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January 2012

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Volume 10, Issue 1

Archive

We are bringing on the new year, with a new look! 
How to Hire the RIGHT Person for the Job
 
Is your business currently hiring? Through this course you will learn how to create a new position or fill an existing one. This course will help you analyze your businesses needs and walk you through the entire hiring process. Throughout the course you will develop a job description, improve your job application, create an ad you can use to advertise your job position, walk through the interview process-creating job appropriate interview questions and strategies to evaluate applications, and finally, you will learn about recruiting and hiring. Course outline: creating a new position/recruiting, job analysis, determining job title, writing the job description, posting the job opportunity, filling an existing position/hiring, job analysis, employment application, interview process, and evaluation of applications. The fee for this course is $200 and the instructor Lyndi Odegard. For more information, click here.
Conquer Motivation and Inspiration: How to Captivate your Audience 
 
Whether you present information to groups of people or individually, this course can be beneficial! Recognize whether motivation inspires or inspiration motivates. This course will show how to grab the attention of your audience with a "hook." Identify how to empower others and the techniques to do this. Learn the specific difference between motivation and inspiration. Emphasis will be placed on specific examples of captivating the audience. This course will also demonstrate how to remove barriers of motivation. Outcomes of this course: Recognize motivators and barriers to motivation, Identify the difference between motivation and inspiration, Apply techniques to motivate, Apply techniques to inspire, Identify attention grabbers or hooks and to Identify personal motivators or barriers. The fee for this course is $75. For more information, click here.
Art of Leadership I 
 
In Art of Leadership I students will self define leadership and the role it plays in their life. They will learn the elements of caring leadership, how to identify the satisfactions and frustrations of leadership, and what people want in a leader. They will learn to look at leadership through the lens of both trait and behavior theories. This class focuses on distinguishing qualities of leaders and the characteristics of followers as they are relevant to leadership. The Art of Leadership I will be followed by The Art of Leadership II. The fee is $450 + the price of the E-book and the instructor is Karen Pikula. For more information, click here. 
Art of Leadership II 

Art of Leadership II builds on Art of Leadership I and focuses on the application of the principles, methods, and techniques for developing others that were covered in the first course. Art of Leadership I is a required prerequisite for this course. The fee for this course is $450+ E-Book and the instructor is Karen Pikula. For more information, click here. 

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