By offering classroom education and online classes, SMACNA Greater Chicago keeps their contractor members on top of all they need to know to thrive in the industry. A list of classroom opportunities is available on the SMACNA Greater Chicago calendar. We are continually adding educational opportunities in a variety of formats including industry related workshops and lunch and learns, so check back often so you don’t miss an added update.
This intensive workshop provides a series of activities, interactive exercises, role plays and case studies. It will help develop the confidence and experience necessary to coach your entire team toward improved performance and productivity!
Communication is truly the heartbeat of success. Every interaction, every exchange of ideas, brings us closer to our goals and strengthens our bonds as a team. We’re not just colleagues—we’re collaborators, cheerleaders and partners in progress.
Today’s organizations face a barrage of challenges, including new and advanced technologies, fierce competition and unpredictable business environments – all while trying to provide your customers with efficient, high-quality solutions. How do you involve your employees in the “right” way to encourage involvement, participation and ownership?
This course teaches how to integrate Excel with Word, focusing on four key methods for displaying Excel worksheets in Word documents: static snapshots, picture insertions, embedded worksheets, and linked workbooks. Participants will learn to use Mail Merge for creating form letters and labels from Excel data, and master hyperlink functionality connect to any application or file.
CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage a choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrive.
This course demonstrates how to use Excel contact lists to create personalized mass emails through Word. Participants will learn to merge Excel data into Word form letters, automatically customizing salutations and content for each recipient, creating a professional and individualized communication system at no additional cost.
If you’re self-taught, you might not be aware of the many powerful features of this software program. This class will help participants streamline workflows by introducing tool sets, dynamic fill measurements, comprehensive markup management, thumbnails and page label creation, visual search, the stapler function and the collaboration tools of Studio and Project.
The business of construction contains within it many financial complexities. It is critical to get the basics correct before creating a system that only a CFO can understand. It’s far more important that each level in the organization have the financial acumen required to be able to manage financial risk and help contribute to the bottom line.
Tool Chests allow you to store your frequently used customized markups and measurements. Learn how easy it is to create and save multiple types of markups, create a dynamic legend that counts each markup and share custom tool chests so your markups are consistent across all drawings. Topics covered during this session include: custom tools, scaling the toolset, sequencing markups, attaching tools to layers and sharing toolsets.
How do businesses and their employees cope with unanticipated events, changes and possible crises? How can leadership create a work environment that empowers everyone to rise above and allow the changes to lead to more viable and efficient ways to work and live?
In Part 1 of this two-part series we will learn the best way to manage lists of information in Excel. After formatting the list as a table, we will expand our knowledge of making our list more usable. Some formulas that are commonly used with data lists will be explained.
Using influence to motivate others to accomplish something will go a lot further than getting something done by setting tasks that need to be completed. Someone in a position of authority will most assuredly get the task completed, but it may not be done from a sincere desire to do the best job. The truly effective individual contributors, managers and executives use influence skills to achieve results, regardless of their positional power within their organization.
After mastering how to work with a formatted table, we’ll take the next step by learning how to create reports from a table. This session will explain how to create a formatted table that will easily set filters and display subtotals based on those filters. Students will also learn to build dynamic Pivot table reports.
Word has some built-in features to help eliminate the stress of formatting a document. With this session, you will learn how to save blocks of text, navigate through large documents more quickly, create columns in under a minute, tricks behind setting tabs, inserting Excel workbooks and more.
In today’s competitive business arena, effective communication skills are a must! Professionals must be able to concisely and clearly express their thoughts to diverse audiences in a variety of different ways.
Part 2 is designed to expand on the knowledge and lessons learned from the first session. By the end, participants will become more comfortable and efficient using Word.