Making Training Count, WPF Courseware and C# Training Courseware, Customer Relations Strategies, Top Java Courseware and .NET Courseware

Making Training Count, WPF Courseware and C# Training Courseware, Customer Relations Strategies, Top Java Courseware and .NET Courseware

Wow... it's been cold in Minnesota, Intertech's home state, but we've got a hot issue of our courseware newsletter:

• An article on Making Training Count (Part 1 of 3). This article, targeted to the users of training, has ideas you can use to sell courses
• WPF Courseware and C# Training Courseware
• An article on customer relations strategies
• Top Selling Java Courseware and .NET Courseware

If you have ideas around our 2009 R&D plans or have courses that you're interested in but can't find in our line-up, give me a call or send me an email.

Dan McCabe
Director of Training Sales
Intertech

Making Training Count

This article is the first installment of a three part series

Wondering if there’s a silver lining to the current economic slowdown? How about the extra available time for training employees? In good times or bad, successful companies continue to invest in their most important asset--employees. Business experts, including Stephen Covey and Dale Carnegie, tout the importance of ongoing employee training and include personal development as standard elements of their management advice systems.

Employees are rejuvenated by time away from the day-to-day routine and the new ideas that always arise during a successful learning experience. And by training employees during bad times you’re also building confidence and morale at a time when employee motivation and loyalty can be taking quite a hit. Most importantly, ongoing training is your only insurance in a constantly changing competitive landscape.

But successful training doesn’t happen by accident. Maximizing your training investment requires knowing your desired outcome in advance, making sure employees are prepared for training, and not letting the learning go unapplied when your employees have left the classroom. As the organization paying for training, you also should shop around and negotiate for the best possible deals.

Defining the need

Like most things in life, successful training hinges on knowing your objective in advance. Employee learning objectives obviously need to support corporate goals and should be SMART, which stands for specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented and on a timetable. For example, if your organization is switching from mainframe programming to a newer technology like Java, your employees’ learning objective could be to reach a level of efficiency in Java that allows him or her to be Java certified within one month after finishing training.

For training to be effective, it should occur right before the new skills will be needed in the workplace. It’s frustrating for employees not to be able to put new skills to work immediately after learning them, not to mention a poor investment for your company... (continued next month).



WPF Courseware | C# Training Courseware

WPF Courseware

Intertech's WPF courseware has been updated to include coverage of Expression Blend.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a major component of .NET 3.0. The API provides a new model for building traditional desktop UIs as well as a new generation of smart client / web aware GUI applications. This course will dive into the WPF object model, the role (and use of) XAML as well as the WPF development tools. Attendees will investigate the WPF data binding engine, available layout managers, and the construction of styles and templates. This course also introduces the 2D, 3D, video and animation APIs exposed by the Windows Presentation object model. We wrap up with an examination of XBAP (Xaml Browser Applications) and the role of WPF/E.

Learning Objectives

• WFP object model and use of XAML
• Use of WPF developments tools
• Control content model and layout managers
• Data binding, styles, graphics
• Navigation Applications and XBAPs

WPF Courseware Information...


C# Training Courseware

Intertech’s Complete C# course is designed to expose experienced software developers to the C# programming language and the core APIs of the .NET platform. The course will begin by exposing attendees to the syntax and semantics of the C# programming language and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts. Students will gain an understanding of the .NET type system (classes, structures, enums, interfaces and delegates), assembly configuration, file IO operations and the role of type metadata. Once the foundational topics have been addressed, the remainder of the class will introduce the role of Windows Forms, ADO.NET,and ASP.NET.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn Object Oriented Programming with C#
• Learn to build desktop applications using Windows Forms
• Learn to interact with relational databases using ADO.NET
• Learn to build web sites using ASP.NET
• Learn to build XML web services using the .NET platform

C# Courseware Training Information...

Upsize Magazine Business Builder Awards: Best Practices in Customer Relations

NO TWO COMPANIES offer the same product or service, but the finalists for Best Practices in Customer Relations share a common belief that customer service is a cornerstone for success.

Tom Salonek, founder of Intertech, an Eagan-based software development and training company, likes to try new marketing initiatives. One of his most recent has been the Elite Rewards Training Excellence Program, to which the company has attributed a steady increase in training sales.

Read the full article

.NET Courseware and Java Courseware Top Titles

The top-selling courses purchased by training firms throughout North America and Europe.


.NET Courseware
1. C# Courseware
2. WPF Courseware
3. VB.NET Courseware
4. ASP.NET Courseware
5. Silverlight Courseware

6. WCF Courseware
7. LINQ Courseware
8. WF Courseware



Java Courseware
1. Hibernate Courseware
2. JSP Courseware
3. Java Courseware
4. Java Web Services Courseware
5. iBATIS Courseware using RAD
6. iBATIS Courseware using Eclipse





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