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Workshops
It is the mission of SIGUCCS to foster professional development for those in higher education IT services. At each of the yearly conferences, opportunities are provided that help fulfill this mission. We would like to personally invite you to attend one of the Pre-Conference Workshops that are scheduled for the Fall SIGUCCS conference. We have some interesting sessions on a variety of topics. The goal is for the professional development workshops to give you new skills or ignite old ones.
The workshops are held on Sunday, October 11, 2009 and we have both morning and afternoon sessions. There is an additional fee and you can register for workshops at the same time you complete your conference registration. Please see the list below for the workshops that will be offered this year. The workshops are learner-centered and will take into consideration your needs on a particular topic and try to include them in the design of the workshop. We also try to make the workshops activity-based so that you are able to engage with the material presented. Overall, it can be an exciting and rewarding session and a great way to start off the SIGUCCS conference!
If you have questions about any of the workshops, please email Karen McRitchie, the Workshop/Tutorial Chair, at mcritchi@grinnell.edu.
Morning Sessions
Morning sessions will run from approximately 8:30am-12:00pm
Leadership - Creating a Better You, a Better Workplace, and a
Better World!
Led by Nancy Bauer
This interactive workshop will provide participants with an overview of the various leadership styles with a focus on service-focused leadership. The participants will perform a self-inventory of their leadership practices. The results of which will allow us to review and participate in activities to enrich your leadership ability. You will learn how to become a better leader in all areas of your life, extending beyond the professional workplace. Some communication theory and techniques will also be discussed. The objectives for this workshop are:
- To understand the difference between leadership and management.
- To be conscious of diverse leadership approaches by discussion of relevant leadership theory.
- To build confidence in leadership abilities by providing skill-set training.
- To understand the service-focused leadership experience.
Afternoon Sessions
Afternoon sessions will run from approximately 1:00pm-4:30pm
Smart Teams—Creating Teams that Succeed Together
Led by Jason Young, one of this year's Keynote speakers
Team work. Team building. Team player. Successful organizations know that business is not really a game to be won or lost. But to achieve success, everyone must use many of the same principles found on our playing fields today. In this presentation, Jason Young goes beyond the buzzwords to expose the keys that help people work together as a team to achieve real success. By developing goals, your team will create shared initiatives out of trust and mutual respect for one another. That active collaboration will lead to employee empowerment and organization momentum. You’ll discover how your All Stars can raise the bar within your organization without alienating your other players while creating an environment that rewards risk taking. From base hits to home runs, everyone plays their part to attain victory.
Leverage Emotional Intelligence to Redirect Negative Behavior
Led by Judy Ryan, President of Expanding Human Potential
Would you like to gain new tools to help you cope with poor behavior from adults and children? Come and learn a unique skill that could change your life dramatically! What do you do when people act and speak in ways that annoy and irritate you? Anger and provoke you? Shock and hurt you? Create worry, pity and burden in you? Or, make you feel inadequate, less than or put down? Are you looking for a way to gain cooperation with adults and children at work and at home? Would you like to understand how you can effect change without diminishing yourself or others? Would you like to know of effective alternatives to harshness or permissiveness when facing poor behavior? The principles and new practices you will learn in this 3-hour program apply to adults, children, relatives, co-workers, even strangers.
Tech Talk: Tools and Techniques for Cross-Functional Problem
Management
Led by Alex Kaltsas
A discussion of techniques for bridging knowledge across management and staff with different functional expertise. An overview of tools available to facilitate knowledge and processes to empower Information Technology staff and management to effectively capture and share their unique functional expertise. In modern organizations we often find tasks, projects, and problems which require groups of people with different functional skills to work together. These people and skill sets can "clash", especially with outdated management practices organizational compositions. Successful use of cross functional teams requires new skills, knowledge, and procedures.
After this workshop you will be able to:
- Successfully facilitate cross-functional issues, problems, and differences
- Create and distribute knowledge in a format that all applicable users
can follow
- Build and motivate effective teams and project groups that are efficient and high performance levels
About the Workshop Facilitators
Nancy J. Bauer
Nancy Bauer joined the faculty of Ross University in June, 2009 as Director of Instructional Technology. Prior to this position, she had served over 20 years at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as Client Services Manager and Project Manager of the Digital Resource Center. While at Rose, Nancy also served as a team leader in Rose-Hulman’s inaugural Leadership Academy which won the President’s Excellence in Service Award in 2009. She received her Master’s Degree in Educational Technology in 2005 from Indiana State University. Nancy has served on the Board of Directors at several community organizations and has been a member of Rotary International, which is an international service club organization. At Ross, Nancy is currently collaborating with faculty and students to incorporate technology enhanced software into the learning environment. As a leader, her philosophy is to maintain strong relationships with all members of the community, provide exceptional customer service, and create an atmosphere of open communication and respect. All team members should know that their input is important and valuable.
Judy Ryan
Judy Ryan speaks from experience. She is the owner of Expanding Human Potential (EHP), a full-service training and consulting firm she founded in 2002. Judy and her dedicated team have completed more than 80 projects and are committed to working with clients who share their values and invest in developing their most precious resource; people. Judy is a corporate trainer, consultant, mentor and coach. Her background in Adlerian psychology, systems development and process engineering laid the groundwork for her research and development of human systems technology and creation of a framework for how people can more positively and effectively think, speak, act and feel. Judy is also a public speaker and writer with a regular column in the St. Louis and St. Charles Women’s Journals on topics of emotional intelligence. Under her leadership, Expanding Human Potential was awarded the 2007 Vanguard Award for Innovation that Strengthens and Improves Lives from the St. Louis Mental Health Board.
Jason Young
Jason Young is one of this year's keynote speakers. You can read his bio by clicking here.
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