Local Government Events

PowerPoint 2016 Level 1 provides the basic concepts and skills that you need to start being productive with Microsoft PowerPoint 2016: How to create, navigate, format, and customize PowerPoint presentations. This course and the Level 2 course map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office exams for PowerPoint 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

Word 2016 Level 3 is an instructor-led course manual that covers advanced skills for Microsoft Word 2016 power users: advanced formatting features, document management, references, data fields and sources, macros, and forms. This course, and the two that precede it, maps to the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Word 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

This month, we’ll focus on how to submit and win awards for your work. You can join in person or via Zoom.
 

You’ll hear from regional colleagues who have practical experience in this arena. They’ll talk about how to:

• Identify and prepare projects/items to submit for awards.
• Figure out a budget to cover costs.
• How to communicate your wins. 

Please register in advance to secure a lunch if you are attending in person.

This is a two-day course, running April 29-30.

If you're ready to learn how to find funding sources and write winning grant proposals, you've come to the right place.  

The grant writing class covers how to write grant proposals start to finish and how to locate and track relevant grant opportunities. Federal, state, local and non-governmental, private sector grants are covered. You'll learn everything you need to know to get started writing grants. 

This one-day workshop teaches participants to:

• Think critically when choosing a project team
• Make the best of an assigned project team
• Help teams move through various stages to become a high-functioning unit
• Maximize productivity at team meetings
• Reward and motivate a team
• Develop and execute a communication plan
• Communicate with sponsors and executives more effectively
• Identify strategies for working with problem team members

Project Management Fundamentals

Hybrid format: limited attendees in MARC’s Board Room with a remote option via Zoom.

PowerPoint 2016, Level 2 provides advanced concepts and skills for PowerPoint 2016 power users: how to use advanced formatting features, and animation and transition techniques, add and format media, track corrections and work with multiple presentations, create custom slide shows, and work with security and sharing options. This course, along with the preceding one, maps to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for PowerPoint 2016.

Please plan to join us on Friday, June 14, for the annual MARC Regional Assembly.

More information and registration will be available at a later date.