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Mastering RoboHelp Office 2002 Why pay hundreds of dollars for basic/intermediate RoboHelp training? Learn the basics of WinHelp, WebHelp and HTML Help development--plus real world tricks and tips--with this 200-page tutorial manual. more...

Learn Authorware In 45 Days ...why of learning how to develop multimedia programs using a very powerful authoring program called Authorware. You will need to purchase a textbook, which includes the Authorware program. The textbook guides you step by step through the development of several Authorware projects. The course length of time is based on the free usage of the 45 day trial version of Authorware. An instructor is more...

Appreciating Personality Differences ...why some people act the way they do? You may sometimes think, The world would be a much better place if everyone were more like me. But, in fact, ita s each persona s unique style that creates a more complete workplace! Thata s why ita s important to identify both your own personality style and the differing styles of others. Understanding these style differences will enable you to adapt to more...

LBD: Understanding and Managing Behavior Examines why individuals behave the way they do and how behavior may be taught, changed, or modified. Historical foundations of the study of behavior and behavior managements, cultural influences, and ethical and legal concerns are also addressed. more...

Why Involve Parents of Exceptional Children? Examines historical influence of parents in the provision of education to children with disabilities. Parents rights are also explored. more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance - Budgeting Basics MAXIM TRAINING At work, as managers, we're all involved in the budgeting process in some way or another. But few of us understand why budgeting is so important. Before you begin budgeting yourself, you need to grasp some key concepts. This course explores some basic questions about budgeting: What is a budget? Why are budgets necessary? What's involved at each stage of the budgeting process? more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Preparing your Budget MAXIM TRAINING Planning and submitting a budget for the first time can be a daunting task. Many of us approach our first budget with little or no formal training. It can be a nightmare! Effective budgeting is crucial to both you and your department. And because it's important, it's vital you budget properly. Too many managers make half-hearted attempts and then wonder why ACTUAL spend is nothing more...

Customer Service : Why Care for Customers? In today's volatile business environment organisations recognise that customer service is the key differentiator that makes their products and services tower above the competition. They also recognise that it's no longer enough to give satisfactory service that meets customers' expectations. To get customers coming back time after time, you must beat their expectations. This course will help you more...

Customer Service : Who are your Customers? In today's volatile business environment organisations recognise that customer service is the key differentiator that makes their products and services tower above the competition. They also recognise that it's no longer enough to give satisfactory service that meets customers' expectations. To get customers coming back time after time, you must beat their expectations. This course will help you more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Using Cash Flows to Manage From the corporate world to the corner shop, from running a restaurant to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. The timing of cash flow in a business is crucial and the actions you take as manager can affect that cash flow. This course helps you understand why cash flow forecasts are important tools when it comes to making viable business decisions. It more...

Managing People: Giving Feedback and Praise to your Team ...ir best performance. This course will help you understand why timely feedback is vital. It stresses the importance of praise and gives tips and hints on how to deliver constructive criticism and reprimands. It will help you use questioning techniques to focus on the problem, not the person so that your feedback is precise, positive and productive. Addressing performance issues can be a tricky more...

Managing People : Developing your team The last few decades have seen a revolution in the way businesses operate. Companies now recognise that their people are their most precious asset. Today's manager needs leadership skills to shape people into effective working units ... called teams ... and lead them to success. In this course you can examine why its better to lead a team rather than a group of people and what the benefits are for 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...

Organisational Communication : Improving Safety Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will more...

Putting Customers First Learn why you must care for your customers In today's business environment there's often little to choose between one organisation's products/services and another's. Quality of customer service can be the crucial difference between success and failure. This course will help ensure your customers have POSITIVE feelings about you and your organisation and so build customer loyalty. more...

Working in Teams Learn how to be a successful team member The secret of successful teams lies with the team members. This course aims to make YOU a better team member by looking at: How teams work What makes a successful team Why teams struggle Ways to improve a team's performance Throughout the course there will be times where you are asked to STOP TO THINK about your own work situations and there are 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...

Royce Hotel Case Study 3: Inventory Operations planning and Operations Management has never been more sophisticated, nor more demanding. The pressure to improve quality; the need to manage materials and people more cost effectively; the drive to manage capacity more flexibly; and develop control systems which highlight problems while there's still time to do something about them, conspire to make the role of Operations Manager one more...

Royce Hotel Case Study 4: Quality Operations planning and Operations Management has never been more sophisticated, nor more demanding. The pressure to improve quality; the need to manage materials and people more cost effectively; the drive to manage capacity more flexibly; and develop control systems which highlight problems while there's still time to do something about them, conspire to make the role of Operations Manager one more...

Personal Effectiveness - Teamworking: Defining a Team's Direction 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. Whether a team is in its early stages of growth or in need of some refocusing on a project, it is essential that more...

z/OS for Operators Curriculum ...g Module 3 ROLE OF THE SUPERVISOR Interruptions - How and Why PSW's In Detail - Old, New and Current First Level Interrupt Handlers Module 4 HOW MVS PROCESSES I/O Data transfer Channel Subsystem Data Paths I/O Supervisor EXCP Processor Module 5 OPERATING PROCEDURE & FACILITIES MCS - Multiple Console Support SMF - System Management Facilities DDR - Dynamic Device Reconfiguration MIH - Missing more...

Conflict Management Series: Personal Reactions to Conflict Conflict happens. Whether it's individuals clashing, organisational change or demanding customers, conflict is a normal part of working life. But it's something that people can find hard to handle and, if you don't manage it carefully, everyone can lose out: you, the organisation and your team. This course will identify why you should consider the importance of good judgement and how this can be more...

Financial Management: Inventory Costing and Depreciation In Financial Management: Inventory Costing and Depreciation, participants will learn how to calculate inventory value and depreciation. Participants will learn why organizations use accounting methods when reporting financial information on financial statements. more...

The OSI Model Upon completing this WestNet e-Learning module, you will be able to explain why the OSI model was created; name and understand the layers of the OSI reference model; and, describe what an open standard is and why it benefits both vendors and customers. more...

LAN Implementation In this WestNet e-Learning module, we review the operation and implementation of three established local area network (LAN) technologies: Ethernet, Token Ring, and Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI). more...

Large Network Case Studies In this module, we explore network availability, performance, and Internet connectivity. As you work through this module, you will come to appreciate that all network design issues are highly interrelated. Likewise, real-world design projects often include multiple broad goals, often creating large and complex trade-offs. more...

VoIP Network Quality of Service Techniques This module investigates the QoS service details necessary to provide acceptable voice quality over the best effort data network. Here, we first discuss general converged network QoS requirements. We find that QoS parameters extend beyond just bandwidth and delay, but also include jitter, packet loss, network availability, and security. We discuss traffic shaping and admission control, and learn more...

Computer Telephony Integration This WestNet e-Learning module provides a broad overview of the way CTI typically works. We will then describe the different levels of automation that fall under the general category of CTI and define some of the key terms and concepts necessary to understand CTI functionality. more...

Call Center Components This WestNet e-Learning module discusses the features, benefits, and integration issues of each one of a call center's basic tools. more...

Progressing through the Complex Sale ...But getting to these decision-makers isn't easy, which is why selling at an executive level is a more complex operation that requires all the resources of the highly skilled salesperson. This course is directed at supplying those resources. Salespeople who are tasked with selling at an executive level and who are currently involved with obtaining and maintaining key/major accounts. Also, those more...

Presenting Your Proposition Even the most confident sales people can feel their self-assurance dissolve when required to make a formal sales presentation. This course is about giving you the confidence, not only to present, but also to get commitment from your customer. Demonstrating a structure that can be adapted to most situations, this course will equip you with the skills needed to deal with the most intimidating more...

Delivering High-Impact Sales Presentations The most important meeting you'll have with your client is when you show the decision makers that you have the right business fit for their needs. You've done a lot of hard work, so when the curtain goes up on your sales presentation, you want an award-winning performance. In this course, you'll learn about the third major component of the strategic account sales (SAS) approach--presentation. more...

Field Sales Foundations Many field sales representatives are set loose on their assigned territories armed only with a few sales tips and some information about the products and services they're selling. This course builds the foundation for a strategy that changes the customer's perception of the salesperson from a mere vendor to a consultant and true business resource. Field Sales Foundations introduces you to the more...

ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management Organizations that provide IT services to internal or external customers need to provide excellent services to increase the quality of, and the profits for, the organization. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) can help organizations achieve these goals. At the same time, ITIL can help organizations to increase external and internal customer satisfaction. The delivery and support of IT services more...

Inbound Call Center Technology ...anager, keep up with this advancing technology? Moreover, why should you? This course will explain the fundamentals of inbound call center technology, and explore ways current technology might evolve. It examines different methods of obtaining this technology, and outlines how to protect your call center through Disaster Recovery Planning. Understanding inbound call center technology is one more...

Using Surveys to Measure Customer Satisfaction If you're lucky, your customers will complain when they are dissatisfied with your company's service. If you're not so lucky, they'll say nothing and just take their business elsewhere. It's essential that you keep your fingers on the pulse of customer opinion if you are to prevent them defecting to the competition. You need to measure customer satisfaction on a regular basis, and this course will more...

Call Center Communication Skills Communication skills are very important for a successful career in customer service and sales. This is especially true in a call center environment. Call centers can be high pressure, fast-paced environments where you may have to deal with hundreds of people in one day. That is why it is so important to fine tune your communication skills. This course will examine handling different personalities, more...

Managing Delivery Delivering to clients is the most important thing you do as an external consultant. Everything else--the selling and the fighting to win the contract--stands for nothing if you fail to deliver outstanding results time and time again. To keep your reputation intact, delivering to time, quality, and budget is the very least that you must achieve. To ensure that clients remain enthusiastic about what more...

Establishing a Relationship with Internal Clients Even if your clients are internal to your organization, you still need to spend time getting to know them, and understanding what it is they require from you. When you are dealing with internal clients, there may be a temptation to think you know everything about them, and about the project. This course will stop you from making that mistake. It will enable you to understand your clients' needs more...

Internal Consulting Skills What skills do you need to be a successful internal consultant? What skills do you have already, and which should you develop further? This course gives you the opportunity to review your existing abilities and ways of improving your current performance. Internal consulting is not only about your specialist or technical knowledge. It's about your ability to communicate. If you fail to get your more...

The Customer Support Specialist CSS It costs a business much more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. So it makes sense that a business must do everything it can to support and satisfy existing customers. Handling complaints effectively and efficiently can result in increased customer loyalty. Today's Customer Support Specialists (CSS) and support centers have a vital role to play in ensuring customers' more...

Initiating a Project and Preparing the Project Plan Project integration management is concerned with ensuring the proper coordination of project processes so project objectives are achieved. Successful project managers use project integration management to integrate project processes, maximize performance, and meet project goals throughout the life cycle of a project. This course will highlight the importance of project integration management to more...

Project Leadership Communicating Within a Project Team ... a Project Team covers how to promote team communication, why communication fails, and the types of communication styles. It also details how project managers should conduct meetings and manage decisions. In addition, it covers the types of project documents used to convey information and how to present that information to the various levels of stakeholders within an organization. The target more...

Implementing Project Human Resource Management Most project managers have experienced the synergy of a well-functioning project team. When such a team exists, a project seems to run itself. A few of the secrets to a project's success include building a project team through obtaining the necessary human resources, developing team competencies, and monitoring performance to boost project performance. Project Human Resource Management is more...

Elements of Project Human Resource Management When project managers set their sights on delivering creative project solutions on time and within budget, they must select and manage a team of experienced and competent professionals who can meet the challenge. This requires that project managers understand the Project Human Resource Management processes of planning, selecting, developing, and managing a project team. Such an understanding more...

Budgeting and Controlling Costs A small change in schedule, resources, or scope can result in a major change in cost. The processes associated with Project Cost Management help Project Managers measure project performance and monitor cost variances. This course will highlight the importance of Project Cost Management to project performance. It will cover the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs for the Cost Budgeting and more...

Estimating Activity Costs Most project managers are familiar with the sinking feeling that occurs when project costs exceed expectations. Project cost management is concerned with estimating and controlling the cost resources used to complete different project activities. This course will highlight the importance of project cost management to project performance. It will cover the project inputs, tools and techniques, and more...

Project Integration Executing and Completing a Project Project managers regularly face tough decisions about where to concentrate project resources when met with competing priorities and demands. Project integration management helps with these decisions by ensuring the proper coordination of project processes during project plan development and execution. Successful project managers use project integration management throughout the project life cycle more...

Managing the Execution and Control of IT Projects ...cent, and that almost 30 percent of all IT projects fail? Why do you think IT projects are so vulnerable to cost overruns and failure? How can you ensure that your project does not end up as one of these statistics? You can avoid being a statistic by managing project scope, cost, and scheduling. As you go through this course, you will learn valuable strategies for managing your project. You more...

Troubleshooting and Closing the Project The factors that can affect a project are numerous and often hard to pinpoint. Conducting meetings and using advanced tools, such as formulas and graphs, allow the project manager to properly define the health or status of the project. This course outlines how to conduct effective meetings and presents some troubleshooting tools that can be used during the project life cycle. It also presents the more...

Planning Project Procurement and Requesting Seller Responses If project success is to be achieved, products, services, or results often must be purchased or acquired from elsewhere within, or outside of, the organization. This process of acquisition and purchasing is Project Procurement Management, and it is a critical aspect of any project. As you advance in this course, you will gain an understanding of what processes are involved in Project Procurement more...

Choosing Sellers and Administering and Closing Contracts ...Why is it important to manage the contract and relationship between the buyer and seller? What's the most effective way to complete and settle contracts? As you advance in this course, which focuses on seller selection, contract administration, and contract closure, you will obtain the skills and knowledge required to manage these areas of Project Procurement Management. This course is aligned more...

Planning for Quality Project Quality Management focuses on ensuring two things: the quality of project management and the quality of the products created during the project. Project Quality Management implements the quality management system by using policies, procedures, and the following processes: Quality Planning, Perform Quality Assurance, and Perform Quality Control. Through interactive learning strategies and more...

Working with Difficult People Recognize Work Styles ...etion of this course you will be able to identify reasons why a person may be problematic to work with and select the most appropriate response to individuals who exhibit specific patterns of behavior. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common barriers to success.. All levels of professionals more...

Business Travel Safety Forming a Corporate Travel Safety Program In "Business Travel Safety: Forming a Corporate Travel Safety Program," you will learn how to facilitate safe and efficient travel for employees. You will learn best practices for developing a corporate travel safety program, how to choose the best travel agency for your organization, and why it is important to prepare for emergencies before traveling. The target audience for this program is more...

Business Travel Safety Safety Measures for Travelers ...el Safety: Safety Measures for Travelers," you will learn why business travelers are often at a higher risk for being involved in a crime than local citizens. Additionally, you will understand what precautions a woman traveler should take and what safety guidelines should be followed. You will also learn why it is important for disabled persons to consider their safety when traveling and some more...

The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation ...Why is it that people often have many of their best ideas once they leave work, when performing the most mundane tasks? Is this a coincidence, or is there a particular reason for it? As more and more organizations encourage employees to propose creative and innovative ideas in the workplace, it's imperative that you understand the foundations of creativity and innovation, how creative thought more...

Strategies for Facilitating Critical Thinking ...economic environment. Victoria Marsick's words illustrate why businesses can no longer thrive on the unexamined repetition of established formulas. Today, people at all levels of the organization are asked to think in new ways about themselves, their work, and their organizations. In this course, managers can learn a variety of strategies to encourage the development of critical thinking skills more...

Critical Thinking Strategies Simulation ...neither has experience managing a larger entity, which is why they have hired you as general manager. Your primary responsibility, at least initially, will be to ease the company's transition from a small to a mid-size organization. You will need to use your strong critical thinking skills to deal with a number of issues. Also, you will try to encourage other RMS employees to use their critical more...

Successful Lifelong Learning ...ledge worker? If you wonder what these terms really mean, why they are important, and how you rate as a worker and learner for the 21st century, then this course is for you. Find out how lifelong learning strategies can enable you to develop your work skills and to manage your professional development. Don't wait until your supervisor initiates what you need to learn. It's time to take more...

Leadership Without Authority ...why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody." Tomlin could have been speaking on behalf of many employees in the corporate world who, despite having little authority, take it upon themselves to become leaders nonetheless. Becoming a leader, and getting results, without authority is especially important in today's corporate culture, where middle management and more...

Preparing a Business Case ...Why put time and effort into preparing, writing, and presenting a business case for new projects? Why not just talk to the manager and get his approval for the project? The answers to these questions lie in the fact that organizational budgets for new projects are typically very tight and, as such, your project will be competing against other projects for funding. Without a written business more...

The Mentoring Manager Looking for ways to enhance your managing skills? In this course, you'll acquire expertise as a mentor that will benefit your employees, your organization, and your own career. You'll examine how mentoring differs from managing, and you'll brush up on essential communication skills. Finally, you'll learn to use mentoring to improve on team organization, dynamics, and performance. Managers, more...

Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals ...Why should you be interested in career development for the technical professionals you supervise? Because it's good for them, good for your company, and good for you. One of your major challenges as a manager of technical people is retaining them. And you may also need to recruit technical people to fill higher-level positions in your company. This course will help you use career development as more...

e-Mentoring Rapid changes in the way organizations look and do business have generated a new business tool: e-Mentoring. Here's an opportunity to examine the challenges and advantages of e-Mentoring and explore how to adapt communication skills to electronic media. Learn how to grow and manage e-Mentoring relationships by effectively selecting and matching e-Mentors and proteges, developing trust, using more...

Balanced Scorecard Corporate Strategy The first course in the Balanced Scorecard series focuses on developing and formalizing strategy in an organization. This course explores why corporate strategy is important, the process of formalizing your corporate strategy, and aligning the organization to the strategy. This course is for executives, directors, and managers who are seeking to formalize their corporate strategy and looking to more...

Coaching for Business ...ar in their own minds exactly what their function is, and why they are performing a coaching role, they may do more harm than good. Therefore, it is important to understand how coaching originated as a business tool, and the ways it impacted traditional managerial attitudes and behavior. This course ensures that those responsible for coaching will know what their roles are, and thus be better more...

Energizing and Empowering Employees Energy. Without it, the wheels and gigabytes of industry come to a screeching halt. And without energized, empowered employees, your part of global industry will make far less progress. This course introduces you to the importance of energizing and empowering employees. By doing so, you multiply the benefits to your department, team, and organization. The course begins by showing you ways to more...

Introduction to Work Force Generations ...Why do people seem so different in what they value, how they live, and how they behave at work? The worlds your co-workers grew up in may have been very different. There are four generations interacting in the work world of today: the silent generation, baby boomers, Generation X, and Generation Next. The differences among these four generations can cause major differences in behavior and more...

Coaching Trends When is a good time to coach? And what is the business case for coaching? Is coaching just another popular fad, or can organizations really benefit from it? Every coach should be aware of the strategic uses of coaching: the organizational benefits that are offered, how coaching can be used to help coachees deal with positive and negative change, and ways of coaching innovators and mavericks. What more...

Delegation Basics Do you feel that there are just not enough hours in the day? Are you always striving to keep ahead of the paperwork that litters your desk? Perhaps it is time to consider sharing some of those tasks with your skilled employees. As you progress through this "Delegation Basics" course in the "Effective Delegation" series, you will discover what delegating is all about, what you need to do to prepare more...

The Personal Approach in Delegation Have you delegated tasks only to later find out that the task wasn't completed properly or that it wouldn't be completed on time? Perhaps you need to reevaluate your delegation skills. This course will help you work more effectively with employees in a delegation situation. As you progress through "The Personal Approach in Delegation" course in the "Effective Delegation" series, you will discover more...

The Potential of Self-directed Learning ...ledge worker? If you wonder what these terms really mean, why they are so important, and how you rate as a worker for the 21st century, this course is for you. Find out what you can do to take control of your own skill and career development. Learn to identify resources, build relationships, assess your organization's support for self-directed learning and manage and assist other self-directed 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...

Advanced Administrative Support Simulation ...g with Maxine, you'll have the opportunity to find out to why she didn't promote you. You'll need to listen actively and effectively to her constructive criticism. Also, you will need to deal with this criticism like a professional. After the meeting, maintaining a positive attitude and avoiding the influence of negative people are among the challenges you'll face. If you take Maxine's advice more...

Accounting Fundamentals ...n accounting records. This practical course gives you the why's and how's to accurately conduct accounting activities. "Accounting Fundamentals" examines the theories of accounting, how to maintain accounting records, and how to generate financial statements. A business deals with many transactions in a single day, so it's important to keep up-to-date records of its finances. Individuals who 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. This course is designed more...

International Finance ...dealing on the global level? This course will demonstrate why you would want to transform your purely domestic firm into a multinational corporation; how you decide which financial products and instruments will allow you to manage your cash flows from international business operations; and, finally, the important steps to take toward managing foreign exchange risk and country risk. This course more...

Managing Business Risk Developing a Risk Management Plan Managing Business Risk: Developing a Risk Management Plan teaches learners about the various risk management models as well as factors that influence the risk management function in organizations. Students will also learn about the risk management environment that organizations face and the methods used to assess those risks. The target audience for this program is Team Leaders, Directors, and more...

Thinking Strategically As business success becomes more difficult to achieve, 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 more...

Six Sigma--Lean Tools for Control Two key methodologies for improving operations in the manufacturing world are lean manufacturing and Six Sigma . Both are designed to reduce variation, yet each takes a different track. While Six Sigma utilizes data and statistical analysis to measure and improve a company's operational performance, lean manufacturing collocates all of an organization's processes in sequential order, restructuring more...

Six Sigma--Measurement System Re-analysis Have you ever tried to change your life with a diet or exercise program, only to backslide and lose all the positive changes you made? It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal--improved health and fitness--after reaching your goal weight and fitness level. Maintaining positive changes takes just as much effort and vigilance as making the changes initially. Likewise for businesses--the benefits more...

The Six Sigma Change Agent ...n Six Sigma team members, are resistant to change. That's why this course offers you an introduction to the forms resistance to change takes at both the organizational and team levels. You'll also explore ways of overcoming resistance to change and of building a change-friendly environment. Six Sigma is a registered trademark of Motorola Corporation, and all rights, title, and interest in Six more...

Six Sigma and the Voice of the Customer Do you know the phrase, "caveat emptor"? It's a Latin term that means, "Let the buyer beware." It's also a legal principle stating that consumers must purchase goods at their own risk, because unless specifically asked, the seller is generally under no obligation to disclose defects. Caveat emptor once struck fear in the hearts of many wary consumers. Fortunately, the tide has turned. Increased more...

Design of Experiments DOE ...hase, organizations have a solid understanding of how and why their processes fail to meet customers' expectations. Organizations use the Design of Experiments (DOE), a key methodology of the Six Sigma Improve phase, to quantify with statistical precision the factors that are causing this gap. Well-designed experiments result in effective process redesign, and ultimately, improved more...

Measurement Systems 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 collecting data and establishing baseline measures of current processes. However, measurement itself can be problematic. A measurement system is only as good as the measuring instruments and the operators, and more...

Six Sigma Reducing Variation to Improve Quality ...in by gaining a basic understanding of what variation is--why and where it exists and how it creates waste, and you'll learn key tools for identifying and measuring this waste in your organization. Next, you'll learn the key causes of variation and how to classify these causes as a step toward their elimination. You'll also learn the basics of process management. Finally, you'll Potential Six more...

Six Sigma DMAIC Analyzing the Data There's one thing that doctors, mechanics, and detectives sometimes share in common--getting to the source of something that's gone wrong in a system. Things go wrong in business systems too, and to get at the source of the problem, you have to dig down deep. This course is all about making sure Six Sigma Green belts and team members dig deep enough, to where the solutions are simplest. In order more...

Six Sigma and the Corporate Enterprise ...why is it important to your company? This course helps you to make that determination through a discussion of basic concepts underlying the Six Sigma philosophy. A broad overview is provided of the initial development of Six Sigma; Six Sigma's uses in leading companies to date; the benefits to be realized by successful deployment, and the metrics and core competencies crucial to its use. You'll more...

Evaluating Brand Effectiveness ... Now the question is: Is it working? This course explores why you need measurement systems to examine your brand's effectiveness with consumers and to evaluate your brand equity. Where can you start? By learning everything you can about your target market's knowledge structures. Measuring knowledge structures leads to the unveiling of where your brand ranks in the consumer's mind. You will more...

Communication Skills and Project Management An essential element of management is the ability to effectively communicate with people. The capacity to successfully communicate in today's global economy is a pivotal element to the success of any organization. Managers need to be aware of emerging technologies and how these affect international communication. To meet an improvement project's specified goals and objectives, a manager must also more...

The Who What Why of ISO 9000 2000 This course provides a brief history of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It outlines ISO's mission and structure by examining the three standards that comprise the ISO 9000 family of standards: ISO 9000:2000, ISO 9001:2000, and ISO 9004:2000. This course also presents the universal quality fundamentals that form the foundation of the concepts and practices required by more...

Transitioning from ISO 9000 1994 to ISO 9001 2000 The ISO 9000 family of international standards has been drastically revised. Currently, certified organizations must plan to comply with these changes within the specified time frame or face losing their certification. The ISO 9001:2000 edition uses a new process-focused approach as illustrated in their Quality Management System model. This QMS model is structured into four areas: Management more...

Lean Techniques ...ells you that the store has a policy of prohibiting this. Why? Wouldn't it make sense to give the customer what he wants exactly when he wants it? Yes, but the furniture store is not a lean business. In fact, the furniture industry uses batch and queue processes that inconvenience the customer at every turn. In this course, you'll learn how lean techniques can help organizations maximize value more...

Building Brand Equity ...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. Brand equity adds dollar-value to a company's worth. So, what are the components that make brand more...

Pricing and Profitability for Product Managers A crucial aspect of a product manager's job is deciding what price to charge for a given product. It's equally important to understand that pricing decisions do not happen in a vacuum; the product manager will be held accountable for the success of the products he prices. Clearly, it's important for the product manager to understand the financial implications of his decisions. In this course, more...

Developing a New-product Strategy Product development is not a mystery. Nor is it only the concern of your research and development department. One of your main responsibilities as a product manager is to create a new-product strategy. This means that in addition to developing new-product goals, you also need to develop a plan for reaching those goals. In this course, you'll explore the tools and techniques to help you create a more...

Branding Your Internet Identity Form Strategic Alliances This course defines the characteristics of reciprocal links and shows learners how to recognize why strategic alliances sometimes fail. It also helps them to understand the guidelines involved in creating a strategic alliance and shows the steps involved in negotiating, implementing and supporting any alliance. Professionals who want to create and promote an online marketing strategy more...

E-mail and Internet Use E-mail and Internet technologies are rapid communication and information tools that spell success for any person or business that knows how to take advantage of them. However, there are dangers in the use of this advanced technology. This course outlines the pitfalls involved in using e-mail and accessing the Internet through a company's network, and the policies that are often implemented to more...

A Manager s Introduction to Business Law This course introduces managers to the fundamental concepts of business law. It begins by exposing some prevalent legal misconceptions shared by management and establishes the true role that law plays in society and business. The relationship between business ethics and law is explained and how managers serve as vital role models for demonstrating ethical business practices. This course also more...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 On July 30, 2002, President Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Sparked by a wave of dramatic corporate and accounting scandals, this federal securities legislation attempts to combat corporate fraud and to enhance the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws. The act's provisions have helped to enhance audit committee responsibility more...

Union Awareness ...rkers were union members--down from 12.9 percent in 2003. Why is membership declining? Perhaps the growing number of laws in place to protect workers prevents the necessity of unions, or perhaps the nature of the work itself has changed. Regardless of the decline, workers still have the legal right to form unions, and you need a basic understanding of workers' rights, and what rights you have more...

Rightful Termination One of the most difficult things you will do as a manager is to tell an employee that his or her working relationship with the company must end. When you take this course, you will learn specific steps to follow when terminating someone's employment due to layoffs, performance problems or misconduct. You will then have the opportunity to apply what you've learned in a role play. Of course, the more...

Design Concepts for Web Sites To describe, explain, and equip students to use the basic techniques of web site design and development Web authors, webmasters, marketing and communications professionals, PR professionals, graphic designers, desktop designers, technical writers, and library scientists more...

GUI Design In this WestNet e-Learning module, you will learn the basics of graphical user interface (GUI) design. more...

Usability Engineering This WestNet e-Learning module presents the concept of usability engineering and also explores the various forms of testing and measurement, measurement devices, and methodology. more...

Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes specific minimum requirements in relation to employees' wages, hours of work, overtime entitlements, and payroll records. The act was passed to set and enforce federal requirements on minimum wages and overtime. The FLSA became federal law in 1938 as part of President Roosevelt's New Deal--its primary aim was to respond to growing concerns about poor more...

Introducing User-Centered Design To identify the principles and benefits of user-centered design and to determine a practical approach to promoting user-centered design methodology in organizations This path is targeted primarily at software architects and project managers working on high level design. This path will also target programmers and developers looking to improve their skills in user centered software design. more...

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML Fundamentals To introduce basic OOAD principles, the Rational Unified Process, and the role of UML Web developers more...

ADO NET Connections and Commands To introduce ADO.NET and to describe how to make connections to databases and run stored procedures and SQL statements in a connected design Visual Basic .NET programmers and candidates for the Microsoft MCSD and MCAD certification paths more...

Microsoft SMS 2003 Planning the Hierarchy To explain how to design the site hierarchy and identify the considerations involved in capacity planning Systems administrators, systems engineers, systems analysts, IT consultants, and support professionals with responsibility for planning and deploying Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 more...

Basic Concepts of Exchange 2000 Server To introduce the capabilities and structure of Exchange 2000 Server Students preparing for Microsoft certification in Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server (70-224), and Designing and Deploying a Messaging Infrastructure with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server (70-225) more...

Web Strategies for Business This WestNet e-Learning module begins with a review of the brief, but rapid, evolution of Web sites from static brochures to highly interactive online applications. We also trace the parallel development of e-commerce, and outline the major models of business on the Web. more...

E-Commerce 7 0 This WestNet e-Learning module explores the extensive, invisible "back-end" systems that make online business possible: credit cards and electronic cash, Web marketing strategies, search engines that bring customers to online storefronts, and integrated systems of specialized servers that handle complex transactions at a distance. more...

Web Development Process In this WestNet e-Learning module, we show how Web developers can benefit by applying formal software engineering processes to site projects. Many Web developers are still learning the lesson that the softwaredevelopment community learned 20 years ago: process pays. It pays in shorter schedules, better designs, and higher user satisfaction. more...

Web Design Authoring and Graphics This WestNet e-Learning module provides an overview of software tools that can streamline the job of building Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages. We briefly introduce the concepts of Web design and the basic technologies poised to expand the ways we create HTML pages and outline the most common technical problems associated with Web graphics. more...

Web Technologies This WestNet e-Learning module explores the Web technologies, such as JavaScript and databases, used to enhance basic Web page functionality. more...

RF Fundamentals This module discusses the properties of radio frequency (RF) radiation and how its behavior can affect the performance of a wireless LAN. We introduce the uses and properties of antennas and explain the mathematical relationships that exist in RF circuits and why they are important, as well as how to perform the necessary RF math calculations. more...

Spread Spectrum Technology This module defines and describes spread spectrum technology and discusses how it is used according to FCC guidelines. more...

Security administration in Check Point Network Address Translation and Administration To identify the reasons why network address translation (NAT) is used, differentiate between the types of NAT, and improve the performance of VPN-1/Firewall-1 through administrative tasks system administrators, security managers, network engineers, and consultants who manage Check Point NG VPN-1/FireWall-1 gateway deployments more...

TCP IP Addressing and Subnetting This WestNet e-Learning module introduces subnetting concepts, beginning with Class C networks, and building to subnetted Class A networks. We will also discuss Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) and supernetting. more...

TCP IP Protocols 7 0 This WestNet e-Learning module covers how the underlying Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) works. This includes the use of TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), IP, and local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) protocols for use in transporting information between two applications. more...