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Transitioning into a Project Management Role
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Many people find themselves thrust into a project management role with no formal training or experience. When this occurs it is important to be prepared to deal with the significant changes in your role. Your responsibilities broaden from managing yourself to managing others from short-term to long-term goals and from tangible to intangible issues. Time and experience will develop and refine your project management skills but this course will prime you for the process of transitioning into a project management role. It will discuss the changes a new project manager may face including the development of a successful project team. ...
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Coaching Performance
by Skillsoft - Business
Barry is new at quality control. He completed three weeks of training but he has already made two major errors that cost the firm $3000. Hes obviously upset and discouraged over his shaky start. If you were Barrys supervisor what would you do? Situations like this one can cause managers to fret and fuss and begin talking about disciplinary action. However leaders take a different approach. A leader would take the time to coach Barry and find out whats really going on--perhaps determining that three weeks of training wasnt quite enough. Or perhaps discovering that Barrys mother died recently and hes struggling to concentrate. Or offering to find a mentor for Barry until the situation eases. Taking the time to evaluate a situation and making an action plan is part of the process of coaching for performance that youll explore in this course. Youll learn when its appropriate to mentor train counsel or discipline an employee and youll be given guidelines and tips on how to perform each of these tasks in the most effective manner possible. ...
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Troubleshooting and Closing the Project
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The factors that can affect a project are numerous and often hard to pinpoint. Conducting meetings and using advanced tools such as formulas and graphs allow the project manager to properly define the health or status of the project. This course outlines how to conduct effective meetings and presents some troubleshooting tools that can be used during the project life cycle. It also presents the information required to close the project which is the last stage in project management. ...
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Managing a Project
by Skillsoft - Business
The factors of a successful project almost always end up depending on how much money and time is needed to create a product worthy of the customer. This course will help you manage the constraints of time money and schedules and how they relate to the overall quality of your project and product. ...
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Initiating and Planning a Project
by Skillsoft - Business
Initiating and Planning are crucial phases in developing and executing any successful project. Companies that are embarking on a new project initiative must assign people to gather facts and decide what exactly they want to produce and how they are going to produce it. This course examines which factors should weigh in during the project selection process and how to effectively plan a project from beginning to end. ...
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Project Management Fundamentals
by Skillsoft - Business
The evolution of business strategies has increased the importance of management having a thorough understanding of the products they produce. More and more employees are getting promoted from within to become project managers as they fully understand what they are trying to produce and how best to meet the quality and quantity requirements set forth by upper management. Project management as a process is the supervision and control of the work required to complete the project deliverable. Using established project management processes coupled with the experience and skills of experienced workers has allowed employers to adjust their mind-set when developing management and leadership skills from within. This course will enable someone who is not a professional project manager to learn the fundamentals of project management so he will be able to manage projects related to his area of responsibility within the organization. ...
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Analyzing Project Risk
by Skillsoft - Business
Many people enjoy risk as evidenced by the popularity of extreme sports. However in business risk is less welcome or enjoyable. The science of project management was founded in large part to manage risk and prevent it from negatively affecting project objectives schedules and budgets. To help in this effort "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) - Third Edition includes risk management as one of its nine knowledge areas and offers guidance on managing identifying analyzing responding to and monitoring and controlling risk. In this course you will learn qualitative and quantitative risk analysis techniques that will enable you to identify the probability of various levels of risk and to assess the impact of both negative and positive risks on objectives budget and schedule. ...
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Effective 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 Support Specialist (CSS) 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 CSS Certification which is targeted to individuals wishing to qualify to work in a customer support center or help desk environment. ...
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Call Center Customer Service
by Skillsoft - Business
Have you just become a call center customer service representative? Maybe you are experiencing some feelings of anxiety as do many novice agents. You may be concerned about dealing with customers issues one-on-one. Fortunately there is a comprehensive training course for people in your situation. This course will help you overcome reservations about customer service in a call center setting. This course for potential or new call center agents is designed to introduce the learner to the necessary information and tools required to professionally handle customer service calls in a call center environment. Becoming a great customer service representative requires having finely tuned communication skills. Therefore it is suggested that the you take the course "Call Center Communication Skills" prior to taking the Call Center Customer Service course. ...
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Call Center Communication Skills
by Skillsoft - Business
Communication skills are very important for a successful career in customer service and sales. This is especially true in a call center environment. Call centers can be high pressure fast-paced environments where you may have to deal with hundreds of people in one day. That is why it is so important to fine tune your communication skills. This course will examine handling different personalities questioning skills and telephone skills. These skills are essential to help you to communicate effectively and professionally with your call center customers. ...
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