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Catalogs

Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Customer Management	1.00	This course will teach you about handling dissatisfied customers. You will learn how to maintain composure and be professional through both verbal and nonverbal communication. You’ll learn the difference between upset and angry customers and how to handle each. With angry customers, you will learn how to listen, remain calm, avoid negative filters, and express empathy. Then, with upset customers, you’ll be taught methods for making your service to them more effective. Finally, you will learn how to manage, recognize, and reduce your own stress to better serve your customers.
Customer Service Fundamentals	1.00	In this course, you will learn about the importance of customer service and the pitfalls to avoid when providing customer service. This includes how to identify types of customers and their needs. Then, you’ll learn about building rapport with your customers through good customer service habits. Part of building rapport includes effective communication with customers, including how to correct a customer, the importance of body language and tone, and about telephone etiquette. You’ll learn how to respond to your customers and how to use questions. Then, you will be instructed about how to accentuate the positive and provide proactive service. Finally, you will learn how to surpass expectations by going the extra mile for the customer.
Customer Service Skills	1.00	This course will help you develop customer service skills by teaching you how to develop and maintain a positive attitude. You will learn how to use motivation to improve customer service skills, and will go through the seven steps in the customer service process. Finally, you will discover how to react to customers’ problems and learn from them.
Customer Service: Customer Service Basics	0.75	It is amazing how much time, effort, and money is invested in sales education. However, customer service is not given the same level of resources. If you think about selling as a process, the final phase is not closing the sale, it’s serving the customer. After an effective sales process awards you a new customer, it is customer service that will determine whether your customer stays with you.
Customer Service: Customer Service Skills	1.00	A great customer service representative should have skills in three key areas: organization (time and stress management), motivation (letting customers know you care), and communication (vocal, verbal, and visual). The core strength of a good customer service rep is sound knowledge of the organization’s products and services.
Customer Service: Greeting Customers	1.00	Answering the phone when you know that you might be on the wrong end of a verbal confrontation is difficult, but it’s the first step in dealing with customer service issues. How you answer the phone will set a tone with the customer on the other end. Greeting a customer requires much more than a simple “Hello, how can I help you?”
Customer Service: Listening and Questioning	0.75	This topic will discuss the various types of listening: passive, selective, and active. You will learn that paraphrasing or summarizing what the customer says is a good way to confirm what you hear. In this course, you will also learn about questioning and the types of questions that are used to elicit the information you want from customers. There are four types of questions: open-ended, closed, alternative-choice, and clarifying. This course will also discuss the examination process that can be used to understand the customer’s problem and prescribe a realistic solution.
Customer Service: Responding	1.00	After the greeting, listening, and questioning phases, the next phase is responding to a customer. Once you clearly understand a situation, your response will set the tone for the interaction. Without handling situations properly and without the right level of care, you can upset customers and ultimately drive them away. Responses must be timely and within expectations. If a customer is discussing a problem with you, then you know that at least one of that person’s expectations has not been met.
Customer Service: Using What You've Learned	0.25	This course will provide you with the information and—we hope—the inspiration to improve your customer service skills and work toward personal success. The final two steps are up to you: You must implement what you have learned, and continue to work on improving your skills.
Draft Presentation: Storyboard of Results	1.00	Your boss has asked you to present the results of your behavioral inquiry at a staff meeting. How do you tell the story of your project, providing enough detail so they will understand, but not too much so they will be able to focus on how this relates to the decision at hand? Listen to a research team present their draft presentation and offer suggestions about how this could be improved to enhance communication. Pick up some creative tips and offer a few of your own.
Drug-Free Workplace	0.50	This course covers the impact of substance abuse in the workplace, signs and symptoms of substance abuse, and how substance abuse affects those around you. After introducing substance abuse and its warning signs, you will learn about treatment and assistance options for employees, and what will remain confidential and what will not.
E-Mail Etiquette: Composing Online Correspondence	1.50	It’s important for e-mail messages to be written well because they can determine your company’s success or failure. A poorly written e-mail message could give co-workers and management a bad impression of your own work habits. An effectively written e-mail message, however, is easy to understand, encourages action, and gives others a good impression of your overall job performance.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Basics	1.00	E-commerce has become one of the most effective ways of doing business. Most companies conduct some of their communications online, so it is important for their employees to write effective electronic mail, or e-mail, messages. E-mail is the exchange of text messages by using computers. To send e-mail messages, users need to type in the address of the person to whom they want to send the message, write the message, and click "Send."
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Effectiveness	0.50	In this unit, you will learn the importance of considering the recipient before writing an e-mail; the factors to be considered before writing a message, such as your relationship with the recipient, the subject, and the purpose of writing the message; and how to effectively compose messages, anticipating negative recipient reactions such as skepticism and apathy. Finally, you will learn about managing your e-mail, checking your e-mail, handling large volumes of e-mail, helping others manage their e-mail volume, and setting the e-mail program to respond automatically.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Features and Security	0.50	In this unit, you will learn about the features of e-mail programs. You will learn about the importance of attachments and identified the guidelines for attaching files to e-mail messages. You will also learn to prioritize messages by labeling them. This course will cover how to create signature files. You will also learn some important features of e-mail include folders, filters, address book, and the print feature. You will also learn that e-mail messages can be tracked, searched, and downloaded. Finally, you will learn about securing your messages, encrypting messages, and using digital signatures. You will also learn the importance of creating effective passwords to prevent others from reading or altering your e-mail.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Messages	0.50	In this course, you will learn how to take advantage of the headers in e-mail messages. You will learn about the “To” field, in which you should type the recipient’s e-mail address. You will also learn when to send carbon copies and blind carbon copies of messages. You will learn the importance of writing a proper subject field for e-mail messages and that the header also includes the date and time of sending messages. Finally, you will learn how to construct the body of an e-mail message, add a personal touch to your messages by including a proper greeting, relay information by placing it in the appropriate order, and use different types of lists effectively. You learned the correct way to write long e-mail messages to keep recipients interested in the information and how to effectively close e-mail messages.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Policies	0.75	There is an unprecedented amount of documented information available today. An offensive or improper e-mail sent to one person can be copied and sent to many users. It’s important that employees familiarize themselves with and follow their organization’s e-mail policy because employers can be held liable for employee e-mail use.
E-Mail Etiquette: Netiquette Guidelines	0.50	E-mail, a relatively new way of communicating, has changed the culture of communication. Online communication has its own rules regarding acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Netiquette refers to the set of rules you should follow when communicating online.
Employee Performance: Communication	1.00	Communication is effective when a listener clearly understands a speaker’s message. Good communication fosters a productive exchange of ideas while minimizing the possibility of confusion or misunderstanding. When trying to communicate with a difficult employee, you must be willing to work with that person to correct the problematic behavior. Openly discussing the behavior can help you find a mutually acceptable solution. In this course you will learn to: communicate clearly and effectively by using verbal and nonverbal communication, and improve your listening skills, and communicate with difficult supervisors and coworkers, take a proactive approach when dealing with difficult employees, and identify types of employee dismissals.
Employee Performance: Conflicts	0.67	In any organization, there are individuals with unique personalities and responsibilities. Conflicts are an inevitable part of employee interaction. Knowing how to resolve conflicts when they arise is vital to the well-being of any company. In this course you will learn to: identify common myths associated with workplace conflicts, common reasons that conflicts arise, and types of workplace conflict, and distinguish between conflict management and conflict resolution.
Employee Performance: Feedback	1.67	Giving feedback facilitates organizational growth and development. Feedback helps improve job performance while promoting professional and personal growth in employees. Managers who know how to give feedback allow employees to advance themselves and grow as individuals and workers. Through proper guidance, employees acquire the necessary skills to meet their job requirements. Feedback helps build interpersonal relationships between managers and employees, while improving their self-esteem and job satisfaction. In this course you will learn to: identify the focus of feedback, and give and receive feedback effectively, provide positive and constructive feedback, monitor performance after providing feedback, identify communication styles, and manage difficult feedback sessions, and identify when to avoid giving feedback.
Employee Performance: Managing Difficult Employees	1.00	A difficult employee is one whose attitude or behavior is detrimental to an organization. Typically, difficult people are aware of their behavior, but rarely care that their attitude hampers their productivity, or affects the success of their organization. However, it’s important to remember that a difficult person is not necessarily an individual whom you dislike. Occasionally, the difficulty might not be the individual’s behavior but might instead be your perception of their behavior. In this course you will learn to: recognize the impact that difficult people can have on an organization, manage a difficult person, and identify difficult personality types, address difficult employees, and mitigate their behavior, and monitor the behavior of a difficult employee, and document ongoing changes in behavior and performance.
Employee Performance: Resolving Conflicts	1.50	Understanding the different styles of conflict resolution can help you identify the most appropriate process to use when addressing conflicts in the workplace. There are two general types of conflict resolution: indirect and direct. In this course you will learn to: identify conflict resolution styles, resolve conflicts in the workplace, resolve team conflicts, and identify the communication skills required to resolve conflicts.
Engaging Your Employees in a World Famous Way	1.00	Engaged employees are not just committed. They are not just passionate or proud. They have a line-of-sight on their own future and on the organization's mission, vision, and goals. They are "enthused" and "in gear," using their talents and discretionary effort to make a difference in their employer's quest for sustainable business success. Join us for this ENGAGING webinar on how the World Famous San Diego Zoo proactively turned Employee Engagement into a top organization objective - with stunning results!
Generational Differences - Managing The Complexity	1.00	Could dealing with people get any more difficult? Today’s business environment brings many challenges with four different generations working together for the first time. Communication, respect, recognition, retention, interaction with others, and work life balance mean something different to each generation. If not understood and managed effectively workplace conflict, poor communication, low morale, and high turnover can occur. Understand and discover the key values and contributions among these four generations. Each generation provides intrinsic value to an organization. You will learn how to capitalize on the strengths of the Traditionalists, the Baby Boomer’s, Generation X, or the Millennial Generation (Gen Y). By implementing effective strategies for communication, recognition, development, retention, and leadership you will uncover the hidden talents of each generation while minimizing the risk of knowledge transfer. You will learn the key generational differences and similarities in each of these areas. Join us as we share with you some of the many generational challenges in today’s work environment.