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69 -- TRAINING AIDS AND DEVICES POC Maria Hill Tel: (410) 965-9532 The Social Security Administration intends to issue a sole source purchase order under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures to Harvard Business School Publishing of Boston, MA for multimedia training products for executive, managers and supervisors produced by Harvard. Specifically, we plan to procure Harvard Business School Publishing's Interactive Manager Series. The Interactive Manager Series consists of three (3) CD ROMs: High Performance Management, Managing Across Differences and Teams that Work. This material addresses the following basic competencies required for managers: Conflict Management; Creative Thinking; Customer Orientation; Decisiveness; External Awareness; Flexibility; Human Resources Management; Influencing/Negotiating; Interpersonal Leadership; Management Controls/Integrity; Managing Diverse Workforce; Oral Communications/Listens to Others; Planning and Evaluating; Problem Solving; Self-Direction; Team Building; Technology Management and Vision. This training material makes optimal use of technology by incorporating audio and video; highly interactive, requiring thoughtful interaction (not just rote response); takes a personalized approach by accessing individual needs and prescribing training that will match those needs which incorporates a self-assessment instrument. The Harvard Business School Publishing is the only known source which has done extensive research by studying managers and their performance at critical stages during diverse conditions. The materials available from Harvard Business School Publishing are unique and innovative which are not available from any other sources. This is not a request for proposal or an announcement of forthcoming solicitation. Request for copies of a solicitation in response hereto will not be honored or acknowledged. The Government will not pay for information submitted in response to this publication. See Note 22. (0043)

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