The SkillsUSA Alumni & Friends Association will be offering a one-hour webinar on “Understanding Auto Insurance: What coverage is for me?” with partner Elephant Auto Insurance. It’s free and no registration is required, just call and log in at: Telephone: 888-222-0475, URL: http://web.ganconference.com/?meeting=2259544, Attendee code: 6837807 Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3 p.m. EST.
Alumni Professional Development Webinar
February 15th, 2012Webinars Coming in 2012
December 29th, 2011Three national web conferences are scheduled for 2012. It’s your chance to hear from and communicate with national staff. We’ll provide some training and information on professional development, some updating and motivating advice and tips on being a national leader.
Please join us for one or all of these events. Invite students, officer teams, key advisors, fellow instructors, alumni and others.
Value of Professional Development – January 18, 2012, 1 p.m. (EST)
No matter who you are or what you do, professional skills can make or break you. Business and industry look for quality employability skills, not just technical skills. Find out why this set of skills is important to your future success.
URL: http://web.ganconference.com/?meeting=4471090
Telephone: 888-222-0475
Attendee code: 5692952
SkillsUSA Week: Skilled and Motivated – February 7, 2012, 1 p.m (EST)
Use this webinar to help kick off SkillsUSA Week celebrations. Hear from your SkillsUSA leaders on the state of the organization. Listen to a special guest speaker on what it means to be “Skilled and Motivated” which is this year’s theme. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions.
URL: http://web.ganconference.com/?meeting=1736891
Telephone: 888-222-0475
Attendee code: 5692952
So You Want to Be a National Officer? – March 14, 2012, 1 p.m (EST)
Have a student you think would make a good national leader? Have they wanted to run for a national SkillsUSA office but weren’t sure how? Then this webinar is for those advisors or students! Our experts will provide an overview of the national officer candidate procedures and national officer responsibilities. They will also get to hear first-hand experience from a current national officer.
URL: http://web.ganconference.com/?meeting=8705179
Telephone: 888-222-0475
Attendee code: 5692952
Mentoring Webinar
October 24th, 2011Thanks to everyone who participated in our mentoring webinar. If you did, please take a moment and complete this survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/mentoringwebinar.
Student2Student Webinar
October 15th, 2011On November 1, you’re invited to participate in a webinar on SkillsUSA’s national Student2Student Mentoring Program. Discover how this program can help you accomplish many chapter goals such as performing community service or helping to endorse career and technical education. Use this program to help SkillsUSA support the America’s Promise Alliance and use the hours to help students qualify for the President’s Volunteer Service Award. Doing a Student2Student mentoring project can also help your chapters attend the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in June.
URL: http://web.ganconference.com/?meeting=9818575
Telephone: 888-222-0475
Attendee code: 5692952
Date: Tuesday Nov. 1, 2011
Time: 11 a.m. EDT
SkillsUSA’s Recent Webinars
June 1st, 2011SkillsUSA has been making use of our online capabilities with a series of webinars for members and leaders. On May 10, Niki Clausen and the Alumni & Friends Association offered another in their Professional Development Webinar series, using the expertise of SkillsUSA alumni. This one was on financial management and was conducted by Bryan Doxford, a past national officer from Utah, and now a credit analyst AVP at New York Business Development Corporation. Alumni webinars are recorded and archived on the SkillsUSA website on the alumni page.
On the evening of May 11, we had the initial briefing webinar for the SkillsUSA WorldTeam to help team members prepare for things such as international travel. Most of the team was online. In a couple of instances, mom or grandmother were sitting in because the team member had to be at work. Mark Claypool, team leader moderated. Joining him online were Don Hatton, technical delegate to WorldSkills International, and Ada Kranenberg, official delegate to WorldSkills International.
And, on May 12, we held a webinar with the officers of the SkillsUSA State Association Directors Executive Committee to finalize the agenda and best practice and training sessions for the association’s August meeting. Also discussed were constitutional amendments and this month’s national conference.
Webinars are a Wonderful Way to Travel
March 1st, 2011SkillsUSA is very big on communications, and the national office has been “webinar central” the past month. We’ve held four online conferences: two for state association directors; another for alumni; and, the webinar for SkillsUSA members during SkillsUSA Week.
On February 8, students and teachers from 18 schools nationwide tuned into the SkillsUSA Week inclusion and diversity webinar on “Respecting All Perspectives.” Board President Russ Hoffbauer addressed the group saying how pleased he is that SkillsUSA is discussing inclusion and diversity because this is also an important issue to business.
The February 4 webinar with 16 state association directors was a discussion on SkillsUSA’s online conference registration system. During their August meeting, the state directors asked us to make our registration system more user-friendly, and our consultant, Mark Williams, has been doing just that. He’s even created a series of online training modules to walk users through the process. Reactions from the participants were extremely positive including posted notes that said: “Love the changes.”
On February 17, the state association directors’ executive committee conducted an hour-long webinar for the 18 directors who signed in. This was a follow-up report on their meeting in January including: minutes; proposed Constitutional amendments; the improvement of services to states by the SkillsUSA Store and stock of core products; and, the August Professional Development Conference. There were also updates from national staff on Vision 2020, state association insurance, national conference updates, membership mega prizes and an April membership registration task force to include some non-SkillsUSA instructors to help us improve online registration by next school year.
And, on February 15, the SkillsUSA Alumni & Friends Association held its first membership service webinar on enhanced communications. Three of our alumni members served as the expert speakers on topics including job interview techniques, communication and asking questions and serving as a mentor. There were 18 participants, and it seemed a propitious start to this kind of membership service.
All the webinars have been archived, so we strongly encourage those who could not participate “live” to go to our website to view them.
