Feb 7
Get sales and use tax answers that keep your company legal and you out of hot water!
  • Receive tips and techniques that may save your organization thousands in penalties
  • Gain new insights into the most commonly misunderstood aspects of sales and use taxes
  • Learn the sales and use tax requirements in your state and all other jurisdictions where you have tax liability
  • Discover where to find the latest changes in sales and use tax laws that govern your industry
  • Be able to protect your company against audit surprises
  • Explore tax savings opportunities and exemptions you may not be aware of
  • Understand how e-trade is affected by sales and use tax
  • Find out how to streamline your record keeping without putting your company at risk
  • And even more you'll put to use immediately on the job!
If you have questions about sales and use tax laws, you're not alone. There are 7,500 different taxing jurisdictions in the 
United States alone, and they routinely tax the same products differently. It's easy to understand why our sales and use tax laws are considered among the most complicated in the world.
To add to your challenge, state governments are aggressively pursuing new avenues of taxation. Faced with a slumping economy, they want a bigger piece of the revenue pie. Clearly, your job has never been more difficult - or important - to your organization.

Feb 8 & 9
You’ll learn:
  • Time-saving techniques that’ll allow you to get your work done faster with Excel
  • Adding and using the Analysis ToolPak to make complex data analysis a snap
  • How to create a PivotTable report to quickly analyze volumes of data, generate summary views, see comparisons and reveal patterns in your data
  • How to add power to your spreadsheets with Visual Basic® for Applications, including a quick way to learn VBA syntax
  • And much more!
You may use Excel daily, or maybe only casually, but one thing’s for sure—you’ve probably wished you knew more about this dynamic program. That’s why you’ll want to attend this workshop. In it, you’ll learn ways to make your job easier and increase the sophistication of your data reporting and analyzing. Each session focuses on saving-you-time techniques, advanced “how-to’s,” exploring those previously “programmer only” features and more. Along with this practical and usable training, you’ll learn how to integrate your work within the Office “family” for even greater results. If you’ve ever been frustrated using Excel because you knew there had to be a better way of accomplishing your tasks, you’ll soon be on your way to getting more done—and more efficiently—with this power-boosting workshop. Enroll today!

Feb 14
You’ll learn ...
  • How to inspire people to "go the extra mile"
  • How to give feedback that helps your workers correct shortcomings and do their very best
  • How to create an environment of caring and cooperation
  • How to deal with difficult workers and turn problems into pluses
  • And much more
This is your prime opportunity to gain vital teambuilding expertise–-both people skills and technical skills-–guaranteed to make your team more cohesive, motivated and productive. You'll walk away with a teambuilding action plan you can launch immediately.

Feb 14
You earned your new supervisor position … this training will help you make the most of it!
In your previous position, you did a great job. Yet, you're smart enough to know the skills that made you a great team player won't necessarily make you a great supervisor. For any new supervisor, training is key to success in this role.
  • It's not enough to follow directions … now you must give directions about what gets done, when, and by whom.
  • It's not enough that your projects are accurate and on time … you have to help others keep their projects on track, and see that everyone works together.
  • It's not enough to focus only on your department … suddenly you're a member of the management team. Your new peers will expect you to have a broader perspective, including other departments.
  • It's not enough to keep yourself motivated … you have to be a coach, cheerleader, and "strong shoulder" to people who have bad days, conflicts with each other, and other demands that you might not be able to satisfy.

Feb 15
A day that brings clarity to your payroll gray areas
Payroll processing sounds like a simple proposition. Employees work at a certain rate of pay. You take out taxes and give them the rest of what they've earned. Unfortunately, regulations regarding special benefits and other payments turn a simple task into a legal landmine. With this payroll management training, you'll gain strategies to handle payroll accurately, legally and with complete confidence.
What you don't know can hurt you. That's never more true than when dealing with payroll law. The first step to complying with regulations is understanding them. You'll begin your day with a crash course in payroll's legal basics. Find out what areas fall under state, federal and joint regulation and learn how to avoid the often staggering penalties and fines of non-compliance.
In one intensive day of training, we'll cover today's most challenging payroll management issues including:
  • The latest regulation changes that impact how you process payroll
  • The red flags auditors look for in your payroll procedures
  • The ins and outs of new hire reporting — what's changed now?
  • Fringe benefits, bonuses, commissions back-pay — what's taxable today?
  • How to handle the sticky legalities of payment on termination
  • Your state law says one thing and the federal government says another — now what?
  • Ways to side-step the most common pitfalls of Wage and Hour laws
  • And much more!
With this payroll management training, you'll know which forms to use when and, most important, how to keep your company out of hot water with the DOL and state agencies. It's their job to catch you in a mistake. Together, we'll make sure that doesn't happen.

Feb 20
You’ll learn ...
  • The 3 rules of business writing you simply can´t afford to break
  • A 3-step approach for getting an immediate response to any written communication
  • How to overcome writer´s block once and for all!
  • How to un-clutter your messages by eliminating unnecessary words and redundant expressions
  • And much more!
Find out just how easy it is to get started, organize your thoughts and present your messages in ways that achieve the positive results you want. Learn how to meet the challenge of "putting it in writing"—whether you´re writing letters, memos, proposals or other documents.

Feb 21
How to defuse tense situations, make a good impression and develop strong business communication skills.
In this one-day seminar, discover the tried and true techniques of effective business communication skills that have alluded so many for such a long time. Communicate with Tact and Professionalism teaches you how to become an outstanding verbal communicator, effective writer, empathetic listener and master craftsmen with your own body language so that all your correspondence is consistent and well-received. At the conclusion of this training opportunity, you will have a well-written action plan and be on your way to emerge as an effective communicator.
After attending this seminar you'll be able to:
•Customize your message to fit your audience
•Understand what others are saying through their body language
•Welcome brainstorm sessions to inspire employee contributions that lead to "wins"
•Use facts to share observations and make suggestions
•Craft emails and presentations that keep your audience engaged and on the edge of their seats
•Negotiate with power and effectiveness
•Give feedback on performance that inspires people to do better