Business Practices and Strategies Presented by Deming, TCB, and Forbes
Forbes – Profit from the Core: Finding and Defining Opportunities for Growth with Christopher Zook
Length: 1.5 hour
In this course, Bain & Co. director Christopher Zook personally explains how to define your company’s competitive advantage and identify its core business in order to discover and evaluate opportunities for expansion. For that learners that choose to dig deeper, Zook’s explanation is complemented by a sizeable mine of case studies-some original other culled from Forbes’ vast archives—and an interactive action plan designed to help you access your organizations’ need and potential. This course is designed it help supervisors, managers, and directors that want to make a difference in their organization.
The Conference Board – An Introduction to Managing
Changes
Length: 1 hour
Produced in association with The Conference Board, “An Introduction to Managing Change” introduces learners to several common causes of change and to basic guidelines for dealing with change successfully. Users will learn though a series of engaging explanations, case studies, and interactions. This course is for anyone interested in preparing for, communicating, and manipulating change rather than simply reacting to it. This induces managers, supervisors, team leaders, trainers, and human resource personnel.
The Conference Board – How to Build High-Performance
Teams
Length: 1 hour
Produced in association with The Conference Board, Corpedia’s “How to Build High-Performance Teams” introduces learners to basic team-building concepts, strategies, tools, and techniques. Users will learn through a series of engaging explanations, case studies, interactions, and links. This course is recommended for anyone interested in the team building process, including: functional managers, departmental supervisors, team leaders, team members, and human resources trainers.
The Conference Board – Managing Through a Volatile
Economy
Length: 1 hour
Produced in association with The Conference Board, :Managing Though A Volatile Economy” teaches that economic turbulence represents not so much a threat, but a series of opportunities to tighten up loose business practices and cut the fat from your organization’s processes. Its goal is to help managers move beyond defensive, tactical responses and toward the consideration and enactment of aggressive, strategic plans. To facilitate this goal, we have collected the insights of some of the worlds’ most respected business leaders, thinkers, and journalists, and have combined them with our own research into one concise resource. This course is designed to help anyone interested in ensuring his or her organizations’ long-term success in the face of a volatile economy.
Dr. W. Edwards Deming: His Life and Works
Length: 1.5 hour
In this course, Drs. Mark Tager and Harry Woodward demonstrate seven skills for sustaining productivity through times of stress and change. As a leader, you need to win the hearts, minds, and spirits of those who look to you for vision and direction. The course presents practical strategies for managing yourself and others and focuses on the interplay of change management, stress management, leadership, and well-being.
Forbes – Profit from the Core: Finding and Defining Opportunities for Growth with Christopher Zook
