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This PowerPoint presentation is a template used to train employees on company benefits. Developing an effective benefits communication is very important to ensuring your employees understand the type and value of the benefits available. This tool details all of the company's benefits -- both company-funded and employee-funded -- plus provides in depth education on the importance of saving for retirement early on in one's career. The tool can be used for New Hire Orientation and may be modified for Open Enrollment communication.

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This Word document is a template used to successfully train managers on how to manage and communicate a company-wide layoff to all levels of affected employees. Developing well thought-out training and communication package for managers is critical to ensuring they understand the various laws and regulations (ERISA, WARN Act, COBRA, HIPPA) governing a layoff, as well as how to effectively communicate the company's position and rationale behind the decision to reduce the workforce. This tool discusses the layoff criteria, the manager's role in the process, the schedule of events leading up to the day of the proposed action, the separation benefits and exit package, and provides key questions and answers to deal with anticipated employee questions.

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This PowerPoint presentation delivers a unique and practical treatment of defining and obtaining predictable results. It presents a process, addresses the issues, asks the fundamental questions that drive the definition of a good objective/result, and then provides lots of examples of "typical" result statements. All companies need to ensure alignment between the attainment of their overall mission and objectives with their expectation for results. Your company is no different. This material will provide a vehicle to dramatically improve employee productivity and, as a result, company success.

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This Word document is a template for writing monthly operations reports. Developing Guidelines for Writing Operations Reports saves you time in the future when you have to give repeated updates. This tool covers important material such as audience, format, accountability, and much more.

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This is a PowerPoint presentation that trains management on how to effectively manage the supply chain. Developing a Supply Chain Management training presentation is important for training new managers or refreshing the skills of current managers. This tool covers what the manager must do, key elements of the job, facilitation, and more.

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This Word document is a simple template to use when identifying the key skills and competencies for a given job. Developing an internal skills audit is an important step in assessing an employee's skills and capabilities relative to a given job and relative to other employees performing a similar job. This template is a very brief example of the requirements to be considered. For a more in-depth analysis, it is suggested you complete a job analysis and position questionnaire.

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This Word document provides an overview of how to write an operations report for executive management. This tool includes audience, format, accountability, and much much more.

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This PowerPoint presentation a unique and practical treatment of how you can foster and support the creative process. Most of us have very little time to think up creative ideas -- ideas that will often lead to break-through technologies or process improvements. However, it's the little things or the outrageous suggestion that usually gets the ball rolling. This material covers techniques from idea "mapping" to force-field analysis to identifying a number of statements that inadvertantly suppress creative thought.

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This PowerPoint presentation presents an overview of the need for and qualifications of an Integration Manager (IM). It provides insight into why this role is so critical to a merger or acquisition, outlines typical gaps, defines the role, describes the tactics and process, identifies the qualifications, and provides a view of value attainment. The value of someone who can provide the glue while merging or integrating an acquired company has been shown to be extremely valuable. As there is a 50% failure rate among successfully merged organizations, identifying senior management with the appropriate traits and company experiences who would be able to step into this demanding role is critical. Note: If you are integrating internal organizations, your company would also benefit by having a role such as this.

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This PowerPoint presentation provides a brief overview of what it takes for a company to be street smart in today's Internet environment. For companies competing in the new information economy, the Internet forces managers and employees to change their ideas, experiment, invent, and plan constantly, while they try to build and deliver complex new products and technologies.

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This Word document is a template for training managers on developing excellent leadership skills. Developing high quality leadership skills can greatly help any company. This tool provides training on learning how to be a good leader by keeping your mind open to the many styles of leadership, and modifying them as appropriate based on the work situation.

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This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the benchmarking process. This tool includes understanding benchmarking, the steps to successful benchmarking, and much more.

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This Word document is a copyrighted presentation for developing a life planning program. Developing a program for life planning is essential to creating an efficient and productive work team. With this tool, you will be able to understand the habits of highly-effective people, be able to apply the information to your individual circumstances and develop a strategy to balance your work and personal life.

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This PowerPoint presentation is a template providing training for managers on Successful Interviewing techniques with legally-permissible interviewer questions. Developing successful interviewing techniques is critical to ensuring the company hires the ?right people for the right job at the right time?. This training focuses on the importance of planning, organizing, and follow-up during and after the interview process. It also provides managers with examples of appropriate questioning techniques and suggested interview questions.

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This PowerPoint presentation provides an outstanding overview of the strategic planning process for managers. This tool provides an overview of strategic planning, management by objectives, concept, design, and implementation and much more.

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This PowerPoint presentation is a template providing training for managers on how, based on established performance and conduct measures, to effectively Discipline and Discharge employees. Developing effective discipline and discharge guidelines and training managers on their appropriate use is critical to effectively managing employees. Through the use of good performance-setting techniques and ensuring that an employee understands his or her role and expected conduct within the organizational framework, a manager will be best prepared to deal with disciplinary problems when, and if, they occur.

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This PowerPoint presentation is a template for managers on how to Effectively Communicate with their employees. Developing a training presentation for managers is extremely important to ensure consistent communication within your organization. This tool discusses the importance of communication, barriers to effective communication, the formal and informal communication channels, and provides some examples of effective communication forums that can be used within a business setting.

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This Power Point presentation is a template for managers on how to Deliver Tough Performance Messages to their employees. Developing a training presentation for managers is extremely important to ensure consistency and fairness when they are dealing with performance issues. This presentation provides a couple of typical work-related situations, walks the manager through the problem-identification stage, and provides some hints on dealing directly, openly, and honestly with an employee on how to best fix a problem so that both the employee and the company can mutually benefit.

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This PowerPoint presentation is a template for training managers on the importance of setting and communicating goals to their employees, and how to hold their employees accountable for meeting the agreed upon goals. Managing employee performance -- both positive and negative -- is one of the most challenging jobs of a manager. Goals may be established but if they have not been effectively communicated to the employee, or if the employee's performance is not measured against a pre-determined standard, the goals may not be achieved. This tool discusses the importance of setting and communicating goals, goal measurement and employee accountability, provides some examples of effective communication forums that can be used within a business setting, and briefly reviews how to address performance issues.

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This PowerPoint presentation identifies the difficulties of change management and provides a prescription for change and why it is required in order to succeed. It addresses some rules of thumb, and delineates the stages of change and how effective some popular change strategies have been. It also looks at some keys to re-engineer the business success. Your ability to manage radical change is critical to your company's success. As the borderless economy marches on, all companies must adapt and grow to meet new challenges. How well your company adapts to these changes will have a serious impact on how successful they will eventually be.