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Getting past employees' "Big Brother" paranoia in self-paced training evaluations
Employers have every right to know what skill sets their employees have, but electronically tracking progress requires selling your employees on the benefits.The world can look very different, depending on which hat you’re wearing—manager or employee. Take the case of computer-based training CBT tracking and skills assessment. While those evaluations...
Tags: Workforce management, Computer-based training (CBT), Katy Yocom, self-paced training, training, skills assessment
Technical articles 1999-06-08

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How Information Builders Gives Clients the Skills Needed to Achieve ROI
If a company's customers lack the skills to achieve ROI from the deployment of a technology solution, it's a losing proposition for both the buyer and the seller. In today's tight technology market, where the need to demonstrate ROI is a prerequisite of every sale, smart solutions providers are assuming...
Tags: Information Builders, ROI, Brainbench, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
Case studies
1000th NHS Trainer Achieves TAP Qualification
The Training Foundation is involved in creation and continuous development of TAP Delivery Skills Refresher course. Current work on National Occupational Standards for Health Informatics staff reinforces the need for competence-based professional qualifications which provide the skills needed in the workplace. The TAP Certificate in Training Delivery skills, awarded following...
Tags: Training, Qualification, Training Foundation, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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Understand Assessment Strategies
Assessing students has been a part of the teacher's job since the opening of the very first schoolhouse. However, assessment today is very different from the assessment that happened in one-room schools on the prairie. Today, most educators would agree that assessment is, for better or worse, not only how...
Tags: Assessment, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2007-12-01
1,000th NHS Trainer Achieves TAP Qualification
When Chantal Brookes, a trainer from the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, was awarded a TAP Certificate in Training Delivery Skills on 25 April, she became the 1,000th person working for the English NHS to have achieved a qualification within the Trainer Assessment Programme TAP since its launch in...
Tags: Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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Training Center Performs Skills Assessment, Saves Healthcare Provider U.S.$75,000
In preparation for a large-scale desktop migration to the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, a large healthcare provider wanted to ensure that its help-desk personnel had the knowledge necessary to resolve potential user questions and provide superior support to its staff. Not sure where to start, it turned to...
Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Training, Training Center, Help Desk, Call Centers, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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Network Administrator skills assessment test
This series of tests can help IT managers gauge how a job candidate for a net admin position will handle typical IT situations. The tests can also help you determine the skills sets each applicant brings to the table.
Tags: Job, TechRepublic Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Download resources 2002-05-21
28-Factor Sales Skills Assessment (exe)
The Salesjudge 28-Factor Sales Skills Assessment allows you to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in sales skills by scoring sales people in a simulated sales presentation across the desk from a buyer. It is used to, prescreen sales candidates before they are hired, identify the strengths and weaknesses of practicing sales...
Tags: Salesjudge 28-Factor Sales Skills Assessment, Sales People, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
Software downloads 2005-10-03
How One Healthcare Organization Uses Objective Metrics to Improve Project Management
In 2003, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, one of the nation's leading health care benefits companies, set out to identify, quantify, and improve the skills of its associates who manage vital projects. To maintain their position as a leader in the health care industry, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue...
Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Care, Brainbench, Project Management, Vertical Industries, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Human Resources
Case studies
Achieving Quality and Scale in Online Education Through Transformative Assessment: A Case Study
This study demonstrates how current theories of transformative assessment, coupled with research on online education, may be used to create a framework for transformative assessment of online programs; the potential of transformative assessment for contributing to the development of scalability and quality of online education programs; and how the powerful...
Tags: Education, Assessment
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Designing Assessment Tools in a Service Oriented Architecture
Assessment is an important component of formal learning, and Computer Assisted Assessment CAA is a well established component of most online learning. However, technical issues such as interoperability and security, and pedagogic reservations as to its effectiveness still remain barriers to the uptake of CAA. This paper examines a number...
Tags: Assessment, SOA, Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Productivity, Web Services, E-learning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2005-06-06
Integrating Risk Assessment into the Enterprise Information Management Strategy
The two main influences on the validity of risk assessment results lie in the quality of the data that are input into the system, and the quality and execution of the risk model that is used to generate the results. Supporting the risk assessment process through implementation of the information...
Tags: Risk Assessment, Enterprise Information Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management
White papers
Towards a Service Based Architecture for Assessment
In this paper, the authors propose the outline of a service based architecture for bringing assessment techniques to open e-learning environments. The authors first describe a use case scenario for a generic assessment framework offering personalized assessment generation and then present its basic architecture as part of the Personal Reader...
Tags: Use Case, Architecture
White papers 2005-08-30
Skills Assessment and Customized Training for Help Desk Staff Save Time and Money
Getronics HelpYouDesk, located in Berlin, Germany, is the customer service and support center for Getronics Deutschland, a provider of information and communication technology. Because the service center wanted to have 30 employees earn the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician MCDST certification, it turned to the campus, an IT training firm....
Tags: Getronics, Customized Training, Microsoft Corp., Campus, Help Desk, Productivity, Call Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Management
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Home Video Visual Quality Assessment With Spatio-Temporal Factors
Compared with the video programs taken by professionals, home videos are always with low quality content resulted from non-professional capture skills. This paper presents a novel spatio-temporal quality assessment scheme in terms of low-level content features for home videos. In contrast to existing frame-level-based quality assessment approaches, a type of...
Tags: Home Video, Video, Quality Assessment, Corporate Communications, Marketing
White papers 2007-03-02
Download these skills assessment tools to help identify and fill gaps
Assessing employees' skill levels is how you gauge where they need some help. Providing the training to compensate for skills gaps strengthens individuals as well as helps build a team's collective skills. This download can help you start your own plan.TechRepublic columnist Mike Sisco believes that many IT managers miss...
Tags: Workforce management, tool, Dana Norton, training, team
Technical articles 2002-05-02
Prioritize security concerns with a simple risk assessment
Even a simplified risk assessment process can protect your organization from disaster. Find out why risk assessments are important, and how to perform a simple risk assessment yourself. by Chad Perrin
Tags: Risk Assessment, Risk, Assessment, Organization, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management, Chad Perrin
Blog posts 2008-09-16
Use these risk-assessment methodologies to protect your IT infrastructure
No matter what methodology or approach is used, it is important that the organization address how asset management and proper inventorying of the organizations IT assets are to be handled.This sample chapter, taken from Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure, discusses different methodologies and approaches for conducting a...
Tags: IT Infrastructure, Sams Publishing, Information Technology, Strategy, Asset Management, Networking, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
Book chapters 2006-01-26
Credit Risk Assessment Using XBRL
Credit risk assessment plays an important role in the day to day operation of a business. Credit risk assessment is performed when a Buyer asks a Seller to ship merchandise without prior payment. (It is also used in other areas of a business including marketing. For example, a business may...
Tags: Risk Assessment, XBRL, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management
White papers 2003-11-21
Kawin Interactive: Distinguishing a Consultant
Kawin Interactive, a multinational consultancy firm, places top-notch IT professionals to Fortune 1000 companies. To build better trust with clients and differentiate itself from other Consultancy services, Kawin Interactive was looking for a third-party Assessment solution to get the technical proficiency of its candidates credibly verified. After evaluating different Assessment...
Tags: ExamsOnline
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