Office of Employment and Training - DCEO

2024 Rapid Response 

• Rapid Response Roundtable - October 23, 2024

Panel 1 - Building and Sustaining a Collaborative Team - Service Integration

• Doug Potts, IDES -- Northern Region Employment Services
  • Presentation - Building and Sustaining a Collaborative Team Service Integration
• Kelly Lapentino, EdD, DCEO, Northern Regional Workforce Manager
  • Presentation - Rapid Response Roundtable
• Susi Pihera, LWIA 6, Senior Programs Specialist, Du Page County Workforce Development
  • Presentation - DuPage County Workforce Development Division 

Panel 2 - Enhancing Workforce and Economic Development Synergies - Business Services 

• Lauren Gibson, DCEO, Regional Economic Development (RED) Team, North Central Regional Manager
  • Presentation - State of Illinois DCEO Team Red
• Todd Lowery, IDES, Statewide Business Services Manager
  • Presentation - WorkShare IL Program 
• Lori Warren, LWIA 13 - Program Manager, Rock Island Tri- County Consortium
  • No Presentation

Panel 3 - Navigating for Optimal Community, Employer and Worker Support - Systems and Tools

• Rita Podledneva, PhD, IDES, Economic Information and Analysis Division - Labor Market Economist
  • Presentation - Labor Market Information 
• Bryan Ellis, DCEO, Office of Employment & Training - Southern Regional Workforce Manager
  •  Presentation - Rapid Response Funding, Strategies, & Examples

• Levi Beerup, DCEO, Office of Employment & Training - Workforce Development Specialist & Dee Reinhart, SIUC  Center for Workforce Development  - Illinois workNet
  • Presentation - Illinois Employment Business System

2022 OET Webinars: 

Career Planning Policy - February 16, 2022

• Presentation

2021 L.E.A.D Webinars 

Leadership. Excellence. Action. Development. Series-The Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS) has created a professional learning series for the Office of Employment and Training Staff. The first sessions are outlined below. Each session is designed to give you tools, tips, and practical advice that you can implement immediately. 

2021 L.E.A.D Series

Listening to Understand and Solution-Creation: Tips for Active Listening and Problem-Solving - May 21, 2021

• Presentation

 

Manage Your Schedule Like a Boss: The Art of Delegation and Saying No-April 16, 2021

• Presentation

 

Talking Initiative and Being Accountable-March 19, 2021

• Presentation
• Padlet Resources

 

Synergy, Do You Have It?: Small Group Dynamics- February 19, 2021

• Presentation

 

Presentations that Resonate with your Audiences-January 15, 2021

• Presentation

 

Find Your Voice: Best Practices on Public Speaking- December 18, 2020

• Presentation

 

Optimize Meeting Effectiveness: How to Get Results-November 20, 2020

• Presentation
• Effective Meetings Goodie Bag of Resources 

 

Past Training and Corresponding Resources

OET Training DCEO - June 26, 2020

 

OET Training DCEO - June 19, 2020 

 

OET Training DCEO Virtual Team Building - May 29, 2020 

• OET Training Virtual Team Building Slides

 

OET Training DCEO Professional Communication -May 22, 2020 

• OET Training Professional Communication Slides 

 

OET Training DCEO -May 15, 2020

• Evaluation under WIOA: Reporting Evaluation Results Slides

 

 

L.E.A.D Series Pro Tips & Resources

Books:

• Talk Like Ted

Activities:

• Personality Test For Working With Groups

Articles: 

• These are The Four C's For Leading High-Performing Remote Teams
• New York Times How to Be More Productive in Seven Days 
• Write Down Your Team's Unwritten Rules
• Forbes Nine Tips to Tackle Your Burnout
• Forbes Building Resilience When You're Pandemic Fatigued 
• Experience Email Fatigue
• Forbes 5 Workplace Emails Everyone Hates
• 7 Principles of Effective Public Speaking
• Better Public Speaking: Becoming a Confident, Compelling Speakers
• 20 Tools for Creating and Delivering Amazing Presentations
• How to Create the Perfect Meeting Agenda

Podcasts: 

• Paul Casey on Time Management and Maximizing Every Minute 
• Beyond the To-Do List
• David Allen 
  • Getting Things Done
  • Developing Good Habits
  • The-Two-Minute Rule
• Love Laurie Santos, The Happiness Lab
  • Episode 2: Coach Yourself Through a Crisis