Professional Programs 

The Wiener Educational Center invites you to join our learning community, in which high standards of excellence, affordability, and applicability provide you with valuable learning experiences. Workshops cover a wide variety of topics necessary for professionals to be successful, including presentation skills, strategic storytelling, conflict management, and social media.

At Wiener Center programs, you will meet colleagues from community centers, councils, mental-health clinics, nursing homes, hospitals, camps, synagogues, day schools, and other Jewish communal service organizations. The mix makes for exciting exchanges of ideas.

The Fundamentals of Successful Presentations Skills

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Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

This workshop introduces professionals to tools for reducing anxiety, cultivating stage presence, developing compelling content, and using your voice and body to make your message stick.

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Taking Your Online Presence to the Next Level: An Advanced Social Media Workshop

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Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Professionals experienced in working with all aspects of social media are invited to develop increasingly complex media strategies.

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Greening Seminar: Funding Opportunities for Your Agency Greening Initiatives

Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 9:00–11:30 a.m.

As someone who cares deeply your agencyís greening initiative, youíll want to learn about ways to find support for greening your building or for green programming, and what funders are looking for.

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Beyond Acronyms: An Interactive Approach to Understanding Jewish Communal Life and Institutions

Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon

This new, creative, and interactive curriculum is designed for professionals who want a greater understanding of the Jewish community from a national perspective—its history, structure, and institutions.

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25 Grammatical Problems and How To Overcome Them

Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

In this workshop for professionals with a basic knowledge of grammar, youíll learn about the most common grammatical errors in business communications and become better able to catch them in your own work.

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Working More Effectively With Difficult People

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

This workshop offers practical tips on how to deal with difficult people and strategies for identifying, understanding, and resolving workplace conflict more quickly.

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Synagogue Seminar—Everything Counts: Creating Inspired Customer Service in Synagogues

Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 9:00–11:30 a.m.

Hear from an expert about ways to examine your customer-service oversights, identify aspects of your synagogue in need of repair, and engage others in the process of implementing remedies.

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Effective Donor Recognition Without Journals

Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

If your organization is still using a paper journal to recognize your honoree and other donors, this workshop will provide a donor-friendly, cost-effective, environmentally sensitive alternative: the scroll of honor.

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Budgeting for Non-Financial Managers

Date: Monday, May 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Participants are offered the basics of how to develop and use financial information and budgeting to successfully manage nonprofit programs and services and create budgets for proposals.

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Prospect Research to Achieve Philanthropic Success

Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

In this workshop, participants are introduced to best practices in prospect research—online, on paper, and in person.

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Strategic Storytelling to Recruit and Inspire Donors and Volunteers

Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Back by popular demand—and this time held on Long Island—this workshop helps you design and deliver stories that grab the attention and inspire action of those you wish to attract to your agency, synagogue, or cause.

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The Stages and Choreography of Face-to-Face Solicitation

Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 9:00–1:00 p.m.

Designed for professionals without formal solicitation training, this workshop provides a basic, practical framework for face-to-face solicitation of existing and prospective donors.

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