SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm


All conference sessions award 0.2 CEUs, pending approval. Pre-registration is not required.


113 Family Medical Leave Act: Navigating Your Way Through the Hidden Dangers of the


FMLA Topic Track: Location: Gold Level


HR/RISK MGMT Columbus GH, East Tower,


Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Speaker(s): Cynthia DeCola, Attorney/Partner,


Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn LLP


Do you feel uncertain about how to comply with the FMLA? Are you uncertain whether you should grant or deny leave? This interactive workshop will review the "top ten things you must know about the FMLA and offer you hands-on learning about such topics as intermittent leave, serious health conditions, adequate notice and the definition of a "year" under the FMLA.


Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1)


become more familiar with key provisions of the FMLA and its imlementing regulations; (2) be better able to administer their own FMLA policy.


132 Locating Personal Information


Online Topic Track: Location: Time:


Speaker(s):


FINANCE/IT Columbus EF, East Tower, Gold Level 12:00 pm - 2.00 pm Mike Bazzell, Computer Crime


Detective, Alton Police Department and FBI Cyber Crime Task Force


Come to this worskhop and see firsthand what you can find out about a person with a couple of clicks! This presentation will show the audience how to "dig" into the Internet for personal information about any person or organization. While popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook are covered in great detail, including the ability to access "private" data, the presentation goes much deeper into the vast resources available online for researching personal information. The workshop is focused on location information that can be vital to any organization. This information gathered will give a surprising glimpse of what anyone with an Internet connection can find out about you! Aside from Web sites, other technology such as digital camera data, document meta data and data mining companies will be explained.


Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) learn


how to discover information that will identify potential personnel issues, uncover content posted by current and potential employees and inform executives about social network data relevant to their business; (2) be presented with and discuss over 180 sources of online information.


134 Managing Conflict in the Board


Room Topic Track: Location: Time:


Speaker(s):


BOARDSMANSHIP Columbus IJ, East Tower, Gold Level 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Nancy Sylvester, Professional


Registered Parliamentarian, Sylvester Enterprises


All conflict is not created equally! While some conflict can be very helpful in assisting the board to reach the best decision, conflict that leads to combat can be destructive, resulting in a dysfunctional board. The presenter Nancy Sylvester has been a practicing professional parliamentarian since 1980 and has been a board trainer since 1990. Her vast experience with boards will help attendees face conflict appropriately and avoid combat. Participants will: (1) have


Learning Outcomes:


a clear understanding of the tools from Robert's Rules in place to assist with running a meeting; (2) understand the proactive responses strategies and reactive responses strategies; (3) be able to identify positive conflict and negative conflict.


418 Do You Want Your Own New


Event? Topic Track: Location: Time:


Speaker(s): RECREATION


Columbus AB, East Tower, Gold Level 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Jerry Handlon, Retired Executive


Director, Schaumburg Park District


Participants will create and/or embellish on an event or program.


Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1)


exercise imagination and creative skills; (2) work together as teams in creating event or program.


509


Scaffolding Communication and Deep Play Strategies in


Early Childhood Topic Track: Location: Level


THERAPEUTIC REC Columbus CD, East Tower, Gold


Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Speaker(s): Maureen Collins, Early Childhood


Special Education and Inclusion Teacher, Community Consolidated School District 93


This workshop will offer a discussion of: social- emotional early childhood research and theory; practical strategies to assist in fostering increase communication skills; team design to foster and track individualization of each student's progress. The goal is to enhance young children's social-emotional development of self-worth/esteem, humanity-esteem and self regulation through increased communication skills.


Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) know


and understand the connectedness of Bowlby's Attachment Theory, Vygotsky's Scaffolding Theory and contemporary research and theory; (2) know, understand and be able to use several scaffolding strategies for young children using the vehicle of play; (3) create, utilize and track progress of deep play designs that are founded on adult caring, relationship-based scaffolding interactions.


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Lowering Your Bottom Line with Sustainable


Design Topic Track: Location: Time:


Speaker(s): FACILITIES


Columbus KL, East Tower, Gold Level 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Thomas LaLonde, Principal/Vice


President, Williams Architects; Don McLauchlan, Principal, Elara Engineering


There are many options available to incorporate sustainable/green design into a facility. Initially, these changes may prove cost-prohibitive but the budgetary savings they can offer usually outweigh this issue. This workshop will introduce attendees to items that can "green" up a facility while still bringing operational costs down.


Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) be


able to envision basic sizes for various facilities and learn how to develop a plan to implement these changes; (2) become aware of how to equate degree of facility choices with general budget considerations as well as grants and rebates that may be available.


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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012


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