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My name is Giancarlo Dutko, and I just finished the “How To Effectively Handle Work” course on the Associate of Applied Science degree in Business Management and Administration at Hubbard College of Administration International.

There is an entire section of this course devoted to “Control.” After reading the section, I applied it with my two year-old son. What I did was very simple. I went with him to his room and told him to pick up one of his toys. After he picked it up, I acknowledged him and then told him to put it in a basket.  Once he completed this, I acknowledged him. We did that over and over untill all of his toys where put away. Now the next day, before he went to bed, he picked up his toys and put them in their place. The amazing part is that nobody asked him to do so. Now that proves to me that control is not bad at all, as long as it is done with a certainty of outcome and good intentions.  Although this may appear to be a simplistic example, it clearly demonstrates what managers experience every day in the work place with regards to “Control.”

Everyone would like to know what must be done in order to have a successful and ever expanding business. Well, the key to achieving this is managing by statistics. Many businesses and governments have failed and collapsed for no apparent reason to some.  The truth is that they didn’t have a reliable and effective method of managing.  They didn’t know when, what or why they should implement certain programs. They just kept on guessing, changing a little bit here, adding a little bit there, because that seemed like a good choice.

exactactions caused your statistic to be trending in the direction it is. I am eager to do the apprenticeship of this course and I know that if I apply this data to any company, and even to my life, I would be absolutely certain that the only way to go here is up, up, up!

I am Bassam El Houssami, a Lebanese student from Beirut, Lebanon on the Associate Degree Program at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA.  I have just completed the “Marketing” course.

Marketing has finally made sense to me. Marketing creates want in the public to acquire a product. Marketing has long been misunderstood and confused with promotion and public relations. What is marketing? Marketing is the conceiving and packaging and the moving (selling) of a specific product into public hands. In other words, it is the way you prepare, take to and place on the market a certain product that will in return obtain maximum potential return. How do you measure marketing success? RESPONSE is the ultimate result a marketing person is seeking to achieve from his or her marketing actions.

From this course, I realized how marketing campaigns can cost millions of dollars and yet barely recoup the cost of the campaign. Why arenít the campaigns creating response? Marketing materials not created from surveys of one’s target public will almost certainly fail every time unless “you are lucky.” Stop investing thousands of dollars in luck, and start spending on survey-based marketing!  Included in this same course, were insights into how to properly design ads, so that they are effective.

I can keep writing on how good this course is and how effective it  will make your marketing actions. However, I will stop here and say “This is the way to marketing success!”

I am currently on my final degree course “How to Increase Want for Your Products through Effective Sales Techniques.” I am eager to graduate and begin my consultant level training.

By Josh Lin, a Taiwanese student from Taichung on the Associate Degree Program at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA.

I’ve been wondering why people do this or do that for a long while; I really wanted to know why. I wanted to know how to get along well with people. Or when I see some human reaction, I wanted to know how to handle it. Unfortunately, I never got this question sorted out. By doing this course “How to Evaluate and Predict Human Behavior,” I got a framework of understanding that allowed me to resolve this issue for myself. Now I am more confident about dealing with people.

Handling people is built on three essential factors: Affinity (closeness), Reality and Communication. They form what is called the ARC Triangle.  The three factors are directly correlated.  Meaning as one moves up, the others move up, as one moves down the others move down. It is very important to know this when one is dealing with people or inanimate objects. For example, if I want to know something better, then I need to reach it, which requires increasing my affinity toward that. When I communicate with it, I get more reality about it.
Another important tool I learned about human behavior centers around emotional tone. I learned that each emotional tone has a predictable set of physiological and behavioral correlates. For instance, how one listens or speaks will differ for a person who is angry versus a person who is cheerful.  There is even more to this, no matter what emotional tone someone is in, in order to deal with him or her effectively, one needs to use the ARC Triangle.

In conclusion, by doing this course I acquired at least two vital tools for answering my initial questions about human behavior. Beyond that, the same tools turned out to be fundamental in handling the material world as well. I am now more confident about my ability to deal with my life.

Hubbard College of Administration is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing apprenticeships and internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students. I am currently on the “How to Increase Efficiency in Your Business” apprenticeship.