Monday, February 15, 2010

Business Skills Training in LatitudeU

LatitudeU offers Business Skills online courses from the industry leading training provider - SkillSoft.

Executives are constantly looking for breakthrough strategies that will give their companies a competitive edge. Once those strategies are formulated they become operating plans and departments are charged with carrying out specific activities. Finally, it's up to individual employees to execute within their daily jobs in support of those plans. But what happens if the strategies are not well communicated throughout the organization? What if employees lack essential skills to accomplish their work? What if cultural barriers stand in the way of progress?

Unique Strength in Business Skills
Companies around the globe turn to SkillSoft when they recognize a need to upgrade employees' soft skills and business knowledge. With SkillSoft's Business Skills Courseware Collection, the world's largest collection of business skills courses, and the BusinessPro™ Collection, the largest repository of online reference content in the industry, SkillSoft courses in LatitudeU offer the ideal training for any enterprise.

e-Learning Design Excellence in Business Skills Instruction
SkillSoft's award-winning business skills courseware incorporates proven learning design methodology for effective and engaging interactive learning. SkillSoft's instructional design model is based primarily on the proven concepts of performance-oriented instruction, mastery and the sequencing of instructional activities and strategies. The model draws heavily from adult learning principles that emphasize learner initiative, self-management and experiential learning. The design of each SkillSoft business course starts with the definition of learner-focused performance objectives and then proceeds to the selection and implementation of instructional strategies and learning activities appropriate for those objectives. Frequent practice questions or exercises, along with assessments, measure learners' achievement of those objectives.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Free Course of the Day: Personal Finance - Money Tips for All Ages

This free online course focuses on making savings, thrift, and smart money management a goal. This is 16 page guide full of practical tips and advice compiled by the FDIC. PDF, downloadable format.

Key Concepts:
personal finance, money, planning, management, tips, practical, free course, free courses

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Thinking Creatively about Business Decisions
• Ethics in the Workplace
• Ace Your Job Interview
• Get Ready for your Job Search
• Planning Your Job Performance
• Empowerment in the Workplace
• Be Your Own Manager
• Getting Work Done!
• Investing Time for Maximum Return
• Job Strategies for New Employees
• No Privacy Legal Issues in Email


Click here for the Personal Finance - Money Tips for All Ages course

Project Management Training in LatitudeU

Give your work force the tools to meet the PMP credential requirements with SkillSoft's project management solution.
Delivering the end product or service on time and on budget indicates effective project management which, in turn, is a sign of a successful business. A project management solution is important for many reasons:

  • Companies need to bring new products and services to market on time and on budget
  • Employees often lack the skills to ensure smooth implementation of complex projects
  • Companies want to define consistent processes for project management to ensure timely execution on a global basis

Because excellent project management is so highly regarded, many corporations require employees have the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential. To be eligible for the PMP, specific education and work experience requirements must be met as well as an agreement to adhere to a code of professional conduct.


LatitudeU's trainging partner, SkillSoft, is a PMI® registered education provider.
LatitudeU offers SkillSoft courses that will prepare individuals for two of PMI®'s globally recognized certifications for project management, the Project Management Professional (PMP®), and the Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM®). The Program Management Professional (PgMPSM) courseware provides an overview of the certification.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

LatitudeU Free Course of the Day: Sliding Hip Screw Demonstration

This free online course is an example of an interactive simulation course created in mySmartSimulations's authoring tool WILD (Worldwide Interactive Learning Designer).

Key Concepts:
Medical, Hip Screw, free course, free training

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Other
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Communication for Retail Managers
• Stock Market Trading 101
• Intelligent Venture Evolution -- Summary
• Intelligent Ventures Framework
• A GREAT, FREE CORPORATE H/R BENEFIT FOR EMPLOYEES...V.A. Program--Aging Parent Financial Support PART 1
• Best Practices Teachers & Guidance Counsellors --- Tips on Writing Student College Recommendations
• Profit From Prices- Stock Market Trading Book
• A GREAT, FREE CORPORATE H/R BENEFIT FOR EMPLOYEES...Filing with Veteran's Administration for Financial Help for Aging Parents
• Oil And Gas Careers...How to Become a Landman
• ForEx Trade
• Red Cross - Preparing for a Disaster


Click here for the Sliding Hip Scre Demonstration course

Improve your Desktop Skills with LatitudeU

Organizations of every size need desktop computer skills as a basic building block of success. More than just increasing productivity, proficiency with desktop software facilitates better business results. Your employees can create more effective spreadsheets, better reports and more dynamic presentations. They will not only use the tools provided, they will utilize them to the fullest extent possible. SkillSoft's Desktop Courseware Collection provides a broad array of courses to meet the needs of end users throughout your organization. Using standards-based architecture, SkillSoft courseware incorporates a diverse mix of learning objects interactive lessons, workshops, task-based simulations and assessment questions to impart the necessary knowledge and skills.

Impact:

  • Improve productivity through mastery of key software applications
  • Maximize learning's effectiveness by placing corporate initiatives in context of the needs of individual employees
  • Train more learners, in more subjects in less time than ever before
  • Teach users the features and navigation of the most popular and recent suite of office productivity applications

Support rollout of Microsoft Office 2007

  • Manage facility wide conversions to Microsoft Office 2007
  • Provide experience level appropriate training on all Office applications, including Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, and Vision

Teach computing fundamentals to non-technical users

  • Turn novice users into savvy computer users through fundamental skills that a non-technical user needs to become familiar with Microsoft operating systems
  • Empower users to more effectively use the Internet with basic training on industry leading web browsers
  • Improve users competence and working use of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft's leading email application
  • Prepare users for certifications
  • Provide curriculum that maps to the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification
  • Prepare users for the ECDL/ICDL certifications

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Monday, February 8, 2010

LatitudeU Free Course of the Day: Manager Guidelines to Stop Sexual Harassment

This free training course discusses managerial guidelines as to what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace and outlines the steps involved in dealing with sexual harassment. This course can serve as a basic set of guidelines to organizations who need to implement Sexual Harrassment practices and protocols.

All Global Mindset free 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:
Sexual Harassment, Legal Issues

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Legal Compliance >> Harassment Series
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
• Avoid and Prevent Workplace Harassment
• Employee Guidelines to Avoid Sexual Harassment
• Manager Guidelines to Stop Sexual Harassment
• Employee Sexual Harassment Awareness
• Supervisor and Manager Sexual Harassment Awareness
• Harassment in the Workplace
• Supervisor and Manager Sexual Harassment Awareness – Multi-State Edition
• Dealing with Sexual Harassment Simulation
• Managing Sexual Harassment Problems Simulation
• Managing Workplace Harassment Complaints Simulation


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LatitudeU Newsletter (Feb 07, 2010) - Sun Certified Programmer Training in LatitudeU

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