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Understanding Technical Professionals - 2.5 hours/PDUs
As a manager, have you felt that technical professionals are sometimes difficult to understand? Do you find that the usual management models are not as effective as they could be? This course explains the ways in which these employees differ from other workers and how you can apply more appropriate and effective management techniques. You will also learn how business has responded with new corporate structures and management strategies to meet the challenges of the new high-technology economy wi
Item No. MGMT0291 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Technical Professionals - 3.5 hours/PDUs
If you're having problems finding and keeping technical professionals, you're not alone. In our financially competitive and technologically advanced business world, technical professionals are in great demand. Managers need to find ways to attract top-performing technical employees and keep them once they're on the job. In fact, surveys show that managers list attracting, motivating, and retaining these technical professionals as one of their most challenging tasks. This course is designed to he
Item No. MGMT0292 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Models for Managing Technical Professionals - 4.5 hours/PDUs
Because technical professionals set a high value on autonomy, managing their time and resources can be a difficult task. But, since it's your job to supervise this often-frustrating yet extremely valuable group of employees, you need to figure out the best way to do it. And this "best way" may vary from company to company and from individual to individual. In this course you'll learn a variety of ways to motivate, manage, and lead technical professionals and how to get and keep your technical te
Item No. MGMT0293 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals - 3.5 hours/PDUs
Why should you be interested in career development for the technical professionals you supervise? Because it's good for them, good for your company, and good for you. One of your major challenges as a manager of technical people is retaining them. And you may also need to recruit technical people to fill higher-level positions in your company. This course will help you use career development as a technique to both motivate and retain technical professionals, as well as to place some of them on c
Item No. MGMT0294 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Course Bundle: Managing Technical Professionals - 14.0 hours/PDUs
This bundle includes:
"Understanding Technical Professionals" Item No. MGMT0291
"Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Technical Professionals" Item No. MGMT0292
"Models for Managing Technical Professionals" Item No. MGMT0293
"Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals" Item No. MGMT0294
Item No. MGMT0299 |
$64.99
$219.80 |
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Doing Business with Independent Contractors - 4.5 hours/PDUs
Do you know the difference between an "employee" and an "independent contractor "? Many employers don't, and in some cases it has cost their companies millions of dollars in taxes, insurance, overtime, fines and penalties. That's why it's important to understand the standards for judging if a temporary, leased or outsourced worker is really an employee. This course will acquaint you with the law and give you the knowledge to manage independent contractors appropriately--without inadvertently cha
Item No. MGMT0701 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Hiring Temporary (Contingent) Employees - 5.0 hours/PDUs
Have you been in a situation where you needed more people to perform short-term or seasonal jobs? Have you ever needed specific expertise or specialized skills to achieve an organizational goal? Perhaps you need to hire temporary employees. This course will help you determine whether to hire temporary employees or nonemployees (independent contractors). You will discover many important factors about how temporary workers are different from core employees - in terms of recruiting, hiring and trai
Item No. MGMT0702 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Managing Contingent Workers - 4.5 hours/PDUs
Contingent workers (on-call workers, independent contractors, workers provided by contract firms, and temporary help agency workers) are different than permanent employees in their expectations, roles, commitments and legal status. That means you need to manage them differently than you do full-time, core employees. This course will examine various aspects of successfully managing contingent workers. You will analyze various methods of communicating expectations and job issues, and learn how to
Item No. MGMT0703 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Legal Pitfalls Regarding Independent Contractors - 3.0 hours/PDUs
Managing workers is a crucial component of your success as a manager. But not all workers are created workers. Some are employees, others are nonemployees, or independent contractors. This is an important distinction, because your company's obligations differ depending upon how workers are classified. Misclassification can result in stiff fines, penalties and back pay and benefit liability. This course will examine the various aspects of hiring and managing independent contractors. You will summ
Item No. MGMT0704 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Working with Temporary Agencies - 5.5 hours/PDUs
Efficient staffing can be the difference between high productivity at a reasonable price and inefficiency regardless of price. To efficiently manage peak time and special project staffing requirements, you need to be able to work with temporary agencies. This course will develop your skills at using temporary agencies to meet short-term staffing requirements. Applying these important strategies will help you hold down costs, hire qualified temporary workers and successfully manage your organizat
Item No. MGMT0705 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Hiring and Managing Contractors Simulation
You are the Director of Marketing for GadgetLand, a mail-order catalog company that sells high-tech gadgets and electronics. The company currently has a web site, but it is only for marketing purposes. You need to facilitate the upgrading of the site so that it has full e-commerce capabilities. Customers need to be able to go online to view all of GadgetLand's products and place orders.
You will need to assess the upgrade project and consider internal resources. Also, you will consider hiring
Item No. MGMT0700 |
$19.99
$54.95 |
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Course Bundle: Managing Contractors and Temporary Employees - 22.5 hours/PDUs
This bundle includes:
"Doing Business with Independent Contractors" Item No. MGMT0701
"Hiring Temporary (Contingent) Employees" Item No. PMGMT0702
"Managing Contingent Employees" Item No. MGMT0703
"Legal Pitfalls Regarding Independent Contractors" Item No. MGMT0704
"Working with Temporary Agencies" Item No. MGMT0705
"Hiring and Managing Contractors Simulation" Item No. MGMT0700
Item No. MGMT0709 |
$94.99
$329.70 |