Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Free Course of the Day: Effective Project Management


This free online course for project managers introduces the four phases of project management and includes an expected time worksheet.

All Global Mindset free online courses are self-paced free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. These training courses provide plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:
Project Management, Resource Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Budget Management, Risk Management, Free Training, Free Courses

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Listen for Understanding
Giving an Effective Presentation
Communication Fundamentals
Legal Issues in Management
Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
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Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
Effective Change Management
Effective Business Meetings


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Monday, October 5, 2009

Free Course of the Day: Effective Business Meetings

This free course outlines how to organize, prepare for, and conduct effective meetings in the workplace.

All Global Mindset free online courses are self-paced free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. These training courses provide plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:
Business Meeting Managment, Free Training, Free Courses

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Courses you might be interested in:

Listen for Understanding
Giving an Effective Presentation
Communication Fundamentals
Legal Issues in Management
Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
Quality Service in the Public Sector
Leading Meetings to Success
Coaching for Business Success
Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
Effective Change Management
Effective Business Meetings


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Meet an eLearning Publisher: Corwyn Amber

Rich Pirrotta is a frequent speaker, seminar leader, and teacher on the topics of leadership, strategy, motivation, e-business, and environmental management. He has been a member of the National Speakers Association, the leading organization for professional speakers, since 1999. His topics draw from his experiences as a line executive, management consultant, and teacher over the last 20 years.

Rich is a senior operational leader, with a bias for action and a record of accomplishment for delivering outstanding business results in manufacturing, technology and e-commerce. He has broad, cross-organizational experience in strategy and strategy execution, management, finance, and operations, and has worked in over 30 countries. He is equally comfortable participating in strategic discussions with top-level management or working shoulder-to-shoulder with line personnel to get a job done.

Rich has served in a variety of positions: as a Vice President of a division of a Fortune 50 company, General Manager of an e-commerce startup that grew from five to 200 employees, Senior Manager with the Mergers & Acquisitions practice of Deloitte & Touche, Senior Manager in the Manufacturing Practice of Deloitte Consulting, and in Product Development with Procter & Gamble, where he earned a US Patent on Pringle’s Potato Chips. He has deep functional experience in strategy development, operations, and transformational change, and has served as a board member of six companies in various stages of growth. Most recently,

Rich was involved with his own firm in consulting to businesses from the startup stage to $400 million in revenue. He holds a B.S. degree from Penn State in chemical engineering, and earned his M.B.A. in Financial Management and Operations Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as President of his class. He later served as President and Chairman of the Wharton Alumni Association, responsible for activities for a network of over 80,000 alumni.


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Friday, October 2, 2009

Free Course of the Day: Coaching for Business Success

Free online training course describes the qualities and roles of successful mentors and the coaching steps necessary to develop and maintain a formal mentoring program. All Global Mindset online courses business training are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:
Coaching, Mentoring, Supervisory Skills, Employee Performance, Free Training, Free Course
 
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Other
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Courses you might be interested in:

Listen for Understanding
Giving an Effective Presentation
Communication Fundamentals
Legal Issues in Management
Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
Quality Service in the Public Sector
Leading Meetings to Success
Coaching for Business Success
Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
Effective Change Management
Effective Business Meetings
 

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Meet an eLearning Publisher: Bander Group

English language Trainer MEd in TESOL Exeter University in UK

Products/Services Provided: eLearning
Subjects: training- development

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Free Course of the Day: Be Your Own Manager

In this free course you will learn how to be you own manager, gain a better business perspective, and aim for continuous improvement through professional develompent training. All Global Mindset courses are self-paced online free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts:
Management, Free Training, Free Course

Course Appears in these Categories:

Other
Free Courses
 
Courses you might be interested in:

Listen for Understanding
Giving an Effective Presentation
Communication Fundamentals
Legal Issues in Management
Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
Quality Service in the Public Sector
Leading Meetings to Success
Coaching for Business Success
Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
Effective Change Management
Effective Business Meetings

Meet an eLearning Publisher: Chart Learning Solutions

Chart Learning Solutions delivers high-impact performance results that train & retain sales, customer service, and leadership talent. Through our unique blended solution, we build a culture of continuous improvement, common language, guarantee accountability, and foster meaningful dialogues between employees and managers to ensure skills and behaviors meet business objectives.

How MAPs™ Benefit Your Organization:

  1. Blended Learning System Instills a culture of continuous learning and results-driven improvement as a consistent part of on-going learning initiatives in sales, service, and/or leadership
  2. Coaching Helps employer and employee identify and overcome performance and work satisfaction obstacles, guarantees accountability through Coach/Learner meetings
  3. Accountability Measures skill gaps with Inventory Assessments, Managed Accountability Plans, Application Activities, quizzes, and monthly Coach/Learner evaluation
  4. Convenience MAPs delivered through the internet, accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a week, eliminating travel expenses and down-time
  5. Innovative Technology Interactive audio-graphic tutorials, interactive paperless Application Activities, cross-functional learning communities, coaching scheduler, and progress reports

How MAPs Resolve Common Performance Issues

  • Creates a common language and continuous process for driving results by eliminating duplicate efforts or hit and miss “spot” training approaches
  • Integrates divergent resources into one organized plan, increasing accountability, transfer of learning, learner retention, and enhancing peak performance
  • Creates consistency in team evaluation, progress reports, and performance results • Maximizes efficiency by significantly reducing training time and costs
  • Reaches unlimited learners in multiple locations through web-based MAPs
  • Stabilizes training efforts with a proven producer development system

  • Streamlines approaches to sales management, eliminating inefficiency, and duplication of effort. Wasted time is virtually eliminated.

  • Accelerates the speed of ramping-up productivity for all producers, resulting in a faster, guaranteed ROI. It is impossible for anyone to
    “fall through the cracks.” This system enables complete transparency of
    learning. Best of all, everyone earns an “A.”

Products/Services Provided: eLearning Subjects: sales, customer service, leadership, blended learning, elearning, Learning Management System, accountability