Current Workshops

Online Continuing Legal Education Workshops from NACLE

NACLE online workshops, which can be completed at your convenience, are for PEF and M/C attorneys who are interested in earning CLE credits. Hundreds of titles are available for registered participants to choose from. To ensure you see the full list of currently available courses, you may need to clear your cookie/cache history before you click this link: https://www.pswp.info/docs/naclepswpcourses.pdf.

Examples of available courses include: Ethics of Social Media: What Attorneys Need to Know (1.5 CLE Ethics Credits), Bias in the Legal Profession (1 CLE Diversity Credit), and Navigating Elder Law: Understanding Medicaid Eligibility (2 CLE General Credits). Affidavits are made available directly from NACLE upon request for credit and completion of the course. Upon completion of enrollment, participants will be provided with an instructional document and an email including course instructions and account details.

Knowledge Transfer (Online)

This course provides a general overview of knowledge transfer and management. Knowledge Management is a systematic method for finding, understanding, and using knowledge to achieve organizational objectives and improve agency and employee performance.

Professional Writing Mechanics (Online)

This course starts with the basics: parts of speech and parts of a sentence. In this online course, you will learn to recognize common grammatical errors, use standard punctuation, and proofread your work.

Technical Writing for IT Professionals - Virtual

This four-session (each 3 hours in length) virtual workshop will assist IT professionals in producing written material in the workplace for the non-technical internal and external audience. The workshop covers how to plan and organize IT related materials into emails, letters, memoranda, and other writing formats. Participants will review grammatical fundamentals and strategies for communicating technical content to non-technical readers. Participants will learn how to simply present complex technical information.

Project Management for IT Professionals (w/PDUs)

This two day workshop will utilize the Project Management Institute (PMI) framework to develop and formalize basic project management skills in leaders on IT project teams who may already be managing projects. Topics include an overview of the PMI Project Management Lifecycle, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), PM roles and responsibilities, overview of project schedules including estimating techniques, dependencies and critical path, establishing project baselines, project status reporting and project closure. Upon completion of this workshop 14 Professional Development Units (PDU) will be awarded.

Preparing Written Communication for Executives

This full day (6 hours in length) workshop will provide participants with techniques for improving written communications to executive management, including strategies for preparing high level communications in a clear, concise, grammatically correct (including sentence structure) format. The use of persuasive writing skills such as diplomacy, tact, and appropriate level of detail when communicating with executives and leadership will also be covered. This workshop is designed for employees who regularly communicate with executive leadership in written form. This workshop will be interactive, where participants will have the opportunity to practice writing techniques taught and receive feedback from the instructor or another subject matter expert. This workshop will include a focus on the importance of proofreading communications to avoid typos and basic grammatical errors.

Adapting to Change

In this workshop, participants learn skills that are needed to adjust to constantly shifting workplace demands. Topics include: viewing change as an opportunity, understanding the physical impact of change, developing "change hardiness", achieving flexibility in the face of new demands, and predicting the paths of change.