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Measuring and Recording Performance If you are judged on the success of your team, it's in your interest to ensure that they are operating at their peak. Effective appraisal is one of the most powerful ways of motivating people to give their best performance. But if you think appraisal is about handing down judgements from above ...think again. Giving feedback & appraising people is fraught with potential pitfalls. This course is  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Defining a Team's Direction ...team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. Whether a team is in its early stages of growth or in need of some refocusing on a project, it is essential that all team members understand the team's purpose and task. This course will show you why a team needs a charter, defining their goals, mission and direction. You  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Defining Responsibilities in a Team ...team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. Whether a team is in its early stages of development it is particularly important for everyone to gain a full understanding of what their responsibilities are. This course will show you how to establish what your responsibilities are, as an individual and as a team member  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Undertsanding Team Roles ...team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course will help you gain an insight into the typical roles that you and other team members adopt. You'll look at the factors that affect these roles including the influence of task and feelings approaches. You'll learn how to refine yourself as a team player and  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Resolving Conflict within a Team Where people are working together, two plus two can equal more than four. People can achieve more than they would on their own as part of a cohesive and effective team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course investigates whether conflicts are inevitable or avoidable and common causes of conflict. You will  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Creating a Collaborative Team Environment ...team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course will show you what good team communication means and how you can create a team environment that's collaborative, co-operative and successful. You will explore factors that prevent a team from communicating and examine which of these occur in your own team. You  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Handling Difficult Team Members ...team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course will show you how to take power by taking action and gain control in difficult situations. You can explore typical characters and look at strategies to put yourself in charge when dealing with any of these difficult people in your team. You can also consider  more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Making Decisions as a Team ...team, capitalising on each other's skills, experience and strengths. But working together isn't always sweetness and light. This course will show you the steps in an effective decision-making process and the benefits to the team of using a competent process. You can explore several tools used in decision-making and investigate which tool is most appropriate in different situations. You can  more...

Diagnosing and Planning Your success as a consultant depends on your ability to diagnose each situation correctly. You need to use your previous experience, and bring fresh ideas to every new contract. Frameworks and models help you to make an effective diagnosis. They help you to evaluate the strategic position of the client organization, which is vital. To deliver solutions that are relevant and appropriate to the  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...

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...

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

Six Sigma DMAIC Measuring the Process ...he five types of data that can be collected, the relative strengths of the Defects per Unit (DPU) and Defects per Opportunity (DPO) measurement techniques, and key applications for data stratification. In addition, you'll be supplied with three tools for collecting data, four data sampling methods, and guidelines for creating your own data collection plan. Potential Six Sigma Green Belts and  more...

Leadership in Six Sigma ...gma initiative. Each business must learn to call upon the strengths and abilities of its diverse professionals, from executives to highly trained technical specialists. What are the roles of each in the Six Sigma process? What planning should take place to launch their efforts? How can you tell whether your organization is really ready to take on Six Sigma? What is the proper culture, and can  more...

Writing a Marketing Plan Phase 1 This course will define the marketing plan, types of plans and outline the purposes for using a marketing plan. You will then get started on writing the plan by establishing objectives and working on introductory elements. Then, you'll complete a situational analysis that evaluates the overall market, industry, internal and competitive factors pertinent to your product or service. Finally, you'll  more...

Developing and Deploying Strategic Plans ...ess factors include understanding market forces, internal strengths and weaknesses, stakeholders, relevant technology, and legal and regulatory factors. With these considerations, an organization's action plan can be developed and deployed, and its effectiveness evaluated.This course explores the concepts of strategic planning models, business environmental analysis, and strategic plan  more...

Building Brand Equity Every time a corporate merger or buy-out occurs, you are sure to see plenty of headlines about the number of subsidiary companies each corporation owns. Here's why: brand equity. It's a fact that each subsidiary of a corporation has a value linked to its brand names, in addition to its base dollar-value. This value is measured by the consumer's attitudes and loyalties toward the brand.  more...

Graphic Design Primer This WestNet e-Learning module explores the basics of graphic design, including color theory, readability, page layout, and composition as they relate to Web design.  more...

Software Engineering Concepts The Software Engineering Concepts WBT provides an introduction to the basic concepts of software engineering. It examines the software development process, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of various software process models. It also describes various approaches to requirement gathering and problem analysis. The students will also learn to specify and validate requirements. Managers,  more...

OS 390 TSO E REXX Programming ... uses of the REXX language. A survey of the range of REXX strengths, features, versions, platforms and applications are presented. It also examines the structural units of REXX, beginning with individual characters and progressing to complete programs, with a discussion of REXX program execution in different environments.The history of the REXX language, its nature and structure are explored in  more...

e-Business Part 3 Choosing Tools and Technologies ...p drive the e-Business infrastructure. It also covers the strengths and weaknesses of each tool, language and technology. It also covers higher-level software and hardware choices such as web browsers, web servers, web application servers and web enabled databases. The target audience is those individuals tasked with planning/ implementing e-Business strategies within an organization (primarily  more...

Communications Security To introduce the key issues in communications security Network administrators, firewall administrators, system administrators, application developers, and IT security officers  more...

Basics of Telecommunications The Basics of Telecommunications WBT is meant for professionals whose responsibilities include design, management, or operation of telecommunications systems and who want to understand the basics of telecommunications. The course provides an introduction to the fundamental techniques and technologies used in the emerging and expanding field of telecommunications. It explores the history and  more...

Cisco ISCW 1 0 IOS Firewalls and IOS IPS To secure enterprise networks by implementing Cisco IOS Firewalls and Cisco IOS IPS using CLI and SDM Network administrators; network engineers; network managers; systems managers; network designers who wish to validate their ability to install, configure and troubleshoot converged local and wide area networks with 100 to 500 nodes  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...

Internet Connectivity Technologies This module introduces the technologies used to connect individuals and organizations to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or to connect two or more LANs over an extended distance to form a WAN. We will introduce the most popular transmission services explain how each works and note their strengths and drawbacks.  more...

e-Business Part 3: Choosing Tools and Technologies The third course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the tools, languages and technologies that help drive the e-Business infrastructure. It also covers the strengths and weaknesses of each tool, language and technology. It also covers higher-level software and hardware choices such as web browsers, web servers, web application servers and web enabled databases.  more...

Managing Generations in the Workplace: Recruitment and Retention In Managing Generations in the Workplace: Recruitment and Retention you will learn strategies for recruiting from the four workplace generations. It outlines different generational traits explains what strengths each generation will bring to the interview process offers interviewing strategies and teaches how best to approach orientation and retention for intergenerational recruits.  more...

e-Business Part 3: Choosing Tools and Technologies The third course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the tools languages and technologies that help drive the e-Business infrastructure. It also covers the strengths and weaknesses of each tool language and technology. It also covers higher-level software and hardware choices such as web browsers web servers web application servers and web enabled databases.  more...