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In "Achieving Success with the Help of a Mentor," you'll learn how a mentor can help you guide your own career. You'll explore how to build a relationship with your mentor, from setting initial expectations to using effective communication skills. You'll discover what mentors expect of you and how to fulfill those expectations with a positive attitude, positive work habits, and ethical behavior. Finally, you'll learn how to manage your relationship with your mentor to a successful conclusion.
Would a mentoring program give your employees the extra edge they need to succeed? In this course, you'll learn about the purposes, advantages, and procedures involved in developing a mentoring program. You'll examine the program coordinator's role and the guidelines that should be in place before the program begins. You'll learn about selecting and matching mentors and proteges and motivating their progress. Finally, you'll explore how to evaluate the program's effectiveness so it can be fine-tuned for even greater success.
In this course, you will learn more about today's new business environment. You will learn about yourself and how to work with your strengths and weaknesses to improve your position in this new world. You will get a chance to identify your options within the new environment and will learn how to make a plan to get your career on the fast track to success.
This course will show you how to advance on the job by providing you with important information about having a professional image and a successful attitude. You will learn valuable leadership skills and methods for motivating others. You will gain essential problem solving skills and learn strategic guidelines for managing your career.
In this course, you'll sharpen your listening skills and improve your written and oral communication skills as well. Finally, you'll put it all together to produce audience-pleasing presentations. Communicate effectively and you'll move right up the fast track.
In this course, you will focus on the basic skills of decision making, organization, delegation, and negotiation and learn how to apply these skills in getting onto the fast track. Without these skills or the knowledge of how to use them effectively, you're going nowhere fast.
You're not alone in the race, so you'd better learn how to work with others if you want to put your career on the fast track. You have to learn how to establish rapport in order to build and maintain a network of contacts. This network will help you to build effective teams to accomplish the career tasks ahead.
You'll learn how to solicit and give feedback and even learn how to use corrective feedback to your advantage. You'll also get tips on managing your manager, which is no easy task. But if you can achieve that and turn the annual appraisal process into a year-round activity, you'll surely keep yourself on the fast track.
In this course you will be given tips for determining the corporate image you currently have and the one you want to project. Next, you'll learn the subtleties of body language and how to use them. Some ways of making an impression are better than others; you'll learn the ways that are best. Finally, you'll learn the all-important tools that promote powerful communication, self-marketing, and leadership.
Your role: As the Head Buyer for Interlake Printed Circuits, you will work through a series of business-based scenarios, each designed to sharpen your career focus. There are subordinates to manage, conflicts to resolve, goals to meet, and a new manager to win over--all part and parcel of Fast-tracking Your Career. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft Series "Fast-tracking Your Career" and has links to the following courses: PD0131, PD0132, PD0133, PD0134, PD0135 and PD0136.
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