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Applying Leadership Basics Course description -- Applying Leadership Basics provides the fundamental skills for leading a group: defining the task, establishing a vision, gaining commitment, and building relationships. It tells you how and when to use various leadership styles and gives smart techniques to help leaders direct the efforts of others. The Strategies and Tips in this module teach you how to foster innovation, more...

The Automotive Industry Overview Version 2 ...lenting push for lower costs, operational efficiency, and innovation, automotive companies are challenged to deliver higher value more efficiently than ever before. This dynamic automotive environment is also characterized by increasingly sophisticated consumers and redefined supplier relationships. Although regions such as South and Central Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe present more...

The Food and Beverage Industry Overview Version 2 The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star, says Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in his famous work, The Physiology of Taste. However, when leading food and beverage manufacturers introduce more than 15,000 new products every year with an average success rate of only 25 , such happiness can be fleeting. Few industries have as much pressure placed upon them more...

The Manufacturing Industry Overview Version 2 ...innovation. Companies in the manufacturing industry seem to be taking this lesson from the legendary management guru, Peter F. Drucker, very seriously now. The manufacturing industry - the powerhouse driving many economies - has been reeling under the most challenging time in its history. Manufacturers are striving to be more innovative, compete globally, and expand and market their products to more...

Consulting with the External Client Simulation Modern corporations employ consultants for their experience, knowledge, and skills. The primary responsibility of these consultants is to facilitate decision making for senior management. To do this, external consultants gather information using proven techniques, analyze current business situations with specific diagnostic methods, and make recommendations based on those processes. In this more...

The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation ...ive that you understand the foundations of creativity and innovation, how creative thought happens, and what is needed to stimulate it further. This course begins with definitions and an exploration of the science of creativity, including biological and psychological perspectives. You will then examine specific models that are used to explain creativity and innovation. Of course, creativity is more...

Organizational Communication Managing Communication ...ing Communication is designed to help students understand innovation and change, how environmental context affects communication, and how power and politics affect an organization. The program gives students guidelines for managing change, stress, conflict, and for empowering individuals. By applying the guidelines, students will be able to communicate effectively in the different environmental more...

Emotional Intelligence at Work What makes someone a top performer in the world of work? If you think high IQ, advanced degrees, analytical skills, and technical expertise are the answer, it's time to think again. Experts now agree that Emotional Intelligence often determines who will climb the corporate ladder and who will be passed over. Exciting new research shows that, unlike IQ, Emotional Intelligence can be developed and 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...

The Imperatives of Innovation and Leadership in Strategy ...ast of a fast-changing business environment, the need for innovation increases. While some companies focus on incremental and continuous innovations, other companies have managed to create disruptive innovations, challenged existing incumbents, and created entirely new markets for their products or services. However, without leadership, many of these innovations go unrealized, as not all more...

Problem Solving and Process Management Tools Albert Einstein is reputed to have said, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." To solve quality and process-related problems, managers should continuously enhance their knowledge of organizational processes and quality management tools. These tools help managers find root causes of problems, an important step toward more...

Antitrust--Talking with the Competition ...ollaborate for a number of reasons. These include funding innovation projects, sharing marketing or distribution costs, or implementing best practices in production or services. Collaborating with a competitor can help your company to cut costs and deliver a better priced, quality product to the consumer. Collaborations can be procompetitive or anticompetitive. The Federal Trade Commission more...

Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively In Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively you will learn to meet the demands of creative thinking in the workplace. This program will help you develop your creative thinking skills and allow you to practice using the creative thinking process.  more...

Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity ...Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity offers the student information required to mentally and physically prepare for creativity; incorporate innocence intuition and adventure into creative thinking; and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The program describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the most common ways more...

Creativity and Innovation: Fostering a Creative Environment Creativity and Innovation: Fostering a Creative Environment offers the student information required to recruit and retain creative individuals perform a creativity audit and to communicate with creative people. In addition the program explains creative rhythm and gives suggestions for implementing a creative culture.  more...

Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity offers the student information required to organize creative teams conduct effective team sessions and avoid roadblocks to team creativity. The program covers activities that can be used to increase creativity in a team and describes the creative problem-solving process.  more...

Frontline Leadership: Positively Influencing Workplace Culture Frontline Leadership: Positively Influencing Workplace Culture covers the factors that determine workplace culture and outlines a process for leading employees through culture changes. This program also covers two styles of frontline leadership and offers tips for fostering a positive work environment addressing negativity and inspiring employee innovation.  more...