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Design Team - Business Process Modelling 


Design
Team -
Business Process Modelling enables communication between staff working upon the analysis and design of processes and information boundaries in an organisation and the boundaries and scope of a system. The
Modelling activity produces diagrams which form the basis of both new information systems and business process engineering. This course teaches the whole process of applying each
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Face to Face Communications : Face to Face Role Play 


...rly is an essential business skill. The best ideas in the world can only be transformed into realities when they're shared and understood. This course gives you the opportunity to practise and explore your listening, questioning and non-verbal communication skills in a comprehensive and entertaining simulation
Developing excellent communication skills requires investment, but the payoff is a
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Internet Basics 
The
Internet represents the transformation and evolution of the information age. It has emerged as a powerful tool for communication and information sharing, that is making a major impact on people all over the globe. In other words, the Internet is an information super-highway that has compressed the world into a cyber colony. This, in turn, has revolutionized the way people interact with each
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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.
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Overview of Business Process Management 
...world, competition is tough. Organizations are under a great deal of pressure to become more productive and more efficient while developing new, innovative products and services more rapidly than ever before. Management is demanding improved quality, reduced costs, and increased productivity with fewer resources. How can organizations respond to these pressures while remaining competitive in
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The Process of Globalizing a Product or Service 
Actually going global takes both planning and doing. In this course, you'll learn about the three major steps you need to cover to globalize a product or service. First, pick the right geographic location for your corporate goals and create a good plan for globalizing the product or service you're working with. Then "globalize" your product or service and let the world know you're open for
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The Pharmaceutical Industry Overview Version 2 
...world depend on the pharmaceutical industry to help them live longer, healthier, and happier lives. However, the pharmaceutical industry is continually tasked with alleviating its own ailments, including slow growth and declining profitability owing to pricing, safety, marketing and regulatory issues. In order for companies to remain competitive in a highly regulated and rapidly changing
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The Health Care Industry Overview Version 2 
...owing evidence that the current health systems around the world will be unsustainable if they go unchanged over the coming years. The health care industry is under constant pressure to streamline operations and cut extraneous spending, while providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to its patients. In addition, operating in a highly regulated environment, industry players need to
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The Banking Industry Overview Version 2 
...world without banks? In the past, banks focused on loans and deposits, debits, and credits. Now, due to dramatic changes in the world economy, banking is a far more complex business. On a daily basis, the industry must deal with margin pressures, consolidation, and technological and marketing challenges, not to mention unforeseen financial and political crises. However, with cash and capital,
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The Telecommunications Industry Overview Version 2 
...s industry is an essential element of the modern business world. It is also one of the most volatile. Plagued by regulatory discord and economic uncertainty, telecom carriers have struggled to maintain sound footing and a competitive edge, all the while endeavoring to provide crucial, uninterrupted service to their customers. In an age of rapidly developing technology, this goal has become
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Telecommunications Industry Overview Version 1 
...world, the telecommunications industry stands as one of the most essential elements of the business world. It is also one of the most volatile. Plagued by regulatory discord and economic uncertainty, telecom carriers have struggled to maintain sound footing and a competitive edge, all the while endeavoring to provide crucial, uninterrupted service to their customers. In an age of rapidly
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Technical Support Essentials 
...These days, technical support agents (
TSAs) can't provide world-class technical service and support unless they understand contact center technology. They also need to understand the various elements and stages of a call--and what to do with the information gained. This course explains contact center technology and
TSA activities. It covers the technology that links the TSA to the customer and
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Performance Metrics for an Inbound Call Center 
...nvironment typifies the active, fast pace of the business world. In this hectic environment, is there time to consider how things are being done? There should be. As the call center industry slowly transforms into a customer management industry, the impetus will be on call center managers to ensure customers receive the best service possible. But where do you look to analyze performance? Is
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The Customer Service Agent in Action 
...hat the number of
CSAs will grow by 20 percent each year. Worldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the important role that customer service agents play in today's business world. This course is designed to help CSAs understand their essential functions as well as the context and importance of their work.
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Information Technology IT Industry Overview Version 1 
Though estimates on global spending for information and communications technologies run in the trillions of dollars, this giant industry continues to struggle through fluctuating markets and must concentrate on continuous improvement to survive. Most agree that the demand for IT products and services will continue to increase, but at the same time, the customer is demanding more value per dollar
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Consulting with the Internal Client Simulation 
...tants have become more and more prevalent in the business world today. Rather than hiring an outside firm, many companies are building their own internal consulting units. These units are faster, cheaper, and more connected to the projects they manage. Internal consultants within these units must have strong communication, research, diagnostic, and presentation skills. In this simulation, you
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Project Management for Non-Project Managers Simulation 
...nvironment before facing the challenge of an actual, real-world project. Over the course of the simulation, participants will be tested on the objectives of transitioning to project manager, managing an imposed project team, demonstrating effective leadership, monitoring project activities and quality, maintaining control of a project, and problem solving and recovering. The simulation
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Ethics and Professional Knowledge PMBOK aligned 
...moment when conflict of interest has occurred? In today's world, project managers must have a clear comprehension of these ethical responsibilities. Project managers must also be aware of their professional duty to contribute to the body of project management knowledge, to pass on that knowledge to others, and to assess and enhance individual competence. This course teaches prospective project
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Stakeholder Interests and Cultural Diversity PMBOK aligned 
As the project manager, you're in the center of the storm. The competing interests of stakeholders--including those of the client, the company, the legal and social environment, and the team itself--are your responsibility. Weighing these interests in the most fair and productive manner is an acquired art you can't afford to neglect. But that's not all. In an increasingly global network, project
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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
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Effective Telephone Techniques 
This course provides the learner with critical information about making a good impression when communicating over the telephone. It emphasizes the importance of good telephone etiquette, offers tips for building trust over the telephone, and discusses important non-verbal actions that are present in most telephone interactions. Additionally, it helps the learner make the most out of technology
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Ratios Averages and Graphs 
Whether tracking profitability or portraying the rate of inventory consumption, knowledge of ratios and averages is indispensable in the business world. Using real-world scenarios, this course explains the concepts of ratio, proportion, and how to compare different kinds of numbers; and discusses simple, weighted, and moving averages. Anyone who needs to apply basic math skills to business
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Strategies for Facilitating Critical Thinking 
...en 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 repetition of established formulas. Today, people at all levels of the organization are asked to think in
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Successful Lifelong Learning 
...day's successful individual understands that the business world is constantly changing the way people work and the way work is accomplished. How often have you heard these terms: lifelong learning, self-directed learning, continuous learning, and knowledge 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,
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Optimizing Email at Work 
...world, e-mail is used to do everything from processing orders to supplying information. Because of the limitations of telephone communication when people who are very busy or sometimes in different time zones work together, e-mail use is on the rise in U.S. E-mail offers a plenitude of new opportunities for business, but understanding how to properly use it is essential in order to take
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Emotional Intelligence at Work 
...world of work? If you think high IQ, advanced degrees, analytical skills, and technical expertise are the answer, it's time to think again. Experts now agree that
Emotional Intelligence often determines who will climb the corporate ladder and who will be passed over. Exciting new research shows that, unlike IQ, Emotional Intelligence can be developed and increased during any point in your
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The Emotionally Intelligent Leader 
Putting emotional intelligence to work is an emerging trend in corporate leadership. Developing the best talents in executives, managers, and others throughout the organization has become vital to corporate success. As a leader, you cannot rely upon your intellectual knowledge. You must have the interpersonal competence that comes with emotional intelligence. This course will guide you in
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Building Relationships to Get Results 
You are not the boss. You've been called "peer," "esteemed colleague," "invaluable staff member," and "friend," but no one's even come close to calling you "boss."
When you stop to think about it, you realize you have no real authority whatsoever. In fact, you have much more power than you think, even if you are on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. As
Jack London said, "
Life is not always a
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Leadership Without Authority 
...een 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 the concept of seniority are being replaced by a flat organization structure and intense
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Gaining Allies Creating Change 
If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Is this an effective strategy for gaining allies to create change? How about, "If you do it my way, you'll feel better about yourself"? Finding and winning partners for the purpose of creating change is not easy in the intensely competitive and harried environment of the corporate world. It's especially difficult when you lack authority. The people whose
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Improving Your Cross-cultural Communications 
...that is played out daily in many organizations around the world. How many times have you found yourself in this situation? Thankfully, there are things you can do to improve your cross-cultural communications and ensure that your clients or coworkers across the world become your greatest allies. In this course, you'll find out how to build rapport, appeal to receivers' motivations, and consider
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Attracting Motivating and Retaining Technical Professionals 
...ncially competitive and technologically advanced business world, technical professionals are in great demand. Managers need to find ways to attract top-performing technical employees and keep them once they're on the job. In fact, surveys show that managers list attracting, motivating, and retaining these technical professionals as one of their most challenging tasks. This course is designed to
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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
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Team Leadership Developing A High-Performance Team 
...student an overview of the uses of teams in the corporate world and explains the creation and leadership of effective teams. The program covers how to choose the right type of team, steps for developing a team communication process, the team leader's responsibilities, and guidelines to help the team leader maintain a high-performance team. Managers and team leaders who want to develop and lead
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Managing Upward Relationships 
Managing upward relationships is the art of consciously improving collaboration with superiors so that subordinate managers can reap the best personal and organizational results. Managers share the responsibility for managing the relationship with the top management and
Board of
Directors of the company. Taking advantage of that responsibility will strengthen motivation, productivity, and overall
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Strategic Approaches to Workforce Planning and Employment HRCI SPHR 
...world, organizations must ensure that they employ the right people in the right numbers at the right time. Workforce planning and employment involves the processes of planning, developing, implementing, administering, and ongoing evaluation of recruiting and hiring to ensure that the workforce will meet the organization's strategic goals and objectives. This course prepares learners interested
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Overview to Effective Business Communication 
Calvin
Coolidge said, "No one ever listened themselves out of a job."
Furthermore, you could say that "No one ever communicated themselves out of a job."
Understanding business communication is foundational to being an effective administrative support professional. Learn about the business communication process and techniques for effective communication such as listening effectively and sending
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Taking Systems Thinking into Your Personal Life 
Have you tried to change a habit over and over only to face defeat again? Do you look at your relationships and see the same problems coming up and feel incapable of changing them? Does it feel like you're butting your head up against 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
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Globalization and Our Changing World 
Globalization has become a foundation for most major corporations. This course provides you with a "big picture" view of globalization. You will be introduced to the trends that have opened the doors to a global economy and the factors that drive corporate globalization. You will also learn about the major trade agreements that pave the road to global commerce. Executives, managers, supervisors,
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Six Sigma--Lean Tools for Control 
...thodologies 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 the
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Six Sigma Team Dynamics and Performance 
... teamwork. Teamwork is no less important in the
Six Sigma world. In fact, more than one Six Sigma expert has stated unequivocally that without effective teamwork, a process improvement project will fail. So how is effective teamwork ensured? The best way is by understanding Six Sigma team dynamics--that is, the way in which team members work together and interact. The more that team members
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Leadership in Six Sigma 
... Sigma has become synonymous with quality in the business world, but there is no prescriptive process for planning and launching a
Six Sigma 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
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Doing Business with the Government 
...ts with the largest consumer of goods and services in the world--the U.S. government. Each year the federal government awards contracts worth over $200 billion to businesses of all sizes and diversity. Of the 20 percent of contracts designated for small businesses, one quarter are aimed at women-owned businesses and another quarter for small disadvantaged businesses or
SDBs. This course
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Web Server Concepts 
E-business defines the future of the organization today. Getting the right information to the right person at the right time defines success. The use of the
World Wide Web has tremendously increased in the recent times. The server technology plays an important role in the development of the World Wide Web. With the increasing use of the
Internet, there has been a significant increase in the use of
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Managing Workplace Harrassment Complaints 
...ental
Car, one of the largest car rental companies in the world. The company has provided you with workplace harassment training for managers. All of the employees at this particular
Pennywise location report to you. When one of the rental agents,
Violet Pham, comes to you to complain that her shift supervisor,
Cliff Kinsler, has been harassing her, you will need to take action to deal with the
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Dynamic HTML 
Since the early nineties,
HTML has been widely used for developing web pages. HTML has evolved to meet the demand for attractive web pages. However, these pages are static and do not change after downloading. Any interactivity involves repeated communication with the web server which increases download time. Dynamic HTML (
DHTML) overcomes this problem by providing your web page this interactivity
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Project Management Fundamentals 
...world has grown to an extent where you need to deliver the best products and services in order to sustain your business. To meet the demands of modern businesses, you need to prioritize the projects in hand, ensure smooth project execution, and develop quality products in the stipulated time and within the allocated budget. To achieve these goals, you must use the latest project management
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Project Management Techniques 
...world is resulting in increasingly new demands in business. Therefore, it is important that the projects undertaken to cater to these business needs have small life cycles so that they can be delivered to prospective clients before a possibility of a technological change arises. Projects have a small life cycle if they are completed in a stipulated time frame. This can be done by managing the
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Large Systems Overview I 


This course explains and demystifies the world of large
IBM and compatible computer systems. It expands upon the more common acronyms, and explains the concepts to which they refer. Included are such areas as the logical configuration of a computer, input/output, and communication units. Anyone interested in data processing basics.
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Large Systems Overview II 


This course continues with the basics learned in
Large Systems Overview I, and expands to further explain the world of large
IBM and compatible computer systems. It covers such areas of interest as data communications and networks, client/server architecture, and the
Internet and intranets. Anyone interested in data processing basics.
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COBOL Basic Applications 
...world scenarios covering the design, coding, and implementation of one type of
COBOL application that is commonly required by businesses with large files. An example date field problem is identified and resolved. A simple COBOL product recall application is designed using flowcharts, pseudocode, and
Record Layout Forms. The contents of a sequential master file are retrieved and processed, and a
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COBOL Calculation Applications 
...world scenarios covering the design, coding, and implementation of one type of
COBOL application that is commonly required by businesses with large files. A subset of the contents of a sequential master file are retrieved. Calculations are performed on the data and a print file is generated. This course is based on
ANSI X3.23-1974 and ANSI X3.23-1985 COBOL standards. This course is a
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