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Valuing Diversity Course description -- This course provides an excellent base for the manager to learn about his or her own beliefs and to see the potential of a diverse workplace. There are tools and techniques to help a supervisor learn to recognize the positive contributions all employees make in achieving the goals of the organization. There are suggestions for modeling and promoting organizational values and more...

Managing People : Planning a Meeting ...es for building teams, gaining commitment and encouraging participation but only when they're properly planned and executed by everyone involved. This course looks at how to make the most of every business meeting through planning and preparation. It will help you decide whether it's right to meet at all and shows you how to prepare agendas that focus meetings on achieving results. Good more...

Managing People : Leading a Meeting Meetings are opportunities: to share information, exchange ideas and contribute to decisions. They're excellent vehicles for building teams, gaining commitment and encouraging participation but only when they're properly planned and executed by everyone involved. This course shows you how to make the most of every business meeting. It will help you become a dynamic and effective leader whose more...

Managing People : Following up a Meeting Meetings are opportunities: to share information, exchange ideas and contribute to decisions. They're excellent vehicles for building teams, gaining commitment and encouraging participation but only when they're properly planned and executed by everyone involved. This course will help you make the most of every business meeting. It will show you how to successfully follow up on your meetings so more...

Face to Face Communications : Effective Questioning Communicating clearly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course focuses on the art of questioning. It examines the difference between open and closed questions and when to use them for best effect. It demonstrates how to use strategic questioning techniques to defuse a difficult situation, more...

Launching Successful On-site and Virtual Teams One factor that defines team success is the way in which a team is launched. Quickly moving an on-site or a virtual team into high-performance mode takes planning, strategizing, and a seamless launch. In this course, you'll learn techniques for setting up a successful team that can be applied to an on-site or a virtual environment. First, you'll learn strategies for selecting high-performing team more...

Leading Effective Business Meetings Since there are more than 11 million meetings held every day 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 more...

Teamwork and Emotional Intelligence Elizabeth and Cassandra started with the same company at the same time in similar positions. Both were bright women. Both were at the top of the class at prestigious universities. Both had exceptional technical skills. Yet, after six months in the organization, Elizabeth seemed to be making a bigger impact and enjoying more success. She was friendly with members of her own department and knew many more...

International Finance Perhaps you have wondered how one can successfully navigate the maze of options and opportunities offered by the international financial markets. Are there ways to maximize profits while effectively minimizing risk when it comes to dealing on the global level? This course will demonstrate why you would want to transform your purely domestic firm into a multinational corporation; how you decide more...

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 more...

Quality-minded Management The ISO 9000:2000 family of standards structures its Quality Management System (QMS) model into four major clauses: Management Responsibility, Resource Management, Product Realization, and Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement. This course provides an overview of the clause "Management Responsibility." It details management's role in establishing a quality policy and its responsibility to support more...

Doing Business with the Government This course explains how to identify, win, and manage contracts with the largest consumer of goods and services in the world--the U.S. government. Each year the federal government awards contracts worth over $200 billion to businesses of all sizes and diversity. Of the 20 percent of contracts designated for small businesses, one quarter are aimed at women-owned businesses and another quarter for more...

Facilitation: The Effective Facilitator In Facilitation: The Effective Facilitator participants will learn the characteristics and responsibilities of facilitators in team meeting situations. In addition they will learn the verbal and nonverbal strategies a facilitator can use to ensure full participation among team members and how to properly ask questions offer feedback and record information.  more...

Team Participation: Teamwork Fundamentals In Team Participation: Teamwork Fundamentals you will learn to be an effective team member. This course will teach you how to communicate effectively with team members and adapt to their various personality styles. You will also learn the various stages of team building and understand how to overcome common problems that teams encounter.  more...

Team Participation: Team Communication In Team Participation: Team Communication participants learn to develop their ability to communicate effectively as members of a team. They acquire an understanding of different aspects of verbal and nonverbal communication and learn techniques for using both types of communication to create a supportive team environment.  more...

Team Participation: Resolving Conflict in Teams In Team Participation: Resolving Conflict in Teams participants develop an understanding of the nature of team conflict and an awareness of different conflict resolution styles. Using the program's eight-step process for resolving conflict they are able avoid many of conflict's negative consequences and maximize its real benefits.  more...

Team Participation: Decision Making in Teams In Team Participation: Decision Making in Teams participants explore the process of reaching consensus examine the challenges of doing so and develop the ability to make positive contributions to team decisions.  more...