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Authorware for Educators This course is for educators who want to learn the basics of a multimedia authoring program in a short amount of time. Authorware can be used to create all kinds of interactive multimedia programs such as performance-support applications and educational games. The textbook for this course guides you step by step through the development of several Authorware projects. Each lesson in the textbook more...

Learn Authorware In 45 Days ...uthorware. An instructor is available by e-mail to answer questions about the Authoring projects. The course comes with a 45 day trail version of Authorware 5.0. I have found that by learning the basics of Authorware 5.0 one can easily move up to Authorware 6 or 7. If you pay for transportation and room/board I would be willing to offer my class on site. I only teach the basics of the more...

How to Ask The Right Questions To Maximize Influence And Minimize Objections Develop a deliberate strategy that results in overcoming objections and makes and keeps the sale. more...

QuickBooks Pro 2000 Level 1 This introductory course takes the student through the basic accounting functionalities of QuickBooks Pro 2000. The course will also show basic QuickBooks users how to use Help features to assist them in answering their questions. more...

Interviewing Job Candidates Course description -- This is a practical course with tools and methods to help you prepare to get the results you want. You will learn how to define exactly what youa re looking for in a job candidate, and be given checklists and discussion guides for asking the right questions to get relevant answers. The course addresses the most common legal pitfalls and how to avoid them, as well as issues more...

Pharmacy Technician National Certification Exam Preparation Course ...r. This rigorous exam is comprised of 100 multiple choice questions and is given over the course of two hours. When you register to take the National Certification Exam, it will cost you $129. Then, if you do not pass the exam, you will have to pay $129 for each attempt! Dona t let your original registration money go to waste by not being fully prepared for this exam! Improve your chances for more...

An Entrepreneur s Guide To Starting A Medical Billing Company A 25 page self-directed marketing course designed for those interested in establishing a home based medical billing business. Student may submit questions and have materials reviewed. 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...

Preparing for the Praxis II Subject Assessments This course is designed to prepare you for The Praxis II Subject Assessments by concentrating on three keys to success: understanding the exams, preparing for the exams, and developing a Praxis State of Mind. Students learn to read test questions critically, prepare targeted study plans, and get tips that will improve their chances of passing. more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance - Budgeting Basics MAXIM TRAINING At work, as managers, we're all involved in the budgeting process in some way or another. But few of us understand why budgeting is so important. Before you begin budgeting yourself, you need to grasp some key concepts. This course explores some basic questions about budgeting: What is a budget? Why are budgets necessary? What's involved at each stage of the budgeting process? more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Understanding Balance Sheets ...questions asked about companies: What's a healthy business? What's the right balance of debt in company funding? How should a company's funds be employed? Most of us have no idea of the financial realities that underpin our companies. That's where this course will help! It introduces some basic financial principles. You'll understand your own role in your company's financial well-being and be more...

Managing People : Selecting a Coaching Candidate If you're a manager, .... or a specialist .... or just good at your job, the chances are that at some time, you'll be called on to give your colleagues a helping hand, to pass on your skills .... to become a coach. This course will show you how to improve the results of the people you work with through effective coaching. You may have someone in mind that you want to coach. In this course you'll more...

Managing People : Reviewing a Coaching Experience ...r 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 best coaching candidate in the future. Select the best coaching more...

Presentation Skills : Handling Questions The thought of giving a presentation can turn the most rational person into a nervous wreck. But in business, presentations are superb opportunities to put your point across, to get people on your side, and to persuade people to act! Question sessions are often your final opportunity to grasp these opportunities to shine. This course will give you the skills and confidence you need for handling more...

Face to Face Communications : Effective Questioning ...oning. 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, encourage participation, build empathy and check understanding. It also gives you the opportunity to practise and explore your questioning techniques. Developing excellent communication skills more...

Apply the 4 Phase Process: First Pacific Case Study Competing in the business world isn't a peaceful game. Companies are fighting to win; to build new levels of competitive advantage; to secure customers, market share and profits. The winners rarely succeed by accident. They develop strategies and strategic plans and hire people who can face strategic dilemmas and make tough decisions. This course examines how the theories and principles of more...

Recruitment & Selection Series: Interview Practice If you are judged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to hire the best people for the job. But when you're interviewing eager candidates, how do you know if the person who seems so ideal will actually deliver? Structuring interview questions effectively is a valuable skill to acquire, if you want to gain the most out of an interview. One method of doing this is with the "Question more...

Project Management: Scope In Project Management: Scope, project managers learn about the importance of project scope in managing the project management process. They learn how to develop a project charter and write the scope statement for a project. In addition, they learn how to develop, organize, and use a work breakdown structure (WBS). more...

Project Management: Time Management In Project Management: Time Management, participants learn how to identify the activities involved with a project and construct a network diagram based on those activities. They learn how to determine the critical path for a project. They also learn about several mathematical analysis techniques, such as CPM and PERT, to develop project schedules. more...

Project Management: The Team This program teaches project leaders how to identify, assign, and document project team members' responsibilities and reporting relationships. In addition, participants learn about team-building activities that can enhance individual team members' performance and the overall success of a project. more...

Project Management: Communications In this program, participants develop the skills they need to create or open communication channels and disseminate project information in an effective and timely manner. They learn how to develop a communication management plan and acquire techniques for improving the communication of information. more...

Project Management: Contracts and Procurement In this program, project managers learn how to determine their procurement needs and prepare procurement documents when soliciting suppliers' proposals. They also acquire techniques for completing source selection and administering contracts effectively. 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...

Business Writing: Creating Effective Proposals Business Writing: Creating Effective Proposals prepares participants to develop powerful proposals that effectively market an organization's products and services. Participants learn about two different types of proposals-letter and formal-and practice creating the major components of each. 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: 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...

Distributed Application Design and Development using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - Part 1 This is the first course in a three part series designed for developers. This series will introduce them to the opportunities and challenges of creating enterprise-level applications. Participants will see how creating such flexible and scalable applications can be challenging and will learn how to address these challenges by employing appropriate design, tools, and technology. more...

Professional Assertiveness ... feedback techniques? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it's a good time to learn to be an assertive business professional. This course will guide you as you move into a proactive, responsible, professional style. You'll learn methods to help you identify an appropriate assertive style and strategies to prepare you use that style. You'll also learn how to implement the assertive more...

Facilitating On-site and Virtual Teams Knowing how to facilitate maturing on-site and virtual teams is critical, because it is at this time that teams typically reach peak performance. Mature teams begin to perform independently, and it's important that the leader's role changes to that of a facilitator. This course will cover the facilitation of on-site and virtual teams as teams mature. It will introduce the development stages of more...

Progressing through the Complex Sale Simulation You are a regional account representative with DME Corporation, a national direct marketing firm, which has recently opened its Fulfillment Services Division. You are charged with selling this service and have identified a potential prospect. In this simulation, the second of three in this series, you have gained access to the buying influences at MicroGalaxy, an electronic component supply more...

Understanding Your Customer Can you imagine trying to sell a product or service to a customer you know nothing about? You probably wouldn't succeed. The better you know your customer, the higher your chance for success. In this course, you'll learn about the first major component of the strategic account sales (SAS) approach: research. You'll start by learning about the key areas to research using the SAS approach and where more...

Conducting Effective Sales Research Meetings Researching your target accounts is important for understanding your customer's business. But only by conducting research meetings will you learn the "inside" information you need to truly understand the business fit between your company and your customer. In this course, you'll learn about bringing your research and communication skills together in strategic account sales (SAS) research meetings. more...

Understanding Your Target Customer s Business Imagine trying to sell a product or service to a customer that you know nothing about. Do you think it would be an easy process? Probably not. The better you know your customer, the better your chances for success. In this course, you'll learn about the first major component of the territorial account sales (TAS) approach--research. You'll gain an understanding of the benefits of good research and more...

Planning Your Field Sales Approach What factors mark the difference between mediocre and great field sales performance? One characteristic of highly effective field sales representatives is their ability to efficiently plan their sales approach for both existing customers and prospects, as well as managing their time and territories effectively. Planning Your Field Sales Approach provides practical tools for determining call and more...

Sales Probing and Questioning ...e you will be able to distinguish between open and closed questions, and develop buyer needs using the four question types. The PrimeSales curriculum engages sales professionals in a top-down roll-out of techniques that have been proven to maximize bottom-line results. New and experienced sales representatives, account managers, sales consultants and sales managers. New and experienced sales 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...

Applying Your Field Sales Approach A unique quality of effective field sales representatives is their ability to assess their customers' needs, determine sales opportunities, and access the decision makers--often in one or two sales calls. Sound impossible? It's not if the sales professional applies the essentials presented in Applying Your Field Sales Approach. This course provides sales strategies to change your customers' more...

Initiating Outbound Sales Calls Fifteen seconds doesn't sound like very much time, does it? As an inside sales consultant, you will have a lot riding on what happens in those few seconds. 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 more...

Completing Inbound Sales Calls Everything you do in an inbound sales call leads up to the completion of the sale. A successful inside sales consultant knows how to keep a customer's attention all the way through the close of the sale. In this course, you will learn the process for assessing a sales opportunity, the four factors used to qualify a sales opportunity, and strategies for qualifying a sales opportunity. You will also more...

Inside Sales Skills Simulation You are an inside sales representative for Muscle-Bound Fitness, a franchise of fitness facilities with a unique corporate wellness offering. In this simulation, your boss has asked you to contact a potential new customer. This new lead, a network television station known as TV-22, is a perfect candidate for Muscle-Bound's corporate wellness program, and your job is to convince them of such by 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...

Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call If there's one advantage most companies have learned to appreciate in recent years, it's "flexibility". Technology, the economy, and global events have forced companies to cope with a host of new challenges by being flexible. Flexibility is a key factor in customer call centers. As a customer service agent (CSA), you handle dozens of calls a day, effectively helping customers by providing more...

Using Surveys to Measure Customer Satisfaction If you're lucky, your customers will complain when they are dissatisfied with your company's service. If you're not so lucky, they'll say nothing and just take their business elsewhere. It's essential that you keep your fingers on the pulse of customer opinion if you are to prevent them defecting to the competition. You need to measure customer satisfaction on a regular basis, and this course will more...

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

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

Government Contracting Working with Government Contracts This course reviews a sample RFP & SOW and interactively sets up a Proposal; it reviews a Contract from the USG with information regarding types of contracts. Small Business Owners/Small Business Buyers Small Disadvantaged Business Owners/Small Disadvantaged Business Buyers New Buyers at Prime Contractors to the USG. more...

Call Center Communication Skills Communication skills are very important for a successful career in customer service and sales. This is especially true in a call center environment. Call centers can be high pressure, fast-paced environments where you may have to deal with hundreds of people in one day. That is why it is so important to fine tune your communication skills. This course will examine handling different personalities, more...

Essentials of Internal Consulting You may already have a reputation as something of an area specialist. Perhaps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an internal consulting role. Or maybe you've always been attracted to this role and you would now like to find out more? What will it mean for you? What does an internal consultant do? How do you become one? And if you have just become one, what is expected of you? This more...

Call Center Telephone Sales How many times have you attempted to get your point across over the phone, only for it to end up unsuccessful? Would you like to improve your conversational skills? When you take this course, you will learn how to save your and your customer's time. Learn which principles and techniques of selling, professional presentation approaches, and telemarketing laws apply to you. Using your time more...

Project Lifecycles and Stakeholders Every project has a beginning and an end, but what happens in between is less predictable. The project life cycle will most likely involve uncertainties, and it's how these uncertainties are handled that determines the outcomes of the project. The more familiar one is with project phases and stakeholders, the more easily one can keep the project on track and on budget. Organizations might "fast more...

Project Management Essentials Simulation For the duration of this simulation, you will step into the role of project manager for a project management firm, Kesseler Project Design and Management (KPDM). KPDM is a Chicago-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 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...

Initiating and Planning a Project Initiating and Planning are crucial phases in developing and executing any successful project. Companies that are embarking on a new project initiative must assign people to gather facts and decide what exactly they want to produce and how they are going to produce it. This course examines which factors should weigh in during the project selection process and how to effectively plan a project from more...

Troubleshooting and Closing the Project The factors that can affect a project are numerous and often hard to pinpoint. Conducting meetings and using advanced tools, such as formulas and graphs, allow the project manager to properly define the health or status of the project. This course outlines how to conduct effective meetings and presents some troubleshooting tools that can be used during the project life cycle. It also presents the more...

Monitoring Controlling and Closing Programs Monitoring and controlling is an essential feature of program management, which allows you to ascertain the current benefit delivery status, ensure adequate resources are in place, and that changes are properly managed. Closing a program is a time for celebration. However, to be successful and ensure program benefits are achieved, monitoring, controlling, and closing processes must be followed. more...

Program Planning The planning phase in PMI's PMBOK is considered one of the most important phases; without a properly defined plan your projects have a much greater chance of not succeeding. This assumption can also be made for program management; however, with program management, an entire program can fail, which could include several projects. The cost and loss of benefits that are associated with a failed more...

Advanced Project Management Building Productive Stakeholder Relationships Advanced Project Management: Building 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 more...

Project Management Professional Certification Review ...ow best to prepare for PMP certification, be prepared for questions on the PMBOK knowledge area of project integration management, project scope management and project time management. The Prime-Project Management Professional curriculum introduces advanced level project coordination techniques within the areas of organization, resource management, quality assurance, and internal and external more...

Advanced Project Leadership Organization Strategy and Business Needs Advanced Project Leadership: Organization, Strategy and Business Needs teaches project managers how to be successful managing high profile projects in large corporations by learning how to navigate different organization types, and what role project management plays in the different organization types. You will acquire the skills necessary to determine company strategy and the process to use that more...

Making Telephone Calls Count Whether you handle one call a day, or dozens, you have the power to make every call count. Is the service you deliver to your customers over the telephone merely satisfactory, or is it superior? When challenges present themselves, how well do you handle yourself? What do your actions say about your company? You may think telephone interactions are all simple and straightforward. The customer more...

Communicating Clearly Write to be Understood ...e able to recognize when writing is appropriate, list the questions in determining a key message, recognize communications that are clear and error free and identify techniques for developing common types of business document. The PrimeCommunication curriculum offers a useful toolkit of practical communication techniques and job aids for today's busy professional. Professionals who want to more...

Presenting Your Ideas Captivate Your Audience Presenting Your Ideas: Captivate Your Audience, is the fourth of four courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to recognize the components of effective delivery strategies, list ways to use visual aids in a manner that supports your script, identify the steps for responding effectively to audience questions and identify the five categories for assessing more...

Preparing to Negotiate Know Your Game Position Preparing to Negotiate: Know Your Game Position, is the third of eleven courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the stages in clarifying goals, identify the importance of flexibility and underlying interests, assess your position by posing questions and perform a step-by-step analysis of your position. The Negotiation Strategies curriculum helps more...

Plan and Organize Your Documents Plan Before Writing This course shows how to plan a document by defining the purpose and target audience. Professionals who want to enhance their written business communications by effectively addressing audience needs more...

Whole Numbers Fractions and Equations What are whole numbers and how are they estimated? How are fractions used in mathematical operations? How do you find the unknown variable to solve an equation? The answers to questions like these are covered in this course on the building blocks of business math. Learners will review crucial terms, basic mathematical concepts, and how to apply concepts to the business environment. Anyone who more...

Strategies for Facilitating Critical Thinking Workplaces are not typically associated with reflection or critical self-reflection, ideas that are often considered 'soft' to the bottom-line, results-oriented world of business.... Yet, paradoxically, reflection is becoming more part of the lifeblood of organizations in today's economic environment. Victoria Marsick's words illustrate why businesses can no longer thrive on the unexamined more...

Critical Thinking Strategies Simulation You have recently been hired as the general manager at Retail Management Software (RMS). The company began as a small start-up company five years ago, developing software that helps retailers create, manage, and fulfill consumer demand. The founders and owners, Fred Chambers and Larry Busby, and their small team worked hard and developed great products. Recently, RMS' business has increased a more...

Presentation Resources Available to You ...esources that can take the pressure off you--visual aids, questions, and making a team presentation. Visual aids are overused, and presenters are overdependent on them. You need to know what visuals are available to you, and be able to determine which one suits a particular need. You need to know what makes a successful visual. Finally, you need to be able to use PowerPoint and other software more...

Delivering Successful Presentations Simulation After years of research and development, the Top-Shelf Cola Company is finally ready to release its latest beverage, Passion, to consumers. Passion is a caffeine-free, all-natural soda that's made from real passion fruits. The company has spent ten million dollars to perfect the product's taste and to create a brand for the drink. You are a brand manager at Top-Shelf and responsible for the 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...

Listening for Higher Purposes Do you sometimes have difficulty using your listening skills to effectively evaluate arguments or appreciate complex ideas and emotions? This course teaches you how to listen more effectively for critical and empathic purposes to maximize your understanding. Persons at all levels of an organization. It is particularly useful to those who need strong listening skills, such as managers and team more...

Gaining Allies Creating Change If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Is this an effective strategy for gaining allies to create change? How about, "If you do it my way, you'll feel better about yourself"? Finding and winning partners for the purpose of creating change is not easy in the intensely competitive and harried environment of the corporate world. It's especially difficult when you lack authority. The people whose more...

Preparing a Business Case ...nd get his approval for the project? The answers to these questions lie in the fact that organizational budgets for new projects are typically very tight and, as such, your project will be competing against other projects for funding. Without a written business case, your chances of persuading decision makers within your organization to implement your new project idea, instead of a competing more...

Presenting Your Case Have you ever attended a presentation that failed because the presenter was ill prepared or ineffective in his approach? A successful presenter must possess the proper skills to plan and deliver an effective business case presentation and employ strategies to establish and maintain the audience's attention. This course examines the careful planning and delivery of a business case presentation. It more...

Assertiveness from the Inside Out ...ssertiveness skills if you answered "yes" to any of these questions. This course will guide you as you move into a more decisive, more effective professional style. You'll learn about methods that can help you build and strengthen your assertive style and strategies to prepare you to act more assertively. You'll also learn how to implement your new, assertive style as you negotiate with other more...

Talent Management Knowing Talent This course explains what talent is and how it differs from skills and knowledge. It also introduces the process of talent management and compares this process with traditional processes. Finally, it covers the importance of recognizing and retaining talent. This course is for HR professionals and managers within a company responsible for managing and developing employees. 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...

Mentoring Essentials Simulation You are a Team Leader for the Wireless Technology Group, a research department within The Research Company that focuses on collecting and analyzing data on wireless technologies. You are heading up a new research project that deals with forecasting advertising revenue for wireless communication tools over the next five years. While managing this project, you have also been assigned Tilly Newman, a more...

Becoming a Manager ...and what will others expect of you? These are all natural questions for anyone who is about to become a manager, or who has recently been promoted. Moving into a first management role represents possibly one of the biggest changes in your working life. The transition from player to manager is an exciting, but challenging, one. It takes most people out of an area in which they have been more...

About 360-Degree Performance Feedback Are you ready for a change in the way your company evaluates and develops its management staff? Perhaps you are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of your current efforts to help your managers work to their potential? The 360-degree performance feedback process may be the solution to your needs. Although the use of 360-degree feedback is relatively new (approximately ten years old), public, more...

Coaching Skills At its simplest, a coaching session is a conversation, a dialog between coach and coachee, and so all coaching interventions depend totally on communication. Within that simplicity however, are layers of subtle interaction, which a coachee needs to be aware of, alert to what both "sides" of the conversation are actually communicating--verbally, visually, and vocally. The first requirement for a more...

Managing and Rewarding Top Performers Does your company have a policy in place for hiring and retaining its top-performing employees? Would you know how to convince valuable employees to stay if they were to hand in their resignation? It is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to retain their top-level employees in today's competitive market. This course examines how to attract and ultimately retain top performers through a more...

Organizational Learning Deploying a Knowledge Management System Organizational Learning: Deploying a Knowledge Management System offers the student an overview of information needed to conduct a pilot project and covers processes for deploying and monitoring knowledge management systems. The program includes the steps for developing a pilot project, the qualifications and characteristics of a knowledge management leader, and the elements of a knowledge more...

Managing Yourself and Those Around You Successful administrative support professionals must be good managers. This means managing their own time and energies, as well as cooperatively working with their boss and co-workers. This course teaches successful strategies for dealing with the myriad demands on the time, resources, communication skills, and organizational powers of administrative assistants. Administrative support more...

Master Budgets ...kind of profit can be expected if you do? To answer these questions about your business will not require a fortune teller. It will require the creation of a master budget. No matter the size of your company, if you are to succeed and continue to grow, you must carefully plan for your company's future. Master budgets can be used to predict the future success of your company and serve as a more...

Setting the Stage for IT Success How have the responsibilities of IT professionals changed over time? What can you do to bring together the diverse concerns of the IT department and top business managers? What are the best ways to convince management that your IT solutions are grounded in reality? Answers to these questions are presented in this course examining strategies that learners should know to understand the role of IT more...

Six Sigma and the Voice of the Customer Do you know the phrase, "caveat emptor"? It's a Latin term that means, "Let the buyer beware." It's also a legal principle stating that consumers must purchase goods at their own risk, because unless specifically asked, the seller is generally under no obligation to disclose defects. Caveat emptor once struck fear in the hearts of many wary consumers. Fortunately, the tide has turned. Increased more...

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

Six Sigma DMAIC Measuring the Process Would you use your thumb and forefinger to measure how much carpet you need to buy for a new room in your house? By the same token, do you have the right tools for measuring a process in your organization that just isn't working? "Six Sigma DMAIC: Measuring the Process," provides Six Sigma Green Belts and team members with techniques for precisely pinpointing the source of problems--and precisely more...

Lean Logic Suppose a friend told you that it was more efficient to put on your shoes before your pants when getting dressed. What is the logic behind taking an action that seems so counterintuitive? You probably wouldn't implement this new methodology without a thorough explanation of its origin and logic, right? Some of the lean manufacturing suggestions may also strike you as counterintuitive. That's more...

Competitive Factors in Strategic Marketing You've got a great idea for a new product or service for your organization, or a major enhancement for an existing one. Now you've got to present the case to the decision-makers to go forward. What kinds of topics should you include in your strategic marketing plan? In this course you'll learn exactly what to consider as you develop and present your plan, including market data and competitor more...

Developing and Deploying Strategic Plans Successful organizations are founded on effectively developing and deploying strategic plans. Organizations must identify their primary goals and objectives based on their mission and vision statements. Other success factors include understanding market forces, internal strengths and weaknesses, stakeholders, relevant technology, and legal and regulatory factors. With these considerations, an more...

Measurement Assessment and Metrics ...new process trending toward success or failure? These are questions that should be on the mind of every manager. An effective manager is continuously gathering, monitoring, and analyzing information as it relates to organizational performance.This course explores data analysis techniques used to detect trends of projects and processes. It describes key concepts in statistical analysis and more...

Steps for Successful ISO Registration An organization must carefully plan and integrate into their own quality management system a comprehensive strategy to comply with ISO 9001:2000 requirements. This course discusses the necessary steps required to organize for ISO registration. For example, management commitment must be obtained, a steering team and internal audit program established, and the appropriate registrar selected. more...

Building Brand Equity ...onsumer's eyes? This course will answer each of these questions in depth. You will analyze the components of brand equity. You will utilize the psychology of a consumer's perceptions and apply helpful techniques to build your brand equity. Finally, you will construct a marketing support program with the aim of appealing to your consumers and improving their perceptions of your brand. more...

Independent Contractors and Temporary Employees Many companies are hiring contract or temporary employees to meet their changing staffing needs. Before hiring an independent contractor or temporary employee--also referred to as a contingency worker--companies should be aware of the costs involved along with the relevant legal and taxation issues. It is important that both parties have a clear understanding of the terms of their agreement with more...

Documenting Discipline Disciplinary action in the workplace is a delicate matter. A serious conflict between manager and worker can give rise to a lengthy grievance procedure, or, at worst, legal action. Detailed disciplinary documents are the best defense when a manager's actions are called into question. Without these documents there may be no record of a worker's repeated infractions or failure to satisfy job more...

Harassment in the Workplace Harassment in the workplace is not confined to sexual harassment. Harassment can be based on all protected characteristics, including race, color, national origin, religion, age, and disability. Depending on state law and other circumstances, additional characteristics such as sexual orientation and marital status may also be protected. An effective harassment prevention training program must more...

Americans with Disabilities Act ADA This course explains the concepts, requirements, and practical application of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA of 1990 makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment against a qualified individual with a disability. The Act requires all private, state, or local government employers with 15 or more employees to make sure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to apply more...

Equal Employment Opportunity EEO ...re in an interview. Did you pay attention to the types of questions being asked? If not, you may have offered or requested information prohibited under anti-discrimination laws. It is essential to know the types of questions that can, and cannot, be asked in order to avoid charges of unfair discrimination. In this course, you will learn the Equal Employment Opportunity laws that prohibit unfair more...

Interviewing and Hiring Practices ... occupational qualification. Your advertising medium, the questions you ask on forms, what you discuss in company publications, and your interview questions combine to create an impression of you and your organization. It may happen, unintentionally, that your recruiting, interviewing, and hiring processes illegally or unfairly discriminate against "protected" individuals or minority groups. It more...

Exchange Server 2003 Designing and Planning Deployment To discuss how to design and plan Exchange Server 2003 deployment Systems administrators, systems engineers, systems analysts, IT consultants, and IT professionals with responsibility for planning and implementing Exchange Server 2003; learners preparing for MCSE certification exams more...

Exchange Server 2003 Installation To outline how to prepare, perform, and check Exchange Server 2003 installation Systems administrators, systems engineers, systems analysts, IT consultants, and support professionals with responsibility for planning, implementing, and maintaining Microsoft Exchange Server 2003; learners preparing for MCSA certification exams more...

Job Hazard Analysis This one-hour course is intended to provide information that will help improve the quality of work environments, improve absenteeism, help maintain a healthier workforce, reduce injury and illness rates, and make workers feel good about their work. This course was specifically designed for supervisors and managers to help enhance existing techniques in Job Hazard Analysis. The content in this more...

Strategic Sales - Building the Executive Relationship In Strategic Selling: Building the Executive Relationship you will learn how to adapt to the four primary behavioral styles you may encounter in executive sales and you will learn how to build your credibility when selling at the executive level. Additionally you will identify the types of questions you should ask when diagnosing a prospect?s need and you will discover how to create a custom more...

Strategic Sales - Developing Executive Proposals In Strategic Selling: Developing Executive Proposals you will learn the keys to preparing an effective written proposal the questions to answer before writing a sales proposal and the components necessary to include in a written proposal. You will also learn the steps to follow to create a winning proposal. Finally you will identify ways to differentiate your proposal from those of the more...

Interviewing Skills - Behavioral Interviewing In Interviewing Skills: Behavioral Interviewing you will learn how to identify a job candidate who will be most likely to have the required skills and competencies to be a successful employee. You will be prepared to conduct interviews using job-related questions thus enabling you to identify the best candidate for a job. Additionally candidates for open positions will be able to prepare for more...

Listening Skills: The Fundamentals of Listening This course highlights general benefits and misconceptions about listening as a means of introducing the concept of listening. It also teaches the learner how to interpret messages and identifies three common types of listening. It provides a step-by-step process on how to become a critical listener and explains the benefits of providing feedback to speakers. It details how to provide feedback by more...

Project Management: The Team ...ps to follow when creating a project team, as well as the questions you should answer prior to staffing a project. In addition, this program provides instruction on conducting a staff acquisition negotiation, the characteristics to look for in potential team members, and how to recognize and avoid personnel problems. Finally, students will learn how to create a team environment conducive to more...

Project Management: Communications This course covers the fundamentals and steps of communications planning, as well as how to provide a team with the information they need to fulfill their responsibilities. This course also addresses how to determine which form of communication to use in information distribution, as well as how to actively encourage informal team communication. Other information in this program includes: how to more...

Project Management: Contracts and Procurement ... and negotiating contracts. This program also teaches the questions a project manager should ask during procurement, the skills used to conduct procurement successfully, and the ways to use the scope statement to benefit procurement planning. In addition, this course covers how to solicit and select contractors or vendors, how to use a bid, a proposal, a request for a proposal, and a request more...

Sales Skills: Gaining Customer Commitment ...d develop relationships with your clients as well as what questions you should ask clients when determining their needs. You will also learn the three stages of need how to determine which stage of need a client is in and how to help clients envision themselves benefiting from your product or service. In addition you will learn what to do if your product or service does not satisfy a more...

Sales Skills: Developing a Winning Strategy In Sales Skills: Developing a Winning Strategy you will learn how to research market conditions and analyze your competitors using a SWOT matrix. You will also learn the steps of the consulting strategy and what questions you should ask when planning solutions for clients. In addition you will learn the steps to take to help clients find solutions to their needs.  more...

Professional Selling Over the Phone: Preparation and Strategies Professional Selling Over the Phone: Preparation and Strategies offers the student guidelines for preparing the teleselling workspace and maximizing telesales calls. The program provides processes for preparing telesales scripts and managing telesales calls. In addition the program offers the student examples of communication techniques such as implementing components of an effective voice more...

Effective Presentations: The Presentation Process In Effective Presentations: The Presentation Process you will learn what steps to take to reduce your fear of speaking remain calm and appear relaxed. In addition you will learn how to use your voice and nonverbal communication to improve the delivery of your presentation. Finally you will learn how to assess the audience members and answer their questions.  more...

Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Building Relationships Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Building Relationships offers the student guidelines for asking and answering questions using nonverbal communication and power and giving feedback when building relationships. The program also describes the various communication styles and offers techniques to use when communicating with them.  more...

Managerial Leadership: Creating a Vision Managerial Leadership: Creating a Vision provides students an overview of organizational leadership and its role in guiding the organization toward vision fulfillment. The program highlights questions to ask when defining an organization's vision basic steps to complete when drafting a vision statement and guidelines for communicating the vision. In addition this program provides steps for more...

Facilitation: The Effective Facilitator In Facilitation: