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Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking teaches you to take a circumspect look at your long range goals, obsticals, and solutions. Learn how to effectively plan for the future and choose the path most likely to bring you to your goals. The user is given 1 year access to this course. You may complete it as quickly as you care to, however be diligent to understand and apply the new knowledge in a satisfactory manner.  more...

Team Management - Enabling Teams ...ect Corporation. His interests later turned from software development to business and marketing within the computer industry. James was a co-founder of Makau Corporation. His goal is to provide good technical and business training in laymen's terms. He presents complex concepts in ways that all employees in an organization or an individual student can understand. Frequently Asked Questions How  more...

Team Management - Leading Teams ...ect Corporation. His interests later turned from software development to business and marketing within the computer industry. James was a co-founder of Makau Corporation. His goal is to provide good technical and business training in laymen`s terms. He presents complex concepts in ways that all employees in an organization or an individual student can understand. Frequently Asked Questions How  more...

Team Management - Team Participation ...communication. This course is geared to expedite your own development as a team member in creating successful teams. The user is given 1 year access to this course. You may complete it as quickly as you care to, however be diligent to understand and apply the new knowledge in a satisfactory manner. Team Management - Team Participation This course covers the elements of successful teams, the  more...

Teams Management - Managing Team Conflict ...ect Corporation. His interests later turned from software development to business and marketing within the computer industry. James was a co-founder of Makau Corporation. His goal is to provide good technical and business training in laymen's terms. He presents complex concepts in ways that all employees in an organization or an individual student can understand. Frequently Asked Questions How  more...

Teams That Work This complete course will teach you practical methods for establishing and maintaining teams that maximize the collective strengths of their members. Learners will also acquire valuable team leadership skills. In addition, valuable information about building teams from drafting the initial team charter to making teamwork part of the corporate culture is a point of focus. Topics range from  more...

Java 2 -- Advanced Java This course contains 4 units: Garbage Collection, Java Security, Internationalization, JavaBeans Technology. Each unit covers detail the elements of Java necessary to implement these advanced features and functions as you program in the Java language. The first unit explains the process of garbage collection. It describes the gc( ) and finalize( ) methods in Java and the code used to make  more...

Communicating with Power: Resolving Conflict This course covers the basic types of and responses to workplace conflict and discusses general guidelines for integrating conflict resolution into the culture of organizations.The student will have access to this course for 1 year. This self-directed course can be completed within 90 days or sooner depending on time and learning capabilities of the student. This is not for a beginner. For PC  more...

Managing Conflict And Difficult Behavior DISCONTINUED--See Replacement Courses 3419-B Communication with Power: Resolving Conflict. This course will help you to shape the way your team communicates and works together. It will help you handle conflict positively and constructively, and it will equip you with techniques to make the best of any challenging people and situations you might encounter. Managing Conflict And Difficult Behavior  more...

Managing Meetings Managing Meetings will help you to shape the way your team communicates and works together. It will equip you with techniques to make the best of any challenging people and situations you might encounter, and it will help you to build high performing teams that are flexible, creative and light on their feet. Managing Meetings Managing Meetings will help you to shape the way your team communicates  more...

Volunteers: Recruitment, Development, and Supervision ...a successful volunteer program. Volunteers: Recruitment, Development, and Supervision In order to manage a volunteer program successfully, supervisors must have a mind set that truly values the work of volunteers. A good management mind set will perceive volunteers as motivated and professional. The volunteers will be perceived as enhancements rather than threats to library jobs and as boosts  more...

Understanding Child Development ...development from birth to twelve years. This course will cover the theories of child development with special focus on cognitive, social and emotional aspects of development. The student will be introduced to the major theorists such as Erikson, Freud, Piaget. The aim of the course is to help anyone working with or interacting with children- parents, educators, care-givers, to understand the  more...

Understanding and Using Contracts Course description -- In almost every business transaction a contract is made. This course will tell you how to know when a true contract has been made, identify when it is binding, and determine the limitations and scope of the agreements. It will also give you information and guidelines on how and when to sever the contract, how to modify it, and how to circumvent potential problems. IMPORTANT  more...

Technical Communication Industry Certificate - Mastery Level ... philosophy of quality management in publications project development Develop valuable information plans and content specifications Estimate and Manage your documentation projects Enroll today in this career track workforce education training industry certificate program. Frequently Asked Questions How long will it take me to complete the course? Depending on the amount of time you devote to  more...

Successful Negotiation Course description -- Negotiating is a thread woven through not just your time in the work environment, but also in daily living. Knowing how to negotiate successfully will improve your interactions with customers, coworkers, and even family members. This course will give you the strategies and techniques you will need to help you define opportunities in which negotiating would be appropriate and  more...

Short Story Secrets ...hat is the next phase in the creative process? Structure, development, voice, texture and point of view are some of the issues a short story writer must consider when revising his/her work. This workshop will focus on helping the writer proceed from first draft towards finished product through exercises, posted lectures and feedback from the instructor, and through selected readings on process  more...

Setting Performance Goals and Expectations Course description -- Productive and motivated employees are those who clearly understand what is expected of them in terms of performance and behavior. This course has tools and methods for collaboratively establishing goals and specific performance criteria for all employees. There are tips to help you obtain commitment to the goals and methods to help you review performance goals regularly. It  more...

Savings Strategy Development ...y personal and interactive online class "Savings Strategy Development" can help you. The student can complete their course of study within anytime frame as long as it does not exceed 60 days from the stamped start date. Reasonable time should be given to digest all relevant course lessons and materials. Savings Strategy Development Your CEO wants to know: "Are you executing a cost savings  more...

Senior Professional In Supply Management (SPSM ) Certification Program ...s) 14 Purchasing Best Practices (8 CEHs) Savings Strategy Development (7 CEHs) Step #2: Take the SPSM Exam. This online exam consists of 90 challenging questions covering material from the six aforementioned online classes. These questions comprehensively test your ability to apply skills to situations that you may face in your purchasing job. And, again, you take it online meaning that you DO  more...

Recognizing and Managing Anger Course description -- After learning to identify the different sources of anger, you will be given tools and methods to help you determine the emotional roots of your own anger and recognize how it manifests in your life. Tips will help you recognize your responses to anger, and give you tools to manage it. You will also be given powerful techniques that will help you use your anger to gain  more...

Recognizing and Responding to Signals of Violence Course description -- The anger and violent feelings that are becoming all too common in children have resulted in public tragedies throughout the nation. Everyone is asking, `How could this happen here?` and `How could it have been prevented?` Unfortunately, these incidents will probably continue. However, there are usually advance warning signs of a child`s potential to carry out violent acts.  more...

Recognizing Employee Performance Course description -- Motivated employees don t just happen they are the result of effective leadership. You will learn how to lay the groundwork for successfully recognizing employee performance, and find out how to identify the recognition methods that your organization offers. There are suggestions for powerful non-monetary rewards and ideas on how to use the job as a way to recognize and  more...

Project Management Professional- (Self Directed) Project Management Professional is a self-directed course that covers the fundamentals of managing projects with the newcomer in mind. Project management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources in such a way that these resources deliver all the work required to complete a project within defined scope, time, and cost constraints. This course can be completed as quickly as you care  more...

Professional Writing Skills at a Glance ...t to ? along with the principles of unity, coherence, and development for middle paragraphs. Writing varied and emphatic sentences guides your readers smoothly through your message. When choosing your words, always let Economy, Simplicity, and P recision be your guideWriting Process: The three stages of the writing process include pre-writing, writing, and re-writing. You will practice ways to  more...

Principles of Home Inspection: 100 Hour Professional Development Certificate ...development industry-based certificate program. This comprehensive course of study is cost affordable and reviews all major home systems and provides in-depth coverage of system and component problems, their practical implications, and inspection strategies for finding them. A comprehensive final exam is provided, to help students prepare for actual licensing exams that may be required by their  more...

Office XP (2002) Advanced ...crosoft Access will teach students how to use Access as a development tool. Also students will be shown how to better manage multi-user databases. Summarizing list data with outlining and learning how to create and remove custom filters are features of advanced Excel. In advanced PowerPoint, students will learn how to import data from other Microsoft applications. They will also learn how to  more...

Object-Oriented Analysis & Design using UML ...e same. Topics Covered : Why OO, What is UML, Outline of development process, Use Cases, Class Diagrams( basic concepts ), Interaction Diagrams, Class Diagrams( advanced concepts ), Packages & Collaborations, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Physical Diagrams, Case study using UML. Prerequisite : Some analysis & design experience is helpful. Software/Hardware Requirement : Access to a PC(  more...

Motivating Employees Course description -- The difference between a just surviving business and a thriving one is the energy and commitment of its people. A motivated and dedicated workforce is the formula for long-term success. This course gives practical suggestions for identifying group and individual motivating factors and mobilizing them to energize employees. There are tools, techniques, and methods for  more...

Microsoft Excel 2002 Core This comprehensive course teaches students the basic and intermediate features of Excel 2002 so they can easily create and modify spreadsheets. Students will become familiar with Excel`s introductory-level new features, such as smart tags and speech recognition, as well as how to manage workbooks, print worksheets, create charts, and integrate workbooks with the Web. This comprehensive course  more...

Microsoft Excel 2002 Level 2 This course introduces students to an additional set of basic spreadsheet features and acquaints students with the tools used in Microsoft Excel 2002. Some skills taught are customizing workbooks by changing worksheet attributes, using lists to store and organize worksheet data, using functions in financial and logical formulas, and formatting worksheets using AutoFormat and predefined styles.  more...

Mastering RoboHelp Office 2002 ...ining? Learn the basics of WinHelp, WebHelp and HTML Help development--plus real world tricks and tips--with this 200-page tutorial manual. Provides the basics of online Help development along with fast-paced tutorials that will have the novice Help developer creating RoboHelp and RoboHelp HTML systems in no time! Getting Started introduces Help terminology; sample Help windows; overview of  more...

Microsoft Access 2002 Expert ...ed to advanced features that allow Access to be used as a development tool. The course also teaches strategies for protecting data by enacting various security measures and by controlling how data is entered into a database. Finally, various maintenance features are covered in the course, teaching students ways to better manage multi-user databases. The material is presented through  more...

Microsoft Access 2002 Level 3 ...ed to advanced features that allow Access to be used as a development tool. The course also teaches strategies for protecting data by enacting various security measures and by controlling how data is entered into a database. Finally, various maintenance features are covered, teaching students ways to better manage multi-user databases. The material is presented through explanatory text,  more...

Legal Transcription Training ...s, etc. The course was designed by a recognized leader in development of training materials. This course offers a Certificate of Completion allowing you to sit for any state exams. The need for legal support staff increases with the litigation processes so prevalent now. Administrative law (local, state and federal government) requires massive record-keeping. Much of that information is  more...

Learn Authorware In 45 Days ...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 available by e-mail to answer questions about the Authoring projects. The course comes with a 45 day trail version of Authorware 5.0. I have found that by learning the basics of  more...

Leadership Assessment Profile ...entify: Your personal thinking style. Areas of leadership development that need the most attention. Specific opportunities for development. Jobs that have the best potential for high career satisfaction. The information contained in your Profile may clarify how you think about yourself as a leader, which, in turn, may be useful to you as you consider such key questions as:Which aspect of  more...

J2EE Part I ( JSP/servlet ) ...reate a whole application. Be comfortable with round-trip development. We will mainly cover JSP/servlet/JDBC in this course. Students will develop their own applications using server-side Java. Prerequisite: Strong understanding of the Java Programming Language and basic HTML, familiarity with networking concepts, basic database concepts and Object-Oriented methodologies. Software/Hardware  more...

Introduction to K-12 Online Teaching The Intro to K-12 Online Teaching is a 10 contact-hour, one-week online course that is teacher-facilitated, which is a level of student-instructor interaction between a totally self-paced course and one that is instructor-led. It means you can go through the course at your own pace but an instructor is available to help whenever you need it along the way. Intro to K-12 Online Teaching is designed  more...

Introduction to Teaching Online Learn the technologies educators are using all over the world to present online courses. Through participation in this course, you will learn what tools work best in your classroom. Introduction to Online Teaching is a seven day online course. This course is designed to give you an understanding of online course delivery. It is a basic level course and will prepare you to begin to develop an  more...

How to Get an Accent in a Month: A Brief Study of Southern Literature This course examines characters, scenes and plots involved with Southern regional literature. This course examines different forms of Southern literature: the characters, scenes and plots involved with this type of regional literature. By examining short stories by several different Southern authors, students will gain appreciation of this style of writing, learn how to recognize key style  more...

HTML Lessons in Web Page Design - 10 Week Facilitator Led ...nd-Erie Board of Education, and is a Teacher Professional Development HTML workshop presenter. These lessons have been field tested by many students of all ages. Each time these lessons were presented, John would note the troublesome areas and then make the necessary changes to eliminate these difficulties. These HTML lessons are the culmination of John`s efforts to produce the best possible  more...

How To Master Performance Management Course description -- Managing employee performance is the single greatest challenge facing supervisors and other leaders in today's competitive and fast-paced organizations. Learn how to maximize the contributions of each employee by setting effective goals, monitoring accomplishments, recognizing achievements, and disciplining or redirecting those who are not meeting performance requirements.  more...

How To Master Supervision Course description -- Supervisors in all functions face a daunting challenge as they bridge the gap between individual contributors and management. This bundle addresses four critical competence areas, beginning with an overview of successful supervision and attacking three major supervisory responsibilities leading meetings, managing projects, and delegating. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER  more...

HTML 4 ...nical Institute, Inc.; an Information Technology training development company. When he`s not working madly to meet the next deadline, Robb can be found floating on a high-mountain lake with a fishing pole in hand.Enroll today in this course to start your learning. Frequently Asked Questions How long will it take me to complete the course? The amount of time it takes to complete the course is  more...

From Beans to Brew: Creating Characters This course explores how to create believable and lifelike characters. Explore character development from birth to death. This course explores how to create believable and lifelike characters. Students will utilize hands-on techniques to explore their own lives and the lives of those around them for inspiration and details. Armed with these ideas, students will then create new characters or add  more...

FrontPage 2000 Level 2 ...development techniques, such as using HTML, designing frames pages, creating interactive forms, developing dynamic Web pages using DHTML, integrating databases, publishing Webs, and working with forms and tables. This course teaches students the additional advanced features of Microsoft FrontPage 2000. Students will learn advanced Web development techniques, such as using HTML, designing  more...

Financial Basics for Non-financial Managers Course description -- This course helps a non-financial manager make sense of the terms and concepts that are used in managing the financial aspects of a business. It explains basic financial structure and discusses the financial information you must have to run a business. You will learn how to read financial reports and understand the purpose and limitations of each. You will also get tools and  more...

Fair & Unfair Competition Rules ...g, marketing, sales, customer-relations, and research and development, among others and are important for employees to understand. Violations of these rules can be very damaging to a company generally and, in some cases, to individual employees. Unfair Competition The rules regarding what is fair and unfair competition affect virtually all of a company's business decisions ? hiring,  more...

Excel 2002 MOUS ...data, learning about objects and their roles in worksheet development, discovering how to integrate workbooks and the Web, and customizing the Excel working screen with custom toolbars, menus, and macros. This comprehensive course teaches students the basic and intermediate features of Excel 2002 so they can easily create and modify spreadsheets. Students will become familiar with Excel`s  more...

Entrepreneur Assessment Profile ...n help you make decisions such as: Which area of personal development needs most attention? What should I look for in partners or employees to complement my strengths and weaknesses? Am I really suited to being an entrepreneur? The information contained in your profile may clarify how you think about yourself as an entrepreneur, which, in turn, may be useful to you as you consider such key  more...

Effective Business Communication Series This series teaches the writing skills learners will need to effectively communicate in a business setting. They`ll learn how to prepare for a writing task, and about strategies and skills for effective word choice, sentence building, and paragraph design. Effective Business Communication Series This series teaches the writing skills learners will need to effectively communicate in a business  more...

Developing Curriculum for Online Programs ...development of an online program. Instructional design guidelines are also presented. Developing Curriculum for Online Programs? is a seven day online course. It will help you explore special requirements and the tools needed for effective online curriculum development. This course is offered by a State Accredited University and offers State Board Continuing Education credits for Michigan  more...

Design a Winning Business Based on Your Idea--Instructor-Led ...ning a business concept and laying the groundwork for the development of a robust business plan. In this course, you`ll gain experience with this process by completing a series of assignments that require you to help refine a business concept. Inspiration for a business start-up can come from all around you. You need to make sound decisions about which ideas to pursue and how to go about  more...

Design a Winning Business Based on Your Idea--Self-Directed ...ning a business concept and laying the groundwork for the development of a robust business plan. In this course, you`ll gain experience with this process by completing a series of assignments that require you to help refine a business concept. Inspiration for a business start-up can come from all around you. You need to make sound decisions about which ideas to pursue and how to go about  more...

Customer Astonishment: The Commitment to World-Class Customer Care ...by Checketts is the president of Cornerstone Professional Development, which he founded in 1985. He began his post-college career with Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. He later served as Corporate Quality Services Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, Massachusetts. As a division vice president of Wicat Systems of Orem, Utah, he helped to pioneer Computer-Based Training  more...

CSS ...nical Institute, Inc.; an Information Technology training development company. When he`s not working madly to meet the next deadline, Robb can be found floating on a high-mountain lake with a fishing pole in hand.Enroll today in this course to start your learning. Frequently Asked Questions How long will it take me to complete the course? The amount of time it takes to complete the course is  more...

Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) ...y, You will also gain valuable information needed for the development, implementation, and upkeep of an effective Lockout/Tagout Program. This course provides training as required by OSHA's Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) Standard (29CFR 1910.147). Material covered in the course includes a thorough review of the Standard, its applications and limitations and major compliance  more...

Comprehensive Online Instructor Certificate Program ...icate has been developed by a team of educational program development specialists and content experts from an Accredited State University. Let our Comprehensive Online Instructor Certificate program help you position yourself at the forefront of educators in your field! Available to all faculty and teachers across the nation, this certificate program is a series of fully online courses that  more...

Complete Course in Professional Medical Transcription using MIME method of instruction Student Edition ... insight into medical terminology and anatomy, as well as development of personal qualities like professionalism and ethical responsibilities. This course uses a revolutionary and innovative new teaching process known as the MIME (Mentoring Interactive Modular Education) method of instruction, which provides students with an ever present mentoring and instructive presence, as well as an  more...

Complete Course in Professional Medical Transcription Using MIME Method of Instruction Professional Edition ... insight into medical terminology and anatomy, as well as development of personal qualities like professionalism and ethical responsibilities. This course is structured to provide the student with a solid foundation in the study of anatomy and terminology, as well as highly refined skills in grammar, spelling, proofreading and typing. In addition, students are provided with advanced techniques  more...

Client/Server Development and Remote Data Access in Visual Basic This intermediate 7-week course teaches how to implement database access through client/server architecture over the Internet in Visual Basic. Many applications today require access to a database located remotely, sometime over the Internet. This course will teach the student how to create both a server and a client application that can communicate with each other over the Internet and provide  more...

Career Assessment Profile ...entify: Your personal thinking style. Areas of leadership development that need the most attention. Specific opportunities for development. Jobs that have the best potential for high career satisfaction. The information contained in your Profile may clarify how you think about yourself as a leader, which, in turn, may be useful to you as you consider such key questions as:Which aspect of  more...

Authorware for Educators ...tbook for this course guides you step by step through the development of several Authorware projects. Each lesson in the textbook begins with an overview of its contents and a series of short Authorware projects for you to complete. The textbook includes time limited Authorware software. An instructor is available by e-mail to answer questions about the projects. Taking this course is a very  more...

Application Programming using Visual Basic 6.0 (Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced) ...of VB to help facilitate most projects related to Windows development, as well as, to help in personal programming endeavors. In the course, focus will be geared on learning proper development of friendly GUI screens, programming techniques, optimization techniques, and some graphics programming (algorithms, some animation). Terms and definitions will be given in as simplest form as possible. A  more...

Adobe PhotoShop CS ...omputer lab training; database projects; Web site design, development and management; television production; work as a graphic designer, trainer and consultant for television networks, including CBS, NBC, TBS, TV New Zealand, and ESPN, as well as many other local television stations throughout the United States and the world; and as a Professional Speaker with National Seminars for over six  more...

Adobe PhotoShop CS to CS2 Upgrade ...omputer lab training; database projects; Web site design, development and management; television production; work as a graphic designer, trainer and consultant for television networks, including CBS, NBC, TBS, TV New Zealand, and ESPN, as well as many other local television stations throughout the United States and the world; and as a Professional Speaker with National Seminars for over six  more...

Accounting In An Hour ...lers Group-owned insurance company. In addition to course development for Accounting In An Hour, Rick has recently performed turnaround consulting and due diligence advisory work for individual and corporate clients and also pursues real estate and small business purchase opportunities. In An Hour, LLC is a international provider of online accounting courses. The course that awaits you is the  more...

Access 2000 Level 3 ...ry database objects in Access, and how to use Access as a development tool. Various maintenance and security features are covered in the course, teaching students ways to better manage multi-user databases. This advanced course strives to broaden and develop the intermediate database design skills that students already possess. Students will gain a more complete understanding of how to  more...

Access 2000 MOUS ...r, easier, and less error-prone. Access will be used as a development tool as the course becomes more advanced. The course teaches strategies for protecting data by enacting various security measures and by controlling how data is entered into a database. Finally, various maintenance features are covered in this course, teaching students ways to better manage multi-user databases. The material  more...

Access 2002 ...es more advanced, students will use Microsoft Access as a development tool. The course strives to broaden and develop the basic database skills that students already possess. This course introduces students to the basic elements that compose an Access database. Students will learn what a database is and how an effective database should be designed and set up. Students will receive  more...

Access 2002 MOUS This course introduces students to the new features in Microsoft Access 2002 that set it apart from Access 2000. This includes speech recognition and the new Task Pane, as well as basic elements that compose an Access database. As the course becomes more advanced, students will gain a more complete understanding of how to effectively create and use the primary database objects in Access and how to  more...

Access 2000 Expert ...ed to advanced features that allow Access to be used as a development tool. The course also teaches strategies for protecting data by enacting various security measures and by controlling how data is entered into a database. Finally, various maintenance features are covered in the course, teaching students ways to better manage multi-user databases. The material is presented through  more...

Access 2000 ...g and repairing them. Students will also use Access as a development tool in the most advanced sections of the course. This course teaches strategies for protecting data by enacting various security measures and by controlling how data is entered into a database. Finally, various maintenance features are covered, teaching students to better manage their multi-user databases. The material is  more...

A Workshop Approach to Mastering RoboHelp Office (Latest Release) ...life predicaments that are encountered during online help development. This interactive method will enhance the individual?s knowledge of the RoboHelp authoring tool and will develop a true sense of the troubleshooting skills necessary for future reference. Individualized consulting is always readily available through the use of email. Additional resources, articles and websites related to the  more...

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

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

Becoming an Effective Team Member Course description -- The key to a teama s success is the effort of each individual team member. As just one component of your team, it is up to you to do the best that you can for the team in order for it to achieve its goals and objectives. In this course, you will learn Tips and Key Points for developing a team-oriented attitude and learning to work with your teammates. You will soon see  more...

Building a Successful Team Course description -- Your team may just be forming, or you may be renewing your goals for the coming year. You may have just gotten a new team member or even lost a few. This course will take you through the various stages of a teama s development and give you Strategies and Tips for guiding your team successfully through the process. You will learn how to recognize and respond to your teama s  more...

Choosing a Childcare Provider Course description -- There are numerous options from which to choose a child care provider, and ita s important to find the one that meets your needs the best. This course has guidelines and tools for identifying the essential services that you should expect, determining the competence of the child care staff, matching a childa s needs with the providera s capabilities, and assuring that the  more...

Coaching and Counseling Course description -- It would be na ve to think that all employees have the skills necessary to succeed without even being taught what these skills are. In addition, many people may have personal concerns that hinder work performance. By learning how to effectively coach and counsel, you can help your employees ease personal burdens and train them in the skills they need to be better employees.  more...

Conducting Performance Reviews Course description -- Performance reviews are one of the most challenging responsibilities that leaders have, and this course will walk you through the process step by step and help you avoid many common pitfalls. There are ways to get the employee involved in the review process, and techniques to use in the performance discussion itself. Youa ll be given techniques for dealing with challenging  more...

Conflict Intervention Course description -- This course is valuable for anyone who must intervene when others are in a conflict. It addresses how to assess the climate of a conflict and understand the issues. There are methods to gather information, neutralize the situation, clarify points of view, and define the conflict. There are also techniques for brokering a win/win situation, gaining commitment from all parties,  more...

Creating a Strong Leadership Team Course description -- This course delivers the key elements of how to create a leadership team that is a model for the rest of the organization. The Strategies and Tips are practical tools and methods to create and maintain a shared vision, define roles and responsibilities, and determine mutual goals and priorities. Key Points also include techniques for avoiding power struggles and resolving  more...

Dealing with Difficult Customers Course description -- Today's information-age customers are the most informed and demanding shoppers ever. For a service representative, meeting the demands of one of these savvy customers can be a customer service nightmare! Taking this course will wake you from the nightmare and show you how to calm angry customers and resolve their complaints while keeping your cool. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET  more...

Dealing With Violence In The Workplace Course description -- More often than we care to admit, society and the workplace are becoming more violent. This course has tools and methods to help the manager or supervisor recognize potentially violent situations before they need attention, and then to take positive action to avoid or eliminate the potential problem. There is a wide array of techniques to help leaders use communication,  more...

Delegating Course description -- This course takes you through every step of the delegation process from beginning to end. You will learn how to define the task and determine to whom it should be given. There are tips and techniques for monitoring the projecta s progress without micromanaging, and methods for coaching and developing employees along the way. There are also tools and methods to help you get  more...

How To Master Business Management Course description -- Every employee and manager needs to know a number of basic business management principles and processes, regardless of his or her function or discipline. This bundle includes topics that will build an employee's mastery of several essential business processes and issues, including financial basics, contracts, and business communications. It includes something for everyone,  more...

How To Master Human Resources Course description -- This bundle covers some of the most challenging human resource compliance issues that employees and supervisors facea sexual harassment, violence, and EEO practices. Use the lessons in this bundle to prevent or address workplace situations that must be handled sensitively in order to promote respect and avoid legal consequences. Also included is a course to assist your  more...

How To Master Leadership Course description -- The secrets of organizational effectiveness lie in the capabilities of a company's leadership. This bundle includes those fundamentals of effective leadership that will have the greatest impact on performance. Whether applying essential motivational principles or developing a strategic plan, your organization's leaders will find solid, best-practices guidance in this bundle.  more...

How To Master Personal And Family Course description -- It wasn't so long ago that companies expected employees to give their all to the job and sacrifice their lives in order to get ahead. Now most organizations understand that employees are whole people who show up for work each day, people who want to be effective not just on the job, but in their personal lives as well. This bundle helps employees deal with some of the thorny  more...

How To Master Personal Career Course description -- Much of one's professional success is a function of personal skills that relate to professional activities, such as interviewing for a new job, balancing work and family, and managing stress. The 10 courses in this bundle develop personal competencies that will support your employees' career aspirations and enhance their effectiveness in their private lives. IMPORTANT NOTE:  more...

How To Master Staying Positive Course description -- Today's fast-paced and competitive work environment is loaded with inconvenience, frustration, and even chaos. Maintaining a positive attitude and outlook has never been toughera or more important. The How to Master Staying Positive bundle is first aid for the stressed and stretched. Its courses provide guidance on managing stress, dealing with burnout and anger, time  more...

How To Master Team Building Course description -- Meeting business objectives and maximizing resources requires effective teamwork, and this bundle will build the basic competencies that will ensure your teams are organized, goal-oriented, and customer-focused. Together they provide a toolkit of effective techniques and strategies for building high-performing teams in any function or discipline. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET  more...

Interviewing Job Candidates Course description -- This is a practical course with tools and methods to help you prepare to get the results you want. You will learn how to define exactly what youa re looking for in a job candidate, and be given checklists and discussion guides for asking the right questions to get relevant answers. The course addresses the most common legal pitfalls and how to avoid them, as well as issues  more...

Leading Effective Meetings Course description -- Meetings, meetings, meetings. You cana t live with them and you cana t live without them. Make sure that the meetings you lead are organized, focused, and productive. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) BROWSER REQUIRED - can't use Netscape or other browsers for this training.  more...

Leading Effective Teams Course description -- This practical, hands-on approach to team leadership addresses the three essential elements of creating an effective team: focusing on results, providing structure, and building positive interactions and teamwork. You will be given tools to help you document the purpose of your team and account for all the tasks that need to be done. You will learn techniques to help you keep  more...

Managing a Virtual Office Course description -- More and more companies are finding that flexibility for employees in both work hours and work location help them attract and retain the best talents and actually improve productivity. This course identifies the potential benefits and pitfalls in managing a a virtuala ? workforce, gives guidelines for maintaining communication, monitoring productivity, and encouraging peak  more...

Managing Change Course description -- Poorly managed change can account for a huge amount of lost productivity. This course covers the most essential elements of living with and managing continual change. There are simple and straightforward techniques for dealing with the inevitable resistance, methods for setting goals and developing a plan, tools for understanding the personal and professional stresses that  more...

Managing Disagreement Course description -- Conflict comes in all formsa from a change in work processes to full-blown disagreement about the company's strategic planning. Fortunately, there are several techniques for managing disagreement, depending on which parties are involved and how important the issue is to each person. This course identifies the strategies for solving conflict and maintaining positive working  more...

Managing Negative People Course description -- Some people can be difficult to work with. They never seem excited about their work, and they create a general atmosphere of negativity. So how do you handle them? This course will help you identify what it is that makes certain people pessimistic and what you can do to help them. It will identify strategies you can use for boosting self-esteem, morale, and turn negativity  more...

Managing Projects Course description -- The Strategies and Tips in this course will take you through the steps of managing a project, from defining the requirements to managing the implementation. You will be given tools and methods for organizing the project activities, focusing on customer needs, and leading the project team to successful completion. There are suggestions for resolving plan and budget conflicts,  more...

Managing Stress Course description -- The tools and techniques in this course will help you understand and diagnose the stress in your life, identify the stressors you can and cannot control, and assess your readiness to make changes. There are methods to help you develop a systematic approach to eliminate stressors, manage your time, and implement short-term and long-term coping mechanisms. Youa ll develop a  more...

Solving Problems as a Team Course description -- This course identifies some of the most useful group problem-solving techniques that teams can use. You will learn how to encourage collaboration on your team, work through problems together, and combine methods for complex problems. You will be given tools and techniques to help you follow a standard problem-solving process, and get team consensus and support. The course  more...

Succeeding as a Supervisor Course description -- A supervisor is a critical player in an organizationa s success. Here is where the most valuable resources, particularly the workforce, are either maximized or wasted. This course details the most important elements of successful supervision, with attention to both people and organizational skills. There are tools and techniques for making the most of the talents of the work  more...

Telephone Sales Skills Course description -- This course identifies the specific selling techniques and strategies that sales people need to be effective over the phone. It gives suggestions for relieving the anxiety of picking up the phone; checklists to make sure you are prepared for that all-important conversation, and techniques for polishing your over-the-phone approach. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE)  more...

Telephone Skills for Quality Customer Service Course description -- Telephones are an everyday part of business and often aid in your customersa first impression of your company. This course identifies telephone skills needed to be successful and more professional. It provides strategies to enable you to give your callers the quality service they deserve. You will learn tips for handling the telephone, ways to manage the discussions, and  more...

Valuing Diversity Course description -- This course provides an excellent base for the manager to learn about his or her own beliefs and to see the potential of a diverse workplace. There are tools and techniques to help a supervisor learn to recognize the positive contributions all employees make in achieving the goals of the organization. There are suggestions for modeling and promoting organizational values and  more...

Appreciating Personality Differences Course description -- Ever wonder 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  more...

Basics of Effective Communication Course description -- Basics of Effective Communication examines the fundamental elements of communication and describes how you can send clear and consistent messages to a Receiver. It gives tips for choosing the right communication method and considering other important factors that impact effectiveness. It covers effective listening and feedback skills in practical and immediately useful  more...

Basics of Effective Selling Course description -- Selling is a complex and sophisticated process, but successful sales begin and end with the basic essentials. This course includes an overview of the selling process, and provides worksheets and checklists to take you from contact list through sales call and on to follow-up and referrals. There are tools for identifying the features and benefits of your product and service,  more...

Java Programming with Java SE 6 0 Java Utilities To enable the learner to use the classes and methods of the java. lang, java. util, java. io, and java. nio packages The Math class - use the methods of the Java Math class to determine the value of a variable in a given piece of code, and associate the new methods of the Math class with their corresponding functions. The wrapper classes - recognize what wrapper classes are and how  more...

Java Programming with Java SE 6 0 Java I O To enable the learner to use Java's I/ O facilities to read and write data, and format input or output The java. io package - use the classes of the java. io package to access files and read and write data in a given scenario, and recognize how a Console class works. The java. nio package - use the classes of the java. nio package to modify buffers, get information about disk usage,  more...

Java Programming with Java SE 6 0 Basic GUI Development in Java Course Overview To demonstrate how to build GUI applications using the Swing API Prerequisites: Knowledge of programming principles and experience in procedural programming or scripting languages, such as Visual Basic, C, or JavaScript; understanding of object-oriented languages, such as C++ or C#, is an advantage. Target Audience Programmers with an understanding of procedural programming  more...

Java Programming with Java SE 6 0 Java Applets Course Overview To demonstrate how to build applets and place them on web pages Prerequisites: Knowledge of programming principles and experience in procedural programming or scripting languages, such as Visual Basic, C, or JavaScript; understanding of object-oriented languages, such as C++ or C#, is an advantage. Target Audience Programmers with an understanding of procedural programming  more...

J2SE 5 0 Language Features To introduce experienced developers to the language-specific improvements and changes in Java 5.0, the purpose of which is to make Java more developer-friendly and facilitate the writing of bug-free code  more...

Library and Class Changes in J2SE 5 0 To examine the J2SE 5.0 changes to both the integration and core libraries, and to introduce the new AWT and Swing features  more...

Using Metadata in J2SE 5 0 To explain what metadata is and how it can be used to provide annotation source to third-party tools and to outline J2SE 5.0 tool changes  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Getting Started with Java To introduce the main principles and elements of the Java language  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Operators and Flow Control in Java To enable the learner to identify and work with Java operators, expressions, selection statements, and loop constructs  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Creating Classes in Java To enable the learner to create and work with Java classes and objects  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Working with Classes in Java To enable the learner to implement inheritance and polymorphism in Java and to work with Java's static and final modifiers  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Generics and Annotations To explain what metadata is and how it can be used to provide annotation source to third-party tools and to outline J2SE 1.5 tool changes  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Reference Types and Threading To enable the learner to work with reference types and threads in Java  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Exception Handling and Assertions To enable the learner to handle exceptions and use assertions in Java  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Java Utilities To enable the learner to use the classes and methods of the java.lang, java.util, java.io, and java.nio packages  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Java I O To enable the learner to use Java's I/O facilities to read and write data, and format input or output  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Basic GUI Development in Java To demonstrate how to build GUI applications using the Swing API  more...

Java Programming with J2SE 5 Java Applets To demonstrate how to build applets and place them on web pages  more...

J2EE Architecture To provide an overview of enterprise application design and development using the J2EE platform and its enabling technologies  more...

Developing Servlets To outline the relationship between JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and servlets, to describe how to create servlets, and to explain how they fit into the web tier of the J2EE platform  more...

Developing JSPs To outline the relationship between JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and servlets, to describe how to create JSPs, and to explain how they fit into the web tier of the J2EE platform  more...

Developing EJBs To describe the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) component model and to explain how to create EJBs  more...

Persistence and Transactional Issues Affecting EJBs To describe how to implement container-managed persistence (CMP) for entity beans and to discuss how to use container-managed transactions (CMT) and the Java Transaction API (JTA) to control Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) transactions  more...

Java Database Connectivity To describe database connectivity issues in the context of the J2EE platform and to outline how to use the core and extension JDBC APIs  more...

RMI and the Java Message Service To introduce distributed technologies and provide an overview of RMI and the Java Message Service (JMS)  more...

CORBA and the Java IDL To introduce CORBA as a language-independent distribution technology specification and to describe how to use the Java IDL to create Java interfaces for CORBA-compliant systems  more...

Java technologies for web services To outline the components and functions of Java web service technologies  more...

Sales Manufacturing TM Identifying Sales Opportunities William Penn (founding-father of Pennsylvania) said, "Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both on what to do and what to hope." For the sales professional, there is such a method that will make tasks easier, save time, and build a predictable sales machine. This  more...

Communication Skills to Fast-track Your Career When it comes to communication, are you a high-speed modem or two tin cans and a string? If you want to put your career on the fast track, you'll have to communicate with the best of them. In this course, you'll sharpen your listening skills and improve your written and oral communication skills as well. Finally, you'll put it all together to produce audience-pleasing presentations. Communicate  more...

Interpersonal Skills on the Fast Track You're not alone in the race, so you'd better learn how to work with others if you want to put your career on the fast track. You have to learn how to establish rapport in order to build and maintain a network of contacts. This network will help you to build effective teams to accomplish the career tasks ahead. And you must know how to lead these teams to ensure success and pull ahead of the pack  more...

The Boss Factor Your boss can make or break you, so you better find out how to work effectively with her. You must first build rapport and continue to develop it. Along the way, you'll learn how to solicit and give feedback and even learn how to use corrective feedback to your advantage. You'll also get tips on managing your manager, which is no easy task. But if you can achieve that and turn the annual appraisal  more...

Improving Your Image Lee Iacocca. Madeleine Albright. Colin Powell. Are these people who suffer from an image problem? Hardly. Do you think they were born projecting the strong, self-assured images they do? Probably not. Like other powerful leaders in business, government, and the military, they likely received training in how to project, how to impress, how to lead. A confident, positive self image is no less crucial  more...

Views on Organizational Change The way that you respond to your new job role, new responsibilities, or fresh procedures is unique to you. The way that you react to change is intensely personal. But, to a large extent, organizations change in predictable ways and for predictable reasons. Similarly, the ways in which people respond to change tend to follow predictable patterns. Being able to think of yourself as part of this  more...

Preparing for Change When the organization you work for changes, and demands that you change along with it, wariness and uncertainty are natural. Change signals the end of the tried, trusted, and familiar. But change is also a new beginning--a springboard into a new and potentially exciting personal future. "Preparing for Change" focuses on the mental attitudes and behaviors you need to develop in order to take  more...

Communication during Organizational Change Change can be shocking to you and your co-workers. By definition, it is a time of uncertainty and, therefore, turbulence, and it puts relationships under strain. How successfully you communicate is a vital measure of how well you deal with change. "Communication during Organizational Change" starts by recognizing that the first factor in successful communication is how you feel inside. The  more...

Finding Your Life Balance You fill your life with many activities and it is difficult to get the balance between those activities right. But getting the balance right gives a tremendous payback. You feel fulfilled. You are in harmony with yourself and your world. Which is good for you, and also impacts positively on your family, friends, and co-workers. The first step towards a possible adjustment of your life balance is  more...

Success over Stress "Stress is the psychological, physiological and behavioral response by an individual when they perceive a lack of equilibrium between the demands placed upon them and their ability to meet those demands, which, over a period of time, leads to ill-health." Stephen Palmer, "Occupational Stress".Contrary to popular belief, stress itself is never a good thing--it is always harmful. This course will  more...

Strategies for Better Balance "It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours."--Sam Ewing. This course focuses on the actions you can take to achieve a more balanced life. It begins by helping you to explore ways in which you can create some space in order to bring more nourishing and energizing activities into your life. The course will show you how to build practical systems into  more...

Your Time and You Before you can decide how to manage your time better, you need to recognize how you manage your time now. Busy people do what is required, and rarely have the opportunity to stop and consider whether they are making the best use of their time. A brief analysis of what you do currently may surprise you, and it may help you to identify some changes that could be made. This course will help you to  more...

Techniques for Improved Time Management If you don't feel that you are the organized type, or if making lists or drawing up detailed plans doesn't come naturally, don't worry. There isn't just one way in which time can be managed effectively. This course will introduce you to several different techniques for improving your time-management skills--experiment with them, and then choose and apply the tools which best suit your own  more...

Developing Excellent Time Management Habits Time management shouldn't be a separate activity--it should be an integral part of the way you do things. For this to happen, you need to be able to develop good time management habits and avoid bad ones. An effective use of time also involves managing your environment, managing your use of technology, and managing the time-wasting activities of people around you. Today we are often overwhelmed by  more...

Risk Basics In today's management revolution, risk is an inherent factor. Your success depends upon an ability to understand and operate in a mine field where opportunities abound, but disaster could strike at any moment. Avoiding disaster is no longer left to luck, but is carefully controlled through risk management. The information presented in this course on risk and hedging techniques are vital survival  more...

Approaches to Risk Management Whether you are investing in stocks, deciding what to eat, hiring an assistant, or merging corporate divisions, you're making decisions based on evaluating risks and benefits. When you need to make a difficult business decision, knowing the numbers can provide a clearer picture of your upside and downside. As an executive in today's explosive business world, your ability to take the right risk can  more...

Decisions and Risk Your success as an organizational leader depends on your ability to make decisions. Even though you may have extensive experience making tough business choices, a constantly changing business environment demands relentless skill improvement. This course sheds light on the decision-making process by moving from practical methodologies to decision-making intelligence. Build both quality and  more...

Strategic Planning and Risk Management Understanding how to excel in a climate of risk using strategic planning is crucial in today's business environment. This course will help you analyze where your business is going and how it should get there. This will help you successfully navigate the dangers inherent in risk taking. Minimizing your risk through strategic planning is planning for your success.  more...

Risk Strategies The Cutting Edge This course explores seldom-discussed topics vital to your risk-taking strategies. Maintaining a balance between risk and recklessness depends upon your knowledge of business, people, and that little bit extra. That little bit extra in creativity and values can mean the difference between being at the cutting edge or falling off.  more...

Building a Winning Sales Team Championship teams win titles because they are comprised of members who are talented athletes possessing the right combination of skills, attitude, and enthusiasm to go out and win. The members of a winning sales team must also have the right skills, attitude, and enthusiasm to be successful. As a sales manager, how do you build an effective sales team? This course delivers answers by presenting  more...

Motivating a Winning Sales Team Famous college football coach Lou Holtz said, "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." As a sales manager, what can you do to make a difference in how your team members' use their abilities? How can you increase their level of motivation and create positive attitudes? In this course, you'll learn how to keep sales teams  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...

Financial Analysis for Successful Marketing Whether you have a "head" for numbers, or a "dread" of numbers, no strategic marketing plan will be successful without a thorough financial analysis. The final course in this series takes a user-friendly, interactive approach to help you master the numbers game. You will analyze typical financial parameters associated with setting up a financial budget as part of an overall marketing strategy.  more...

The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations In the organizational arena, applied critical 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  more...

Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills You may not need an MBA to succeed in the corporate arena, but regardless of position or industry, you do need to be able to analyze, reason, 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  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 "Rational decision making is linear and is what you do when you put your facts in order. Intuition is looking at those facts and trying to see a pattern-and the patterns aren't always evident because the patterns aren't always linear. The two together are an extremely powerful combination." Joel Kurtzman, President, Kurtzman Associates and former editor, Harvard Business Review. The Critical  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...

Making Decisions Ethically What is an ethical decision? Many studies show that businesspeople have an intuitive understanding of right and wrong, but that they find difficulty in explaining their judgments. This course provides the conceptual framework for discussing business ethics and the tool kit for making ethical decisions.  more...

Business Ethics for Managers Managers perform a delicate ethical balancing act every day. They must meet their obligations to their employer, comply with laws and regulations, address the needs of subordinates, and obey their own consciences. In this course, managers with decision-making responsibility will explore ethical issues and will acquire specific skills for creating and maintaining an ethical work environment.  more...

Understanding Organizational Ethics An organization's culture evolves from the values of its members. However, organizational culture and ethics are more than the sum of their parts. Organizations develop a self-sustaining and durable system of ethics that exerts a powerful influence on the actions, decisions, and behaviors of all employees. This course gives employees the ability to recognize ethical patterns and practices in an  more...

Social Responsibility in Corporations An organization's ethical responsibilities don't end at the door of the factory or office building. Companies are citizens of the communities where they do business. Every organization bears social obligations to the community that provides the environment for the organization's existence and growth. This course explores an organization's ethical responsibilities outside its own walls. The course  more...

The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation What is creativity, and how does it affect the brain? 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  more...

Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas Is creativity within everyone's grasp? Are people innately creative, or is this a skill that some learn, and others don't?If you have ever watched children at play, it's easy to conclude that all people start at the same level, with the same creative ability. Perhaps they lose their "creative toolboxes" with the self-consciousness of adolescence, or as other demands compete for attention.Whatever  more...

Evaluating Creative and Innovative Ideas Proposing ideas is just the first step to innovation. But for every thousand ideas you generate, only one may have what it takes to make a real difference in your organization. Many great ideas will remain just that--ideas. Unless they have true commercial potential, or offer real advantages, they are destined to remain in the mental "incubator."To determine which ideas are worthy of further  more...

Implementing Creative and Innovative Ideas A creative idea only truly becomes an innovation when it is implemented successfully in the organization.After all, what's an idea without execution? Execution is crucial if the idea is to start making or saving money.The process of implementing creative ideas is what makes great ideas become brilliant ideas. But this success is never immediate. On the contrary, even the greatest ideas demand  more...

Get Your Career on the Fast Track Everyone has seen those TV shows from the '50s. The fathers went to work, worked hard, and got ahead. These people were your role models, your guides to succeeding in business. But if that's not happening, you ask yourself, "Why not?" The world is different now. Instead of job security, you need to focus on career security. In this course, you will learn more about today's new business  more...

Basic Business Skills to Get You on the Fast Track Everyone wants to get on the fast track to success. But without basic business skills, you won't even find the on ramp. To get on the fast track, you have to master the basics and build from there. In this course, you will focus on the basic skills of decision making, organization, delegation, and negotiation and learn how to apply these skills in getting onto the fast track. Without these skills  more...

Management Development for Technical Professionals ...ne which skills need enhancement and which skills require development. Various avenues for development will be presented ranging from on-line personality inventories to classes in the development of management skills. With this preparation, you will create an action plan to realize your development program. Next, you will create the necessary personal and professional networks within your  more...

Leadership Development for Technical Professionals ...ting your current leadership skills. It also includes the development of more refined managerial skills such as facilitation and conflict resolution in order to deal with work teams effectively and the problems that can arise in the work setting.This course will develop your abilities to plan and facilitate productive meetings, resolve conflicts, and create team-based approaches to managing.  more...

Mentoring Effectively Perhaps your organization has asked you to help induct a new employee. Maybe a junior colleague has approached you for guidance. Or perhaps you want to "fast track" a rising star into a particular leadership position. Whatever the case, before you sign on as a mentor you'll want to learn all you can about the process, from how mentoring benefits you and your career to how you can best assist your  more...

The Oil and Gas Industry Overview Version 2 ...on, technology, operational improvement, and research and development, are still left with huge surpluses in an industry so far known only as a modest return. In reality, there has never been a more challenging time for the oil and gas industry. While oil companies face tough challenges in finding new sources of oil and gas to replace the old ones, the emerging oil demand and supply equation  more...

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

Successfully Coaching Relationships ...both the individual being coached and the coach. For this development to take place, there must be a working relationship between a coach and a willing coachee, a relationship based on mutual trust, respect, commitment and confidentiality. Within this collaborative framework, the coach uses a repertoire of styles to suit both the situation and the personality of the coachee. This course shows  more...

The Key Stages of Coaching Coaching has many uses in organizations, and the sequence of coaching activities is similar in all of them. This course will involve learners in the continuous process of discovery, goal setting, action planning, and follow-up that distinguishes coaching from other development methods.  more...

Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals ...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 a technique to both motivate and  more...

The Inbound Call Center ...ed in the 20th century. The emphasis will still be on the development and acquisition of cost-effective methods to provide customers with the service they demand. By ensuring that you have a good knowledge base of the inbound call center industry, you are establishing a sturdy framework for success. This course will provide you with the knowledge needed to identify customer care benefits  more...

Writing a Business Case ... choose the latter. Whether you want to invest in product development or reinvent your business processes with new marketing channels, it is now more important than ever to have a business case that is carefully planned, written, and presented, especially when you consider that corporate investments are being subjected to increased scrutiny. Writing a good business case will help you justify  more...

Presenting Your Case Have you ever attended a presentation that failed because the presenter was ill prepared or ineffective in his approach? A successful presenter must possess the proper skills to plan and deliver an effective business case presentation and employ strategies to establish and maintain the audience's attention. This course examines the careful planning and delivery of a business case presentation. It  more...

Evaluation and Review So, is it success or failure? It's crucial that you take time to review your completed project and confirm the outcomes. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned? And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an external consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This  more...

Evaluating Internal Assignments So, is it success or failure? It's crucial that you take time to review your project and confirm outcomes on completion. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned?And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an internal consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This  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 case,  more...

WSE Implementation with C 2005 To identify how to enable Web Services Enhancements (WSE) in web service applications, implement filters and policies, and implement key aspects of WSE messaging and routing  more...

Serviced Components and Messaging with C 2005 To identify how to create secure serviced components and implement key aspects of messaging  more...

Group Problem Solving and Decision Making To be in business means to be on a team. Every team, even if its an informal group, convenes for one purpose--to solve problems and make decisions. In today's business world, effective business groups and teams are a key ingredient in success. By skillfully overcoming problems and making productive decisions, you'll turn your group into a community of success. In this course, you'll learn the  more...

Working for Your Inner Boss Personal Accountability Most employees in business organizations must answer to someone else. From the top of the organization chart to the bottom, nearly every manager and employee must look to a supervisor, a director, or even a customer to establish priorities, assign tasks, set deadlines, and evaluate results. Whoever gives this direction is called the boss. On one level, the boss decides how employees will perform  more...

Managing from Within Self-empowerment Have you ever thought that you could be the best boss you've ever had? By developing attitudes and skills that empower you, you can manage from within and become your own best boss. Self-empowerment is the process of taking responsibility for your attitudes, behaviors, and actions at work to maximize your effectiveness. As an empowered employee, you will be driven by ownership, initiative, and  more...

Goals and Setting Goals 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...

Creating 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...

Pursuing Successful Lifelong Learning Today'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,  more...

Business Travel Safety - Domestic Travel In ''Business Travel Safety: Domestic Travel,'' you will learn how to make travel preparations, including researching your destination and then making appropriate travel arrangements. You will also learn how to increase your safety during air and ground transportation and at destinations, such as hotels, restaurants, and business events.  more...

Business Travel Safety - International Travel In ''Business Travel Safety: International Travel,'' you will learn how to make travel preparations and international travel arrangements. You will also learn how to increase your safety during air and ground transportation and at destinations, such as hotels, restaurants, and business events. Finally, you will learn how to avoid and handle physical and nonphysical crimes in foreign countries.  more...

Business Travel Safety - Developing a Corporate Travel 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..  more...

Business Travel Safety - Safety Measures for Travelers In Business Travel 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  more...

Principles of Marketing - Product Strategy Principles of Marketing: Product Strategy offers the student an overview of the information required to classify consumer and business products, create and promote brand equity, and implement new product development strategies. The program details the functions and objectives of packaging and labeling strategies, the stages of the consumer adoption process, and the four product development  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.  more...

Managing Business Risk - Risk Assessment and Control In "Managing Business Risk: Risk Assessment and Control" teaches learners about risk identification and environmental scanning. Students will also learn about evaluation and control of risk within organizations and the methods for classifying various organizational risks.  more...

Managing Business Risk - Financing and Contingency Planning Managing Business Risk: Financing and Contingency Planning teaches learners how to identify the dimensions of risk financing and to identify the various categories of risk financing tools. Students will also learn about the major responsibilities of contract management and the importance of developing a business contingency plan.  more...

Web Services with C 2005 To identify how to create, publish, debug, and deploy XML web services, and to identify how to manage key aspects SOAP messages and implement session state in web services  more...

Remoting with C 2005 To identify how to create, debug, host, and deploy remoting applications, and to identify how to call methods asynchronously and implement events in remoting applications  more...

Making Decisions Dynamically Your decisions determine your life. Nowhere is this simple statement so unabashedly evident as in today's business world. Made consciously or unconsciously, your decisions represent the fundamental tool you use in facing the opportunities, challenges, and uncertainties of life. It's not a case, however, of "make a decision, any decision." The increased complexity and competition of the 21st  more...

Decision Making Implementation and Evaluation You've made your decision after careful and considered thought. The deal is done, right? Not really. Your decision, no matter how considered and creative, won't walk out on its own two legs and implement itself. It's time to nurture your decided course of action and then evaluate its effectiveness. This course will help you do just that. And you'll do it in a way that will better ensure the  more...

Visual Basic 2005 Diagnostics and Management To manage application configuration and the custom installation of components, event logs, system processes and information, and use debugging and tracing to measure application performance  more...

Responding to Clients and Errors in ASP NET To demonstrate how to create a Web Form using Visual C#  more...

Controls in ASP NET Web Forms To demonstrate how to add configured controls to ASP.NET Web Forms  more...

Styling Web Applications To familiarize the learner with style sheets and explain how to style a Web Form  more...

Data Access with ASP NET To demonstrate how to use data binding and file management with Web Forms  more...

Supporting User Assistance and Accessibility To demonstrate how to enable a Web Form to support user assistance and accessibility features  more...

Creating and Using Components with ASP NET To explain how to create and use components with ASP.NET  more...

Tracking Users in ASP NET To explain how to track users of ASP.NET applications  more...

Globalizing ASP NET Applications To familiarize the learner with preparing web applications for a global audience  more...

Installation and Performance Issues for ASP NET Applications To explain how to manage installation and performance issues for ASP.NET applications  more...

Integrating and Working with Unmanaged Code Using ASP NET To explain how to integrate and work with unmanaged code using ASP.NET  more...

Building XML Web Services in Microsoft NET To introduce the concepts of XML Web Services, publishing, and accessing web services  more...

Building and Using Web Services To demonstrate how to build and use a .NET web service  more...

Building Web Services and Web Service Clients with Microsoft NET To demonstrate how to build a web service and web service clients in .NET  more...

Visual Basic 2005 System Types and Collections To use types, classes, interfaces, iterators, and generics to create data-driven applications  more...

Visual Basic 2005 Serialization and I O To serialize and deserialize objects for storage and manipulation, use I/O classes to manage data streams and files, and analyze how application performance can be enhanced using serialization and I/O  more...

Visual Basic 2005 Customized Programming To enable compatibility between COM and Visual Basic 2005, use reflection to call classes and data types, and customize a Visual Basic 2005 application for graphics, text, globalization, and e-mail  more...

Visual Basic 2005 Security To recognize the different types of security supported by Visual Basic 2005 and how they work, and to use them in application development  more...

Visual Basic 2005 Threading Service Processing and Application Domains To recognize how threading, service processing, and application domains facilitate background system operations, and to implement them in Visual Basic applications  more...

Setting up a Site and Adding Content in Dreamweaver CS3 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is a web site development authoring and editing tool, suitable for personal and enterprise development environments. This course explores the concepts of creating a new site in Dreamweaver CS3, including configuring site properties and application preferences, adding content, and manipulating text. A look at the major interface elements of Dreamweaver CS3, and how to  more...

The Fundamentals of Effective Thinking Albert Einstein once remarked that "the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." It necessarily follows that you must raise your own level of thinking in order to solve pressing business problems and make effective decisions. In this course, you'll explore how to think about the most critical business skill of all--thinking  more...

Problem Framing When you frame a picture, you intend for the viewer to examine everything within that border. Problem framing is similar in that you must not only consider what objectively makes up the problem itself but also what subjective tendencies influence your view of the situation. This course is designed to help you effectively frame problems so that you're sure your line of sight is aimed straight  more...

Problem Solving Generating Alternatives When faced with any problem, it's tempting, especially in today's frenzied business atmosphere, to either take the easiest route or rely on the old tried-and-true methods. But how many times have you taken a certain action and realized afterward that you had more options than you realized? Now more than ever, today's business world is complex and multifaceted. As a positive result of that  more...

Introducing NET 3 5 and Visual Studio 2008 ... use of different languages and libraries for application development. Application types include both Windows-Forms applications and Web applications. Visual Studio 2008 is an integrated development environment that includes a drag-and-drop interface designer and many other tools for building and deploying .NET applications. This course identifies the key features and differences between the  more...

Building NET 3 5 Applications with Visual Studio 2008 ...development environment that includes a drag-and-drop interface designer and many other tools for building and deploying .NET applications. Various enhancements have been added to the .NET Framework 3.5, including support for developing applications using Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and Windows  more...

NET Solution Vision and Requirements To establish the steps and techniques needed to define a solution vision and gather and analyze requirements  more...

Developing NET Specifications Strategies and Conceptual Design To define development and operations strategies and derive the conceptual design  more...

Creating the NET Logical Design To derive the logical design for the solution  more...

Creating the NET Physical Design To create the physical design for the solution  more...

Planning and Starting the Deployment of a NET Web Application To outline the primary considerations and decisions that a developer needs to make when planning the deployment of a .NET web application, and to explain the appropriate use and installation of private and shared assemblies in that deployment  more...

Using Visual Studio NET to Deploy a Web-based Application To explain and demonstrate how to use Visual Studio .NET to create, configure, and deploy a web-based application  more...

Windows Forms and Controls in C To explain how to work with Windows Forms and controls in C#  more...

Customizing Controls and Events in C To demonstrate how to customize controls and add event handling to a C# Windows application  more...

Input Validation and Error Handling in C To demonstrate how to validate user input and provide error handling for a C# Windows application  more...

Adding Services and Components in C To demonstrate how to add services and components in C#  more...

Printing Help Accessibility Localization and Globalization in C To explain how to implement accessibility, user assistance, printing, localization, and globalization features in a C# Windows application  more...

Testing and Instrumenting Web Applications in C To introduce the concepts of software testing and debugging and to describe how to instrument an application for tracing and debugging in .NET  more...

Web Application Tracing and Debugging in C To explain the use of tracing and testing in .NET web applications, and to outline how to perform interactive debugging in Visual Studio .NET  more...

Web Application Maintenance in C To introduce and describe techniques for monitoring web applications using the .NET performance monitoring API, the .NET Windows event log API, and Visual Studio Analyzer  more...

Windows Services in C To demonstrate how to build, debug, deploy, and use Windows Services with C#  more...

Interoperability and Serviced Components in C To demonstrate how to access unmanaged code from .NET and vice versa, and how to build, deploy, and use serviced components  more...