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Management & Leadership Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Program This course will teach you how to effectively and efficiently implement a system of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) for your organization. In the 21st Century, and its global economy, the skill of continually improving quality is vitally important to an organization's longevity and success. Whether you are in the service or production business, this course provides a proactive method of  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Bootstrap Marketing This course will help you create a marketing plan and learn to promote your product effectively.You will receive as a bonus 1 year unlimited access to this course from the day of enrollment. If attempting to accelerate your learning (1-2 weeks or less), please pay special attention to key points so you may successfully apply the information gained from this course to your particular business  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Customer Service That Sells ...e these areas: Customer service fundamentals Defining and measuring customer service How to hire customer service oriented employees How to train for great customer service Motivating, managing, maintaining, and retaining great customer service employees Customer service best practices Handling mistakes, problems, and complaints Telephone customer service Using customers as outside salespeople  more...

Basic Internet Specialist Certificate Designed to help people learn more about the Web including terminology, finding information, and creating effective websites that sell. Designed to help people learn more about the Web including terminology, finding information, and creating effective websites that sell. Students will learn how to deal with customers concerns, and the best way to provide support. Students will also learn how to  more...

Measuring Project Outsourcing Success To assess the tangible and intangible performance of an outsourcing partnership and determine when to terminate the relationship  more...

Evaluating Brand Effectiveness ... you can about your target market's knowledge structures. Measuring knowledge structures leads to the unveiling of where your brand ranks in the consumer's mind. You will apply qualitative research methods and evaluate quantitative research methods that will test brand awareness, brand image, low and high level brand associations, brand recall, and brand recognition. All of these tests reveal  more...

Developing Customer Satisfaction Surveys By the time most people have the chance to develop their first survey, they've seen so many that it seems like developing one will be a piece of cake. To an extent, they're right. Developing a GIGO (Garbage In/Garbage Out) survey is a no-brainer. Developing a survey that gets valid, reliable data, however, is both science and art.In this course, you'll learn to use the principles of survey design  more...

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  more...

The Customer Service Agent in Action There are now some 7 million customer service agents (CSAs) working in nearly 80,000 call centers in the United States. Call centers are burgeoning in Europe and the Pacific Rim as well, and experts predict that the number of CSAs will grow by 20 percent each year. Worldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the  more...

Identifying Your Customers Expectations Customers have expectations of all the companies with which they transact business. These expectations may be predominantly unspoken but, all the same, they have a strong influence on how your company, its employees, products, and services are perceived. In the first lesson of this course, you'll be shown what characteristics customers want to see demonstrated, what external influences generate  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...

Bridge the Expectations Gap You have to be prepared to walk a mile in their shoes to understand more fully what customers experience when they deal with your company. There's nothing more effective in emphasizing the gap between what you believe their experiences to be and their realities than thinking and acting like a customer. This course takes you through several processes for doing exactly that, and you'll be shown how  more...

Leading a Customer-focused Team The quality of your customer service is in the hands of the people who deliver it. As their leader it's your responsibility to give them the direction, resources, and support they need to succeed.This course shows you how to work with them to create a customer-focused environment that fulfills customers' expectations while still achieving corporate goals. The first lesson explains how to work  more...

Discovering What Your Customers Want The data are in, and there's no doubt about it: The return on customer loyalty goes directly to your company's bottom line. Too often, however, organizations seeking to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty begin with a survey. To build a successful customer satisfaction system, you have to begin with the basics.When customer satisfaction programs begin with a survey, and not a plan, the  more...

Relationship Management - Maintaining the Client Relationship In "Relationship Management - Maintaining the Client Relationship," you will learn about the differences between short-term and long-term customer relationships, as well as the causes and advantages of these relationships. You will also identify methods of keeping and extending the client relationship into future endeavors. Finally, you will learn about techniques for measuring success in the  more...

Team Leadership - Promoting Your Team s Effectiveness Team Leadership: Promoting Your Team's Effectiveness offers the student an overview of how to set goals, prevent team ineffectiveness, and measure individual and team performance. The program covers in detail the steps for setting effective goals, the steps for measuring team and individual performance, and the advantages and negative effects of diversity.  more...

Six Sigma DMAIC Measuring the Process ...house? By the same token, do you have the right tools for measuring a process in your organization that just isn't working? "Six Sigma DMAIC: Measuring the Process," provides Six Sigma Green Belts and team members with techniques for precisely pinpointing the source of problems--and precisely measuring them. That means you'll learn what to measure, the five types of data that can be collected,  more...

Data Classification and Collection in Six Sigma ...an physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Measuring the key characteristics in your current processes is a very significant step in any Six Sigma improvement journey. As such, sample data from existing processes needs to be identified, collected, presented, and analyzed. Collecting data that is correct and useful is one of the first steps in the measurement process. Various  more...

Measuring Process Capability and Performance in Six Sigma ...hin the targets and specifications set by your customers. Measuring the capability and performance of a process is an important activity in Six Sigma DMAIC methodology. Six Sigma teams use process capability and performance measurements, such as process capability (Cp), process capability index (Cpk), process performance (Pp), and process performance index (Ppk), to indicate the current state  more...

Six Sigma Reducing Variation to Improve Quality ...tes waste, and you'll learn key tools for identifying and measuring this waste in your organization. Next, you'll learn the key causes of variation and how to classify these causes as a step toward their elimination. You'll also learn the basics of process management. Finally, you'll be given a thorough review of the Six Sigma Team and the role each team member plays in attracting and  more...

Six Sigma DMAIC Defining the Problem "What's your problem?" It could be said that this is one way to get to the heart of a matter. Of course, there's a better way. In this course, Six Sigma DMAIC: Defining the Problem, Six Sigma Green Belts and team members are given a systematic, objective, and measurable process for quantifying the challenges facing your organization. In lesson one, "The Project Charter," you'll learn guidelines  more...

Process Analysis and Documentation ...you want to be, and then planning how to get there, while measuring progress toward the goal all along the way. In the words of an old adage, what gets measured, gets done.In this course, you will learn about the steps in the Measure phase. Then you will learn key principles of measurement; learn how to identify key process input variables and key process output variables; document their  more...

Measurement Systems ... problematic. A measurement system is only as good as the measuring instruments and the operators, and both are responsible for a certain amount of variation. An important part of process improvement--conducted before collecting measurement data--is analyzing the measuring system to ensure that measurements are made without bias, are reproducible by all measuring instruments, and are repeatable  more...

The Basics of Budgeting Running a department without understanding the budget process is like driving a car without knowing how to steer. Every manager needs a basic understanding of how to plan, use, and monitor adherence to a budget. Addressing the needs of your own budget process will help you support the financial processes and goals of your organization as a whole. In this course, non-financial managers will learn  more...

E-Learning Essentials Pt 3 - Deploying and Measuring Your Solution The third course in this curriculum focuses on issues of deployment and measurement of an e-learning solution. Regarding deployment, technological, interoperability and multi-site challenges are addressed, as well as using the Internet, choosing the right platform, managing learners and learning objects. The final area to be covered is that of measuring the e-learning solution, integrating  more...

Balanced Scorecard - Measuring Business Objectives ...Measuring Business Objectives," you will learn the importance of good communication when using the balanced scorecard, the reasons for creating a balanced scorecard for each business unit, and the ways your organization can support the critical success factors outlined in a balanced scorecard. You will also learn the steps for gathering and implementing feedback about your organization's  more...

E-Learning Essentials Part 3 Deploying Measuring Your Solution ...learning objects. The final area to be covered is that of measuring the e-learning solution, integrating measurement with the solution deployment, how to carry out effective measurement and present results. The course closes with some consideration of directions within e-learning and encouragement to the learner to remain open to developments and continually maintain their solution. Learn  more...

Managing Business Risk Risk Assessment Control ...scan. Identify the methods for measuring risk. Identify the components of risk evaluation. Identify the categories of physical asset exposures. Audience The target audience for this program is Team Leaders, Directors, Managers, Department Heads. Deployment Options e-Learning Accreditation NASBA  more...

Diversity Managing Diversity in the Workplace Team leaders, supervisors, and managers examine the impact of diversity and culture on individuals and organizations. They learn how to analyze and use models and skills for leading people toward using diversity as a source of competitive advantage. Learn To: Define diversity and its different facets. Identify business benefits of leveraging diversity. Identify aspects of culture  more...

Call Center Management Series The Call Center Management Series includes the following courses: Call Center Management: Managing an Inbound Call Center Call Center Management: Measuring Quality and Performance Call Center Management: Managing and Motivating Your Staff To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).  more...

Balanced Scorecard Series The Balanced Scorecard Series includes the following courses: Balanced Scorecard: Corporate Strategy Balanced Scorecard: Implementing Balanced Scorecard: Measuring Business Objectives To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).  more...

Balanced Scorecard Measuring Business Objectives ...Measuring Business Objectives, you will learn the importance of good communication when using the balanced scorecard, the reasons for creating a balanced scorecard for each business unit, and the ways your organization can support the critical success factors outlined in a balanced scorecard. You will also learn the steps for gathering and implementing feedback about your organization?s  more...

Call Center Mgt Measuring Quality Performance ...Measuring Quality and Performance teaches the student information about customer expectations and how to reduce the percentage of a call center's lost calls. The program also teaches students about various staffing tactics, provides a process for calculating staff levels, and identifies the types of reports that call center managers use to evaluate a call center's performance. Additionally, the  more...

Total Quality Management Principles ... market. Your goal is to achieve customer satisfaction by measuring and responding to customer needs, and utilizing the quality checkpoints for customer satisfaction. Unit 2: Performance Excellence (0.5 - 1 hour) Identify the three steps to process management in quality systems. Identify ways in which replication increases performance  more...

Total Quality Management Implementation and Tools ...5 - 1 hour) Identify reasons for measuring key process variables. Recognize the characteristics of a Pareto analysis. Identify the uses of a cause and effect diagram. Recognize how to construct an affinity diagram. Identify ways a priority matrix can assist in managing quality.  more...

Project Management Essentials Controlling Closing a Project ...nge. Identify the methods for measuring project performance. Calculate cost variance and schedule variance. Calculate cost performance index and schedule performance index. Identify the actions a project manager can take to avoid common performance reporting problems.  more...

Team Leadership Promoting Your Team s Effectiveness ...tail the steps for setting effective goals, the steps for measuring team and individual performance, and the advantages and negative effects of diversity. Learn To Follow steps for setting team goals. Establish ways to measure progress of team goals. Create standards to measure performance.  more...

Brand Management Managing Brand Equity ...e steps for creating brand extensions, the techniques for measuring brand equity, and the options for reviving brand equity. Learn To Identify issues to consider when managing a brand name. Sequence the steps for creating brand extensions. Select the factors you should measure when conducting a brand  more...

Achieving Success Without Authority Focusing on Results ... realistic goals. Identify ways of measuring your success. Identify guidelines to create a positive mental attitude. Identify steps to achieve a desired outcome when dealing with people. Identify reasons for aligning goals with values. Identify different types of thoughts that  more...

Motivation Fostering Employee Motivation ...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 to help employees increase their own motivation  more...