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Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS)

CSRS is the older retirement system for federal employees. This presentation will help federal employees obtain a better understanding of their retirement benefits package and be able to plan for retirement or update their current retirement plans. Learn the best date to retire from a retirement benefits and tax planning perspective. Learn how to calculate how much retirement savings you will need to sustain a comfortable retirement and have the knowledge to make critical retirement decisions.

Roy Gray, Adjunct Faculty

Target Audiences: AG

Committing to Ethical Business Conduct

This session will provide research data and practical advice on how to maintain an ethical work environment, along with awareness of how workplace sociopaths can undermine ethical practices. The business advantage of a commitment to “excellence in ethics” is demonstrated through the following quote by the CEO of the Legal Knowledge Company, Dov L. Seidman (08/03/06) “Our findings confirm that companies with a commitment to ethical conduct (integrity) enjoy distinct advantages in the marketplace, including attracting and retaining talent.”

Timothy Smith, Selsius™ Performance Improvement Consultant

Target Audiences: AG

Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)

FERS is the newer retirement system for federal employees. This presentation will help federal employees obtain a better understanding of their retirement benefits package and be able to plan for retirement or update their current retirement plans. Learn the best date to retire from a retirement benefits and tax planning perspective. Learn how to calculate how much retirement savings you will need to sustain a comfortable retirement and have the knowledge to make critical retirement decisions.

Roy Gray, Adjunct Faculty

Target Audiences: AG

Income Tax Strategies for Businesses

Tax strategies for new and existing businesses will be discussed. You will discover tax breaks that are already on the books as well as those that have been passed but not yet enacted. Tax breaks will be for small to larger businesses.

Michael Isenhart, Adjunct Faculty

Target Audiences: AG

MON/RAND

Let's Have a Meeting To Talk About Effective Meetings!

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings! Let's consider specifics which help to make meetings productive, efficient, and rewarding.

Cheryl Moody, Adjunct Faculty
Target Audiences: AG (Corporate)

Managing the Changing Business Environment

Learn how to manage the business environment with the rapidly changing technology and global economy.

Paul Edwin Coleman, Adjunct Faculty
Target Audiences: HS, AG

MON/RAND

Marketing Your Small Business or Programs

This session will discuss free press, media and how to get it, and learn about sales and promotion. Includes a discussion of shared stories from concept of Basement Production to the sales floor of the world's biggest retailer - Dream Big!

Debra Donze, Adjunct Faculty

Target Audiences: HS, AG

Preparation for Retirement

Will Social Security exist when you retire? Develop a back-up plan following this session, which will provide detailed information on strategies to prepare for retirement. Depending upon group interest, the presentation can be one intense program or a series of sessions.

Eugene Verdu, Retired
Target Audiences: AG

Retirement Planning

Thinking of retiring soon, you are about to make a major financial decision: how to take distributions from your retirement plan. This presentation will highlight various options and covers taking distributions from company plans. Tax treatment of distributions may influence decisions.

Linwood Gray, Adjunct Faculty

Target Audiences: AG

MON/RAND

The Effects of Workplace Gossip on Organizational Culture

This session will allow participants to understand their Gossip Quotient using an assessment tool and help build awareness of the upsides and downsides of an organizational culture that is shaped by employee gossiping.

Timothy Smith, Selsius™ Performance Improvement Consultant

Target Audiences: AG

The Future of Work in the United States

U.S. Department of Labor statistics, industry trends and expert opinions will be used to support this presentation focusing on the way we work, and the way work is changing. Emphasis is placed on the impact of information technology.

Larry Friederich, Vice President for Human Resources and Organizational Development
Target Audiences: HS (11-12th), AG

MON/RAND

Where Are the Jobs Today and Tomorrow?

This presentation addresses the impact of technology in industry on the job market.

Jim Moore, Retired Faculty
Target Audiences: HS, AG

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