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The telephone can be your greatest friend or your worst enemy. It all depends on how you use it!You would be surprised at the number of times the telephone either makes or breaks the customer relationship. How it can make things so much better or make them so much worse. Often it is just one simple word or action that makes the whole difference!Communicating over the phone is so much different than face to face communications. There are different things we need to pay atten...

If you are designing a training program for the first time, this practical book is for you. Part of ATD’s Training Basics series, it zeroes in on how to design successful training for the face-to-face or virtual classroom. It also serves as a guide for developing self-study training programs, such as online tutorials and workbooks.Internationally renowned workplace learning expert and educator Saul Carliner not only delves into the analysis and evaluation phases of training design—...

Every year, millions of managers and supervisors get promoted into management positions without learning how to successfully lead a team. As a result, many of them find themselves at the top of the corporate ladder while lacking the requisite training to lead. And even for those who have been leaders for a while, they may not truly understand why building their skills as managers should be their number one priority.Aimed primarily at helping first-line supervisors and mid-level man...

Writer's face infinite possibilities--and hard decisions. To succeed, you must understand business from the point of view as a businessperson, not an employee.This concise volume guides you through the transition from thinking like an employee to thinking like an author-entrepeneur, and gives you the tools you need to grow your fiction writing from a hobby to a life-sustaining career.

As teachers, we have spent years perfecting our craft and becoming the CEO our classrooms. As the CEO of your classroom, you have developed many of the skills that it takes to run a successful small business. You have the ability to develop both long and short term plans, you have excellent presentation and public speaking skills, you can manage both small and large groups of people, and you understand how to get people excited about a particular topic or help people solve problems. These ...

School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by helping children enroll on time complete their education and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit the poor sick and hungry children far more that better-off children. However poor children can only benefit if the programs reach them...

"1. National figures reveal that the probability of a youth offender on probation committing another crime is 0.80.  (This is called “recidivism.”) After a special government program intended to reduce recidivism is put in place, a sample of 100 young offenders enrolled in the program reveals that 70 subsequently committed another crime. You are asked to make a judgment about whether the government funds invested in this program have succeeded in reducing crime. a. State t...

Help the world bridge the digital divide by learning an easy-to-use method that allows everyone to enjoy the benefits of the Internet using just a phone and their voice. Computer and technology expert Emdad Khan pinpoints the factors that affect the use of technology, including the language divide. While the English-speaking world dominates the Internet, its possible for all people to reap its benefits using just their voice in their native language. The Voice Internet ushers in a new era ...

The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations. Their varied knowledge requirements influence approaches to organizational structure, relationships to other organizations, the location of operations, and entry into new markets. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary team of leading scholars examines the attributes of knowledge acquisition and diffusion within and across service-pr...