Workforce professionals encourage and empower their jobseeker and youth customers to pursue the skills and knowledge they need to realize their dreams both personally and professionally. PowerNotes LLC helps WORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS pursue the skills and knowledge THEY need to be the best employment and training subject matter experts!
MaryAnn Lawrence, PowerNotes principal, has immeasurable experience with developing workforce system training materials and presenting in a dynamic and spirited style that captures the attention of her trainees and leaves them wanting even more! Her secret – help people learn without realizing they are working at learning! MaryAnn believes in working hard and playing hard. Her training is thought provoking and filled with valuable information, best practices, tools and techniques, and real-life examples of how to use what is in the training back at work.
MaryAnn served as Executive Director for the Maryland Institute for Employment and Training Professionals after serving as a Local Workforce Executive Director in Missouri and in Indiana. She has expertise in creating and maintaining peer trainer networks, curriculum development, and delivery of training. She presents in-person, virtually, and web-based.
PowerNotes LLC has a service called POP-UP SEMINARS that a Local Workforce Area can subscribe to for a reasonable fee to offer useful topics monthly with unlimited access to local workforce system partners.
MaryAnn has over 400 topics that can be tweaked and customized to meet your needs. Here is a list of many of the current topics. If you don’t see a topic you want, just ask MaryAnn to develop a customized training package for you.
• Achieving Organizational Results
• Adapting to Change
• Additional Resources for Offenders
• Applying Critical Thinking
• Applying Reasoning
• Assessing Learning Styles
• Assessment Tools and Techniques
• Baby Boomers in the Talent Pipeline
• Baldrige Quality Principles
• Behavior Based Interviewing
• Budgeting
• Business Communications
• Business Development
• Business Service Mapping
• Business Service Indicators
• Business Service Teams
• Career Coaching/Case Management
• Career Path Options In-Demand Occupations
• Career Pathways
• Career Services
• Case Notes
• Coaching and Mentoring Skills
• Co-Enrollments
• Conflict Resolution
• Creating a Performance Management Dashboard
• Creating an Employment Proposal
• Creating an Elevator Speech
• Customer Service and Customer Satisfaction
• Dealing with Negative Attitudes
• Developing and Managing Business Relationships
• Disability Awareness
• Evaluating American Job Centers
• Exercising Leadership
• Facilitation and Presentation Skills
• Federal Bonding
• Hard to Serve Populations
• How to Write Success Stories
• Identifying Personal Circumstances
• Identifying Skills and Assets
• Illegal Interview Questions
• Individual Employment Plans
• Individual Service Strategies
• Informational Interviewing
• Integrated Planning
• Interviewing Types
• Interviewing with a Record
• Introduction to Business Services
• Job Developer Characteristics
• Job Development
• Leadership Basics
• Listening Skills
• Managing Emotions at Work
• Marketing and Branding
• Motivating Self and Others
• Motivational Interviewing
• Multiple Intelligence
• Navigating Job Fairs
• Networking Techniques
• On-the-Job Training
• Partner Collaboration
• Performance Measures
• Person Centered Planning
• Pre-Apprenticeships
• Problem Solving
• Project Management
• Registered Apprenticeships
• Sales Techniques
• Secret Shopping
• Sector Strategies and Sector Partnership Groups
• Stress Management
• Target Marketing
• Task Analysis
• Team Building
• Technical Writing
• Time Management
• Transferable Skills
• Understanding Diversity
• Understanding Employment Buyer
• Volunteer Management
• WIOA Fundamentals
• WIOA Youth Information
• Work-based Learning
• Workflow Analysis
• Youth Program Elements
