Past Classes
Canva / Smore
Are you interested in creating professional, effective, and eye-catching newsletters, bulletins, flyers, and other visual content? Here are two tools that will assist you in doing this.
Smore and Canva are easy interactive digital tools that can be used to electronically share information, links, and updates from one location. They can be embedded within your emails, posted on your bulletin boards, websites, or printed. In addition, you can create your design or use templates that other users have created.
Join us in learning how to create unique newsletters with graphic designs and videos to collaborate and communicate with any size audience.
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Communicating Effectively with High-Conflict Individuals
In this session you will learn a simple and effective approach to dealing with high-conflict individuals. This easy to remember four-step process will guide you through creating an appropriate response when communicating with someone who is on edge. During this interactive session, you will explore a variety of real-life scenarios and work to develop responses that help you maintain strong relationships with the people you serve.
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Create a Winning Office Team
Sometimes you get lucky, the people you work with are just the kind of people you would want as friends. However, that is often not the case. Building an effective office team requires effort and a focus on the importance of the mission. Successful team members act professionally and communicate assertively. They actively resolve conflicts, forgive past mistakes and work together in part because they recognize it is in all of their self-interests to do so. This workshop will explore necessary skills, techniques, and strategies to build, and maintain a winning office team. How to refocus a team that has gone “Off track” will also be addressed.
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Emotional Well-Being Amidst a Global Pandemic
COVID-19 has left us in a world full of uncertainty and stress. So it is natural not to feel “cool, calm, and collected” during this time. Participants will learn how stress impacts daily functioning, coping strategies, and how to engage in adaptive thinking and behaviors to better their ability to cope with life’s ever-evolving stressors.
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Notary Training
Participants will learn how to become a notary, the duties and authority of a notary. This session is for informational purposes only. It does not authorize certification to become a Notary.
Professional Networking Updates
Highly successful people are not successful because they know everything. Instead, because they have a quality network of individuals, they can draw on both techniques, knowledge, and advice using their experience to meet our new challenges. Why learn from your mistakes when you can avoid them by learning from the mistakes and successes of others. Creating an effective professional network takes planning and deliberate effort and is easier, but not automatic, in our social media interconnected world. Cultivating critical relationships goes beyond knowledge and networking. It provides the groundwork to help difficult situations go smoother.
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The Evolving Role of the Educational Office Professional
As school and central office settings change and evolve, the educational office professional is called upon to function in more leadership and managerial roles. In this session, you will learn:
- Strategies for managing multiple priorities
- How to think on your feet when navigating thorny situations,
- How to use persuasion to obtain results that you favor
- How to avoid entanglement in other people’s problems and issues
- How to lead and direct others without formal authority
We also will explore ways to create a workplace persona that helps meet needs but does not allow people to push you around.
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Time Management Update: Leveraging Traditional Strategies and New Technologies
Time management is an ongoing reflective process. People who manage time effectively are always asking essential questions such as:
- Is this the best use of my time?
- Is this the most effective way to get this task done?
- Do I allow others to manage their time at my expense and can I do anything about it?
- Do I leverage the technology that is at my disposal?
- Do I plan successfully and address critical things that don’t have a deadline (Vital vs. Urgent)
- How can I work more productively with my supervisor so we can both manage time more effectively?
This session will seek to answer these questions or point you in the direction of finding your own answers.
Note: The Link to access the session will be sent out prior to the date of the session.
Who is at the Door
This session is designed for staff working with various people coming into the school. Practical tips for issues that could be faced at the front door will be covered to include Board policy, confidentiality, parents, custody, law enforcement and child protective services.
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