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A Foolproof Method for Conduting a Job Search Learn a foolproof method of how to conduct a job search and seize the job you really want. It?s a jungle out there! Surviving in today?s tough job market is an upstream adventure-- whether you are just starting out, the victim of a layoff, or merely want to change careers. Traditional methods just don`t work any more. This is one of three possible modules that you can take as self-directed study.  more...

Aromas Weight Loss Discover Healthy Effective Ways to Lose Weight Effortlessly Discover how to combine massage, diet, stress reduction and aromatherapy in your efforts to lose weight. This is not a restrictive diet program, but recommendations for how to change your lifestyle in a natural and healthy way.  more...

How to Find Legitimate Home Employment Explore the rewarding aspects of working from home by using a how-to guide that will make your efforts easier. If you are looking to work at home and are looking for a guide that will show you step-by-step how to accomplish this goal, this is it. You?ll learn how to find a legitimate business, where to look, what you will do to start the business, and what is involved after that. The course is  more...

Six Sigma Black Belt Personal Training Library The Black Belt Library gives one learner access to our four core Black Belt courses: FMEA Investigator, Advanced SPC, Measurement System Analysis, DOE: Screening Experiments. It is recommended that you take the Green Belt Library as a prerequisite for the Black Belt Library. Many organizations use our courseware for their yellow belt, green belt, and black belt programs handling the project  more...

HTML Lessons in Web Page Design - 10 Week Facilitator Led ...ficulties. These HTML lessons are the culmination of John`s efforts to produce the best possible self-learning HTML course available today. The many examples are clear and easy to follow. Each week, you are e-mailed a new lesson which includes an assignment that you complete over the next 7 days. At that time or within the week, the solutions are e-mailed back to the facilitator to be marked.  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Customer Service That Sells Develop an internal customer service culture that is dedicated to serving your customers. You will receive as a bonus 1 year unlimited access to this course from the day of enrollment. If attempting to accelerate your learning (1-2 weeks or less), please pay special attention to key points so you may successfully apply the information gained from this course to your particular business situation.  more...

Basics Of Smart International Procurement Are you responsible for increasing your organization s international procurement and don t know where to begin? International procurement is a challenge. Buying internationally is much more complex than buying domestically. The student can complete their course of study within anytime frame as long as it does not exceed 60 days from the stamped start date. Reasonable time should be given to  more...

Qualifying Sales Prospects Course description -- Everyone must manage the time and energy they have to get the most results for their efforts. For sales professionals, part of this efficiency comes from qualifying sales prospects. This course has tools, techniques and methods for making sure that you are following sound principles as you qualify prospects and determine where to invest your time for the best potential  more...

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

Balancing Work and Family Course description -- Although most people must work in order to live, it is family that makes life worth living, and ita s important to be able to balance the requirements of these two major efforts in order to satisfy our personal needs. This course has tools and techniques for identifying basic values and assuring that efforts and time are spent in ways that bring the most reward and  more...

Sales Manufacturing TM Sales Production The Sales Manufacturing(TM) model places all the small efforts involved in sales together into a comprehensible system for sales success. The Sales Manufacturing(TM) model represents the framework for building sales processes rooted in the proven best practices of the sales profession. The Sales Manufacturing(TM) machine challenges you to view your business from a holistic perspective and to build  more...

Management Development for Technical Professionals If you have ever considered moving up to a managerial position, certain personal and professional traits will be necessary when you make that move. In addition to the skills you have as a technical professional, you need to develop the skills of effective managers. This course will assist you in a self-assessment process that is essential to your efforts to become an effective manager. You will  more...

The Insurance Industry Overview Version 2 The insurance industry has its share of risks and opportunities. While providing risk coverage to individuals and businesses, insurers are striving hard to manage their own risks in the wake of natural and human-made disasters, financial setbacks, and governance scandals. As margins are squeezed in the face of low underwriting profitability and the cushion of investment returns begins to shrink,  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...

Performance Reviews Appraisal interviews are the culmination of the ongoing performance appraisal process. The first part of this process begins with modeling an effective performance discussion. Then, when a manager actually knows what he is aiming for, he can use this knowledge to plan and conduct a really worthwhile, efficient performance meeting. Appraisal meetings aren't always easy encounters, even when they  more...

ITIL Financial and Security Management IT organizations face numerous challenges every day. Two of the biggest challenges are to become and stay profitable and to protect their systems from unauthorized access. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help IT organizations set up rigorous processes to aid in their efforts to become and remain solvent and to  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...

Effective Interfunctional Relationships Whom did you talk with at work this week? To accomplish your goals in today's workplace, you not only have to interact with personnel in other departments, you often have to coordinate or even rely on them. Tasks are fluid and flow across functional boundaries. The products or services your company offers require a cooperative effort to produce. But by nature, most companies are structured  more...

Business Etiquette for Supervisors Some supervisors seem to be able to energize their employees to give their best efforts. Other supervisors have to engage in a battle of wills to accomplish the simplest tasks. What's the difference? According to a 19th-century management thinker, a supervisor: "has the power to make employees happy or unhappy; and to make their jobs a pleasure or a burden. A supervisor's power lies in words and  more...

Manager s Performance Guide - Team Conflict Skills There is little doubt that today's organizations are experiencing unprecedented changes in how they define themselves and accomplish their work. Nowhere are these changes more evident than in organizations' training and development departments. Managers are increasingly being asked to show how their training efforts add value to the organization, and that means being able to measure performance.  more...

Virtual Team Management - Managing Virtual Team Relationships In Virtual Team Management: Managing Virtual Team Relationships, you will learn how to be an effective virtual team manager. You will learn the seven functions that virtual team managers must perform and the four factors that can hamper a virtual team manager's success. In addition, you will learn about the importance of boundary management and how virtual team managers can be effective boundary  more...

Collecting and Summarizing Data The Six Sigma?? DMAIC system is a roadmap that shows the way to process and performance improvement. The second phase in the roadmap, the Measure phase, provides a methodology and tools for establishing a baseline of current processes. This baseline is your starting point for process improvement. A critical part of establishing baselines is collecting data that will enable you to learn the current  more...

Managing as Project Champion Albert Einstein said, "The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts." Are you a person who can drive a project on the outside, and hold yourself responsible from within? Can you be the force, the influence, and the point person who holds the keys to ultimate success? That's what it takes to be a project champion. This is not a course about the  more...

Design of Experiments and Validation of Solutions in Six Sigma "We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments," said Benjamin Franklin. In the Improve stage of the DMAIC process, Six Sigma teams design and conduct experiments to study the nature of relationships between input variables and the response variable(s). They do this by controlling and changing the input variables and observing the effects on the response  more...

Linux Technology Overview Part 1 Technical Business Considerations Course Overview This first course in the series provides background knowledge about Linux and explains what factors businesses should consider when determining if they should use it. This course teaches what Linux is, its history, what it can be used for, and the risks and benefits of using it. This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn more about this emerging technology. Learn To  more...

Quality Management Quality Management Tools Quality Management: Quality Management Tools offers the student an overview of tools used to analyze a company's current performance and problem causes, as well as tools used to generate ideas and organize data. The program details the purposes of and steps for creating flow charts, check sheets, histograms, run charts, control charts, cause-and-effect diagrams, Pareto charts, scatter diagrams,  more...

Oracle SQL Tuning Diagnostics and Tuning Schema Course Overview This course is the first in a two-part series on SQL Statement Tuning. This course will help experienced application developers to learn a tuning methodology they can use to maximize database performance with minimal effort. Participants will gain experience creating optimal access paths, such as partitioned views, B-tree indexes, bitmapped indexes, index clusters, and hash  more...

Quality Management Business Process Improvement Quality Management: Business Process Improvement offers the student an overview of how to prepare and implement quality changes. The program details how to select processes for improvement, assign a process manager, and establish a process improvement team. In addition, the program teaches the learner how to flowchart and streamline a process, as well as how to measure process performance.  more...

Diversity Managing Diversity in the Workplace Team leaders, supervisors, and managers examine the impact of diversity and culture on individuals and organizations. They learn how to analyze and use models and skills for leading people toward using diversity as a source of competitive advantage. Learn To: Define diversity and its different facets. Identify business benefits of leveraging diversity. Identify aspects of culture  more...

Customer Relationship Mgt Implementing CRM Customer Relationship Management: Implementing CRM introduces the student to the goals of CRM, the costs of CRM, and ways to modify operations costs to become customer focused. The program also details CRM pre-implementation strategies, the CRM implementation process, and tactics used to test CRM. Learn To Identify ways to achieve CRM goals and focus on customers.  more...

Customer Relationship Mgt eCRM Customer Relationship Management: eCRM introduces the students to managing customer relationships over the Internet. The program details the characteristics of eCRM, how departments can use eCRM to automate processes, and how to customize eCRM interfaces for each type of eCRM user. Learn To Identify the features of eCRM. Identify ways to  more...

Leadership Development Motivation In Leadership Development: Motivation, you will develop the skills needed to enhance employee and team motivation. Throughout the simulations, you will be provided with the opportunity to overcome motivation problems and encourage employees who are facing various obstacles Learn To Identify the factors that can lead to low motivation.  more...

Virtual Team Mgmt Developing Virtual Teams In Virtual Team Management: Developing Virtual Teams, you will learn about the nature of virtual teams, including the characteristics and types of virtual teams. You will also learn what needs virtual team members have, as well as the types of technology virtual teams use to communicate. In addition, you will learn how virtual teams can overcome trust and communication barriers, as well as how to  more...

Virtual Team Mgmt Managing Virtual Team Relationships In Virtual Team Management: Managing Virtual Team Relationships, you will learn how to be an effective virtual team manager. You will learn the seven functions that virtual team managers must perform and the four factors that can hamper a virtual team manager's success. In addition, you will learn about the importance of boundary management and how virtual team managers can be effective boundary  more...

Brand Management Fundamentals of Brand Management Brand Management: Fundamentals of Brand Management introduces students to essential brand information, including common branding terms, the importance of brand value, the characteristics of a good brand name and brand mark, and the responsibilities a brand manager should fulfill. The program also details the role brand management plays in the strategic marketing process, the steps of the consumer  more...