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How To Master Communications Course description -- Communication skills are vital to an organization`s effectiveness. The How to Master Communications bundle builds on the basics of effective communication and shows how to apply sound communication skills to a variety of interpersonal and leadership situations, such as intervening in conflict and providing feedback. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) BROWSER REQUIRED - more...

The Beginning Teacher Operation of Schools Discusses the aspects of school administration, including financing, governance, and organization. more...

How To Master Sales Skills Course description -- The How to Master Sales Skills bundle will develop the most essential skills in sales personnel without extensive away-from-work classroom training. Based on fundamental best practices, these courses prepare new sales personnel to be effective. They create a common baseline set of processes for an entire sales organization, regardless of previous experience, to follow as more...

Creating a Strong Leadership Team ...ate a leadership team that is a model for the rest of the organization. The Strategies and Tips are practical tools and methods to create and maintain a shared vision, define roles and responsibilities, and determine mutual goals and priorities. Key Points also include techniques for avoiding power struggles and resolving issues to keep leaders focused and aligned. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET more...

Recognizing Employee Performance Course description -- Motivated employees dona t just happena they are the result of effective leadership. You will learn how to lay the groundwork for successfully recognizing employee performance, and find out how to identify the recognition methods that your organization offers. There are suggestions for powerful non-monetary rewards and ideas on how to use the job as a way to recognize and more...

Valuing Diversity ...ibutions all employees make in achieving the goals of the organization. There are suggestions for modeling and promoting organizational values and methods to gain involvement from diverse populations. The course also provides guidance on developing important organizational processes that support diversity, methods for soliciting participation from non-traditional contributors. IMPORTANT NOTE: more...

Starting A Business How To Develop An Effective Business Plan You will learn how to develop, analyze and sell an effective business plan for your company or organization. more...

How to Locate the Very Best Funding Sources for Your Organization A self-paced course that teaches you how to effectively locate grants for your organization. more...

Beyond Grant Writing and Approaching Viable Funding Sources with Success Many grants are developed and submitted to possible funding sources each year. Few are chosen for funding. This course will highlight the characteristics of a funded grant and a granting organization`s criteria for success. more...

Introduction to ISO 9001 2000 ISO 9000 is increasingly becoming the standard for doing business. Organizations worldwide are implementing ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems. What is ISO 9001:2000 and what does it require? Learn to understand the requirements and apply the standard within an organization. more...

Customer Relationship Management CRM -Part 2 DISCONTINUED--Advanced CRM is the second and final part of our program. The course will teach you how to independently develop a CRM plan for your organization after conducting a focused analysis of your organization`s business processes and customer profile. more...

Getting Organized Is a Breeze Learn the organizational tips, tools, systems and techniques that will help you experience greater freedom, control, success and peace of mind. more...

Five Quick Steps to Telecommuting A self-paced ebook of tools to help you start your telework experience. more...

Get the Job You Want With A Resume That Sells Create a job-winning resume that sells your talents and skills! more...

How to Interview Like a Professional Learn the secrets to having a successful interview to get the job you really want. more...

Surviving Today s Job Market GETTING THE JOB OFFER YOU WANT Learn the how to`s of getting the job offer you really want. more...

Learn How to Write the Kind of Cover Letter That Gets Results A highly effective writing approach that increases the chances of getting your resume reviewed. more...

Resume Writing This course demonstrates the process of writing a resume that will result in an interview. more...

Typing Pal--The Best Online Typing Course Quick and easy way to learn keyboard typing! more...

How To Master Time Management This course is designed to show students how to use the tools of Microsoft Outlook 2002 to manage time. It combines the best of the old and new theories of research of time management. Students will be encouraged to understand their time management challenges and adapt the suggestions to fit their management style/needs. more...

Time Management Using Microsoft Outlook 2002 The course is designed to show students how to use Microsoft Outlook 2002 to plan their time. The scope of the course includes understanding time management theory/philosophy, handling stress, developing a system of organization, identifying priorities, creative problem solving, and timing teamwork. more...

Interviewing Skills for Job Candidates Course description -- Job Candidates will find that this course gives them the A-to-Z of interviewing for a new job. The Strategies and Tips provide specific recommendations for valuable preliminary work, and tools to prepare for the interviewera s questions. Key Points will help you promote your best image and create a positive impression. You will learn how to follow up with the interviewer and more...

Managing Your 401 k Course description -- More and more companies are providing a 401k as a benefit. Human resource managers frequently counsel their employees on the mechanics and planning of their 401k programs. This course provides a foundation for you to know how to appreciate vesting, select wise investment packages, and understand diversification. You will also be given tools and strategies for understanding more...

Moving from Trainer to Performance Consultant Course description -- Taking a step up in your career is an exciting time. Now is your chance to help your clients with their overall abilities, not just a few key skills. The move from being a trainer to becoming a performance consultant can be difficult if you arena t aware of certain strategies and tips. This course will help you identify the steps to gaining the skills you need while building more...

Organizing Your Workspace ...oks, and little pieces of paper can seem overwhelming. Disorganization hinders work performance and creates feelings of stress and anxiety. By learning to organize your workspace, you can reach better levels of performance. This course will identify techniques for organizing your work areas, shelves, drawers, and files. It will also give you tips for maintaining this organization as well as more...

Personal Financial Planning Course description -- Without wise financial planning, the future may not be what most of us hope for, and even the present may be less that comfortable. This course contains the essential principles of planning for both short- and long-term needs and has many tools and references to provide guidance for planning and using personal financial resources. It gives tips and worksheets for setting more...

Recognizing and Avoiding Burnout Course description -- The Strategies and Tips in this course will give you the tools to assess your own emotional state, locate the stressors in your life, and evaluate your expectations, a major contributor to burnout. You will be given guidelines to identify the various stages of burnout and methods to recognize where you are in the process. The course focuses on giving you practical techniques more...

Time Management Course description -- This course addresses the nuts and bolts of time managementa tools for setting goals, keeping logs, and planning your time. It includes methods for identifying low pay-off activities and time-wasters, along with suggestions for getting rid of them. It provides tips for organizing your materials and your surroundings for more efficiency, and has other practical suggestions more...

How to Join the Ranks of the Self-Employed in 6 Weeks Learn how to join the ranks of the self-employed by starting and running a business in 6 weeks. more...

Discover Your Talents To Work From Home Using online tools and resources, find your place in the work-from-home world! more...

WHERE THE JOBS ARE AND HOW TO GET THEM -Surviving Today s Job Market Learn a foolproof method of how to conduct a job search and seize the job you really want. more...

Six Sigma Management and Leadership Training Program This course will teach you about the methodology and implementation of Six Sigma in your organization. more...

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. more...

Success Strategies Training Program for Management & Leadership This course will teach you how to effectively and efficiently implement a system of Management & Leadership Success Strategies for your organization. more...

Executive-to-employee Communication Strategies ...our position. As an executive who is concerned about your organization, it is up to you to gather feedback from your working level employees and to build trusting relationships throughout the organization. This course offers suggestions and techniques for building up the communication highway between you and your employees. You will learn ways to open up more to your employees as you see things more...

SkillVantage Manager - Web Admin.and Reporting (how to use SVM, not the SVM software) This course teaches training Administrators the skills and knowledge necessary to setup, access, track, and manage corporate training resources using Web SVM Administrator 2.4.2. Students will learn the key tasks and procedures in the areas of system setup, training resource setup, user management and configuration, and reporting. Students will also get a brief introduction to learning management more...

Employee Performance: Managing Difficult People Employee Performance: Managing Difficult People will help you develop the skills needed to address a difficult person according to their specific behavior. In this course, you will have the opportunity to meet with several Marketing Department team members to address their difficult personalities. You will follow the guidelines for managing difficult people in order to decrease the department's more...

Excellence in Service: Establishing Service Standards In Excellence in Service: Establishing Service Standards, participants will learn what customers really want from their organization and how they evaluate your service, as well as how to create and implement effective service standards. In addition, participants will learn how to monitor service standards and how to correct problems that cause service to fall below those standards. more...

Grammar Skills: The Parts of Speech In Grammar Skills: The Parts of Speech, participants learn about grammatical organization and become proficient at identifying and properly using the eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. more...

Sexual Harassment: What Employees Should Know (Service) Sexual Harassment: What Employees Should Know teaches participants about the behaviors that constitute sexual harassment and explains the legal problems it can cause your organization. Participants learn to recognize the different types of sexual harassment and to take appropriate action to prevent it. more...

Sexual Harassment: What Employees Should Know (Manufacturing) Sexual Harassment: What Employees Should Know teaches participants about the behaviors that constitute sexual harassment and explains the legal problems it can cause your organization. Participants learn to recognize the different types of sexual harassment and to take appropriate action to prevent it. more...

Financial Management: Fundamental Accounting Concepts In Financial Management: Fundamental Accounting Concepts, participants become familiar with basic accounting concepts and terms, enabling them to track business transactions that affect assets, liabilities, and owner's equity. They learn how use universal accounting tools-such as the general journal, general ledger, and trial balance-to ensure an organization follows sound accounting practices. more...

Financial Management: Understanding Financial Statements In Financial Management: Understanding Financial Statements, participants develop an in-depth understanding of the purpose and uses of each of four financial statements-the income statement, the balance sheet, the cash flow statement, and the statement of stockholders' equity-and practice preparing and interpreting each of these tools. more...

Financial Management: Cash Analysis and Management In Financial Management: Cash Analysis and Management, participants learn how to prepare a bank reconciliation and how to choose an appropriate person to review a bank reconciliation. Additionally, they will learn how to control an organization's cash and how to prepare a Cash Flow Statement. more...

Financial Management: Inventory Costing and Depreciation In Financial Management: Inventory Costing and Depreciation, participants will learn how to calculate inventory value and depreciation. Participants will learn why organizations use accounting methods when reporting financial information on financial statements. more...

Oracle Applications 11i General Ledger: Advanced Features The course covers the concepts of defining budgets and budget organization, creating master and detail budgets, entering budget amounts. more...

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Expert User This course provides participants with the advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 to create powerful presentations. At the completion of this course, students will learn how to create and modify charts and tables; import data from other sources; prepare support elements for a presentation; and broadcast a presentation on the Web. more...

Microsoft Outlook 98 Fundamentals This course provides participants with the fundamental skills to use Outlook 98 on a daily basis in their workplace. Students will learn how to perform basic communication and personal organization tasks within Outlook 98. more...

Solutions Development Discipline - Part 1 This course is the first part of a three part series for IT Professionals. This series will discuss Microsoft's philosophy on team organization, introduces a milestone-driven process model to manage the risks inherent in a dynamic environment, and provides an architectural framework for MultiThreaded development that emphasizes reusability and distribution. more...

Solutions Development Discipline - Part 2 This course is the second part of a three part series for IT Professionals. This series will discuss Microsoft's philosophy on team organization, introduces a milestone-driven process model to manage the risks inherent in a dynamic environment, and provides an architectural framework for MultiThreaded development that emphasizes reusability and distribution. more...

Solutions Development Discipline - Part 3 This course is the final part of a three part series for IT Professionals. This series will discuss Microsoft's philosophy on team organization, introduces a milestone-driven process model to manage the risks inherent in a dynamic environment, and provides an architectural framework for MultiThreaded development that emphasizes reusability and distribution. more...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 2: Domain Structure and S Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 2: Domain Structure and Site Topology shows the learner how to design and develop a domain strategy. It also covers how to design multiple domains and the design principles in relation to site topology. more...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 3: Active Directory Struc Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 3: Active Directory Structure is the third course in this series. Its focuses on designing a schema modification policy. It also covers group policy planning. Finally it also covers design of Active Directory structure. more...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security Part 1: Security Planning This is the first course in a five-part series of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security curriculum which prepares participants for Microsoft Exam 70-220. This course provides participants with an opportunity to learn the Windows 2000 security model and technologies to plan for a secure enterprise network, creating and analyzing a network security plan, planning secure and more...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security Part 2: Securing Local Networks This is the second course in a five-part series of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security curriculum which prepares participants for Microsoft Exam 70-220. This course provides participants with an opportunity to learn how to secure files, folders, and printers in a network by using access permissions, create an EFS strategy, a backup plan, and an audit policy. Participants will more...

Microsoft Outlook 2000 Proficient User This course prepares IT Professionals to send messages to people inside and outside their organization, schedule appointments and meetings, maintain a contact list, and organize their activities with tasks, notes, and journal entries. more...

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Concepts and Administration - Part 3 This is the final course in a three part series that will provide IT professionals the knowledge to install, configure, administer and troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 in single-site and multiple-site environments. more...

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Design and Implementation - Part 1 This is the first course in a six part series that will provide participants with the knowledge to install, configure, administer and troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 in single-site and multiple-site environments. more...

Implementing an Organization-wide Mentoring Program Would a mentoring program give your employees the extra edge they need to succeed? In this course, you'll learn about the purposes, advantages, and procedures involved in developing a mentoring program. You'll examine the program coordinator's role and the guidelines that should be in place before the program begins. You'll learn about selecting and matching mentors and proteges and motivating more...

Win2000 Netwk Sec Design Analyzing an Org Sec Reqts ...organization's business models, processes, organizational structures, and IT management structure. You will learn the various network roles and responsibilities and will analyze the impact of security design on an organization. After learning about the different types of network security risks, you will learn to plan secure boundaries through firewalls and firewall components, such as a more...

Overview of Business Process Management ...Organizations are under a great deal of pressure to become more productive and more efficient while developing new, innovative products and services more rapidly than ever before. Management is demanding improved quality, reduced costs, and increased productivity with fewer resources. How can organizations respond to these pressures while remaining competitive in the market? The answer is a Six more...

Project Management Professional Time Management II Project Management: Time Management II, is the fourth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to determine the appropriate project activities to crash, determine the appropriate project activities to fast track and identify the implications of resource leveling. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project more...

Up and Running with Visio 2000 To guide the home user or end-user through the basic concepts of working with stencils, templates, and charts in Microsoft Visio 2000 Home users, end-users more...

Process Analysis and Documentation The Six Sigma DMAIC system is a roadmap that points the way to process and performance improvement. The second phase in this methodology is Measure. You cannot hope to improve processes and performance without first knowing where you are, assessing where 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, more...

The Art of Global Communication Considering that communication is something you do every day, how many people actually stop to consider what is happening before they speak? Can you just talk without thinking too much about the target audience, the message to be communicated, and a host of other information? Communication is too important to be left to chance. The subtleties of language, expressions, and gestures all enrich the more...

Progressing through the Complex Sale ...organization. So it's not surprising that these buying decisions are made by those at the top. But getting to these decision-makers isn't easy, which is why selling at an executive level is a more complex operation that requires all the resources of the highly skilled salesperson. This course is directed at supplying those resources. Salespeople who are tasked with selling at an executive level more...

Customer Relationship Management Implementing CRM Customer Relationship Management: Implementing CRM introduces the student to the goals of CRM, the costs of CRM, and ways to modify operations costs to become customer focused. The program also details CRM pre-implementation strategies, the CRM implementation process, and tactics used to test CRM. This series is intended for managers, supervisors, customer service representatives, and anyone more...

Customer Relationship Management eCRM Customer Relationship Management: eCRM introduces the students to managing customer relationships over the Internet. The program details the characteristics of eCRM, how departments can use eCRM to automate processes, and how to customize eCRM interfaces for each type of eCRM user. This series is intended for managers, supervisors, customer service representatives, and anyone within an more...

Sales Communication Skills Communicating & Managing: Communication Skills, is the sixth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the background information that helps you to qualify prospects, list sources of prospects, identify guidelines for canvassing and list the criteria for identifying the decision-maker in an organization. The PrimeSales curriculum engages more...

Sales Gathering Information Starting the Sale: Gathering Information, is the ninth of sixteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the background information that helps you to qualify prospects, list sources of prospects, identify guidelines for canvassing, and list the criteria for identifying the decision-maker in an organization. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales more...

Relationship Management Preparing the Client Relationship In Relationship Management - Preparing the Client Relationship, you will learn about the importance of developing a relationship with a client in which you serve not as a salesperson, but as a trusted advisor. You will learn what unique needs clients have as a result of the Information Age and the importance that trust plays in turning clients into loyal customers. You will also learn what more...

Customer Relationship Management Fundamentals of CRM Customer Relationship Management: Fundamentals of CRM introduces the student to the benefits of creating customer loyalty, developing a market intelligence enterprise, and incorporating customer relationship management into your company. The program also details the three steps a company can take to create customer loyalty, the four marketing tiers, the four types of CRM, and the four steps of the more...

ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management ...Organizations that provide IT services to internal or 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 more...

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 more...

ITIL Service Level and Capacity Management ...organizations must achieve and maintain a balance between the quality of IT service given and received in a manner that is both customer focused and cost effective. Simultaneously, organizations need to provide the required capacity for data processing and storage, at the right time and in a cost effective way. The delivery and support of IT services are divided into core processes within the more...

ITIL Problem and Change Management ...approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help organizations set up rigorous processes to identify, classify, and resolve problems and errors, as well as identify and implement appropriate solutions. The delivery and support of IT services are divided into core processes within ITIL. This course covers two service support processes: problem management and change management. This more...

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 more...

ITIL Financial and Security Management ...organizations face numerous challenges every day. Two of the biggest challenges are to become and stay profitable and to protect their systems from unauthorized access. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help IT organizations set up rigorous processes to aid in their efforts to become and remain solvent and to more...

The Contact Center and Technical Support Agent ...organizations have realized that it is easier to generate revenue from an existing customer base than to find new customers. Retaining customers has become paramount, and technical support has become a valuable resource. Driven by Customer Relationship Management (CRM) principles, this course explains how the role of the technical support agent (TSA) has changed as businesses realize the more...

The Inbound Call Center Inbound call center managers of this century will face many of the same challenges that their counterparts faced in the 20th century. The emphasis will still be on the development and acquisition of cost-effective methods to provide customers with the service they demand. By ensuring that you have a good knowledge base of the inbound call center industry, you are establishing a sturdy framework more...

Inbound Call Center Management Leadership Did you know that your personality can greatly affect your leadership skills? Are you aware that even if you are a fabulous manager, you may not be an effective leader? As a call center manager, how can you motivate everyone, including senior management, to work together toward a common goal? As you progress through this "Inbound Call Center Management: Leadership" course, you will become aware more...

Inbound Call Centers People Management Inbound call centers are often the only link between a company and its customers. As a call center manager, you want to hire agents with special customer 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 more...

Inbound Call Center Technology Today, the technology within the inbound call center is constantly changing and improving. How can you, as a call center manager, keep up with this advancing technology? Moreover, why should you? This course will explain the fundamentals of inbound call center technology, and explore ways current technology might evolve. It examines different methods of obtaining this technology, and outlines how more...

Performance Metrics for an Inbound Call Center The call center environment typifies the active, fast pace of the business world. In this hectic environment, is there time to consider how things are being done? There should be. As the call center industry slowly transforms into a customer management industry, the impetus will be on call center managers to ensure customers receive the best service possible. But where do you look to analyze more...

Excellence in Internal Customer Service ...ant. But what about taking a different approach? Has your organization tried looking inwardly to find the answers to offering great service? Organizations consist of an independent chain of individuals and functional units, each taking inputs from one another and turning them out into external customer service. If everyone within the organization works to provide their "internal" customers with more...

Working With Internal Customers ...r internal customers. By helping other people within your organization, you enable it to succeed. Great internal customer service improves people's morale, productivity, and external customer service, and ultimately makes your organization more financially secure. Giving great service to your internal customers means that people you work with can see, hear, and feel that they are valued. When more...

The Client-Consultant Relationship ...ive working relationships. Understanding more about their organizations and what they expect from you will be essential if you are to provide a high-quality service that will excite them. You will also need to know how to recognize all the stakeholders and the real decision makers within an organization, and build teams that can function quickly and effectively. Anyone with some specialist more...

Essentials of External Consulting ...he role means being an advocate or representative of your organization. For such a role, you'll need excellent client-facing skills. These include communication and listening, presenting, report-writing, meetings and negotiation. Combining this with, in equal measure, qualities of leadership, creativity, and emotional intelligence. In this course, you'll find out more about the role of an more...

The Call Center Industry When people pick up a phone and hear someone greeting them from the XYZ Company, they put little thought into the people, process, or technology behind the phone call. To them, the person on the phone is just a voice on the other end of the line. This course will examine all of the aspects of a call center. In order to facilitate this examination, this course has been broken down into three parts: more...

Diagnosing and Planning ...help you to evaluate the strategic position of the client organization, which is vital. To deliver solutions that are relevant and appropriate to the client's particular business, you must have a knowledge of the organization. Each organization is unique: there are different people and different challenges. One size does not fit all. You cannot respond to each and every organization in the same more...

Establishing a Relationship with Internal Clients ...organization, you still need to spend time getting to know them, and understanding what it is they require from you. When you are dealing with internal clients, there may be a temptation to think you know everything about them, and about the project. This course will stop you from making that mistake. It will enable you to understand your clients' needs clearly, in terms of project requirements more...

The Support Center Service This course is intended to instruct the learner in the Help Desk Institute's (HDI) basic levels of service commitments and attitude. Best practices, personal accountability, enhancing the image of the organization, and the work environment are covered. Individuals interested in the Help Desk Institute's (HDI) Customer Support Specialist (CSS) certification more...

The Technical Professional as Internal Consultant ...ionally, consultants have been seen as experts outside an organization who are hired to appraise a situation and recommend paths toward improvement. These agents of change may be brought in to downsize a company, recommend efficiency improvements, recommend ways to improve employee morale, or facilitate other changes. Today, companies are selecting technical professionals within the more...

Project Leadership Communicating Within a Project Team Project Leadership: Communicating Within a Project Team covers how to promote team communication, why communication fails, and the types of communication styles. It also details how project managers should conduct meetings and manage decisions. In addition, it covers the types of project documents used to convey information and how to present that information to the various levels of stakeholders more...

Project Management Government This course focuses on project management for Federal Government agencies. Specifically, the course focuses on the differences between project management in a private organization and in the federal government This course series is designed for project managers who have a fundamental understanding of project management concepts, but are looking to apply these concepts within their government more...

An Introduction to Project Management PMBOK-Third Edition aligned ...rapidly expanding, as more companies become project-based organizations. However, not all organizations and industries manage projects well. Some continue to waste time, money, and resources even after establishing procedures and protocols. A 1995 Standish Group survey showed that only 16 percent of software development projects finished on time and under budget, 31 percent were canceled, and more...

Project Management Essentials Simulation ...hicago-based firm that works with corporate and municipal organizations to develop, manage, and complete project plans. While KPDM is equipped to provide the full spectrum of PM oversight and management (from drafting a project charter to bringing a task through to completion and delivery), they also handle isolated aspects of projects to meet their clients' particular needs. The simulation is more...

Functions of IT Project Management William Shakespeare wrote, "Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great; some achieve greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them." Good information technology (IT) project managers are trained, not born. As an IT project manager, you can achieve greatness by improving and developing your own skills through continued education and experience. Your management skills will become better more...

Managing Efficiencies of IT Projects ...w 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 management techniques that address common application development more...

Project Management Fundamentals The evolution of business strategies has increased the importance of management having a thorough understanding of the products they produce. More and more employees are getting promoted from within to become project managers as they fully understand what they are trying to produce and how best to meet the quality and quantity requirements set forth by upper management. Project management, as a more...

Planning Project Procurement and Requesting Seller Responses ...sed or acquired from elsewhere within, or outside of, the organization. This process of acquisition and purchasing is Project Procurement Management, and it is a critical aspect of any project. As you advance in this course, you will gain an understanding of what processes are involved in Project Procurement Management, and how these processes interact with the overall project life cycle. You more...

Program Planning ...ciated with a failed program could be devastating to your organization, making the proper program planning that much more important.This course will help you create your program plan by creating a Program Work Breakdown Structure (PWBS), and the program's schedule, cost, and quality plans. It will also examine the effects a program's human resources, communication, and purchase planning have on more...

Program Lifecycle and Organization Regardless of your industry, programs and program management exist within their context and act as the infrastructure for implementing strategies. Effective program managers must 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 more...

Advanced Project Management Setting Up a Project Office In Advanced Project Management: Setting Up a Project Office, you will learn terms associated with project office and the different functions a project office can fulfill. You will also learn how an organization can determine the need for, plan, and implement a project office. Project managers who are responsible for managing all aspects of a project from start to finish, for managing multiple more...

Advanced Project Management Project Management Maturity In Advanced Project Management: Project Management Maturity, you will learn how projects are typically managed and what processes and tools usually exist at each of the five maturity level. You will also learn how to assess a department or organization s maturity level, obstacles that prevent attaining high maturity levels, and how executives can promote project management. Project managers who more...

Project Management Professional Integration Management ...s for aligning project plans with other activities in the organization, define the five key general management skills essential to project management and identify the steps in implementing a change control system. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas of organization, resource management, quality more...

Project Management Professional Scope Management Project Management: Scope Management, is the second of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify sources of scope creep, identify the steps in controlling scope creep and identify the steps in scope verification. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas more...

Project Management Professional Time Management I Project Management: Time Management I, is the third of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to calculate the critical path, calculate float and identify essential network concepts. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas of organization, resource management, more...

Project Management Professional Cost Management Project Management: Cost Management, is the fifth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to calculate a cost performance index, calculate a schedule performance index and calculate your estimate at completion using three different methods . The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination more...

Project Management Professional Quality Management Project Management: Quality Management, is the sixth of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify quality management principles, interpret control charts, identify the steps involved in creating a cause and effect diagram and use Pareto analysis to identify the primary causes of a problem. The Prime-Project Management Professional more...

Project Management Professional Human Resources Management ...f this course you will be able to recognize the impact of organizational structures on project management, identify the five key barriers to collaboration and identify appropriate strategies for selecting project personnel. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas of organization, resource management, quality more...