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Technical Writing for End Users
Location: Stennis Training Center
Time and Date: June 26, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Price: $375
Effective communication is crucial in conveying technical information to end users. This course focuses on developing skills in creating clear, coherent, and user-friendly technical documents.
Participants will explore the importance of writing for the end user and how to tailor communication to meet their needs. Proficiency will be gained in using a template for structuring technical documents, ensuring information is organized logically.
The course will cover the writing process from planning to finalization, emphasizing well-structured and comprehensive documents. Participants will learn standard technical writing practices for clarity and coherence, enhancing document quality.
Level Up Leadership: Elevating Fundamentals from Good to Great
Come take a sneak peek at an Executive Education course!
7:30 a.m. Light breakfast
8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hardy Hall, Gulf Park Campus, Long Beach
Special Introductory Price: $250
By the end of this series, leaders will have a strong understanding of how values-based leadership and emotional intelligence can positively impact their teams. They will be equipped with practical strategies they can immediately apply in their daily interactions. With elevated leadership capabilities in these areas, participants can effectively lead their teams toward success.
Elevate your project management skills with our advanced course focusing on ISO standards, risk management and earned value management. This intensive program is tailored for project managers seeking to deepen their understanding of traditional and waterfall methodologies and agile practices, including the seamless integration of agile principles into waterfall projects.
Participants will earn 80 Professional Development Units (PDUs) recognized by the Project Management Institute. The course covers techniques for tracking, interpreting and predicting costs and schedules during the execution of a project. It also provides hands-on opportunities for participants to practice the tools and techniques of performance management using earned value management and earned schedule management techniques.
Unit 1: Introduction and Contest
- Project controls terminology
- Governance and management
- ISO processes for schedule and cost
- Techniques for project control
Unit 2: Precedence Diagramming
- Precedence diagramming method
- Critical path management
Unit 3: Earned Schedule Management
- Earned schedule concepts, calculation, interpretation
- Applying earned schedule
Unit 4: Earned Value Management
- Earned value concepts, calculation, interpretation
- Applying earned value
Unit 5: The Art of Project Control
- Project manager’s role
- Tracking and reporting project progress
- Resource management
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: New Solutions for Employee Learning
This class is part of a speaker series, and participants will learn more about solutions for learning in their organization. Instructor is Lisa Toenniges, CEO of Innovative Learning Group in Michigan.
Friday, Aug. 30, 12:30-1:30 p.m. CST
Cost: $49
Unleashing Team Superpowers: Navigating Strengths and Challenges Together
This course is based on the "Five Dysfunctions of a Team." It begins with a self assessment through Wiley Publications and navigates group work through activities to overcome the challenges of unwanted behaviors.
October 14: 1-3 p.m. Remote via Zoom
October 16: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Hardy Hall, Gulf Park, Long Beach
Cost: $675
Communication
- Visual storytelling of technical data to a nontechnical audience
- Executive speaker series
Science and Technology
- AI awareness
- Excel
- Knowledge harvesting
Leadership
- Level-up leadership series
- Forming a board of directors
- Government contracting
Industry Certification Training
- Project management
- Agile
Financial and Wealth Management
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