Fast-tracking Your Career Simulation


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Target Audience
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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 won't 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 (hours)
0.5

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 person's 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.

    • Course Number:
    PD0130