Annual Conference Presentations

Note: Some presentations and handouts from SERDI annual training conferences and other meetings are available only via SERDI’s SharePoint site.  To request materials from SharePoint, you must be a SERDI member.  Please contact Jim Youngquist to request access.

Annual Training Conferences

2021 Annual Professional Development Conference Virtual Sessions (May 2021)

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• Internal Operations during COVID and Beyond-Tri County Council for Western Maryland
• Strategies to Lower Indirect Costs- PRVA
• Internal Operations and COVID-Lincoln Trail Area Development District
• Strategies Being Developed to Lower Indirect Cost Rates-Scott Koons

2020 Annual Professional Development Conference Virtual Sessions (September 2020)

• Executive Directors and Social Media: Explaining the Pluses, Minuses, and Importance of Social Media (September 29, 2020)
• Taking a Deeper Dive in Key Aspects of Marketing and Communications: Public Engagement and Policy Management (September 25, 2020)
• The Importance of Communications and Relations with Your Board of Directors and Local Governments  (September 23, 2020)
• Why Do We Do Marketing? (September 21, 2020)

2020 HR/Talent Development Fly-In (February 10-11-Atlanta)

• The Magic Key – Using A Coach Approach
• Standing Room Only – Integrating Generations in the Workplace
• Motivating Multiple Generations
• Developing Generations
• Single-Item Action Plan

2019 Professional Development Conference Presentations

• Regionalism No Longer an Unnatural Act
• Personnel Policies and Hiring and Pay Plans
• Networking-the Importance of it
• Moving Towards Succession
• Helping Local Governments Get IT
• Organization Chart Changes
• It is All About the Money
• Deputy Directors

2019 Regional Council Fly-In (February 4-5-Atlanta) – Marketing Your Regional Council

• Social Media Guidelines
• Sample Press Release
• Sample Media Alert
• Effective PR
• Crisis Communication Plan

2018 Professional Development Conference Presentations

• Urban Real Estate Economics-Richmond
• Tiny House Project
• Technical Aspects of Your Indirect Cost Allocation
• Public Records Acts
• Personnel Policy and Pay Plans
• Pennyrile Veteran Directed Home and Community Based Service
• Leading With Integrity
• Helping Your Local Governments Get It
• Financial Management 101
• Discovering American Regions
• Care and Feeding of Boards
• Big Bend Continuum of Care
• Audits-A Necessary Evil

 2015 Professional Development Conference Presentations

• Cloud Computing for COGS Planning Districts
• Building Community Workshop -Manning
• Energy…An Economic Asset to our Region and the Challenge of EPA to the Coal Industry
• NVRSC In Crisis?
• Workforce Development-South Carolina
• SERDI Panel Financial Management 101
• Meeting Communications
• Millennials and the Changing Demographics of our Southern Region
• Communications with the Board of Directors
• Board Communications – Apalachee Regional Planning Council
• Cloud Computing for Local Government
• Damage Control and Crisis Management
• How to Prepare for Your Future Flyer
• Cost Allocation Plans, Indirect Cost Rates, Financial Management 101 and Identification of Fraud
• The Fun of Finding Fraud
• Plan on a Page

2014 Professional Development Conference Presentations

• Healthcare & its impact on employee benefits
• Our Relationship & Our Future The Role of State Associations
• Our Relationships & Our Future
• Promoted from within & How to fire a friend
• Staffing Structure

2013 Annual Professional Development Conference

• The Chaos In Washington: Impacts on Regional Councils: 2013

2012 Professional Development Conference Presentations