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#1 SelectReview the Webinar topics below and decide on the desired topic(s) and date(s). 
#2 RegisterSign up for the desired Webinar(s) using the registration form on the left. Include the Webinar topic(s) and date(s). Registration deadline is 24 hrs. before the start of the webinar. 
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Webinar Offerings
September | October | November | December
September 2014
| Webinar |
Date(s) |
Time(s) |
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| Accomplishing More With Less (3-part series, i.e. consists of 3 Webinars) |
Wednesday, 9/17 Wednesday, 9/24 Wednesday, 10/1 |
9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 |
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| Managing and Organizing Your E-mail Inbox—Microsoft Outlook | Thursday, 9/18 | 9:30-11:00 | |
| Project Management (2-part series, i.e. consists of 2 Webinars) |
Wednesday, 9/17 Wednesday, 9/24 |
12:00-1:15 | |
| Microsoft Excel Techniques | Thursday, 9/18 |
11:30-1:00 |
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| Microsoft Excel Macros | Thursday, 9/18 | 9:00-11:00 | |
| Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks Crash Course | Thursday, 9/11 | 9:30-11:00 | |
| Stress Management (2-part series, i.e. consists of 2 Webinars) |
Thursday, 9/25 Thursday, 10/2 |
9:30-10:30 |
October 2014
| Webinar |
Date(s) |
Time(s) |
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| Accomplishing More With Less (3-part series, i.e. consists of 3 Webinars) |
Wednesday, 10/22 Wednesday, 10/29 Wednesday, 11/5 |
9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 |
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| Managing and Organizing Your E-mail Inbox— Microsoft Outlook |
Tuesday, 10/28 | 9:30-11:00 | |
| Effective Meetings | Wednesday, 10/15 | 2:00-4:00 | |
| Microsoft Excel Techniques | Wednesday, 10/15 | 9:30-11:00 |
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| Advanced Microsoft Excel PivotTables | Thursday, 10/23 | 9:30-11:30 |
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| Microsoft PowerPoint Techniques | Thursday, 10/23 | 11:30-1:00 | |
| Collaboration Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, SharePoint, and more! |
Wednesday, 10/8 | 12:00-2:00 | |
| Creating Engaging Presentations with Prezi | Thursday, 10/9 | 11:30-1:00 | |
| Accomplishing More With Social Media | Tuesday, 10/1 Tuesday, 10/21 |
9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 |
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| Business Writing for Success (2-part series, i.e. consists of 2 Webinars) |
Tuesday, 10/1 Tuesday, 10/21 |
9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 |
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| Business E-mail Writing | Thursday, 10/9 | 9:30-11:00 | |
| Eat Well to Accomplish More | Tuesday, 10/21 | 12:00-1:30 | |
| Stress Management (2-part series, i.e. consists of 2 Webinars) |
Tuesday, 10/1 Tuesday, 10/21 |
12:00-1:00 12:00-1:00 |
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| Move More to Accomplish More | Wednesday, 10/8 | 12:00-1:00 | |
| Social Media In a Nutshell | Tuesday, 10/16 | 11:10-11:50 |
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| Creating Compelling Presentations | Tuesday, 10/7 | 11:10-11:50 | |
| Staying Focused in an ADD World | Wednesday, 10/29 | 11:10-11:50 |
November 2014
| Webinar |
Date(s) |
Time(s) |
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| Creativity and Innovation (2-part series, i.e. consists of 2 Webinars) |
Friday, 11/7 Friday, 11/14 |
9:30-10:45 9:30-10:45 |
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| Total Organization | Thursday, 11/13 | 11:30-1:00 | |
| Microsoft Excel Techniques | Wednesday, 11/12 | 9:30-11:00 |
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| Microsoft Project Techniques | Wednesday, 11/12 | 9:30-11:00 | |
| Creating Engaging Presentations with Prezi | Tuesday, 11/18 | 9:30-11:00 | |
| Career Management in the Age of the App | Thursday, 11/20 | 9:30-10:30 | |
| Overcoming the E-mail Overload | Wednesday, 11/12 | 11:10-11:50 |
December 2014
| Webinar |
Date(s) |
Time(s) |
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| Accomplishing More With Less (3-part series, i.e. consists of 3 Webinars) |
Wednesday, 12/3 Wednesday, 12/10 Wednesday, 12/17 |
9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 9:30-11:00 |
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| Managing and Organizing Your E-mail Inbox— Microsoft Outlook |
Thursday, 12/11 | 9:30-11:00 | |
| Effective Meetings | Wednesday, 12/10 | 11:30-1:30 | |
| Project Management (2-part series, i.e. consists of 2 Webinars) |
Thursday, 12/11 Thursday, 12/18 |
9:30-10:45 9:30-10:45 |
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| Microsoft Excel Macros | Thursday, 12/4 |
9:00-11:00 |
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| Microsoft Word Techniques | Thursday, 12/11 | 11:30-1:00 | |
| Microsoft PowerPoint Techniques | Tuesday, 12/2 | 11:30-1:00 | |
| Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks Crash Course | Tuesday, 12/2 | 9:30-11:00 |
Workshop Descriptions
Accomplishing More With Less Description
This is the workshop that participants describe as transformational. This is it! If you want to make breakthroughs, respond instead of react to today's demanding work environment, and establish sustainable practices that will help you effectively manage the information overload and get outstanding results, you have come to the right place!
What will be covered?
The workshop deals with today's most pressing issues in the workplace, covering topics relating to managing time, managing priorities, managing interruptions, managing e-mail, calendar, and to-do lists, as well as organizing electronic and paper documents, and most importantly being invigorated and re-energized in the workplace and elsewhere.
Creativity and Innovation
Creativity becomes a necessity as organizations move to the mature stages of quality, empowerment, and high performance. Most leaders, managers, and staff, however, utilize less than 50% of their creative and intuitive ability due to an unawareness of how to incorporate relatively simple procedures into their daily job performance. This workshop focuses on how to overcome barriers to creativity.
What will be covered?
The seminar presents a wide variety of techniques, methods, and experiential processes for the participants to choose from. It also provides the opportunity for the participants to go beyond linear progression in the solution of business and managerial problems, and to master this skill in a way that it becomes a regular part of their day-to-day operation.
Managing and Organizing Your E-mail Inbox—Microsoft Outlook
This workshop is for Microsoft Outlook users who want to learn new and innovative techniques for better managing and organizing their inbox and overcoming e-mail overload.
What will be covered?
How to organize the e-mail inbox for easy handling. How to track unfinished messages. How to organize and archive messages. Valuable tips for managing the time you spend on e-mail. Many shortcuts and techniques for everyday usage.
Total Organization
This workshop is for users who deal with a great deal of information in a variety of electronic and paper formats, and who want to get a good handle on it and free up their energy for important and strategic activities. It is also for those who are in need of organizing their workspace to create an environment that is conducive to creativity and productivity.
What will be covered?
In this session, we focus on three important areas of organization: Organizing your e-mail, organizing your computer files, and organizing your papers and physical workspace. We will show you a realistic and practical approach for "total organization," which will result in "liberating your energy" so you can redirect it to the core activities that are going to make you and your organization successful.
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.
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.
Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks Crash Course
This workshop is ideal for users who want to take their Microsoft Office skills to the next level. In this condensed session, users learn powerful techniques that can help them save significant time when using the Microsoft Office applications, present information in a compelling way, analyze data and extract important business insights, and collaborate more effectively with others.
What will be covered?
We start with Outlook and show some tips and techniques relating to flags, categories, search folders, rules, tasks, and calendar, and then move to PowerPoint to demonstrate templates, themes, and layouts. Next we move to Excel to see some of the powerful lists and reports capabilities, and then Word for some advanced styles and formatting tips. Finally, we'll explore useful overall options and preferences.
Microsoft 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.
Advanced Microsoft 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.
Microsoft Excel Macros
You may have used Excel Macros to record some steps and replay them, or even ventured into some of the underlying scripts, but wondered about what Macros are really about, how they work behind the scene, and how they can help you add important functionality to your Excel Workbooks. In this workshop you will learn exactly that and get some step by step demonstrations and instructions on how to put Macros to use into your daily work.
What will be covered?
Recording Macros and an in-depth look at the Macros scripting language (VBA), including constructs, variables, data types, scope, calling procedure, looking, and more, and how Macros work behind the scene to automate routine processes. Writing Macros and accessing the properties, methods, and events of Excel Objects such as workbooks, worksheets, and ranges. Using Macros to respond to user events, create forms, and build form functionality to minimize data entry errors in order to increase efficiency and incorporate custom calculations that are tailored for your business needs.
Microsoft 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.
Microsoft PowerPoint Techniques
In this workshop, users learn powerful techniques that can help them save significant time, better manipulate and format presentations, convey information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
What will be covered?
Presentation manipulation and formatting, including dozens of navigation and formatting tips, shortcuts, and the powerful concept of Master slides and templates. Writing or importing outlines. Using different views to navigate and edit slides and speaker notes. Creating tables, charts, and diagrams from within PowerPoint, as well as importing them from other applications such as Excel and Word. Using images, sound, video, animation, and transitions to create powerful presentations that can be delivered live, or packaged as self-running presentations. Enabling multiple users to review presentations and add comments. Tracking and reviewing comments. Templates, shortcuts, and tips.
Microsoft Project Techniques
This workshop is for first time and more familiar Project users who want to get a better handle on projects and achieve desired project goals. Participants will learn powerful techniques that can help save significant time while effectively planning project tasks and resources, managing the internal and external demands they encounter, and communicating information at all levels. In addition, this workshop also provides managers with important business insights that can help them throughout their project planning, execution, and beyond.
What will be covered?
Creating tasks, establishing task relationships, identifying resources, and assigning them to tasks. Identifying the critical path of your project. Using summary tasks and milestones to better track progress, and using views and reports to stay up-to-date and communicate to others. Managing resource calendars to accommodate different shifts and nonworking times. Importing project data from Excel. Defining task constraints to best represent actual project developments. Performing resource leveling to handle resource shortages and conflicts. Updating progress including percentage of completion or actual dates, and using templates.
Collaboration Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, SharePoint, & more!
This workshop demonstrates a variety of collaboration technologies (including blogs, wikis, Microsoft SharePoint, podcasts, virtual worlds such as Second Life, and more). Collaboration Technologies is intended for: managers who want their teams to collaborate more effectively; individual team members whose work is high dependent on others; and trainers who want to make use of these technologies in their programs.
What will be covered?
This workshop includes a combination of presentations, demonstrations, interactive exercises, and hands-on sessions in each of the technologies mentioned. The demonstrations include tips and techniques that can help participants more fully utilize these technologies to communicate and share information effectively, leverage the knowledge and skills of their team members and others in their organization, and save significant time. This includes creating blogs, wikis, SharePoint sites, as well as seeing examples and case studies of how companies are using podcasting and virtual worlds to create compelling content that results in internal and external audience engagement.
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.
Accomplishing More with Social Media
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 their capabilities, and discuss ways in which we can use them strategically and purposefully, to achieve significant business and personal results.
What will be covered?
If you are new to social media, this session will provide you with everything you need to get started including demonstrations of each of the platforms. If you are already using these platforms, you will gain additional insights into how to use them more strategically and purposefully. In addition, you will learn firsthand about the Results Curve™, and how it can help you in managing social media and other interrupting technologies such as e-mail and Instant Messaging.
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.
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.
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!).
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.
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.
Career Management in the Age of the App
This workshop is designed for all professionals who are looking for clarity on the next steps in their career. This session will provide you with a new framework for thinking about career advancement, and will help you articulate big picture goals and milestones for the next six months to one year.
What will be covered?
Learning a new framework for thinking about career development/advancement, and how to customize your career to meet your needs. Completing a passion mind-map, identifying common themes, and what you want to be, do and have, as well as the impact or meaning you would like to create in the next six months to one year. Inventory of current skills, experience and strengths, and identifying how you'd like to grow in those areas. Setting 1-2 major personal or professional goals with a few key milestones for each.
Social Media in a Nutshell
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 the most popular Social Media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and wikis) 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 the popular platforms strategically. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn in a Nutshell. 5 Social Media tools that you shouldn’t live without.
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.
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?
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Managing the thought process.
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Staying focused at the strategic level.
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Managing focused and collaborative time moment by moment.
