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Tag: Manager fundamentals certificate

If you haven’t led a team before — or haven’t done so for very long — it can be daunting. Folks are looking to you for direction, feedback, assurance, critique. Use these courses to ground yourself in the skills you’ll need to make yourself and everyone around you better.

PowerPoint 01: Storytelling with PowerPoint

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    • Learn how to create a slide deck from a template and add basic content, speaker notes and launch your slideshow. Learn PowerPoint uses and tour the interface.

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    PowerPoint 02: How to Use Shapes and Transitions to See the Story

    See the Story: Microsoft trainer Bill Monroe teaches you how to use shapes, transitions, morph and more in this walkthrough of PowerPoint. Excellent details for improving your decks.

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    • Curate newsletters that win with readers

    Newsletters are a powerful tool to move readers down the subscriber funnel. Here’s how to master them.

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    • Unlock the value in evergreen stories

    Re-sharing allows us to grow subscribers through bringing forward interesting stories that retain enduring value.

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    • The art of “goosing” to extend the value of our best content

    We can improve premium stories that underperformed to help “goose” the story to get it out of the underperforming category and to assess what we could have done better.

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    • Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

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

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    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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    • 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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    • Project-manage like a pro

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    • Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes from the Digital Optimization team’s Jessica Davis and Ana Hurler that will help you simplify and win.

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    More training on Managing teams:

    Develop an audience plan for a big winner in the making

    Audience plans are an outline of social, alert, boost and publish plans for a story we expect to be a big win.

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    • Unlock the value in evergreen stories

    Re-sharing allows us to grow subscribers through bringing forward interesting stories that retain enduring value.

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    • Packaging, proofing and design center workflows for the CCJ

    Making it all come together is a complex orchestra.

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    • How to move searchers through the subscriber funnel

    Using your unique content to turn visitors into subscribers.

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    • Management is a marathon

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    • 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. Greg Borowski is deputy editor for news, projects and investigations at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a late-in-life runner who has completed six marathons and is looking for number seven. Moderated by Tia’Lavon Hill from our Rising Leaders cohort.

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    Management-is-a-Marathon-handoutDownload

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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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    • 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.

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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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    • Five keys to better virtual leadership

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    • How can you do your best work during this difficult period of perpetual work-from-home? We’ll explore how journalists around the company are learning to listen more, communicate better, celebrate good work, constructively identify areas for improvement and reconnect in ways that return some of the joy and fulfillment we’ve been missing. This session is packed with concrete examples of what’s working.

    Virtual leadership tip sheetDownload

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How things work in the Network

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    • We cover how the many parts of the content division and wider company fit together.

    Additional resources to help you

    How the different parts of the content division fit togetherDownload
    Glossary of Gannett termsDownload
    Content strategy team overviewDownload
    How we networkDownload
    Network: USA TODAYDownload
    Design Center in detailDownload
    Content-innovation-and-emerging-tech-teamDownload

    The Hub for Managers (My Leadership Edge Session, October 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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    • Situations managers deal with

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    • We cover:Difficult conversations that lead to positive, productive outcomes (Michael McCarter + Amalie Nash) and a series of what-ifs with HR partners Arthur Acuña, Perla Adame and Gretchen Pina-Breedy.

    Additional resources to help you

    More training on Managing teams:

    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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    • Mechanics of good management

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    • We cover: the career life cycle, including the art of recruiting, retention and hiring — with a focus on DEI (Michael Anastasi); managing virtually (Jean Hodges); and performance management — proactive, all year long, no surprises (Hollis Towns).

    The art of recruiting, hiring and retentionDownload
    Virtual leadership tipsDownload
    Proactive performance managementDownload

    Additional resources to help you:

    Performance management

    Managing virtually

    The art of recruiting, retention and hiring

    More training on Managing teams:

    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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    • 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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    • Five case studies that illuminate our ethics and social media policies

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    • In order to preserve our integrity, we must live up to the highest standards of objectivity, truthfulness, completeness, fairness, accuracy and impartiality. This can get tricky. Being proactive and communicating our standards clearly helps, but sometimes we slip up. Here’s a primer on what to watch out for, and how to steer clear of trouble.

    Click here for Gannett’s social media policy

    Social media guidance for newsrooms

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    Network social media strategy

    Instagram (and TikTok) have seen news consumption increase over the past three years. Users of these social platforms also tend to be younger, more diverse and more closely align with our target audiences.

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    • Reddit: How journalists can use the platform to grow audience, find sources and more

    With 430 million active users, Reddit is a gold mine of opportunity for journalists — but diving in can be challenging. In this session, we’ll help you learn how to confidently navigate the platform to discover and promote stories, find sources, cultivate relationships with new and existing audiences, and more.

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    • How to tell a story in 60 seconds or less on vertical video

    Learn how to easily tell a story for audiences on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube. Led by Wisconsin DOT Manager Lainey Seyler and producer Brooke Eberle, the session give tips on planning, creating and writing a script for vertical videos.

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    • Instagram for journalists

    What are all these Instagram terms I hear and why do they matter to my work? Get a crash course on the basics of Instagram and how the platform can help your stories reach a different audience in this one-hour course led by Des Moines Register Audience Strategist Brian Smith.

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