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Project Management using Microsoft Project Training Course Online Classroom PROJECTINGIT [www. projectingit. com] Microsoft Project Training Course on Project Planning and Scheduling Classroom Online Offline Training Interactive Course in Microsoft Project Learn MS Project 2003 2007 & Project Server for Project Planning and Scheduling Learn from Microsoft Certified Specialist / Experts Become an Expert in Project Scheduling using Best Practices in Project  more...

Driving Business Development Using Modern Principles of Productivity Get More Business By Getting More Done Business development is simple build relationships and secure clients/customers. But getting it done is hard. To develop business, you must consistently repeat a series of small steps, but executives and professionals often fail to do this because they lack a simple, easy-to-use method for getting it done. The result is missed opportunities to grow and  more...

Get New Sales People Generating Revenue Fast Develop a Plan That Quickly Gets New Hires Up to Speed As a sales manager, you rely entirely on your sales team for revenue performance; and succeed or fail based on how they do. Your ability to effectively onboard your newly- hired sales people will make or break your year. Every moment that your new sales person is not armed to sell translates to lost sales opportunities and is a glaring cost  more...

Create A Winning Workplace Culture Learn How to Develop A Motivated Workforce to Drive Profits Employees want to work for a winner. Customers want to buy from a winner. Winning creates positive energy in the workplace where employees are inspired and over perform. Bottom-line, companies with winning workplaces succeed while losing ones fail. In this tough economy, it's more critical than ever to instill a culture founded on the  more...

How to Become A Great Sales Leader Learn The Secrets to Building A Winning Sales Team Baseball managers don't throw a pitch or hit a ball. They lead their team through thick and thin to deliver victories. As a sales manager, you rely on your sales team to hit homeruns every day. In a challenged economy, your sales team may be finding it tough to take a good swing at the plate these days. Your sales team is looking to you for  more...

How to Re-Energize Your Sales Team In Tough Times Learn How to Re-engage and Motivate Your Sales Organization Budget cuts, lost accounts, and staff reductions have left your sales organization fatigued. Once, they were so committed to your company and product that they oozed with passion. Those days are gone. You can see the lost, unfocused look on their faces and you don't know what it will take to get them back on track. You tried praise  more...

The Sales Compensation Conundrum How to Develop a Truly Effective Sales Compensation Plan Developing a sales compensation plan can be a pretty intimidating undertaking. What are the most critical decisions you need to make? What compensation plan structure will motivate your salespeople to achieve the targets you set for them without producing unintended consequences? Sales performance expert Alan Rigg has helped hundreds of  more...

Align Vision, Mission, and Strategy to Reach Your Goals Leadership Strategies for Managers Yogi Berra said it best, 'Be very careful If you don't know where you're going you might not get there.' As a business leader, your organization needs to have a vision - and a plan to implement it - to reach your goals. If not, your team will be unfocused and underperform. Many think that creating a vision is too difficult and time consuming while others think  more...

Motivating the Underachieving Employee How to have the tough conversation with employees who are not pulling their weight Employee underperformance affects team morale, productivity, and company profitability. If not addressed, the manager runs the risk of losing the respect of their team, making it even more challenging to achieve productivity goals. With companies running lean and mean, subpar performance must be addressed and your  more...

Performance-Based Sales Recruiting How to Hire More Top Sales Producers and Jump-Start New Hire Sales Performance How expensive are sales hiring mistakes? To answer this question, take a look at the difference in revenue, gross margin or profit (whichever number is most important to you) produced by your company s top sales producers and your bottom sales producers. Then add in the costs of recruiting and training new salespeople.  more...

Drive Employee Productivity in Challenging Times Strategies to Regain Focus of Your Team Budget cuts. Employee layoffs. Doubled workload. Your employees are being asked to do more with less with all of these factors contributing to productivity paralysis. Yet, as the manager, you re accountable for ensuring productivity goals are achieved despite all of these hurdles. How do you regain control in this sticky situation to achieve corporate  more...

Accountability versus Blame This webinar is about being more effective in your responsibility to someone else. Accountable individuals have the ability to manage others, are great collaborators and have a willingness to cultivate enthusiasm. Does this sound like you? If not, then be sure to attend this session. Do your employees have the motivation to achieve what you want? Does achievement make difference in the success of  more...

Coaching for Success The four step process in changing beliefs and outcomes Getting performance from others is one of the biggest challenges in business. Employees simply do not see things the same as the owners and managers! Yet, performance is needed and Managers and Leaders need to build people and performance in order to grow the business and stay competitive! One challenge is the vast variety of motives and  more...

Restore Employee Trust After A Workforce Reduction Learn The Steps To Regain Productivity After A Layoff 'Am I the next to go?' Workforce reductions destroy trust among the surviving employees. Yet, trust is one of the critical factors in restoring the productivity of the team. You made the tough decision to downsize; now you need to regain the trust and confidence of your employees to ensure your firm succeeds in these difficult times.  more...

Get New Sales People Generating Revenue Fast Develop a Plan That Quickly Gets New Hires Up to Speed As a sales manager, you rely entirely on your sales team for revenue performance; and succeed or fail based on how they do. Your ability to effectively onboard your newly- hired sales people will make or break your year. Every moment that your new sales person is not armed to sell translates to lost sales opportunities and is a glaring cost  more...

Managing Introverted Employees How to Identify and Motivate Introverts for Maximum Performance According to recent studies, an estimated 30% of the population is introverted. While some consider introverts to be an employer's Achilles heel, this personality type brings tremendous advantages to your business. As a manager, you need all of your employees to deliver peak performance in today's challenged economy. Discover how to  more...

How to Develop Your Employees with Little Investment Improve performance through self-directed learning Cuts hit the training budget hard. Yet, despite the economic crunch, employee development remains a critical requirement of a successful company. Resources are scarce, budgets are tight, but the companies that survive and thrive are those who learn the secrets to training their employees without breaking the bank. Tim Hagen, salesforce  more...

Forecasting & Pipeline Management How to Eliminate Stalled Opportunities from Your Company s Sales Opportunity Pipeline What is the condition of your company s sales opportunity pipeline? How many of the opportunities have been stalled at the same step in the sales cycle for weeks or months? If sales forecasts and opportunity pipelines are inaccurate, or if opportunities do not close in predictable time frames, it can wreak  more...

Keys to Unlocking Your Employees Potential Strategies to Improve Employee Performance As a manager, you feel the pressure to keep your top performers happy and dedicate your time trying to get subpar performers to rise to the challenge. You've been tasked with delivering results, but unless your employees take ownership of their performance, the goals will not be met. If you haven't been trained how to develop your team or don't have the  more...

How to Build a High Performance Sales Engine Develop the foundation for your sales organization 'We have one guy who brings in 90% of the company s revenue. What are we doing wrong?' You re right to be concerned. Your company s financial success depends on the rainmaker s ability and motivation to sell. Plus, if you lose your top performer to a competitor, it could destroy your company. If this sounds like your company, you need to address  more...

Hiring Strategies for Your Sales Organization Best Practices When Hiring Sales People 'I just found my rainmaker or did I?' Sales managers are often blinded by the star qualities and accomplishments of prospective sales candidates. The resume reads like the perfect sales rep met 150% of quota, grew the business 200%, and thrived with a competitor. If you re only looking at their track record, you may be missing key information that indicates  more...

Create an Accountable Workforce to Grow Your Bottom-Line Lead Don t Manage Your Employees to Success Searching for answers to fix your bottom-line? Don t panic -- the answer is right under your nose. Your most valuable asset your employees -- can come to the rescue. You can grow your bottom-line despite the economic woes if you build an accountable workplace. Leadership expert, Joel H. Head, former Partner with Ernst Young, LLC and Principal with  more...

Drive Growth Despite the Recession Create the right strategic plan for your company Professional sports coaches don t send teams on the playing field without a game-plan they ll get crushed. Even when games are broadcasted, viewers see coaches and managers constantly reviewing strategies and updating plays to leverage strengths, eliminate weaknesses, and identify the gaps to win. Similarly, businesses without the right strategic  more...

How to Become A Great Sales Leader Learn The Secrets to Building A Winning Sales Team Baseball managers don't throw a pitch or hit a ball. They lead their team through thick and thin to deliver victories. As a sales manager, you rely on your sales team to hit homeruns every day. In a challenged economy, your sales team may be finding it tough to take a good swing at the plate these days. Your sales team is looking to you for  more...

Lead Generation Techniques in a Slow Economy People Are Still Buying, But Are They Buying From You? Media is bombarding us with stories of economic doom and gloom, but everywhere you look there is proof that people are spending money! Football stadiums are still packed every Sunday, stores are full of shoppers and restaurants are full of patrons. People are being pickier with how they spend their money. Your challenge is how to get them to  more...

How To Build A Million-Dollar Business Remove The Obstacles That Prevent Business Success You set out to create a million-dollar business. What you have is a J.O.B. -- Just Over Broke. The painful realities of owning a business being tied to the office 24/7, putting out fires and managing employees have left you in tactical mode. You're stumped as you try to re-discover the strategic mindset you had when you launched your business.  more...

Business Development Secrets for Consultants Techniques that Get Clients Knocking Down Your Door! Business consulting generates over $100 billion in annual revenue yet, my phone isn t ringing. Welcome to the harsh reality of owning a consulting business, where working hard and knowing your stuff isn t enough to fill your client roster or your bank account. If you don t want to crawl back to the world of corporate employment, you need to  more...

Drive Employee Productivity in Challenging Times Strategies to Regain Focus of Your Team Budget cuts. Employee layoffs. Doubled workload. Your employees are being asked to do more with less with all of these factors contributing to productivity paralysis. Yet, as the manager, you re accountable for ensuring productivity goals are achieved despite all of these hurdles. How do you regain control in this sticky situation to achieve corporate  more...

How to Develop a Strategic Plan That Works For You The manager's key to creating competitive advantage Do you ever get the feeling that you are throwing darts while blind-folded? As a business leader, how can you expect to make this year your best year ever without having a well-defined plan? Perhaps, you have a strategic plan, but it s hiding under the cobwebs in your office. In these challenging economic times, having the right strategic plan  more...

Create A Winning Workplace Culture Learn How to Develop A Motivated Workforce to Drive Profits Employees want to work for a winner. Customers want to buy from a winner. Winning creates positive energy in the workplace where employees are inspired and over perform. Bottom-line, companies with winning workplaces succeed while losing ones fail. In this tough economy, it's more critical than ever to instill a culture founded on the  more...

The Secret to Closing More Sales Closing is certainly an important sales activity, as the time, effort, and resources invested in managing sales cycles are wasted if orders are not secured. However, the real secret to closing sales is doing a great job at the FRONT end of the sales cycle. In other words, it is the quality of the work that is done during the OPPORTUNITY QUALIFICATION stage of the sales process that determines  more...

How to Develop an Effective Sales Compensation Plan The most common sales compensation question my company receives is, 'What is the standard (salary, draw, commission percentage) for (an industry, product or service, geography)?' Unfortunately there are very few standards that apply to sales compensation. The variations in sales compensation plans are infinite, and there is little published research that provides compensation details (salary or  more...

Create A Winning Workplace Culture Learn How to Develop A Motivated Workforce to Drive Profits Employees want to work for a winner. Customers want to buy from a winner. Winning creates positive energy in the workplace where employees are inspired and over perform. Bottom-line, companies with winning workplaces succeed while losing ones fail. In this tough economy, it's more critical than ever to instill a culture founded on the  more...

Get New Sales People Generating Revenue Fast Develop a Plan That Quickly Gets New Hires Up to Speed As a sales manager, you rely entirely on your sales team for revenue performance; and succeed or fail based on how they do. Your ability to effectively onboard your newly- hired sales people will make or break your year. Every moment that your new sales person is not armed to sell translates to lost sales opportunities and is a glaring cost  more...

What Every CEO Should Know About Their Sales Organization Ask the right questions to know if your sales team is on track 'Where are the sales?!' Every CEO knows how to ask this question, but the response does not tell if the sales team is performing optimally or is aligned with the corporate vision. Revenue used to roll-in, almost magically, through the front door. Now that the economy has slowed, CEOs need better predictors of performance to  more...

How to Create Profitable Customer Relationships Leveraging Your Marketing ROI Into Client Retention Has your business lost customers in the last 5 years? Can your business afford to spend dollars recruiting new customers only to lose those customers to your competition? Technology and globalization have created a very competitive business climate making it more difficult and more expensive to attract and retain customers. Your company s  more...