Quality & Productivity Solutions is also pleased to partner with The Winchester Center for Management Development to offer a library of convenient, efficient professional development courses. These online professional development programs are:
- Based on courses developed for leading colleges and universities
- Configured and condensed for adult learners
- Integrate text, audio/video, interactive exercises, assessments, and internet links
- Designed to provide an enjoyable and rewarding learning experience
Please be aware that a different shopping cart is used when registering for these courses.
Communications
Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Business Writing More Effective
Cost: $125.00
The ability to write clearly and directly is highly prized in organizations. This course focuses on improving business writing. The ideas, techniques, and checklists in this course apply to all forms of business writing: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. Other topics include... more
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Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Presentations More Effective
Cost: $125.00
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is increasingly important in organizational settings. This course helps learners organize, structure, and create effective presentations. Since many organizations use PowerPoint as a way of communicating information, this course offers advice and guidance on the most effective and... more
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Human Resources
Understanding HR: Compensation
Cost: $79.00
In this course, you will consider the many issues surrounding the key aspects of pay policy: legal requirements, pay equity within an organization, competitive pay within the relevant industry, how and when to grant raises, and different ways payment can be structured.... more
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Understanding HR: Employee Selection
Cost: $79.00
In this course, you will learn about the process of selecting the best candidate from a large, diverse pool of high-quality applicants. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management, the course discusses how to conduct an effective job interview, asking questions... more
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Understanding HR: Equal Employment Opportunity
Cost: $79.00
In this course you will learn about many of the major employment laws, Equal Opportunity issues, and the anti-discriminatory regulations employers must be aware of in hiring, promoting, and firing employees. After completing this course, you should be able to: Explain... more
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Understanding HR: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Cost: $79.00
Human Resource Management includes the vital tasks of recruiting, screening, interviewing, training, appraising, disciplining, rewarding, and developing the employee -- both for business and non-profit enterprises. Since all managers (especially line managers) have HR responsibilities, it is important that they have an understanding of... more
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Understanding HR: Performance Management
Cost: $79.00
This course considers the different elements of performance management. In its broadest sense, "performance management" is what every good manager does every day: Makes sure employees know what they need to do to achieve the organization's goals, checks to make sure the employees are doing... more
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Understanding HR: Talent Management and Career Development
Cost: $79.00
Drawing on material from Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management, this course covers the challenges and issues that organizations face in developing and retaining their employees. After completing this course, you should be able to:... more
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Innovation and Critical Thinking
Creativity & Innovation: Creativity in Teams and Organizations
Cost: $95.00
This course looks at spurring creativity and innovation in teams and organizations. Drawing on the latest academic thinking, it outlines the key factors for creative teams. Further, the course focuses on tools and techniques designed to yield more productive thinking in collective settings. Participants... more
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Creativity & Innovation: Innovation in Organizations
Cost: $95.00
This course looks at innovation in corporations and the public sector. It reviews the latest academic thinking on innovation, including Clay Christensen's seminal thinking on disruptive technology and the proper response. Further, it explores some of the internal responses to the need for creativity,... more
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Creativity & Innovation: Personal Creativity
Cost: $79.00
This course addresses Personal Creativity. Through tools and exercises drawn from Adrian Brown's book, Creativity & Innovation, it seeks to help unlock the creativity within individuals. By stimulating creativity through various techniques (mind-mapping, DO-IT, SCAMPER, right and left brain thinking) participants learn to tap... more
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Introduction to Critical Thinking
Cost: $95.00
This course is an introduction to the importance of critical thinking in the business world. Critical thinking is an intellectual model for reasoning through issues to reach well-founded conclusions about them. Asking questions is at the heart of critical thinking.This program is designed to help... more
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Leadership
The Successful Leader: Introduction to Leadership
Cost: $95.00
This course examines how to be a successful (that is, effective) leader. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course asks the crucial questions about leadership in today's organizations: What is... more
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The Successful Leader: Leaders and Work-Life Balance
Cost: $79.00
This course addresses the question of work-life balance, one which is of great importance to leaders in all settings. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course looks at methods and... more
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The Successful Leader: Leading and Managing Change
Cost: $79.00
Whether adopting new technology or adapting to a drastic shift in an organization's core focus, managers play a fundamental role in effecting changes. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course... more
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The Successful Leader: Leading Teams
Cost: $79.00
This course addresses the key issues surrounding leadership in a team. Why is it important? What does it require for a team leader to lead his team effectively? Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at... more
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Management
The Successful Manager: Managing in the Modern Organization
Cost: $79.00
This course considers the fundamentals of management and how managers can be effective in organizational settings. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Management, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course addresses managing in the modern organization. After completing... more
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The Successful Manager: Managing People
Cost: $79.00
To be successful and move ahead in his or her career, a manager must understand how to manage people, including motivating workers and coordinating their activities. This course will explain how the goals, empowerment, measurement system of management can be employed, how organization structures differ,... more
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The Successful Manager: Time Management
Cost: $79.00
One of the more precious resources a manager has is his or her time. Managers can become more effective by employing time management and scheduling techniques, delegating, outsourcing key tasks, and employing technology. Effective time management helps managers achieve their goals. After completing this... more
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Management Information Systems
Talking IT with Confidence: An Introduction to Management Information Systems
Cost: $79.00
Information technology has become vital for virtually every industry and every organization. This course will help you understand the basics of information systems in a business and management context. You will learn about business information systems, networks (LANs, WANs, etc.) and distributed computing, systems development... more
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Management Skills
Effective Negotiations
Cost: $79.00
Every day we are involved in negotiations of one form or another. Even though negotiations are an integral part of our lives, techniques for managing these situations are not instinctive; they must be learned. Experienced negotiators make a conscious decision about what type of strategy... more
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The Successful Manager: How to Coach
Cost: $79.00
Managers who lead and manage through coaching—providing encouragement, feedback, and support—are more successful in "working through others." This brief course focuses on the skills and techniques of positive coaching in an organizational setting, including active listening, observing and providing constructive feedback, reinforcing positive employee performance... more
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