Online Productive eLearning Training

Leading Effective Meetings Course description -- Meetings, meetings, meetings. You cana t live with them and you cana t live without them. Make sure that the meetings you lead are organized, focused, and productive. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) BROWSER REQUIRED - can't use Netscape or other browsers for this training. more...

Setting Performance Goals and Expectations ...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 also includes more...

Leadership and Team Development: Managing Meetings MAXIM TRAINING Every single manager gets involved in meetings. For many, they take up a significant part of every working week. Many meetings are costly failures, achieving little more than frustration and de-motivation for those attending. Yet, successful meetings can achieve a tremendous amount and be one of the major driving forces in successful organisations. This course provides you with a 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 : Preparing for a Formal Appraisal If you are judged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. This course will help you understand how to prepare for appraisal. It will show you how to get team members in the right frame of mind for their appraisal, and to get the stage 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...

Face to Face Communications : Making a Contribution to a Meeting ...munication. This course shows you how to make meetings as productive as possible. It demonstrates how careful preparation ensures you 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 more...

The Assertive Manager ...productive relationships at work To be successful, you need productive relationships at work. This course will help you understand different types of behaviour, their characteristics and their potential impact on the people you work with. It gives guidance on how to use assertive behaviours to express your ideas, beliefs and feelings and responsive behaviours to find out what others think, more...

Employee Performance: Resolving Conflict Learn the strategies and tactics necessary for effective conflict resolution in Employee Performance: Resolving Conflict. You will be given the opportunity to create a more productive work environment by addressing conflict between another manager and yourself, between employees, and among team members. more...

Framing the Problem ...identifying these assumptions, you'll be able to tell the productive ones from the nonproductive. You'll also explore specific strategies for getting to the heart of any problem and learn dynamic techniques for framing that problem so that success is greatly enhanced. In the end, your ability to frame problems will be museum-qua Executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and other more...

Overview of Business Process Management ...zations 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 Sigma 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...

The Client-Consultant Relationship ...and their needs are the vital first steps to establishing productive 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 more...

Stakeholder Interests and Cultural Diversity PMBOK aligned ...onsibility. Weighing these interests in the most fair and productive manner is an acquired art you can't afford to neglect. But that's not all. In an increasingly global network, project managers won't get far without an understanding of cultural diversity, and how to work successfully with multi-national teams. Sensitivity to other groups, their social customs, and their means of doing more...

Advanced Project Management Building Productive Stakeholder Relationships ...Productive Stakeholder Relationships teaches learners how to classify stakeholders as primary, strategic, and operational sponsors and how to determine stakeholders needs and expectations. It covers how to create a formal communication plan, how to resolve conflict with stakeholders, and what steps are commonly used to control change. Finally, it teaches questions to ask stakeholders to learn more...

The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations In the organizational arena, applied critical thinking skills provide an essential foundation for all effective planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities. Employees who can analyze and reason consistently and proficiently furnish a cost-efficient resource that results in a distinctive competitive advantage. Workers who are skeptical of quick fixes and operational dogma pay 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...

The Process of Interpersonal Communications ...productive in today's business environment without being an effective communicator. This is particularly true if achievement of your goals depends on your ability to influence others. You need to be able to communicate your ideas, instructions, thoughts, and feelings accurately. This is not as easy as it may seem, and ineffective communication is often at the core of a high proportion of the more...

Remote Manager Practices - Motivating Employees In this course, you will learn the importance of setting effective goals for telecommuting employees. Additionally, you will learn how to use motivational techniques to keep telecommuting employees engaged, interested, and productive. The target audience for this course is new and experienced managers that are managing a telecommuting employee for the first time. more...

Understanding Technical Professionals As a manager, have you felt that technical professionals are sometimes difficult to understand? Do you find that the usual management models are not as effective as they could be? This course explains the ways in which these employees differ from other workers and how you can apply more appropriate and effective management techniques. You will also learn how business has responded with new more...

Process Management Skills Efficiency, in software terms, can be the difference between ineffective, poorly designed software, and elegant, intuitive software. Efficiency in manufacturing is the difference between processes that yield top quality products at a reasonable price, and processes that spit out shoddy products regardless of price. Likewise, efficiency is critical to the effectiveness of a manager and to the more...

Leadership Development for Technical Professionals Managers must direct the activities of workers to address tactical or short-term issues while still maintaining a vision of the strategic or long-term goal. Therefore, the skills needed for an effective leader are varied and complex. For you, the technical professional, this means evaluating your current leadership skills. It also includes the development of more refined managerial skills such as more...

Team Leadership Conducting Productive Team Meetings ...Productive Team Meetings gives the student an overview of conducting meetings in a team setting and explains the development of meeting agendas. The program covers in detail the steps for developing agendas and conducting team meetings, the different types of meetings, and the guidelines for preventing ineffective team meetings. Managers and team leaders who want to conduct productive team more...

Managing Upward Relationships ... 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 managers of more...

Successful Coaching Relationships ...of the coachee. This course shows learners what fosters a productive coaching relationship and what prevents such relationships. The course analyzes the role of the coach and examines learning styles to see how adults approach learning tasks in different ways. The target includes not only team members, team leaders, and supervisors, but also managers and CEOs--anyone in an organization who has more...

The Mark of a Leader Do you feel that your people can't get along without you? If you're not available, do your people lack direction and therefore, productivity suffers? If you feel that you've been overmanaging and underleading, this course is for you. There is a strong difference between activities and roles of effective managers and those of successful leaders. You'll discover what some of those key differences more...

Six Sigma--Lean Tools for Control Two key methodologies for improving operations in the manufacturing world are lean manufacturing and Six Sigma . Both are designed to reduce variation, yet each takes a different track. While Six Sigma utilizes data and statistical analysis to measure and improve a company's operational performance, lean manufacturing collocates all of an organization's processes in sequential order, restructuring more...

Total Productive Maintenance TPM ... to reduce downtime and minimize maintenance costs. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a systematic approach to eliminating waste associated with production equipment and machinery. It is an approach that seeks to engage all levels and functions in an organization to maximize the overall effectiveness of production equipment. This course examines how TPM emphasizes the importance of more...

Drug-free Workplace Would you know what to do if you suspected that one of your employees was abusing drugs or alcohol during work hours? Does your company have a program supervisors can follow to effectively handle such problems--one that educates employees about the consequences of substance abuse? Do you think that alcohol and other drug abuse won't be a problem at your organization? In fact, the National more...

E-Commerce 7 0 This WestNet e-Learning module explores the extensive, invisible "back-end" systems that make online business possible: credit cards and electronic cash, Web marketing strategies, search engines that bring customers to online storefronts, and integrated systems of specialized servers that handle complex transactions at a distance. more...

SAP R 3 4 6 FI AR AP Account Document Posting and Periodic Processing SAP's FI module is a powerful, integrated environment, dynamically interfacing Accounts Receivable/Payable functions with General Ledger and Assets Accounting. You will usually encounter both FI and CO (Cost Center Controlling) in a business environment. The procedures for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable are very similar in R/3. In this course you will learn to process posting more...

Migrating to Lotus Notes R5 ...elp users understand new features so that they can become productive more quickly. It should be noted, however, that all features Notes users are accustomed to are still in the product; in some cases they have been moved into a different area or are accessed in a different way. Designed to help current users of Lotus Notes Versions 4.x or lower to learn and understand the basics of Lotus Notes more...

Employee Performance: Resolving Conflict In "Employee Performance: Resolving Conflict " you will learn the strategies and tactics necessary for effective conflict resolution. You will be given the opportunity to create a more productive work environment by addressing conflict between another manager and yourself between employees and among team members.  more...

Time Management: Overcoming Challenges Time Management: Overcoming Challenges gives students an overall view of how to control time in order to improve productivity. The program covers how to control productivity by dealing with people and managing information and offers the student techniques to overcome time management challenges. The program also covers handling interruptions keeping meetings productive and organizing paperwork more...

Essentials of Management: Maintaining a Productive Workforce In Essentials of Management: Maintaining a Productive Workforce students learn various ways to improve a job process to provide support to help employees stay productive to offer employees feedback and to apply strategies for improving productivity. In addition managers learn how to help employees overcome three main productivity problems encountered in the workplace.  more...

Team Leadership: Conducting Productive Team Meetings Team Leadership: Conducting Productive Team Meetings gives the student an overview of conducting meetings in a team setting and explains the development of meeting agendas. The program covers in detail the steps for developing agendas and conducting team meetings the different types of meetings and the guidelines for preventing ineffective team meetings.  more...

Project Management for Software Development The key elements of successful projects are good time and cost control and an effective, motivated team. Both can be achieved through a participatory approach to developing and using schedules, budgets, and reporting systems. The focus of this course is therefore on teaching the student collaborative ways of using technical management systems and tools on projects. Instruction is provided both for more...