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Training and Facilitation: Plan your Own Development 


...dge and abilities, in order to achieve what you want from life. By the end of the course you'll have an action plan for your development as far into the future as you choose. Although you'll focus on your working life, many lessons apply equally well to your personal life too. You can do this alone, but you'll find it more helpful to work with other people:
Your team leader
Colleagues you trust
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The Professional Teller: A Day in the Life of a Teller 


...Life of a
Teller reinforces in the student the skills and knowledge developed and learned in the previous programs of the series. The student will learn the customer service process and how to deal with an angry customer. The student will also learn the check cashing process, how to recognize the various types of endorsements, what represents an acceptable form of identification, and how to
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Call Center Operations Workforce Management 
This course describes forecasting, scheduling, occupancy and staffing principles, and explains their impact on the life of an agent and the success of a call center. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance measurement for both agents and call centers.
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ITIL Configuration and Release Management 
Organizations make substantial investments in their information technology infrastructures. That investment pays off only 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
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ITIL Continuity and Availability Management 
American businesses have had to face many disasters since the onset of the new millennium. There have been fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, large-scale power outages, terrorist attacks, and damaging computer viruses, just to name a few. As businesses become more dependent on IT services, disasters such as these can disable or even ruin companies in the blink of an eye. The delivery and
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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
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Diagnosing and Planning 
Your success as a consultant depends on your ability to diagnose each situation correctly. You need to use your previous experience, and bring fresh ideas to every new contract. Frameworks and models help you to make an effective diagnosis. They help you to evaluate the strategic position of the client organization, which is vital. To deliver solutions that are relevant and appropriate to the
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Elements of Project Human Resource Management 
When project managers set their sights on delivering creative project solutions on time and within budget, they must select and manage a team of experienced and competent professionals who can meet the challenge. This requires that project managers understand the
Project Human Resource Management processes of planning, selecting, developing, and managing a project team. Such an understanding
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Project Integration Executing and Completing a Project 
...use project integration management throughout the project life cycle to integrate project processes, maximize performance, and meet project goals. This course highlights the importance of project integration management to project performance. It covers the inputs, tools and technologies, and outputs of the following integrative processes in project management: directing and managing project
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Project Lifecycles and Stakeholders 
... what happens in between is less predictable. The project life cycle will most likely involve uncertainties, and it's how these uncertainties are handled that determines the outcomes of the project. The more familiar one is with project phases and stakeholders, the more easily one can keep the project on track and on budget. Organizations might "fast track" projects by overlapping phases, or
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Introduction to Project Process Groups and Initiating a Project 
In a relay race, the baton handoff from one runner to the next has a dual purpose. For the first runner, the handoff represents the end of his phase of the race. For the second runner, the handoff represents the beginning. The baton handoff is both a result and an input. In any project, there are many baton "handoffs" that must happen, making the whole project highly interactive. During this
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The Life Cycle of an IT Project 
...red framework for developing IT projects, also known as a life cycle, enables your corporation to implement specific guidelines, methodologies, and processes 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
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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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Troubleshooting and Closing the Project 
The factors that can affect a project are numerous and often hard to pinpoint. Conducting meetings and using advanced tools, such as formulas and graphs, allow the project manager to properly define the health or status of the project. This course outlines how to conduct effective meetings and presents some troubleshooting tools that can be used during the project life cycle. It also presents the
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Planning Project Procurement and Requesting Seller Responses 
...and how these processes interact with the overall project life cycle. You will also obtain the skills and knowledge required to enable you to: plan purchases and acquisitions, document contractual requirements, identify potential sellers, and get the relevant information, quotations, and proposals from potential sellers--all vital processes that ensure that you are able to procure the products,
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Program Lifecycle and Organization 
...be mindful of how different industries can impact program life cycles and the benefits they are designed to reap, and must continually refine their skills for adapting program life cycles to strategic goals. This course will describe some of the key program management life-cycle considerations, including the key distinctions between program and project life cycles. Also covered in this course
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Advanced Project Management Project Estimating Techniques 
...how time-box and analogous estimates are used, how to use life-cycle projections, and how the
Modified Delphi method is used. It also teaches how to calculate
PERT estimates and how function point analysis and forecasting are used. In addition, it covers how to avoid common estimating mistakes and how orders of magnitude help gauge the accuracy of estimates. Finally, it teaches steps for
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Balancing Stress Devise a Stress Control Plan 
...will be able to implement guidelines for assertiveness in life, classify behavior types in terms of a widely used and accepted model, identify strategies to modify behavior types and develop an action plan for tackling stress. The
Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common barriers to success.
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Goals and Goal Setting 
... of goals you can use to advance your career and personal life, learn to construct goals that are both challenging and achievable, discover how to embed the seeds of success within your goals, and explore ways to align your goals with your own priorities and the priorities of others who influence the way you use your time. Members of business organizations who want to increase their
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Leading Effective Business Meetings 
...ay in the
United States, there is a good chance that your life is full of meetings. There is a general agreement among business professionals that most meetings are not well run. They often waste your time, drain your energy, seem to have no purpose, and bear few positive results. Are you tired of attending meetings like this? Are you tired of your meetings ending up like this? This course will
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What Is Emotional Intelligence 
Does IQ determine your destiny? For years, that was an overriding belief. However, new behavioral research shows that IQ provides, at best, a narrow view of human intelligence. Factors such as self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, zeal, self-motivation, empathy, and social deftness contribute greatly to an individual's success. These qualities, termed "emotional intelligence," often
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Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Simulation 
Does intelligence alone determine success? Or do self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, zeal, self-motivation, empathy, and social deftness factor heavily into the equation? While not as readily quantified as IQ, these qualities, collectively termed "emotional intelligence," often determine whether or not people excel in life, relationships, and the workplace. In this simulation, you'll
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Building Relationships to Get Results 
You are not the boss. You've been called "peer," "esteemed colleague," "invaluable staff member," and "friend," but no one's even come close to calling you "boss."
When you stop to think about it, you realize you have no real authority whatsoever. In fact, you have much more power than you think, even if you are on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. As
Jack London said, "
Life is not always a
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Performance Appraisal Simulation 
Consider your last performance appraisal. Was it a positive experience? Did it give you a clear idea of which areas you performed well in and which areas required more attention? And what about afterward? Did your manager continue to provide you with feedback all throughout the year? Or are you still waiting until your next evaluation to see how you've performed? Contrary to the experience of many
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Becoming a Manager 
What does becoming a manager involve? What skills are needed to be a good one, and what will others expect of you? These are all natural questions for anyone who is about to become a manager, or who has recently been promoted. Moving into a first management role represents possibly one of the biggest changes in your working life. The transition from player to manager is an exciting, but
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Managing Upward Relationships 
...ity will strengthen motivation, productivity, and overall life quality of all concerned. This course attempts to explain the dynamics of power and politics and explores the common grounds between two levels in the organizational hierarchy. Managers need to have necessary interpersonal skills required for succeeding in upward relationships. The focus is on the skills and strategies that support
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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
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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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Strategic Approaches to Labor Relations HRCI SPHR 
HR professionals develop organizational strategies to secure and develop a company's successful and profitable operations. The employee plays a central role in such operations. As such it has become essential for HR professionals to constantly be on the lookout for strategies that allow them to develop a good working relationship between the employee and employer. This course covers strategies
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Administrative Functions 
Administrative support professionals are the central nervous systems of an office. Their responsibilities are numerous and vital to the operation of their organization. Knowing the best ways to perform office functions will enable administrative support professional to complete their responsibilities efficiently and effectively. This course will present you with information that will help you
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Taking Systems Thinking into Your Personal Life 
... relief in sight? Using systems thinking in your personal life can be a new and effective way to tackle and change issues at their core. It is possible to change old habits. You can learn to communicate in more effective ways. Change is not only possible, it is part of life. In this course, you will explore the personal nature of systems. You'll learn about different types of personal patterns
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Six Sigma--Measurement System Re-analysis 
...life with a diet or exercise program, only to backslide and lose all the positive changes you made? It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal--improved health and fitness--after reaching your goal weight and fitness level. Maintaining positive changes takes just as much effort and vigilance as making the changes initially. Likewise for businesses--the benefits of
Six Sigma performance aren't
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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
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Writing a Marketing Plan Phase 1 
This course will define the marketing plan, types of plans and outline the purposes for using a marketing plan. You will then get started on writing the plan by establishing objectives and working on introductory elements. Then, you'll complete a situational analysis that evaluates the overall market, industry, internal and competitive factors pertinent to your product or service. Finally, you'll
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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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Principles of Marketing Fundamentals of Marketing 
Principles of
Marketing:
Fundamentals of Marketing offers the student an overview of the information required to identify key marketing terms, language, and concepts. The program details the elements of the marketing mix, the stages of the product life cycle, and the proper steps to implement the market segmentation process. Managers, supervisors, and employees who want to learn basic marketing
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Dealing with Sexual Harassment Simulation 
... element of your new employee orientation. Your boss, the life underwriting manager, has always been nice to you, but lately has begun complimenting your appearance in ways that you feel are inappropriate. When your boss asks you out on a date and says that you should accept in order to get a promotion and raise, you will need to take action to deal with the situation. This simulation is based
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Object-Oriented Analysis Design II 
This course focuses on the object-oriented (OO) software development life cycle, both at the macro and the micro level. It also teaches the diagrams used at the different levels of the OO software development life cycle. This course is intended for systems analysts, application developers/programmers, project managers, and software designers.
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Basic C Programming 
...recursive functions. It also provides an understanding of life span or scope of program variables, which are crucial to the successful execution of any C program, function prototypes and recursive functions. The course concludes as the student is shown how to use #define to create symbolic constants and macros and how C structures enable related data to be managed and manipulated as a group.
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Project Management Techniques 
...ts undertaken to cater to these business needs have small life cycles so that they can be delivered to prospective clients before a possibility of a technological change arises. Projects have a small life cycle if they are completed in a stipulated time frame. This can be done by managing the activities that are performed in the project effectively. The student also needs to estimate the number
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Web Development Process 
In this
WestNet e-Learning module, we show how
Web developers can benefit by applying formal software engineering processes to site projects. Many Web developers are still learning the lesson that the softwaredevelopment community learned 20 years ago: process pays. It pays in shorter schedules, better designs, and higher user satisfaction.
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Gathering Requirements 
This module outlines a formal five-phase approach to network design. . It can be used by an outside consultant or an internal
Information Services (IS) group. This network design process, as presented here, is very methodical. This level of detail helps ensure that the designer gathers all necessary information, considers all options, and keeps all key players well informed. Experienced network
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Oracle Database 10g Performance Tuning Tools and Techniques 
This course provides an overview of the tuning methodology and performance monitoring. The course also covers common tuning problems and the goals and objectives of performance tuning. Finally, the course covers the tuning life cycle and the tuning methodology followed in the different phases of the tuning life cycle. This course is designed for
DBAs, database architects, support engineers, and
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First Aid--Automated External Defibrillator 
...tor (
AED). Use of the AED also includes the
ABCs of basic life support: maintaining an open airway, restoring breathing, and restoring circulation, which will also be briefly reviewed in this training. Note: This training should not be used as the primary basis for any AED certification. It is intended to provide the learner with basic classroom training only. This training should be
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First Aid--CPR 
...art. This one-hour course will focus on the
ABCs of basic life support: maintaining an open airway, restoring breathing, and restoring circulation. Note: this training should not be used as the primary basis for any
CPR certification. It is intended to provide the learner with knowledge-based training only. This training should be accompanied with a performance-based component provided by a
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First Aid--Medical Emergencies 
...ng trained in first aid could mean the difference between life and death. Note: This training should not be used as the primary basis for any first aid certification. It is intended to provide the learner with knowledge-based training only. This training should be accompanied with a performance-based component provided by a certified first aid instructor. The content in this course is designed
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Mold Awareness 
... mold at their facilities at some point in their business life. A mold is a coating or discoloration that develops in a damp atmosphere on the surface of food or fabric. Not everyone is at risk from exposure to molds but certain groups of individuals, including infants and the elderly, are particularly susceptible to mold-induced allergies or infections. Providing information on the hazards
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mySAP com - Overview 
The
Computer Based Training course (
CBT) mySAP.com Overview aims to provide all employees of your company an introduction to
SAP s answer to e-business, and the possibilities that mySAP.com offers. Trainees will be shown why mySAP.com was developed and the key components it contains. Furthermore, it shows how application hosting can be controlled throughout the system's entire life cycle,
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