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10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET | October 12 - 13 This course explores pre-award and post-award risk assessments, from methodology and process to how to best leverage the results. Key topics include defining risk factors, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methodologies, documenting risk assessments, using risk assessments to identify specific conditions during pre-award, and using risk assessment results to develop post-award monitoring plans
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET | October 10 - 11 Grants management is a partnership. To be successful, grantees and grantors must work together and understand each other. Communication between grantees and grantors is a critical—and often overlooked—part of effective stewardship of grant funds. This course will look at how to build relationships, understand other points of view, and communicate effectively. You will develop an understanding of the importance of managing relationships to improve the performance of federal grants.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET | October 2 Enhance your understanding of recipient audits, focusing on the requirements in Subpart F of 2 CFR 200. Participants will examine several audit types, including the Single Audit, to learn how audit results and findings impact federal grants management, including pre-award risk assessment, planned monitoring and oversight, and corrective actions.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET | October 4 - 5 Learn to confidently navigate the audit process. This course will provide grant recipients with a practical and relevant understanding of various types of audits, including the single audit. Through interactive exercises and honest discussions, you will learn about the entire audit process as governed by 2 CFR 200, Subpart F. From initiation through results and corrective action planning, this course outlines best practices for effectively managing audits of your grants funding.
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET | October 26 Virtualize your site visits! Using best practices from traditional site visits, this course shows participants how to carry out site visits virtually. Through simulation activities and interactive exchanges, you will gain the knowledge needed to effectively plan and facilitate virtual site visits.
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On-Demand Course Customer Service Excellence (ADMB7003 & ADMB7004) Become "customer-driven" and learn how to take service to the top, inspiring others to provide quality service. Gain proficiency in identifying your internal and external customers. Discover the latest methods for enhancing customer service and handling problems, including anticipating and responding to customers' needs.
Regain control over your workload, increase your efficiency, and ease your stress. Learn ways to dig out from beneath the mountain of paperwork, emails, and assignments, and eliminate anxiety over and frustration about your many responsibilities. Discover strategies for goal setting and prioritizing, as well as methods for overcoming procrastination. Learn to handle professional challenges with confidence!
Develop superior customer service by learning the basics of effective communication to successfully interact with internal and external customers. Become adept at recognizing and anticipating the needs of others; being flexible when handling requests and complaints; and spotting and responding to important verbal and nonverbal messages.
Develop your ability to give concise briefings that convey your main message quickly and clearly. Learn and practice essential strategies for delivering short structured briefings in this hands-on course. Your briefings are recorded for playback, and your instructor will provide useful coaching and tips.
Learn to create win-win situations and improve work relationships with colleagues, employees, customers, and others. Focus on issues of negotiation, including using multiple strategies, applying the no-fault formula, interest-based methods, and empathy in the negotiation process.
Gain the skills for revising your business documents to improve their clarity and accuracy. The Plain Writing Act of 2010 mandates that government documents be easily understood and well organized. Learn how to revise documents to give your main ideas greater power and emphasis. Become proficient at spotting and correcting common punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation errors, as well as frequently misused words.
Create documents that achieve results. Learn to analyze each writing situation-focusing on your purpose, reader, and context. Write effective explanations and instructions, using lists, headings, and graphics to get the job done. Write convincing arguments, clearly stating your position and supporting it effectively. Avoid logical fallacies in your writing and learn to spot them in messages you receive. Use writing to convince your reader and achieve real-world results. Use plain language as mandated by the Federal Plain Writing Act of 2010.
Think more clearly by improving your writing. Write more clearly by improving your thinking. Understand critical thinking and learn strategies for deeper and deeper levels of thinking. Improve your thought process at each stage of the writing process. Create logical and persuasive arguments, and recognize and remove faulty logic. Sharpen your problem-solving skills and enhance group success. Write plainly as mandated by the Federal Plain Writing Act of 2011 and empower your career with critical thinking and clear writing.
This course provides a broad overview of project management using a standardized methodology, focusing on how to coordinate the most common (and useful!) project deliverables. In this course, participants will learn how to approach tasks armed with an understanding of project management and its consistent processes.
Online | In-Person | On-site Course Project Management Essentials introduces the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and offers a standardized approach to project management. Participants will use the PMI standard to manage a project throughout its lifecycle; from initiation to closing. In doing so, participants will be developing and using the same proven tools and techniques that experienced project managers use to lead teams to successful project completion.
This course focuses on the leadership aspects of project management.
This introductory course provides core knowledge and practice exercises for participants to directly operate Microsoft Project 2016. Participants use the software to develop a usable project plan, schedule tasks, manage project resources, and more. Participants navigate the Microsoft Project 2016 environment by defining a new project plan, organizing and linking project tasks, optimizing the critical path, setting the project baseline, adding and managing resources to the project plan, setting up resource calendars, resolving resource conflicts, customizing Gantt charts, creating timelines, custom reports and more.
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1 p.m. ET | September 28 One of the most challenging compliance obligations of federal grantees is ensuring that they charge only “allocable” costs to their federal awards. At its core a very straightforward concept, in practice cost allocation can prove a complex endeavor. From direct allocation, through cost allocation plans, and federally approved indirect cost rate agreements, an understanding of cost allocation principles aids grantees in efficiently and properly recovering project costs from the federal government. Join FTLF Partner Scott S. Sheffler to build from cost allocation basics to intermediate allocation concepts, examine practical examples, and walk through the indirect rate agreement negotiation process.
1 p.m. ET | October 19 Based upon straight-forward principles of competition and transparency, the federal procurement standards are one of the areas of the federal grant management regulations that contains numerous specific rules and remains an area of compliance focus for auditors and agency reviewers. In this webinar, FTLF Partner Scott S. Sheffler will concisely address procurement considerations, building from the underlying legal principles to the key specific regulatory requirements. He will address competition requirements (including sole source justifications); regulatory options for requests for proposals, sealed bids, or simplified procedures; preferences for small and disadvantaged businesses and domestic sources; and the still relatively new limitations on purchases of certain telecommunications equipment and services from Huawei Technology Company and certain other entities. This webinar is designed to tie the various requirements together into a logical and systemic whole to promote not just compliance, but also efficient and repeatable systems.
1 p.m. ET | November 9 Although a rare event, every grantee eventually faces a circumstance that warrants a significant internal inquiry – even if the grantee anticipates that it will find that it substantially complied with applicable federal requirements. In this webinar, FTLF attorneys with decades of combined experience in conducting internal investigations will discuss practical considerations, including: (i) depending upon subject matter and posture of the issue upon discovery, who should conduct the investigation and how formal it should be, (ii) when to involve lawyers, (iii) important “do’s and don’ts” in the course of the investigation and follow-on action, and (iv) core systems and processes to have in place to mitigate risk of noncompliance in advance. This presentation will be structured as a panel discussion, with ample opportunity for participant questions.
1 p.m. ET | December 7 With the advent of the Uniform Guidance, subrecipient monitoring has become a significant area of focus by federal awarding agencies. The Uniform Guidance instructs that grantees are to evaluate the risk of each subaward/subrecipient, then monitor each subrecipient’s performance based upon that risk assessment. However, it does not explain how grantees should structure their subrecipient agreements to create the opportunity to conduct that monitoring or establish the legal rights necessary to take effective action in the event noncompliance is identified. This can lead to grantees acting with too light or too heavy a touch when they perceive a possible area of noncompliance on the part of a subrecipient. In this webinar, FTLF attorney Scott S. Sheffler will discuss matters of subrecipient noncompliance within the broader federal grant compliance framework, connecting potential enforcement mechanisms to important agreement terms and risk for the grantee entity vis-à-vis its federal agency funder.
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