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Communication Skills
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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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Strategies for Communicating with Tact and Diplomacy
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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
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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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IT Project Management Essentials: Introduction to IT Project Management
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The successful delivery of information technology (IT) projects requires managers to adapt project management processes and tools to account for the specific characteristics of the IT environment. By applying these processes and tools in a way that suits the project type and complexity, managers can significantly improve project success rates. This course describes how IT projects differ from other project types and points to the benefits of applying project management principles to IT projects. It provides an overview of the activities you carry out in each of the phases of an IT project and describes key project management tools.Audience: IT project managers and IT professionals preparing to take on IT project management responsibilities, as well as managers who support IT project managersObjectives: IT Project Management Essentials: Introduction to IT Project Management recognize the benefits of being able to use project management tools and techniques for IT projects distinguish between characteristics of IT projects and non-IT projects distinguish between activities that are carried out in each IT project phase match key project management tools to their descriptions Duration: 1 ...
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Communication Business Etiquette
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"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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Personal Productivity: Self-organization and Overcoming Procrastination
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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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Principles of Accounting and Finance for Non-financial Professionals
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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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Setting and Managing Priorities within the Organization: Mission and Goals
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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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IT Project Management Essentials: Initiating and Planning IT Projects
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If you want your IT project to complete successfully, you need to get it off to a good start. During the early stages of a project – the initiating and planning phases – a project manager should clarify objectives and requirements and create a project plan that delineates, among other things, what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how much it will likely cost. Although the plan may change as the project progresses, it’s important to get down as much detail as you can at the very beginning. This course describes how to initiate an IT project effectively. It then focuses on three key areas of planning – developing a work breakdown structure, schedule planning, and cost planning.Audience: IT project managers and IT professionals preparing to take on IT project management responsibilities, as well as managers who support IT project managersObjectives: IT Project Management Essentials: Initiating and Planning IT Projects match steps you take when initiating an IT project to examples of how they are carried out sequence examples of the steps in developing a work breakdown structure recognize the benefits of being able to develop an effective work breakdown structure sequence activities for developing a project schedule match project cost estimating techniques to their descriptions Duration: 1 ...
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Talent Management: Basics
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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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Cash Flow Management Essentials for Non-financial Professionals
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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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Leadership Essentials: Building Your Influence as a Leader
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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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The Essentials of Budgeting for Non–financial Professionals
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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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Financial Statements for Non-financial Professionals
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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 Fundamentals of Effective Thinking
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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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Workplace Communication Skills
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Poor communication is often blamed for discord errors and misunderstandings in the workplace. In fact and more correctly poor communication of intent causes these problems. They occur when people are unwilling to say exactly what they mean or what they want. They also occur when there is a reluctance or an inability to get clarification of another persons intent. These situations can be avoided by using certain communication techniques to establish intent both other peoples intent and your own. This course covers the three prime strategies that will enable you to do this. ...
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Goals and Setting Goals
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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. Its 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 achievable. It takes into account the abilities and resources available and requires the goal seeker to make the best use of both. In this course youll examine the types of goals you can use to advance your career and personal life learn to construct goals that are both challenging and achievable discover how to embed the seeds of success within your goals and explore ways to align your goals with your own priorities and the priorities of others who influence the way you use your time. ...
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Working with Difficult People: Identifying Difficult People
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Inevitably, we all encounter difficult people in the workplace. Dealing with difficult people can lead to feelings of frustration or even intimidation. If you know the right techniques, though, dealing with even the most difficult person is possible. In order to deal with difficult people, first you need to know what kind of difficult person you're dealing with so you can use the right technique for the right 'difficult' type. This course will provide you with methods to help you recognize the characteristics of some of the most common types of difficult people, better understand their motivations, and begin to deal with them more effectively.Audience: Individuals who want to develop or refresh their communications skills when working with difficult peopleObjectives: Working with Difficult People: Identifying Difficult People identify examples of people displaying difficult behavior recognize the benefit of being able to identify the types of difficult people in the workplace match examples of difficult behavior in the workplace to types of motivation identify which steps to deal with a difficult person have been performed correctly when given a scenario Duration: 1 ...
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Effective Relationships with Customers
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Its time to disregard that old deferential model of short-term customer relations youre using. Why not replace it with a selection of long-term relational skills that work for you in the marketplace? Take control by picking the best customers and developing equal trusting partnerships with them. When you limit your investment in your customer relationships you also limit your growth potential. Developing strong respectful relationships with your customers is a win-win situation. This course introduces the ingredients for creating and maintaining more effective and productive relationships with your customers and explains why these elements can generate better outcomes than earlier customer paradigms. The most effective relationships are mutually supportive and mutually beneficial. And they last beyond next quarters returns. Investing in the relationship and creating value for your customers rewards your business as well. ...
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Resolving Conflict with Communication Skills
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Although through the use of good communication skills conflict in the workplace can be minimized it cant be eradicated entirely. On the occasions when disharmony inevitably arises there is a need for a different set of communication skills--those of negotiation mediation or arbitration. ...
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Asserting Yourself Professionally
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Do you sometimes wonder if your professional style is too passive-hesitant and weak? Or do you find yourself acting too aggressively toward your co-workers or subordinates--too critical and overbearing? Do you wonder if there is another professional style that might be better for you? ...
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Avoiding Grammatical Errors in Business Writing
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Grammar: the very word strikes terror into the hearts of learners everywhere. For many people it recalls the most difficult or most boring classes they can remember from childhood. Yet using correct grammar is one of the key skills for any business writer. Poor grammar skills interfere with communicating a clear message; moreover they may suggest that the writer is careless and perhaps unprofessional. ...
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Pursuing Successful Lifelong Learning
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Todays 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 then this course is for you. Find out how lifelong learning strategies can enable you to develop your work skills and to manage your professional development. Dont wait until your supervisor initiates what you need to learn. Its time to take ownership of your learning needs based on your expectations and your own terms. In this course you will identify your learning needs and learn how to establish learning objectives determine learning resources and evaluate outcomes. ...
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Managing Anger in the Workplace Simulation
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Like most people you have probably become angry at work. A disagreement with a coworker or manager could make you lose your temper and voice your anger but is this really a good idea? What will your coworkers or manager think of your outburst? While confronting anger in the workplace is inevitable its important to minimize your angry thoughts emotions and behaviors and channel your energy into more constructive activities. ...
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Effective Intergender Relationships
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Guess what. Men and women are different. Socially the differences offer an attractive mystique. But in professional situations and in the workplace the significant differences in male and female communication styles can cause problems. There is no denying that women and men vary significantly in their verbal inflections and tone their body language and how they listen to others. They pick up on different cues in conversations and often the meaning they interpret is not the message the speaker intends. Its almost as if the two genders speak different dialects. And in fact thats nearly the case. Communication confusion and breakdown between men and women at work can lead to inefficiency and expensive business errors. This course explains the differences in the language and communication behavior of men and women so each can more easily understand what the other is really saying. The course also provides tips on how to modify your own communication behavior to be more clearly understood by the opposite gender. ...
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