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Registration Deadline for MCAA's Collective Bargaining Seminar is Coming Soon...Have You Signed Up Yet?

How Can One Webinar Save a Life?

AIPM Will Give Your Senior Project Managers Their Second Skills Wind

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Enhance Sales Team Productivity through the MSCA 2014 One-Day Bonus Program

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MCAA National Update for July 28, 2014

Registration Deadline for MCAA's Collective Bargaining Seminar is Coming Soon...Have You Signed Up Yet?

Your ability to negotiate successfully during collective bargaining depends on the effectiveness of your tactics and knowledge of critical issues that will likely arise during the process. MCAA's 2014 Collective Bargaining Seminar is designed to prepare you well for that upcoming labor negotiation. The seminar, which will take place September 8-10 in Washington, DC, will feature: basic negotiation strategies; preparation tools, information and advice; current collective bargaining topics, including multiemployer pension issues; equal employment/affirmative action rules and collective bargaining issues for federal contractors; trade jurisdictional issues; and a roundtable discussion on National Labor Relations Board issues affecting contractors. The registration deadline is August 15, so register now! A program and registration details are at www.mcaa.org/education.

How Can One Webinar Save a Life?

The NFPA 70E Qualified-Level Arc Flash Safety Training Webinar is the one online forum focused on protecting service technicians or other employees who work with or around electrical equipment. Employees who are potentially exposed to live conductors of 50 volts of electricity or more during their workday, and especially mechanical service technicians who work on units that generate 480 volts or less, will learn safe work practices that will prevent accidents, injuries and worse. The next webinars will take place on July 29 at 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. Make sure your employees participate, if they haven't already. Presented by The Hilgeman Group, the session covers all applicable OSHA and NFPA requirements, best practices, NFPA's most recent changes to the 70E requirements and provides participants with real-world accident information to reinforce the training. Contact The Hilgeman Group (ahilgeman@frontier.com) to register.

AIPM Will Give Your Senior Project Managers Their Second Skills Wind

Just when they thought they couldn't learn another new thing, along comes MCAA's Advanced Institute for Project Management (AIPM). This highly popular program is specially designed for those who've been managing projects for several years, but whose project management skills are ready to be significantly enhanced. The next AIPM (January 18-23, 2015, University of Texas, Austin, TX) will cover: Advanced Leadership Skills; Keeping Customers for Life; Legal Issues with Difficult Jobs; Risky Business: Insurance & Bonds for Contractors; Staying on Top of Scheduling and Productivity Impacts; Effective Notice: Improve Your Negotiating Position and Avoid Litigation; Operational Management: Tips from the Pros; and Goal Setting: How to Effectively Manage Yourself and Those You Influence. This is an excellent educational program that fills quickly, so don't delay registering your senior project managers. Go to www.mcaa.org/education for program information and a downloadable registration form. Please contact Beth Miller (bmiller@mcaa.org) with registration questions.

Any Changes in Your Membership Information?
MCAA wants to stay in touch, which is why we are vigilant about keeping our membership records current and accurate. If your company's main office has moved or the phone, fax, cell number or email address has changed or personnel contact information is different, please contact Jan Grillo (jgrillo@mcaa.org) as soon as possible with the correct information.

Enhance Sales Team Productivity through the MSCA 2014 One-Day Bonus Program

The Sales Leadership Symposium, a unique

Bonus Program offering designed exclusively

for sales leaders responsible for any aspect of team development, is the first step to giving your service sales team access to MSCA Sales Institute programs. It will also equip you with the tools needed to support your team throughout their journey in these programs. During the Sales Leadership Symposium, you will learn: how to develop a toolbox of management and salesperson resources; about your role as a sales leader and your vital responsibility to ensure your team's success; the dynamics of effectively coaching and motivating your team; and much more. Seats are filling up quickly, so register today! Visit the MSCA Sales Institute Web page to register and learn more about the Sales Leadership Symposium. Contact Barbara Dolim (bdolim@mcaa.org) with registration questions.

Build Momentum at MSCA 2014 with Fun Optional Events

The 2014 MSCA Educational Conference (September 28-October 1, Huntington Beach, CA) will not be all work and no play. Opportunities for relaxation and rejuvenation are critical to becoming a stronger business leader, so entertaining optional excursions are available to attendees during the conference. The afternoon of September 30 has an experience for everyone: an MSCA Golf Experience at the prestigious championship Pelican Hill Golf Club with a forecaddie per foursome for sports enthusiasts; a luncheon cruise off Newport Beach aboard John Wayne's Wild Goose luxury yacht for sightseers; a tour of several prestigious fine art galleries in Laguna Beach for art lovers; and an exploration of Newport Back Bay via kayak, paddleboard or outrigger canoe for adventure seekers. Other fun events include the Fitness & Fun on the Beach circuit-style training for spouses on September 29, and the 2nd Annual MSCA/Bradford White Sun Run on October 1. Both beachside activities will be great ways to start your day right. Space is limited, so register early for events that require pre-registration at http://www.mcaa.org/education/msca/annualconference.

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