Vote For Green County Products In 'Coolest Things' Competition |
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Voting for the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin is officially open, and there are three products from Green County in the running! The annual contest highlights products made in Wisconsin in a fun, tournament-style bracket competition. The contest is sponsored by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and Johnson Financial Group.
Green County products in the running are:
Voting for this round continues through Tuesday, Sept. 21. Visit madeinwis.com and click “Vote Now” on the homepage. Select the product you think is coolest and click “Vote Now” on that product’s page to register your vote. You can vote once per device every 24 hours.
The Top 16 products will be announced Wednesday, Sept. 22.
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Brand Immersion Training Planned |
Edible-Alpha® is hosting “Building a Brand that Stands Out” immersion training from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. from Tuesday, Sept. 28 to Thursday, Sept. 30.
This immersion training will help set your food-related brand apart from your competition. Whether you are starting up or scaling up, incorporating solid brand fundamentals into your business will help you take things up a notch.
Instructor Katie Mleziva of Real Food Brands will walk participants through her three-step process of defining (or refining) your brand strategy, then aligning and activating it across your business and team.
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Chamber's Lunch And Learn Focuses On Preventing Biased Attitudes, Behavior |
Learn more about unintended biases at work when the Monroe Chamber of Commerce presents “Prevent Biased Attitudes and Behaviors from Interfering with Workplace Decisions and Interactions” on Friday, Oct. 1 at Blackhawk Technical College.
The Lunch and Learn session begins with lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The 2-hour session that follows will include an awareness exercise and a deeper look at terminology such as Unconscious/Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, Microinvalidations, White Fragility and White Privilege and more. Examples of each will be given and participants will be challenged to develop a preliminary personal action plan.
Cost is $35 per person; 20 spots are available. Contact Melissa Even at the Chamber at 608-325-7648.or email melissa@monroechamber.org.
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Rep. Pocan To Host Facebook Live |
Congressman Mark Pocan will host a Facebook Live Town Hall from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sep 21 to discuss the Build Back Better Act and answer questions from constituents. No RSVP is required; log in to facebook.com/RepMarkPocan to participate.
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BTC Offers Professional Development Courses |
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Blackhawk Technical College (BTC) has professional development courses available, both online and in-person. Upcoming in-person training at BTC’s Janesville campus include:
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Introduction to Microsoft Office: Starting Sept. 30, learn more about the Microsoft Office suite of programs/applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access and OneNote), what each one does and how they can work for you.
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Intermediate Excel: Starting Oct. 11, explore working with multiple worksheets and workbooks. Learn how to organize and manipulate data with charts, tables, pivot tables and conditional formatting.
Online courses offer even more options. Each is designed to be completed in four to eight hours, and is open online for a full week. For a list of online course offerings, or to enroll in any of the course offerings, click here.
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Workshop Series Teaches Customer Service Skills |
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Learn crucial customer service habits, how to deal with difficult customers and key factors in evaluating service quality during the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Customer Service workshops series.
Classes are held from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays via Zoom. Each class costs $99. Completion of all six in the series earns the participant a Customer Service Certificate. The first workshop was held Sept. 16.
Click on name of upcoming workshops for more info and to register:
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