MCDA Video Workshops

To earn one CEU, watch one of these videos, then complete the form following that video. Mail the completed form with a check for $20 processing fee made payable to MACD/MCDA to the address on the form. Please do not request CEUs for workshops that you attended in person.

Live in a different state? No problem - the CEU's are valid in all states, but you are responsible for sending a copy of the completed CEU form to the person who tracks CEU's in your state.

Leveraging Social Media to Grow Your Business

Webinar by Laura Labovich offered February 11, 2010.

Do you?

...have a Linkedin account and are not using it? ...use Facebook solely for social purposes?

...feel overwhelmed by this thing called "Twitter" and find it daunting, and uninteresting---or even worse---confusing? 

...wish you could get in on the social media 2.0 craze to build your business, but don't know where to start?

As Job Coach Laura Labovich shares some social and business networking best practies from the three major social media sites: Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter. During this action-packed, hands-on webinar, you will learn both basic and advanced techniques, including how to:

• Understand the unique differences of each tool, and how to use them synergistically to grow your business,
• Leverage these tools more effectively to maximize your time spent networking online,
• Expand your reach to customers and potential customers,
• Communicate and interact with customers, peers and industry experts in a way you’ve never done before and,
• Elevate your status in the industry!

      CEU and Evaluation Form 

Catch the Retirement "Tsunami" to a Federal Career

In the next 10 years OPM estimates over 40% of federal employees will be eligible to retire, creating a retirement “tsunami.” Who will replace these people, and how can applicants “ride the wave” to a federal job? With more than 60 years of federal experience between them, Janet Ruck and Karol Taylor bring real life experience to this workshop, where you will learn how to “surf” your way to federal job search success.

CEU and Evaluation Form

Psychologically Healthy Workplaces: Leading from the Inside Out

Psychologically healthy workplaces share proven features that indicate success for organizations and the people within them. Research has shown that factors such as employee involvement and recognition, work-life balance, and ongoing learning are associated with positive organizational and personal outcomes. Leaders who advocate for psychologically healthy conditions demonstrate some of the characteristics that support this healthy environment. This presentation gives an overview of the American Psychological Association's criteria for the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards, and continues into a discussion of leadership behaviors that further and strengthen these factors.

CEU and Evaluation Form

Maryland Career Development Toolkits

Meeting client career development needs is a must. Maryland's Career Development Toolkits do just that! The instructional activities enable clients to: A) build basic work essential skills in the context of job search of employment-related tasks, and B) use existing tools, both hard copy and online, to assist them in their progress along a career path. The skills are reflected in the Maryland Career Development and "Equipped For the Future"(EFF) Content Standards/Work Readiness Credential.

CEU and Evaluation Form

Problems or questions? Contact Marilyn Maze at MCDA.Membership@mdcareers.org