Management Training Courses Online

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The following management training courses are available online:

• Project Management Overview provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management.
• Understanding the Project Manager's Role explains the role of the project manager and the traits and abilities he or she must have to be effective.
• Defining the Problem describes the importance of specifically narrowing down the problem statement.
• Determining the Strategy defines strategy, describes methods to generate and rank a strategies list, and explains the importance of risk and contingency planning.
• Developing the Work Breakdown Structure describes how to create and organize project tasks by developing the work breakdown structure and a network diagram.
• Estimating and Scheduling Resources explains estimating and scheduling concepts.
• Tracking Project Activities describes the control phase of a project and provides guidelines on how to effectively control a project.
• Closing Out explains the close-out phase and describes the activities that must be performed during this phase.
• Formalizing Standards provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management.
• Developing Teams describes team dynamics and provides guidelines on how to effectively build a team.
• Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness gives tips on how to be a more effective project manager.

After completing management tutorials, the user should be able to:

• Describe aspects of the project management process
• Identifying goals and objectives
• Developing a work breakdown structure
• Establishing baseline plans
• Using schedule and cost control techniques
• Allocating resources
• Evaluating progress
• Reporting and documenting results
• Using manual or automated systems
• Apply basic concepts and techniques in project situations
• Improve performance under pressure
• Use specific techniques to increase commitment, confidence and control
• Practice mental and physical exercises in order to identify and cope with stress
• Recognize factors causing stress
• Understand the effect stress has on health
• Identify ineffective methods for coping with stress and practice effective ones
• Identify the dangers and myths of the perfect time manager
• Define effective time usage and efficient time usage
• Evaluate how you spend your time at work
• Identify environmental productivity influences
• Utilize brainstorming techniques
• Develop action-oriented objectives
• Rank your objectives in priority order
• Develop a plan to create uninterrupted time
• Keep and analyze a time log
• Organize and prioritize tasks to reach goals
• Make use of time blocks and minimize interruptions
• Control small meetings
• Plan and maximize effectiveness of larger meetings
• Establish recurring meetings
• Manage the flow of paperwork
• Make the most of time on the phone
• Use electronic mail effectively
• Handle procrastination
• Communicate effectively with co-workers
• Manage interruptions

Our courses have special design features listed below:

• Certificates of Completion
• Instructional steps -- walk through a procedure
• Exercises -- try it out
• Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
• Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
• Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
• Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
• Hotwords - See related information
• Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
• Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
• Printable Exercises - PDF downloadable files
• Sample Application Files - PDF downloadable files
• Glossary
• Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.

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