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Communication (Videos) (15 courses)
by MindLeaders
Effective communication sets the foundation for individual and organizational success. When you master effective communication skills, you gain a great deal of power - the power to get things done. Our communication programs focus on building the key skills you need to communicate successfully. ...
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Leadership (Videos) (25 courses)
by MindLeaders
When leaders create and communicate their vision, inspire others, implement strategy and champion change, organizations thrive. Our programs will help you enhance your leadership ability to create an environment of trust, credibility and integrity. Features: This series is presented using streaming video. Interactive questions appear periodically during this video to engage the learner and reinforce key concepts. An index lists the key sections of the video, with the ability to select sections to play. Slides accompany the videos and reinforce the learning topics. These slides can be downloaded for reference after the course is completed. A full-text transcript of the video can be viewed. Text in the transcript is selectable to choose a point to play the video. ...
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Effective Presentations (4 courses)
by MindLeaders
Public speaking is a frightening task to many people, but it's also a crucial tool in career success. This series offers tips to help you prepare and deliver more powerful presentations. ...
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Accounting Fundamentals
by Skillsoft - Business
How does a business achieve and maintain profitability? An understanding and an accurate application of accounting practices are hallmarks of a successful and financially progressive business. Accounting is a distinct discipline with its own standards and language. Understanding accounting procedures requires a prerequisite knowledge of certain principles concepts terms and common accounting records. This practical course gives you the whys and hows to accurately conduct accounting activities. "Accounting Fundamentals" examines the theories of accounting how to maintain accounting records and how to generate financial statements. A business deals with many transactions in a single day so its important to keep up-to-date records of its finances. If you are an Entrepreneur or just looking to learn more about accounting, this course is for you. ...
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QuickBooks (10 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series is designed for users who want to use QuickBooks 6.0 as a business accounting system. An overview of the application is presented, including using the EasyStep Interview process to enter basic company information and set up accounts. Tasks covered including setting up company records, entering historical data, managing accounts, and creating lists, reports, and graphs. Managing invoices, sales tax information, bills, and assets is also covered. Additional topics covered include managing payroll and employee data, managing taxes, online banking, and creating budgets. QuickBooks is a registered trademark or registered service mark of Intuit Inc., or one of its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries. ...
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Communication Skills
by Skillsoft - Business
Effective communication is essential to the success of any customer-oriented business. Each customer will have their own style of communication as well as an emotional response to contacting a support center. In order to effectively communicate the Customer Service Representative (CSR) must understand how to adapt to these different styles and emotions before the customers problems can be dealt with. This course explains how to adapt to the different communication types and identifies the common emotions that customers experience when contacting the support center. It also explains how to adapt your writing skills to communicate through e-mail and to document incidents. This course helps to prepare learners interested in the CSR Certification which is targeted to individuals wishing to qualify to work in a customer support center or help desk environment. ...
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Effective Business Communication (7 courses)
by MindLeaders
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. ...
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Project Management Professional Certification 2011 (8 courses)
by MindLeaders
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Strategies for Communicating with Tact and Diplomacy
by Skillsoft
Communicating with diplomacy and tact requires strategy, awareness, and skills. Its aim is to establish trust and rapport in relationships while delivering messages effectively. However, it's often pushed aside by good intentions cloaked by gut reaction and misinterpretation. This course provides techniques you can use to navigate through conversations in a way that shows sensitivity and respect for others. As well as exploring what you should say, the course shows you how you can use proper timing and delivery when conveying your message. This will enable you to deliver messages tactfully and diplomatically, without sacrificing your reputation or professional relationships.Audience: Individuals who want to improve their ability to communicate in a more diplomatic and tactful mannerObjectives: Strategies for Communicating with Tact and Diplomacy recognize the benefits of being able to communicate with diplomacy and tact assess whether an individual has communicated with tact in a given scenario identify skills that will enable you to communicate with tact recognize examples of guidelines for communicating with diplomacy communicate with diplomacy and tact in a given scenario Duration: 1 ...
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Standard Business Etiquette
by Skillsoft - Business
The rules of proper business etiquette are changing. In many corporations middle management and the concept of seniority are being replaced by a flat organizational structure and intense competition. Such an environment makes the need for appropriate behavior especially crucial particularly if youre looking to advance your career. How do you maintain your private "space" when you sit in one of a dozen cubicles? How should you address your peers and superiors and whats the proper attire for todays corporate culture? In this course youll learn how to conduct yourself in the standard business environment with poise and confidence. ...
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Interview Skills (9 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series examines the interview process, from obtaining an invitation to an interview to follow-up after the interview. The employer's perspective is discussed, and interview preparation is covered in detail. Proper interview demeanor, including listening and answering, asking questions, effective communication, and negotiating is discussed. Strategies for getting past screening interviews, navigating tough interviews, resolving objections, and managing the follow-up process are also provided. ...
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Communication Business Etiquette
by Skillsoft - Business
"Hows it going?" Is this an appropriate greeting in todays corporate workplace? How about telephone use? Is it always necessary to return phone calls? If so how soon should you do it? Is e-mail the method of choice for communicating all your ideas or is another way better? How important is your tone of voice when dealing with a customer? All these questions are a matter of etiquette. How you communicate--in person over the phone electronically and with customers--has a direct effect on how people treat you on whether you sell your idea or product and on how quickly you advance in your career. In this course youll learn the subtleties of communication etiquette in the world of business. ...
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E-Mailing Your Way to the Top (6 courses)
by MindLeaders
E-mail has become so prevalent in the workplace that we seldom think about it, and yet it is the medium coworkers see you through most often. How can your e-mails speak for you clearly, effectively, and potently? This series will walk you through building e-mail subject lines and messages that are effective and respect office etiquette. You'll also learn about e-mail safety by avoiding threats like viruses and phishing, and how to think about email confidentiality and legal security. ...
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QuickBooks 2004 (7 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series is designed for learners who want to use QuickBooks 2004 as a business accounting system. Tasks covered include using the EasyStep Interview to set up QuickBooks; adding accounts and customers; setting up security; tracking invoices, purchases, and payments; using timesaving features; recording inventory and assets; and working with taxes, equity, and liabilities. QuickBooks is a registered trademark or registered service mark of Intuit Inc., or one of its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries. ...
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Personal Productivity: Self-organization and Overcoming Procrastination
by Skillsoft
How is organization related to procrastination? In fact, the two often go hand in hand. A lack of organization, coupled with a tendency to procrastinate, can be a vicious cycle. Becoming disciplined, setting priorities, and eradicating time-wasting activities can reduce the desire to put things off. The key to becoming your most productive self is to embrace organization and to overcome procrastination. This course introduces you to ways of becoming organized to help you accomplish more with the hours you have. It examines the common reasons for procrastination and ways you can overcome them in the workplace. Overcoming the desire to procrastinate can be aided by implementing a strong system of organization. The course presents ways to develop the discipline required to get things done, guidance on setting priorities, as well as approaches to overcommitment.Audience: Individuals wishing to improve their productivity in the workplace.Objectives: Personal Productivity: Self-organization and Overcoming Procrastination recognize the causes of workplace procrastination recognize the benefits of overcoming procrastination recognize ways to develop discipline in a given scenario address time-wasting activities in a given scenario recognize how to set priorities and keep focused say "no" and avoid overcommitment in a given scenario Duration: 1 ...
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Negotiating (4 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series presents strategies for negotiating in business and daily situations. It covers techniques for developing a negotiation plan, evaluating the opposition, and taking advantage of body language, props, timing, questions, and correspondence. It presents strategies for gaining control in negotiation situations, and effective methods of getting past obstacles and closing a negotiation. Several everyday negotiation scenarios are explored, with tips for effective negotiation techniques to apply to these situations. Features: Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied. A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics. Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course. Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required. Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank. A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test. A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms. Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course. ...
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Principles of Accounting and Finance for Non-financial Professionals
by Skillsoft
Finance and accounting are at the heart of every business. These functions deal with recording, summarizing, and analyzing financial information across all departments for decision making, directing, and controlling their resources and activities. Every activity or non-activity in an organization has financial implications and financial acumen is expected at every organizational level. Professionals and functional managers in every department and functional area should have a certain amount of comfort and familiarity with the basic accounting and financial concepts, processes and practices so that they can use it to better manage and control their activities and make decisions that support organization's larger goals. This course aims at familiarizing non-financial professionals with basic accounting and financial concepts. You are introduced to key finance and accounting terms and concepts such as the accounting equation, accrual-based accounting, financial risks and returns, and basic accounting principles. This course also takes you through the steps in the accounting process and helps you recognize how business transactions affect various financial statements and the bottom-line of your business.Audience: Non-financial professionals who wish to gain understanding or refresh their knowledge of finance and accountingObjectives: Principles of Accounting and Finance for Non-financial Professionals recall the basic accounting equation identify the key differences between cash- and accrual-based accounting match phases of the accounting process with actions that are performed at each phase match each basic accounting principle to its description recognize how a business transaction affects a financial statement in given examples identify four types of financial risks Duration: 1 ...
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Talent Management: Basics
by Skillsoft
Would you be able to define talent management if someone asked you what it was? And would you be able to explain why it should be a top priority for organizations? Talent management focuses on recruiting, hiring, developing, and retaining the right talent to drive an organization's performance. This course helps clarify talent management's key role in helping an organization perform at its peak. It introduces and defines talent management, describing key concepts related to it. It also points to why effectively managing talent is so important. In addition, this course identifies the key activities associated with talent management and describes the roles played by managers in implementing a talent management strategy.Audience: Individuals who want to develop their talent management skillsObjectives: Talent Management: Basics recognize why talent management is important identify key concepts related to talent management identify key activities for each component of talent management recognize the role of managers in implementing a talent management strategy Duration: 1 ...
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Leadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader
by Skillsoft
Why is it so hard to get people to agree to a good idea? Why are some leaders constantly faced with challenges and objections? Reaching agreement as a leader does not mean you should manipulate or force people to accept your ideas and accomplish your objectives; there are ethical ways for leaders to successfully build influence. Leaders attempting to influence and persuade others are faced with the challenges of navigating through organizational politics. An effective leader recognizes that organizational politics can provide positive ways to influence others in order to accomplish goals. In this course, you will be guided through numerous methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to accept your ideas. You'll be introduced to the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in using positive politics and avoiding negative politics when persuading others. You'll also have an opportunity to practice methods for influencing effectively and ethically.Audience: Supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skillsObjectives: Leadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader recognize and classify examples of techniques for influencing people recognize actions that use politics to influence others in a positive way use influence techniques to persuade others while avoiding the negative use of politics, in a given scenario Duration: 1 ...
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Setting and Managing Priorities within the Organization: Mission and Goals
by Skillsoft
Getting your priorities straight, no matter where you are in your organization, is about keeping a focus on your goals. It requires you to think about the bigger picture to ensure your department's work supports the strategic objectives of your organization as effectively as possible. This course helps you establish priorities for your group by ensuring that its goals are properly aligned with the company-wide goals and mission. It begins by clarifying the distinction between strategic, tactical, and operational goals. It then shows you how to create effective goals. Next it takes you through a step-by-step process for ensuring that the departmental goals you create are suitably aligned with the strategic objectives of the organization. This includes helping you identify imperatives for action that keep you focused and on track to meet your objectives and ensure your team is working effectively through properly identified priorities.Audience: Team leads, supervisors, managers, directors, and strategic planners who manage organizational priorities to drive organizational successObjectives: Setting and Managing Priorities within the Organization: Mission and Goals distinguish different kinds of business goals recognize the benefits of setting goals recognize how to set effective goals for organizational units align unit goals with company-wide goals and mission derive imperatives from unit goals Duration: 1 ...
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Cash Flow Management Essentials for Non-financial Professionals
by Skillsoft
Cash flow management involves monitoring, analyzing, and adjusting your business's cash flows to maintain a steady flow of cash available for your activities when needed. Sustaining working capital while managing the flow of cash is often a challenge with many businesses. Sale of goods and services results in cash coming in, while paying bills, taxes, dividends, and the repayment of loans result in cash going out. This course provides some insights into managing cash flow in your area of operation. You are guided through the classification of cash flow into operating, investing, and financing activities. You are then introduced to the idea of the Total Business Float with help of a case-based example and how to recognize the implications of working capital on cash flow. Finally, some strategies for sound cash flow management are also presented.Audience: Non-financial professionals who wish to gain understanding or refresh their knowledge of finance and accountingObjectives: Cash Flow Management Essentials for Non-financial Professionals classify examples of cash flow as operating, investing, or financing activities calculate the potential cash gain when reducing the Total Business Float, given the annual sales volume, in a case-based example recognize the effect an increase or decrease in working capital has on cash flow determine which cash management techniques will help achieve the cash management strategy for a given scenario Duration: 1 ...
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Financial Statements for Non-financial Professionals
by Skillsoft
Financial statements, including the Income Statement, the Cash Flow Statement, and the Balance Sheet, work as a dashboard of the financial performance of an organization. Knowing how these financial statements are created, and how they reflect the performance of the organization, helps non-financial professionals better understand how their own functional areas can affect the company's bottom line. These financial reports are also used by professionals in all areas for evaluating proposals, suppliers, competitors, markets, and the general condition of the industry they operate in. This course aims to familiarize you with these three financial statements and how they reflect an organization's overall activities and performance. This course takes you through the various sections of these statements and explains how each is calculated. Finally, the course demonstrates how common business transactions affect an organization's financial condition with the help of an example.Audience: Non-financial professionals who wish to become familiar with or refresh their knowledge of the financial statements and their elementsObjectives: Financial Statements for Non-financial Professionals calculate the gross profit, income from operations, and net income from given Income Statement data calculate the value of different types of cash flows in a Cash Flow Statement determine the value of Assets, Liabilities, and Shareholders' Equities in a Balance Sheet recognize how common business transactions affect an organization's financial statements in an example Duration: 1 ...
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The Essentials of Budgeting for Non–financial Professionals
by Skillsoft
Professionals and functional managers in every department deal with budgets one way or another for providing targets and direction in their day-to-day decision making and control activities. The budget is a formal expression of the plans, goals, and objectives of an organization and familiarity with the essentials of the budget is expected at every level within that organization. This course aims to provide a basic understanding of budgets and their importance in allocating resources and guiding the activities in an organization. It helps you identify the characteristics of an effective budget and the key phases of the budgetary planning process. The course then provides a few examples of different types of budgets and the approaches to budgeting. Finally, the course takes you through variance analysis and how to use a variance report as part of the budgetary control process.Audience: Non-financial professionals who wish to gain understanding or refresh their knowledge of finance and accountingObjectives: The Essentials of Budgeting for Non–financial Professionals identify the characteristics of an effective budget sequence the key phases of the budgetary planning process match budget elements with the type of budget in which they should be recorded identify key characteristics, advantages, and limitations of two different approaches to budgeting recognize variances that are worth investigating Duration: 1 ...
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SMART Evaluación de Formación Técnica Nivel 2 - Examen Final
by SMART Technical
Este curso es la Evaluación Certificación de Formación Técnica Nivel 2.
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The Fundamentals of Effective Thinking
by Skillsoft - Business
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 youll explore how to think about the most critical business skill of all--thinking itself. Youll first learn about the counterproductive thinking patterns and tendencies most people naturally fall prey to. Youll then discover how these largely intuitive tendencies manifest themselves in problem-solving mind-sets and decision-making styles. Finally youll take the necessary steps to neutralize ineffective thinking habits and instead practice dynamic and results-oriented thinking strategies. The result? Youll become a better thinker someone who can apply these new-found techniques to achieve organizational goals within the current climate of great institutional change. ...
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