Winter Webinars
Indiana Department of Education School & Community Nutrition
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Each week has an overall theme with each day breaking down different topics within the theme.
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Focus on the Customer
Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday, January 12, 13, & 14 at 2:00 p.m. ET
Focus on the Customer for Directors and Managers is a training to help Directors and Managers focus on their customer service. This training defines who is the primary customer in the school nutrition program, how to train your staff, and how to develop a customer service action plan.
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Utilizing the Cafeteria as a Classroom
Tuesday & Wednesday, January 18 & 19 at 2:00 p.m. ET
This Breakfast Lunch Training (BLT) program is designed to provide school nutrition professionals with tools and resources that will enable them to develop and enhance a school nutrition program that will be recognized as an integral part of the education system.Website: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/838cddb7f3264941b5cd111229d251c3
Basic Culinary Math
Tuesday & Wednesday, January 25 & 26 at 2:00 p.m. ET
The goal of this training is to provide participants with the opportunity to review and practice basic culinary math skills, including the basic math principles of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The remainder of the training will focus on other key skills such as measuring and converting measurements, scaling recipes, and calculating food costs.
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Financial Management
This training was developed for site-based school nutrition managers and supervisors. Participants receive instruction on relationship of program cost and revenue, standard security practices to protect financial integrity, budget management, increasing productivity and decreasing waste, and staff responsibility for sound financial management practices.
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Forecasting the Procurement of Foods
General concepts about basic forecasting for the procurement of foods in Child Nutrition Programs are covered during this session. This training does not discuss federal regulations pertaining to the procurement system.
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