Overview: This program was developed for leaders at all levels of an organization. It merges the topics of risk management and employee engagement into a solution on how to manage employees whose behaviors negatively influence others. This material has been road tested and is highly rated. Why should you Attend: When you and a co-worker do not get along, the situation negatively affects you both, and others who work with you and for you. Your...

Overview: Many Excel users have a love-hate relationship with workbook links. For the uninitiated, workbook links allow you to connect one Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to other spreadsheets, Word documents, databases, and even web pages. In this presentation Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA discusses the pros and cons of workbook links, and walks you through the nuances of creating workbook links. David will also show how to dramatically impro...

Overview: Our Speaker will explain the expectations of regulatory authorities both domestic and international. You should attend if you are not familiar with the activity or would like to understand the expectations both foreign and domestic. This presentation will cover the importance of master planning. The FDA and other regulatory bodies expect these to be among the Quality System documentation. How best should it be implemented and maintai...

Overview: The course includes activities to help trainees develop a general plan and procedures to standardize and control food quality and safety transportation processes. For food shippers, carriers and receivers, standardization or upgrade to current practices is critical. For buyers, knowing how to establish standards for your food transporters sets the stage for required supply chain controls. The journey from "Where do we start?" to "We...

Overview: Foreign bodies are the most obvious evidence of a contaminated product, its presence in foods is among the biggest source of complaint and prosecution in the food industry. To the food processor or manufacturer, foreign body contamination can be costly and may include the cost of a product recall, legal expenses and ultimately, the costs of lost reputation and consumer confidence. Therefore, it is essential that the food supply and a...

Overview: This webinar will cover the major issues facing the multifamily housing market with an emphasis on the outlook for new construction. Coverage will include discussion regarding the preference for owning vs. renting, availability of credit for residential purchases by the consumer and for developers, the direction and speed of change in interest rates, the outlook for multifamily condominium units, and availability of labor for constru...

Overview: This session shows practitioners how to develop and create a Paynter Chart for predictive warranty management. Attendees will see how to actively utilize representative return data, observe the construction of a sample Paynter and then observe the results of the predictive analysis. Successful examples will be shared. Attendees will walk away with a model that they can apply to their own organizations while learning how to mitigate b...

Overview: Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA is fond of stating "Either you work Excel, or it works you!" In this fast-paced presentation David will share over two dozen ways that you can reclaim part of your day from Excel. You'll uncover mouse techniques, keyboard shortcuts, hidden menus, and even ways to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts in Excel. Restore the classic print preview screen in Excel 2010 and later, undo or redo multiple...

Overview: Normality Tests and normality transformations are a combination of graphical and numerical methods that have been in use for many decades. These methods are essential to apply whenever a statistical test or method is used whose fundamental assumption is that the inputted data is normally distributed. Normality "testing" involves creating a "normal probability plot" and calculating simple statistics for comparison to critical values i...

Overview: Effective sanitation in the food industry involves the maintenance of clean conditions in the entire food operation including the control of pests such as cockroaches, houseflies, rats, mice, and birds. This status is attained through the prevention of pest entry and eradication of those that infiltrate food establishments. As the food processing and foodservice industry have grown, methods of food production, processing, distributio...