Corporate Learning Collection

'Made By Chicks' Startup Goes All Out In The Market For Canned Wine

Description: Forbes.com -- With $14 million in fresh funding, a deal with Gallo and shelf space at major retailers, L.A.-based Bev aims to crack the growing market's big leagues.
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Duration: 5 minutes
Author: Chloe Sorvino
Keywords: Business Essentials, Marketing Essentials
Type: Article
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5

(@) Your Service

Description: Historically, companies could control their image and sell their goods and services through traditional marketing. However, thanks to the advent of the Internet and social media, hyperconnected Customers are the main brand promoters or detractors in today s marketplace. In fact, Customers are so crucial that in his book @YourService, Frank Eliason argues that businesses should learn to capitalize the word. In a Customer-driven market, creating a brand trusted for its exceptional products and superlative service is essential, and in Eliason s book, he explores how companies can adapt and flourish in the emerging yet critical field of social media.
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Duration: 12 minutes
Author: Frank Eliason
Keywords: Business Essentials, Customer Focus
Type: Book
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5

1,000 Dollars & an Idea

Description: My work is to create companies and build them, writes Sam Wyly in this candid and engrossing account of the process, relationships, struggles, and strategies in technology, energy, retail, and investments over the last forty-five years that have made him one of the 1,000 wealthiest people in the world. From the hardships his parents faced trying to hold on to the family cotton farm during the Depression to the coaching he received on the high school football field, this self-made billionaire describes how his early years in Louisiana prepared him for what lay ahead. His sales experience with IBM and Honeywell in Dallas in the early 1960s gave him the idea to start the first computer utility. Risking $1,000 of his savings, he founded University Computing in 1963 and took it public two years later, becoming a millionaire at the age of thirty. Later business successes included taking on the mammoth AT&T monopoly, expanding the small chains of Michaels Stores and Bonanza Steakhouses to over a thousand locations nationwide, co-founding the Maverick Capital and Ranger Capital hedge funds, and founding Green Mountain Energy, the largest provider of cleaner energy in America today.
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Duration: 12 minutes
Author: Sam Wyly
Keywords
Type: Book
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5

10 Bad Customer Service Habits You Need to Break

Description: Material Handling & Logistics -- An excerpt from the book Clients First: The Two Word Miracle by Joseph and JoAnn Callaway is presented.
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Duration: 5 minutes
Author: William Atkinson
Keywords: Business Essentials, Customer Focus
Type: Article
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5

10 Bad Habits That Should Be Banned from the Workplace Forever

Description: Supervision -- The article discusses 10 unhealthy habits that should be eliminated from the workplace to imporve the physical, mental and emotional well-being of employees, presenting the view of Leigh Stringer, author of the book The Healthy Workplace, on the issue. Topics include avoiding sitting for a long time at work to prevent deep vein thrombosis, taking the stairs rather than taking the elevator to burn more calories, and avoid multi-tasking while eating.
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Duration: 5 minutes
Author: Leigh Stringer
Keywords: Business Essentials, Corporate Culture Development
Type: Article
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5

10 Questions You Shouldn't Ask About Social Media

Description: Marketing News -- The authors offer opinions on the use of social media for communication and marketing by universities and colleges. It is stated that such schools must develop a strategic plan for social use based on their goals. Universities are urged to use persons from various departments to serve as managers of social media in their field of expertise. It is recommended that a university use one home page of a Website such as Facebook for its social media purposes.
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Duration: 5 minutes
Author: RACHEL DICARO METSCHER,VERONICA STEELE
Keywords: Managing Self, Continuous Learning
Type: Article
Subject: Managing Self
Vendor: Accel5

10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager

Description: Successful businesses rely on great managers. Effective management practices enable organizations to identify new opportunities, execute strategies successfully, and complete projects on time and on budget. However, many managers encounter pitfalls such as confusing management with excessive control, focusing on maintenance rather than management, or failing to realign teams as circumstances change. In 10 Steps To Be A Successful Manager, Lisa Haneberg describes methods that managers must adopt to run a business. In each step, she focuses on specific actions that contribute to a healthy management practice.
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Duration: 12 minutes
Author: Lisa Haneberg
Keywords: Managing Others, Management Essentials
Type: Book
Subject: Managing Others
Vendor: Accel5

10 Steps to Successful Budgeting

Description: Preparing a budget might seem stressful, but thoughtful planning makes the process easier and more productive. In 10 Steps to Successful Budgeting, Lianabel Oliver and Eduardo Nin lay out a planning process that can help you create a budget that reflects both your short- and long-term goals, aligns with your organization s mission, and reduces redundancy.
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Duration: 12 minutes
Author: Lianabel Oliver,Eduardo Nin
Keywords: Business Essentials, Business Acumen
Type: Book
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5

10 Steps to Successful Business Writing

Description: While studies point to an inadequate level of writing in the business world, most business professionals view writing as a soft skill that is not worth an investment of time and money. Recently, however, some employers have begun to understand that poor writing equals low productivity. Employees who write poorly waste countless hours and, more importantly, countless dollars. In 10 Steps to Successful Business Writing, Jack Appleman notes that business writing is a learned skill based on fundamental principles like clarity, conciseness, and organization. Those who learn to write better will work more productively and be able to demonstrate leadership and management abilities.
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Duration: 12 minutes
Author: Jack E. Appleman
Keywords
Type: Book
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5

10 Steps to Successful Change Management

Description: Change happens. There is simply no stopping it. In 10 Steps to Successful Change Management, George Vukotich offers those faced with change at an organizational level a systemized, ten-step system to manage that is understand, react to, mitigate and successfully execute the often scary, often difficult business of change. From assessing the risks of change to dealing with detractors to reviewing the process after it has been completed, the goal is clear: learn to manage change before it manages you.
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Duration: 12 minutes
Author: George Vukotich
Keywords: Business Essentials, Innovation
Type: Book
Subject: Business Essentials
Vendor: Accel5