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Developing A Child s Critical Thinking Skills ...thinking skills are essential for children to have as they learn to make decisions and solve problems. This course addresses what adults can do to teach children how to think through and reason in age-appropriate ways, preparing them for the greater responsibilities that come as the child matures. There are diagnostic tools, activities, and communication techniques that adults will find very more...

How to Critically Evaluate Your Business Plan ...Thinking like an entrepreneur means making the most of your opportunities. To achieve your dreams, you must know how to examine your plans critically. And you must learn to set milestone goals that you can count on. With this course, you will develop the vision and analytic skills you need. Learn how to create the business plan that will change everything for you. Students may complete this more...

Teaching Math by the Numbers Explores working with units smaller than one, real world math and problem solving skills, measurement and geometry, effective practices in solving basic algebraic equations, and issues and reflective thinking. more...

Writing Skills : Writing Business Letters ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will give you tips and hints for wording and structuring business letters and on shaping powerful paragraphs. Whether you're writing to take care of more...

Writing Skills : Writing Long Documents ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will give you tips and hints for outlining and structuring longer documents and for creating that vital executive summary. Whether you're writing to more...

Writing Skills : Editing your Writing ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will outline the value of spending quality edit time and give you practical tips and hints for editing objectively and effectively. Whether you're more...

Writing Skills : Simple, Powerful English ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will help you choose simple, powerful words that make your message crystal clear. Whether you're writing to take care of your customers, take more...

Writing Skills : Introduction to Clear Layout ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will give you tips and hints on creating documents that are attractive, to-the-point and easy to read. Whether you're writing to take care of your more...

Writing Skills : Writing Meeting Minutes Clear writing demonstrates clear thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on why minutes are written and examines what information should be included in them. It also gives you guidelines on the basics of writing minutes. more...

Writing Skills: Writing Direct Mail ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results through direct mail. It gives guidelines on planning and structuring your mail shot, examines the language you choose to enhance your message and gives tips and hints on effective follow up. Whether you're writing to take care of your more...

Writing Skills : Sales Letters and Proposals Clear writing demonstrates clear thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will give you tips and hints for writing sales follow-up letters and proposals that meet the customer's needs and get more...

Writing Skills : Writing to Complain ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course gives you a step by step guide to writing concise and effective complaint letters that get results. It looks in detail at the importance of addressing your letter to the correct person, stating your complaint clearly and succinctly; what supporting information to include more...

Writing Skills : Resolving Written Complaints ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will give you tips and hints for replying to written complaints assertively, to win the customer back onto your side without the need for more...

Writing Skills : Inter-Office Communications ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will give you tips and hints on creating concise, powerful memos, emails and other inter-office communications that get results - fast! Whether more...

Writing Skills : Credit Control Letters ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course focuses on helping you achieve results with written communication and on increasing your effectiveness in black and white. It will give you tips and hints for writing credit control letters that work - that get your company's money back without destroying customer more...

Getting Ready to Write ...thinking and in business writing can be one of the most powerful and persuasive tools for getting things done. This course lays the groundwork for solid persuasive writing. It explores the pros and cons of different methods of communication and helps you make the best choice. It will help you set your objective and gives tips on how to identify the best tone for that objective. It suggests more...

The Eurocamp Case Study 1: Overview In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores some of the key concepts of financial more...

Colt and Winchester Case Study 1: Start-up Businesses In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores the typical financial strategy issues for more...

Colt and Winchester Case Study 2: Growth Businesses In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores the typical financial strategy issues for more...

Colt and Winchester Case Study 3: Mature Businesses In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores the typical financial strategy issues for more...

Colt and Winchester Case Study 4: Accounting for Competitors In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores the relevance of competitor activity to an more...

Colt and WInchester Case Study 5: Accounting for Customers In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores the growth strategies of Product more...

Colt and Winchester Case Study 6: The Dynamic Growth Option In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores the financial issues involved with more...

Colt and Winchester Case Study 7: Declining Businesses In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores the typical financial strategy issues for more...

Applying Financial Strategy: The Moore Corporation Case Study In business making the right financial decisions can mean the difference between win or lose, success or failure. Successful organisations rarely win by accident. They manage their financial strategy and decisions -- balancing risks and rewards -- satisfying the financial needs of the business as well as the expectations of investors. This course explores how the principles of financial strategy more...

The Art of Global Communication ...is happening before they speak? Can you just talk without thinking too much about the target audience, the message to be communicated, and a host of other information? Communication is too important to be left to chance. The subtleties of language, expressions, and gestures all enrich the content of what you are saying. Of course, when you're communicating on a global scale, you need to be sure 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...

Preparing for Inbound Sales Calls ...nside selling is all about being prepared, and that means thinking ahead on customer inquiries and responses you will give. This course identifies the common perceptions that customers have of salespeople. In the course, you will learn the three premises of the inside sales approach, the structure of this approach, and the six buying roles. The course outlines the steps involved in maintaining more...

Bridge The Expectations Gap ... believe their experiences to be and their realities than thinking and acting like a customer. This course takes you through several processes for doing exactly that, and you'll be shown how to find out if dealing with your company is a delight or a disappointment. The first lesson describes the common causes of the gaps between what customers want, and what they receive from your company. more...

The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation ... be stimulated, excited, and nurtured to produce creative thinking. In short, people need the right climate and culture for creativity and innovation to flourish. Starting with an examination of the barriers to fostering a creat This course is for anyone who wants to be more creative and innovative at work. This includes team members and team leaders, and those appointed to roles with more...

The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations ...thinking skills provide an essential foundation for all effective planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities. Employees who can analyze and reason consistently and proficiently furnish a cost-efficient resource that results in a distinctive competitive advantage. Workers who are skeptical of quick fixes and operational dogma pay attention and generate productive ideas. They are more...

Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills ...on, and communicate effectively. These and other critical thinking skills are increasingly consequential as organizational planning and decision making become more distributed and reliant on written and verbal communication factors. Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills coaches you through the acquisition of an array of critical skills that can help you improve your information 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 Skills for Managing ... and former editor, Harvard Business Review. The Critical Thinking Skills for Managing course charts the concepts and skills that can transform competent leaders into discerning situation analysts, focused problem solvers, and powerful decision makers. The course offers analysis methodology that will sharpen managerial ability through all the stages of the critical thinking process; situation more...

Organizational Scope of Critical Thinking In any complex environment systems are necessary, but they must serve an organization rather than become its masters. This is how Ralph S. Larsen, chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson, describes both the need for systems and their inherent risk. Organizational systems, with complex and intricately interrelated components, demand the application of critical thinking to avoid 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...

Goals and Goal Setting Most achievements, great or small, begin with an important first step: setting a goal. A clearly defined, attainable goal embodies a vision of what is possible. It's a guide star for those who navigate a course through obstacles to a desired accomplishment. However, the process of setting appropriate goals is often oversimplified or overlooked entirely. A well-constructed goal is challenging, yet more...

Developing a Positive Attitude Oftentimes your success or failure depends not only on the situation you are in, but how you react to that situation. Your reaction to the situations you encounter is significantly influenced by your attitude. Having a positive attitude involves looking for the best in a situation, being realistic about possibilities and consequences, and having the courage to believe that you can succeed. It more...

Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence In today's workplace, you need to have both the intellectual skills to do the job and the emotional intelligence to interact effectively with co-workers. The successful leaders and managers around you outshine others because of their stellar people skills. Most people believe that emotions are automatic responses that they have no control over. Few realize that their emotions are determined by more...

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Simulation Does intelligence alone determine success? Or do self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, zeal, self-motivation, empathy, and social deftness factor heavily into the equation? While not as readily quantified as IQ, these qualities, collectively termed "emotional intelligence," often determine whether or not people excel in life, relationships, and the workplace. In this simulation, you'll more...

Teamwork and Results Without Authority When it comes to being a member of a team, what role do you think you should play? Legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant said, " In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first--ahead of personal glory." Yet, according to general George S. Patton Jr., "If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking." When it comes to getting 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...

A New Manager s Responsibilities and Fears Promotion to management is obviously welcome and something to celebrate, but when the initial excitement is over, you may begin to wonder about your new responsibilities. Your main focus is now on managing the activities of others and ensuring that the company's resources are used effectively. Apprehensions about whether you are able to do the job are natural--it merely indicates a healthy respect more...

Managing Cross-Functions .... This requires that managers develop a degree of systems thinking where managers operate in a large interconnected system of value chains. These developments place a premium on managers implementing new strategies to develop organizational learning and knowledge management which are key drivers in delivering success. The target for this path is senior level directors, senior managers of more...

Communicating a Shared Vision If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney's words ring as true today as they did many years ago when they were first displayed above the Epcot Center. The importance of a vision cannot be denied. Neither can the importance of communicating that vision to the people responsible for supporting it. Communicating your vision gives purpose and meaning to the work that people do, and pursuing and more...

Advancing Your Administrative Career Getting a position as an administrative support professional is a great accomplishment. However, have you considered what your next move should be? This course will show you how to advance on the job by providing you with important information about having a professional image and a successful attitude. You will learn valuable leadership skills and methods for motivating others. You will gain more...

Taking Systems Thinking into Your Personal Life ...inst the same wall with no relief in sight? Using systems thinking in your personal life can be a new and effective way to tackle and change issues at their core. It is possible to change old habits. You can learn to communicate in more effective ways. Change is not only possible, it is part of life. In this course, you will explore the personal nature of systems. You'll learn about different more...

Redesigning Your Organization Part 1 ...thinking? How do you take what you've learned in theory and apply it to your organization? This course will walk you step by step through a planning process of designing an organizational system. You'll learn how to design your ideal organization, how to implement the design, and how to incorporate the learning of the new system so the entire team involved becomes a part of it. Managers, more...

Redesigning Your Organization Part II What do you do after you've created an idealized design for your organization? This course will provide you with the skills you'll need to successfully implement an idealized design in your organization. You'll study the groundwork for learning, including how to use adaptive learning and how to be an advocate for adaptive learning. You'll learn about democratic hierarchies, decision-making more...

Thinking Strategically ...ve, companies are discovering the importance of strategic thinking. Being lean and mean and process efficient is no good if you don't have the correct business strategy. But what is strategic thinking and what does it look like in the context of your business? This course is focused on discovering and using the key elements of successful strategic thinking. Those in management who are engaged more...

Lean Concepts ... meet these challenges, organizations have turned to Lean Thinking, which seeks the elimination of all forms of waste, strives for continuous improvement, and simplifies business processes. This course explores how businesses that implement Lean Thinking learn how to reduce waste, streamline production and improve operational flexibility. Practical steps and tools for the identification, more...

Probability and Statistics ...escriptive, inferential, and process-oriented statistical thinking; must understand how to stratify data; and must appreciate the uses of the Central Limit Theorem and inferential statistics to interpret available data. This course serves as a summary for each of these areas, and provides a refresher on basic statistical methods and the uses of probability. Six Sigma is a registered Trademark more...

Elements of Marketing Strategy You want to develop a powerful, and well-documented marketing strategy in order to get your new product or service approved. This course is designed to give you a strong start in developing your marketing vision, direction, and ultimately a plan. You'll get an overview of the key factors encompassing the broad scope of strategic marketing. You'll be able to discuss cost structures and their more...

Problem Solving and Process Management Tools ...nt problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." To solve quality and process-related problems, managers should continuously enhance their knowledge of organizational processes and quality management tools. These tools help managers find root causes of problems, an important step toward removing them. Success in ensuring quality and more...

Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively In Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively you will learn to meet the demands of creative thinking in the workplace. This program will help you develop your creative thinking skills and allow you to practice using the creative thinking process.  more...

Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity offers the student information required to mentally and physically prepare for creativity; incorporate innocence intuition and adventure into creative thinking; and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The program describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the most more...

Business Problem Solving: Critical Thinking and Information Analysis ...Thinking and Information Analysis you will learn multiple 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 more...

Conducting Meetings: Managing a Meeting Conducting Meetings: Managing a Meeting enables participants to improve their ability as a meeting leader. They acquire the knowledge and skills they need to facilitate situation analysis brainstorming and decision making in a meeting as well as techniques for fostering creative thinking and for managing conflict among meeting participants.  more...