Profisciencē Partners is pleased to announce its second webinar series and this time we’re doing it in marathon-style fashion! We’ve selected two dates in November where we’ll deliver different sessions every 30 minutes. That way you can attend as many as you’d like and each one will start and end promptly every half hour.
Because September’s webinars were so popular, we’ll be repeating some of those sessions along with a variety of new topics. If you attended any of the September webinars, be sure to review the list of topics. We’re sure you’ll be interested in what we’ve added for November.
MARATHON 1 – DEMO SERIES
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Learning Management
UniversitySite Product Demo
12pm ET | 11am CT | 10am MT | 9am PT
UniversitySite is the award winning learning management system that provides a framework for performance improvement through a centralized online learning center that delivers the information necessary to drive change in across an organization. UniversitySite is designed to complement the way law firms deliver training and development for attorneys and staff, and is used by law firms across the country and around the world.
Michael Barshinger, President of Profiscience Partners, will provide a 30-minute overview of UniversitySite’s Learning Center, from the perspective of an attorney or secretary in need of training to master new skills or comply with mandatory training programs. For those who are interested in seeing InstructorSite, the administrative center for UniversitySite, following the demo of the Learning Center, Michael will also conduct a 20-minute session on the publishing of learning activities to the Learning Center and tracking activity and progress, and he will also be on hand to answer your questions.
Skill Assessment
SkillSite Product Demo
12:30pm ET | 11:30am CT | 10:30am MT | 9:30am PT
SkillSite is a comprehensive web-based solution that provides end-to-end implementation and management for assessment, enabling law firms to successfully drive performance improvement.
Designed exclusively for law firms, SkillSite provides document proficiency assessments designed exclusively for law firms and is the only product on the market today that creates and imports personalized learning plans into your LMS so employees can quickly access their assessment results and complete prescribed training, allowing them to focus immediately on learning and acquiring new skills. This unique capability enables firms to take an important step after assessment, which is to provide the right training to close identified skill gaps and for the first time ever, facilitate more learning with less training.
Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profiscience Partners, will provide a 30-minute overview of SkillSite, an Assessment Management System designed to implement, score, and manage legal-specific, competency-based assessments for employees and new hires. Following the session, Theresa will also be on hand to answer your questions.
Learning Management
InstructorSite Product Demo
1pm ET | 12pm CT | 11am MT | 10am PT
Prerequisite Webinar Suggested:
This webinar builds on the UniversitySite Product Demo (Learning Center) webinar. Those interested in this webinar are strongly encouraged to attend the UniversitySite Product Demo (Learning Center) webinar first.
InstructorSite is a component of UniversitySite, used by management to design and publish learning resources to UniversitySite’s Learning Center. UniversitySite is the award winning learning management system that provides a framework for performance improvement through a centralized online learning center that delivers the information necessary to drive change in across an organization. UniversitySite is designed to complement the way law firms deliver training and development for attorneys and staff, and is used by law firms across the country and around the world.
Michael Barshinger, President of Profiscience Partners, will provide a 30-minute overview of InstructorSite from the perspective of an instructor responsible for developing employee skills and manage change throughout the organization.
Learning Management
UniversitySite 8.0 Sneak Peak
1:30pm ET | 12:30pm CT | 11:30am MT | 10:30am PT
Prerequisite Webinar Suggested:
This webinar builds on the UniversitySite Product Demo (Learning Center) webinar and the InstructorSite Product Demo. Those interested in this webinar are strongly encouraged to attend the UniversitySite and InstructorSite demos first.
Daniel Wallace, Director of Product Management for UniversitySite at Profiscience Partners, will provide a 30-minute preview of new features in UniversitySite 8.0.
Learning Management
Leveraging SharePoint with UniversitySite
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 12pm MT | 11am PT
More and more law firms are moving their Intranets into SharePoint and exploring ways to leverage SharePoint to increase the visibility of important information traditionally stored in disintegrated back-end systems.
Marti Phillips, National Training Manager of Andrews Kurth, will join Michael Barshinger, President of Profiscience Partners, will provide a 30-minute demo of the SharePoint pages designed to pull-forward and organize UniversitySite hosted eLearning for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other mission critical software applications.
Help Desk/Service Management
SupportSite Product Demo
2:30pm ET | 1:30pm CT | 12:30pm MT | 11:30am PT
Day to day business operations of law firms small and large experience recurring tasks that affect productivity often leading to the need to create specialized service centers. Today, law firms have service centers for Information Technology, Human Resources, Facilities, Word Processing, Photocopying and Fax services, to name a few. Each service center shares something in common: they provide a service that is needed by attorneys and staff in order to be productive in their respective jobs. SupportSite a framework for streamlining the workflow process of service centers utilized by law firms.
Michael Barshinger, President of Profiscience Partners, will provide a 30-minute overview of the first of Profisciencē Partners flagship products, SupportSite. In this session, Michael will demonstrate how SupportSite streamlines the process of completing incoming jobs within the constraints of acceptable service level standards and how SupportSite provides a framework to ensure workflow processes comply with the standards required by firm management.
MARATHON 2 – STRATEGY SERIES
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Learning Management/Skill Assessment
It’s Time to Rethink Your Office 2007/2010 Training Strategy
12 pm ET | 11am CT | 10am MT | 9am PT
Designing and leveraging your rollout as a learning experience that ensures secretaries will significantly improve their document production skills calls for a bold and comprehensive Office 2007/2010 rollout strategy. Additionally, training departments in law firms today face increased pressure and scrutiny from managing partners to justify expenses and quantify their business decisions, and this requires a compelling training strategy tied to specific and clearly defined business goals with support from the key decision makers in the firm.
Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profisciencē Partners, will provide a 30-minute overview that targets why identifying tangible outcomes—such as improvements in secretary performance, an increase in productivity, and a reduction in costs—points to the firm’s ability to successfully increase attorney to secretary ratios, provide better desk coverage across teams, and significantly improve client service—and by implementing a training platform that supports these goals, training departments will capitalize on the potential to deliver training that has real business impact.
Skill Assessment
Law Firm Case Studies
12:30 pm ET | 11:30am CT | 10:30am MT | 9:30am PT
SkillSite is a ground breaking Assessment Management System, and when used to assess the legal document proficiency skills of employees and new hires, law firms are able to effectively address specific business challenges, one of which is the significant increase in secretary workloads resulting from higher attorney to secretary ratios, which firms are currently ill-equipped to handle.
Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profisciencē Partners, will provide a 30-minute overview of two law firms that each implemented strategic performance improvement initiatives to improve the document production skills of their secretaries, and how Profisciencē Partners partnered with them to achieve their goals to improve secretary performance by measuring and addressing document proficiency skills using SkillSite.
Learning Management/Skill Assessment
What Law Firms Don’t Want to Know About the Legal Documents They Produce
1pm ET | 12pm CT | 11am MT | 10am PT
The day is coming when law firms will recognize the importance of closing document production skill gaps for attorneys who construct their own documents.
Michael Barshinger, President of Profiscience Partners, will deliver a 30-minute webinar on the risks facing law firms tied to the shift of document production workloads from legal secretaries to Gen X and Gen Y attorneys. Law firms, specifically managing partners, are mostly unaware of the new risks stemming from ill formatted documents including substantively incorrect legal documents and the malpractice potential. Additionally, Michael will address the most frequently occurring issues and share why law firms are beginning to think differently about attorney training and development.
Skill Assessment
Defining Core Competencies That Support Best Practices for Legal Document Production
1:30 pm ET | 12:30pm CT | 11:30am MT | 10:30am PT
By definition, what is the difference between core competencies and the application of best practices for legal document production, and how do these two support one another?
Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profisciencē Partners, will provide a 30-minute briefing to clarify why employees should master specific technical skills that support best practices and how these skills represent core competencies necessary for proper construction and efficient document production according to legal industry standards. Additionally, Theresa will address the critical need to measure core competencies for document production in law firms, and the impact of significantly improving these important skills for secretaries and support staff.
Learning Management/Skill Assessment
The Business Case for Skill Assessment & Calculating ROI
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 12pm MT | 11am PT
Most organizations believe there is value in employee training and development, but quantifying that value in terms of dollars and cost savings is a difficult and challenging task.
Michael Barshinger, President of Profisciencē Partners, will demonstrate the importance of building a business case by introducing the business drivers for skill assessment and how calculating ROI will not only improve productivity, but also save a firm thousands of hours of lost time in productivity—and millions of dollars.
Skill Assessment
Defining a Change Management Strategy That Drives a Successful Assessment Initiative
2:30 pm ET | 1:30pm CT | 12:30pm MT | 11:30am PT
As you prepare for skill assessment, analyzing the impact on your employees is essential. The first step in preparing for a performance improvement initiative is to identify the different groups that will be affected by conducting assessment, and to understand both the critical concerns and the change that will impact employees.
Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profisciencē Partners, will provide a 30-minute session on the significance of implementing a change management strategy that addresses the organizational change required for a successful assessment initiative, including the importance of crafting formal communication that conveys the right message to your employees and those who will be supporting those employees during the process of change.
