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► Budget Planning and Management
Running the Rapids: Staying Afloat in Challenging Economic Times
Live Webinar completed. Recording of Parts 1 and 2 of the webinar are available below.
Presenter: Alan Pue, The Barnabas Group
The current chaos in the marketplace is nothing new. We've been there before. Remember the 70's? Remember odd/even gasoline days? Remember 16% mortgage rates? Remember the national malaise? Some of us do. Economic downturns are unfortunately inevitable. To survive you must avoid panic, make wise, sometimes tough decisions, and communicate effectively with your families. In this webinar we'll take key financial and resource development principles and apply them specifically to difficult financial times.
Running the Rapids Notes
Running the Rapids Part 1 Webinar Recording
Running the Rapids Part 2 Webinar Recording
Traversing Tumultuous Financial Times at Your Christian School
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Presenter: Marc Stout, FACTS Management
This webinar will discuss how to survive the financial challenges of 2009. Along with the presentation, the speaker will be accompanied by a panel of other Administrators and leaders as they share ideas on how to survive.
Traversing Tumultuous Financial Times Notes
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Avoiding Financial Distress
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Presenter: Teri O'Connor, RSI
You may be surprised that the main road leading to financial distress in a school is often laid with a great deal of enthusiasm and promise. Learn the leading cause of instability for schools of all sizes and how you can take steps to protect the viability of your growing school. Prepare to be challenged in your thinking about finances, and to gain some insights on how to navigate the road from here if you've already started down this path.
Avoiding Financial Distress Webinar Notes
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Weathering an Economic Storm
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Presenter: Mike Poirier, ECCU
The current economic crisis is raising hard questions for ministry leaders. How will this crisis end? Is our financial institution sound? This session will help you better understand the economic crisis and show you how to prepare to weather it. You’ll learn how to do an economic assessment and create a cash flow forecast. And you’ll be introduced to four financial priorities that should guide your ministry now and in the future.
Weathering an Economic Storm Notes
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► Managing Personnel Appropriately
Downsizing Staff and the Law
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Presenter: Tom Scott, ACSI
Because of the major economic challenges that we are all facing, downsizing staff has become a major topic among many Christian schools. The big question is “How do I downsize and still meet the legal requirements of the State and the Federal Department of Labor”. This webinar will cover the six protected groups and some steps that should be considered when facing the challenge of “downsizing staff” during hard economical times.
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► Fund Development Opportunities and Challenges
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Why Tough Times Can Be the Right Times for Your School to Raise Funds
Presenter: Michael Vilardo, RSI
Many school leaders are in a quandary about how to lead their schools during these difficult economic times. Though the economy is negatively impacting jobs, income and investments for their constituencies and incoming funds are tight, the needs they have before them do not just go away. Strong endowments and foundations are needed now more than ever. Budgets and resources are increasingly strained. Is this the time to organize a major effort to address the continuing needs before us or should we “hunker down” and just try to survive the current economy?
There are seven reasons that such tough times might be just the right times to move forward in fundraising at your school. This webinar will invite participants to look beyond the media focus on negative trends in the economy to see opportunity for your school even in 2009.
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► Student Recruitment and Re-Recruitment
Effective Retention Strategies to Keep Your Current Families Enrolled
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Presenter: Rick Newberry, Cherry and Company
In light of our economic concerns, it is critical that we are proactive and intentional in all that we do to keep our current families enrolled. We all know that it is more cost effective to retain a family than it is to recruit a new family and typically attrition is of greatest concern between the transition years. During this session, we will discuss the components of and strategies for your re-recruitment plan (retention), your internal marketing strategy and your re-enrollment process. Our goal is to develop some practical and cost-effective strategies to keep our current families enrolled.
Effective Retention Strategies Notes
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Effective Recruitment Strategies to Enroll New Families at Your School
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Presenter: Rick Newberry, Cherry and Company
Developing and implementing an effective recruitment plan is critical for your school. Without students, you can’t fulfill your mission. With more students, your mission has greater impact. During this session we will discuss the role of the admissions staff in implementing specific recruitment strategies to enroll new families at your school. We will discuss practical and cost-effective strategies for every level of your school’s admissions funnel including inquiry generation and follow-up, campus visits, and application generation and follow-up.
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A Brand to Believe In—Best Practices in School Branding, Marketing, and Enrollment Management
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Presenter: Rick Newberry, Cherry and Company
With the downturn in the economy and the enrollment impact many of our schools are facing, it is critical for our school to have a brand that our current and prospective parents can believe in. During this session, we will discuss the importance of branding as well as some critical best practices in school branding, marketing and enrollment management that you can implement today at your school. These strategies will customer service, parent communication, web-based marketing, word-of-mouth marketing, referral generation, and other practical and cost-effective strategies.
A Brand to Believe In—Best Practices in School Branding, Marketing, and Enrollment Management Notes
A Brand to Believe In—Best Practices in School Branding, Marketing, and Enrollment Management Webinar Recording
► Strengthen your Mission Delivery
Weaving the Fabric of Faithfulness: Cultivating and Enabling People of Integrity
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Presenter: Alan Pue, The Barnabas Group
Parents, pastors and critics of Christian schooling often ask this question: What difference does it make? That is a fair question. Is Christian schooling simply another alternative among many or is it something more? Do you have a compelling answer? This workshop, based on the research of Dr. Steven Garber, associate director of the American Studies Program of the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities, will help provide you with a powerful response to skeptics and significant encouragement to current families and supporters.
Weaving the Fabric of Faithfulness Webinar Recording
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► Communicating the Value of Christian Schooling
Logic and Passion: Presenting the Case for Christian Schooling
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Presenter: Mike Sligh, Lakeland Christian School
Families are responding to economic uncertainty by cutting costs. How can we present strong rationale as to why Christian schooling deserves to remain a priority in the family budget? We must speak with both logic and passion as we make the case to our current constituents as well as to prospective families. How we can involve everyone on our staff in communicating this message? Our preferred result would be for all of our parents to find it unthinkable that the Christian school would not be part of their children's future. However, when a parent informs us of their decision to leave, how do we respond in a way that makes it easier for them to return?
Logic and Passion: Presenting the Case for Christian Schooling Webinar Recording
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During Times of Economic Uncertainty, Communication is Mission Critical!
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Presenter: Teri O'Connor, RSI
Ever heard the old adage, “I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure that what you heard is what I meant.”? This phrase is never truer than when dealing with crisis or uncertainty in a Christian school. Learn how specific messaging can reduce anxiety and increase focus on the mission of your school. Discuss strategies for sharing difficult news and ways to manage the impact of bad news on an entire assembly of your school families. Gain insights into the group dynamics of communication and ways to maximize the impact of written and technological information.
Communication is Mission Critical Notes
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Building a Plan for Positive Communication Sample
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