TUESDAY CLASSES 2 FEBRUARY 2010
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TRACK 1: Personal Skills
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TRACK 2: Foundational Skills
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TRACK 3: Core Training
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TRACK 4: Private Sector
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301: What’s Your Score? Benchmarking Energy Use Through ENERGY STAR
By Teena Shouse
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Are you frustrated by rising energy costs? Is your building operating efficiently? How can you benchmark your building’s energy consumption? We will show you how you can use the ENERGY STAR program to benchmark your energy performance, prioritize energy initiatives, and work towards increasing your ENERGY STAR score.
Objectives:
- Understand how to use the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Program to benchmark your facility
- Learn how to prioritize energy conservation measures to increase your ENERGY STAR score
- Develop tools for long-term strategic energy planning
302: Quality Furnishings Management
Defining Quality
By Alicia Allen
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DOD spends millions each year for new furniture in UPH, Lodging and Offices. With our limited budgets, the furniture we purchase must last significantly longer, maybe even longer than private sector plans. Ten year life cycles or longer are an absolute must. This session will demonstrate and discuss what to look for in quality furniture and still keep within your budget.
Objectives:
- Define quality furnishings specifications from a DOD perspective
- Learn the best furniture manufacturing techniques that lead to lasting quality
- Understand the need for defined quality specifications
- Understand quality and its relationship to warranties
303: NOI Strategies for the Next Generation
By Rich George
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This session will enlighten the participants with simple strategies to engage employees at all levels of an organization to all pull in the same direction at the same time. Most of us understand the concept of team mentality, meaning that all team members are working toward one goal. In property management we lose track of this fact and oftentimes feel as though we are on opposing teams. In this program we will engage in exercises that will insure that we all have the tools to do periodic alignment checks to insure that we all remain on the same team and work together rather than pull against one another.
Objectives:
- In this session you will learn how to embrace the concept that knowledge on all levels of any property management team is directly proportional to the success of that same team
- Learn how to empower your team(s) to engage in the big picture theory of financial success.
- Learn how to incentivize employees to succeed without losing sight of the overall goal
- Learn how to translate a single person’s vision into the mantra or credo of an entire team
304: Fighting the Maintenance Crisis
By Joel Leonard
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More and more companies are feeling the symptoms of the maintenance crisis. Deferred maintenance is reaching chronic levels as current equipment continues to age. While sophisticated, new equipment needs more care, attention and custom configuration. Companies are struggling to find internal talent that has the skills and education to replace the retiring baby boomers. Attend this session to discover some proven solutions to this crisis, discuss innovative approaches to thrive in this adverse business environment.
Objectives:
- Comprehend what is the current state of the maintenance industry
- Understand the technical skill gaps of incumbent workforce
- Discover where to find technicians
- Learn how proactive regions and communities are fighting the maintenance crisis
305: Face to Face with Joe Sikes
By Joe Sikes
This is an opportunity, in a small classroom environment, to ask the OSD Director of Housing & Competitive Sourcing questions on his earlier presentation or on subjects of general interest, past, present or future.
306: Solutions for Helping Military Personnel Survive the Mortgage Meltdown
By David Gibbons
The current mortgage market has deeply affected those service members who are currently in the housing market as well as those who are first time homebuyers and looking to get in the market. It is also affecting those who have not yet developed a credit score. In this session, you will learn from the mortgage experts what you need to know to counsel military personnel as you seek to assist them through the mortgage maze. During this session you will learn:
Objectives:
- Current mortgage industry trend information
- Changes to the VA mortgage program
- Mortgage options still available to the military consumer
- How to increase home ownership rates in the military community
- Ideas and best practices for providing educational tools about buying and owning a home
307: AHRN & BAH Open Forum
Facilitated by Paul Giese
AHRN: This is your opportunity to ask questions, provide feedback, and share your ideas for improving the AHRN program. This Q&A forum will cover many topics regarding AHRN including system functionality, answers to commonly asked questions, best practices, etc. If you are a Military Housing Office using AHRN, this session is your opportunity to share thoughts, questions, and ideas with your peers and the AHRN experts. Feedback received from this forum will be used to help guide future AHRN program direction.
BAH: This is your opportunity to pose your questions to the people who know the most about your BAH rates. Topics from the audience will likely cover the BAH data submission process, rate-setting methods, questions about specific geographic areas, best practices to achieve the right BAH rates, and other topics of interest to anyone responsible for submitting data. Don’t miss this chance to learn directly from the experts!
308: Military Children at Risk
By Mary L. Fergusson, MS, CHES
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Military children are deeply affected by frequent deployments, transition and other unique stressors compounded to challenging normal childhood development stages. In this session, you will learn how to identify children at risk, available resources and duty to warn requirements.
Objectives:
- Understand Relevant Development Issues
- Learn Common Stress Reactions to Deployment and Reintegration
- Understand Stressors during Separation
- Learn Coping Strategies
- Learn Intervention Strategies
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