Productivity Webathon | Nov. 4 & 18, 2014
Join us from the comfort of your desk.
#1 SelectReview the topics below and decide on the desired topic(s) and date(s). Each webinar is 30 minutes long followed by an optional, 10-minute Q&A. |
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#1 SelectReview the topics below and decide on the desired topic(s) and date(s). Each webinar is 30 minutes long followed by an optional, 10-minute Q&A.#2 RegisterRegister in the registration form on the left. Indicate the webinar topic(s) you'd like to attend in the box marked "Message." Limit is 2 webinars per person. Deadline to register is 24 hours before the start of the webinar.#3 JoinYour login will be sent to you within 24-48 hours. When the time comes, use your login to join the class from the comfort of your desk. |
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Time |
Day 1: November 4 |
Day 2: November 18 |
8:00am PT |
Overcoming the E-Mail Overload |
Social Media Beginner |
9:00am PT |
Staying Focused in an ADD World |
Google Docs |
10:00am PT |
Business Writing for Success |
Google Analytics learn more |
11:00am PT |
Project Management |
Business E-Mail Writing |
12:00pm PT |
Excel Techniques |
Word Techniques |
1:00pm PT |
Excel PivotTables |
Google Forms |
2:00pm PT |
Creating Compelling Presentations |
Google Drive |
3:00pm PT |
Effective Meetings |
Social Media Intermediate |
4:00pm PT |
Eat Well to Accomplish More |
Creating Engaging Presentations with Prezi |
5:00pm PT |
Move More to Accomplish More |
Stress Management |
Workshop Descriptions
Overcoming the E-mail Overload
This session is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers who receive a large number of e-mail messages, and who would like to manage it more effectively, significantly reduce the incoming volume, and streamline communication and task management with their staff. This session uses Microsoft Outlook and Google Mail to demonstrate the most innovative e-mail management techniques as well as provide tips on how to apply these techniques in other e-mail applications.
What will be covered?
Managing e-mail like a task, the anatomy of the e-mail task. Using the categories and labels for breakthrough productivity. Subject lines that matter and that get results. Techniques to significantly reduce incoming volume. Taking the load off of e-mail.
Staying Focused in an ADD World
This workshop is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers whose “attention” is in high demand, and who are faced with many competing priorities and receiving large number of requests from staff, students, and other stakeholders. This session also tackles the latest workplace and personal technologies that make it increasing challenging to stay focused on the current task or current thought. These technologies range from e-mail, IM, and mobile devices, to the latest Social Media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and the like.
What will be covered?
-
Managing the thought process.
-
Staying focused at the strategic level.
-
Managing focused and collaborative time moment by moment.
Business Writing for Success
The workshop is designed for business professionals who write on the job (whether short reports, business e-mails or longer material) and need a review of writing fundamentals. As a result, they will achieve outstanding results from all their written communications—and take their writing to the next level.
What will be covered?
Passive and active voice. Subject/verb, pronoun/subject agreement. Confusing wording, appropriate tone, and punctuation pointers. 10 most common goofs and 10 more mishaps. Punctuation pointers, strong sentences and paragraphs, editing and proofreading for success. Planning and organizing.
Project Management
This workshop is designed for business professionals who want to enhance their project management skills and better manage projects of all kinds. While traditional project management concepts are covered, this session is focused on bringing innovative insights and practical techniques to revolutionize managing projects of all sizes.
What will be covered?
Project management tools. Tasks, durations, and dependencies. Resources, availability, and assignment. Big projects, small projects, and micro projects. Planning and micro-planning. Issue tracking and issue management. Defining results and driving to completion. Streamlining communication and collaboration. Expectations and negotiation. Project meeting facilitation.
Excel Techniques
This workshop is for business users who want to take their Microsoft Excel skills to the next level. In this workshop, users learn powerful techniques that can help them save significant time, analyze data and extract important business insights, present information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
What will be covered?
Managing budgets and projections, as well as handling large lists of data. Basic and advanced formulas, 3-D ranges, sorting and filtering techniques, database functions, and several other features are covered. Using powerful analysis and reporting tools, such as PivotTables to extract important information. Templates, styles, shortcuts, and tips. Data entry and validation, collaboration, tracking changes, and protecting sheets or cells within a sheet to ensure data integrity and confidentiality.
Excel PivotTables
In this workshop you will learn the most powerful capabilities of Excel PivotTables and how they can be an invaluable tool in helping you analyze your data and present your conclusions in compelling ways. If you have been using PivotTables and wondering what more you can do with them, or maybe running into obsctacles and wishing you can get around them, this workshop will help you unleash the power of PivotTables and get outstanding results.
What will be covered?
Getting your data ready for PivotTable Reports and Charts. Using custom functions to perform more advanced analysis and comparisons such as counts, statistical functions, % of row, % of column, and many more. Filtering and formatting your report. Adding formulas to your PivotTables and Charts. Incorporating your PivotTables reports and Charts into Word documents and linking them so they stay up-to-date.
Creating Compelling Presentations
This workshop is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers who present regularly and want to greatly enhance their presentations with compelling content and visuals. The session discusses key presentation concepts and demonstrates valuable tips and techniques using some of the popular presentation software, including Microsoft PowerPoint. Most importantly, this session discusses and demonstrates visual drawing techniques that bring concepts and data into life, enabling your presentation to have an unprecedented impact.
What will be covered?
Less-is-more for greater impact. From words to charts and diagrams. Telling a story and ending with action. Using templates to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Engaging your audience with live drawings. The Results Curve and 4 quadrants in action.
Effective Meetings
In this interactive online live session, we will discuss the fundamentals of conducting effective meetings online and offline, as well as new and innovative techniques that can enhance meeting results. The session includes case studies and scenarios that involve audience participation.
What will be covered?
Essential techniques for keeping meetings on track and getting the most out of them. The perfect agenda and types of agenda items (information, input, decision). Handling interactions skillfully. Tracking issues and action items. The end of meeting survey. Online meeting and collaboration tools.
Eat Well to Accomplish More
The workshop is designed for anyone who both works and eats. The nutrition choices we make throughout the work day impacts our lives on and off the job, and in this workshop we will explore simple changes business professionals can make to improve the way they work. As a result, attendees will gain nutrition strategies for use immediately to improve the way they eat, feel, and work.
What will be covered?
One simple rule for eating right. Lunch break tricks for afternoon energy. Water, coffee or tea? The best choice for productivity. Common nutrition myths exposed. Why your diet has a direct impact on your next promotion. Don’t be an outlier: Why your employer cares if you’re sick (it’s not what you think!).
Move More to Accomplish More
You already know exercise is good for your health. It is a key part of managing your weight and keeping your heart, lungs, and other bodily systems in tip-top shape. But did you know that exercise can dramatically impact your life in so many other ways? From making you more productive, to boosting energy and stamina, to spurring creative thinking, to elevating your mood, and more—moving more each day can and will help you live and work better.
What will be covered?
How our modern lifestyle and technology is actually working against us, stifling creativity, stressing us out and making us tired, moody and slow. Why exercise gives you a sharp mind and a sunny disposition (both keys to getting ahead at work). 13 surprising benefits of exercise. Minimum activity recommendations and the exponential benefits when you invest a little more time and effort. Tips for fitting regular exercise and more activity into your busy life.
Social Media Beginner
This session is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers who want to get the latest update on how Social Media is impacting the workplace, and the challenges and opportunities related to the use of Social Media at work and beyond. This session will also demonstrate the key capabilities of popular Social Media platforms (LinkedIn and Facebook) and highlight the key tools that are used to better leverage these platforms.
What will be covered?
How Social Media is being used today. Challenges and opportunities: What every executive needs to know. Business applications for Social Media. How to leverage popular platforms strategically: Facebook and LinkedIn in a nutshell.
Google Docs
This workshop is for business users who want to become more comfortable with the features and functionality of Google. Participants will learn to create and manage documents, and how to access these from any device. The course will also cover best practices for managing cloud-based files including publishing, sharing, and changing file permissions.
What will be covered?
Intro to Google Docs files: Creating, uploading, and organizing folders and documents. Learning basic and advanced tricks to format content within documents, and how to use Google Docs for document collaboration.
Google Analytics
This workshop is designed for professionals who want to increase their knowledge of Google Analytics. Google Analytics allows you to monitor and analyze the performance of your websites, apps, and advertising campaigns. After the class, participants can expect to have a confident understanding of how to set up tracking for a website, and how to view and create custom reports based on user-assigned parameters.
What will be covered?
A brief tutorial of the importance of web analytics and how Google Analytics works. Exploring best practices for setting up an account that will track performance accurately. Subdomains and top level domains, adding tracking code, standard reporting, custom reports, and data exports.
Business E-mail Writing
The workshop is designed for all business professionals who write e-mail on the job and who want to achieve outstanding results. The workshop teaches you how to jump-start your writing, write attention-grabbing subject lines so your e-mails get opened, plan and organize content so you get the results you want (without two or three e-mails to clarify), and edit for more polish and pizzazz.
What will be covered?
Jump-start your writing. Plan and organize your message. Write an attention-getting subject line. How to say hello—and goodbye. Use the most appropriate tone and style. Make it easy on the eye. End with impact, edit and proofread. Avoid the most common pet peeves. Know when not to send an e-mail.
Word Techniques
This workshop is for business users who want to take their Microsoft Word skills to the next level. In this workshop, users learn powerful techniques that can help them save significant time, better manipulate and format documents, present information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
What will be covered?
Document manipulation and formatting, including dozens of navigation and formatting tips and shortcuts, formatting styles, headers and footers, bookmarks, and hyperlinks. Creating tables, charts, and diagrams from within Word, as well as importing from other applications such as Excel. Using pictures and clip art. Automatically generating table of contents and indexes. Enabling multiple users to review and edit documents, sending documents for review, merging changed documents. Tracking changes, reviewing, and accepting or rejecting changes. Templates, styles, shortcuts, and tips.
Google Forms
This workshop is for business users who want to become more comfortable with the features and functionality of Google Docs, particularly in making forms. Participants will learn to create and manage forms, and how to access these from any device. The course will also cover best practices for managing cloud-based files including publishing, sharing, and changing file permissions.
What will be covered?
Intro to Google Docs and form files: Creating, uploading, and organizing forms. Learning basic and advanced tricks to format content and build dynamic forms that can be shared from a local device or computer, published to the web, or embedded in a website. Also covers document collaboration.
Google Drive
This workshop is for those people who want to learn how to use the Google Drives tools and capabilities more efficiently. Take the next step with this cloud-based tool for storage and more, and learn how to collaborate on documents to increase your productivity.
What will be covered?
Document Collaboration, Storage, and Organization.
Social Media Intermediate
Whatever our view is on social media, the reality is that 100’s of millions of users are engaged in these platforms, and this large user base includes many of our customers, employees, partners, colleagues, friends, and family members. It is imperative then that we better understand these platforms, become skilled at using them, and learn how to fully leverage them. In this session, we explore the capabilities of Twitter and blogging at an intermediate level, and discuss ways in which we can use them strategically and purposefully, to achieve significant business and personal results.
What will be covered?
This session will provide those who are relatively familiar with social media, Twitter, and blogging with everything you need to advance your use. You will gain additional insights into how to use social media more strategically and purposefully.
Creating Engaging Presentations with Prezi
This workshop is for anyone that would like to learn more about Prezi, the cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool. In this session, we will provide an overview of the product, pricing, and key features. We’ll also explore the robust sharing and collaboration capabilities that allow for co-editing and presenting across devices.
What will be covered?
Product and plan overview. Creating a presentation: Selecting a template and creating a new presentation or importing an existing PowerPoint presentation. Frames, Layouts, and Paths. Sharing Your Prezi: Inviting others to view your presentation or generating a URL to allow for viewing without logging in. Prezi Meeting: Co-editing and presenting with team members across devices and locations. And Prezi best practices.
Stress Management
This workshop series is designed for business professionals desiring better ways to manage the stress of increasing demands in the information age. By participating in this course, they will understand how different types of stress affect mental and physical well-being, and learn neuroscience techniques to rewire their brains for greater peace and productivity.
What will be covered?
Recognizing the physical harms of stress. Knowing how thinking can increase or decrease your stress, and common habits that lead to stress. How stress affects immunity and leads to disease. How to rewire the brain to think and respond differently. Simple processes to reverse the effects of stress. Transforming thoughts for greater peace and productivity. Mindfulness techniques, physical stress relief, and creating a personal stress relief plan.
Workshop Descriptions
Overcoming the E-mail Overload
This session is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers who receive a large number of e-mail messages, and who would like to manage it more effectively, significantly reduce the incoming volume, and streamline communication and task management with their staff. This session uses Microsoft Outlook and Google Mail to demonstrate the most innovative e-mail management techniques as well as provide tips on how to apply these techniques in other e-mail applications.
What will be covered?
Managing e-mail like a task, the anatomy of the e-mail task. Using the categories and labels for breakthrough productivity. Subject lines that matter and that get results. Techniques to significantly reduce incoming volume. Taking the load off of e-mail.
Staying Focused in an ADD World
This workshop is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers whose “attention” is in high demand, and who are faced with many competing priorities and receiving large number of requests from staff, students, and other stakeholders. This session also tackles the latest workplace and personal technologies that make it increasing challenging to stay focused on the current task or current thought. These technologies range from e-mail, IM, and mobile devices, to the latest Social Media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and the like.
What will be covered?
-
Managing the thought process.
-
Staying focused at the strategic level.
-
Managing focused and collaborative time moment by moment.
Business Writing for Success
The workshop is designed for business professionals who write on the job (whether short reports, business e-mails or longer material) and need a review of writing fundamentals. As a result, they will achieve outstanding results from all their written communications—and take their writing to the next level.
What will be covered?
Passive and active voice. Subject/verb, pronoun/subject agreement. Confusing wording, appropriate tone, and punctuation pointers. 10 most common goofs and 10 more mishaps. Punctuation pointers, strong sentences and paragraphs, editing and proofreading for success. Planning and organizing.
Project Management
This workshop is designed for business professionals who want to enhance their project management skills and better manage projects of all kinds. While traditional project management concepts are covered, this session is focused on bringing innovative insights and practical techniques to revolutionize managing projects of all sizes.
What will be covered?
Project management tools. Tasks, durations, and dependencies. Resources, availability, and assignment. Big projects, small projects, and micro projects. Planning and micro-planning. Issue tracking and issue management. Defining results and driving to completion. Streamlining communication and collaboration. Expectations and negotiation. Project meeting facilitation.
Excel Techniques
This workshop is for business users who want to take their Microsoft Excel skills to the next level. In this workshop, users learn powerful techniques that can help them save significant time, analyze data and extract important business insights, present information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
What will be covered?
Managing budgets and projections, as well as handling large lists of data. Basic and advanced formulas, 3-D ranges, sorting and filtering techniques, database functions, and several other features are covered. Using powerful analysis and reporting tools, such as PivotTables to extract important information. Templates, styles, shortcuts, and tips. Data entry and validation, collaboration, tracking changes, and protecting sheets or cells within a sheet to ensure data integrity and confidentiality.
Excel PivotTables
In this workshop you will learn the most powerful capabilities of Excel PivotTables and how they can be an invaluable tool in helping you analyze your data and present your conclusions in compelling ways. If you have been using PivotTables and wondering what more you can do with them, or maybe running into obsctacles and wishing you can get around them, this workshop will help you unleash the power of PivotTables and get outstanding results.
What will be covered?
Getting your data ready for PivotTable Reports and Charts. Using custom functions to perform more advanced analysis and comparisons such as counts, statistical functions, % of row, % of column, and many more. Filtering and formatting your report. Adding formulas to your PivotTables and Charts. Incorporating your PivotTables reports and Charts into Word documents and linking them so they stay up-to-date.
Creating Compelling Presentations
This workshop is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers who present regularly and want to greatly enhance their presentations with compelling content and visuals. The session discusses key presentation concepts and demonstrates valuable tips and techniques using some of the popular presentation software, including Microsoft PowerPoint. Most importantly, this session discusses and demonstrates visual drawing techniques that bring concepts and data into life, enabling your presentation to have an unprecedented impact.
What will be covered?
Less-is-more for greater impact. From words to charts and diagrams. Telling a story and ending with action. Using templates to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Engaging your audience with live drawings. The Results Curve and 4 quadrants in action.
Effective Meetings
In this interactive online live session, we will discuss the fundamentals of conducting effective meetings online and offline, as well as new and innovative techniques that can enhance meeting results. The session includes case studies and scenarios that involve audience participation.
What will be covered?
Essential techniques for keeping meetings on track and getting the most out of them. The perfect agenda and types of agenda items (information, input, decision). Handling interactions skillfully. Tracking issues and action items. The end of meeting survey. Online meeting and collaboration tools.
Eat Well to Accomplish More
The workshop is designed for anyone who both works and eats. The nutrition choices we make throughout the work day impacts our lives on and off the job, and in this workshop we will explore simple changes business professionals can make to improve the way they work. As a result, attendees will gain nutrition strategies for use immediately to improve the way they eat, feel, and work.
What will be covered?
One simple rule for eating right. Lunch break tricks for afternoon energy. Water, coffee or tea? The best choice for productivity. Common nutrition myths exposed. Why your diet has a direct impact on your next promotion. Don’t be an outlier: Why your employer cares if you’re sick (it’s not what you think!).
Move More to Accomplish More
You already know exercise is good for your health. It is a key part of managing your weight and keeping your heart, lungs, and other bodily systems in tip-top shape. But did you know that exercise can dramatically impact your life in so many other ways? From making you more productive, to boosting energy and stamina, to spurring creative thinking, to elevating your mood, and more—moving more each day can and will help you live and work better.
What will be covered?
How our modern lifestyle and technology is actually working against us, stifling creativity, stressing us out and making us tired, moody and slow. Why exercise gives you a sharp mind and a sunny disposition (both keys to getting ahead at work). 13 surprising benefits of exercise. Minimum activity recommendations and the exponential benefits when you invest a little more time and effort. Tips for fitting regular exercise and more activity into your busy life.
Social Media Beginner
This session is for executives, faculty members, and senior managers who want to get the latest update on how Social Media is impacting the workplace, and the challenges and opportunities related to the use of Social Media at work and beyond. This session will also demonstrate the key capabilities of popular Social Media platforms (LinkedIn and Facebook) and highlight the key tools that are used to better leverage these platforms.
What will be covered?
How Social Media is being used today. Challenges and opportunities: What every executive needs to know. Business applications for Social Media. How to leverage popular platforms strategically: Facebook and LinkedIn in a nutshell.
Google Docs
This workshop is for business users who want to become more comfortable with the features and functionality of Google. Participants will learn to create and manage documents, and how to access these from any device. The course will also cover best practices for managing cloud-based files including publishing, sharing, and changing file permissions.
What will be covered?
Intro to Google Docs files: Creating, uploading, and organizing folders and documents. Learning basic and advanced tricks to format content within documents, and how to use Google Docs for document collaboration.
Google Analytics
This workshop is designed for professionals who want to increase their knowledge of Google Analytics. Google Analytics allows you to monitor and analyze the performance of your websites, apps, and advertising campaigns. After the class, participants can expect to have a confident understanding of how to set up tracking for a website, and how to view and create custom reports based on user-assigned parameters.
What will be covered?
A brief tutorial of the importance of web analytics and how Google Analytics works. Exploring best practices for setting up an account that will track performance accurately. Subdomains and top level domains, adding tracking code, standard reporting, custom reports, and data exports.
Business E-mail Writing
The workshop is designed for all business professionals who write e-mail on the job and who want to achieve outstanding results. The workshop teaches you how to jump-start your writing, write attention-grabbing subject lines so your e-mails get opened, plan and organize content so you get the results you want (without two or three e-mails to clarify), and edit for more polish and pizzazz.
What will be covered?
Jump-start your writing. Plan and organize your message. Write an attention-getting subject line. How to say hello—and goodbye. Use the most appropriate tone and style. Make it easy on the eye. End with impact, edit and proofread. Avoid the most common pet peeves. Know when not to send an e-mail.
Word Techniques
This workshop is for business users who want to take their Microsoft Word skills to the next level. In this workshop, users learn powerful techniques that can help them save significant time, better manipulate and format documents, present information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
What will be covered?
Document manipulation and formatting, including dozens of navigation and formatting tips and shortcuts, formatting styles, headers and footers, bookmarks, and hyperlinks. Creating tables, charts, and diagrams from within Word, as well as importing from other applications such as Excel. Using pictures and clip art. Automatically generating table of contents and indexes. Enabling multiple users to review and edit documents, sending documents for review, merging changed documents. Tracking changes, reviewing, and accepting or rejecting changes. Templates, styles, shortcuts, and tips.
Google Forms
This workshop is for business users who want to become more comfortable with the features and functionality of Google Docs, particularly in making forms. Participants will learn to create and manage forms, and how to access these from any device. The course will also cover best practices for managing cloud-based files including publishing, sharing, and changing file permissions.
What will be covered?
Intro to Google Docs and form files: Creating, uploading, and organizing forms. Learning basic and advanced tricks to format content and build dynamic forms that can be shared from a local device or computer, published to the web, or embedded in a website. Also covers document collaboration.
Google Drive
This workshop is for those people who want to learn how to use the Google Drives tools and capabilities more efficiently. Take the next step with this cloud-based tool for storage and more, and learn how to collaborate on documents to increase your productivity.
What will be covered?
Document Collaboration, Storage, and Organization.
Social Media Intermediate
Whatever our view is on social media, the reality is that 100’s of millions of users are engaged in these platforms, and this large user base includes many of our customers, employees, partners, colleagues, friends, and family members. It is imperative then that we better understand these platforms, become skilled at using them, and learn how to fully leverage them. In this session, we explore the capabilities of Twitter and blogging at an intermediate level, and discuss ways in which we can use them strategically and purposefully, to achieve significant business and personal results.
What will be covered?
This session will provide those who are relatively familiar with social media, Twitter, and blogging with everything you need to advance your use. You will gain additional insights into how to use social media more strategically and purposefully.
Creating Engaging Presentations with Prezi
This workshop is for anyone that would like to learn more about Prezi, the cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool. In this session, we will provide an overview of the product, pricing, and key features. We’ll also explore the robust sharing and collaboration capabilities that allow for co-editing and presenting across devices.
What will be covered?
Product and plan overview. Creating a presentation: Selecting a template and creating a new presentation or importing an existing PowerPoint presentation. Frames, Layouts, and Paths. Sharing Your Prezi: Inviting others to view your presentation or generating a URL to allow for viewing without logging in. Prezi Meeting: Co-editing and presenting with team members across devices and locations. And Prezi best practices.
Stress Management
This workshop series is designed for business professionals desiring better ways to manage the stress of increasing demands in the information age. By participating in this course, they will understand how different types of stress affect mental and physical well-being, and learn neuroscience techniques to rewire their brains for greater peace and productivity.
What will be covered?
Recognizing the physical harms of stress. Knowing how thinking can increase or decrease your stress, and common habits that lead to stress. How stress affects immunity and leads to disease. How to rewire the brain to think and respond differently. Simple processes to reverse the effects of stress. Transforming thoughts for greater peace and productivity. Mindfulness techniques, physical stress relief, and creating a personal stress relief plan.