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

Clipart from: Clker.com

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.

New Training Sessions

The HUD Grant Village Self Sufficiency program has linked up with Lillian Peltier Brower Arnold to offer these exciting new topics:

• Community Resource Management - Learn how to strengthen your community through Community Resource Management.  This workshop teaches how to find and map community resources and by doing so, see where there are gaps in services. Where is your community’s emergency public shelter; who has a generator that could be used if power is lost; where can a resident find access to computer skills?  How does a community develop a directory of resources? What should be included in a Community Resource Directory?
• Community Emergency Training -  Are you interested in learning how to be prepared in an emergency or disaster? Neighborhood Emergency Training (NET) gives you a plan for being prepared, helping your family, neighbors and community, and what to expect.  Learn what supplies to keep on hand, how to help those who are disabled, and what resources are available in your community and borough.
• Money Management - Do you need to figure out how to pay all of your bills every month? Are you working toward a big purchase? Something for your home...a refrigerator, couch? A new snow machine? Maybe you would like to have the money to take a vacation or go to college.  Learning how to manage your income and expenses will give you more control over your future.

Words from Lillian:
      
     I'm looking forward to being back in the villages offering trainings toward community self sufficiency.
     The last time I was in the North Slope Villages was in 1987.  Wow, that was over 20 years ago, when my son, Clint, was born.  In the 70s and 80s, I was a specialist working for families with disabled children, but once in the villages, I helped with everything from vision and hearing screenings to helping elders with hearing aids that weren’t working right. In the evenings, the borough veterinarian would have me help with surgeries. There were cavities to count for all the school kids and community dinners to help cook and clean up afterwards. In Pt. Lay we tried to get everything done before 9pm when the village generator was turned off. In Pt. Hope, I had to be at the Lane’s home, where I stayed, in time for Dallas so I didn’t come in while the show was on and disturb everybody. In Nuiqsut, there was the little Itinerant house. 
     Lots of great memories from across the Slope, and looking forward to many more!

Quyanaq,
Lillian Peltier Brower Arnold

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.

Pictorial of Kivgiq 2011

Are YOU Going?

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KIVGIQ 2011!  I'll be there!  Stop by and see me at the Ilisagvik College booth!  I can't wait to meet you!

Work In PROGRESS!

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