{"id":50394,"date":"2019-11-04T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=50394"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:28:49","slug":"%ef%bb%bfmdc-connecting-western-kansas-businesses-with-meet-and-greet-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=50394","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffMDC connecting western Kansas businesses with meet-and-greet events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an effort to connect western Kansas businesses, the Management Development Center at Fort Hays State University is hosting four meet-and-greet events in October and November. <br><br> The MDC, funded in part by the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, Logan, is taking its training professionals on the road to various communities in western Kansas for a series of meet and greet events. They are designed to promote local economic prosperity, connect Dane G. Hansen territories and showcase the various training opportunities the MDC has to offer. <br><br> The MDC\u2019s mission is to help businesses develop employees and businesses in western Kansas, particularly in the 26-county Dane G. Hansen service area. <br><br> \u201cIt\u2019s our goal to help businesses and communities prosper,\u201d said Sabrina William, MDC director. <br><br> \u201cOne great way to do that is by training employees and helping businesses keep up on industry trends,\u201d she said. \u201cWe love traveling to various communities with our trainers. These four meet-and-greet events are our way of introducing ourselves and connecting with businesses across western Kansas.\u201d \u00a0 <br><br> The events were created, in partnership with FHSU\u2019s tourism and hospitality events class, as come-and-go social events with opportunities to meet university faculty and business professionals who can help small businesses with affordable training. <br><br> A variety of FHSU trainers will be available, including experts in Microsoft Excel, customer service, supervisory skills, and marketing. <br><br> A meet-and-greet is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Atwood at MOJO Espresso &amp; Bistro, 113 S. Fourth St. <br><br> In Hoxie, the event will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at The Elephant Bistro &amp; Bar, 732 Main St. <br><br> The Hays event will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at The Venue, 2704 Vine. <br><br> The first MDC meet-and-greet was in Russell on Oct. 29. <br><br> For other information, contact Sabrina William, 785-628-4124 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS In an effort to connect western Kansas businesses, the Management Development Center at Fort Hays State University is hosting four meet-and-greet events&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50395,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50394\/revisions\/50395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}