Webinars

LMA's Webinars are designed to provide convenient computer based training. Participants can interact with program leaders and other attendees from their offices, their homes, or anywhere with computer access. Typically one hour in length, they are easily accessible, convenient and cost effective. Cost for one hour webinar is $75 per person.

 

Our FAST Solutions Webinars are typically 30 minutes in length, providing valuable insight and new perspectives on a variety of topics. Our FAST Solutions webinars are FREE. (Fast Solution webinars are indicated).

 

Don't forget to check out LMA's Public Seminars & Training Programs and our CURRENT PROGRAMS SCHEDULE

 

 

BUILDING YOUR ORGANIZATION FROM WITHIN...
IDENTIFYING, MOTIVATING & RETAINING STAR EMPLOYEES

Instructor: Barry Davis

Where do Star Employees come from? How can we find them, hire them, motivate them and keep them? In the global economy that's overwhelming us, encouraging us to do more with less, work smarter instead of harder, the need for Stars is becoming mission critical. This program is designed to provide insights on:

• Just WHO ARE the Stars on your team?
• What is the "MAGIC QUESTION" that can aid in identifying these key performers?
• WHY are they such Stars?
• HOW can you attract, challenge, inspire and retain such employees?
• Learn the key factors that must be considered in identifying, motivating, even creating Stars in your organization.

CAREER FITNESS

Instructor: Barry Davis

The news isn't good. If you have work, be grateful. There are people out there that would be happy to do the job that you find so boring and unfulfilling. Even so, can you really guarantee that your contributions to the company are so significant that the only way you would lose your job is if the company shuttered the windows? And what if they DO lock the door and throw away the key? Are we all at the mercy of a horrible job market, or are there actions you can take to get your career in "better shape?"

• Understand what the word "career" really means these days.
• Identify if you are in the right job.
• Learn how to invest your time and energy wisely to create options.
• Discover how to "manage up" to get the best results at works.
• Understand the critical skills you need to grow your career.

EFFECTIVE DELEGATION

(FAST Solutions Webinar)
Instructor: David Wauls

In today's business world, we must increase our productivity and become more efficient. To accomplish that we should be performing tasks that are essential to our position and that yield the best results. How do we do this? By delegating to our employees. This FAST Solutions webinar will give you insight on the fine art of delegating..

• What are the principles of delegation?
• Learn the five step delegation process.
• Identify tasks that can be delegated.

GENERATIONS AT WORK
Instructor: Barry Frey

Participants in this interactive learning session will gain an understanding of the broad characteristics and motivations of the four generations currently interacting in the workplace, how to facilitate effective working relationships and motivate members of each generation.

• Introduction to the concept of generational differences: the developmental years critical to the formation of individual world views.
• Personal, social and cultural factors shaping generational world views: how shared personal experiences create generational identity.
• The four adult generations currently in the workplace: Traditionalists, Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y.
• Generational expectations for work and career: changing perceptions of the meaning, motivators and rewards of work.
• Managing the clash of cultures: facilitating intergenerational teamwork.

GOT BUSINESS CHALLENGES, ISSUES & OPPORTUNITIES?
GET STRATEGIC THINKING & PLANNING NOW!

Instructor: Glenn Ebersole

Every business has challenges, issues & opportunities. And every business needs strategic thinking & planning. Are you the daily "firefighter" in your organization? This program is for you.

1. How is Strategic Thinking defined and what are the benefits of Strategic Thinking?
2. Debunk the myths and define the realities of Strategic Thinking.
3. Do you have the "Signs" that indicate You are ready for Business Coaching?

HOW TO IMMUNIZE YOUR BUSINESS AGAINST RECESSION

Instructor: Glenn Ebersole

How can strategic thinking help immunize your business against recession? There are five strategic steps you should take right now.

1. Hold on tight to your existing clients.
2. Ramp up your marketing.
3. Look for new opportunities.
4. Add value.
5. Engage in strategic assessment.

HOW TO PREVENT FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE

Instructor: Glenn Ebersole

PR is important to every business, including yours. Do you have the prescription for healthy media relations? Glenn Ebersole, the "PR Doctor" will help increase your positive exposure and awareness, add credibility and share public perceptions.

1. What makes PR so important for your business?
2. Get the Top Ten Public Relations Errors that are hazardous to the healthy of your media relations.
3. Prescription for What to Do and What Not to Do to achieve healthy media relations.
4. How to handle hostile or sensitive interviews.
5. Prescription to increase your visibility in the media.

NETWORKING - IS IT THE KEY TO CAREER SUCCESS?

What you know vs. who you know: which is more important? In this day of email, Facebook, MySpace and IM, is networking really necessary anymore? Whom should you network with? What do you say to them? Aren't people fed up with being schmoozed, realizing that the only reason you are nice to them is to get something? Learn why networking often fails and why it's still a critical part of your personal career development, the best people to network with and the critical information that should always be gleaned from the networking process.

• Learn many of the myths surrounding the networking process and how they can keep you from networking success.
• Identify the three types of information that should result from every networking encounter.
• Find out where they "key" networking contacts are, with some techniques to help you connect with them.
• Learn about some extraordinary books that are indispensable in developing your "networking chops."

PERFORMANCE COACHING
Instructor: David Wauls
Do you manage individuals? Do you want to develop and improve your people skills? This program will help you identify the people, places and conditions that best allow you to:

• Gain insight into managing and motivating employees.
• Evaluate your strengths and development areas.
• Develop momentum and achieve results.
• Overcome or make good use of resistance.
• Bring projects to a successful conclusion.
• Transition from one phase to another.
• Learn your interactional style and how best to employ your inherent personality traits to your advantage.

PERSONAL FINANCIAL WELLNESS (3 part series, webinar)

Instructor: Elaine Boltz

This 3-session webinar will assist individuals in personal financial awareness. Individuals will assess their own financial health and learn how to manage their personal finances, develop SMART financial goals and use credit responsibly.

• Part I - Expense Tracking, Budgeting, Savings
  With today's economy, it is more important than ever to be able to effectively manage personal finances. In this webinar, participants will learn: how to track expenses to determine where money is being spent, the difference between fixed and variable expenses, how to cut expenses and "find extra cash," how to develop a budget, the importance of saving and how to set up an emergency fund.
• Part II - Credit Reports, FICO Scores, Responsible Use of Credit
  Credit cards allow purchases to be made more quickly, often without much thought of how to pay for those items or what effect that credit card debt will have on our financial future. In this webinar, participants will: become aware of their credit rights, learn what credit reports contain, learn how to receive free annual credit reports, understand FICO scores and why they are important, learn how to improve FICO score, learn responsible credit card use and learn how to stop receiving unwanted credit card and insurance offers.
• Part III - Planning for Your Financial Future
  Many times the focus is on immediate financial needs without much attention given to our financial future. In this webinar, participants will learn: the importance of planning ahead for future financial needs, the value of goal setting, how to set SMART financial goals, how to do a financial action plan and how to pay down credit card debt.

SMART GOALS

(FAST Solutions Webinar)
Instructor: David Wauls

We all have to accomplish specific objectives at work. However, a number of people go through each day, week, month or year without really knowing what we have accomplished. Each employee should be able to establish goals for their work. This webinar will assist you in developing goals and objectives.

• Discover the process for establishing goals.
• Learn what makes a good goal.
• Look at each specific part of the goal.
• Develop action plans to achieve each goal.
  

SOCIAL NETWORKING & THE WORKPLACE

Instructor: Barry Davis

MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Twitter, et al. They're HERE! Should we all learn to embrace Social Networking or take drastic steps to control it? This program provides current insights on the bane and blessing of such digital phenomena.

• Consideration of organizational policies on Social Networking
• Overview of current "Best Practices" in their use
• Potential applications for key sites out there
• Digital Land Mines: Serious caveats on the use of Social Networking

STOP UNDER-MANAGING
(FAST Solutions Webinar)

Instructor: Barry Frey

Under-management has become an epidemic in contemporary organizations. Afraid of being accused of micromanaging and demotivating employees, many managers and supervisors have adopted a hands-off leadership style that allows small problems to fester into larger ones that undermine productivity and morale. We will discuss tips and techniques for being the manager employees actually want to have:

1. Creating the habit of managing people every day
2. Taking it one person at a time
3. Talking like a performance coach
4. Dealing with small problems before they become big ones

TEAM BUILDING
Instructor: David Wauls

Building better team includes:

• Painful points about team building
• Stages of team process
• Characteristics of a synergistic team
• Necessary ingredients for a successful team
• The 10 team commandments

"WHAT DO YOU DO?" HOW TO SELECT A VOCATION WHERE YOU LOVE TO HEAR THIS QUESTION
Instructor: Barry Dave

The magic question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" doesn't work. Research has shown that the vast majority of us are not happy with our career decisions - vocational misfits, square pegs in round holes, according to Thoreau, leading "lives of quiet desperation." This happens in spite of the fact that many of us are quite successful at work we really would prefer to not be doing! With the count for vocational choices increasing at an exponential rate, what can be done about it? We can't try them all. We will run out of time before we run out of options!

• Learn the critical differences between the three levels of vocational involvement - Job, Occupation & Career - and get some practical, real life advice on what actions you can take to turn employment from the drudgery of work into the dynamics of a vocation.

WHAT TO DO BEFORE, DURING & AFTER IT HITS THE FAN
Instructor: Glenn Ebersole

Providing a prescription for developing a Strategic Crisis Management Plan. Glenn Ebersole, your "PR Doctor" is ready to help you develop your plan and be prepared for when it hits the fan.

1. Determine who should be on your crisis management team.
2. What are the vital components of a crisis management plan?
3. What if?
4. Media Relations - what do you do and what do you NOT do?
5. Post Crisis Evaluation - Determine what went well and what did not go well.

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