LatitudeU News: LatitudeU Partner Prism Learning Solutions Drives Leadership and Organization Development

LatitudeU is pleased to spotlight its partner Prism Learning Solutions, now in its 20th year helping firms select, refine and implement appropriate change strategies.

Headquartered in southeast Michigan, Prism has extensive expertise in a variety of industries, including banking & service, automotive & manufacturing, utilities, government & education, as well as oil and gas production. It offers its clients:

• A unique approach that drives integrated change planning across the people, processes and technology components of an organization.
• A systematic, disciplined and flexble process to expedite organizational change across a wide-range of competitive situations.
• Tools to measurably accelerate the work done in teams.
• A full array of supporting services, including award-winning leadership training, consulting/facilitation and project management oversight.

Prism collaborates with Latitude via the LatitudeU Partner Program, allowing Prism's clients to quickly load and deploy training content, whether it be for internal employees or external customers.

Learn more about how Prism is aligning with LatitudeU's unique peer-to-peer platform for both internal and external training needs by visiting their Training Store at http://prismls.latitudeu.com, or learn more about the LatitudeU Partner Program at www.LatitudeU.com.

LatitudeU Update: New Retail Courses from LatitudeU Partner RetailTraining

The following courses are now available from LatitudeU partner RetailTraining on LatitudeU:

RT104 Appearance and Attitude

RT208 Coaching for Retention

RT306 Profit and Loss: The Bottom-Line

RetailTraining is a developer of online and in-store training solutions for retailers. RetailTraining's unique Retail Education Model ensures that courses align to the 'Five P Retail Model'. These courses include a retail perspective from a variety of sectors and are available for store employees, operations managers and independent owners alike. Visit the RetailTraining store on LatitudeU at http://retailtraining.latitudeu.com and learn about the thousands of other courses available night or day at www.LatitudeU.com.

New News on Monday: Enhance Your Knowledge of Oracle 11g with Latest Updates from LatitudeU Partner SkillSoft

The following new Oracle 11g courses are now available at LatitudeU:

• Oracle Database 11g Release 2: Using Change Management Solutions
• Oracle Database 11g Release 2: Intelligent Infrastructure Enhancements
• Oracle Database 11g Release 2: Application Performance Enhancements

Check out these and dozens of other Oracle 11g courses from LatitudeU partner SkillSoft, which are available for our members day or night at www.LatitudeU.com.

Back-to-School for Educators: Build Your Own Curriculum with Courses available at LatitudeU

LatitudeU and its range of content partners offer an extensive catalog of online courses allowing the flexibility and self-paced learning necessary for the busy educator or education professional.

Whether you are looking to develop your own track to explore introductory topics from the expansive list of free courses, including:

• Getting Work Done
• Listening for Understanding
• Giving an Effective Presentation

...Or looking for deeper dives into targeted leadership and management areas from the list of fee-based titles, for example:

• Leading Teams: Motivating and Optimizing Performance
• Managing Yourself and Those Around You
• Leading Teams: Fostering Effective Communication and Collaboration

...You can find these and thousands of other titles at LatitudeU. Login or become a LatitudeU Member by registering for free at www.LatitudeU.com.

Visit Latitude at Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase August 11th

Latitude is a proud sponsor of the 2010 Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase held August 11 at Roosevelt University's Conference Center, 525 S. State St., Chicago, IL.

The Showcase provides a full day of presentations and exhibit with an emphasis on the role of new media and interactive methods in business and institutional training. Conference speakers will explore all aspects of elearning—instructional design, development tools, media resources, virtual classrooms, social and interactive applications, mobile learning, rapid elearning, and more. Learn more about the showcase at http://www.chicagoelearningshowcase.com/.

Latitude will be attendance and also exhibit at the conference showcase from 8:30AM and 6:00PM. Visit with our team to learn more about the range of content and capabilities available through your free membership on LatitudeU, as well as revenue opportunities and global reach available to training providers through a Training Store on LatitudeU. Come visit us at the showcase or learn more at http://www.latitudeu.com/.

Your FREE COURSE Of The Day: Effective Project Management

" Management so detailed...What a great surprise!"

" I feel accomplished...What a wonderful privilege!"

" Great lesson...Excellent explanation!"

This free online course for project managers introduces the four phases of project management and includes an expected time worksheet. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while honoring the project constraints. Typical constraints are scope, time and budget. The secondary—and more ambitious—challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet pre-defined objectives. A project is a carefully defined set of activities that use resources (money, people, materials, energy, space, provisions, communication, motivation, etc.) to achieve the project goals and objectives. this project management training course will help the student develop these skills.

Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Click here to access the Effective Project Management course online.

Six Sigma Courses in LatitudeU

Six Sigma Courses in LatitudeU

LatitudeU now offers Six Sigma online courses from the industry leading training provider - SkillSoft.

What is the American Society for Quality?

The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is the world's leading authority on quality. With more than 100,000 individual and organizational members, this professional association advances learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide.

What is Six Sigma?

Six Sigma is ASQ's systematic, rigorous and proven methodology focused on improving the quality of processes within an organization, and eliminating process defects. A successful implementation of these business improvement principles aligns all of a company's people, processes and energy around a common strategy and culture. Six Sigma Methodologies are applicable to organizations across the spectrum of industries, from manufacturing to service to healthcare.

Six Sigma Awareness

Successful Six Sigma implementations require a company-wide Six Sigma culture, with awareness and buy in from all employees in an organization. SkillSoft's Six Sigma introduction course is designed to help build a Six Sigma culture by introducing all employees in an organization to the foundation concepts of Six Sigma philosophy and process.

Click here to learn more about Six Sigma

Click here for all Six Sigma online courses