Improve your productivity, get things done, and find more time for what’s most important with Time Management Tips Weekly. This series provides actionable time management advice in just a few short minutes each week.

Productivity expert Dave Crenshaw provides techniques on a wide variety of topics, designed to help people better manage their time and ultimately become more productive. Tune into learn about everything from managing emails and calendars to setting priorities, collaborating with coworkers, reducing interruptions, crafting a “productivity mindset,” and creating a more comfortable and effective work environment.

Topics include:

• Reducing interruptions
• Dealing with feeling overwhelmed
• Responding to quick questions
• Making the most of meetings
• Follow up
• Implementing a closed door, open calendar policy

Critical thinking is the ability to think reflectively and independently in order to make thoughtful decisions. By focusing on root-cause issues, critical thinking helps you avoid future problems that can result from your actions. In this course, leadership trainer and expert Mike Figliuolo outlines a series of techniques to help you develop your critical thinking skills. He reveals how to define the problem you’re trying to solve and then provides some critical thinking tools such as blowing up the business, asking the 5 whys and the 7 so whats, exploring the 80/20 rule, and more. He also provides guidance on how to develop the skill across your whole team.

Topics include:

• Identify how to break down complicated issues into smaller components
• Determine the definition of an effective problem statement
• Identify the primary benefit of focusing questions
• Identify a problem’s root causes
• Apply critical thinking tools to analyze and unpack consequences
• Recognize how to prepare others to think critically

Project Management is a start-to-finish approach to getting things done and making projects more successful. It’s a profession, but it’s also a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and manage project work more effectively. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives.

Topics include:

• Defining the components of a project
• What it takes to be a project manager
• Using project management software
• Managing project scope, budget, and schedule
• Managing project resources, including people
• Managing project risk
• Initiating a project
• Identifying and managing stakeholders
• Identifying requirements and deliverables
• Developing a project plan
• Building a project schedule
• Assigning resources to tasks
• Understanding the critical path
• Running the project
• Managing teams
• Monitoring performance
• Closing a project

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Microsoft Excel has become the backbone that powers many organizational processes. You are often responsible for providing essential data to others and making smart decisions based on information you receive. The Office of Human Resources is hosting a training session that will give you the basic knowledge and skills, eliminate the anxiety of data analysis and help you harness the power of Excel.

TRAINING DATE AND TIME

• Thursday, May 24, 2018
• 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Lynda.com has all of this and more!

Lynda.com is a free e-learning tool that teaches the latest business, software, and creative skills through high-qualified videos. You can log in with your UMD credentials to access its online library of courses and tutorials on almost any topic that is of interest to you. Please click on the topics below to IMMEDIATELY access your Technology training needs!

• Excel 2016 Essential Training
• Access 2016
• PowerPoint Weekly Tips
• Google Sheets: Advanced Tips
• Adobe Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
• Comp TIA A+ Certification Prep
• Motion Graphic Design
• Cisco Certification Prep
• Ethical Hacking Perimeter Defenses

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Disability & Accessibility Training

Beginning this Fall, the University is providing a new online training program to help supervisors and faculty understand our Disability and Accessibility Policy and assist them in facilitating reasonable accommodations for employees and students with disabilities. Disability and Accessibility is a required online civil rights training program for faculty and supervisory staff members administered by the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct (OCRSM).

Faculty and supervisory staff members are responsible to facilitate reasonable accommodations for students and employees in a timely effective manner. The training is designed to enable supervisors and faculty to identify and respond effectively to accommodation requests and will provide supervisors with a clearer understanding of:

1. What a reasonable accommodation is;
2. The process for requesting and implementing reasonable accommodations for staff, faculty, and students, respectively;
3. The role of supervisors and of specific campus offices in facilitating and implementing reasonable accommodations; and
4. Best practices and available campus resources for ensuring an accessible, respectful and inclusive working and learning environment for all members of the University community

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• Tips for entering text and numbers quickly
• Drop-down and Shortcut menus to easily find commands
• Master an array of Excel formulas and functions
• Create simple time-saving macros
• Get a practical look at database basics

Day 2: Microsoft^® Excel^® 2007/2010 Beyond the Basics – $99

• Tips for building complex formulas quickly
• How to manipulate multiple ranges with auto fill
• When to use an automated procedure or a macro
• 7 formulas to select, extract and combine entries
• Steps to exchange data with Microsoft, PowerPoint, Access, and other platforms

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