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OVERVIEW Upon completion of this session, attendees will learn key factors that would determine how a worker is properly classified as “independent.” The attendee will learn what they can and cannot do when managing independent contractors to accomplish work. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND Companies that use independent contractors to perform aspects of the business want to insure that these workers are truly independent. Making a mistake can cause companies to have to reclassify workers as employees and subsequently be required to pay back taxes and penalties. Human Resources managers, Office Managers, and small and mid-size business owners need to be aware of the issues involved.  AREAS COVERED • Why the proper definition is needed • IRS definition of an independent contractor • Department of Labor definition • State difference • Independent contractor taxes and insurance • Independent contractor payment schedule • How to protect the company LEARNING OBJECTIVES The w

OVERVIEW In today’s business world, just about every job requires some computer skills. Microsoft Office, also known as Office 365, is the software that most computers use. The Microsoft Office suite includes Microsoft Word,Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Outlook . This 3-hour webinar will give you tips on all 4 of those topics. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND This boot camp is beneficial for anybody who deals with large amounts of data or uses MS Office on a regular basis, and wants to be more efficient and productive. AREAS COVERED • Microsoft Word o Selecting Text o Bullet Lists o Number Lists o Tables o Columns o Page Setup • Microsoft Excel o Relative Formulas o Absolute Formulas o AutoSum o The IF Function o Sorts o Filters o Conditional Formatting o Subtotals • Microsoft PowerPoint o Adding Slides o Adding Text o PowerPoint Views o Adding Background and Themes o Adding Pictures o Animations • Microsoft Out

Learning how to efficiently use Excel is so critical in many of today’s office jobs and it helps you get the most out of your data, be more efficient, and find the information that you are looking for. Our upcoming boot camp discusses the automation features in Excel including Sort and Filter tools, Conditional Formatting, Data Validation and Visualization and more to produce meaningful, impactful and insightful reports in the shortest time possible. The boot camp covers the following key areas: ·          Sort data in a worksheet, filter data with AutoFilter, using custom filter techniques and more ·          Types of conditional formats, applying data bars, color scales and icon sets, modifying conditional formatting and more ·          Creating data validation criteria, creating an input message, modifying the error message and more ·          Inserting diagrams, modifying illustrations, converting bulleted text into SmartArt and more ·          Types of charts, sw

In today’s demanding business climate that has an accelerated focus on treating workers right, it is so important to engage their issues with timely action, tact, and communication skills that leaves nothing to chance in corrective measures, for any and all negative situation you encounter. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to handle difficult workplace situations and how to get the person to say yes to your request to change their behavior. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          What creates negative behavior and dysfunction in the workplace and how to correct them ·          What good communication creates – and is vital to the workplace ·          3 core strategies in relationship development LEARNING OBJECTIVES In today’s demanding business climate that has an accelerated focus on treating workers right, it is so important to engage their issues with timely action, tact, and communication skills that leaves nothing to chance in corrective measures

While interruptions at the workplace and at home are inevitable, it doesn’t mean that they cannot be minimized or reduced. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to deal with interruptions while working remotely and what strategies to use to maintain your focus and productivity effectively. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Identify your attitude about interruptions ·          How to manage your relationships – working with multiple boss’s ·          How to prioritize and h ow to refocus after being interrupted LEARNING OBJECTIVES During the webinar we will share essential tips that will not only help you understand and manage interruptions and other remote working issues but it will also help you in learning how to stay focused when working from home and improving your time management skills. WHO WILL BENEFIT Supervisors, managers and front-line employees who are managing others. Speaker Profile: Audrey Halpern is a soft skills training facili

Where the macro recorder's functionality ends, VBA takes over enabling you to build your own worksheet functions, create automated workflows and control and interact with other applications. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to get started with VBA and how it automates at a more advanced level. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Understanding VBA jargon such as procedures, modules, methods and properties ·          How to edit an existing macro in spreadsheets ·          How to write a simple macro from scratch using VBA LEARNING OBJECTIVES This webinar helps you in getting started with VBA in Excel. It's aimed at advanced users of Excel, with little or no programming experience, who wish to take their level of automation knowledge beyond the macro recorder. The advanced Excel training will be delivered using the latest version of Excel for Windows although much of the functionality is available in earlier versions of the application. W

Stay Interviews have become a very popular and effective means of reducing turnover with supervisors meeting individually with their direct reports to learn why they are staying or might leave - and what the supervisor can do to improve each employee's work experience. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to prepare for, conduct & follow through on stay interviews to improve retention. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          The objective of a stay interview ·          Initiating a stay interview program ·          Scheduling and conducting stay interviews and following through on them LEARNING OBJECTIVES It is easy to make the business case for retaining your organization’s talent because turnover is both rampant & expensive. And to make matters worse – the most talented employees: • Have more opportunities available to them • Are the most expensive to replace • Are the quickest to leave if they are unengaged • May take top performer

OVERVIEW This boot camp teaches you how to make Microsoft Outlook a partner in your productivity initiatives  by showing you features in Outlook and explaining the time management benefits. The instruction focuses on how Microsoft Outlook can be used as a Project Management tool, sparing you the costs of expensive project management software. To use Microsoft Outlook as a Project Management tool, The instruction starts with the Inbox and teaches you how to use click and drag features to move emails loaded with task requests and project management information into Tasks and/or the Calendar for processing. Then we delve into the specifics of using Tasks as a Project Management tool. The instruction includes how the main Outlook folders can be integrated for amazing output. (The principles work if you are managing remote or virtual teams.) WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND Research reveals that organizations with creative and collaborative teams will thrive in 2020 and beyond. A