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Applying Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Course description -- Having logical intelligence will give you a good start in succeeding in your job. But to be more effective you must also develop your emotional intelligence. Using the two together, you will get along much better with your colleagues and know how to get ahead at work. You will learn how to handle your emotions and gear them towards a positive outcome. This course will teach more...

Preventing Sexual Harassment for Leaders Course description -- Leaders have a particular responsibility in preventing sexual harassment, and this course spells out just exactly what their role is. They will be given critical information to tell them what the law expects and direction on how to meet these legal requirements. The course provides tools and tips for promoting a harassment-free environment, and suggestions on how to set a more...

Applying Leadership Basics Course description -- Applying Leadership Basics provides the fundamental skills for leading a group: defining the task, establishing a vision, gaining commitment, and building relationships. It tells you how and when to use various leadership styles and gives smart techniques to help leaders direct the efforts of others. The Strategies and Tips in this module teach you how to foster innovation, more...

Dealing With Violence In The Workplace Course description -- More often than we care to admit, society and the workplace are becoming more violent. This course has tools and methods to help the manager or supervisor recognize potentially violent situations before they need attention, and then to take positive action to avoid or eliminate the potential problem. There is a wide array of techniques to help leaders use communication, more...

How To Master Staying Positive ...inconvenience, frustration, and even chaos. Maintaining a positive attitude and outlook has never been toughera or more important. The How to Master Staying Positive bundle is first aid for the stressed and stretched. Its courses provide guidance on managing stress, dealing with burnout and anger, time managementa and, to keep you focused on opportunity and growth, applying emotional more...

Leading Effective Teams Course description -- This practical, hands-on approach to team leadership addresses the three essential elements of creating an effective team: focusing on results, providing structure, and building positive interactions and teamwork. You will be given tools to help you document the purpose of your team and account for all the tasks that need to be done. You will learn techniques to help you keep more...

Managing Disagreement Course description -- Conflict comes in all formsa from a change in work processes to full-blown disagreement about the company's strategic planning. Fortunately, there are several techniques for managing disagreement, depending on which parties are involved and how important the issue is to each person. This course identifies the strategies for solving conflict and maintaining positive working more...

Recognizing and Managing Anger Course description -- After learning to identify the different sources of anger, you will be given tools and methods to help you determine the emotional roots of your own anger and recognize how it manifests in your life. Tips will help you recognize your responses to anger, and give you tools to manage it. You will also be given powerful techniques that will help you use your anger to gain more...

Setting Performance Goals and Expectations Course description -- Productive and motivated employees are those who clearly understand what is expected of them in terms of performance and behavior. This course has tools and methods for collaboratively establishing goals and specific performance criteria for all employees. There are tips to help you obtain commitment to the goals and methods to help you review performance goals regularly. It more...

Valuing Diversity ...nd 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 methods to gain involvement from diverse populations. The course also provides guidance on developing important organizational processes that support diversity, methods for 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...

Intercultural Business Etiquette ... sell on the Internet. This course addresses how to build positive business relationships with other cultures using tools and techniques to help you interpret body language, respect customs, and understand audiences. There are suggestions for recognizing and responding to conflicting priorities, different dress codes, and other details such as the proper etiquette for gift giving in the more...

Customer Service : Handling Customer Complaints ...positive experience. But nearly every one can be turned around. The customer whose complaint has been handled well is likely to be your customer for life. This course shows you how to deal with difficult customer situations. It will help you build the confidence to cope with demanding customers. It will help you to take a professional approach to soothing ruffled feathers and putting a smile more...

Customer Service : Handling Angry Customers ...positive experience. But nearly every one can be turned around. The customer who's complaint has been handled well is likely to be your customer for life. This course shows you how to deal with difficult customer situations. It will help you build the confidence to cope with angry customers and diffuse the tension. It will help you to take a professional approach to soothing ruffled feathers more...

Managing People: Giving Feedback and Praise to your Team If you are judged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Giving regular feedback is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. This course will help you understand why timely feedback is vital. It stresses the importance of praise and gives tips and hints on how to deliver constructive criticism more...

Managing People : Planning 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 looks at how to make the most of every business meeting through planning and preparation. It will help you decide whether 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...

Managing People : Reviewing a Coaching Experience ...ve recently coached a person the experience may have been positive or not so positive. In this course you'll examine a set of questions to help you decide whether this person was the best coaching candidate: whether you, the business and that person benefited from the coaching experience and whether you overcame obstacles to coaching. You can also examine some tips and hints for selecting the more...

Face to Face Communications : Making a Contribution to a Meeting ...get the best out of meetings and shows how you can make a positive contribution by understanding your role and making the most of the opportunities presented. It covers the different personality types you are likely to encounter and how to facilitate their contributions. It also gives tips on getting yourself heard and dealing with interruptions and conflict. Developing excellent communication more...

Putting Customers First Learn why you must care for your customers In today's business environment there's often little to choose between one organisation's products/services and another's. Quality of customer service can be the crucial difference between success and failure. This course will help ensure your customers have POSITIVE feelings about you and your organisation and so build customer loyalty. more...

Recruitment & Selection Series: Opening the Interview When a candidate comes for an interview, they are probably nervous, even a bit intimidated. If you want to get the environment right for a successful interview, you need to make them feel welcome and relaxed from the moment they step in the door. Candidates will perform better if put at ease, and they will leave with a positive attitude towards your company if they are treated well. more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Defining a Team's Direction Where people are working together, two plus two can equal more than four. People can achieve more than they would on their own as part of a cohesive and effective team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. Whether a team is in its early stages of growth or in need of some refocusing on a project, it is essential that more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Resolving Conflict within a Team Where people are working together, two plus two can equal more than four. People can achieve more than they would on their own as part of a cohesive and effective team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course investigates whether conflicts are inevitable or avoidable and common causes of conflict. You will more...

Coping with Stress Series: Short-Term Coping Strategies People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. We all need a certain degree of pressure, and pressure can have positive effects - deadlines, confrontations, competition - all add depth and colour to our lives. But they can also lead to stress. Even if you think you can cope, sudden and unexpected more...

Coping with Stress Series: Your Attitude to Stress People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. We all need a certain degree of pressure, and pressure can have positive effects - deadlines, confrontations, competition - all add depth and colour to our lives. But they can also lead to stress. But you can control your reaction. How you perceive more...

Conflict Management Series: What is Conflict? Conflict happens. Whether it's individuals clashing, organisational change or demanding customers, conflict is a normal part of working life. But it's something that people can find hard to handle and, if you don't manage it carefully, everyone can lose out: you, the organisation and your team. This course will examine what conflict is and broadly explain how it works: the issues that cause it, more...

Excellence in Service: Providing Superior Customer Service In Excellence in Service: Providing Superior Customer Service, you will learn how to develop and maintain a positive attitude, show extra attentiveness to your customers, and use customer-friendly language. In addition, you will learn how to effectively solve customers' problems and benefit from their complaints. more...

Working with Your Customer s Key Players Strong customer relationships are essential for long-term sales success. In this course, you'll learn about the second major component of the Strategic Account Sales (SAS) approach--communication. You'll start by learning about developing coach relationships in your target account. A vital part of your sales effectiveness depends on finding contacts at target accounts that can become part of an more...

Gaining Access to Key Personnel at Your Target Accounts In this course, you'll learn about the second major component of the territorial account sales approach: communication. You'll start by learning about coaching relationships. A vital part of your sales effectiveness depends on finding a key contact in each target account that can become your internal coach for the sales process. Then, you'll learn about gaining access to the right level at your more...

Initiating Outbound Sales Calls ...s. That is usually all the time you have to make a solid, positive impression on your customer. Knowing how to initiate an inside sales call is a key to your success. In this course, you will learn the strategies for dealing with voice mail and call screeners and for making a successful initial contact with a customer. You will also learn the four profile types and strategies for creating more...

Handling Contacts Professionally Maximize Call Performance 1 This course reviews the stages of a typical customer call flow and introduces several strategies to use to initiate a positive rapport with your client. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies more...

Handling Contacts Professionally Maximize Call Performance 2 This course discusses several methods that learners can employ to ensure that the customer contact is a positive experience. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies more...

Preparing for Mutual Success Satisfy Customer Needs This course helps learners to distinguish different customer characteristics, recognize appropriate techniques to successfully respond to each type of person and convert difficult situations into a positive experience. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies more...

Assessing Customer Behavior ...r-centric business model, dealing with all customers in a positive and efficient manner is paramount. But this goal can become daunting to a TSA who has not developed the ability to identify various behavior types and apply appropriate techniques to deal with them in a way that builds a positive relationship between the customer and the company. This course instructs agents in how to identify 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...

Working With Internal Customers Excellent customer service lies at the heart of any successful business. However, you should not overlook the importance of meeting the needs and expectations of your fellow employees, your 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 more...

Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems Managing relationships with your internal customers isn't always smooth sailing. When internal customer service does not go according to plan, problems occur, or communication breaks down, what can you do to get your plans back on track, and break down barriers? At times like these, you and your employees need to act swiftly and proactively to solve the problem, and regain the customer's trust. In more...

Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call ...mers by providing efficient solutions. At the end of this positive interaction, it makes sense to recommend additional or better products that will further aid customers. Customer service agents have become a vital source of additional sales revenue for companies. To cross-sell effectively, you need to prepare for the cross-selling call. This course covers identifying various types of customer more...

Interacting with the Customer Failing to realize the importance of customer service and effective complaint handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to overcome more...

Effective Communication Skills Effective communication is essential to the success of any customer-oriented business. Each customer will have their own style of communication as well as an emotional response to contacting a support center. In order to effectively communicate, the Customer Support Specialist (CSS) must understand how to adapt to these different styles and emotions before the customer's problems can be dealt more...

Managing Conflict Stress and Time ...and manage stress. It also highlights the importance of a positive approach and attitude in bringing customer interactions to a satisfactory conclusion. This course helps to prepare learners interested in the Help Desk Institute (HDI) Customer Support Specialist (CSS) certification, which is targeted to individuals wishing to qualify to work in a Customer Support Center/help desk environment. more...

Write for Business Success Break Writing Barriers Make a positive start to writing business documents. Professionals who want to enhance their written business communications by effectively addressing audience needs more...

Developing a Positive Attitude ...er is significantly influenced by your attitude. Having a positive attitude involves looking for the best in a situation, being realistic about possibilities and consequences, and having the courage to believe that you can succeed. It isn't always easy to be positive. You may feel that the odds are stacked against you, or you may find it hard to cope with the difficult and challenging more...

Business Professionalism Simulation ... on goals, aligning priorities and goals, demonstrating a positive attitude, reacting positively to criticism and feedback, and being assertive. The Business Professionalism Simulation comprises two scenarios and is based on the SkillSoft series "Business Professionalism." Throughout the simulation, links are provided to the following SkillSoft courses: PD0262, PD0263, and PD0264. Members of more...

Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace Simulation What are your thoughts on conflict in the workplace? Do you dread it? Quietly try to avoid it? Or do you rush headlong to meet it with enthusiasm, certain it will bring renewed vigor and badly-needed change to your organization? No matter your answer, the Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace Simulation will provide you with the opportunity to practice skills for coping with conflict and putting more...

Delivering Your Message ...ues you need to do this. First of all, you have to make a positive first impression on your audience members by how and where you stand, by your appearance, and how you look at them. Then, you must lead your audience through your message, referencing what is important through the language you use, and the physical techniques you employ. Finally, the course shows what is needed to make a more...

Presentation Resources Available to You ...loss of control. This course shows you that questions are positive opportunities to be grasped eagerly: they are a way of deepening your communication with the audience. But there are techniques to handling questions successfully, and they need to be learned and practiced. Sometimes, a speaker needs to appear in front of a client or colleagues and present, but as part of team. Each member of more...

Leading Effective Business Meetings ... 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 teach you how to make your meetings more successful by providing the tools and information that are necessary to lead an effective meeting. Business professionals who want to develop effective facilitation more...

An Essential Guide to Giving Feedback The performance of any business depends upon the performance of everyone within the organization. To ensure that all staff are meeting their potential it is essential that there is a culture which enables feedback to be given and received. This course enables you to become familiar with the key aspects of giving candid, constructive feedback about performance. The purpose of this course is to more...

Coping with Criticism and Feedback We all need feedback so that we can learn and improve. What we often get is criticism, or feedback given to us in such a way that we feel defensive or angry. When your emotions get involved, it is difficult to be objective and to use the feedback effectively. This course links the concept of emotional intelligence, and EQ, to the practice of receiving feedback. By doing this, it provides you with more...

Effective Feedback for Employees and Colleagues Simulation ...nce and increasing productivity. In order to achieve such positive results and avoid negative reactions, individuals must be aware of how others receive and employ feedback and learn the process of providing effective critiques. The Effective Use of Feedback for Employees and Colleagues Simulation will provide participants with the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to effectively more...

Teamwork and Results Without Authority When it comes to being a member of a team, what role do you think you should play? Legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant said, " In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first--ahead of personal glory." Yet, according to general George S. Patton Jr., "If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking." When it comes to getting more...

Leadership Without Authority Lily Tomlin said, "I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody." Tomlin could have been speaking on behalf of many employees in the corporate world who, despite having little authority, take it upon themselves to become leaders nonetheless. Becoming a leader, and getting results, without authority is especially important in today's corporate more...

Getting Results through Communication When you want something done, you have to either do it yourself or see to it that someone else does it. As adept as you may be at multi-tasking, there will be times when you'll need a colleague's help or buy-in to perform a task. But how can you effectively achieve results without any formal authority within the organization? Communication is the answer. Through the effective use of the various more...

Assertiveness from the Inside Out Do you sometimes wonder if there's a way to alter your professional style--to change yourself from the inside out? Do you want to develop your professional assertive style? Do you want to learn about strategies that can help you interact assertively with others in the workplace? Are you placed in situations where assertive negotiations are needed? Now is a good time to enhance your professional more...

Cultivating Great Teams Resolve Conflicts Positively This course provides techniques to analyze and resolve conflict in a manner that produces a positive solution for all involved. All levels of professionals who supervise the performance of other staff members. more...

Performance Appraisal Simulation ...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 employees, performance appraisals require more more...

Effective Mentoring Perhaps your organization has asked you to help induct a new employee. Maybe a junior colleague has approached you for guidance. Or perhaps you want to "fast track" a rising star into a particular leadership position. Whatever the case, before you sign on as a mentor you'll want to learn all you can about the process, from how mentoring benefits you and your career to how you can best assist your more...

Communication Skills for Successful Management Effective communication is a crucial component of your success as a manager. As a technical professional, you developed various communication skills that helped you to succeed. But, as a manager, you will need additional communication skills to be effective. This course will examine various aspects of successful communication strategies and skills. You will analyze the strategies of nonverbal more...

Addressing Problem Performance Simulation You're the head writer for The Jackie Lewis Show, a TV talk show on a basic cable channel. The six other writers and the writers assistant report to you. Unfortunately, several of these workers have become problem performers of one type or another. As their supervisor, you will need to inform them of these problem performance issues as well as facilitate improved performance using various methods, more...

Achieving Success with the help of a Mentor Perhaps you want to ask an expert in your field or organization to mentor you. Maybe a manager has offered to guide you up the organization ladder. Or perhaps you're participating in an organizationwide mentoring program. Whatever the case, you'll want to make the most of having a mentor in your corner. In "Achieving Success with the Help of a Mentor," you'll learn how a mentor can help you guide more...

Coaching for Business Coaching is a vital component of any business that aims to be a winner in the new economy. However, unless coaches are clear in their own minds exactly what their function is, and why they are performing a coaching role, they may do more harm than good. Therefore, it is important to understand how coaching originated as a business tool, and the ways it impacted traditional managerial attitudes and more...

Energizing and Empowering Employees Energy. Without it, the wheels and gigabytes of industry come to a screeching halt. And without energized, empowered employees, your part of global industry will make far less progress. This course introduces you to the importance of energizing and empowering employees. By doing so, you multiply the benefits to your department, team, and organization. The course begins by showing you ways to more...

Leading Change from the Front Line Have you ever wanted something at work to change, but no one ever addressed the issue, so you just put up with it? Maybe you didn't bring it up because you thought you were the only person who didn't like it. Maybe you didn't want to make a fool of yourself by making it an issue. Or maybe you thought your boss would be irritated if you mentioned it. If any of this sounds familiar, this course is more...

Leading the Workforce Generations Simulation The twenty-first century marks a new development in the workplace. Technology has changed the way we do business. We are faster, busier, and more knowledgeable. Not only do we have vast technological resources available to us; we are also the first to have personnel resources. The workforce today has seen and experienced the world change in different ways. It would not be uncommon for one worker more...

Delivering 360-Degree Performance Feedback Are you familiar with how to give 360-degree performance feedback? Do you know how to make 360-degree feedback meaningful? The effective delivery of 360-degree performance feedback can make or break your performance review program. You can ensure that performance feedback is effective when you, or your company, use good interviewing techniques, conduct an effective performance interview, and more...

360-Degree Performance Appraisal Simulation In this simulation, you will assume the role of Northeast Regional Director of Sales for IpSwitch Components, a seller and service provider of computer networking hardware. Recently, the company decided to experiment with a 360-degree performance feedback system, hoping to replace the traditional manager-level review process. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series 360-Degree Performance more...

Managing Upward Relationships ...cus is on the skills and strategies that support building positive and productive upward relationships and optimizing individuals' and organizations' performances. This course also offers the managers a common-sense perspective on how to keep their bosses happy, productive, and successful for their own success and for fostering a go The target for this path is senior level directors, senior more...

Successful Coaching Relationships Coaching is a set of practical skills and a style of relating that develop the potential of both the individual being coached and the coach. For this development to take place, there must be a working relationship between a coach and a willing coachee, a relationship based on mutual trust, respect, commitment and confidentiality. Within this collaborative framework, the coach uses a repertoire of more...

Mindsets Emotions and Coaching What makes coachees receptive to your advice? What makes them willing to listen? Much of your success depends on the mindset, moods, and emotions of the people you coach. If they are feeling negative about the coaching experience or overcome with anxiety about poor workplace performance, they are unlikely to be receptive--no matter how valuable your insight may be. Getting in tune with your more...

Coaching Trends ...ered, how coaching can be used to help coachees deal with positive and negative change, and ways of coaching innovators and mavericks. What factors are important when coaching teams? It's true that many of the techniques that you use for individual coaching will be the same. But when coaching teams, you'll need to run an initial meeting, set boundaries, and deal with team tension. In order for more...

The Personal Approach in Delegation Have you delegated tasks only to later find out that the task wasn't completed properly or that it wouldn't be completed on time? Perhaps you need to reevaluate your delegation skills. This course will help you work more effectively with employees in a delegation situation. As you progress through "The Personal Approach in Delegation" course in the "Effective Delegation" series, you will discover more...

Strategic Approaches to Labor Relations HRCI SPHR ...mployee involvement strategies and strategies that foster positive employee relations. It also covers those strategies that resolve conflict in an amicable manner, such as formal complaint resolutions. This course prepares HR professionals and managers who are preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification examination.The more...

Employee Relations HRCI PHR ...ping to ensure that your company's employee relations are positive and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in the areas of employee relations, employee and individual rights and relations, and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaints. In the area of more...

Behavior Putting Your Best Foot Forward Are you interested 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 more...

Advanced Administrative Support Simulation ...ism like a professional. After the meeting, maintaining a positive attitude and avoiding the influence of negative people are among the challenges you'll face. If you take Maxine's advice and successfully improve your skills, you'll then try to establish a partnership with her. This will involve effectively pitching your partnership proposal. If she agrees to the proposal, you'll then have to more...

Getting Started--The Administrative Support Professional The skills needed to fulfill the requirements of today's administrative support professionals are numerous. Day-to-day, they must be flexible as they work in an ever-changing business environment. They must use interpersonal skills that help them deal effectively with clients, visitors, and other office professionals. They must also manage their time effectively to function successfully. This more...

Effective Administrative Support Professional Simulation Today's office setting is high-tech and fast-paced. Successful administrative support professionals must keep up with the requirements of the modern-day office environment, and this simulation tests the skills and procedures that will help you do just that. As administrative assistant to the VP of Sales for the Northeast Division of BMS Printed Circuits, you'll experience the full spectrum of more...

Analyzing Cash Flow Statements Have you ever had to make a really tough business decision? They can be hard to make, especially since a bad decision can ruin a company. Fortunately there is a way to make a more informed and better business decision; by analyzing your company's financial statements. They contain information that can help you improve your company's efficiency and overall effectiveness. Cash flow statement more...

Six Sigma--Measurement System Re-analysis ...t 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 achieved more...

Inventory Management In today's economy, companies must be able to move large quantities of product quickly to locations across the globe. Overnight delivery methods have drastically altered customers' expectations regarding delivery times. Lead times of four to six weeks are no longer acceptable. In light of these changes, effective Inventory Management is no longer static- the emphasis is on movement, and quick more...

Building Brand Equity Every time a corporate merger or buy-out occurs, you are sure to see plenty of headlines about the number of subsidiary companies each corporation owns. Here's why: brand equity. It's a fact that each subsidiary of a corporation has a value linked to its brand names, in addition to its base dollar-value. This value is measured by the consumer's attitudes and loyalties toward the brand. more...

Mold Awareness Many businesses and organizations, including government-owned facilities, can experience 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 more...

Excellence in Service - Fundamentals for Employees In Excellence in Service: Fundamentals for Employees you will learn how to develop the skills needed to effectively relate to customers fulfill their needs and develop a positive customer service attitude. You will understand the importance of going beyond just satisfying customers. You will also differentiate between internal and external customer needs and understand the relationship between more...

Business Writing - The Fundamentals Professionals are required to communicate effectively and in a meaningful way with coworkers and clients. The Business Writing series will provide professionals with the skills necessary to write effectively in the business environment. Business considerations such as tone paragraph structure writing positive and negative messages effectively and proposal writing are key topics covered in this more...

Business Writing - Writing Effective Proposals Professionals are required to communicate effectively and in a meaningful way with coworkers and clients. The Business Writing series will provide professionals with the skills necessary to write effectively in the business environment. Business considerations such as tone paragraph structure writing positive and negative messages effectively and proposal writing are key topics covered in this more...

Telephone Skills: Understanding Basic Professionalism on the Phone In Telephone Skills: Professionalism Through Basic Skills you will learn to effectively perform basic telephone skills. You will also learn how to convey a positive professional image and use technology to increase your efficiency. In addition you will learn how to organize and supply your workspace to maximize focus.  more...

Delegation: Understanding Delegation ...easons why it is so important the course then teaches the positive results of delegation as well as how to identify potential delegates and some strategies for managing them effectively. The course encourages learners to examine their existing supervisory and delegation skills before teaching delegation styles and the characteristics of good delegators. The course ends with useful teaching more...

Administrative Assistant Skills: Excelling as an Administrative Assistant In Administrative Assistant Skills: Excelling as an Administrative Assistant you will learn how to make office politics a positive tool build strong business relationships and manage temporary staff effectively. You will also learn how to create a stress management plan and develop a positive attitude. In addition you will learn how to work effectively with your supervisor work well with multiple more...

Interpersonal Communication: Telephone Skills Interpersonal Communication: Telephone Skills will help you develop the skills needed to project a positive image on the telephone properly address callers and establish good rapport. You will be provided with opportunities to incorporate positive personal attributes into telephone interactions employ strategies to control a conversation and effectively handle situations with difficult callers.  more...

Professional Selling Over the Phone: Prospecting Professional Selling Over the Phone: Prospecting offers the student examples of sources for finding telesales prospects and information to leave on prospects' voice mail. The program provides a process for maintaining a positive attitude and identifies the components of the soft sell. In addition the program offers the student guidelines for building and maintaining relationships with prospects.  more...

Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Communicating to Build a Positive Culture Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Communicating to Build a Positive Culture gives the student an overview of the dimensions of organizational culture and how communication perpetuates an organization's culture. This program also defines what a cultural network is and offers guidelines for using the cultural network to your advantage. Steps for empowering employees are also offered in this more...

Emotional Intelligence: Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills Emotional Intelligence: Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills gives the student an overview of the use of Emotional Intelligence in corporations and provides a process for applying Emotional Intelligence in everyday activities. The program covers how the process can be applied in various situations including being assertive providing and accepting feedback building positive work environments more...

Business Etiquette: Office Protocol Business Etiquette: Office Protocol offers students an overview of how to build relationships and conduct themselves professionally. The program details how to create a professional appearance develop positive relationships with co-workers and practice cubicle and office etiquette. In addition the program teaches learners the appropriate use of the Internet at work as well as how to handle more...

Decision Making & Problem Solving: Problem Solving Fundamentals In Decision Making & Problem Solving: Problem Solving Fundamentals you will learn to use a systematic approach to solve problems. In this program you will face several problems in your organization and successfully use your problem solving skills in order to produce a positive outcome.  more...

Frontline Leadership: Positively Influencing Workplace Culture Frontline Leadership: Positively Influencing Workplace Culture covers the factors that determine workplace culture and outlines a process for leading employees through culture changes. This program also covers two styles of frontline leadership and offers tips for fostering a positive work environment addressing negativity and inspiring employee innovation.  more...

Conducting Meetings: Effective Meeting Communication Conducting Meetings: Effective Meeting Communication enables participants to build a positive climate during a meeting and follow best practices of verbal and nonverbal communication to conduct a successful meeting.  more...

Essentials of Management: Succeeding as a New Manager Essentials of Management: Succeeding as a New Manager equips individuals with the skills needed to transition effectively into their role as a new manager. They learn how to make a positive first impression and what actions will enable them to gain respect as a new manager. In addition students learn how to maintain control and enhance employee productivity.  more...

Essentials of Management: Creating a Positive Workplace In Essentials of Management: Creating a Positive Workplace students learn techniques for encouraging positive behavior on the job as well as the best methods for addressing negative attitudes. In addition students learn how to apply guidelines for creating a fun atmosphere throughout their office department or division.  more...

Managing Performance: Establishing a Performance Plan In Managing Performance: Establishing a Performance Plan you will learn the process for managing performance how to conduct a performance planning meeting and how to document the performance plan. In addition you will learn how to provide positive and constructive feedback as well as how to coach your employees throughout the appraisal period.  more...

Managing Generations in the Workplace: Generations Working Together In Managing Generations in the Workplace: Generations Working Together you will learn the importance of managing the generations in the workplace. It teaches how intergenerational confrontation can be a positive interaction how to effectively coach and manage intergenerational teams so as to maximize their performance and how to motivate employees and promote winning behaviors.  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...