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PowerPoint 2007 (8 courses)
by MindLeaders
Office 2007 includes the latest version of PowerPoint, the presentation creation package that helps add visual impact and dynamic information to your presentations. This series will walk you through creating your own presentations. ...
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Word 2002 (5 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series of courses is designed to teach the student how to use Word 2002 in the Windows XP operating system. This series covers the basics of Word 2002 and continues into the advanced features and procedures. This series teaches all objectives for the Microsoft Word 2002 Core Exam and includes a complete list of these objectives, which the student can print to hard copy. ...
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Introduction to SMART Notebook and the SMART Board
by SMART Education
This course helps you understand the role of the SMART Board interacitve whiteboard and SMART Notebook collaborative learning software in the interactive classroom. You'll receive an overview of the software and hardware, and learn basic features and functions of both SMART Notebook software and the SMART Board interactive whiteboard.Audience: EducationPrerequisites: None ...
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IT Project Management Essentials: Initiating and Planning IT Projects
by Skillsoft
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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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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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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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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Communication and Leadership
by Skillsoft - Business
You've asked an employee TWICE to complete a project as soon as possible and still the work isn't completed. You've delegated a task to another employee only to have it done incorrectly. You've sent an e-mail asking for extra help on a project to which you've had several negative responses. Whats going on? While these situations could be the result of many different influences you can eliminate one of the variables by ensuring that your communication style is positive clear concise and to the point. As an entrepreneur or manager, the skills are a necessity. Learn how to coordinate your verbal and nonverbal message to get the best results and learn how to write in such a way that you get the highest impact with as few words as possible. ...
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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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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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Access 2007 (6 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series covers how to use Access 2007 to create, modify, and access databases. It shows the learner how to use the Ribbon-based Access 2007 interface, as well as how to build tables, forms, and reports. Learners will also be able to use queries and filters to sort through data. ...
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PC Applications (7 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series is designed for computer users who have limited or no computer experience. The series of courses provides an overview of computer hardware, storage, software, and security and copyright considerations. This series also provides introductory instruction on using a personal computer and various PC applications including word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, browser, as well as electronic mail applications. ...
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Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP v2) (12 courses)
by MindLeaders
Prepare for your Certified Business Analysis Professional™ certification and learn everything you need to pass the exam on your first try! This study guide series is based on the BABOK® Guide v2.0, and topics include requirement planning, management, elicitation and analysis, solution assessment and validation, and underlying fundamentals. Practice exams are part of the series, containing questions using the same format as the exam and including in-depth instructional feedback. ...
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Finance (Videos) (7 courses)
by MindLeaders
Finance is the language of business. People who have strong financial analysis abilities can enhance their organization's value in the marketplace. Our finance programs focus on the principles and strategies of finance and how you can help support the financial goals of your organization. ...
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Career Development (Videos) (2 courses)
by MindLeaders
It is your responsibility to take charge of your own career path. Our career development programs will help you set goals, create an effective career plan and manage your own professional development and growth. ..... Total Items: 2, Total Time: 2.2 hour(s)..... Audience: Non-Managers, Front Line Managers..... 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. ..... Career Development (Videos): Been There, Done That, Now What? ..... Time: 2 hour(s) ..... Description: This course provides information on reconditioning yourself for success... Objectives: Assess ways you can recondition yourself... Define what you want... Apply the power principles to your work ..... Topics: Reconditioning yourself... Define what you want... Challenge the status quo... Power principles... Personal commitment ..... Career Development (Videos): The Influence Edge and Your Career ..... Time: 12 minute(s)..... Description: You are the main influencer of your career. Therefore, you need to know how to put together clear strategies for your development. During this program, you'll learn the steps of career development and the influence strategies to help you stay on track to reach your goals. In addition, you'll learn how to influence others to help make your development and career plans a reality ...... Topics: Introduction ... Influencing Your Career ... Career Goals ... Career Development ... Influence Strategies ... Summary ... ...
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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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Word 2010, Excel 2010, and the New Office 2010 Interface
by Skillsoft
Within the two Microsoft Office Suite releases available since Office 2003, Microsoft has implemented a number of functionality and interface changes and introduced several new features. The overall Office interface has been changed substantially with the introduction of the Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2007, and collaboration and anywhere access to Office files is a major theme in the Microsoft Office 2010 release. This course examines the new features and enhancements of Microsoft Office 2010, focusing on the perspective of Microsoft Office 2003 users who are migrating to Microsoft Office 2010. It outlines the significant interface changes that apply to all Office applications, including the Ribbon and the Office Backstage view, and it covers significant new features and enhancements in Word and Excel 2010. These features include Live Preview Paste, Open file format, and the Protected view available for Office 2010 documents, and features such as enhanced graphics support, Quick Styles and document comparison tools in Word, Sparklines, Slicers, and Pivot Table enhancements in Excel. The course also introduces the new web versions of Word and Excel - Word Web App and Excel Web App.Audience: Individual and corporate end-users with a working knowledge of Office 2003's standard functionality and general computing skillsObjectives: Word 2010, Excel 2010, and the New Office 2010 Interface use the key new interface features and enhancements in Office 2010 use the new features of Word 2010 to perform common tasks recognize key features of the new Word 2010 interface use new features in Excel 2010 to enhance your spreadsheets identify key new and enhanced features in Excel 2010 use the Office 2010 interface to edit a document give your document a consistent, professional look and feel using Word 2010 use Excel 2010 to add visual representations of data to a worksheet Duration: 1 ...
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Project 2007 (8 courses)
by MindLeaders
Get projects under control with Microsoft Project’s latest version, 2007. Build schedules, communicate effectively with everyone involved, chart your progress, and keep track of budget and project materials. This series will show you how to use this complex tool to save time and maximize your projects’ success. ...
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Investing Fundamentals (6 courses)
by MindLeaders
This series covers basic investing information and strategies. Fundamental topics covered include planning your financial goals, budgeting, managing diversification and risk, and options for retirement savings. Organization of finances is covered in detail, including analyzing net worth, putting aside emergency funds, and proper record keeping. An in-depth examination of investment options, including stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, is provided. If you are an entrepreneur or just interested in investing, this course is for you. The series concludes with a thorough discussion of planning for the future with solid investment strategies, retirement planning, and insurance coverage. ...
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Transitioning into a Project Management Role
by Skillsoft - Business
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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Goals and Setting Goals
by Skillsoft - Business
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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Workplace Communication Skills
by Skillsoft - Business
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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Effective Relationships with Customers
by Skillsoft - Business
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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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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