LEAD to Succeed – How Are Your Listening Habits?

Listening is a critical component to effective communication. This training explores participants’ listening habits and provides tools and techniques to help improve conversations in the workplace.

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Bring Customers Back to the Table

Learn customer service and marketing techniques to entice students to dine with you, plus get ideas for enhancing both your service and overall atmosphere to increase participation.

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Be FIT for Food Safety

Learn the value of conducting in-house inspections and daily walk throughs to spot the hidden dangers in your operation and ensure you’re prepared for food safety inspections.

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Avoiding Pathogens in Your Produce

Without a pathogen kill-step, fresh produce has been identified as a major source of foodborne illness outbreaks—learn how important proper cooling of fresh produce is for food safety, and how to manage it properly.

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Taming Invisible Tigers: Managing Stress & Anxiety During Unprecedented Times

his session will share pandemic and post-pandemic strategies and cutting-edge tools from experts —proven to reduce your stress and anxiety.

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Be Prepared! Plan Ahead! Steps for Emergency Preparedness

Education and Training Specialists from the Institute of Child Nutrition will present on how schools can prepare for handling emergency situations including internal threats, external threats, and natural disasters.

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LEAD to Succeed – Conflict Style Inventory

Explore five different conflict management styles and how each is used to approach difficult conversations with coworkers and/or stakeholders so you can achieve more positive outcomes.

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Supply Chain Challenges? Let’s Leverage Entitlement Dollars!

This interactive session will explain the importance of leveraging entitlement dollars to conquer supply chain issues and enhance your menus.

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Solving School Nutrition Challenges Through Synergies with Your High School’s Business Department

What if high school students are your solution to staffing, meal participation and funding problems? Discover why leveraging business students creates a “win-win” opportunity for students and staff.

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Heavy Metal: Buying Foodservice Equipment 101

Presenters will share their findings, helpful hints and tricks of the trades for purchasing foodservice equipment, as identified during the current project of researching and updating the Institute of Child Nutrition’s equipment procurement manual.

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