increase their productivity. The program covers how to develop a daily plan, how to manage technology, and how say ''no'' to doing too much. The program focuses on planning, scheduling, and concentration skills. It also covers how to handle e-mail, the
Internet, and the telephone productively. Learn To
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Business Travel Safety Domestic Travel 

...propriate travel arrangements. You will also learn how to increase your safety during air and ground transportation and at destinations, such as hotels, restaurants, and business events. Learn To Identify the documents you should bring on your business trip. Identify the type of clothing you should pack for your business trip.
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