2023 EAA Training Development Catalog

Employee Training and Development Catalog 2023 Guide for Edwards Aquifer Authority Employees

This training catalog is your guide for information regarding courses facilitated by EAA Human Resources, Information Technology, and Finance departments plus our benefit rep - resentatives for 2023. Our commitment to support a continuous learning environment re - mains unchanged and the events/courses offered are designed to assist you in enhancing your skills, personally and professionally. Discover a wealth of learning through our on-line platforms such as NEOGOV, Texas Mu - nicipal League (TMLIRP), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, and Fred Pryor Career Track. Topics range from communication, time management, software applications, per - sonal growth, and health/wellness. Join us onsite for health/wellness presentations with the YMCA or virutually for retirement, work/life balance, and budgeting webinars with TCDRS, MissionSquare Retirment and ACI Speciality Benefits. We hope you use this catalog as a guide to plan, request, and schedule training in the months to come. If you have questions regarding the registration process, course offerings, or find a conference/training/workshop that would be of benefit to others, please let us know. We’d love to hear from you. A Message from Human Resources

Wishing you the very best in 2023!

~ Your Human Resources Department

Overview

This catalog provides a Schedule at a Glance and a Schedule by Category view of events for 2023. The Sched- ule at a Glance will allow you to view the events by each month. The Schedule by Category provides addition - al information on each event such as designated time, mandatory status, availability, and designated plat - form/location. In addition, this catalog reviews online training resources available and additional information regarding the registration process for non-EAA events. Zoom links to register and/or attend the events, will be sent to staff and posted to the HR Calendar of Events in SharePoint as it becomes available. Updates to this catalog will be maintained in SharePoint. Mandatory Training Mandatory training will be assigned by Human Resources. This training will be assigned on the calendar date specified in this catalog. If training is assigned via a third-party platform, additional instructions to complete this training will be provided to staff at the time of assignment. If training is assigned via NEOGOV, you will have 14 days from the assigned date to complete the training. Since NEOGOV maintains all certificates of completion in your NEOGOV profile, you do not need to send the certificate of completion to Human Re - sources. In addition to the above training, field personnel will be required to attend the Field Safety Protocols training. Employees who are assigned an EAA company vehicle, and their supervisor, are required to attend the Fleet Management Training. It is the responsibility of each employee in these groups to attend the appropriate mandatory training. Additional instructions, including the invite link to attend the event, will be sent to des - ignated staff as it becomes available. In the event a training is to be conducted via MS Teams, information, including the invite link to attend this event, will be sent to designated staff by the event organizer. Registration for EAA Events Invite links to register and/or attend EAA events, will be sent to staff and posted to the HR Calendar of Events in SharePoint as it becomes available. It is your responsibility to block/reserve the date and time on your outlook calendar. If you’re unable to attend a scheduled appointment/event, please cancel your reservation by contacting Margaret Ross. This will allow other employees on the waiting list to register and attend these events. Registration for Non-EAA Events (Online and/or In-person Conferences, Trainings, or Symposiums) A Request to Attend Conference, Training or Symposium formmust be completed and approved via NEOGOV prior to registering for a non-EAA online and/or in-person conference, training, or symposium. In the event the registration fee is over $1000, you will be prompted in NEOGOV to complete a Salary Reduction Agree - ment. Once both forms have been approved electronically, you may then submit your requisition in the Intacct System. Once your requisition has been approved, you may then register for the online and/or in-per - son conference, training, or symposium. Duration EAA on-site events lasting for four hours or more, will break for a one hour lunch period. If an event, EAA or non-EAA, ends earlier than scheduled, you are required to return to your normal work duties.

Schedule at a Glance

January 01/18/2023 Wednesday MissionSquare Retirement Webinar: Your Online Experience 01/25/2023 Wednesday Intacct Refresher: Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Reimbursements 01/31/2023 Tuesday Fleet Management Training

February 02/02/2023 Thursday

Leave of Absence & FMLA Policy Review 02/22/2023 Wednesday YMCA Health & Wellness: Jump Start an Active Lifestyle

March 03/29/2023 Wednesday PNC Bank Financial Wellness Webinar: Budgeting

April 04/19/2023 Wednesday Procurement, Contracting and Contractors 04/25/2023 Tuesday

NEOGOV eForms: Request to Attend a Conference, Training, Symposium

May 05/18/2023 Thursday

Annual Cyber Security Training 05/24/2023 Wednesday TCDRS Retirement Seminar & Individual Counseling

June 06/01/2023 Thursday

Field Safety Protocols Training 06/21/2023 Wednesday ACI Health & Wellness Webinar: Balancing Work and Family

Schedule at a Glance

July

07/27/2023 Thursday 07/20/2023 Thursday

Active Shooter Awareness & Response Training

Service Desk Plus Training

August

08/15/2023 Tuesday Open Enrollment Presentation 2023-2024 Plan Year 08/30/2023 Wednesday ACI Health & Wellness Webinar: 10 Best Foods to Eat

September

09/07/2023 Thursday 09/19/2023 Tuesday

Harassment Awareness & Diversity/Inclusion Training

Procurement, Contracting & Contractors 09/27/2023 Wednesday MissionSquare Retirement Webinar: Retirement Income Planning

October

10/05/2023 Thursday 10/19/2023 Thursday

EAA Cyber Security & Response

Records Refresher Training 10/25/2023 Wednesday ACI Health & Wellness Webinar: Holiday Stress

November

11/02/2023 Thursday

The Evaluation Process for Supervisory Staff

11/08/2023 Wednesday EAGIS 2.0 Update Review 11/15/2023 Wednesday The Evaluation Process for Non-Supervisory Staff

December

NO EVENTS

Schedule by Category

The Schedule by Category provides additional information on each event such as designated date, time, target audience, mandatory status, and designated location/platform. For events conducted via NEOGOV, Human Resources will assign the training to staff on the specified date listed. For events conducted via Zoom, WebEx, GoToWebinar, and/or listed as TBD (to be determined), additional instructions, including the invite link, will be sent to staff and posted to the HR Calendar of Events in SharePoint as it become available. For events conducted via MS Teams, a meeting invite will be sent to the appropriate staff by the event organizer.

Human Resources

DATE

TIME

EVENT

AUDIENCE MANDATORY LOCATION/ PLATFORM

08/15/2023 10:00-11:00 Open Enrollment Presentation

All Staff All Staff All Staff

No Yes No

Zoom

02/02/2023 N/A

Leave of Absence & FMLA Policy

NEOGOV

04/25/2023 10:00-11:00 NEOGOV eForms: Requests to At - tend Conference, Training, Symp. 11/02/2023 10:00-11:00 The Evaluation Process for Supervisory Staff 11/15/2023 10:00-11:00 The Evaluation Process for Non-Supervisory Staff

Zoom

Supervisors +

No

Zoom

All Staff

No

Zoom

Records

DATE

TIME

EVENT

AUDIENCE MANDATORY LOCATION/ PLATFORM

10/19/2023 10:00-11:00 Records Refresher Training

All Staff

No

Zoom

Information Technology

DATE

TIME

EVENT

AUDIENCE MANDATORY LOCATION/ PLATFORM

05/18/2023 N/A

Annual Cyber Security Training

All Staff All Staff All Staff All Staff

Yes No No No

NEOGOV

07/20/2023 10:00-11:00 Service Desk Plus Training 10/05/2023 10:00-11:00 EAA Cyber Security & Response 11/08/2023 10:00-11:00 EAGIS 2.0 Update Review

Zoom Zoom Zoom

Finance

DATE

TIME

EVENT

AUDIENCE MANDATORY LOCATION/ PLATFORM

All Staff

No

Zoom

01/25/2023 10:00-11:00 Intacct Refresher: Requisitions Pur - chase Orders & Reimbursements

03/29/2023 11:30-12:30 PNC Bank: Budgeting

All Staff All Staff All Staff

No No No

Recharge Rm

04/19/2023 10:00-11:00 Procurement, Contracting & Contr. 09/19/2023 10:00-11:00 Procurement, Contracting & Contr.

Zoom Zoom

Safety

DATE

TIME

EVENT

AUDIENCE MANDATORY LOCATION/ PLATFORM

01/31/2023 10:00-11:00 Fleet Management Training 06/01/2023 10:00-11:00 Field Safety Protocols Training

All Staff

Zoom Zoom

Yes (Drivers & Sprv)

All Staff Yes (Field Staff)

07/27/2023 TBD

Active Shooter Awareness & Response Training Harassment Awareness & D/I

All Staff

Yes

TBD

09/07/2023 TBD

All Staff

Yes

Zoom

Wellness

DATE

TIME

EVENT

AUDIENCE MANDATORY LOCATION/ PLATFORM

02/22/2023 11:30-12:30 YMCA: Jump Start and Active Lifestyle 06/21/2023 10:00-11:00 ACI: Balancing Work & Family 08/30/2023 10:00-11:00 ACI: 10 Best Foods to Eat

All Staff

No

EAA Recharge Room

All Staff All Staff All Staff

No No No

Zoom Zoom Zoom

10/25/2023 10:00-11:00 ACI: Holiday Stress

Retirement

DATE

TIME

EVENT

AUDIENCE MANDATORY LOCATION/ PLATFORM

01/18/2023 10:00-11:00 MissionSquare Webinar Your Online Experience 05/24/2023 10:00-11:00 TCDRS Retirement Webinar & Individual Counseling 09/27/2023 10:00-11:00 MissionSquare Webinar Retirement Income Planning

All Staff

No

WebEx

All Staff

No

GoToWebinar

All Staff

No

WebEx

Online Training Resources

The following online training resources are available and may be taken, during normal working hours, with the approval of your immediate supervisor. With the exception of NEOGOV, certificates of completion should be forwarded to Human Resources for placement in your personnel file. If you have questions or experience any issues with these training resources, please contact Margaret Ross.

NEOGOV Learn has over 1000 pre-built courses with new courses being added on a quarterly basis. Course topics include Microsoft Teams, Excel, Access, business skills, cyber security, health, lead - ership and time management.

How To Access The Training Login to NEOGOV and navigate to your Dashboard. Under Training, select the EAA Course Catalog tab. You have the option to search for a course in the search field or use the filter to search for a course by Catego - ries, Type or Duration.

Did You Know... As a supervisor, you have the ability to assign training to your staff via NEOGOV!

Here’s how: 1. Navigate to your NEOGOV Dashboard 2. Click People to view your Team/locate your employee.

3. Click the drop down arrow in the Actions box and select Enroll in a Course. 4. Select Online or Classroom. (Online courses are all pre-built courses in NeoGov) 5. Using the Search field, Search for the course to be assigned to your employee. 6. Select the box to the left of the course title. 7. Click Enroll at the top right of the screen. The training has successfully been assigned.

The Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool provides the EAA with quality loss prevention training opportunities. Courses have been creat - ed with adult learning styles in mind, and each course module is timed for one short session, usually 25-35 minutes in length. Course topics include risk man - agement, human resources, safety and law enforcement (many are TCOLE ap - proved).

How To Access The Training To start taking courses, login to TMLIRP’s Online Learning Center and navigate to the Course Catalog. You will have the option to search for a course in the search field.

The EAA has partnered with New Horizons for 2023! This partnership includes “live” virtual training on Microsoft Office Applications, Adobe and workplace fundamentals.

Course offerings can be viewed on the New Horizons Website. Keep in mind, our corporate membership only covers a selected group of courses. Therefore, you must first verify the course is part of this program prior to enrolling in the course. Course verification is communicated, via email, through our New Horizons representative, Kristie Navarette. New Horizons Enrollment Instructions 1. To verify the course is included in our corporate membership program, send an email request to kristie. navarette@newhorizons.com. In your email subject line, indicate EAA Corporate Membership Course Verification Request. In the body of your email, include the course name, description, date, and time. 2. Once confirmation is received, you will need to submit a Request to Attend a Conference Form via NEOGOV. Attach your email correspondence regarding the course to the request. In the Additional Notes field, indicate the course is covered by the EAA Corporate Membership Program. Once the Re - quest to Attend a Conference Form is approved, you may officially enroll in the course. 3. To enroll in the course, send an email request to kristie.navarette@newhorizons.com. In your subject line, indicate EAA Corporate Membership Enrollment Request. In the body of your email, include the course name, description, date, time, and that you’ve received internal authorization for the course and would like to officially enroll. Our representative will confirm enrollment, manually enroll you in the course, and provide you with an access code/login instructions. On the date of the course, you will log in to the “live” instructor led training in which you can “see” the instructor and interact with them through a microphone headset or via the text chat feature. Since all sessions are recorded, you will have the ability to go back through the session, including labs, for up to six months “post class” - ensuring a thorough understanding of the material.

To attend a Fred Pryor+ off-site/on-line seminar, you are required to submit a Request to Attend a Confer - ence Form via NEOGOV. Course offerings can be viewed on the Fred Pryor+ Website. If you would like to join the Fred Pryor+ Program, the cost is $199 per person. This annual membership of - fers more than 12,000 off-site seminars, over 5,000 on-line courses, and over 3,500 micro-learning courses. Course topics range from accounting, communication, compliance and workplace safety, customer service, IT, leadership, project and time management. In addition, a majority of these courses offer continuing ed - ucation credits for CEU, CPE, HRCI, PDC and PDU. If have questions regarding the course offerings or are interested in joining the Pryor+ Program, please reach out to Margaret Ross.

Additional Information

The following additional information applies to non- EAA online and/or in-person conferences, trainings or symposiums. Non-EAA online and/or in-person conferences, train - ings, or symposiums, may be taken with the approval of your immediate supervisor. Certificates of completion should be forwarded to Human Resources for place- ment in your personnel file. A Request to Attend Conference, Training or Symposium form must be completed and approved via NeoGov pri - or to registering for a non-EAA online and/or in-person Conference, Training, Symposium. In the event the conference, training or symposium registration fee is over $1000, you will be prompted in NEOGOV to complete a Salary Reduction Agreement.* Once both forms have been approved electronically, you may then submit your requisition in the Intacct System. Once your requisition has been approved, you may then register for the online and/or in-person con- ference, training, or symposium. If you have questions regarding this process, or would - like to know the status of your submitted request, you may reach out to Margaret Ross. * A Salary Reduction Agreement states that if your employment with the EAA ends within six months of the completion of the course/training, you are responsible for repaying the EAA one-sixth (1/6) of the amount of the cost of the conference/training/symposium for each month which re- mains, at the time employment ends, until six months would have passed since the completion of the conference/training/symposium. The EAA may deduct the amount of this repayment from any amount due at the conclu- sion of your employment, including your final paycheck. If the amount due will not cover the total amount to be repaid, you agree to pay the balance within 30 days following the date your employment terminates.

Human Resources Department hr@edwardsaquifer.org Catalog Release Date: 01/01/2023