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- Training Issue of the Month - Improve Your Tomorrows by Asking One Question Today (go)
- Enhance Your MANAGEMENT Style with These 2 Workshops (go)
- Winner of FREE Training Announced (go)
- Fine-Tune Your PROJECT MANAGEMENT Skills with These 3 Workshops (go)
- Training Issue of the Month (continued) (go)
- Advance Your Career as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (go)
- Gain a Working Knowledge of TEXTILES in These 3 Workshops (go)
- Training Issue of the Month (continued) (go)
- Experience 2 EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL Adventures This Summer (go)
- Training Issue of the Month (continued) (go)
- Increase Your Productivity with Enhanced EXCEL, ACCESS, and WORD Skills (go)
- Arrange for CUSTOMIZED TRAINING at a location of your choice! (go)
Training Issue of the Month - Improve Your Tomorrows by Asking One Question Today
NOTE: This month's article is by Kevin Eikenberry is a leadership expert and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group.
If you are a parent of school-aged children (or have ever been a school-aged child), I would bet you have asked or heard this question every single day: "What did you learn in school today?" And when those same children roll their eyes or say "oh Mom!" those same parents persist; asking a follow up question like, "You know you learned something - you were there all day, c'mon, what did you learn?"
After some prying and cajoling, the children answer with some morsel or lesson learned during the day. The kids are relieved, and the parents are happy. This scene plays out in cars and homes all over the world, and yet this question that seems so obvious to parents seems to escape our thoughts for ourselves.
The modified question you could ask yourself every day is: "What did I learn today?"
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Enhance Your MANAGEMENT Style with These 2 Workshops
ESSENTIAL TEAM BUILDING AND COACHING SKILLS
May
20-21, 2008
McKimmon Conference & Training Center, NC
State University, Raleigh, NC
Earn 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Coaching and teambuilding are essential parts of every leader's activities. In Explore the best practices of coaching and teambuilding and learn how to implement highly effective coaching techniques that result in improved team performance and bring out the best in your team.
Attend and You'll Learn About
The Essentials of Coaching
- What is coaching? Why do it? The types of coaching
- The emotional intelligence of coaching - why your success depends on emotional intelligence
- How to manage emotions in both team and coaching situations
- The six leadership styles and the coaching style
- How to counsel, motivate and communicate with tact
The Coaching Relationship
- How to be clear about the coaching contact
- How and when to focus on developmental objectives
- The C.O.A.C.H. model and how to use it
- Using criticism and discipline skills to bring about positive change
The Essentials of Teambuilding
- Stages, team mission, objectives and guidelines for team development
- Team decision making and problem solving skills
- How to reinforce positive team behaviors and bring out the best in your team
Teambuilding Tools
- The 7 essential coaching skills for mastering team leadership
- How to use DISC, team profiling and feedback
- How to deal with difficult employees
- How to get full team potential from all of your employees
- How to make a cohesive and highly productive team from a divided work group
ADVANCED STRATEGIES AND SKILLS FOR WINNING
NEGOTIATIONS
June 3-4, 2008
McKimmon
Conference & Training Center, NC State University, Raleigh,
NC
Earn 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Like it or not, you are a negotiator. Everyone negotiates some important issue almost every day--negotiation is a basic means for getting what you want and settling differences. This seminar will enhance your bargaining skills and help you be a more effective negotiator.
Attend and you will learn
- The essential principles and phases of win-win negotiation
- How to plan and use negotiation strategies
- How to communicate with professionalism and clarity using critical negotiator skills
- When and how to say no-using DESC scripts (a planning tool to prepare you for difficult conversations)
- How to use highly effective bargaining strategies and tactics
- Sources of negotiation power and how to use them
- How to avoid critical bargaining mistakes
- How to negotiate with and reach a mutual understanding with difficult people
- How to maintain emotional control, defuse anger, and manage confrontation
- Techniques for handling attackers, whiners, complainers, pessimists, know-it-alls and other personality types
- Common dirty tricks and how to counter them
- How to deal with deception, psychological warfare and pressure tactics
- Guidelines for making concessions
- Strategies for breaking an impasse and benchmarks of a successful negotiation
Winner of FREE Training Announced
DENNIS
ISENHOUR, Owner of D C Isenhour Construction in Landis,
NC, is the winner of the free class from the Office of Professional
Development. Dennis can use the $1,000 award toward the fee for an
upcoming course. --As a subscriber to the
HOT LINKS newsletter, you are eligible to win free training...a value up
to $1,000. Be sure to check our next issue of Hot Links to see if you're a
winner. --You may want to ALERT
YOUR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS to this value. Just forward them a copy of
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Fine-Tune Your PROJECT MANAGEMENT Skills with These 3 Workshops
*All 3 workshops can be applied towards your NC State University Project Management Certificate*
HOW TO COMMUNICATE, INFLUENCE AND
NEGOTIATE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
May 19-21, 2008
McKimmon
Conference & Training Center, NC State University, Raleigh,
NC
Earn 1.8 CEUs/18 PDHs/18 AIA LUs/18 PDUs
Gain the critical companion skills in communication, influencing, and negotiating that complement the problem solving, goal setting, scheduling, tracking, and other technical skills needed by project managers for the administrative aspects of your job.
Attend and You'll Learn
- How to use an array of techniques to communicate effectively with anyone who might affect the success of your project
- How to use proven methods to influence the attitudes and performance of team members and stakeholders
- How to negotiate when necessary to meet your project objectives
- How to understand and work with communication styles of others
- Active listening
- How to read nonverbal communication and formulate your message
- How to get your message across and use feedback
- The skills that highly influential people use to work with others successfully
- How to plan out and influence strategy
- How to analyze purpose, audience, and resources
- How to use several soft and hard tactics of influence without direct authority
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: TOOLS, PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICES
June 2-4,
2008
McKimmon Conference & Training Center, NC State
University, Raleigh, NC
1.8 CEUs/18 PDHs/18 AIA LUs/18 PDUs
Learn proven tools and techniques used by world-class companies to make their projects sizzle! With these methods, your projects will come in on time, on budget, and at the right level of performance. You'll see how all techniques relate to each other during five interactive exercises that simulate a project.
Attend and You'll Learn
- How to manage every aspect of a project to achieve schedule, cost, and performance objectives
- How to master the concepts and methods needed to manage resources efficiently to achieve project goals
- How to develop and coordinate the total project plan
- How to construct achievable project schedules using CPM, PERT, and bar charts
- How to develop valid estimates of resource requirements and costs by applying the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- How to monitor and control project status using Earned Value Analysis and other methods
- How to avoid the ten most common causes of project failure
- How to get project team members to buy in, even when they don't report directly to you
- What you need for a viable project management system
- How to manage the project life cycle
- The importance of clarifying the project mission
- The difference between strategy and tactics, and why strategy is important
- Risk analysis and management--assessing probability, severity and detection for each risk
- and much more!
WHOLE-BRAIN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
June 9-11,
2008
McKimmon Conference & Training Center, NC State
University, Raleigh, NC
1.8 CEUs/18 PDHs/18 AIA LUs/18 PDUs
Seldom do projects fail because people don't know how to create a proper schedule or work breakdown structure. They fail most often because infighting, conflict, hidden agendas, communication problems and egos plague project teams. All of these problems can be reduced or eliminated completely if people are given the proper tools for dealing effectively with each other. This dynamic program will show you how!
Attend and You'll Learn
- Improve your own thinking and the thinking of your team, using the "whole-brain walkaround"
- Compensate for lack of preference for a particular mode of thinking in yourself and your team
- Apply whole-brain thinking to develop a balanced scorecard for measuring project performance
- Get a quick "reading" of another person's preferred thinking in order to deal more effectively with him or her
- Apply a whole-brain approach to managing a project of any kind
- Improve communication, planning, control, and other aspects of team performance
Training Issue of the Month (continued)
Why This Question Works
Parents ask school children about what they learned at school because they expect them to learn at school. But somehow after graduation, people stop thinking about learning as their daily task. And yet, human beings are learning beings. Our bodies and brains are constantly learning.
If you are constantly learning you might wonder why you need to ask this question at all (and that is a good question itself!).
While you are constantly learning, the things you are learning are subconscious and therefore not necessarily accessible to your conscious mind. Also, the things you are learning by just going through your day may not be the things you most want to learn. So, by asking the question, you are making your learning more conscious and intentional.
As you ask it more frequently, you will begin to see your daily experiences as learning opportunities and those things you most want to learn and improve will become clearer.
Scroll down to learn how this applies to everyday life.
Advance Your Career as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER
Certified Financial PlannerTM
Certification Education Program
A
Series of Classes Required to Sit for the CFP® Certification
Examination
McKimmon Conference & Training
Center, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Conveniently offered on Tuesday evenings!
Take your first step towards earning CFP® certification by completing five review classes. The classes do not have to be taken in sequence, but you need to complete all five courses to sit for the CFP® exam.
NEXT
COURSE!
Income Tax
Planning
May 27 - July 15,
2008
McKimmon Conference & Training Center, NC State
University
Earn 4.5 contact hours per session
- Income tax law fundamentals
- Tax compliance
- Income tax fundamentals and calculations
- Tax accounting
- Characteristics and income taxation of business entities
- Income taxation of trusts and estates
- Basis
- Depreciation/cost-recovery concepts
- Tax consequences of like-kind exchanges
- Tax consequences of the disposition of property
- Alternative minimum tax (AMT)
- Tax reduction/management techniques
- Passive activity and at-risk rules
- Tax implications of special circumstances
Upcoming Courses:
- Retirement Planning and Employee Benefit
Planning
August 5 - September 23, 2008 - Estate Planning
October 14 - December 2, 2008 - Financial Planning Process and
Insurance
Winter 2009
Gain a Working Knowledge of TEXTILES in These 3 Workshops
TEXTILE OVERVIEW Earn 2.1 CEUs This new program will include numerous videos and animations to greatly
enhance your understanding of textile processes and fabrics. This class is
designed for trainees, non-technical positions, and busy executives, or
affiliated service industry personnel to learn basic terminologies used in
textile production and products. In addition to classroom instruction, you
will tour laboratories dealing with yarn manufacturing, weaving, knitting,
nonwovens, and dyeing and finishing. Attend and You'll Learn Who Should Attend Earn 2.1 CEUs Fundamentals of Textile Testing provides an opportunity for those who
need to understand both the methodology and the interpretation of standard
test procedures used in the textile industry and is ideal for laboratory
managers and technicians, as well as for anyone who makes decisions based
on textile product properties. You will receive an overview of a wide
range of various test procedures, including both lecture time and hands-on
laboratory exercises. Attend and You'll Learn Who Should Attend Earn 2.3 CEUs In this workshop you will have the opportunity to work in our yarn,
knitting, weaving, and finishing laboratories. Through laboratory
activities, exercises, and experiments, you will be engaged in developing
textile yarns, converting the yarns into fabric, and then adding specific
dyes and finishes to the fabric. Practical instruction and exercises in
fiber, yarn, and fabric testing will also be a part of the workshop. This
will be a highly interactive textile education class with 80% of the
course time in labs and 20% of course time in classroom instruction and
question and answer sessions. Attend and You'll Learn Who Should Attend
May 13-15, 2008
College of
Textiles, Centennial Campus, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Those who are not directly
associated with the textile manufacturing process, but need to expand
their understanding of the process--designers, accountants, personnel
managers, merchandisers, fabric buyers, management trainees,
administrative assistants, sales engineers and financial
personnel.
FUNDAMENTALS OF TEXTILES TESTING
June 3-5,
2008
College of Textiles, Centennial Campus, NC State
University, Raleigh, NC
Anyone who needs a broad overview
of different kinds of textile testing methods, a working knowledge of how
the procedures are performed, and an understanding of the relationship of
testing results to product properties and function.
TEXTILE MANUFACTURING LABORATORY WORKSHOP
June 23-27,
2008
Anyone who needs a broad overview
of different kinds of textile testing methods, a working knowledge of how
the procedures are performed, and an understanding of the relationship of
testing results to product properties and function.
Training Issue of the Month (continued)
How This Question Works
As you begin to think of life as your own personal learning laboratory, you can expect ideas, lessons and discoveries each day. The question plays to that expectancy.
What did I learn today?
When you ask yourself this question, you are expecting that there is learning to recall! When you create the habit of asking, you begin to create a habit of looking for the things you are learning. And, as you expectantly look, you will most certainly find lessons and learnings.
Where This Questions Works
This question works in every part of your life!
Consider asking the question to help you learn:
- In your personal life
- In your professional life
- As a team member
- As a leader
- In pursuit of a specific goal
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Experience 2 EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL Adventures This Summer
1. SCI-LINK GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN
INTERNATIONAL
June 23-28,
2008
North
Carolina
Educators from North Carolina and other states, and teachers from China, Brazil, and Finland will experience this transformative week in the North Carolina mountains. Immerse yourself in the mountain environment through research presentations and outdoor activities.
This hands-on workshop will include field work,
training in environmental monitoring, lectures by research scientists, and
informal discussions with scientists. In addition
to presentations about different countries, you'll hear from
scientists and experts on air, water quality, wildlife, and the natural
history of the area.
2. BRAZIL: ADVENTURES IN ECOLOGY AND
EDUCATION
July 13-26,
2008
Pantanal/Sao
Paulo, Brazil, South America
Offered by SCI-LINK at NC State University and Instituto Sangari, Sao Paulo, Brazil
$1,000 scholarships are available.
Travel with Brazilian educators on this 15-day international education and ecology experience! You'll spend Week One in Sao Paulo, a city of 17 million residents--the economic center of Brazil; you'll spend Week Two in Pantanal, home of world's largest wetland and most dense flora and fauna. Join U.S. and Brazilian educators and experts, side by side!
YOU ARE INVITED!! Reserve THURSDAY, JUNE 19--A
Special Treat!!!!
Brazil's Pantanal: Flora, Fauna and People
by
Daniel de Granville, Brazilian photojournalist and guide
Room
Nortel AB, the Friday Institute, Centennial Campus, NC State University,
Raleigh NC
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Following his lecture and slide presentation, 20 of his photographs will be on display and refreshments will be served. Daniel will attend the Grandfather Mountain Workshop and explore our North Carolina Mountains! He will present and exhibit his photographs at Lees-McRae College, June 23-28 in Banner Elk, NC. To ensure we have enough refreshments, please e-mail scilink@ncsu.edu or call 919.515.8159.
For more information on Daniel de Granville and his work, go to his website: www.photoinnatura.com
For more information or to register for these adventures, click here
Training Issue of the Month (continued)
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Based on your needs you may choose to ask the generic question about your entire day, to focus on one of these areas specifically (i.e. what did I learn today to make me a better parent, or what did I learn today to make me a better salesperson), or to ask the question multiple times, once for each important role or learning goal that you have. However you choose to apply this question to your life, the power will come from asking it consistently. To make your results even more satisfying also add the habit of writing down your answers each day. The process of writing will further clarify your thinking, and you will have a permanent record of your lessons, ideas and learning. Potential Pointer: To reach your potential in
any area of your life, you must become a more consistent, continual
and intentional learner. The best habit to help you achieve this
goal is to ask yourself "What did I learn today?" every day.
Kevin Eikenberry is a leadership expert and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that helps Clients reach their potential through a variety of speaking, consulting and training services. He also is the author of Making Your Next Twelve Months Your Best Twelve Months, a publication that helps you use the power of questions to improve any aspect of your personal or professional life. Contact him to learn more about how he can help you or your organization improve your skills and results. |
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