Kaktovik Training Announcement

Thinking About Starting or Growing Your Own Business?  Join us for this free opportunity to learn how to better your business!  No need to leave Kaktovik, this training is local!

There will be three days of training. The topics are:
• Prepare your business for customers.
• Communication skills.
• Personal income and expense money management.


October 3-5, 2011

9:00am-5:00pm
Kaktovik NSB Teleconference Center
Questions?
E-mail: nancy.grant@ilisagvik.edu
Call: 907.855.0988

Year End Financial Preparation

Attention!  More training opportunities coming your way.

YEAR END FINANCIAL PREPARATION:  
Want to know how to save your organization money during audit time?  This class will teach you how to gathering the necessary documents and prepare year-end financial statements that will pass an audit.  Kent Pendleton, an experienced and licensed CPA, will be conducting this class.

This class is recommend by Sarah Espelin, North Slope experienced CPA.  She said, "This would be an excellent class to run for the native villages and village corporations of the North Slope".

Schedule this valuable training today!  Contact Nancy Grant at nancy.grant@ilisagvik.edu.

Project Management

Needing some direction and the know how to complete the projects your entity deals with from day to day? If the answer is yes then you should schedule training for Project Management .

Project Management training will cover the five basic process groups and nine knowledge areas typical of almost all projects.  Want to know more?

Contact Nancy Grant at nancy.grant@ilisagvik.edu today.

Specialized Training Developed for Our Villages

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 Lillian Peltier Brower Arnold is offering these exciting new topics:

• Preparing Your Business for Customers: Helps small business owners plan and develop materials (from forms to brochures and business cards) that will market their business and also manage their customer time more effectively.

• Communication Skills: Enables business owners, administrators, parents to communicate in a clear, positive, open-ended manner. Advocate for yourself, your business and your family in a way that gets you the answers you need to make important decisions. Techniques include The Right Question Project, Confidential Communication, Managing Group Communication, Conversation vs Confrontation.

• Goal Setting & Action Plans: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely goals, short term objectives and action plans will be discussed and developed. Learn process, build structure and experience success.

These are in addition to the other trainings that Lillian Peltier Brower Arnold already offers:
"Discovering Parenting"
"Income & Expense Money Management"
"Emergency Preparedness Training"
"Community Resource Management"

All of these workshops can be completed over a two day period or longer to accommodate your village needs.  Please contact Nancy Grant by email at nancy.grant@ilisagvik.edu to schedule your training session.
 

More Trainings

Summer travel is just around the corner.  Although it's a time for vacation it's also a time for employee training.  The Ilisagvik HUD Grant Village Self-Sufficiency Program will continue throughout the summer.

Please check your schedule and make time for training.  Contact Nancy Grant at nancy.grant@ilisagvik.edu for more information.

Pull Tabs and Bingo

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Is your North Slope village entity reliant on fund raising through pull tabs and bingo?  Do you need to know the business basics within the gaming industry?  If you answered yes to either question please contact me immediately.  I am in the midst of coordinating training to address this topic and need to know how many villages are interested in receiving this kind of training.  Remember, we will send the trainer to your village at no cost to your organization as long as their are participants willing to attend. 

Don't hesitate!  Please email me right away at nancy.grant@ilisagvik.edu.  I look forward to working with you!

Are You Interested?

New training opportunity!  New training opportunity!  New training opportunity!

The Indispensible Administrative Assistant

This includes:

• Getting Organized (Avoid working more and accomplishing less.  
• Time and stress management strategies.  
• Managing multiple projects & priorities.  
• How to handle interruptions that sabotage productivity.  
• Working together (the manager/assistant team delegation).  
• How to enlist co-workers to help on a project and surprising ways your boss can help you accomplish more.

Interested in having this training take place in your village?  Let's talk.  You can reach me at: nancy.grant@ilisagvik.edu.