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(Employer) Interview for Excellence How to Interview
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Communication Skills Fierce Conversations
Active Listening Skills Better Listening
Change Management Manage Change
Security is a Management Issue

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 Six Sigma Process Improvement

Six Sigma Process ImprovementSix Sigma Process Improvement
Easy Quick Reference Guide

Six Sigma Process Improvement removes the mystery from Six Sigma Quality Circle techniques and provides a layman's introduction to begin using the most common and effective techniques for effective process improvement in a concise and easy to use reference manual.
Six Sigma Process Improvement
 

 Interview for Excellence  (Employer Guide)

Interview Skills for EmployersInterview for Excellence
Course Tutorial, Companion Guide Workbook, Interview Excel Tool and Standards of Performance.
Use position descriptions to create Job Requirements. Design a template to track key skills and behavioral traits during the interview process so you can compare results and hire the person best equipped to perform a specific role. Are you getting the best talent for each position? How do you know?
Interview for Excellence
 
 Standards of Performance
Job Position DescriptionsStandards of Performance
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

Create Position Descriptions with Goals, Objectives, Responsibilities, Levels of Authority and Performance Reports. Useful for tracking performance with employees and management, conducting yearly performance appraisals, preparing Job Descriptions for effective Interviews and New Hire Training.
Standards of Performance
 Resume Design Instructions
Resume Design InstructionsResume Design Instructions
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook
Ten Steps to designing a Stellar Resume. Shopping for employment is a hybrid of automated filter applications and "good old fashioned" human interpretation. To be effective you need to design a Resume for all of these areas. This ten step process is intended to provide useful instruction for developing meaningful, accurate and compelling personal profiles.
Resume Design Guide
On-line Guide, "Executive Jobs, A Guide to Managing Your Career,"
Free on-line pocket guide, "Executive Jobs, A Guide to Managing Your Career", is released to celebrate the inauguration of Executive Career Assistance from www.ExecutiveBlueprints.com

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 Communication Skills
CommunicationCommunication Skills
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook
Based on the critically acclaimed seminars of specialist Mitch Simons of the Simons Alliance, this presentation and companion guide were developed specifically for trainers, coaches and consultants. Incredibly powerful instructions for confronting the primal barriers to communication and to openly share fierce conversations. Once the obstacles are identified and removed, open and highly effective communication can occur.
Communication Skills
 Active Listening Skills
Active Listening SkillsActive Listening Skills
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook
Train yourself to hear and Understand Content and Feeling of the speaker's message. Important skill for leaders, managers, sales, customer service and working with colleagues. Course covers Listening Habits, Attending Skills, Reflecting Skills, and Barriers to Effective Communication. Certificate of Completion.
Active Listening Skills
 Change Management
Change ManagementChange Management
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

The Art of Progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Review the rules to change, the challenge and the reaction cycle. Learn how to introduce change, deal with resistance and plan for success. Are you planning properly to cope with change?
Change Management
 Security is a Management Issue
Security is a Management IssueSecurity is a Management Issue
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

This is a short tutorial with a very comprehensive workbook and checklist for managing security, preparing for emergencies, hardware and software integrity, and disaster response. Securing your valuable company data includes preparation for hurricanes, theft, accidents and vandalism. Protect confidential data of your customers and employees, your financial records, and your strategic designs or presentations. Be aware, be prepared, stay alert, take action and enjoy the benefits.
Security is a Management Issue
 
 Ownership and Classification
Ownership and ClassificationOwnership and Classification
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

For anyone who uses a computer, get started on this course right away. It is more than a technical responsibility to protect and defend important data. Defense and protection include much more than Virus Protection, Firewalls and Spyware protection. How to you classify which data is important to your business, contacts or finance, and who owns responsibility for it?
Ownership and Classification

Firewalls, Virus Protection and Spyware Security Keep Intruders Out, Executive Blueprints Offers A Course to Keep Confidential Data In  
Orange County, CA (PRWEB) April 11, 2006 -- Imagine the impact of customer data, financial records or strategic plans in the hands of competitors, disgruntled employees or posted on the Internet. “Ownership and Classification” is a course designed to address this potential devastation.
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 Essential Elements for Marketing
Marketing GuideEssential Elements for Effective Marketing
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

Build your brand or business message with simple and effective checklist. Apply the FABIO Principle to define your products or services. Powerful and easy to use, a necessary cycle for small business owners, web commerce, and entrepreneurs. Are you getting the results that you expected from your marketing dollars?
5 Essential Elements of Marketing
 Investing in Customer Loyalty
Sales GuideInvesting in Customer Loyalty
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

"Customer Loyalty Sales" includes tools to identify current and target markets, define your approach to key decision makers. You will learn the importance of anxiety questions and building credibility, climb the customer loyalty ladder, and understand the cost of customer loyalty by customer type. Use customer information and coordinate your actions. Are your current sales techniques right for your target customers? Do you know the cost of your target markets?
Customer Loyalty = SALES
 Ethics

Creating EthicsCreating Corporate Ethics
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

Follow the step-by-step process to design an Ethics Statement that represents your commitment to your customers, your employees, your shareholders and builds trust. Develop Standards of Conduct to promote a positive and ethical environment with guidelines for decisions and actions. It is more than regulations and compliance, it defines your company character.
ETHICS - Design & Management

 Harassment & Discrimination

Sexual HarassmentHarassment & Discrimination
Course Tutorial and Companion Guide Workbook

An effective Harassment & Discrimination course must encompass harassment, discrimination and retaliation regarding sex, race, religion, age, disabilities and national origin. The course must be interactive, dealing with the issues, avoidance and response. This course includes reference to actual cases, with thought provoking questions and opportunities for discussion.
Harassment & Discrimination

Time Has Run Out for Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Training 
Los Angeles, Calif. (PRWEB) February 28, 2006 -- One study found that 50% of women who filed a Sexual Harassment complaint in California were fired; another 25% resigned due to stress associated with the process of filing the complaint

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All Course Tutorials are Microsoft® Windows based PowerPoint® slideshows. For best results, DOWNLOAD ("SAVE") the file to your computer FIRST. Then click to watch the presentation. It is very fast to watch on your computer, but may be slow to refresh on-line.

All companion guides are provided as Adobe Acrobat files. It is necessary to use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print.

What's a Course Tutorial?
It is a self-paced slide show presentation with review information and instructions to apply activities to your personal needs.

What's a Companion Guide?
This is a documents with reference materials that correspond to the Tutorial. It can be printed and used for making personal notes and participating in activities to relate your individual circumstances or situation to the lessons in the Tutorial. It is recommended that you print the Guide for use while watching the Tutorial.

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Pin-Point Skill Based Courses are designed to be focused on specific topics to minimize time (interruption) and maximize effectiveness. Most courses are designed for 20 - 45 minutes. Time may vary based on personal participation in activities.

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