Title of Classes: Technology Transfer Course -Taking Innovation to Market
Sponsor: Frederick Community College ( FCC )
Dates: 1/28/2009 - 5/13/2009
Time: 7:45 p.m. - 10:20 p.m.
Location: Frederick Community College
POC: For more information on attending, please contact Dr. Bob Young, Associate Vice President of Learning at 301-846-2618 or ryoung@frederick.edu
Audience: Open to EVERYONE (whether or not they are employed by the NCI-Frederick, DOD, DHS, NIAID, etc….).
Description: Enables teams of students to successfully complete the facets of technology transfer. Explores the phases of technology transfer to include identifying, assessing, marketing, and determining licensing opportunities of innovations. Examines technology overviews prepared by participating research labs and students select one invention to take through the technology transfer cycle. For more information on FCC, please visit their website at http://www.frederick.edu/

Title of Classes: Improving Spoken English
Sponsor: NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education ( OITE )
Dates: 5/14/2009 - 5/14/2009
Time: 9:00-11:00am
Location: Building 549/Executive Board Room
POC: If you have any questions, please email Julie Gold (goldje@mail.nih.gov).
Audience: Everyone
Description: Designed for non-native, English speaking scientists, this session offers tricks and helpful hints on improving spoken English. The seminar offers tips on diction and pronunciation of scientific words. After the seminar, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up for additional practice. Scott Morgan, who has been teaching science communication at NIH for over 12 years, will present the workshop. Please click here to register: http://preview.tinyurl.com/OITE-2009-05-14

Title of Classes: Effective Oral Presentations
Dates: 5/19/2009 - 5/26/2009
Time: 9:00 am - noon
Location: Conference Room, Building 426
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Anyone who wants to improve public speaking skills
Description: Learn to present with confidence, poise and conviction by attending this interactive and informative course. This two half day course will focus on basic yet important strategies such as audience analysis and setting presentation parameters; developing and organizing presentation content; preparing in advance to reduce stress and speaker anxiety; learning the purpose of visual aids and support materials and handling questions from the audience professionally. By making actual presentations and incorporating key strategies and solutions, participants will learn the art of communicating clearly and presenting effectively.

Title of Classes: Learning to Listen
Dates: 6/18/2009 - 6/18/2009
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Training Room, Building 426
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: Learning to Listen is an assessment tool that measures listening skills. Statistics show that people remember only half of what they hear. Focusing on concrete behaviors, not preferences, allows us to immediately take action on our listening strengths and weaknesses. As participants, you will determine your effectiveness as a listener in three dimensions; explore the visible and invisible aspects of listening and how they affect interaction and discover practical ways to improve your listening performance.

Title of Classes: Presenting Science the Write Way: Strategies for Scientific Publications
Dates: 5/11/2009 - 5/15/2009
Time: 9:00 a.m - noon (must attend all 3 days)
Location: Conference Room, Bldg 426
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: You have notebooks filled with data, figures, charts, graphs, and tables chock-full of paper information. What do you do with it all? How do you get it into presentable form? If publishing seems overwhelming, this is just the course for you! In this course, you will learn how to work with collaborators; divide responsibilities for writing the paper; select the best data for the paper; aim your writing to fit the parts of the scientific presentation ( poster or paper) ; prepare the manuscript for journal submission; handle reviewer comments, and; revise the paper. This course is specially designed for post-docs and fellows with relatively limited publishing experience. This is a three half-day program and all sessions must be attended to recieve a completion certificate.

Title of Classes: Why Diets Don't Work
Dates: 6/2/2009 - 6/2/2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Conference Room B, Bldg 549
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: Weight management is a popular topic in today’s society. Society bombards us with advertisements, images and information related to trim physiques and tempts us to indulge in “easyâ€� weight loss products. As experts have shown, strategies to effective weight management are simple. However, these strategies often prove elusive as evidenced by the constant emphasis on dieting in American culture. This seminar will assist participants in learning to avoid ineffective approaches and implement healthful strategies for effective eight management and lifestyle change.

Title of Classes: Working with the Millennial Generation: Managing Young Employees
Dates: 5/19/2009 - 5/19/2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Conference Room B, Bldg 549
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 45% of American teens are employed each year, more than in any other developed country. The majority of these teens have limited or no work experience, creating a unique level of stress for their managers. While both supervisors and employees may possess good work habits, a disconnect between these two groups can cause difficulty in the workplace. Spending time training young workers at the start of the job and on expectations helps instill them later on. This seminar will discuss the aspects of working with the Millennial Generation and techniques that supervisors can utilize in managing young employees.

Title of Classes: Conflict Management
Dates: 6/24/2009 - 6/24/2009
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Conference B, Bldg 549
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: Conflict is a universal part of human interactions. When individuals come together in teams, their personal differences in values and attitudes can often contribute to conflict. Conflict and opposing points of view are part of the workplace and of life; you can’t change that. But you can surely change the way you react and manage conflict when it occurs. This workshop will help you identify your preferred conflict handling style; gain insight into the five different modes of handling conflict effectively; see the role of communication in conflict and provide you a forum to discuss the key steps to handling conflict constructively.

Title of Classes: Overcoming Burnout
Dates: 5/20/2009 - 5/20/2009
Time: 10.00 a.m. - nonn
Location: Conference Room B, Bldg 549
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: This session will help participants explore the causes of burnout, along with several strategies designed to help individuals increase life satisfaction, improve effectiveness and productivity and will also cover methods on how to keep one motivated and focused..

Title of Classes: Providing Exceptional Customer Service
Dates: 6/2/2009 - 6/2/2009
Time: 9.00 a.m. - noon
Location: Conference Room, Bldg 426
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to SAIC-F employees only
Description: "Fundamentally, it is the treatment of the customer that separates an excellent company from a mediocre one." Exceptional customer service doesn’t happen by chance, but by paying attention to all of the small details that make up our daily interactions. This program will heighten your awareness of the many customers you deal with, both internal and external, and provide you with practical knowledge and skills to make your interactions successful. While we can’t please everyone all the time, we can certainly find ways to recover from failure. This program will give you an appreciation for complaints and equip you with tools to respond in a manner that ensures customer satisfaction.

Title of Classes: Quality Management
Dates: 6/9/2009 - 6/9/2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. - noon
Location: Conference Room B, Bldg 549
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open only to SAIC-F employees
Description: Understanding customer requirements, effective planning and use of resources are keys to providing quality products and services. This program details the principles behind a quality management system and will provide participants with an understanding of the underlying processes that are at work when an organization is focused on providing customers with quality products and services. Participants of this session will also learn about ways to continually improve processes so as to meet customer expectations.

Title of Classes: Train the Trainer for Instructor -Led Training
Dates: 6/8/2009 - 6/8/2009
Time: 9: 00 a.m. - noon
Location: Comference Room, Bldg 426
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: This course provides an introduction to the critical elements of successful presentation-based (instructor-led) training, and the role of a qualified trainer in all aspects of implementation from design to maintenance. It focuses on basic adult learning theory; elements of workforce diversity;; components of technical training configuration, including content selection and presentation configuration; delivery, including establishing and maintaining an appropriate learning environment and evaluation of the presentation. This course is suitable for anyone conducting training for more than one person at a time. Participants must attend both parts to receive a completion certificate.

Title of Classes: Train the Trainer for Instructor -Led Training
Dates: 6/22/2009 - 6/22/2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. - noon
Location: Conference Room, Bldg 426
POC: Sukanya Bora
Audience: Open to all
Description: This course provides an introduction to the critical elements of successful presentation-based (instructor-led) training, and the role of a qualified trainer in all aspects of implementation from design to maintenance. It focuses on basic adult learning theory; elements of workforce diversity;; components of technical training configuration, including content selection and presentation configuration; delivery, including establishing and maintaining an appropriate learning environment and evaluation of the presentation. This course is suitable for anyone conducting training for more than one person at a time. Participants must attend both parts to receive a completion certificate.