These courses are designed to help supervisors, developing and middle managers to meet the wide range of challenges faced in today's business environment. Courses are entirely browser-based for easy integration into standard networks and are suitable for delivery via an intranet, the internet or a Learning Management System. The course construction allows easy integration into most Learning Management System (LMS) environments.

Product Features

HIGHLY INTERACTIVE AND ENGAGING CONTENT

Each course is highly interactive with UK voice-over, graphical exercises, and extensive testing functionality. The emphasis of this range of courses is on high quality written and spoken content, and thought provoking questions. Courses have been developed by a panel of subject matter experts with input from world-renowned individuals such as Professor John Adair and Sir Ludovic Kennedy. This involvement ensures that the theories and models used are in line with standard and up-to-date management thinking and terminology.

FLEXIBILITY OF USES

All courses in the Management Milestones - Essentials series can be used in two very different ways, depending on the user's needs:

• Tutorial Mode - this involves going through the course from start to finish, from first principles to advanced techniques
• Just-in-time Mode - each chapter has a "check my understanding" option, which can be used to decide which parts of each module are most relevant at that time

MAPPING COURSE MATERIAL TO QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS

The Management Milestones - Essentials portfolio of courses is unique in that all the learning material fully supports the following occupational standards and qualifications:

• MCI/NVQ - management NVQs (National Vocational Qualifications) from the Management Charter Initiative
• SFEDI - performance criteria and knowledge requirements for the SFEDI (Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative) standard
• IIP - the skills and knowledge taught in this course contribute to specific assessment indicators within the Investors in People UK standard

The material can also:

• Be mapped against the requirements as laid out in your competency framework ensuring staff at different levels in your organisation receive learning specific to their needs
• Be mapped against modules and segments in a number of ILM (Institute of Learning and Management) qualifications to provide a comprehensive and flexible
• Be used as an open resource bank to offer employees a support mechanism in their everyday working lives

All the Management Milestones - Essentials courses have been developed with specific personal development goals in mind, enabling organisations to match materials to their specific competency frameworks:

• Customisable - the online courses have fully customisable content _ make the courses even more relevant to your employees by adding your own organisation specific questions, relevant case studies and business information. Add your own specific tools to the Learner Toolkit to tie in with your own organisational development programme.

WEB/HOSTED OPTIONS

Web/Hosted options are available for all Management Milestones courses