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What you will learn - Learn the Basics of Environmental Audit
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Get BIG Savings with our An Environmental Audit Primer Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
- An Environmental Audit Primer
- Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business
- Balanced Scorecard Basics
- Developing a High Reliability Organization
- Managing Employee Performance
1. An Environmental Audit Primer: Learn the Basics of Environmental Audit
It’s great to have a system in place for making your organization an environmentally sustainable one, but how do you know if that system actually works? Conduct an environmental audit, that’s how. This easy-to-understand course will guide you through the steps to pursue an audit, complete with corrective actions, and a closing meeting.
It’s great to have a system in place for making your organization an environmentally sustainable one, but how do you know if that system actually works? Conduct an environmental audit, that’s how. This easy-to-understand course will guide you through the steps to pursue an audit, complete with corrective actions, and a closing meeting.
2. Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business: Learn Basics Of Corporate Social Responsibility
Today’s leading businesses realize that there is more to their bottom line than financial success. Thriving businesses also ensure that the people and environment in the areas that they operate benefit from their presence. Corporate social responsibility programs and sustainability practices can help build true profitability that incorporates all of these elements.
This course will introduce you to the basics of sustainability and corporate social responsibility using ISO 26000 guidelines as a framework. These principles include organizational governance and ethics, operating practices, human rights and labor practices, environmental awareness and sustainability, consumer issues, and community involvement.
After you complete this Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business course, you will be able to:
- Define sustainability and social responsibility.
- Discuss the principles of social responsibility in business.
- Apply the principles of sustainability and social responsibility in the context of ISO 26000.
- Develop a program for sustainability and social responsibility in business.
3. Balanced Scorecard Basics: Learn the Basics in Balanced Scorecard
Intangible assets (like a company’s reputation, the knowledge base created by their employees, and training initiatives) can make up a huge portion of a company’s wealth. This course will teach you about the balanced scorecard, which can help you measure all aspects of your organization’s success.
You will begin this course by learning what the balanced scorecard is and what types of organizations it is most useful for. Then, you will review some sample scorecards, strategy maps, and tactical action plans. You will also learn how to develop your organization’s mission, vision, and values (which form the basis for the balanced scorecard); a project vision statement; plans to implement the scorecard; and balanced scorecard teams.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define what the balanced scorecard is.
- Identify the benefits of the scorecard.
- Describe the common balanced scorecard pitfalls and how to avoid them.
- Determine if the balanced scorecard is right for your organization.
- Describe the key elements of the balanced scorecard process.
- Identify a strategy map, tactical action plan, and balanced scorecard.
- Create a vision statement for the balanced scorecard.
- Understand what corporate values, mission statements, and vision statements are and how they tie into the balanced scorecard process.
- Identify the components of supporting balanced scorecard plans.
- Understand what processes you will need to support the balanced scorecard.
- Identify the members of different balanced scorecard teams.
4. Developing a High Reliability Organization: Learn What Constitutes A High Reliability Organization
High Reliability Organizations (HROs) are aware of their situations, they take stock of things and take the best approach to deal with trouble before it happens and afterwards as well. This course explores the principles of high reliability, looks at real examples of HROs, and probes the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster to help showcase the principles.
You will learn what constitutes a High Reliability Organization (HRO), the principles behind high reliability and take a look at a real life disaster that could have benefitted from those principles.
5. Managing Employee Performance: Motivate Employees To Go Beyond Their Best
Inspiring someone to be their best is no easy task. How do you manage for optimum performance? How do you create a motivating environment that encourages people to go beyond their best? This course will give you some of those skills.
In this course, you will learn about the Shared Management Model, which helps the manager transfer motivation and responsibility for results to the employee. This course will cover all three phases of the model: preparing the employee for the job, motivating them to do it, and evaluating their performance.
After you complete this Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance course, you will be able to:
- Understand the role of goal setting in performance management.
- Have tools to help your employees set and achieve goals.
- Have a three-phase model that will help you prepare employees for peak performance, activate their inner motivation, and evaluate their skills.
- Have a better knowledge of motivational tools and techniques.
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- Only 6 to 8 hours of study is required per course
- Unlimited lifetime access to course materials
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- You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time
- Certificates
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Courses are accessed online via our learning management system by any device including PC, MAC, tablet or Smart Phone.
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Receive Lifetime Access to Course Materials, so you can review at any time.
An Environmental Audit Primer Online Bundle, 5 Courses includes the following courses, below is a summary of each course:
Course 1 - Certificate In An Environmental Audit Primer Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Pre-Course Assessment
Session 2: Auditing
- Overview
- Types of Audits, Part One
- Types of Audits, Part Two
Session 3: Internal Audit
- Internal Audit
- Auditors
- Preparing and Conducting, Part One
- Preparing and Conducting, Part Two
Session 4: The Audit
- Basics of an Audit
- Identifying, Collecting and Preserving Evidence
- Listening Techniques
- Questioning Techniques
- Questioning Exercise
Session 5: Audit Checklist
- Developing an Audit Checklist
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part One
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part Two
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part Three
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part Four
Session 6: Conducting an Audit
- Conducting the Audit
Session 7: Noncompliance and Corrective Action
- Recording Noncompliance
- Taking Corrective Action
Session 8: Audit Closing
- Closing Meeting
- A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 2 - Certificate In Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment: Definitions
- Pre-Assignment: Why Get Involved?
- Pre-Assignment: Making Connections
Session 2: What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
- A Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Business Challenges
- Frame Your Business Case
- Case Study
- Do You Have To Do It All At Once?
- Pre-Assignment Review
- About the ISO 26000 Standards
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Making Connections
Session 3: Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Program
- Setting Up the Project Vision
- Creating the Project Plan
- Engaging Stakeholders and Employees
- Objective Statements
- Implementation Tips
- Making Connections
- Measuring, Reporting, and Revising
- Making Connections
Session 4: Corporate Social Responsibility Principles
- Due Diligence
- Case Studies
- Making Connections
- Protecting Human Rights
- Human Rights Challenges
- Organizational Governance and Ethics
- ISO 26000 Principles
- Making Connections
- Operating Practices
- Political Considerations
- Human Rights and Labor Practices
- Making Connections
Session 5: Environmental Awareness and Sustainability
- Creating Community
- Making Connections
- Consumer Issues
- Community Involvement
- Making Connections
- Review the List
- Project Plan
Session 6: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 3 - Certificate In Balanced Scorecard Basics Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
Session 2: Understanding the Balanced Scorecard
- What is the Balanced Scorecard?
- Creating a Scorecard
- The Need for the Balanced Scorecard
- Shifting Business
Session 3: The Ingredients for Success
- Is the Balanced Scorecard Right for Us?
- Do You Need a Balanced Scorecard?
- Top Ten Scorecard Pitfalls
- Discussing the Pitfalls
Session 4: Overview of the Balanced Scorecard Process
- The Big Picture
- Sample Strategy Map
- Strategy Map Example
- Sample Balanced Scorecard
- Sample Tactical Action Plan
- Tactical Action Plan Example
Session 5: Creating a Project Vision Statement
- Why We're Doing What We're Doing
- Unified Statement Example
- Making a Statement
Session 6: Understanding Organizational Mission, Vision, and Values
- The Building Blocks for Your Balanced Scorecard
- Looking at Values
- Mission Statement
- Vision Statements
- Analyzing Sample Statements
Session 7: Plans and Processes to Build
- Project Plans
- Communication Plans
- Training Plans
- Building Core Plans: Building a Training Plan
- A Checklist of Processes
- Making the Fit
- Bill the Builder
- Discussing Bill
Session 8: Building Balanced Scorecard Teams
- Executive Team
- Balanced Scorecard Steering Team
- Strategic Teams
- Team Overview
Session 9: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 4 - Certificate In Developing a High Reliability Organization Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Preoccupation with Failure
- Resistance to Simplification
- Sensitivity to Operations
- Commitment to Resilience
- Deference to Expertise
Session 2: What is a High Reliability Organization?
- High Reliability Organizations
- Links in the Chain, Part One
- Links in the Chain, Part Two
- HRO Principles
Session 3: Key Concepts
- Expectations, Normalization, and Mindfulness
- Normalization
- Mindfulness
- Making Connections
- Case Study
Session 4: The Anticipation Principles
- Preoccupation with Failure
- Case Study
- Making Connections
- Resistance to Simplification
- Case Study
- Making Connections
- Sensitivity to Operations
- Case Study
- Making Connections, Part One
- Making Connections, Part Two
Session 5: The Containment Principles
- Commitment to Resilience, Part One
- Commitment to Resilience, Part Two
- Case Study
- Making Connections
- Deference to Expertise
- Case Study
- Making Connections, Part One
- Making Connections, Part Two
Session 6: Auditing for High Reliability
- Auditing Techniques
- Churchill’s Four Questions
- Making Connections
- Sample Audit Questions
Session 7: Test Driving
- Case Study, Part One
- Case Study, Part Two
- Case Study, Part Three
- Task
Session 8: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 5 - Certificate In Managing Employee Performance Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment Questions
Session 2: The Shared Management Model
- What is Performance Management?
- The Rake
- The Shared Management Model
- About The Shared Management Model
Session 3: Setting Goals
- Setting Goals with SPIRIT
- Example: Improving My Performance
- Getting Into It
Session 4: Phase I (Preparation)
- Overview
- Choosing the Right Person for the Job
- Setting Standards
- Effective Training
- Coaching 101
- What Coaching is Not
- What Coaching is Really About
- The Coaching Toolkit
- The Coaching Formula
- Checklist for Success
Session 5: Phase II (Activation)
- Overview
- Motivation
- The Carrot
- The Whip
- The Plant
- Motivation
Session 6: Phase III, Part A (Ongoing Evaluation)
- Overview
- Characteristics of Effective Feedback
- Case Study
- Individual Exercise
- Scenario One
- Scenario Two
- Scenario Three
- Scenario Four
- Scenario Five
- Accepting Criticism
Session 7: Phase III, Part B (Formal Evaluation)
- Overview
- Causes of Poor Performance
- Techniques for Success
- What Not To Do
- Case Study: What Upset John?
- Questions
- About Performance Reviews
- Sample 1
- Sample 2
- Sample 3
- Sample 4
- Sample 5
- Common Questions
Session 8: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
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Microsoft Windows XP, or laterModern and up to date Browser (Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
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All systems
Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
Students will also need access the following applications:
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Requirements
Entry requirements:
Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Minimum education:
Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.
Device requirements:
Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.
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About This Course
What you will learn - Learn the Basics of Environmental Audit
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Get BIG Savings with our An Environmental Audit Primer Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
- An Environmental Audit Primer
- Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business
- Balanced Scorecard Basics
- Developing a High Reliability Organization
- Managing Employee Performance
1. An Environmental Audit Primer: Learn the Basics of Environmental Audit
It’s great to have a system in place for making your organization an environmentally sustainable one, but how do you know if that system actually works? Conduct an environmental audit, that’s how. This easy-to-understand course will guide you through the steps to pursue an audit, complete with corrective actions, and a closing meeting.
It’s great to have a system in place for making your organization an environmentally sustainable one, but how do you know if that system actually works? Conduct an environmental audit, that’s how. This easy-to-understand course will guide you through the steps to pursue an audit, complete with corrective actions, and a closing meeting.
2. Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business: Learn Basics Of Corporate Social Responsibility
Today’s leading businesses realize that there is more to their bottom line than financial success. Thriving businesses also ensure that the people and environment in the areas that they operate benefit from their presence. Corporate social responsibility programs and sustainability practices can help build true profitability that incorporates all of these elements.
This course will introduce you to the basics of sustainability and corporate social responsibility using ISO 26000 guidelines as a framework. These principles include organizational governance and ethics, operating practices, human rights and labor practices, environmental awareness and sustainability, consumer issues, and community involvement.
After you complete this Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business course, you will be able to:
- Define sustainability and social responsibility.
- Discuss the principles of social responsibility in business.
- Apply the principles of sustainability and social responsibility in the context of ISO 26000.
- Develop a program for sustainability and social responsibility in business.
3. Balanced Scorecard Basics: Learn the Basics in Balanced Scorecard
Intangible assets (like a company’s reputation, the knowledge base created by their employees, and training initiatives) can make up a huge portion of a company’s wealth. This course will teach you about the balanced scorecard, which can help you measure all aspects of your organization’s success.
You will begin this course by learning what the balanced scorecard is and what types of organizations it is most useful for. Then, you will review some sample scorecards, strategy maps, and tactical action plans. You will also learn how to develop your organization’s mission, vision, and values (which form the basis for the balanced scorecard); a project vision statement; plans to implement the scorecard; and balanced scorecard teams.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define what the balanced scorecard is.
- Identify the benefits of the scorecard.
- Describe the common balanced scorecard pitfalls and how to avoid them.
- Determine if the balanced scorecard is right for your organization.
- Describe the key elements of the balanced scorecard process.
- Identify a strategy map, tactical action plan, and balanced scorecard.
- Create a vision statement for the balanced scorecard.
- Understand what corporate values, mission statements, and vision statements are and how they tie into the balanced scorecard process.
- Identify the components of supporting balanced scorecard plans.
- Understand what processes you will need to support the balanced scorecard.
- Identify the members of different balanced scorecard teams.
4. Developing a High Reliability Organization: Learn What Constitutes A High Reliability Organization
High Reliability Organizations (HROs) are aware of their situations, they take stock of things and take the best approach to deal with trouble before it happens and afterwards as well. This course explores the principles of high reliability, looks at real examples of HROs, and probes the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster to help showcase the principles.
You will learn what constitutes a High Reliability Organization (HRO), the principles behind high reliability and take a look at a real life disaster that could have benefitted from those principles.
5. Managing Employee Performance: Motivate Employees To Go Beyond Their Best
Inspiring someone to be their best is no easy task. How do you manage for optimum performance? How do you create a motivating environment that encourages people to go beyond their best? This course will give you some of those skills.
In this course, you will learn about the Shared Management Model, which helps the manager transfer motivation and responsibility for results to the employee. This course will cover all three phases of the model: preparing the employee for the job, motivating them to do it, and evaluating their performance.
After you complete this Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance course, you will be able to:
- Understand the role of goal setting in performance management.
- Have tools to help your employees set and achieve goals.
- Have a three-phase model that will help you prepare employees for peak performance, activate their inner motivation, and evaluate their skills.
- Have a better knowledge of motivational tools and techniques.
Receive Lifetime Access to Course Materials, so you can review at any time.
For comprehensive information on units of study click the units of study tab above.
This is an incredible opportunity to invest in yourself and your future, sharpen your training skills and learn what it takes to create your own success with Courses For Success Today!
Course Fast Facts:
- All courses are easy to follow and understand
- Only 6 to 8 hours of study is required per course
- Unlimited lifetime access to course materials
- Study as many courses as you want
- Delivered 100% on-line and accessible 24/7 from any computer or smartphone
- You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time
- Certificates
Course Delivery
Courses are accessed online via our learning management system by any device including PC, MAC, tablet or Smart Phone.
Recognition & Accreditation
The courses offered by Courses For Success are unique as they are taught in a step by step process enabling students to complete them quickly and easily, so that you can obtain your qualification sooner. All students who complete the course receive a certificate of completion. Courses For Success is committed to high completion rates and therefore 100% student satisfaction.
Units of Study
Receive Lifetime Access to Course Materials, so you can review at any time.
An Environmental Audit Primer Online Bundle, 5 Courses includes the following courses, below is a summary of each course:
Course 1 - Certificate In An Environmental Audit Primer Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Pre-Course Assessment
Session 2: Auditing
- Overview
- Types of Audits, Part One
- Types of Audits, Part Two
Session 3: Internal Audit
- Internal Audit
- Auditors
- Preparing and Conducting, Part One
- Preparing and Conducting, Part Two
Session 4: The Audit
- Basics of an Audit
- Identifying, Collecting and Preserving Evidence
- Listening Techniques
- Questioning Techniques
- Questioning Exercise
Session 5: Audit Checklist
- Developing an Audit Checklist
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part One
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part Two
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part Three
- Developing an Audit Checklist, Part Four
Session 6: Conducting an Audit
- Conducting the Audit
Session 7: Noncompliance and Corrective Action
- Recording Noncompliance
- Taking Corrective Action
Session 8: Audit Closing
- Closing Meeting
- A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 2 - Certificate In Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment: Definitions
- Pre-Assignment: Why Get Involved?
- Pre-Assignment: Making Connections
Session 2: What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
- A Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Business Challenges
- Frame Your Business Case
- Case Study
- Do You Have To Do It All At Once?
- Pre-Assignment Review
- About the ISO 26000 Standards
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Making Connections
Session 3: Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Program
- Setting Up the Project Vision
- Creating the Project Plan
- Engaging Stakeholders and Employees
- Objective Statements
- Implementation Tips
- Making Connections
- Measuring, Reporting, and Revising
- Making Connections
Session 4: Corporate Social Responsibility Principles
- Due Diligence
- Case Studies
- Making Connections
- Protecting Human Rights
- Human Rights Challenges
- Organizational Governance and Ethics
- ISO 26000 Principles
- Making Connections
- Operating Practices
- Political Considerations
- Human Rights and Labor Practices
- Making Connections
Session 5: Environmental Awareness and Sustainability
- Creating Community
- Making Connections
- Consumer Issues
- Community Involvement
- Making Connections
- Review the List
- Project Plan
Session 6: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 3 - Certificate In Balanced Scorecard Basics Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
Session 2: Understanding the Balanced Scorecard
- What is the Balanced Scorecard?
- Creating a Scorecard
- The Need for the Balanced Scorecard
- Shifting Business
Session 3: The Ingredients for Success
- Is the Balanced Scorecard Right for Us?
- Do You Need a Balanced Scorecard?
- Top Ten Scorecard Pitfalls
- Discussing the Pitfalls
Session 4: Overview of the Balanced Scorecard Process
- The Big Picture
- Sample Strategy Map
- Strategy Map Example
- Sample Balanced Scorecard
- Sample Tactical Action Plan
- Tactical Action Plan Example
Session 5: Creating a Project Vision Statement
- Why We're Doing What We're Doing
- Unified Statement Example
- Making a Statement
Session 6: Understanding Organizational Mission, Vision, and Values
- The Building Blocks for Your Balanced Scorecard
- Looking at Values
- Mission Statement
- Vision Statements
- Analyzing Sample Statements
Session 7: Plans and Processes to Build
- Project Plans
- Communication Plans
- Training Plans
- Building Core Plans: Building a Training Plan
- A Checklist of Processes
- Making the Fit
- Bill the Builder
- Discussing Bill
Session 8: Building Balanced Scorecard Teams
- Executive Team
- Balanced Scorecard Steering Team
- Strategic Teams
- Team Overview
Session 9: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 4 - Certificate In Developing a High Reliability Organization Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment
- Preoccupation with Failure
- Resistance to Simplification
- Sensitivity to Operations
- Commitment to Resilience
- Deference to Expertise
Session 2: What is a High Reliability Organization?
- High Reliability Organizations
- Links in the Chain, Part One
- Links in the Chain, Part Two
- HRO Principles
Session 3: Key Concepts
- Expectations, Normalization, and Mindfulness
- Normalization
- Mindfulness
- Making Connections
- Case Study
Session 4: The Anticipation Principles
- Preoccupation with Failure
- Case Study
- Making Connections
- Resistance to Simplification
- Case Study
- Making Connections
- Sensitivity to Operations
- Case Study
- Making Connections, Part One
- Making Connections, Part Two
Session 5: The Containment Principles
- Commitment to Resilience, Part One
- Commitment to Resilience, Part Two
- Case Study
- Making Connections
- Deference to Expertise
- Case Study
- Making Connections, Part One
- Making Connections, Part Two
Session 6: Auditing for High Reliability
- Auditing Techniques
- Churchill’s Four Questions
- Making Connections
- Sample Audit Questions
Session 7: Test Driving
- Case Study, Part One
- Case Study, Part Two
- Case Study, Part Three
- Task
Session 8: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Course 5 - Certificate In Managing Employee Performance Online Course
Session 1: Course Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Pre-Assignment Questions
Session 2: The Shared Management Model
- What is Performance Management?
- The Rake
- The Shared Management Model
- About The Shared Management Model
Session 3: Setting Goals
- Setting Goals with SPIRIT
- Example: Improving My Performance
- Getting Into It
Session 4: Phase I (Preparation)
- Overview
- Choosing the Right Person for the Job
- Setting Standards
- Effective Training
- Coaching 101
- What Coaching is Not
- What Coaching is Really About
- The Coaching Toolkit
- The Coaching Formula
- Checklist for Success
Session 5: Phase II (Activation)
- Overview
- Motivation
- The Carrot
- The Whip
- The Plant
- Motivation
Session 6: Phase III, Part A (Ongoing Evaluation)
- Overview
- Characteristics of Effective Feedback
- Case Study
- Individual Exercise
- Scenario One
- Scenario Two
- Scenario Three
- Scenario Four
- Scenario Five
- Accepting Criticism
Session 7: Phase III, Part B (Formal Evaluation)
- Overview
- Causes of Poor Performance
- Techniques for Success
- What Not To Do
- Case Study: What Upset John?
- Questions
- About Performance Reviews
- Sample 1
- Sample 2
- Sample 3
- Sample 4
- Sample 5
- Common Questions
Session 8: A Personal Action Plan
- Starting Point
- Where I Want to Go
- How I Will Get There
Requirements
Entry requirements
Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Minimum education
Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.
Computer requirements
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Minimum specifications for the computer are:
Windows:
Microsoft Windows XP, or laterModern and up to date Browser (Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
MAC/iOS
OSX/iOS 6 or laterModern and up to date Browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
All systems
Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
Students will also need access the following applications:
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Requirements
Entry requirements:
Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Minimum education:
Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.
Device requirements:
Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.
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Of course, you will need to be able to self-manage your time and be organized, but with our help, you’ll soon find yourself settling into a comfortable rhythm of study.
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Please also check the course summary, as a small selection of courses have limited access.
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