Business Skills Training, Class & Course Information

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Class Price:
All public classes listed below are priced as follows: $595 for two-day classes  and $250 for one day classes (9am to 4pm). For volume discounts, read more >>

Business Skills Training Short Descriptions

Public Speaking- Business Presentations and PowerPoint
Without a dynamic and coherent presentation, even stellar ideas can fail to convince your audience. In this course, you will learn active listening skills to facilitate the exchange of ideas in meetings and presentations. You will also organize your ideas to create coherent and convincing oral presentations, while also utilizing available visual aids and using public-speaking techniques to strengthen your delivery. You will also learn several Microsoft PowerPoint techniques and use them in the second day as you make another prepared presentation.
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Effective Business Writing
Though businesses increasingly rely on technology, technological skills alone do not guarantee success in the workplace. You must still develop your ideas, express them clearly, and persuade others of their viability. This course offers effective strategies to sharpen your writing skills by structuring your ideas logically, exercising diplomacy in letters and reports, and shaping your arguments.
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Negotiating Skills
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: prepare to negotiate in a business environment ; initiate negotiations and follow through on their results; negotiate with your partner; follow through on a completed business negotiation; negotiate in unique business circumstances.
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Problem-Solving Skills
In a corporate environment, using specialized groups to solve problems is becoming more and more common. Being able to work in groups to solve problems will enhance your business knowledge and value to the organization. This course will show you the fundamentals of problem-solving skills—from defining your problem, to presenting it to the key decision makers in your organization.
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Project Management Fundamentals
This course overviews the basics of project management. It provides the theory and core methodology you will need to manage projects or participate on project teams.  This course does not make use of any project management software application, but instead focuses on the conceptual underpinnings that students must know in order to use any project management software application effectively.
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Quickbooks Introduction & Intermediate
This course is an introduction on how to use QuickBooks to best meet the needs of your business. The main objective is to introduce you to QuickBooks?s basic features and give you an opportunity for hands-on practice. You will learn about the types of information you need to track in your business, and how to enter that information and track it in QuickBooks. By the time you complete the course, you will have a good idea of how an accounting software package can save time and help organize business finances. When you are ready to use QuickBooks, you will be familiar with the most common tasks and will know where to find information about more advanced features.
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Introduction
In the past, you have used paper-based overhead systems to give presentations. Now, you want to upgrade those presentations to an electronic format. You can use Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 to give electronic presentations.
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Intermediate
As a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 user familiar with the basics, you're able to convey information clearly without much glitz. That's okay, but you can do better?audiences expect more than the basics. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into those with a powerful means of communication.
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Introduction
In today's work environment, presentations have moved far beyond flip charts and overhead projectors. Audiences not only expect that your presentations are in an electronic format, but they also demand that your presentations be unique and sophisticated in their use of such formats. In this course, you will work with Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to create electronic presentations.
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Intermediate
As a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 user, you are familiar with the basics of creating a presentation, and you are able to convey information effectively in a simple way. Static content in presentations, however, will not keep your audience interested. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into a powerful means of communication.
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Microsoft Project 2003 Introduction & Intermediate
This course will use Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 as a tool to assist in managing projects. The topics in this course cover the critical skills necessary to create and modify a project plan file that contains tasks, resources, and resource assignments.
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Microsoft Project 2007 Introduction & Intermediate
You need to gather information about the various tasks involved, resources required to accomplish the tasks, and the overall cost in order to plan a project. Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2007 acts as a tool that assists you in managing your projects. In this course, you will create and modify a project plan.
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