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Budgeting: Variances, Forecasts, and Action Plans |
0.75 |
Budgets are rarely perfect, and variances will occur. To avoid significant problems or missed opportunities, you should study all variances to determine their causes and possible effects. Some variances are favorable, while others are not. You can use variances in year-to-date figures for sales, materials, labor, and to project more accurate forecasts for the rest of the year. |
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Budgeting: Capital Budgets |
1.00 |
Budgets represent how a company will use its resources to accomplish its goals. To achieve some goals, companies need to invest in new facilities or expensive equipment. These items, which will help produce income over a number of years, are planned for in capital budgets. Capital budgets have their own terminology with which you will need to be familiar in order to plan well and make good decisions. Depreciating is one of the central concepts in capital budgeting. |
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Project Teams: Preparing Teams for Project Work (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
Building a project team is more complex than assigning employees to the team. Team members must feel a sense of dedication to other team members, as well as to the project itself. Members who are not dedicated to the project team often disregard meetings, deadlines, and commitments, causing the entire team to suffer. To avoid these problems, the team managers and supervisors need to encourage team building to benefit the project, the team members, and the organization.
In this course you will learn to: empower and motivate a project team and develop positive culture in a project team, identify the causes of change in a team and manage change, and improve existing project teams.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Project Teams: Preparing Teams for Project Work |
1.00 |
Building a project team is more complex than assigning employees to the team. Team members must feel a sense of dedication to other team members, as well as to the project itself. Members who are not dedicated to the project team often disregard meetings, deadlines, and commitments, causing the entire team to suffer. To avoid these problems, the team managers and supervisors need to encourage team building to benefit the project, the team members, and the organization.
In this course you will learn to: empower and motivate a project team and develop positive culture in a project team, identify the causes of change in a team and manage change, and improve existing project teams. |
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Business Communication |
1.00 |
Business communication is best described as the process of sharing information for the benefit of a business. It's generally categorized as being either internal or external. Internal communication, as the name suggests, is when a business shares information within its organization. External communication is when a business shares information outside of its organization, either to clients, customers or vendors.
In this course, you'll learn about the influence of body language, the essentials of business writing, and more, as they relate to communicating in the business world. |
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Quality Management: Preparing to Change Processes |
0.75 |
Business process improvement is a basic managerial responsibility. Just as managers are responsible for employee performance appraisals and budgeting, they are also responsible for making continual improvements in their division or department.
Because improving business processes is an ongoing effort, management needs to control and coordinate processes to ensure their success. In addition, employees who are affected by improvement changes need active support from management.
In this course you will learn to: identify management goals in preparation to lead business process improvement, as well as plan improvements. |
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Quality Management: Preparing to Change Processes (Instructor Guide) |
0.75 |
Business process improvement is a basic managerial responsibility. Just as managers are responsible for employee performance appraisals and budgeting, they are also responsible for making continual improvements in their division or department.
Because improving business processes is an ongoing effort, management needs to control and coordinate processes to ensure their success. In addition, employees who are affected by improvement changes need active support from management.
In this course you will learn to: identify management goals in preparation to lead business process improvement, as well as plan improvements.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Correcting Performance Problems: Providing Feedback To Employees (Instructor Guide) |
0.84 |
By addressing employees who have performance problems, you can help them make positive changes, encourage career advancement, and promote personal and professional growth. Addressing an employee involves providing the feedback necessary to improve performance.
In this course you will learn to: prepare to conduct a feedback session in which you encourage communication with the employee, and conduct a constructive feedback session with an employee who has a performance problem.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Correcting Performance Problems: Providing Feedback To Employees |
0.84 |
By addressing employees who have performance problems, you can help them make positive changes, encourage career advancement, and promote personal and professional growth. Addressing an employee involves providing the feedback necessary to improve performance.
In this course you will learn to: prepare to conduct a feedback session in which you encourage communication with the employee, and conduct a constructive feedback session with an employee who has a performance problem. |
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Social-Emotional Learning, Character Building & Enhancing Quality |
2.00 |
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Strengthen your understanding of the social-emotional learning and character building that expanded learning programs support.
Be able to articulate what social-emotional learning and character development looks like in children and youth.
Identify the connection between quality standards and social-emotional learning and character development. |
