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Design for Six Sigma in the Organization Design for Six Sigma in the Organization ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is often called the future of Six Sigma, as it is emerging as a strategy that better serves the current innovation initiatives of many industries. DFSS uses a "pay me now or pay me later" approach by spending more effort and time on process or product design up front to avoid spending time  more...

Elements of a Cohesive Team Elements of a Cohesive Team Three elements are always present in any effective, cohesive team: open communication, cooperation, and trust. Like the strands of a cord, these elements hold the team together and give it strength. Without these elements, team members will not participate fully in team activities and they won't find true satisfaction in their work. When trust and open  more...

Interpersonal Communication Being Approachable ...o. Approachability involves conveying your willingness to reach out and invite others in by initiating contact, making yourself available, and building rapport. This course is designed to give you an understanding of how to build skills to become more approachable. You'll learn about the benefits of being approachable, as well as some techniques you can use to enhance your ability to reach out  more...

Getting Results without Direct Authority Influencing Your Boss ...tionship. But you know best how you want to be managed to reach your goals, and if you focus on building a partnership with your boss, you will find that you have more influence than you think. In this course, you'll learn how to build influence with your boss by understanding his or her situation, and knowing what you can offer that benefits both your boss and you. You'll also find out how to  more...

Getting Ready to Coach ...developing their employees. It not only helps individuals reach their potential but also helps the organization improve its productivity and competitiveness. In a rapidly changing business world, coaching can also help employees adjust and adapt their skill sets. Coaching is about encouraging, confronting, challenging, questioning, as well as consistently respecting and supporting coachees in  more...

Negotiation Essentials Planning for Negotiation ...ting task. But if you're properly prepared, you'll likely reach an outcome that benefits both you and the other party without too much stress. If you've ever gone into a negotiation without preparing, it's likely that you were reactive and unfocused, and you may have ended up with a less than desirable outcome. Proper planning would have given you the direction needed to do effective problem  more...

Negotiation Essentials Communicating Negotiation Essentials: Communicating If you want to achieve a successful outcome in a negotiation, you need to communicate well. And this means not only being clear in how you deliver your message but also ensuring the other party feels understood. You need to actively and skillfully create a connection with the person you're negotiating with. Otherwise, you won't ever reach an agreement.  more...

The Profession of Selling The Profession of Selling Consider how the following definitions relate to a successful career in sales: Principle - a rule or code of conduct; Strategy - a careful plan or method especially for achieving an end; and Skill - a developed or acquired ability. These three terms help describe the difference between sales as a profession, and sales as simply a job. "The Profession of Selling"  more...

Introduction to the Service Desk ...rent things will have at least one thing in common you'll reach a Service Desk. This is because most IT service providers recognize the value and necessity of a Service Desk for their internal and external customers. Service Desks are an integral point of contact in organizations for addressing IT service-related issues, concerns and questions, and it's essential they are set up properly in  more...

Marketing Essentials Promotion ...ms of advertising and promotional vehicles, including the reach, benefits and cost of both traditional and more modern approaches such as social media networking and other forms of online marketing. This course will also discuss the concept of return on investment (ROI) in promotion, how to approach ROI for both traditional and online promotional efforts, and how this type of evaluation can  more...

Marketing Essentials Marketing and Ethics Marketing Essentials: Marketing and Ethics What role does ethics play in marketing? What is corporate responsibility and how is it linked to marketing? In order to develop strong and lasting customer relationships, organizations must ensure their marketing practices are fair, honest, and accurate about their product and service offerings. While marketing is a key business function, it also  more...

Critical Thinking Essentials What is Critical Thinking ...ation, analyze alternatives, assess the alternatives, and reach some conclusion. And all of these processes are part of critical thinking. Thinking plays a powerful role in your life it determines how you feel, what you do, and what you want. Improving the quality of your thinking, then, improves your life helping you to achieve your goals, make better decisions, and take charge of what you do.  more...

Developing a High-Performance Organization ...rformance Organization Helping your organization to reach its full potential is among your most important responsibilities as a leader. In a modern competitive business environment, tapping an organization's potential for high performance not only helps it to be more competitive but also helps it to better respond to and manage the influence of external factors. In short, high-performance  more...

Professional Selling in the Knowledge Economy Simulation ... - when integrated into your sales career - will help you reach your personal and professional goals. You are a salesperson for the Paper Docs Company, a leading supplier of all document imaging products and supplies including photocopiers, fax machines, and printers. As a new hire, you will need to make good decisions to position yourself for a long and prosperous sales career instead of an  more...

Organizing Your Workspace ... anxiety. By learning to organize your workspace, you can reach better levels of performance. This course will identify techniques for organizing your work areas, shelves, drawers, and files. It will also give you tips for maintaining this organization as well as giving suggestions for managing your time and schedule. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) BROWSER REQUIRED - can`t use Netscape  more...

Boost Your Self-Confidence And Enjoy Selling Success ...e. Strengthen your self-image, set and achieve goals that reach your company`s and your own expectations and reinforce your self-motivation to take control of what you can to reach your goals. Understand the importance of your own attitude and self-confidence in the selling process and how to use this to help your customer to buy. Highly recommend scheduling online chats between sessions, about  more...

Reaching Teenagers ...reach out to teens and provide asset building programs in your library. Reaching Teenagers This tutorial will give you specific ways you can reach out to teens and provide asset building programs in your library. You will be given tools that you can utilize to begin defining or redefining your teen program. At the end of each course section, you will complete projects that may be used to  more...

How to Control Your Worker ™s Compensation Cost ...aims adjustors, state rating bureaus, and even lawyers to reach your goal of the lowest possible workers? compensation costs possible, sometimes as much as fifty percent of your current costs. You will learn how to work with employees and preferred medical providers to implement an effective return to work program. You will work with workers compensation insurance companies and state rating  more...

OSHA Record Keeping and Documentation ...help create a safer workplace. But it doesn?t stop there, reach new heights by learning how to keep monitoring records, safety training records, hazardous communication records, OSHA required written safety programs, and more. You may not be the fastest person on a motorcycle, the winner of the biggest lottery payout, or juggled the most number of chainsaws but with our OSHA Record Keeping and  more...

Adobe Encore CS3: Essentials ...3 is the Adobe Premiere Pro's disc authoring application. Reach the widest possible audience with Adobe Encore CS3 software, now included with Adobe Premiere ® Pro CS3. Explore the rich set of creative tools for DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring and SWF export to the web. Now that Premiere Pro is back on the Mac, you can use Encore CS3 on both Intel ® based Mac and Windows ® systems.  more...

Doing Business in China ...urses will quickly give you the background to confidently reach across any cultural divide. In the Doing Business in China course, you will be introduced to the culture of China, including greetings, business meetings, and dining. Each lesson includes a video overview to quickly present the most important facts. The student will have access to this course for 1 year. This self-directed course  more...

Doing Business in India ...urses will quickly give you the background to confidently reach across any cultural divide. In the Doing Business in India course, you will be introduced to the culture of India, including greetings, business meetings, and dining. Each lesson includes a video overview to quickly present the most important facts. The student will have access to this course for 1 year. This self-directed course  more...

Managing as Coach and Counselor ...reach should exceed his grasp." How do you motivate employees to go after "the ripest peach," or reach for the skill level that seems beyond their grasp? You do it by coaching. Coaching is what cultivates employee growth, not to mention employee loyalty. In Managing as Coach and Counselor, you'll learn to take people from adequacy to excellence. And as you build their self-esteem, confidence,  more...

Raising Capital and Financing Decisions The goal of every financial manager is to maximize firm value and shareholder wealth. How does a manager reach this objective? To be successful, financial managers must be aware of the financing options available to them, and the procedures they must follow to begin financing. Most important, managers must be able to choose the best financing mix for their company.  more...

The Path to Peace and Harmony A saying goes, " We will never be better as a team than we are with each other." The road to peace and harmony involves working with every team member toward mutual goals. Each team member must be involved to set the stage for success. Continuous improvement and teamwork are vital to creating a team that works and stays together. How can your team reach harmony? At the end of this course, you'll  more...

Continual Quality Improvement The ISO 9000:2000 standard structures its Quality Management System (QMS) model into four major areas: Management Responsibility; Resource Management; Product Realization; and Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement. Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement is one vital component of the standard. This course examines the need to plan and implement measurement and monitoring activities to ensure that  more...

The Process of Globalizing a Product or Service Actually going global takes both planning and doing. In this course, you'll learn about the three major steps you need to cover to globalize a product or service. First, pick the right geographic location for your corporate goals and create a good plan for globalizing the product or service you're working with. Then "globalize" your product or service and let the world know you're open for  more...

The Customer Service Agent in Action ...rldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the important role that customer service agents play in today's business world.This course is designed to help CSAs understand their essential functions as well as the context and importance of their work. Increasingly, CSAs are responsible for managing customer  more...

Professional Selling Over the Phone Prospecting ... Select the guidelines for working with screeners to reach prospects. Select the guidelines for building business relationships with prospects. Select the guidelines for maintaining relationships with prospects. Follow the guidelines for building business relationships with prospects. Follow the  more...

Principles of Marketing Fundamentals of Marketing ...at go into a marketing mix to make choices that help Icon reach its profit goals for each product. Unit 3: Market Identification (1 hour) Identify a target opportunity. Identify the definition of market segmentation. Identify characteristics to consider when implementing a market segmentation strategy.  more...

TCP IP Internetworking on Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 - Part 2 ... Windows NT router. Display the route a packet takes to reach its destination using the TRACERT utility. Identify the components of a routing table. Display the entries in a routing table. Remove the default gateway address from a routing table. Add a static routing table entry for a router using the ROUTE utility. Restore the address for the default gateway in the local routing  more...

Designing Cisco Internetwork Solutions Part 2 This is the second of five courses in the Designing Cisco Internetworking curriculum, which is designed to prepare learners for the CCDA DESGN exam 640-861. It covers Campus design methodology and models, Enterprise Edge WAN design methodology, WAN technology, and IP addressing, including IPv6. Learn To: Identify factors to consider when designing an Enterprise Campus. Match types  more...

Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks Part 4 This is the last course of a four-part series that prepares learners for the Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks Exam (BSCI 642-801). This course teaches the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and about manipulating routing updates. With multiple connections, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an alternative to using default routes to control path selections. Configuring and troubleshooting BGP can  more...

Creativity Innovation Increasing Personal Creativity ... Use ways to be more adventuresome to reach a decision. Use the guidelines for generating good ideas. Solve a problem through creative thinking. Audience This program is written for any employee in an organization who wants to learn how to stimulate his or her creativity. Deployment Options e-Learning  more...

Succession Planning Setting Up a Succession Planning Program Succession Planning: Setting Up a Succession Planning Program focuses on putting your Succession Plan on paper and into action. It begins with guidelines on writing a mission statement, policy and procedures, identifying target groups and other issues such as legal considerations. It then provides comprehensive guidelines on all aspects of rolling out your plan, how to communicate and provide  more...

Business Problem Solving Critical Thinking Info Analysis ...e analysis techniques as well as the different methods to reach conclusions. The program gives you a process for thinking logically and creatively. Additionally, the program provides you with processes and guidelines for both quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques. By applying the information in this program, you will be able to analyze the reasoning and conclusions of others, perform  more...

Team Management High Performance Teams ... setting. Motivate team members to reach goals. Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will be leading four team members thorough a project to coordinate the development and release of a new product before one of your competitors unveils a similar model. You will need to help your team define and commit to its overall  more...

Project Teams Participating on a Project Team ...nflict within a project team and for helping team members reach consensus. It also offers information on the personal responsibilities and communication skills needed to participate on a project team. Learn To List the phases of a project's life cycle in the correct order. Select the requirements a project must meet to be successful.  more...

Project Teams Applying Team Building Techniques ...at are available to project teams. Reach consensus in a project team meeting. Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you are the leader of a project team that is determining whether to develop and release a new version of existing software, or discontinue the project entirely. You were in a previous meeting where canceling  more...

Cross-Functional Teams Cross-Functional Team Development ... Use the steps for team decision making to reach a consensus decision. Use the elements for the TEAMGOALS acronym to resolve a challenge. Use team effectiveness and peer review surveys to evaluate a cross-functional team. Identify the guidelines for establishing a recognition system. Audience  more...

Organizational Learning Developing a Knowledge Mgmt System ...pear. Icon's executives have determined that, in order to reach and maintain the company's desired productivity standard, a knowledge management system should be developed. Your goal for the simulation is to follow the process for drafting a KM strategy statement that is suitably aligned with the company's vision. Unit 2: Assessing Knowledge (0.5 - 1 hour) Identify  more...

Organizational Behavior Organizational Dynamics for Individuals Organizational Behavior: Organizational Dynamics for Individuals defines organizational behavior and identifies the variables and characteristics that influence an individual's behavior in the workplace. Learn To Identify OB dependent variables demonstrated by an employee. Identify types of power. Avoid  more...

Project Teams - Participating on a Project Team Project Team Management: Participating in a Project Team offers the student information required to understand types of projects and project teams. The program covers guidelines for resolving conflict within a project team and for helping team members reach consensus. It also offers information on the personal responsibilities and communication skills needed to participate on a project team.  more...

Writing to Reach the Audience ...s always write to connect with their readers. "Writing to Reach the Audience" instructs people who have to write at work in some easy-to-apply techniques to help them write to their readers, however those readers may vary with business circumstances. If you're writing a thank-you letter to a valued colleague, the approach, tone, and structure of the document are dissimilar to a complaint letter  more...

Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure - SPCC Online Training ...orting requirements to help prevent oil spills that could reach navigable waters of the United States or adjoining shorelines. Learning Objectives: Upon conclusion of this course, the student will be able to: - Explain the most updated SPCC regulations - Prepare, review, and design SPCC Plans - Describe the importance of Emergency Management at facilities - Identify the  more...