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Jan 14 - Dec 9, 2025
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The engineering webinar series is comprised of 12 webinars offered each month from January through December 2025. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all 12 webinars at a discounted price. Group pricing is also available.
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Jan 16 - Dec 11, 2025
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The CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series covers various organizational accounting topics and is comprised of 12 webinars from January through December 2025. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all 12 webinars at a discounted price.
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Feb 11 - Jul 8, 2025
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This series provides a high-level overview of the power industry from generation to distribution to consumer. This series is comprised of six webinars offered each month from February through July 2025. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all six webinars at a discounted price. Group pricing is also available.
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Mar 11 - Oct 7, 2025
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Want to understand the work order process (one that runs smoothly!) and the components within the process? Then this is the webinar series for you! Gain the knowledge and confidence to execute your day-to-day work more efficiently and effectively. Learn more about the largest investment your utility makes and how your process (and maybe even relationships with co-workers) can be at their best.
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Jun 2 - 5, 2025
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DoubleTree Seattle Airport - Seattle, Washington
Are you new to public power? Or maybe you work in human resources and are looking for a terrific onboarding class for your newer employees. Or maybe you’ve been at your job for a while but feel like you have much more to learn—and you probably do because public power has such a rich history with so many parts and pieces continuously evolving within it. That is why we have taken two of our most...
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Jun 2 - 4, 2025
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Hotel Indigo Seattle Everett Waterfront - Everett, Washington
This two-and-a-half-day course is part of the Staking Technician Certification Program and is structured to teach the skills necessary to design and lay out underground residential distribution subdivisions. The instructor will discuss the components of primary cables in conjunction with selecting the proper secondary cable size and length.
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Jun 4 - 5, 2025
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Hotel Indigo Seattle Everett Waterfront - Everett, Washington
The communications industry is forever scrambling for pole rental space on distribution structures to attach telephone, CATV, and fiber-optic cables. With right of way becoming harder to obtain, electrical utilities are combining circuits on one pole line to maximize efficiency and reduce costs. This course will teach students how to handle joint-use attachments.
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Jun 5 - 6, 2025
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Hotel Indigo Seattle Everett Waterfront - Everett, Washington
A well-written construction contract and properly drawn set of plans and specifications will go a long way toward getting the lowest bid prices while easing administrative burdens. During this course, you will learn how the construction contract affects every aspect of the project and how to administer the contract terms and conditions for a successful outcome.
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Jun 10, 2025
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Materials are a required component to the building of assemblies and maintenance of the distribution system. They flow from the warehouse to the field and become assets/continuing property records of the utility. Having a solid system to track materials is critical for every utility. From ordering, warehousing, using items on the system, to challenges with salvaging materials, come learn the many
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Jun 10 - 11, 2025
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DoubleTree Seattle Airport - Seattle, Washington
The MARC Union-Labor Relations program increases the skills and confidence of frontline supervisors to serve as management's frontline representatives in dealing with employees, stewards, and officers of the union. Additionally, top-level managers are trained to delegate and support frontline supervisors.
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Jun 10 - 11, 2025
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In this two-part webinar, you will learn required skills to work in Excel. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to understand Excel basic uses and terminology, efficiently enter and manipulate data, manage spreadsheet layout, cell formats, and tabs, and set up a sheet for printing.
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Jun 10, 2025
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The National Electrical Safety Code sets the clearances for power lines, as well as strength requirements, worker safety zones, and worker safety personal protective equipment. This webinar presents an overview of the National Electrical Safety Code requirements using easy to understand charts, photographs and diagrams.
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Jun 10, 2025
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There are multiple use cases for battery energy storage systems on electric utility systems. These include ancillary services, excess solar energy storage, delay of infrastructure upgrades, and reserve power. In this webinar, you will learn what battery energy storage systems are, how and why these systems are being deployed by utilities, and the limitations of the technology.
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Jun 11, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
The state of Washington administers a unique and complex approach to management of hazardous waste that differs significantly from federal requirements. This eight-hour class will cover waste generation, generator status, quantity exclusion limits, exemptions, labeling, recordkeeping, annual reporting, shipping, and disposal. Instruction will include used-oil management, universal waste, and PCBs.
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Jun 12, 2025
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During this session, you will discuss important considerations in determining when it is better to hire or contract services, identify considerations in establishing a contracted services agreement, determine the risks of contracting a service compared to hiring, and monitor the cost of contracted services.
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Jun 12, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This class will cover an overview of the DOT regulations, security, packaging groups and requirements, waste shipping, PCBs, reportable quantities, bills of lading, materials of trade exceptions, and labeling. You will receive valuable resources and complete a series of workbook exercises to demonstrate proficiency.
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Jun 17 - 18, 2025
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Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center - Walla Walla, Washington
Join us for this one-and-a-half-day conference to learn, network, and discuss trends and issues in accounting and finance with your public power peers from around the Northwest. Sessions will be geared for all experience levels. For the first time, you will have the opportunity to customize your learning experience by choosing from concurrent sessions on essential topics!
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Jun 25 - 26, 2025
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Idaho Falls Power - Idaho Falls, Idaho
In this two-day course, you will discover how to handle tough situations with confidence using the SELF Method—self-awareness, empathy, listening, and flexibility. A major focus is how to effectively manage intensely emotional customer interactions.
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Jun 25 - 26, 2025
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Learn the fundamentals of using Excel to perform calculations and create charts.
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Jul 1, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This one-day class is designed to teach the skills required to enter secure areas. The course covers federal regulations related to entering a secured area; minimum approach distances or clearances; personal protective equipment; job briefings; substation entrance procedures; and opening pad-mount transformers, switchgear, and metering compartments.
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Jul 8, 2025
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Engineers need to be able to justify their decisions on system upgrades based on economic analysis. In this webinar, you will learn how to conduct an engineering economic analysis of project options. Topics covered will include the methods used to determine carrying cost factors, discount rates, and present worth analysis.
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Jul 8, 2025
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This webinar covers contracted/outside and internal labor used to assemble and maintain the distribution system. You will learn how to simplify charging labor to the right place and discuss related challenges.
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Jul 8, 2025
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System reliability is an important aspect of electric utility operations. Power is seen as a necessity of life and, as such, power outages can be public relations nightmares. Utilities strive to “keep the lights on” and, in the event of an outage, restore power as quickly and safely as possible. This presentation discusses the typical causes of outages and restoration procedures.
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Jul 10, 2025
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During this session, you will dive into the connection between balance sheet transactions and the statement of cash flows, identify the correlation of spending activity to utility investments, such as plant investment and explore the impact of various financing activities.
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Jul 15 - 16, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
his popular course presents a clear understanding of the technical heartbeat of the utility by providing employees with a comprehensive understanding of electric utility system operations, including generation (fossil fuel, hydro, and nuclear generation), transmission, and distribution (down to 120V/240V residential connections). You will learn about all key pieces of equipment in the system.
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Jul 15, 2025
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Perhaps you have been a victim of identity theft; if so, you understand the pain, stress, and damage it causes. Would it surprise you to learn that utilities are considered an identity theft gateway? The customer accounts your utility maintains and the information your field personnel have access to can be used by would-be thieves to steal the identities of your customers.
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Jul 15 - 16, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This two-day course focuses on the application of protective devices within a distribution system. You will discover how to apply best practices for protecting transformers and equipment while maintaining the highest reliability possible, including coordinating with distribution feeders and downline devices.
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Jul 17, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This class is designed for technicians with some higher-level application issues for engineers. You will learn what to look for in an interconnection application, NEC requirements for the systems, and how to maintain power quality, with a focus on inverter-based systems such as solar and BESS.
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Jul 22 - 23, 2025
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In this course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of how to use Excel to perform calculations and create charts. The course covers the fundamentals and goes beyond, covering the function palette, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, net workdays, cell and range names, conditional formatting, Sparklines, protecting data, and saving a chart as a template.
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Jul 29 - 30, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This two-day workshop combines two Manager as Leader Series courses: Own Your Role and Build Thriving Relationships. You will leave with a clear definition of your role as a leader, a plan for growing your leadership success, and skills and methods to build important relationships.
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Jul 29 - 31, 2025
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The Historic Davenport Hotel - Spokane, Washington
This year’s WIPP Conference continues the tradition of honoring issues specific to women from all areas and levels within the public power industry. It is a place for leaders at all levels—whether you are a customer/member service representative, director/commissioner, meter reader, CEO, accountant, purchaser, or any other employee—to network and learn from one another.
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Aug 5 - 6, 2025
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In this two-part webinar, learn the power of Excel as a database. Topics include database terminology, outlining and doing data subtotals, and more.
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Aug 12, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
Every team should have the chance to come together and reach their full potential. This starts with managers who know how to provide clarity, manage conflict, and break through barriers to move the team forward.
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Aug 12, 2025
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Utility designers have more options available for support arms than ever before. In this webinar, you will learn about the different types of support arms, materials used, mounting techniques, and braces. To aid in the selection of arms, you will explore the application-based pros and cons of different crossarms and the National Electrical Safety Code requirements.
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Aug 12, 2025
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Whether your utility uses a traditional special equipment system, has inventoried special equipment, or has a combination thereof, this session will provide a clear explanation of the installation and maintenance of these items on the distribution system.
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Aug 13, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
Conversational Capacity will teach you to engage in constructive, learning-focused dialogue when challenging topics or conflicts arise so you can make informed decisions and find the best solutions, even under high pressure.
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Aug 14, 2025
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During this session, you will use historical data and standard cost information to estimate future work plan spending needs, apply analytics and forecasting skills to forecast work plan spending, assess the impact of system retirements in planning for future work plans, and consider the impact of aid-to-construction policies and consumer cost-sharing philosophies on overall plant spending.
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Aug 20 - 21, 2025
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You already know Outlook as a workhorse that you rely on throughout your busy day. But did you know that by maximizing Outlook’s functionality, you may be able to view it as a racehorse that can get you to your daily finish line with greater ease, efficiency, and even fun? Neal Otto will show you hidden efficiency tools, best practices, and how you can use Outlook in a simple yet strategic way.
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Aug 26 - 28, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This two-and-a-half-day program is designed to transform new and emerging leaders into confident, effective supervisors who can lead teams and navigate the unique challenges of public power utilities.
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Sep 2, 2025
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Preparation is mandatory for success, especially at the bargaining table. This course covers the big and small details that, with a bit of preparation, can make for a smoother and more successful experience. Instructor Bob Oberstein will cover a wide range of preparation activities, including selecting and training team members, planning, selecting facilities, and maintaining records.
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Sep 2 - 4, 2025
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This three-part webinar series explores key aspects of successful negotiations: preparation; effectively using the three core dynamics of time, information, and power; and closing the deal.
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Sep 3, 2025
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In this session, you will learn the proper use of the three basic dynamics of time, information, and power as tools for resolving many different conflicts in negotiations. These dynamics apply regardless of whether you use a win-win, interest-based, or another approach in formal and informal negotiations.
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Sep 4, 2025
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This session focuses on wrapping up negotiations effectively and avoiding common pitfalls. Topics include unfair labor practices, managing impasses, bundling and packaging proposals, internal and external influences, communication strategies, mediation, contract ratification and publication, and post-negotiation training.
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Sep 9 - 10, 2025
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Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington
This course is for anyone who wishes to obtain an overview and basic working knowledge of employment and labor laws that affect their business.
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Sep 9, 2025
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Designing a double-circuit line is similar to designing a single-circuit line but with an added degree of complexity. In this webinar, you will explore the challenges of designing a double-circuit line, including large-angle poles, equipment poles, circuit spacing, and guying and anchoring.
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Sep 9, 2025
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Chugach Electric Association, Inc. - Anchorage, Alaska
The long-standing Environmental Task Force is a group of utility professionals working in all areas of environmental compliance that meet to examine environmental issues and the impact of current and proposed environmental regulations on electric utilities. Industry professionals meet to review and discuss regulations, issues facing each utility, and to hear from subject matter experts.
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Sep 9, 2025
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In this course, you will learn about the interaction of assemblies using materials from the warehouse, unitizing them to assets/continuing property records. Using baseline assembly concepts, you will discuss standard costs; updating assemblies and specifications; and ultimately creating a system for materials to get to the jobsite and be used.
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Sep 10, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This program uses a proven formula to build self leaders. It builds on SLII, the world’s most widely taught leadership model, and integrates the latest research on the proactive skills required for individuals to be most effective.
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Sep 11, 2025
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This course is part of the Manager as Leader Series, which is designed to help ignite, inspire, and nurture the leader mindset within you.
Change requires leadership. Leadership requires change. Workplace leaders are the tread on the tire when it comes to change.
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Sep 11, 2025
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During this session, you will explore the background and reasons for using standard costs, identify the information and sources needed to update standard costs effectively, and discuss best practices and challenges associated with updating costs.
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Sep 16 - 18, 2025
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Kootenai Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Rathdrum, Idaho
The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.
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Sep 18, 2025
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Unleash the power of Microsoft Office 365 To Do and manage your daily tasks efficiently, collaboratively, and with greater focus.
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Sep 22 - 25, 2025
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Grouse Mountain Lodge - Whitefish, Montana
Join us this September in Whitefish, Montana, at the Grouse Mountain Lodge for the 2025 NIC! The NIC is an award-winning conference that offers communicators and energy services professionals a chance to reach new heights. This year's theme is Expand Your Horizons: Big Ideas Under the Big Sky.
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Oct 6, 2025
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Grove Hotel - Boise, Idaho
Resolving conflicts that arise in the workplace is one of the toughest challenges for customer-facing employees. In high-pressure interactions where emotions run high and positive outcomes are critical, you must already be prepared to respond effectively. During this workshop, you will develop new skills and strategies to de-escalate challenging situations.
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Oct 7, 2025
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This webinar focuses on how to keep rates as low as possible. You will look at how much it costs to provide reliable power, and discuss the impact of decisions—such as completing a timesheet and using materials—on the overall cost of providing service.
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Oct 7 - 9, 2025
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Grove Hotel - Boise, Idaho
At the 3 C's Conference, subject matter experts share their knowledge about current key issues in customer service, credit, and collections.
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Oct 9, 2025
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During this session, you will learn how to utilize smart meter information to make informed financial decisions, implement technologies such as programmable thermostats, EVs, solar panels, and other advancements effectively, evaluate and respond to the financial impacts of implementing consumer technologies, and report effectively to communicate the financial story of your cooperative/utility.
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Oct 14, 2025
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Underground power is common in new subdivisions and in conversions from overhead distribution to underground distribution. In this webinar, you will explore installation techniques for underground cable systems, including sizing conduit and pulling tension limits. Beyond engineering, cable handling issues such as bending radius, use of rollers, and cable accessories will be addressed.
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Oct 14 - 16, 2025
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Kimpton Palladian Hotel - Seattle, Washington
Join us for the HR and Labor Relations Conference, formerly know as the Labor and Employee Relations Goup Conference. This annual event brings together labor relations leaders and human resources professionals to share experiences, recommendations, and lessons learned about key labor relations and human resources issues.
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Oct 14 - 15, 2025
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Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington
This is the second in a series of four sessions leading to a Certificate in Leadership Skills from NWPPA. The leader's role in facilitating performance will be described, along with ways of dealing with challenges such as denial and reluctance to accept accountability. Note from the instructor: This class should be taken prior to Leadership Skills: Understanding SLII Leadership Styles.
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Oct 15 - 16, 2025
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Develop a mastery of your Word documents in this two-part course. Upon successful completion, you will be able to:Use advanced selection techniques, create and use styles, use the navigation pane effectively, use outline view, and more.
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Nov 4, 2025
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The best-designed power line is useless without land to build it on. Acquiring easements from property owners to cross over their land and potentially cut their trees may be the hardest part of distribution line staking. In this webinar, you will learn best practices for obtaining easements and review pitfalls to avoid.
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Nov 4 - 5, 2025
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Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington
The MARC Union-Labor Relations program increases the skills and confidence of frontline supervisors to serve as management's frontline representatives in dealing with employees, stewards, and officers of the union. Additionally, top-level managers are trained to delegate and support frontline supervisors.
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Nov 6, 2025
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During this session, you will ensure the fixed asset listing is accurate and up to date, explore best practices in determining if assets exist, are in use or obsolete, and have a reasonable remaining depreciation life, discuss industry norms for depreciation rates and useful asset lives, evaluate the depreciation schedule of your utility, and consider the impacts of adjustments to plant assets.
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Nov 13, 2025
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Every interaction is an opportunity to build commitment and capability. Your daily interactions are the heartbeat of your working relationships. Are your interactions boosting the commitment and capability of those you lead? This course will introduce proven principles and skills for interacting effectively in a variety of leadership situations and enable you to apply them.
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Nov 13, 2025
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This deep dive starts with the essentials of Excel's conditional formatting and then takes off quickly. You will learn to call out interesting data using colors, icons, or data bars.
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Dec 2 - 4, 2025
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Marriott Tacoma Downtown - Tacoma, Washington
The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.
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Dec 3 - 4, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This workshop combines two of the Manager as Leader series classes: Lead Teams and Coach for Success.
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Dec 9, 2025
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Three-phase pad-mounted transformers can be expensive items for an electric utility. In this webinar, you will gain a better understanding of industry standards that apply to three-phase pad-mounted transformers, as well as the different options available in the marketplace. The presentation will also include the specification and application of these units.
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Dec 9 - 10, 2025
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This two-part course is for Excel users who regularly spend too much time manipulating data into the right format before they even begin to analyze it. Get and Transform (aka Power Query) can perform repetitive data cleansing such as deleting rows and columns, merging data from various data sources, and fixing layout issues without macros or VBA.
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Dec 10 - 11, 2025
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Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington
This course is one of the three courses needed to earn a Leadership Skills Series Certificate. The SLII Experience foundation lies in teaching leaders to diagnose the needs of an individual or a team, and then to use the appropriate leadership style to respond to the needs of the person.
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Dec 11, 2025
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During this session, you will evaluate how deployments of artificial intelligence can benefit accounting and finance activities, modernize processes and reporting using AI to free up time for the utility's other financial needs, discuss areas where errors can be prevented using AI, and consider AI in risk management, financial planning, detection of fraud, and strategic decision-making.
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