Professional Development Luncheon Series
Join us once a month for several high energy interactive luncheon workshops on a variety of
topics meant to serve any professional seeking to make a greater impact on their clients,
customers and employees. Industry professionals will offer you their insight, expertise and
know-how. You will get information, materials and connections that will boost your
communication skills and your personal best in business.
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Place: James River Conference Center
$40.00 per person (on site prepared luncheon included)
January 5, 2010 Ten Ways to be a Successful Public Speaker
Learn ten easy steps to designing and delivering a successful presentation to upper
management, co-workers, contractors, vendors and your company’s customers. Learn the
secret to identifying with a variety of audiences, engage their interest and cultivate their
trust all in one presentation.
February 9, 2010 Make Social Media Work as a Recruiting Tool
Bringing in a new workforce can be easily managed with any number of social media
networks. Learn how social networking tools such as Texting, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook
and Myspace can be used to attract and sign on qualified employees. Learn the basics of
recruiting and how social media networks can help you connect with your desired workforce.
March 9, 2010 Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Excel
Discover how easy working with numbers can be! Construct professionally formatted
worksheets that utilize basic formulas and functions. Learn time saving tricks, such as
customizing the fill series feature, applying the repeat function and creating a graph instantly
with the press of a button!
April 6, 2010 Close the Deal: Business Writing Strategies
Whether you are writing reports, memos, letters or e-mails you will want them all to be
presented in the most persuasive format while minimizing, eliminating or efficiently solving
problems. Cut down on the time it takes you to write and create your messages to suite a
variety of audiences including upper management, co-workers, contractors, vendors and
clients.
May 4, 2010 Tips & Tricks for Microsoft PowerPoint
Are you seeking ways to enhance and add sizzle to your existing presentations? Discover
effective design strategies that will enhance your delivery and communication with clients.
Learn how to link presentations, insert media files, optimize images and utilize presenter
tools that are sure to make an impact with your audience. Create digital photo albums that
include media files.
June 1, 2010 Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Word
Our comprehensive training covers many exciting and underused features. Efficiently create,
modify and format documents. With today’s fast-paced work environment, increased editing
skills and automating tasks are a must. Class topics include editing features such as
character formatting, auto-correct and effective text editing shortcuts. Additional topics
include inserting Clip Art, basic photo editing and working with tabs and tables.

Specializing in Spoken, Written and Technological Communication
400 Court Street
Lynchburg, Virginia 24504
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Call us: 434-385-7471
Enjoy your luncheon, speaker, networking opportunity and professional development information at the James River Conference Center in beautiful downtown Lynchburg.
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