New Online Courses Offer Tools for Growth. Check Them Out!

AFSCME’s Online Leadership Academy has a new lineup of OnDemand courses this year dealing with financial standards, the Next Wave and a leadership course for women.

These courses are available 24/7 and can be reviewed or completed at your own pace. Here’s the rundown of the latest offerings:

• The Financial Standards Code is for local union officers who are responsible for union finances. Here, you can learn how to handle expenses, keep records and make financial reports.
• The Leadership Course for Women will examine Eleanor Roosevelt’s leadership and her relationship with the labor movement. The Education department, in partnership with Brigid O’Farrell, an independent scholar affiliated with Mills College, developed this one-hour course. This course will be initially offered as a live webinar and later launched as an OnDemand course with interactive learning activities.
• Coming later this year is a class on AFSCME’s Next Wave, designed to help your local develop the next generation of union members and leaders. Learn about key events in the history of Next Wave, and how to start or build a Next Wave network of members age 35 and under. A recorded version of this webinar will be available for playback.
• The Online Leadership Academy continues to offer an OnDemand course called Respect in the Workplace, an introduction to a sample harassment policy, including how to identify, respond and report unacceptable conduct in the workplace.

These other online courses also are available on the Leadership Academy’s website: Analyzing Public Budgets; A Guide to Health Care Reform; Marketing for Child Care Providers; Health and Safety for Child Care Providers; Women in Unions; Workplace Safety and Robert’s Rules of Order.

To find OnDemand courses, go to AFSCME.org/academy.