October 29, 2013

New and Updated Courses This October

This month we welcomed another new content partner, Quality Media Resources, to our Training Content Network. We also released several new Video On Demand courses,...
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October 29, 2013

As a leader, are you a Dictator or Facilitator?

Contrary to what some believe, a leader’s job is not just to tell people what to do.  As a leader it is less important to...
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October 21, 2013

Customer Service Training for Supervisors and Employees

Good customer service is often difficult for an organization to maintain.  Many workplaces forget to address that customer service isn’t only the employee’s responsibility but...
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September 27, 2013

Over 20 New Courses Out This September

This September we have 6 updated Video On Demands and 21 new Video On Demand titles. Our new titles include a batch of industry-specific courses...
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September 24, 2013

Microsoft Word Courses Covering Advanced Features, Now Available

This month, we added more courses for our Microsoft learners.  Produced by our content partner, Sonic Performance Support, these courses offer in-depth training on topics...
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September 3, 2013

Demonstrate Leadership with Limited Resources

It has become common practice in many workplaces to master the art of doing more with less.  As leaders, it becomes extremely difficult to motivate...
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August 30, 2013

Leadership Training from Video Visions Now on Video On Demand

Earlier this week we released new titles from our newest content partner, Video Visions.  Video Visions, offers flexible, video training that is engaging and effective...
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August 29, 2013

Keep Ideas Moving for Your Social Media Content

In today’s fast paced market, and abundance of competitors, in order to stand-out above the rest, unique qualities and attributes must be easily noticed by...
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August 29, 2013

25 New Titles Released this August!

August was a busy month here at Mastery. We were able to release 20 brand-new Video On Demand courses; bringing our grand total of mobile-friendly...
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August 29, 2013

Positive Customer Service Prevents Social Media Criticism

It used to be that if someone had a negative customer service experience with a company, they would share it with a few friends.  Nowadays,...
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August 28, 2013

Realize the Negative Impact Stress has on Your Life

Stress is everywhere we look, at home, at work, in the headlines and on television.  Our new content partner, Stress Stop, produces effective and comprehensive...
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August 22, 2013

Over 100 VOD Training Courses Available for All Devices

After three months since our release of the first 3rd generation Video On Demand (VOD) course, we are celebrating our achievement of having 101, new...
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August 6, 2013

Wait, What? The Importance of Active Listening

At work we are busy with the constant flow of emails, phone calls, meetings and collaborating with others.  During all of these activities there is...
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July 31, 2013

New VOD Training Out This July

To keep up with the demand for mobile-friendly training, we continue to update courses and release new course titles weekly.   Recently, we have released and...
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July 23, 2013

More Excel Training Now Available on Video On Demand

Sonic Performance Support, produces e-learning training courses for employees using Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.  We continue to release courses from Sonic on our...
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July 23, 2013

Telephone Doctor VODs Now Mobile-Friendly Courses

The Telephone Doctor customer service training series is now available on our 3rd generation, mobile-friendly, Video On Demand platform.  These courses offer a wide variety...
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July 12, 2013

Customer Service Training You Can Take On Any Mobile Device

More and more updated, as well as, newly-released courses are continually being added to be compatible for our new, mobile-friendly, VOD platform.  Here are two...
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July 3, 2013

Microsoft Excel 2010 Courses Available on Mobile-Friendly VOD

During the past few months we have pushed through numerous courses to be compatible for our mobile-friendly VOD format; this week we announce eight new...
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June 25, 2013

New Courses Out This June

Aside from the almost 20 updated Video On Demand (VOD) courses released this month we also have released 24 new titles on our mobile-friendly VOD...
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June 24, 2013

More Course Updates for Mobile-Friendly Video Training

The number of courses on our new and improved, Video On Demand (VOD), mobile-friendly, platform continues to grow weekly. The following courses were updated in...
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June 21, 2013

What Can Your Team Learn From the Blue Angels?

In order for a team to be successful, communication and feedback should flow from every direction and from every member.  Members that detract from the...
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June 21, 2013

The Yellow Brick Road Leads to Effective Team Work

Our content partner, Advanced Knowledge, uses a movie classic to depict the importance of effective team work.  Watch snippets of the “Wizard of Oz,” to...
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June 18, 2013

What’s a Bad Question? … Was That one?

How many questions do you think you ask a day?  Out of all those questions, how complex do you believe some of them are?  Though...
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June 12, 2013

What a Movie Classic Can Teach You and Your Team

One of our newest content partners, Advanced Knowledge, takes actual events, public figures, celebrities and movies, and transforms them into case studies which focus on...
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June 10, 2013

How Does a NASCAR Pit Crew Relate to Your Business Team?

One of our newest content partners, Advanced Knowledge, supplies us with training courses that show real-life events for attention-grabbing training comprehension.   Offered at BusinessTrainingPower.com, Advanced Knowledge...
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May 24, 2013

Use Great Customer Service as a Marketing Tool

In many cases, poor customer service will not only lead to a loss of the customer, but also word-of-mouth “marketing”; and this negative “marketing” to...
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May 24, 2013

A Case Study: The Five Secrets of Communication

We have welcomed a new content partner, Advanced Knowledge.  Advanced Knowledge uses real-life events as case studies for comprehensive and effective training courses for various...
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May 17, 2013

Welcome Two New Partners: Advanced Knowledge and Sonic Performance Support

The unveiling of our third generation Video On Demand (VOD) platform has brought about new opportunities as we have finally eliminated all barriers to using...
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May 14, 2013

Learn the Features of Microsoft Access 2010

When working on a computer all day and following a daily routine, we easily fall into a rut of not expanding or continuing learning.  On...
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May 7, 2013

Learn from Case Studies for Team Work and Decision Making

*** Note – this post was from 2013, for a more recent discussion on check out some of these posts. *** Managerial techniques have an...
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April 29, 2013

How To Manage Your Personal Brand

The main goal of personal branding is just like the goal of company’s branding; differentiate from your competition.  Just as you would for your organization’s...
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April 24, 2013

Can You Tell if Someone Will Make a Good Leader?

When an organization develops major glitches, we begin to research and dig into what the genuine issue in causing such troubles. Effective leadership skills are...
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April 8, 2013

Using Customer Service Techniques with Your Co-Workers

When we think who our customers are, we tend to only think about who we are servicing externally.  We really need to recognize all our customers...
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March 29, 2013

How Accountability Can Help You Succeed

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines accountability as the “quality or state of being accountable; especially: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.”  Being...
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March 18, 2013

Selling Skills as Easy as the ABC’s

The BusinessTrainingPower.com course “Selling Skills from A to Z: 26 Skills to Improve Telesales and Customer Service” offers 26 tips to improve sales and customer...
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March 18, 2013

How to Avoid the Five Forbidden Phrases of Customer Service

*** Note – This post is from 2013, for more current posts on customer service, check these out.  Nancy Friedman, the Telephone Doctor, has been collecting...
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March 14, 2013

Caution: You May be More Rude Than You Think

Rude behavior is the enemy of good customer service; from the supermarket to the doctor’s office, employees should think of customers as the boss of...
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March 13, 2013

Prove Your Customer Service Skills Over the Phone

The Telephone Doctor, Nancy Friedman, shares the top pet peeves customers have regarding service over the phone in the course, “10 Core Skills to Delivering...
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March 12, 2013

Questioning Techniques to Enhance Customer Service

While being a customer representative is all about answering questions, the best performers in this field are also adept at asking questions. When people call...
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March 4, 2013

6 Specific Traits to Positive Customer Interaction

Customer service experiences can range from excellent down to terrible.  It is a mystery as to why every customer interaction is not on the same...
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March 4, 2013

Learn How More Respect Equals Less Harassment

The current workplace is more diverse than ever; you will likely come in contact with a wide variety of people, doing many different types of...
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March 1, 2013

How To Get The Most Out of Your Team

The training course, “Getting the Most out of Your Team,” visits three major corporations and how they implement the use of the “Mining Group Gold”...
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March 1, 2013

Diversity is Effective in the Workplace

The word diversity brings to mind differences; differences bring about new skills and new perspectives.  As diversity increases in the workplace it is important to...
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February 28, 2013

Eliminate Barriers for a Creative Workplace

Creativity is one of the most important and least understood resources in organizational life.  Within work teams we often mismanage creativity.  There are always ways...
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February 28, 2013

Learn from the St. Paul Saints How to Have Fun at Work

In creating a positive culture at work, an element of fun must be included.  Work is a place where people spend 40 (maybe 80) hours...
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February 28, 2013

Develop and Maintain an Innovative Team

Do you ever feel reluctant in welcoming new members to your team?  Are you worried ideas, views and procedures are going to clash?  When working...
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February 27, 2013

Empower Your Group Toward Good Decision Making

Is it fair to assume a cohesive group is the most productive and efficient?  Or, are we able to argue the fact that a cohesive...
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February 20, 2013

Make Sales Stand-Out Above the Rest

Customer service can make or break the reputation of an organization.  Maintaining effective teamwork, staying customer focused and learning proper customer service skills create an...
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February 19, 2013

Resolving Conflict: Just Stay C.A.L.M.

Conflict will always arise in the workplace.  The worst thing to do when it does occur is to react emotionally, or without thinking.  Take a...
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February 18, 2013

Free Webinar, “Using Online Training to Turn Good Employees into Great Employees”

There tend to be two questions anticipated in the discussion of employee training: What if I invest a lot of money training workers and they...
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