Ultimate Basic Business Skills: Training an Effective Workforce

By Christee Gabour Atwood

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Having a copy of Ultimate Basic Business Skills: Training an Effective Workforce on your bookshelf is like having an on-call business training department. This book offers ready-to-present programs on the most critical frontline business skills every member of your organization needs. Too often training in these basic business areas is ignored in favor of more pressing product or service training. Ultimate Basics Business Skills offers learning professionals everything needed to quickly deploy this valuable training. Lively, scripted half-day programs in more than 20 individual topic areas cover external and internal customer service skills, project management, help in projecting a professional image and working in a team environment, and much more.

The book uses the familiar structure of the Trainer's WorkShop Series to guide the training sessions and includes all handouts, worksheets, assessments, and PowerPoint slides to allow users to quickly create training targeted specifically for their intended audience. All programs offer enough additional material to allow expanding the program length to suit training needs. Users can easily blend, mix, and match formats and contents to create just the program your organization needs.

About the Author

Christee Gabour Atwood is a speaker, trainer, and consultant. She has worked with dozens of corporations, associations, Fortune 500 companies, and governmental entities. Atwood’s background includes radio personality, television host and anchor, and newspaper and magazine columnist. She also has served as executive director for state associations and editor/publisher of various trade and professional magazines. She is known for using humor in her work based on her experiences as a standup comedian. She is the author of three other ASTD Press titles including Succession Planning Basics (2007), Manager Skills Training (2008) and Presentation Skills Training (2008). She lives in Alexandria, Louisiana.

Sample Chapter

Ultimate Basics Business Skills sample chapter

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