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Organisational Communication :Setting Safety Standards 


...ally 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, the law defines your responsibility. This course will highlight the beliefs that underpin successful
Health &
Safety Policies, show you how to implement a
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Selection Interviewing 


Learn how to conduct successful selection interviews
Selection Interviewing is one of the key management techniques for evaluating whether a job applicant is suitable for the post on offer. This course supplies a comprehensive guide to developing your skills in selection interviewing no matter how your organisation goes about selecting staff. The course looks at all aspects of the selection
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Recruitment & Selection Series: Interview Practice 


...am, it's in your interest to hire the best people for the job. But when you're interviewing eager candidates, how do you know if the person who seems so ideal will actually deliver? Structuring interview questions effectively is a valuable skill to acquire, if you want to gain the most out of an interview. One method of doing this is with the "
Question Cycle", a method of structuring questions
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KAZ (Keyboard AZ) Typing Tutor 


...g? Most employees will work with a PC keyboard to get the job done. Outlook,
Word and
PowerPoint are the most frequently used business applications alongside data entry into a range of bespoke databases. All of these applications are business critical and typing intensive, which means effective touch typing skills have never been more important. What makes
Kaz the most successful way to learn
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JES2 Job Controls ll 
...cessing is required. The course describes the
JES2 REmote Job Entry facility and the
JES2 Network Job Entry facility in considerable detail and explains how to code the
JCL parameters and
JES2 control statements to route jobs and
SYSOUT data to other locations. It also shows how to route SYSOUT data to a particual loal printer, to a printer at a remote worksation, or to another node in a
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Inside Sales Skills Simulation 
You are an inside sales representative for
Muscle-Bound Fitness, a franchise of fitness facilities with a unique corporate wellness offering. In this simulation, your boss has asked you to contact a potential new customer. This new lead, a network television station known as
TV-22, is a perfect candidate for
Muscle-Bound's corporate wellness program, and your job is to convince them of such by
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Inbound Call Centers People Management 
...omer service "genes."
Good call center agents do a better job on the telephone, are happier with their work, and genuinely enjoy helping customers. This course will help you staff your call center with the right people for the job. You'll learn how to select the best candidates, accommodate agent diversity, and become aware of union and nonunion personnel policies. Have you ever wondered how to
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Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents 
...job is to solve customers' problems within a short amount of time. To do this, you have to understand the optimum methods for professionally processing a large volume of customers representing many different personality types. This can be a challenging task. You can successfully handle an agent's workload while satisfying customers by mastering a few vital skills. "
Professional Skills for
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Managing Challenges in Customer Service 
During an average working day in a call center, customer service agents (
CSAs) handle dozens of customer calls. The calls may range from simple requests for product information to urgent demands for solutions to complex problems. The callers may range from quiet, logical, and professional in their manner to noisy, impatient, and infuriated. CSAs are expected to meet the challenges of handling all
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Managing a Customer-focused Department Simulation 
...me at all times. As a customer service manager, it's your job to help your representatives meet this demand. The
Managing a Customer-focused Department Simulation is designed to help managers, supervisors, and team leaders motivate, manage, and support customer service staff. Over the course of the simulation, participants will practice a series of customer service management skills,
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Telephone Skills for Business Professionals Simulation 
... special events coordinator at
Eagle Hotel &
Resort. Your job involves booking and coordinating events at the hotel such as weddings, banquets, family reunions, product launches, awards ceremonies, and business conferences. In order to do your job well, communicating effectively with customers over the telephone is a must. Naturally, you must use professional telephone manners at all times and
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Communicating Clearly Speak to be Heard 
Communicating
Clearly:
Speak to be
Heard, is the second of four courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to define the steps in the communication process, match the situation and recipient to the most appropriate delivery method and environment, and identify ways of delivering a message so that the meaning is understood. The
PrimeCommunication curriculum
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Presenting Your Ideas Captivate Your Audience 
Presenting
Your Ideas:
Captivate Your Audience, is the fourth of four courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to recognize the components of effective delivery strategies, list ways to use visual aids in a manner that supports your script, identify the steps for responding effectively to audience questions and identify the five categories for assessing
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Personal Accountability Working for Your Inner Boss 
... level, the boss decides how employees will perform their jobs. How well an employee meets requirements set by the boss determines whether that employee succeeds or fails, receives rewards or penalties, and earns praise or criticism. On another level however, the judgment of an external boss isn't enough to make a job personally fulfilling and rewarding. That's something all employees of an
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Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence 
..., 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 what they think, and
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Cross-cultural Communications Simulation 
...ul teams in the league. Now it's the off-season, and your job is to make changes to improve the team's on-field performance without going over budget. First, you'll meet with
Maria Adalberto, the coach of the
Springfield Strikers who is from
Spain, to discuss the status of the team and her performance in the past season. Later in the simulation, you will try to sign foreign free agents to play
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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
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Attracting Motivating and Retaining Technical Professionals 
...ing technical employees and keep them once they're on the job. In fact, surveys show that managers list attracting, motivating, and retaining these technical professionals as one of their most challenging tasks. This course is designed to help managers meet that challenge. In it you will learn the factors and techniques that can attract competent technical people to a job, and you will learn
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Models for Managing Technical Professionals 
...d resources can be a difficult task. But, since it's your job to supervise this often-frustrating yet extremely valuable group of employees, you need to figure out the best way to do it. And this "best way" may vary from company to company and from individual to individual. In this course you'll learn a variety of ways to motivate, manage, and lead technical professionals and how to get and
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A New Manager s Responsibilities and Fears 
...ively. Apprehensions about whether you are able to do the job are natural--it merely indicates a healthy respect for the role. Taking some time to consider how you can best direct your current abilities toward the new task will be time well spent. It is inevitable that your co-workers' expectations of you will change. It may be hard for some of your former colleagues to accept your promotion.
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Lead and Communicate Effectively as a New Manager 
...ff. You will undoubtedly have been very good at your last job, but now you will need to resist the temptation to continue doing it. For some time to come, it may be true that you could do it quicker or better, but an important part of your new role is delegating tasks to others. You will not have time to do everything yourself, and your staff members will need to know that you trust them
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Moving into Management Simulation 
... need to resist the temptation to continue doing your old job. When
Sonya assigns your team to handle the launch of your company's newest electric car, you will need to effectively delegate the tasks involved, resisting the urge to do most of the work yourself. To ensure the success of the launch, you will have to motivate your team members. This will require you to listen and respond to the
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Preventing Problem Performance 
...cedure that is based on an accurate identification of the job requirements, and then using the first period of employment to test out the effectiveness of the worker. For established workers, if you want to avoid problem performance, it is essential for employees to see clearly what is expected of them. No employee can be criticized for problem performance when no one has explained to him or
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Leading Generations X and Next 
This course deals with the characteristics and needs of the two youngest generations in the work force--Generations X and
Next. These two generations have quite different attitudes toward work and career development. The first lesson identifies the needs of younger people with regard to their unique position in modern markets, desire for flexibility, desired work rewards, and career development
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Implementing a Succession Plan Simulation 
Ulema
Inc. is a market research firm providing consulting, market analysis, strategic planning and technology forecasting services. The
Ulema Reports Group (
URG), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Ulema Inc., produces single and multi-client studies on fast moving market sectors. The lifecycles for these studies are often as little as 6 months to one year from the start of development, so in order
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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
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Recruiting for the 21st Century The Market 
...loyee attitudes have shifted from "I'm sure glad I have a job" to "
What have you done for me lately?"
Boomers, members of the sociological phenomenon that has defined our culture since 1946, are getting ready to retire, and fewer workers from succeeding generations are available to step in. But the boomers aren't gone yet, and using the skills of older workers is part of the answer to today's
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Recruiting and Selecting Candidates HRCI PHR 
...d in the process of attracting and interviewing qualified job candidates for your organization. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the
HRCI certification examinations with regard to employee recruitment and selection. In this course, you'll learn about such things as recruitment sources and employer branding, and screening tests and interviews. All the topics in this course
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Hiring Considerations 
Recruitment is a complex and important activity for a manager. Effective hiring requires effective preparation. The recruitment process must be fair and safe, and there is plenty of legislation to trip up the unwary manager. Getting any part of this wrong is expensive, time consuming, and damaging to the good name of the company. This course will give you a brief overview of the major employment
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Recruitment and Selection HRCI PHR 
...d in the process of attracting and interviewing qualified job candidates for your organization. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the
HRCI certification examinations with regard to employee recruitment and selection. In this course, you'll learn about such things as recruitment sources and employer branding, and screening tests and interviews. All the topics in this course
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Behavior Putting Your Best Foot Forward 
...sted 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 role. It
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Overview to Effective Business Communication 
... Coolidge said, "No one ever listened themselves out of a job."
Furthermore, you could say that "No one ever communicated themselves out of a job."
Understanding business communication is foundational to being an effective administrative support professional. Learn about the business communication process and techniques for effective communication such as listening effectively and sending
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Administrative Functions 
...t you with information that will help you succeed at your job. It will show you how to manage records, make business travel arrangements, and organize conferences and meetings. It will also introduce you to the automated office environment. Your career as an administrative support professional will benefit from the knowledge and skills presented in "
Administrative Functions". Administrative
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Advancing Your Administrative Career 
...hould be? This course will show you how to advance on the job by providing you with important information about having a professional image and a successful attitude. You will learn valuable leadership skills and methods for motivating others. You will gain essential problem solving skills and learn strategic guidelines for managing your career. Putting in your eight hours is one thing, but
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IT Challenges Present and Future 
...ortunities, or simply make projects more successful, your job as IT manager is to avoid the pitfalls inherent in each task. Meanwhile, new and demanding responsibilities are on the horizon for governance, cybersecurity, and incident response, fields that are still under development. This course examines planning procedures for each of these tasks, and offers ways to prepare for the challenges
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Creating a Marketing Campaign 
Your marketing plan has been approved
Now you need to get the job done. How you execute your plan is as crucial as the plan itself. In this course, you'll learn about tactical marketing tools needed to put your plan into gear and create your marketing mix. These include branding, packaging, promotions, publicity, advertising and merchandising. Managers and team leaders with responsibility for
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Marketing Management 
... team to success? How can you tell if you're doing a good job? In this course you'll look at marketing management from top to bottom--starting from the basic skills you need as a marketing manager, through creating a multifunctional marketing team, positioning the company for success, and setting up systems to see how you're doing. You'll also learn to avoid common mistakes made by marketing
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Training and Development 
The most valued resource of any organization is its people. In today's corporate landscape of technological advancement, employees must be trained to align with the strategic direction of the business. Managers of quality should know that improvements in workplace productivity contribute positively to the overall well-being of the organization. This course explores the importance of investing in
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Pricing and Profitability for Product Managers 
...job is deciding what price to charge for a given product. It's equally important to understand that pricing decisions do not happen in a vacuum; the product manager will be held accountable for the success of the products he prices. Clearly, it's important for the product manager to understand the financial implications of his decisions. In this course, you'll learn about pricing factors and
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A Manager s Introduction to Business Law 
This course introduces managers to the fundamental concepts of business law. It begins by exposing some prevalent legal misconceptions shared by management and establishes the true role that law plays in society and business. The relationship between business ethics and law is explained and how managers serve as vital role models for demonstrating ethical business practices. This course also
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Documenting Discipline 
... of a worker's repeated infractions or failure to satisfy job requirements. There may also be no evidence of a manager's attempt to deal with the worker in a fair and constructive manner. This course explains how documentation can make all the difference, and examines the potential fallout from failure to document. It also suggests steps for progressive documentation and explains what and how
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Interviewing and Hiring Practices 
In this simulation, you will assume the role and responsibilities of an HR professional at
BTJ Technical Staffing Inc., a metropolitan staffing and recruitment agency. Having faced claims of possible discrimination in past job postings created on behalf of clients,
BTJ management has redoubled its efforts to ensure that all employment advertisement is above reproach and adheres strictly to
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Family Medical Leave Act FMLA 
...give you the leave you deserved without it affecting your job? It is essential to understand the law of the
Family and
Medical Leave Act (
FMLA) in order to protect yourself from losing your job or benefits. FMLA is only relevant to U.S. based employers and their U.S. based employees. In this course, you will learn the guidelines of FMLA and how they apply to you. This course will educate you on
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Security Safety and Communication 
To understand the role of security in an organization, the importance of following safety and environmental guidelines, and how to communicate with customers in a professional manner The for this path includes entry-level computer technicians who will, by the end of studying this path and before taking the exam, have accumulated 500 hours hand-on experience in a lab or in the field
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JCL Coding Fundamentals I 
This course provides a practical overview of job processing functions,
JCL commands and the use of JCL with the
MVS/
ESA operating system. It teaches how to successfully write, interpret and debug JCL jobstreams. Programmers, analysts, operators, managers, production support and some end users.
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JCL Coding Fundamentals II 
This course provides a practical overview of job processing functions,
JCL commands and the use of JCL with the
MVS/
ESA operating system. It teaches how to successfully write, interpret and debug JCL jobstreams. Programmers, analysts, operators, managers, production support and some end users.
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JCL Advanced Coding I 
This course provides a practical overview of job processing functions,
JCL commands and the use of JCL with the
MVS/
ESA operating system. It teaches how to successfully write, interpret and debug JCL jobstreams. Programmers, analysts, operators, managers, production support and some end users.
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JCL Advanced Coding II 
This course provides a practical overview of job processing functions,
JCL commands and the use of JCL with the
MVS/
ESA operating system. It teaches how to successfully write, interpret and debug JCL jobstreams. Programmers, analysts, operators, managers, production support and some end users.
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OS 390 MVS JCL Introduction 
...Job
Control Language and methods for coding it to perform data processing jobs in an
MVS environment. The course reviews the overall structure and purpose of
JCL and introduces the three main JCL statements. The course then covers the coding of the
JOB and the
Execute (
EXEC) statements in detail. It also describes how to analyze job output listings, and discusses libraries and conditional
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OS 390 MVS JCL Intermediate 
...uces procedures, pre-coded
JCL that can be brought into a job stream at the appropriate point to perform a particular function, and demonstrates how to modify operands on procedure
EXEC statements at the time of invoking a procedure. The course then extends the skills developed previously by discussing how to add, override or nullify operands on procedure DD statements. Students will also learn
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JES2 Job and Device Control I 
...rvices performed by
JES2 during each of the six phases of job processing as well as identify the manual required to find more information about a given command or message. Several JES2 commands will be described including commands to perform the following tasks: display the status of one or more jobs; hold, release, or cancel jobs in the JES2 queues; display the status of JES2 devices and
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JES2 Job and Device Control II 
...d provides a comprehensive examination of the
JES2 Remote Job Entry (
RJE) facility. The course discusses the commands used to control remote devices, explains how to send messages to other operators and explains how
JES2 handles the commands used for displaying system information and controlling jobs when these commands are entered from a remote station. It also demonstrates how to change the
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JES2 System Control I 
...se covers the
JES2 and
MVS commands for controlling batch jobs, started tasks, and time-sharing users. Manipulating jobs in the queues and controlling JES2 initiators are also described. The course describes JES2 initiators, the commands used to control them, and how JES2 initiators select work from the execution queues. Also discussed are commands to change the class or priority of jobs in the
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JES2 System Control II 
...se covers the
JES2 and
MVS commands for controlling batch jobs, started tasks, and time-sharing users. Manipulating jobs in the queues and controlling JES2 initiators are also described. The course describes JES2 initiators, the commands used to control them, and how JES2 initiators select work from the execution queues. Also discussed are commands to change the class or priority of jobs in the
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JES2 Advanced Operations I 
...s the advanced procedures for controlling the
JES2 remote job entry facility, and the multi-access spool facility. The course discusses how JES2 assigns attributes to a job, the commands used to change the default job attributes associated with a reader, and how the command authority of a console or reader determines which commands can be entered by using it. It covers the commands that control
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JES2 Advanced Operations II 
...usses the advanced procedures for controlling
JES2 Remote Job Entry facility and the
Multi-Access Spool facility. The course examines the JES2 Automatic Command Processing Facility and reviews the four major steps required for a complete system initialization. It covers initialization and recovery considerations in a Multi-Access Spool environment and explains how to display the current
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JES2 Job Controls 
...e services provided by
JES2 and how users can control the jobs submitted to JES2 using
JCL parameters, JES2 control statements, and JES2 operator commands. This course reviews the purpose of a job entry system in the
MVS environment and describes the services provided by JES2. The basic structure of JES2 and the functions it performs are discussed along with remote job entry (RJE), network job
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