Thought Leadership
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Enhancing the Professionalism & Public Service of Municipal Clerks & Treasurers
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Clerks and treasurers in every town, city, and village are essential for the smooth functioning of municipal government, ensuring transparency, accountability and efficient service to their communities. To provide the extensive training clerks and treasurers need to undertake their many responsibilities, UW-Green Bay created the Wisconsin Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute (CTI) in 1975. CTI…
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Maximizing Business Success Through Customized Training: A Leader’s Guide
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Customized training can be invaluable for your business and employees, offering tailored solutions that directly address your unique challenges. It’s normal to be concerned about a potential collaborator’s expertise or whether the training will align with your business goals. However, customized training is a game-changer. Here are the Top 5 reasons to use a forward-thinking,…
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The Future of Education Stacks Up
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The working world spins faster and faster, and the skills and needs of industries evolve constantly. On average, an American worker will change careers three to seven times and have up to twelve jobs over their working life. New learning solutions such as stackable credentials have emerged to keep up with the changes. The U.S.…
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A Focus on Mental Health & Well-Being
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There is a growing focus on mental health and well-being in today’s workplaces as leaders recognize its importance to employee resilience, retention and engagement. You can advocate within your organization for mental health friendly policies and awareness training for managers and supervisors. But you can also take steps to protect your own mental health by…
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Upskilling, Reskilling & New-Skilling
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As the pace of change continues to escalate, one of the hottest workplace training trends right now is upskilling, reskilling and new-skilling. But what do each of these concepts mean? Upskilling involves enhancing an employee’s existing skills to help them advance in their current role or field. This can include learning new technologies, improving soft…
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How to Be Happy at Work
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Most of us spend at least eight hours a day at work, so why not be happy? The key to being happy at work is developing a combination of personal strategy with taking advantage of available resources. We offer three quick tips: Set clear goals for yourself: Having clear, achievable goals can provide a sense of purpose…
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Engage Your Workforce by Engaging Your Managers First
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According to Gallup’s 2024 Report State of the Global Workforce there is a connection between manager and employee engagement. Yet Gallup found that only 3 in 10 managers globally are engaged—feel involved and enthusiastic—in their jobs. Highly engaged managers have more engaged teams. Are your managers engaged? Gallup suggests businesses learn how to better select and develop managers with the…
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Opportunity for Growth Starts with You
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In today’s dynamic workforce landscape, professional development has become a vital tool for organizations to stay competitive and ensure employee retention and growth. However, the success of these programs doesn’t solely rely on their design or the expertise of trainers; the participant’s willingness to learn can play a pivotal role in their effectiveness. It’s the…
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Social Media for Professional Development
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Social media often gets a bad reputation for being a place filled with unnecessary or unhealthy communication. However, social media can also provide opportunities for connections across great distances and allow for the exchange of ideas from people of all walks of life and cultures. Today I want to share just a few ideas for…
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Goal Setting Strategies for Anytime!
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As much as I hate to say it, summer is going to come to a close soon. For many people that means a return to school, less time with the family and more time in the office, but it doesn’t have to include a lack of planning! Goal setting shouldn’t be a yearly process meant…