Program Handouts & Information -- Continuing Education -- South Central Library System

Perfecting Your Presentations

Originally presented Thursday, January 26 at 1 p.m. with Jamie Matczak presenting.

 We are all called on to “present” at some point in our jobs. Whether you are communicating information in front of your library board or training a group of patrons, solid presentation skills can make or break you. Are you unsure how to organize what you want to say? Are you debating what information should be included? What about hand outs?

This webinar will cover:

- 8 Steps to a Powerful Oral Presentation
- 9 Techniques for Maintaining Audience Attention
- 10 Ways to Organize Presentations
- Building Audience Rapport
- Polishing your Delivery
- Planning Visual Aids and hand outs

Join us for this fun webinar where you will walk away with tips and tricks to present like a pro!

Jamie's Slides

Tips to Help with Stage Fright (Your Comments) Word doc.

Recording

Excelling @ Email

Originally presented Wednesday, January 11, 2012 with Jean Anderson, SCLS presenting.

Did you know that roughly 150 billion emails are sent on a daily basis? How many of these emails are in your in-box? Do you find yourself checking email often throughout the day? Is your workday governed by what’s comes in your email?

This webinar will help you excel at email by covering:

* Using filters, tags, labels, and other tools in your email program
* Five steps to process your email
* Tips to organize the email you save or archive

Join us for this fun webinar where you will learn how to conquer your email inbox!

Recording

Slides (pdf format)

Resource List

• Email Statistics
• Search and Email Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Radicati Group press release about Email Statistics
• Four Hour Work Week blog post "How to Check E-mail Twice a Day... or Once Every 10 days"
• An Empty In-Box, or With Just  a Few E-Mail messages? Read On by Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, March 4, 2009.
• Inbox Zero: Action-based email, the Original 43 Folders Series by Merlin Mann
• Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. Penguin Group, New York, 2001
• Never Check E-Mail in the Morning: and Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work by Julie Morgenstern. Fireside, New York, 2004
• Upgrade Your Life: the Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better, 2nd ed. by Gina Trapani. Wiley, Indianapolis, 2008. Chapter one deals specifically with controlling your email and there's a companion website: http://lifehackerbook.com/ch1/
• Lifehacker has many articles about dealing with email including this one: Top 10 Tricks for Dealing with Email Overload from October 15, 2011.
• Brain Snack: Email Tips & Tricks, webinar presented March 20, 2009.
• What Should I Say, webinar presented November 9, 2011
• Thunderbird Signatures, Filters, Tags, keyboard shortcuts, clippings (for canned responses)
• Outlook Signatures, Rules, Folders, keyboard shortcuts, canned responses
• Gmail Signatures, Filters, Labels, keyboard shortcuts, canned responses, Priority Inbox
• Create a Mail Rule or Filter to Track Sent Messages You Want to Follow Up On, Lifehacker, January 11, 2012