Management and Supervisory
The "Effective HR" Series
Mandatory Training
 Workplace Violence Awareness for Supervisors
Interpersonal/Life Skills
- Life Planning: Online presentations and tools for retirement/life planning
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- Email Etiquette
- Also see below for live-online sessions related to interpersonal skills; these are offered throughout the year and frequently change.
Free! Live-Online Classes
No travel! Participate in activities, interact with the facilitator and other learners. First time? Be sure to check your technology at least a week in advance, and let your IT department know if you have problems.
Winter-Spring 2012 live-online sessions: All Free!
Live-Online Sessions are offered in collaboration with
Insync Training
For all sessions: Instructor: Dr. Jane Bozarth
Producer: Insync Staff; varies
NOTE: The live-online sessions will be offered via WebEx and toll-free phone lines. Please visit http://www.webex.com/lp/jointest/ and test your system several days before attending the live-online session.
Registration for these programs is limited. Once you sign up, your space is reserved for you. Please do not register if you are not committed to attending.
eLearning On A Shoestring
January 5, 2-3 pm ET
Sure, E-learning solutions can provide enormous savings, but start-up and design costs can be prohibitive. Join Jane Bozarth to explore examples of inexpensive – even free! – e-learning solutions. Learn to:
• Make the “buy vs. build” decision.
• Identify inexpensive means of adding interactivity and visual interest.
• Make better use of tools and resources, including those you already have.
• Break down examples of online training programs into essential parts and identify ways of cutting costs to produce similar products.
• Identify inexpensive means of adding interactivity and visual interest.
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Google Yourself Silly
January 19, 2-3 pm ET
Google, the wildly popular search engine, has much to offer the learning professional. This resource, with its specific tools, can help you better design training, communicate with colleagues, and/or find your way to an enriching training site. Using technology in the classroom, you will learn to work with search results rankings, conduct special searches, and improve your search effectiveness. Your credibility and personal satisfaction as a learning professional can only be enhanced .
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Rockin' the Virtual Classroom
February 7, 2-3 pm
Virtual classroom technology (Adobe Connect, WebEx, Elluminate, etc.) provides a wonderful live, real-time bridge between the traditional classroom and the learner. But it isn't "just like" the traditional classroom, and in the wrong hands can be deadly dull. In this session we'll learn to read virtual "body language" , look at ways to increase interactivity and engagement, utilize games and activities, and create visuals that support learning.
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TrainerSmarts
February 20, 2-3 pm ET
As trainers, we naturally focus on learning, growing, & improving. Join facilitator Jane Bozarth as we explore our own improvement with a twist: identifying your strengths, not your weaknesses, and focusing on enhancing your talents rather than overcoming your deficits. Take this concept away with you for application that will result in great learning experiences for participants while keeping you energized as well.
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Social Media for Trainers
March 13, 2-3 pm ET
Explore the use of free technologies like blogs, wikis, Facebook, Twitter, and online groups to help build communication, increase participation, and enhance transfer of training to the job. We'll both define and demystify each tool. You will get ideas for applying low-cost collaboration strategies to your own training programs—both classroom and online!
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The Truth About Social Learning
March 27, 2-3 pm ET
"Social learning" and "informal learning" are among the training industry's hottest phrases these days. But there's so much confusion over what they mean, and what they mean to those of us in the business. A few truths:
• Social learning isn't new.
• Social learning isn't necessarily ‘managed', ‘launched', ‘controlled', or ‘measured'.
• People in the workplace are learning all the time - without us.
• Those people likely don't think of what they're doing as "learning".
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Instructional Design for the Real World
April 3, 2-3 pm ET
Join in for a fast, fun tour of quick tools and tricks that will support rapid instructional design, cut to the heart of needs analysis, and improve communication with subject matter experts and managers and others requesting training solutions.
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Juggling 101: Managing Multiple Priorities
April 17, 2-3 pm ET
Time management" is an oxymoron. You can't change it, or lengthen it, or shorten it, or 'manage' it. This course will help you identify ways to deal with the things you can manage: yourself, others, and the tasks with which you're confronted.
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Nuts & Bolts of Social Media
May 14, 2-3 pm
This session will cover basics of creating and sustaining community via social media tools. Rather than theory, participants will walk away with an understanding of how to implement and utilize these applications.
Briefly, we will look at several popular social media tools, such as blogs, wikis, Facebook and Twitter, then basics of using these tools for 1) Creating Community & Community Management; 2) Fostering Communities of Practice; 3) Knowledge Transfer and Management.
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Where's The Power? What's Your Point?
May 30, 2-3 pm ET
Tired of seeing PowerPoint shows that have neither power nor a point? This session provides strategies for developing memorable slides with punch, not just pretty slides peppered with bullets. Join us as we look at ways to hook our learners, generate discussion, highlight critical information, and create learning points that will stick.
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Tips for the Positive Deviant
June 14, 2-3 pm ET
What's a positive deviant? Researcher Jerry Sternin discovered that, "In every group there are a minority of people who find better and more successful solutions to the challenges at hand. Even though they have access to exactly the same resources as the rest of the group, their uncommon practices or behaviors allow them to flourish". One of our favorite positive deviants, Jane Bozarth, will lead you on an overview: who are some positive deviants? What kinds of success have they had? How did they do it? Plus: 5 critical behaviors necessary for those who aspire to positive deviancy! Note: this session is intended for high performing, high potential staff and those who supervise them. It is not aimed at "fixing" problem performers.
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Turning Stress into Power
June 26, 2-3 pm
Managing stress effectively has less to do with managing external events – things you can't control – and more to do with better managing yourself. This session focuses on strategies for taking charge of your own responses to stress and turning them to more productive reactions and behaviors.
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FOR TRAINERS: See above for assorted live-online topics useful for trainers.
Computer Skills A number of computer courses are now available through HRD's Professional Skills Program. These include courses in Web design software as well as programs such as Outlook and WordPerfect. Click here for more information.
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Interaction Management/DDI Courses
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