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Project Teams: Conducting Team Meetings (Instructor Guide) |
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You should hold regular project team meetings in order to maximize the effectiveness of a project.
After the team has been assigned, you should schedule an introductory meeting, and set team goals. The purpose of an introductory meeting is to familiarize team members with each other, introduce the facilitator and recorder, and clarify questions that team members might have.
In this course you will learn to: identify the various roles in project team meetings and maximize the effectiveness of team meetings, understand the goal setting process in introductory meetings, and identify various issues that a team might face during team meetings.
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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Quality Management: Causes Of Problems (Instructor Guide) |
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In this course you will learn to: create and interpret a cause-and-effect diagram, create and analyze a Pareto chart, create and interpret a scatter diagram, and create an interrelationship diagram and use it to identify root causes.
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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Quality Management: Ideas and Organization (Instructor Guide) |
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Brainstorming works best when used by a group of four to nine people. When brainstorming, team members’ goals should be to break their existing patterns of thought by generating original and creative ideas.
In this course you will learn to: sequence and follow the steps for brainstorming, identify the purpose of affinity diagrams, construct activity network diagrams, and identify the benefits of using CPM and PERT charts to understand the critical path of a project.
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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Quality Management: Preparing to Change Processes (Instructor Guide) |
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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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Quality Management: A Path for Change (Instructor Guide) |
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In this course you will learn to: identify the qualifications and responsibilities of a process manager, as well as the steps for establishing a process improvement team, and use flow charts in business process improvement.
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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Quality Management: Implementing Quality Changes (Instructor Guide) |
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Understanding a process is the only way a process improvement team can effectively improve the process. The team must understand how the process currently functions before they can identify problems. In addition, in order to understand how potential changes will affect the process, the team needs to understand specific elements of the process, as well as the process as a whole.
In this course you will learn to: identify the elements of a process, as well as techniques used to streamline a process, and measure various aspects of a process.
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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Employee Performance: Communication (Instructor Guide) |
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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.
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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Employee Performance: Conflicts (Instructor Guide) |
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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.
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: Communicating in a Project Team (Instructor Guide) |
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Although most people think of communication as the act of speaking, the act of receiving a message, or listening, is an extremely vital part of communication. Seventy to 90 percent of your time is spent listening, not speaking. Active listening includes not only hearing words that are spoken, but interpreting the verbal message and nonverbal communication as well.
During a project team meeting, you need to communicate with clarity to ensure that the entire team understands what is said.
In this course you will learn to: use good listening skills when communicating within a project team, understand and use good verbal communication skills and empowerment to communicate effectively within a project team, and receive and give feedback.
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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Employee Performance: Managing Difficult Employees (Instructor Guide) |
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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.
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. |
