Recordings - Educational Webinars

Recorded Educational Series

Jim Cardwell’s Educational Webinar Series

Jim Cardwell will host 30-minute monthly educational webinars.  The purpose of these webinars is to provide Connections Online clients with value-add, big picture topics that are relevant to current issues and could be utilized for your monthly organizational dialog.  Please check back each month to see what Jim’s topic of the month will cover.

July's Educational Webinar was entitled Supercharging Your Performance Connection. 
Jim Cardwell discussed further how Connections Online’s innovative and efficient processes are ideal for building a high performance organization – even during times of a recession.  Click the link to view the recorded session using Windows media player:  http://www.connectionsonline.net/docs/7-21-jc-ed.wmv.  When the recording starts, you will hear Jim talking, but it will take about 40 seconds for the first slide of the PPT to appear.

June's Educational Webinar highlighted the presentations given at our Connections Online Users Roundtable earlier in June. 
Erinn Heckstall of Aspire FCU shared her thoughts on “Using Connections Online to Organize and Execute Large Projects”.  Nancy Richardson of Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union shared tactics on “Communicating Connections throughout the Organization”.  Vicki Dyson of NASA FCU discussed “The Alignment, Impact and Success of the Connections Support Team”.  Click the link to view the recorded session using Windows media player:  http://www.connectionsonline.net/docs/JC-Ed-Series-6-09.wmv.  When the recording starts, you will hear Karla and Jim talking, but it will take about 40 seconds for the first slide of the PPT to appear.

May's Educational Webinar Topic was entitled "Inconsistent Project Management - Is there a way to make this work better?" 
The presentation's purpose was to provide a tool to make project management more consistent and productive.  Click the link to view the recorded session using Windows media player:  http://www.connectionsonline.net/docs/ed-series-5-26-09.wmv.  When the recording starts, you will hear Jim talking, but it will take about 40 seconds for the first slide of the PPT to appear.

April's Educational Webinar Topic was entitled "No Surprises" 
Tom O’Shea (the CEO of Aspire Credit Union) shared some innovations and best practices on linking Connections with the performance evaluation process.  So how do you handle the year-end discussion of overall performance?  How do you integrate performance software tools?  How do you link performance to compensation?  What key lessons have been learned?  What challenges remain?  How do you make the experience enjoyable (… well almost)!  Listen to Tom's answers to these questions...  Click the link to view the recorded session using Windows media player:  www.connectionsonline.net/docs/tom-webinar.wmv.  When the recording starts, you will hear Tom talking, but it will take about 40 seconds for the first slide of the PPT to appear.

February's Educational Webinar Topic covered Using Connections Online to Quickly Refocus Your Credit Union in Hard Times: 
Kevin Foster-Keddie, CEO, WSECU, was our guest speaker on how he uses Connections Online to quickly realign employees around changes in strategy.  This is an especially important issue given this economic crisis that has been dealt  the credit union industry.  Here is the link to Kevin’s webinar recording (when the recording first starts, the screen is black for a few seconds - then the presentation begins) http://www.connectionsonline.net/docs/kfk.wmv