Educational
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Your indispensable guide to coping with and managing your stress levels -Stress is now considered to be a part of everyday life for many people – but surprisingly, a large majority of people are unaware that they are even suffering from stress, let alone how to manage it effectively. Post assessment tests your understanding of the material covered and provides you with a personal stress evaluation as well as tips for further study.
Stress is an internal response to a situation we may find hard to handle, and although we cannot change many of the external triggers of stress, we can change the effect that stressful situations have on us through effective stress management.
Is your stress personality typical of a ‘Type A' or a ‘Type B' character? What is your personal response to stress? Do you Fight, or take Flight? How is your mental fitness IQ compared to others? Take an honest look at yourself and find the answers to these questions and much more in Teaching-you Stress Management Skills.
This indispensable course in stress management instructs you in how to understand, recognise, and cope with stress using a wide variety of techniques including audio-visual clips, mini-progress tests and personal assessments.
Chart your progress and success with this program as you learn the best methods of coping with and managing stress in order to create a happier, more positive and more successful working environment!
• Mini-progress tests check your understanding as your progress through the topics
• Audio video clips with key supporting bullet points – listen to the video then remind yourself of the key points
• Video examples – watch as you're shown the best way to cope with stressful situations
• Clearly categorised sections that are easy to follow
• Quick start allows you to begin the course from where you previously finished
• Follow your progress on the main menu – know what sections you have already covered
• Provides advice on additional resources available
Specifications
• Minimum Requirements: Windows® 98 / Me / 2000 / XP
• Pentium® 133 or equivalent
• 80MB Hard Drive Space
• 32MB RAM
• 800x600x16bit colour
• CD-ROM Speed 4x or faster
• Any 100% Windows® compatible soundcard
• Category: Educational
• Publisher: Focus
Product Overview
Improve your team's performance with this essential training aid
Are you an ‘old school' supervisor or a ‘new school' supervisor? Do you know different forms of power that they exercise? Did you even know there were different power influences?-Teaching-you Supervisory Skills can help you discern the difference and guide you toward more productive and effective team management.
Whether you are new to the role or just feel that you could develop your management techniques, Teaching-you Supervisory Skills can lead you in the right direction to improve your personal performance and boost your team's enthusiasm.
The key to success lies in how well you manage performance, your ability to communicate proactively, your coaching abilities, and your attitude towards change. Teaching-you Supervisory Skills provides you with everything you need to successfully perfect these skills and incorporate them into your own work life.
Stop taking on all the workload yourself and let your team input their skills and knowledge. Project your expectations and maintain their motivation with positive feedback to ensure that your team is working to its full potential. The results will be both noticeable and rewarding.
What are you waiting for? Teaching-you Supervisory Skills will give you the confidence and support to become a great boss in every area.
Highlights
-Mini-progress tests – check your understanding as you progress through the topics.
-Audio video clips with key supporting points –
-listen to the video and then remind yourself of the key points.
-Mini-video assessments – evaluate the best course of action .
-Quick start – start the course where you finished last time.
-Follow your progress on the main menu - know what sections you have covered.
-Personal evaluation and tips for further study – see if and where you need to improve your knowledge.
Features
•Watch characters at work and critique their performance
•Project your expectations and help your team accomplish them
•Learn strategies for delegating, planning and problem-solving
•Readiness assessment rate your own supervisory skills and readiness
•Mini-progress tests and Mini-video assessments
•Video examples and audio video clips with key supporting points
•Case studies watch characters at work and critique their performance
•Clearly categorised sections take a section at a time and follow your progress
•Post assessment and personal evaluation
•Different supervisory styles from author Rick Conlow
Specifications
• Minimum Requirements: Windows® 98 / Me / 2000 / XP
• Pentium® 133 or equivalent
• 80MB Hard Drive Space
• 32MB RAM
• 800x600x16bit colour
• CD-ROM Speed 4x or faster
• Any 100% Windows® compatible soundcard
• Category: Educational
• Publisher: Focus
Start Writing Your Novel With New Novelist Version 1
Product Overview
Start Writing!-
Hone Your Writing Skills
Create a living, breathing world
Create locations so realistic that readers are transported into your world. The supplied questions help you build up background knowledge and encourage you to write more descriptively.
Features
•Plan and create your complete story, characters and events.
•Collate all your ideas, and develop your novel methodically.
•Tutorial you'll never be left with a blank screen.
•Global Notes keep all your notes in one easily accessible place.
•Resource Centre the best writers' resources on the Web.
•Features extracts from Wannabe a Writer? A book by Writing Magazine's Jane Wenham-Jones.
System Requirements
•PC Operating System: Windows® Me / 2000 / XP / Vista
•PC CPU Type and Speed: 450MHz Pentium® II or equivalent
•Hard Drive Space (MB): 20MB
•Memory: 64MB
•Graphics: Any 800x600x16bit colour graphics card
•Audio: Any 100% DirectX compatible sound card
•Printer: Required to print your story
•Internet: Required for use with the Resource Centre
Teaching-you Clarinet Skills is the ultimate beginners CD-ROM for anyone who wants to learn to play the clarinet. Starting from the basics of assembling your clarinet through to and including all the knowledge required for Grade I, this program will teach you all you need to know in a clear and friendly way.
Teaching-you Clarinet Skills contains 100 inspiring and easy-to-follow lessons, with supporting video clips and MIDI file accompaniments to play along to.
Highlights
-Learn key techniques
Presented in a clearly laid out interface, everything you need for one lesson is accessible off the main screen. Read about basic clarinet techniques before watching a tutorial video, or print each lesson as a PDF to take away with you. You can also print out scores and sight-reading exercises to help develop your music theory and reading skills.
-Practise your skills
Practise your newly-learnt skills with real audio accompaniments. Speed up, slow down or mute others instruments or select certain bars to loop, allowing you to practise tricky areas. Other features include a metronome facility for all MIDI tracks and a recording facility so that you can record yourself playing and review your progress – you can even write your tunes to a CD*.
Features
• 100 lessons in ten chapters each with a printable score and PDF.
• 100 supporting tutorial videos so you can see exactly how to play.
• Starts from beginners level through to and including Royal College of Music Grade I.
• MIDI backing tracks with variable speed.
• Real audio accompaniments with volume and pan controls.
• Looped practice allows you to focus on any tricky areas.
• Fingering chart facility for all notes covered in the program.
• Recording facility records your performance so you can review your progress.
• Teaches you how to read and compose music as well as covering elementary improvisation.
Minimum Requirements:
• PC Operating System: Windows® 98 / Me / 2000 / XP / x64
• PC CPU Type and Speed: Pentium® III 600 or equivalent
• Hard Drive Space (MB): 500MB
• Memory: 128MB
• Graphics: 1024x768x16 bit colour
• CD/DVD-ROM Speed: 8x or faster*
• Audio: Any 100% system compatible soundcard
• Printer: Optional (Recommended)
• Extra Info: *A CD writer and all necessary CD writing software must be present on your system to burn CDs. A microphone is optional
• Category: Educational
• Publisher: Focus
Product Overview
Teaching-you Recorder Skills is the ultimate beginners CD-ROM for anyone who wants to learn to play the descant recorder. Starting from the basics of assembling your recorder through to and including all the knowledge required for Grade 1, this program will teach you all you need to know in a clear and friendly way. As you progressively learn the key fingering positions and how to read music, you can play along to backing tracks or have a go at performing a solo.
Practice your newly learnt skills with real audio accompaniments. Speed up, slow down or mute other instruments, or select certain bars to loop, allowing you to practice tricky areas. Other features include a metronome facility for all MIDI tracks and a recording facility so that you can record yourself playing and record your progress - you can even write your tunes to a CD*! On completion of Teaching-you Recorder Skills, you'll have mastered all the practical skills needed for the Royal College of Music Grade 1.
Features
100 lessons in ten chapters each with a printable score and PDF
•100 supporting tutorial videos so you can see exactly how to play
•Starts from beginners level through to and including Royal College of Music Grade 1
•MIDI backing tracks with variable speed
•Real audio accompaniments with volume and pan controls
•Looped practice allows you to focus on any tricky areas
•Fingering chart facility for all notes covered in the program
•Recording facility records your performance so you can review your progress
•Teaches you how to read music
System Requirements
Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows XP, Windows 95, Windows 98 SE
•Windows 95/98/Me/XP
•Pentium 300 or above
•64MB RAM
•800 x 600 screen display
•16 bit sound card
Fill your home with health, wealth and happiness
Product Overview
Teaching-you Feng Shui Skills has been designed both as an introduction to Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology and as a powerful Feng Shui interpretation tool. For the first time user, this program will give an insight into the world of Feng Shui, yet it also contains enough information and detail to keep even the most dedicated Feng Shui practitioner or consultant interested.
Feng Shui represents a vast body of knowledge originating from the Ancient Chinese art of analysing and influencing the interaction between people, buildings and the environment, in order to enhance quality of life. People who practice Feng Shui have been known to experience new or improved relationships, job offers and career progression, as well as better health, wealth and vitality. It can be applied to any building whether home or office.
Enjoy learning how to apply the principles of Feng Shui to achieve harmony in your own home whilst adding richness, comfort and balance to release the flow of good Ch'i – the most beneficial force of Feng Shui. Fun and immersing, this program will enable you to assess every aspect of life. Discover how to use objects, colour, and the elements to promote feelings of well-being and harmony.
Understanding Feng Shui Covers:
Feng Shui Compass School Pa Kua, Black Hat Sect Ba Gua, Lo Pan Compass, I Ching Divination, Mah Jong Divination, Monthly Almanac, Chinese Horoscopes, 9 Star Ki Horoscopes, Four Pillars plus many extra hidden features.
Features
• Find the lucky areas within your home
• Advice on the best Feng Shui enhancements
• Daily guidance on all aspects of your life
• Discover how compatible you and your partner really are
• Comprehensive tips and information for you to follow
• Provides personal Feng Shui readings for you, your partner, family and friends.
Minimum Requirements:
• Windows® 98 / Me / 2000 / XP
• 486 or equivalent
• 12MB Hard Drive Space
• 16MB RAM
• CD-ROM Speed 4x or faster
• Soundcard not required
• Printer optional
• Category: Educational
• Publisher: Focus