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Volunteers and Change Management |
1.00 |
'Nothing is as permanent as change' - change is constant, change is life, but some changes are really difficult to navigate. This webinar will tackle how to build a strong and successful bridge to change using strategies for successful change management. Learn the best ways to use both your head and your heart to support others through change. |
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Volunteer Recognition on a Next-to-Nothing Budget |
1.00 |
A mere 'Thank you' is not enough, and when budgets are tight how do we ensure volunteers feel appreciated, and are recognized for their service? Investigate several cost-effective strategies for recognizing volunteers for service milestones or going the extra mile. Explore spontaneous recognition ideas that may provide a fun new surge of energy with your volunteers and throughout your organization. It doesn’t have to cost a lot to be effective, heartwarming and/or fun |
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Virtual Teams: Obstacles and Success Factors |
0.50 |
This course will focus on how to identify the obstacles in the progress of a virtual team and identify the factors that influence the success of a virtual team. |
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Virtual Teams: Fundamentals of Virtual Teams |
0.50 |
This course will focuse on how to identify the purpose and types of virtual teams, identify the benefits of serving in virtual teams and types of work and meetings carried out by virtual teams, and identify the schedule of a session, and the agenda of a session. |
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Virtual Teams: Effectiveness, Social Dynamics, and Decision-Making |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to identify the factors influencing effectiveness and the indications revealing ineffectiveness, identify the social dynamics stages and factors, and identify the steps in the decision-making process, methods of making decisions, and the challenges while making decisions. |
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Virtual Teams: Communication |
1.50 |
This course will focus on how to identify the importance of effective communication, the purpose of a communication design process, the technological and cultural barriers in communication, and the technological innovations in communication and the guidelines for using these technologies. |
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Virtual Teams: Alternative Office Arrangements |
0.50 |
This course will focus on how to identify the types of alternative office arrangements and the benefits of telecommuting and the skills and challenges of telecommuters. |
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Video Analysis: Activities and Events |
1.00 |
The video-data for your inquiry project has been collected, now what? Testing your hypothesis is usually a dance, back and forth between the "ideal" and "reality-check". Listen to a research team decide how they will analyze video-data to extract just the information needed to focus on the inquiry questions. The first step is to sort video clips by activity categories, then score each clip using a recording protocol defined in terms of counting behavioral events and/or time sampling of activity states. |
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Vertebrate Ethology Series: Team Building and Collaborative Research |
1.00 |
Do you want to collect behavioral data to aid in decision-making about animal husbandry, but are not sure where to start? Listen in as a research team invites graduate students to join in the collaborative effort. In this webinar, you will learn more about the inquiry cycle and how it will be simplified into 8 steps that the team will complete together over the next 2 months. This team is investigating a "bull switching" treatment for managing big herds of African antelope. However, the inquiry process would be applicable for any research topic. |
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Vehicle Fire Operations (NYS05) |
1.00 |
This course is a general overview of safe firefighting operations at vehicle fires. The lesson discusses proper risk management of a vehicle fire through the identification of hazards and application of safe, effective, and efficient operations. Several types of vehicle fires are described and hazards associated with each are identified. The tactical needs and priorities of vehicle fire operation are reviewed. Finally, a safe procedure for performing suppression tasks at a vehicle fire is introduced. The course is evaluated with a multiple-choice quiz. The firefighter must achieve a score of 80% or better to pass the course. |
