This curriculum, which is based on the top-selling American Management Association's Self-Development for Success series, focuses on three critical self-management dimensions. The first area is how you manage stress. Many stress costs can be quantified: sickness, early retirement, accidents and injury, absenteeism and health care costs. Other costs of stress are more difficult to measure - those associated with poor performance, ineffective management, bad decision-making, interpersonal conflicts, impaired judgement and reduced creativity. One thing is certain: stress is costing billions throughout the western world and it is now recognized as the number one killer.

A professional who is not balancing the stresses of his or her life is not living and working effectively. A key module in the curriculum teaches you how to identify your sources of stress (stressors) and how to develop a plan that will counteract and minimise them, incorporating simple but effective physical and mental techniques that guarantee success.

One key stressor for many people is how to manage time. How often have we left the office at the end of the day, totally frustrated at our failure to achieve that day's tasks? This module teaches the secrets to managing your time: how to identify and prioritise specific, timebound and measurable objectives; and how to pinpoint and avoid the destructive daily time wasters that threaten and frustrate the achievement of those objectives. You will learn how to focus your highest value activities on key result areas to achieve your goals in life.

Many see the third module on influencing people, as the most critical and valuable of them all, because of the stress that problematic relationships can cause. The core pull skills of building rapport, questioning and listening are complemented by the push skills of assertiveness and giving feedback, to teach a holistic approach to influencing people positively.

The curriculum is laced with self-assessments, personal questionnaires and opportunities for self-discovery, and there are numerous individual planning templates that you may personalize for immediate, effective implementation, so that you can successfully manage your stress, your time, your relationships - yourself.

The issue with problems is that they are unbounded! Problems occur at any time and place, to anybody; they can be about finance, technology, machinery, people, processes, products or procedures; they happen to managers, technicians, sales people, accountants, experts and amateurs; and they happen millions of times every day, everywhere.

You would think that with so many problems everywhere, people would have learned how to deal with them. Not so! How often have you thought "I'm beginning to think I'm not part of the solution; I'm part of the problem!" or "This problem started out small but now two hours later it's huge!" or "I thought I finally solved this last week but it keeps coming back! What the heck am I doing wrong?" As a professional you cannot afford to wrong-track your development by neglecting basic but essential skills in problem solving techniques.

PrimeProblem Solving, which this June received 3.5 stars out of 4 in an independant review by Training Media Review (www.tmreview.com), is based on Mike Robson's ground-breaking and internationally recognized book Problem Solving in Groups. Mr. Robson is the founder of MRA International, a leading consultancy and training company dedicated to the development of organizations and their people

Starting with the fundamentals of how to identify, define and express the real problem, the curriculum teaches a systematic method that will generate a range of possible solutions. Much value is added by showing the learner how to formulate a cost-benefit analysis and how to present your solution for the maximum 'sell' to the people that matter - the people that need to sign off on the solution, and the people that need to implement it.

This curriculum teaches you invaluable techniques and processes for solving ANY problem, ANY time, ANY place.

Together, these two curricula offer an excellent opportunity to develop generic, life skills that can be successfully applied across the breadth and span of your working life, regardless of your expertise, career or profession.

The eLearning System includes a Preassessment (or PrimePath™) feature that allows learners to conduct an initial assessment of their knowledge in a given area, and which then constructs a personalized learning plan based on competencies demonstrated in the assessment. In the eLearning System, the results are reflected in the learner's personalized learning page.

In these special, stand-alone versions of the Preassessment, we offer you the chance to try them out for free. At the end of the test, we have added a simple 'Print' page that shows how you did in each course!

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"They are some of the best online courses I have taken. I was so delighted by the first course in the sequence that I had to take more. I wound up finishing the curriculum."

"The courses are consistently rich in content."

"I highly recommend the PrimeLearning Problem Solving curriculum. It is comprehensive, integrated, and well designed. It provides users with a positive learning experience, striking a balance between content and activity, reading and doing."

Do you have a date by which all employees have to complete their training? Add this date to the system and have our automated Mentoring prompt your learners to completion.

Do you want to run reports to see who has started or completed their training? We'll set your learners up in groups and allow manager(s) to run these and other reports any time.

Do you need special database extracts to interface with your HR Management systems? We can do this too!

Are your employees distributed over various sites? Training is entirely over the Internet, with no Instructor-Led Training (ILT) requirement. If you would like to introduce an element of blended training (mix of ILT and eLearning), we can advise on how you might do this using the traditional approach, and also through the use of our Virtual Class technology!

eLearning can be an extremely cost-effective way of addressing personal development training in your company. For a custom quote, and to arrange access to the eLearning System™ to review our training products, please contact us at pricing@primelearning.com