Government Training Institute Events

March 19, 2024 | 08:00 am

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
Focus Area: Local Government
March 20, 2024 | 08:00 am

This course focuses on Adobe® Illustrator® CC, the component within CC used to create “drawn” graphics, while enabling its users to integrate content from other domains (such as photo-oriented graphics and animation, which belong to Adobe® Photoshop® and Flash®). With Illustrator's many, easily used tools, you will discover that not only can you unlock the same creative impulses you've always had as you've picked up a pencil to sketch out an idea, but also capture those multiple ideas and “what ifs” during the creative process in ways that you never imagined.

Focus Area: Local Government
March 21, 2024 | 08:00 am

Excel Basic provides the basic concepts and skills to start being productive with Microsoft Excel 2016: how to create, save, share, and print worksheets that contain various kinds of calculations and formatting. This course, and the two that come after, map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Excel 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

Focus Area: Local Government
March 28, 2024 | 08:00 am

In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design, write advanced queries, structure existing data, validate data entered into a database, and customize reports. Extending your knowledge of Microsoft Access 2016 will result in a robust, functional database for your users.

Focus Area: Local Government
March 28, 2024 | 08:00 am

Excel 2016 Level 2 builds on the basic concepts and skills of our Level 1 course to provide more advanced tools for analysis and presentation of complex, realistic data in Microsoft Excel 2016: how to manage complex workbooks, build more complex functions, use data analysis tools, make an impact with powerful chart and presentation features, and collaborate with other users.

Focus Area: Local Government
April 09, 2024 | 08:00 am

Adobe® Photoshop® CC focuses on some of the basic features of Photoshop so that the student can navigate the environment and use Photoshop tools to work with photographic images. In addition, the orientation to Adobe® Bridge and organization of files in Bridge is covered. This course delves into some of the more advanced image creation and editing techniques and offers you hands-on activities that demonstrate how these techniques can be used in combination to create exciting visual effects.

Focus Area: Local Government
April 09, 2024 | 08:30 am

Conflict is an inevitable and often destructive part of workplace interactions. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict helps you understand your conflict behaviors—and those of the people you work with—to improve your workplace relationships and results.  A pre-class assessment will also be taken a minimum of two weeks prior to class, to be completed 3-4 days before the class meets.

Focus Area: Local Government
April 11, 2024 | 08:00 am

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.

Focus Area: Local Government
April 22, 2024 | 09:00 am

The Four Tendencies: How to Influence People (Including Yourself!)

Wondering how to influence people (including yourself!) to do what you want? During this year’s Administrative Professionals Day event, we’ll learn about The Four Tendencies, a framework developed by happiness and habits researcher (and Kansas City native!) Gretchen Rubin that focuses on the follow-through, and we'll practice implementing it at work and in life.

Focus Area: Local Government
April 24, 2024 | 08:00 am

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.

Focus Area: Local Government