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Tag: Advanced manager certificate

You’ve been leading and managing for years now. But there’s always more to learn. Use these courses to refresh yourself, sharpen your approach and try a new move here or there to get the highest performance, both from your team and yourself.

Understanding the financial side of our business

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    • Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around. Our SVP of finance, Tricia Gosser, will help us understand the inner-workings of the financial side of our business. What do you as content executives need to know to be savvy financial operators? Tricia will help you get there.

    More training on Project Management:

    New England Table Stakes final reports

    Results from a five-month sprint in Portsmouth, N.H., Providence, R.I., Cape Cod, Mass., Quincy, Mass., and the New England DOT.

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    • Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • Listening effectively: Lessons from an extreme extrovert

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    • Hear from Louisville editor Mary Irby-Jones on how she learned to stop talking so she could hear other people.

    Mary’s presentationDownload

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    Foundations of data journalism – Scraping

    Data scraping web pages with Google sheets, scraping PDFs with Tabula and PDFtoExcel. Build graphics with Flourish Studio. We’ll also explore how to scrape data from a photograph using Excel.

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    • Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • What good bosses do

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    • We focus on Connecting mission, purpose and values with everyday work (George Stanley & Mizell Stewart III) and Motivation: Celebrating your people; elements of good communication, feedback, etc. (Mizell Stewart III)

    What good bosses doDownload
    List of readings recommended during this sessionDownload
    Chat transcript from recordingDownload

    Here are some additional related resources:

    Connecting mission, purpose and values with everyday work:
    21 Ways to Be a Better Leader

    Top 10 Bad Boss Behaviors

    Goal Setting

    Motivation: Celebrating your people; elements of good communication, feedback, etc.

    How to Establish Open Communication at Work

    TeamRelate: Flexing Your Communication Style (My Leadership Edge Session, November2020): Presentation, Recording

    How to Give Feedback Effectively

    3 Questions That Motivate Any Employee

    The Puzzle of Motivation

    Motivator Worksheet

    Leader as Motivator (My Leadership Edge Session, May 2020) Presentation, Recording

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    Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • Managing online harassment: What to know to ensure your digital and psychological safety

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    • This 75-minute session led by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Committee to Protect Journalists provides reporters, editors, managers and other news staff with practical digital security steps and psychological precautions to take before, during, and after online harassment and attacks. The briefing covers both digital and psychological safety in the lead-up to and post-U.S. presidential election. The training will be delivered by Elana Newman, PhD., a clinical psychologist and research director for the Dart Center, and Ela Stapley, a digital security expert with the Committee to Protect Journalists and a former freelance journalist.

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    CPJ’s guide to protecting against targeted online attacks

    CPJ’s guide to removing personal data from the internet


    CPJ’s digital safety kit for journalists

    CPJ’s risk assessment guide

    How journalists can get access to a password manager for free.

    HORN Network: Help removing the digital trail of online abuse

    Digital safety and security tipsDownload

    PrivacyDuck

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    Be the Beat: How to do CPR*

    Tips and videos of CPR dos and don’ts from the American Heart Association with rich data and insights on women’s heart health – not a certification class.

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    • Coping with the stress and trauma of journalism, using our EAP benefit

    The EAP provides qualified counseling experts for you and your family members. It is free and confidential. This 60-minute session from EAP facilitator Gwen Kinsey will reintroduce this benefit and answer questions about how to use it. Gwen will also focus on the effects of stress, trauma and burnout for journalists.

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    • Coping with stress, trauma and burnout

    We focus on the effects of stress, trauma and burnout on individuals and teams, and offer guidance and recommendations for how to cope most effectively. This provides a grounding in trauma science and basic awareness of the impact of trauma exposure and related stresses along with evidence-based strategies and practices in wellness and collegial support.

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    • Coping with burnout

    How to combat the understandable effects ​of a relentless news cycle during the pandemic​.

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    • Difficult conversations as productive tools for better outcomes

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    • We will explore:

    • How to typically approach a tough conversation –– any memorable ones stand out that you feel like you navigated really well or really poorly without providing too many details and what you learned?
    • How do you know when it’s time to put someone on a coaching plan or a PIP?
    • When you think about coaching, especially challenging employees, what tactics have worked best for you?
    • We’re in really challenging times right now, and it’s important we recognize that and give people as much understanding and flexibility as possible. At the same time, there is work that needs to be done, and we have to continue to hold people accountable. How do you think about performance management during this particular time?
    • These are tools for both managers and employees. They facilitate difficult conversations by keeping things focused and measurable, which can cut the tension with difficult employees. 

    More training on Leadership:

    Foundations of data journalism – Scraping

    Data scraping web pages with Google sheets, scraping PDFs with Tabula and PDFtoExcel. Build graphics with Flourish Studio. We’ll also explore how to scrape data from a photograph using Excel.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • Management is a marathon

    Practical advice for new managers (and potential new managers) on overcoming obstacles, working effectively in a hybrid newsroom, pacing yourself and, always, moving forward, even when you hit that wall at Mile 20.

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