Michaels & Associates

2010 Annual ASTD Valley of the Sun Chapter Conference

The Shift – Challenge to Change: Removing liabilities, limitations and excuses in the workplace to unleash peak performance in your practice or learning organization.

Taking place Friday, October 22, 2010 from 8 am to 5 pm.

From C-level functions to employee engagement, this conference is designed to bring out the power of individual leadership though collaboration and teamwork. Everyone wins when workplace learning and tools for peak performance are in their perfect place.

During this conference Sherry Michaels, President of Michaels & Associates, will co-present with Kathy Crenshaw, Apollo Group, and Jennifer Witter, Witter Consulting, on “Managing Projects and Preventing Scope Creep”. This panel discussion presentation takes advantage of their 64 years of combined experience in project management—in taking a look at the cost of poor project management and considerations for managing projects effectively.

To learn more or to sign up for the conference, please visit the ASTD Valley of the Sun website at http://www.astdvos.org/conference/.

Michaels & Associates Wins 2010 WebAwards Competition Award

September 16, 2010 - Michaels & Associates, a full-service custom training content development company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has been honored with the 2010 WebAwards Consulting Standard of Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development.

Each year the Web Marketing Association names the best web sites in 96 industry categories as part of the annual WebAward Competition. Entries are judged based on design, ease of use, copywriting, interactivity, use of technology, innovation and the use of content.

The WebAwards Competition not only sets the standard of excellence for all website development, it recognizes the individual and team achievements of Web professionals who create and maintain outstanding Web sites.

WebAward entries are submitted by Web development and interactive agencies or corporate marketing departments worldwide.

The judges are experienced professionals with an in-depth understanding of trends in Web site development and the objectivity to score entries according to pre-defined criteria.

To view the award announcement, please visit http://www.webaward.org/winner.asp?eid=15250.