Classes/Training/Workshops offered by NCI- Frederick, SAIC-Frederick and Fort Detrick
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BMGT 496 Business Ethics (3)
Title of Classes: BMGT 496 Business Ethics (3)
Sponsor: University of Maryland University College (UMUC) www.umuc.edu
Dates: 1/26/2010 (Tuesday) - 3/11/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30:00 PM - 9:30:00 PM
Location: Bldg 1520, Fort Detrick's Training and Education Building
Contact Name: Cindy Seiden
Phone: 301-738-6090
Email: cseiden@umuc.edu
Audience: Open to EVERYONE (non-government and government)
Description: A study of the relationship of business ethics and social responsibility
in both domestic and global settings. Ethical and moral considerations of corporate conduct, social responsibilities, policies, and strategies are explored. Emphasis is on the definition,
scope, application, and analysis of ethical values as they relate to issues of public consequence in the context of the functional areas of business at both the domestic and global levels.
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IFSM 300 Information Systems in Organizations (3)
Title of Classes: IFSM 300 Information Systems in Organizations (3)
Sponsor: University of Maryland University College (UMUC) www.umuc.edu
Dates: 3/23/2010 (Tuesday) - 5/6/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30:00 PM - 9:30:00 PM
Location: Bldg 1520, Fort Detrick's Training and Education Building
Contact Name: Cindy Seiden
Phone: 301-738-6090
Email: cseiden@umuc.edu
Audience: Open to EVERYONE (non-government and government)
Description: (Course activities require access to Microsoft Office Professional.) Prerequisite: IFSM 201 and basic knowledge of office productivity software. An overview of information systems and how they provide value in organizations by supporting organizational (or business) objectives. Discussion covers human aspects of computing, types of computer systems, and general theory of systems and their relationship to the overall organization.
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NCI |
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for registration and additional details, contact Julie Hartman at hartmanjb@mail.nih.gov |
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OITE Sponsored Workshops |
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Working and Playing Well with Others: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Understand Yourself and Those around You
Title of Classes: Working and Playing Well with Others: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Understand Yourself and Those around You
Sponsor: NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
Dates: 3/24/2010 (Wednesday) - 3/24/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 11:00:00 AM - 2:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 Auditorium
Contact Name: Julie Hartman
Phone:
Email: hartmanjb@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Everyone
Description: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely used personality assessment in the world for understanding individual differences and uncovering new ways to work and interact with others. Once we understand how we relate to others, ourselves, and the world around us, we can learn how to work with others who view the world through a different lens. This three-hour session uses the MBTI to help participants understand their own and others' styles in order to enhance individual and team performance at work, develop leadership skills, and reduce workplace conflict through improved interactions.
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Goal Setting
Title of Classes: Goal Setting
Sponsor: NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
Dates: 4/29/2010 (Thursday) - 4/29/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 9:30:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Auditorium
Contact Name: Julie Hartman
Phone:
Email: hartmanjb@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Everyone
Description: Speaker: Lori Conlan, PhD, OITE Office of Postdoctoral Services
Learn how to establish personal, professional, and career goals with consideration for your current career status, previous experiences, and future aspirations. Topics include work and life balance, short-term vs. long-term goals, and Individual Development Plans (IDPs).
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Interacting with People from the U.S.
Title of Classes: Interacting with People from the U.S.
Sponsor: NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
Dates: 5/11/2010 (Tuesday) - 5/11/2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 11:00:00 AM - 2:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 Auditorium
Contact Name: Julie Hartman
Phone:
Email: hartmanjb@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Everyone
Description: Speaker: Julie Gold, Leadership and Professional Development Coach, OITE
Are you trying to understand how U.S. friends, colleagues, and interviewers expect you to behave? This seminar will offer tips on interacting with people from the U.S. in common work and social situations. There will be an opportunity for open discussion as well, so bring your specific questions about things in U.S. culture that you’ve found confusing or strange.
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Basic Science Writing
Title of Classes: Basic Science Writing
Sponsor: NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
Dates: 6/4/2010 (Friday) - 6/25/2010 (Friday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 1:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 426 Conf. Rm
Contact Name: Julie Hartman
Phone:
Email: hartmanjb@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Everyone
Description: Speaker: Marguerite Meitzler
June 4, 11, 18, 25
All scientists know the importance of developing great writing skills. This 4-week course is for any trainee interested in improving his/her writing skills. Designed to be helpful to both native and non-native English speakers, this examples-based course will focus on topics such as grammar and sentence structure, punctuation, writing coherent sentences and paragraphs, and reworking for clarity and brevity.
Each session of the class is limited to 35 participants. In addition to in-class writing practice using short exercises, students will be members of in-class review groups giving feedback to their colleagues. The instructor will provide individual in-class writing guidance and review and analyze weekly writing assignments, providing written feedback. Students interested in taking this class must commit to 8 to 10 hours per week to writing/editing outside of the classroom. Attendance and active participation at all 4 course sessions is required.
All participants must purchase a copy of CliffsQuickReview Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style by Jean Eggenschwiler and Emily Dodson Biggs, Wiley Publishing. The cost of this book is about $10.
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Writing and Publishing a Scientific Paper
Title of Classes: Writing and Publishing a Scientific Paper
Sponsor: NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
Dates: 6/4/2010 (Friday) - 6/25/2010 (Friday)
Time: 2:00:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 426 Conf. Rm
Contact Name: Julie Hartman
Phone:
Email: hartmanjb@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Everyone
Description: Speaker: Marguerite Meitzler
June 4, 11, 18, 25
This 4-week course is for postdocs and graduate students who, by the start of the class, will have sufficient data to publish a scientific paper. Course sessions focus on writing abstracts, discussions, and other manuscript sections, construction of figures and tables, and understanding the publication process.
Each session of the class is limited to 35 participants. Students will be members of in-class review groups giving feedback to their colleagues. The instructor will provide individual in-class writing guidance. She will also review weekly writing assignments and provide written feedback. Students interested in taking this class must commit to 8-10 hours per week to writing/editing outside of the classroom. Attendance and active participation at all 4 course sessions is required.
All participants must purchase a copy of Successful Scientific Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences by Janice Matthews and Robert Matthews, Cambridge University Press (2007). The list price of this book is $34.99.
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SAIC-Frederick Inc. |
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for registration and additional details, contact Sukanya Bora at boras@mail.nih.gov |
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Communication Series * |
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The Art of Active Listening
Title of Classes: The Art of Active Listening
Dates: 2/11/2010 (Thursday) - 2/11/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm A
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
Description: Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on your job effectiveness, and on the quality of your relationships with others.
The way to become a better listener is to practice “active listening”. This is where you make a conscious effort to hear not only the words that another person is saying but, more importantly, to try and understand the total message being sent. This session will cover the key elements of active listening, practical strategies to strengthen communication, workplace productivity an relationships
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Presenting Science the 'Write' Way: Strategies for Scientific Publication
Title of Classes: Presenting Science the 'Write' Way: Strategies for Scientific Publication
Dates: 2/22/2010 (Monday) - 2/22/2010 (Monday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 426 Conf. Rm
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: This course is specially designed for post-docs and fellows with relatively limited publishing experience. Must attaned all 3 sessions to earn a completion certificate.
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.
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Presenting Science the 'Write' Way: Strategies for Scientific Publication
Title of Classes: Presenting Science the 'Write' Way: Strategies for Scientific Publication
Dates: 2/24/2010 (Wednesday) - 2/24/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 427 Conf Room
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: This course is specially designed for post-docs and fellows with relatively limited publishing experience.Must attend all 3 sessions to earn a completing certificate.
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.
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Presenting Science the 'Write' Way: Strategies for Scientific Publication
Title of Classes: Presenting Science the 'Write' Way: Strategies for Scientific Publication
Dates: 2/26/2010 (Friday) - 2/26/2010 (Friday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 427 Conf Room
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: This course is specially designed for post-docs and fellows with relatively limited publishing experience.
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.
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Effective Oral Presentations
Title of Classes: Effective Oral Presentations
Dates: 3/4/2010 (Thursday) - 3/4/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
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.
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Effective Oral Presentations
Title of Classes: Effective Oral Presentations
Dates: 3/11/2010 (Thursday) - 3/11/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
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.
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What's My Communication Style?
Title of Classes: What's My Communication Style?
Dates: 4/13/2010 (Tuesday) - 4/13/2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
Description: If you want to bring about meaningful improvements in communication skills, the best way to begin is to build a better understanding of personal communication styles and their effects on others. What’s My Communication Style is a proven training assessment that identifies an individual’s preferred style—Direct, Spirited, Considerate, or Systematic—and the communication behaviors that distinguish it.
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Effective Writing Series (Brown Bag Sessions) |
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Courses by Business Health Services (BHS) * |
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Building a Respectful Workplace: Managing Conflict to Promote Respect
Title of Classes: Building a Respectful Workplace: Managing Conflict to Promote Respect
Dates: 2/17/2010 (Wednesday) - 2/17/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
Description: This seminar offers an expanded view of conflict management and diversity to explore the many differences between people and ways of promoting respect within a diverse workforce. Personality, work style, race, age and gender are just a few of the ways people differ from one another. When differences are not encouraged and accepted, conflict situations arise, interfering with a respectful workplace. With diverse differences, we have both the opportunity for misunderstandings yet also the opportunity for increasing respectful interaction leading to success. This seminar offers tangible ways to promote a respectful workplace through addressing conflict.
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Supervisory Toolkit: Skills Necessary to Manage, Teach and Lead
Title of Classes: Supervisory Toolkit: Skills Necessary to Manage, Teach and Lead
Dates: 3/3/2010 (Wednesday) - 3/3/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
Description: Supervising employees is one of the most challenging and rewarding positions in a company. Unfortunately, many new supervisors are not properly prepared with the skills necessary to be successful. This seminar is an overview or refresher of key skills that are necessary for any supervisor.
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Working with the Millenial Generation - Managing Young Employees
Title of Classes: Working with the Millenial Generation - Managing Young Employees
Dates: 3/17/2010 (Wednesday) - 3/17/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm A
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
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 confidence and may reduce the amount of time spent managing 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.
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Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle: How to Make the Most of your Life
Title of Classes: Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle: How to Make the Most of your Life
Dates: 3/31/2010 (Wednesday) - 3/31/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
Description: A healthy lifestyle requires balancing many interrelated factors, not merely consuming an apple a day. When this balance is achieved, body, mind and spirit all work in harmony and function at optimal levels. This can be difficult because the elements of a healthy lifestyle are diverse and distinct. This seminar will review the primary factors for balanced health, while encouraging individuals to review what is healthy and unhealthy within their own lives to promote lifestyle change
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Coping With Difficult People
Title of Classes: Coping With Difficult People
Dates: 4/7/2010 (Wednesday) - 4/7/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
Description: People who seem impossible to work with can make any job difficult, in addition to affecting productivity, efficiency and peace of mind. Some people are more difficult to interact with than others and many elements, such as personality, environment, and mood factor into these interactions. The focus of this seminar is to examine categories of difficult people, determine characteristics that make people difficult, and identify basic coping skills and methods to assist in interacting with those who are considered difficult.
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Time Management - Craete More Time in Your Life for the Things that Matter Most
Title of Classes: Time Management - Craete More Time in Your Life for the Things that Matter Most
Dates: 4/21/2010 (Wednesday) - 4/21/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
Description: In today’s hectic, fast paced world, effective time management is an essential skill needed to handle the countless daily tasks in our lives. Many of us believe that we manage our time efficiently yet are unaware of simple, helpful techniques that could improve our routines. This seminar offers new ways of understanding the concept of time, introduces diverse strategies for making the most of your time, discusses the value of planning and assists participants with improving daily routines.
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Positive Assertiveness: Implementing Respectful, Direct and Honest Communication with others
Title of Classes: Positive Assertiveness: Implementing Respectful, Direct and Honest Communication with others
Dates: 4/28/2010 (Wednesday) - 4/28/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
Description: Many of us misunderstand what it means to be assertive and interpret it as a style that is hostile and aggressive. In actuality, assertive people use direct, honest communication to convey opinions and requests while simultaneously respecting the feelings of others. As people understand assertiveness as a natural style that promotes respectful interaction with others, successful communication will increase. This training outlines the differences in communication styles and highlights strategies which encourage increased assertiveness in day to day interactions.
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Coping with Stress at Work-Employees
Title of Classes: Coping with Stress at Work-Employees
Dates: 5/5/2010 (Wednesday) - 5/5/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm A
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick
Description: Unhealthy levels of stress, both at work and at home, have become more common in today’s fast paced world. Heightened levels of stress often lead to frustration, burnout and negative health consequences, particularly for people who encounter high levels of stress in the workplace. To maintain optimal health and working potential, it is essential that employees can recognize stress in the workplace, understand the warning signs and health risks of work-place stress, prevent unhealthy stress from developing and identify lasting solutions for a healthy lifestyle.
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Managing Conflict Constructively
Title of Classes: Managing Conflict Constructively
Dates: 2/24/2010 (Wednesday) - 2/24/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
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.
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Colleague-to-Colleague: Bringing Out the Best in All of Us Through
Title of Classes: Colleague-to-Colleague: Bringing Out the Best in All of Us Through
Dates: 3/10/2010 (Wednesday) - 3/10/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 8:30:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
Description: We all want to do our best job possible in all of our responsibilities but are not equally skilled in all areas. So why not harness our collective expertise by utilizing constructive feedback? Constructive feedback is a tool to provide valuable input among colleagues with the goal of improvement. This highly interactive workshop discusses the philosophy, skills and challenges of giving and receiving constructive feedback and provides opportunities to practice the full skill set required for optimal use of this valuable tool.
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Emotional Intelligence At Work
Title of Classes: Emotional Intelligence At Work
Dates: 3/12/2010 (Friday) - 3/12/2010 (Friday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
Description: Our emotions can bring us joy and happiness, but also pain and frustration if we don’t manage them well. This important presentation discusses the steps necessary to building and maintaining a balanced emotional life at work to achieve greater
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Train the Trainer for Instructor-Led Training (Part 1)
Title of Classes: Train the Trainer for Instructor-Led Training (Part 1)
Dates: 4/7/2010 (Wednesday) - 4/7/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
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.
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The Four Keys to Handling Pressure
Title of Classes: The Four Keys to Handling Pressure
Dates: 4/9/2010 (Friday) - 4/9/2010 (Friday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
Description: The challenges of 21st century life place constant personnel and professional demands on individuals trying to succeed in the workplace. This practical seminar will empower employees to better manage their perceptions of what confronts them, develop healthier self-talk, avoid over-reacting to situations, and reduce self-defeating behaviors.
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Train the Trainer for Instructor-Led Training (Part II)
Title of Classes: Train the Trainer for Instructor-Led Training (Part II)
Dates: 4/14/2010 (Wednesday) - 4/14/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 NCI Cafe
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
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.
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Creative Problem Solving
Title of Classes: Creative Problem Solving
Dates: 5/4/2010 (Tuesday) - 5/4/2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 1:30:00 AM - 4:30:00 AM
Location: Bldg 426, Training Room
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
Description: Learn to generate ideas through the creative problem solving technique of brainstorming in a group setting. An overview of the method and conceptual rules will be presented. Emphasis will be on applying these concepts through group exercises. The group will be presented with a problem and encouraged to generate and identify suitable solutions for it.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees
Title of Classes: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees
Dates: 5/14/2010 (Friday) - 5/14/2010 (Friday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Sukanya Bora
Phone: 301-846-1129
Email: boras@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all government and contractor employees at NCI-Frederick and Fort Detrick.
Description: Successful employees share many common traits such as integrity, a positive attitude, good interpersonal skills, and a strong work ethic. This dynamic presentation will provide an overview of these and other characteristics important to career success, and outline several strategies for integrating these traits into our own lives.
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NCI-Frederick Scientific Library |
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for registration and additional details, contact Marci Brandenburg at brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov |
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NIH Webcast/Videocast Courses |
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Principles of Clinical Pharmacology
Title of Classes: Principles of Clinical Pharmacology
Dates: 9/3/2009 (Thursday) - 4/22/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30:00 PM - 7:45:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone:
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to EVERYONE (whether or not they are employed by the NCI-Frederick, DOD, DHS, NIAID, etc.).
Description: The program covers much of what researchers need to know about
the clinical pharmacologic aspects of drug development and use, including
pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism and transport, assessment of drug effects,
drug therapy in special populations, and drug discovery and development.
Certificates of participation will be awarded at the end of the course to all
students who attend at least 75 percent of the lectures. For more information, go to http://www-library.ncifcrf.gov/nihcourses.aspx#pcp.
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Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research
Title of Classes: Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research
Dates: 10/19/2009 (Monday) - 3/9/2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:00:00 PM - 6:30:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone:
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to EVERYONE (whether or not they are employed by the NCI-Frederick, DOD, DHS, NIAID, etc.).
Description: The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) course trains researchers in how to design a successful clinical trial by focusing on epidemiologic methods, study design, protocol preparation, patient monitoring, quality assurance and FDA issues. Other areas covered include data management and ethical issues, including protection of human subjects. For more information, go to http://www-library.ncifcrf.gov/nihcourses.aspx#ippcr.
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Current Topics in Genome Analysis
Title of Classes: Current Topics in Genome Analysis
Dates: 1/12/2010 (Tuesday) - 3/23/2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to EVERYONE (whether or not they are employed by the NCI-Frederick, DOD, DHS, NIAID, etc.).
Description: The intelligent use of sequence data from human and other organisms, along with technological innovations fostered by the Human Genome Project, will lead to significant advances in our understanding of diseases that have a genetic basis and, more importantly, in how health care is delivered in the future. This series consists of 11 lectures on successive Tuesdays, with a mixture of local and outside speakers covering the major areas of genomics.
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Mouse Genome Informatics
Title of Classes: Mouse Genome Informatics
Dates: 2/16/2010 (Tuesday) - 2/16/2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:00:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: MGI is the international database resource for the laboratory mouse, providing integrated genetic, genomic, and biological data to facilitate the study of human health and disease.
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PubChem
Title of Classes: PubChem
Dates: 2/18/2010 (Thursday) - 2/18/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: The databases of PubChem allow you to search through millions of small molecules and their known activities among thousands of high throughput assays provided. In this class you will learn how to search the databases of PubChem, and how to visualize the data in ways that may be meaningful to you in your search for a new drug or probe.
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Cytoscape
Title of Classes: Cytoscape
Dates: 2/24/2010 (Wednesday) - 2/24/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: This training provides an introduction to Cytoscape, an open source software platform for visualizing and analyzing biological networks and pathways. The session will introduce several plugins and focus on certain features of the core software. Some of the plugins discussed are: 1. MiMI Plugin, a plugin that pulls interaction networks and attributes from MiMI (Michigan Molecular Interactions Database) 2. BINGO, a plugin that determines which Gene Ontology (GO) categories are overrepresented or underrepresented in a set of genes in a biological network 3. Agilent Literature Search, which provides an interactive platform for mining text.
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Introduction to EndNote
Title of Classes: Introduction to EndNote
Dates: 3/4/2010 (Thursday) - 3/4/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: This class offers a basic introduction to EndNote. EndNote is a bibliographic management software program that allows users to organize and manipulate citations, and prepare bibliographies for publications. This class covers entering, sorting, and manipulating citations in a library, and generating bibliographies through word processing programs. NOTE: This class does NOT teach the importing of citations from computerized database searches.
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Intermediate EndNote
Title of Classes: Intermediate EndNote
Dates: 3/11/2010 (Thursday) - 3/11/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: This class offers additional training in EndNote. In this class students learn how to import citations saved from computerized database searches, and how to use connection files to search web-based databases directly from EndNote. Manipulation of styles and filters is also discussed. NOTE: Participants should have a basic knowledge of EndNote.
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Overview of Several Bioinformatics Resources
Title of Classes: Overview of Several Bioinformatics Resources
Dates: 3/24/2010 (Wednesday) - 3/24/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: This class is designed to give you a brief overview of several free, web-based bioinformatics resources. Some of the resources covered in this session are: 1. GO (Gene Ontology) - provides a vocabulary to consistently annotate genes and gene products 2. KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) Pathway - contains molecular interaction and reaction networks and pathway maps 3. NCBI Biosystems - connects biosystem records with associated literature, along with molecular and chemical data 4. Metab2MeSH/Gene2MeSH - annotates biological substances (Metab2MeSH) or genes (Gene2MeSH) with concepts defined in MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). This class is not meant to go into great detail about these resources, but instead to briefly introduce you to them and the information they can provide.
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DAVID Bioinformatics Resources
Title of Classes: DAVID Bioinformatics Resources
Dates: 4/7/2010 (Wednesday) - 4/7/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: DAVID, the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery, is a web-based bioinformatics resource developed by the Laboratory of Immunopathogenesis and Bioinformatics here at NCI-Frederick. DAVID provides a comprehensive set of functional annotation tools for investigators to understand biological meaning behind large lists of genes.
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More to Google than a Quick Search
Title of Classes: More to Google than a Quick Search
Dates: 4/20/2010 (Tuesday) - 4/20/2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: This class is designed to explore Google services beyond the basic search. It goes over constructing more complicated and advanced searches in Google, in addition to the use of Google as a reference tool (ex. Calculator). It also discusses Google Scholar, Google Book Search, Google Reader, and more.
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Who is Citing You?
Title of Classes: Who is Citing You?
Dates: 5/13/2010 (Thursday) - 5/13/2010 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM
Location: Bldg 549, Scientific Library's Technology Training Lab
Contact Name: Marci Brandenburg
Phone: 301-846-5846
Email: brandenburgm@mail.nih.gov
Audience: Open to all Government and Contractor employees at NCI-Frederick
Description: This class provides instruction on finding out who is citing an author's published articles. Focusing on Web of Science and Scopus, this class will go over the search process used to determine how many times an article has been cited and who has cited that article. Included will be tips and tricks to getting accurate information about who is citing you or an author of your choosing.
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