GTI Courses

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.

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 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

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.

You've covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Office Access® 2016, and now you're ready to learn advanced Access features such as database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multi-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separates database professionals from casual database users or occasional designers.

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

If your agency receives or plans to receive government grants, this class is for you.

The two-day grant management class is for grant recipient organizations across all disciplines. As such, in this class you'll learn how to manage your federal, state or local government grants in accordance with laws and mandatory compliance guidelines.

The role of leadership is to guide and assist others in becoming more effective and efficient. One key to leadership is the ability to coach others to successfully perform the duties of the job.

Course Objectives

• Identify the reasons for unsuccessful performance
• Recognize coaching opportunities
• Clarify performance expectations
• Prepare for and conduct a coaching discussion
• Build a coaching plan