MS4 & Vision – Vision User Group Conference 2010 – In Full Swing

So your facility has completed the implementation of a new system or module, and you’ve been asked to roll it out house-wide. The “train the trainer” approach sounded fine until you realized that now you’re the trainer. Now what? This workshop teaches you how to develop tools for identifying and training your audience. Learn the value of setting objectives, creating practice exercises, and measuring training effectiveness.

Audience: Application leads, IT trainers, or anyone responsible for end user education.

When you lose your car keys, do you have to whistle to activate the key finder? Do you jot down notes on the palm of your hand in order to retain important information? If so, don’t forget to register for this workshop.

We’ll examine methods for understanding and enhancing your memory. The presentation details how to overcome everyday forgetfulness, how to use mnemonic devices, and how to manage information. You will look at how lifestyle can affect memory performance and learn to recognize factors that affect how well you remember information. Since most of us have to deal with daily stress, the workshop will also identify the affect stress can have on your memory.

The workshop offers the following tips and tools for you to practice:

• Recognize how to associate and personalize information to enhance your memory.
• Identify actions that can help you overcome absentmindedness.
• Differentiate among the link method, loci technique, acrostics, and peg lists.
• Identify how managing information prevents information overload.

Audience: I can’t remember.

Improve the way you organize, access, and share information. This introductory class teaches how to build and manage a relational database system as you define database files, build data entry screens, and generate reports over the stored data.

Audience: Beginners interested in learning Microsoft Access.

Develop better ways to transform data into information that can be analyzed, communicated, and shared. See how easy it is to download data from the IBM Power System i directly into an active Excel worksheet. Learn tips and tricks to help get the most from the spreadsheet application as you use Excel 2003 tools such as auto commands, chart wizard, and macros to automate routine tasks and improve efficiency.

Audience: Beginners to intermediate

The goal of the New, Experienced, and Aspiring Supervisors workshop is to present several core management concepts and tools critical to a supervisors’ success. Key topics addressed in this course include coaching for peak performance, team building, and building your leadership competence. For new supervisors, the course provides an overview of essential skills you will need to master and offers the opportunity to role play challenging interactions in a safe environment. For all supervisors, the course provides an opportunity to openly discuss different perspectives and practice the application of critical skills. Activities will aid participants in realistically self-assessing their own skills and provide them direction for further development.

Audience: New, experienced, or aspiring supervisors

The cost of a poor PowerPoint presentation is staggering. Microsoft estimates there are more than 30 million PowerPoint presentations made each day. Assuming a relatively conservative meeting parameter of four people per presentation, a half-hour presentation on average, and the wasted time due to a poor presentation is one-quarter of the presentation time we can calculate a waste of 15 million person hours per day. Multiplied by an average salary of $35,000 per year for those attending the meeting, the total cost of wasted time is a whopping $252 million each day.

Do you cringe when you see a presenter fire up a computer and launch into a PowerPoint presentation? We have seen so many bad presentations that we get fearful every time we see another one start. In actual fact, it isn’t the tool that we dislike; it is the way that the tool is used. The Avoiding Death by PowerPoint workshop offers new hands-on ways of turning your “slideuments” into engaging presentations by learning to design them around the story you want to tell, not the production of infernal bullet lists you feel compelled to recite.

NOTE: A good follow-on class is Visual Listening, W52.

Audience: Advanced PowerPoint users who are ready to move to the next level.

Learn the pragmatic basics of project management. You may want the results of your project to be extraordinary, but achieving those goals requires down to earth focused effort. Can you navigate safely to reach your project destination?

This workshop provides strategies for overcoming project constraints, allowing your project to successfully reach completion. We will focus on defining scope and writing clear requirements, developing project planning strategies, constructing a clear change control process, and planning for and mitigating risks using basic risk management. Become aware of factors affecting your success as you learn how to consistently bring your projects to completion on time and within budget.

Audience: Individuals responsible for monitoring and delivering projects on time and on budget.

This class introduces you to popular social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, and provides hands on experience to set-up an account and use the features. It offers education on strengths, weaknesses, similarities, and differences, and demonstrates how businesses can use these sites to interact with customers. See examples of existing healthcare companies with a presence on these sites as effective use of this medium is revealed.

Audience: Anyone interested in learning more about Facebook, Twitter, or other social media.

Are you having trouble keeping up with the gang because you didn’t sleep last night? Do you get chosen last for a team because you’re grouchy? Do you get so nervous when the kids dare you to jump into the water hole that you do a complete belly flop? When someone throws you the ball, are you so distracted you fumble? If so, maybe you need some help managing your stress. Come learn about stress and its causes and effects. Hear about ways to keep your stress under control so you can chill out at the clubhouse with all of the gang whenever you want.

NOTE: We’re going to play, so wear comfortable clothing.

Audience: Anyone in the clubhouse who experiences stress. In other words, everyone.

Few tasks are more rewarding, though challenging, than managing the efforts of a department, work group, or stakeholder committee. Achieving organization goals through effective and successful teamwork is essential to an organization’s progress. Discover ways to build teams by utilizing individuals’ strengths, handling conflict, and instilling motivation – all toward the common goal of achieving successful outcomes.

Audience: Anyone who builds, manages, or belongs to a team.

Are you fed up with letting your day control you? Would you like to work fewer hours per day yet accomplish more? Would you like your peers to become more efficient so they don’t waste your time? From this class you’ll take away ideas about organizing your day, accomplishing what matters most, handling interruptions, putting out the fires, and still finding the time to have a quality personal life.

Audience: Just about everyone.

This workshop provides practical hands-on exercises of the processes available to support software testing. Whether you are testing a new software install or a release that may impact your existing system, it is important that you conduct an effective test. This workshop offers tools, tips, and techniques for testing software and provides information on how to conduct an effective test project within your own facility. We will cover the principles, the processes, and the documentation of software testing and you will come away knowing how to create test plans and test cases to successfully perform testing.

Audience: Users responsible for implementing software releases.

Become a VP in your organization (Visual Practitioner that is). There’s a saying, “I don’t know what I mean until I see what I say.” Graphic facilitation is a style of group communication that uses visualization to draw out and portray group thinking about patterns of organization and group process. Research states that as much as 87% of the North American population are visual thinkers, and it’s the visual practitioner who helps these people “see” what they “mean.”

Even art-phobes will enjoy this workshop as we learn to doodle creatively and constructively. We’ll learn about graphic facilitation and then spend much of the hands-on session learning how to create graphic components in your work with individuals and groups. We’ll finish with some ideas on integrating your graphics repertoire with some of the most common group dynamics, including meetings and presentations.

NOTE: A good precursor class is PowerPoint to ”Wow” Point, W27.

Audience: Application leads, IT trainers, or anyone responsible for end user education or presentations.

MedSeries4 applications have a mandate to address the responsibility of guarding data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. This includes the processes that control and monitor patient protected health information (PHI) access. MS4’s Auditing feature complements existing hospital-specific policies and procedures through use of the General Purpose (GP) Audit Master file, the GP Audit Log Transaction file, and the GP Audit Log Purge program.

This workshop provides a review of all components of the General Purpose Auditing feature, including specifics of the audit trail that can be captured and potentially used to facilitate a security audit, and technical and end user information. Participants will be able to execute specific AR/ADT and MIRA features and track their steps in the audit log.

NOTE: The workshop does not focus on specific application functionality, but teaches users how specific functions in those applications capture audit information.

Audience: HIPAA compliance officers and any user who needs to electronically access protected health information (PHI).