Your Career on the Fast Track Training from CBT Direct

Your Career on the Fast Track Curriculum Outline

Get Your Career on the Fast Track

Overview/Description
Everyone has seen those TV shows from the 50s. The fathers went to work, worked hard, and got ahead. These people were your role models, your guides to succeeding in business. But if thats not happening, you ask yourself, Why not? The world is different now. Instead of job security, you need to focus on career security. In this course, you will learn more about todays 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.

Target Audience
Anyone who wants to advance his or her career

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Todays Business Environment

Recognize the importance of learning new approaches to working in the new business environment.

Identify the strategies for adding value to work.

Select examples of the ways to work within the new loyalty framework.

Identify examples of the ways to work from home while fast-tracking a career.

Know Yourself

Recognize the benefits of identifying motivators and attributes when making career plans.

Select the ways to use motivators to achieve goals on the fast track.

Select examples of the ways that strengths can be applied to fast-tracking a career.

Identify examples of the ways of dealing with weaknesses.

Identify Your Options

Recognize the importance of exploring all potential career options.

Identify the tips for successful in-house job changes.

Identify the ways to make lateral moves within an organization to fast track the learners career.

Identify the examples of ways to successfully move on to a different employer.

Making a Promotional Plan

Recognize the benefits of having a promotional plan.

Select the approaches to creating and implementing an effective promotional plan.

Identify examples of the ways to keep motivated.

Identify examples of the elements of successfully asking for assignments.

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Communication Skills to Fast-track Your Career

Overview/Description
When it comes to communication, are you a high-speed modem or two tin cans and a string? If you want to put your career on the fast track, youll have to communicate with the best of them. In this course, youll sharpen your listening skills and improve your written and oral communication skills as well. Finally, youll put it all together to produce audience-pleasing presentations. Communicate effectively and youll move right up the fast track.

Target Audience
People who want to advance their careers

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Are You Listening?

Recognize the benefits of learning strong listening skills.

Identify the ways to prepare to listen better.

Apply knowledge of listening skills to identify the examples of steps to better listening.

Identify the examples of ways to apply listening skills to improve job performance.

Improve Your Written Communication

Recognize the importance of developing superior written communication skills.

Identify the steps to writing effectively before writing a single word.

Identify the examples of rules for effective written communication.

Identify the ways to use e-mail effectively.

Important Aspects of Oral Communication

Recognize the value of developing strong oral communication skills.

Apply knowledge about the listening techniques for breaking through listening barriers to certain scenarios.

Apply knowledge of the use of body language to reinforce verbal messages in certain scenarios.

Apply knowledge of the techniques that improve telephone communications to specific scenarios.

Polishing Your Presentation Skills

Recognize the benefits of developing presentation skills.

Select the questions that help identify an attention-grabbing hook.

Use knowledge of the steps to create a solid impromptu speech to select appropriate behaviors for presentations.

Identify the tips for improving public speaking performance.

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Interpersonal Skills on the Fast Track

Overview/Description
Youre not alone in the race, so youd 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. And you must know how to lead these teams to ensure success and pull ahead of the pack on the fast track.

Target Audience
Anybody who wants to advance his career

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Building Rapport and Credibility

Recognize the value of learning how to build strong relationships.

Select tips for establishing rapport.

Choose ways to build workplace relationships.

Select ways to reinforce dignity and respect in a given business scenario.

Working Your Network

Recognize the importance of learning how to develop and maintain a contact network.

Select the tips for getting a network started.

Choose the strategies for maintaining a network.

Identify the ways to become a most-desired commodity.

Team Up for Success

Recognize the value of learning how to build strong teams.

Select the tips for finding the best team members.

Identify ways to keep a teams interest.

Choose the ways to get the most out of a team.

Lead the Way

Recognize the benefits of learning how to be an effective leader.

Choose the ways to become an exceptional leader.

Identify ways to focus on others to become an exceptional leader.

Select the examples of applying leadership skills.

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The Boss Factor

Overview/Description
Your boss can make or break you, so you better find out how to work effectively with her. You must first build rapport and continue to develop it. Along the way, youll learn how to solicit and give feedback and even learn how to use corrective feedback to your advantage. Youll 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, youll surely keep yourself on the fast track.

Target Audience
Employees who want to advance their careers

Expected Duration
3.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Building Rapport with Your Boss

Recognize the importance of learning how to build a positive relationship with your boss.

Select ways to become aligned with your boss.

Select examples of ways to build a successful relationship with a boss.

Identify examples of ways to fine-tune a relationship with a boss.

Feedback and Forth

Recognize the value of learning how to give feedback to and receive feedback from your boss.

Choose tips for soliciting feedback from your boss.

Identify examples of dealing effectively with corrective feedback.

Select ways to give feedback to a boss.

Using Emotional Intelligence

Recognize the importance of using your emotional intelligence when dealing with your boss.

Identify ways to improve self-understanding.

Choose examples of ways to build work relationships.

Use strategies for negotiating a better relationship.

Make the Most of Your Performance Appraisal

Recognize the value of learning how to manage the performance-appraisal process on a year-round basis.

Select tips for using the performance appraisal to the best advantage.

Select examples of how to implement the periodic appraisal strategy.

Identify examples of methods to help control the damage of a bad appraisal.

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Improving Your Image

Overview/Description
Lee Iacocca. Madeleine Albright. Colin Powell. Are these people who suffer from an image problem? Hardly. Do you think they were born projecting the strong, self-assured images they do? Probably not. Like other powerful leaders in business, government, and the military, they likely received training in how to project, how to impress, how to lead. A confident, positive self image is no less crucial to putting your career on the fast track. This course, Improving Your Image, will teach you how to develop such an image. First, you will be given tips for determining the corporate image you currently have and the one you want to project. Next, youll learn the subtleties of body language and how to use them. Some ways of making an impression are better than others; youll learn the ways that are best. Finally, youll learn the all-important tools that promote powerful communication, self-marketing, and leadership.

Target Audience
Employees who want to advance their careers

Expected Duration
3.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Determining Your Business Image Needs

Recognize the importance of improving personal image.

Identify tips for developing a healthy self-image.

Identify ways to determine ones existing image.

Identify ways to create the image you want.

Learning Body Speak

Recognize the importance of learning the techniques of effective body language.

Identify the significance of hand gestures.

Identify the significance of eye contact, facial expressions, and voice tone.

Identify ways to successfully use body language and clothing.

Best Ways To Make a Good Impression

Recognize the importance of learning how to make a good impression.

Assess the chances of successful risk-taking in particular business scenarios.

Apply the appropriate decision-making step when presented with the process in a given business scenario.

Use the appropriate method to show empathy in role-play scenarios.

Effective Self-marketing Strategies

Recognize the importance of being able to market yourself.

Identify components of effective speaking and listening to communicate with power.

Analyze business scenarios to determine if ideas have been adequately expressed to sell them.

Identify effective motivation techniques.

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Fast-tracking Your Career Simulation

Overview/Description
The business world is ever changing, and business professionals are faced with many choices when considering career planning. But the old ways of getting ahead wont suffice in the new economy. Professionals must learn to adapt to change and learn to thrive in the new environment by putting their career on the fast track to success. 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.

Target Audience
Anyone who wants to advance his or her career

Expected Duration
0.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Fast-tracking Your Career Simulation

Cultivating loyalty.

Demonstrating effective written communication.

Establishing rapport.

Applying listening skills.

Coping with conflict.

Negotiating from the other persons perspective.

Negotiating from a neutral perspective.

Calculating the benefits and drawbacks of working from home.

Applying techniques to build your list of accomplishments.

Demonstrating the effective use of e-mail.

Building a relationship with your boss.

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Your Career on the Fast Track

With all of the expectations and responsibilities you have, you want to accelerate your career as quickly as possible. Without learning the necessary soft skills to get ahead, you could be costing yourself more time learning from the mistakes you make rather than steering clear of them.

CBT Direct will help get your career on the fast track with training in basic business skills like interviewing, decision-making, delegation, negotiation and organization. We’ll also teach you how to improve your oral and written communication skills and develop better listening skills.

Get interview tips on how to prepare for tough behavioral interview questions and how to create a more positive, confident self image. Plus, wouldn’t it make all the difference if you got along great with your boss? Build rapport with your supervisor and practice giving and receiving feedback that will work to your advantage in speeding up your career.

With CBT Direct, it’s full speed ahead on the fast track to success!

Your Career on the Fast Track