2024 ProCAT Winners’ Retreat

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Mark your calendar… The 2024 Virtual Winners’ Retreat is scheduled for October 19 and 26, 2024.

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Mark Kislingbury and Ms. Julie Ryan will share the secrets of their success in their respective specialties.

The Virtual Winners’ Retreats have proven to be as effective as the in-person seminars. Additionally, they eliminate travel expenses and income loss. We are thankful to our clients for participating in the virtual seminars. Despite occasional technical glitches, everyone enjoys the experience and walks away with more ways to use their software efficiently.

We have continuously reviewed the survey responses, learned from them, and improved the next seminar. Therefore, the agenda we have prepared for you reflects the needs and desires expressed to us in our client surveys.

We are confident you will benefit from these seminars whenever you use your software or writer.

On day one (October 19th), seminars are separated by specialties. Each group will join their leader in a private room. The seminar on October 26th applies to both steno and voice.  We encourage everyone to register for both days for maximum impact.  We are excited to help you harness the power of ProCAT Winner 2024 and provide the tools to minimize your production time.

Subject

ProCAT Winners’ Retreat 2024
Advanced Training Seminars
“Learn while relaxing in your own home!”

When

Saturday, October 19, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. CT
&
Saturday, October 26, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. CT

Registration

Price:

$295 for both days
$195 for one day.

Students registered at a court reporting school: $25 per day

Click here to register online.

Where

Online via Zoom

Continuing Education Points

CE points applied for
Clients needing credit for their state will be provided a certificate of completion, training outline and the number of completed hours.  State credit is the responsibility of the attendee to submit to their respective associations.

Trainers

Introduction:

Mr. Bob Bakva

Guest Speakers:

Mr. Mark Kislingbury
Ms. Julie Ryan

ProCAT Trainer:

Mr. Rick Louie

Seminar Overview

Day One — Steno

Saturday, October 19th

All times are Central Time Zone

10:00 a.m. CT – 11:30 a.m. CT

  • Welcoming and addressing Zoom issues
  • Mr. Mark Kislingbury

Mark Kislingbury will share his main “secret” that contributed to his phenomenal success in court reporting contests and his world record of 370wpm – writing short!

He will explain why writing short is so crucial and then show effective and innovative ways to do so. His students love his theory, and the graduates are averaging about two years! He believes that you, too, can apply his methods and achieve spectacular results in your reporting skills. He will show you how you can quickly become faster, more accurate, less stressed, and an altogether happier court reporter with renewed love for your job.

    • The secrets of writing short: Discover Mark’s proven methods and patterns to minimize strokes and maximize speed.
    • Practical strategies for shortening your writing: Gain actionable takeaways to start streamlining your shorthand immediately.
    • How to unlock the power of right-hand phrase enders: Master this powerful phrasing tool for increased efficiency and accuracy.

11:45 a.m. CT – 1:15 a.m.  CT

Instructor: Mr. Rick Louie

  • Dictionary Juggle — clean up your dictionary effortlessly while editing a transcript
  • Sourcing Translated Text — do you ever wonder where a translation comes from?
  • Dictionary Lookup
  • Untranslating and Regrouping Steno — ungroup long steno outlines to cleaner translation
  • Manually created conflicts/homonyms.
  • Creating dictionaries for formatting differences between states (zoom).
  • How do I get an accent over a character while editing?
  • How do I get an accent in my dictionary?
  • Playback macros
  • Playback macros in dialog boxes
  • How do you exit the editor in the least number of steps?
  • Caption box: How do you keep it aligned?
  • 1z/2z how to add words on the fly
  • Importing/Exporting dictionaries
  • Case vs. Job
  • Super Tokens

The remaining time will be used for Q&A

Day One — Voice

Saturday, October 19th

All times are Central Time Zone

10:00 a.m. CT  – 11:30 a.m. CT –

Instructor: Ms. Julie Ryan

Join Julie Ryan as she explains how to use Dragon and the Winner software more efficiently to manage your workload. Julie has over 25 years of experience as a voice writer and holds a Certificate of Merit in voice writing.

She has also worked freelance reporting and as an official reporter for several years.

  • Taming the Dragon
    • Audio troubleshooting
    • Transferring your Dragon (Move it!)
    • Tips and Tricks for a better behaved Dragon

11:45 a.m. CT – 1:15 p.m. CT 

Instructor: Ms. Julie Ryan

  • Winner Software
    • Archiving
    • Deleting jobs
    • Scoping
    • Audio playback troubleshooting
    • Indexing

Day Two — Steno and Voice Writers

Saturday, October 26th

All times are Central Time Zone

10:00 a.m. CT – 11:30 a.m. CT

Instructor: Mr. Rick Louie

  • Cybersecurity – Everyone needs to understand today’s challenges.
    • Protecting your computer
    • Protecting your data
    • Windows Recovery
  • Backup
    • Cloud Services
    • Local Storage
  • Include Files – set them up once and reuse them!
  • Scan stops
  • Lookup tokens
  • Realtime Streaming
    • Creating Scripts
  • Cloud and Case.Pad
  • Editor
    • Configuring Your Desktop for the Ultimate Comfort
  • Preferences and Settings
  • Page Layout
    • Transcript Formatting
      • Changing Layout on-the-fly
      • Sections
        • Right-Click Shortcuts
        • Highlight/Surround Features

11:45 a.m. CT – 1:15 p.m. CT

Instructor: Mr. Rick Louie

  • Seating Chart
  • AutoIndex™
    • Choosing an Index Style
    • Marking Index Entries
    • Generating an Index Page
    • Updating Index Entries
  • AutoProof™
  • AutoCompletes™
  • PowerKeys™
  • Bookmarks
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      • Overview
      • Premier Features
        • Remote Editing
        • Cloud
        • Multi-Channel Audio Recording
      • License Usage and User Authentication
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    • Standard License
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      • License Usage and User Authentication
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    • Subscription
      • Overview
      • License Usage and User Authentication
      • MyProCAT.com