The Right Skills for the Job?


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This book revisits skills development policies and points to new directions for making training programs more effective and responsive in increasingly competitive labor market.




Putting Skill to Work


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An argument for reimagining skill in a way that can extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market. America has a jobs problem--not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them. Skill development is critical for addressing this employment crisis, but there are many unresolved questions about who has skill, how it is attained, and whose responsibility it is to build skills over time. In this book, Nichola Lowe tells the stories of pioneering workforce intermediaries--nonprofits, unions, community colleges--that harness this ambiguity around skill to extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market.




Coaching Agile Teams


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The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?




Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce


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Skilled technical occupationsâ€"defined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's degree for entryâ€"are a key component of the U.S. economy. In response to globalization and advances in science and technology, American firms are demanding workers with greater proficiency in literacy and numeracy, as well as strong interpersonal, technical, and problem-solving skills. However, employer surveys and industry and government reports have raised concerns that the nation may not have an adequate supply of skilled technical workers to achieve its competitiveness and economic growth objectives. In response to the broader need for policy information and advice, Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce examines the coverage, effectiveness, flexibility, and coordination of the policies and various programs that prepare Americans for skilled technical jobs. This report provides action-oriented recommendations for improving the American system of technical education, training, and certification.




Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs


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This open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region. It also assesses how education and training philosophies, curricula, and pedagogy can be reshaped to produce workers with the skills required to meet the emerging demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The book’s 40 articles cover a wide range of topics and reflect the diverse perspectives of the eminent policy makers, practitioners, and researchers who authored them. To maximize its potential impact, this Springer-Asian Development Bank co-publication has been made available as open access.




Professional Tele-Marketing Skills-The Master Guide to Selling on Phone


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Professional Tele-Marketing Skills-The Master Guide to Selling on Phone has been uniquely designed, to help transform you into a Master Tele-Marketer by helping you discover the secrets that drive the world’s top tele-sales professionals. It will help you or your team create the habits and lasting changes by enabling you replace current unacceptable patterns that are costing your company sales with new ones, that will now help you achieve your sales goals faster and more consistently. Written at a time when the COVID pandemic has undoubtedly pushed organizations into rethinking ways and means to continue to operate their businesses especially with the restrictions on safe distancing. The world over is adjusting to COVID, with social distancing orders having compelled people to find alternatives to face-to-face meetings, by working from homes or remote locations. As a result, telemarketing solutions have never been more popular than this time, as in order to conduct business without disruption, professionals and businesses have now turned more than ever before to tele-calling to stay connected with their team members and customers. The entire book has been split into several step by step, easy and digestible modules, to help you take back and put to practice each step into a real life situation. That way these skills that you will learn will stay with you, enabling you to become more professional and successful in a sales role using the phone, that will help ‘win and keep customers for life’! You will be able to: · Derive the benefits from the effectiveness of consultative selling and how different it is from the traditional sales approach · Learn how to guide prospects through the buying process · Proven behaviors that make you stand out as a telesales professional · A thorough understanding of the attributes and activities of a professional telesales person · Effectively prepare for any telesales call · Make cold calls in a professional manner, right from handling gate-keepers and getting through to the right decision-makers · Be able to manage your data and lists much better · Build rapport and trust with a customer right during the approaching stage itself. · Effectively uncover a customer’s needs, problems and opportunities and be able to demonstrate how your product features can help a customer meet a need/solve a problem (proving value). · Overcome objections, cope with turn-downs, rejection or call reluctance · Be able to recommend an appropriate solution (recommending) and close business deals effectively after showing a customer how specific business objectives can be met and benefit by using your recommended product or service (closing) · Effectively and professionally sell to B2B/ Key Accounts using a structured approach · Implement the entire consultative selling process into your daily work · And…most importantly, in every chapter or topic that is covered, there are several exercises for you to work on and put the new skills to immediate use. With no gimmicks, no jargon, just emphasis on relationship building, I believe that this is a well structured course on 100% building value and long lasting partnerships with your customer!




Key Marketing Skills


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Not just another 'introduction to marketing', Key Marketing Skills is a practical, actionable guide that demonstrates how to apply marketing strategies in a real-world context, from conducting a marketing audit and building your marketing strategy, to preparing a robust marketing plan and developing a unique value proposition. Taking you step by step through the entire marketing planning process, it will enable you to build alignment through the supply chain and successfully implement your plan through the marketing mix. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition has also been expanded to include a wealth of brand new international case studies and planning models. Together with sections on vital issues such as brand management, how to brief an agency and how to conduct a self-assessment health check of your current level of marketing excellence, Key Marketing Skills provides all the necessary tools and guidance to make marketing happen. Online resources include self-test questions, marketing planning template, performance map and a customer activity cycle table.




OECD Skills Studies OECD Skills Strategy Slovak Republic Assessment and Recommendations


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This report, “OECD Skills Strategy Slovak Republic: Assessment and Recommendations”, identifies opportunities and makes recommendations to strengthen the skills of youth, reduce skills imbalances, foster greater participation in adult learning and strengthen the use of skills in the workplace.




Entrepreneurial New Venture Skills


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As business schools expand their entrepreneurship programs and organizations seek people with entrepreneurial skills, it has become clear that the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur are highly valued in all business contexts. This latest edition of Entrepreneurial New Venture Skills continues to focus on helping students develop entrepreneurial skills, whether they seek to become entrepreneurs or employees. Focusing on the entrepreneurial start-up process, the third edition of Entrepreneurial New Venture Skills takes the reader through the steps of selecting, planning, financing, and controlling the new venture. The authors cover multiple forms of new ventures, as well as ways to utilize entrepreneurial skills in other contexts, encouraging students to engage with the material and apply it to their lives in ways that make sense for them. Skill development features include: Entrepreneurial profiles of small business owners Personal applications for students to apply questions to their new venture or a current business Global and domestic cases Elevator pitch assignments, which put students in the venture capitalist position Application exercises and situations covering specific text concepts Business plan prompts to help students construct a business plan over the course of a semester Featuring pedagogical tools like review questions and learning outcomes, and a full companion website that expands upon skill development and offers instructor resources, the third edition of Entrepreneurial New Venture Skills is the perfect resource for instructors and students of entrepreneurship.




Involuntary Unemployment


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This book tackles the issue of involuntary employment, examining the issue in the light of Keynesian and Post-Keynesian theory.