Professional Edge
Overview
Designed to support community economic and workforce development needs in metropolitan Kansas City, Professional Edge offers KU faculty and staff as speakers on current topics for you.
Benefits to your organization
- Focused discussions around a key topic being faced within your organization
- Current trends and practices will be shared
- Opportunity for professional development and growth
- An atmosphere for individuals to interact and discuss specific issues
Professional Edge Topics
Choose from more than 60 presentation topics that address needs in business, engineering services, information technology, lifestyle, management, marketing, secondary education and general workplace.
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Business
| Concepts in finance |
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| E-marketing |
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| Economic trends and outlook in (any
county in Kansas) county |
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| Entrepreneurship (any area/topic) |
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| Human resource management |
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| Information systems in business |
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| International business (select a country) |
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| Leadership in business |
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| Power pricing |
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| Using communication technology effectively
in organizations |
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| Creating a culture of innovation and
communicating the ideas |
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| Healthcare trends, policies and long-term
care |
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| The budget as a communication tool |
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Diversity
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Building Bridges (Celebrating Differences) *
This workshop helps participants: celebrate their similarities and
differences, recognize misinformation they learned, heal from
internalized oppression, explore discrimination, claim pride in group
identity, and learn hands-on tools for dealing effectively with bigoted
comments and behavior. |
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Understanding Diversity
In this workshop diversity is defined in the broadest of terms (by
looking at dimensions of diversity) including race, gender, ethnicity,
age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, values,
education, physical appearance, lifestyle, beliefs, geographic origin,
longevity with the organization, and economic status. It explains the
benefits of diversity and diverse work environments. |
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Basic Race Awareness Workshop
This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to openly
explore their feelings and beliefs about "race" issue, with the goal to
better understand complex issues through honest communication. |
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Information Technology
| Applied research in engineering quality
software: software architecture evaluation |
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| Applied research in engineering quality
software: test-driven |
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| Architecture evaluation |
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| Software development |
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Lifestyle
| Being an adult student |
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| Overcoming anxiety |
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| Mentoring |
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| Drug education |
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| Healthy kids |
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| Health & fitness |
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| Suicide prevention |
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Management
| Communicating organizational change |
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| Employee responses to organizational
change |
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| Sexual harassment |
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| Administrative ethics |
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| Evolving roles of city managers and
leaders |
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| Managing IT as a part of strategic planning |
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| Motivating front-line workers |
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| Public management |
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| Red tape – dealing with unnecessary
rules |
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Marketing
| Creative leadership |
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| Branding – cultural shifts |
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| Finance for marketers and non-financial communicators |
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| Media relations – getting the
press on your side |
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Secondary Education
| Why can’t our children graduate
from college in 4 years? |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act policy
information |
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| Autism/Asperger Syndrome |
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| Creating safe school building plans |
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| Deaf culture needs and characteristics |
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| Kansas science standards |
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| No child left behind |
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| Positive psychology |
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| Role of testing in society – High
stakes testing |
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| Teacher career choice/mobility |
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| Technology and its application for students
with learning needs |
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| Transitional education |
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Workplace
| Emotions in organizations |
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Workplace Violence 101
This workshop is designed to instill awareness of workplace violence. It
provides participants with the tools necessary to assess acts or threats
of violence and to deal with them appropriately thereby preventing
violence from occurring.
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