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Building your Personal and Professional Network
Leah Gallant, Director of Student Activities
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Jan/29 | Thu | 02:30PM-03:30PM | W20-307 /Mezz Lounge |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Join our co-presenters Director of Student Activities Leah Gallant and Professional Introvert Amma Marfo to learn more about building a personal and professional network that will add to your academic and professional experiences and open up all sorts of new opportunities to you!
Contact: Joel Pettigrew, W20-549, 617 253-5369, JOELP@MIT.EDU
Coolfarming - How to Create Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs)
Peter Gloor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This course consists of three parts, part I is the foundation for parts II and III, parts can be taken separately.
Day 1: I. Swarmcreativity - Introduction to Collaboration Science
Part I teaches the the basics of Swarmcreativity, the foundation of Collaborative Innovation Networks, and introduces the dynamic semantic social network analysis tool Condor.
Day 2: II. Coolhunting
Part II teaches how to apply dynamic semantic social network analysis and Condor to discover and predict emergent trends on the Web by mining Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Wikipedia and the Web. Coolhunting means finding new trends by finding the trendsetters before anybody else, by tapping into the collective intelligence on the Web, and interpreting it through dynamic semantic social network analysis.
Day 3: III. Virtual Mirroring & Coolfarming
Part III shows how you can develop new trends through self-organizing teams (Coolfarming) by nurturing COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks). It will also introduce "virtual mirroring", measuring six communication variables we have identified over the last 12 years to improve communication by continuously tracking and mirroring back individual, group and organizational interaction patterns.
This is a condensed version of a distributed course, which has been taught for the last 10 years at MIT, Aalto/Helsinki, U. Cologne, SCAD, IIT. (http://sites.google.com/site/coincourse2014/)
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Gloor, NE25-749, 617 253 7018, pgloor@mit.edu
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Jan/14 | Wed | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 4-231, bring your laptop |
The first part introduces the basics of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) - cyberteams of intrinsically motivated people who work together over the Internet to turn a crazy idea into a disruptive innovation that changes the world. It also introduces the basics of our dynamic semantic social network analysis tool Condor.
Peter Gloor
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Jan/15 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 4-231, bring your laptop |
The second part introduces Coolhunting, finding cool trends by finding the trendsetters. Using Condor, we automatically analyze Twitter, Blogs, Wikipedia, and Facebook to find the attributes of a trend, the most influential people talking about it, and measure its impact. We also look at what to do to promote these trends through viral marketing on the Web
Peter Gloor
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Jan/16 | Fri | 02:00PM-05:00PM | NE25-746, bring your laptop |
Coolfarming - virtual mirroring
In the final part we look at organizational and team-level networks by analyzing e-mail archives. Through five inter-personal interaction variables of honest communication: 'strong leadership', 'rotating leaders', 'balanced contribution', 'fast response', and 'honest sentiment' that Condor automatically identifies, we measure and optimze creative teams.
Peter Gloor
Designing Your Life
David Mindell, Gabriella Jordan
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
This course (formerly called "Living an Extraordinary Life") provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. This course addresses what it takes to succeed, and to be proud of your life and happy in it. You will tackle career satisfaction, money, your body, vices, your relationship to yourself. Address your own life and how you live it and learn from it. An inquisitive nature and willingness to face the truth are required.
Web: http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/311-span-classhighlightlivingspan-span-classhighlightanspan-span-classhighlightextraordinaryspan-lifemit
Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society
Contact: Diane Olsen, diane@handelgroup.com
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Jan/26 | Mon | 10:00AM-01:00PM | E51-315 |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 10:00AM-01:00PM | E51-315 |
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Jan/30 | Fri | 10:00AM-01:00PM | E51-315 |
David Mindell, Gabriella Jordan
Exercising Leadership & Using Authority: How to Lead Progress
Sinead O'Flanagan, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Michellana Jester, Director, Action Learning
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
This experiential course focuses on student inquiring into their ideas of leadership through critical examination of their willingness and capability to exercise leadership, as well as their relationship to roles of formal and informal authority. The course is designed to develop deep critical self-reflection about what behaviors we use, if or why we might make the choices we do, and how we can become most productive. Students will develop their capacity to lead in situations where they may have no formal leadership role or authority to act, such as when striving for progress in project teams or when seeking to initiate change in groups, businesses or communities. In addition to analysis and preparation of key case materials, the course will include a facilitated simulation challenge and debrief. The course will be held Tuesday, January 27 through Thursday, January 29, 2015, 8:30-4:00pm in E62-221.
Contact: Michellana Jester, E40-196L, 617 324-1359, MJESTER@MIT.EDU
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Jan/27 | Tue | 08:30AM-04:00PM | E62-221 |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 08:30AM-04:00PM | E62-221 |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 08:30AM-04:00PM | E62-221 |
Sinead O'Flanagan - Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Michellana Jester - Director, Action Learning
Fashion Smarts Workshop
Marianna Novellino, Graduate Student, Julia Somerdi, Graduate Student
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Are you exasperated by the process of finding a workable outfit for interviews? Figuring out what exactly 'business casual' means? What the best 'cocktail attire' is for your body type?
Would you like to know exactly how to find clothes that work with your figure, your personal style, and the different spheres in your life?
This workshop is designed for you! Our goal is to help women in STEM be smarter about style and gain confidence in their ability to take control of their wardrobes, without all the stress and worry. We are preparing this session for women interested in learning how to put together outfits that work for their different life styles, present and future, with guidance from fashion advisors and students in apparel design from top tier schools.
We will have sessions with our fashion advisor about the basics of fashion and tricks about working with 'realistic bodies' instead of what we most often see in the fashion 'industry'. Then we will give you the opportunity to put these guidelines into practice and become experts about fashion for yourselves. The students from design school will help us understand their theory for design and we will teach them how we, as end users, experience wearing their designs and how we could improve the fashion standards of design to be Smarter!
It will be difficult and challenging on many levels, but we hope you are ready and willing to become the first class of MIT Fashion Smarts!
Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies
Contact: Marianna Novellino, (857) 209-6808, MNOVELLI@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:30PM |
Introductions
Present workshop goals, objectives, and agenda
Q/A
Marianna Novellino - Graduate Student, Julia Somerdi - Graduate Student
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Jan/09 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM |
Closet Smarts, by Emily Neill
- Fashion that works for you and your body (not the other way around!)
- (The Skeletons in) Your closet - what to keep, what to toss, how to craft an outfit from what is there
- Fashion Versus Style - Developing personal style and the best possible version of you
Marianna Novellino - Graduate Student, Emily Neill - Women and Gender Studies
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Jan/15 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:30PM |
Review of assigments from Class 2
- Bring your style to class session
- What did you learn from your closet inventory?
- What would you change in your styles after this exercise?
Julia Somerdin - Graduate Student, Emily Neill - Women and Gender Studies
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Jan/16 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM |
Fashion - from conception to realization
- Presentation from fashion designer students
- Interactive session with class
- Comments about session and lessons learned
Marianna Novellino - Graduate Student, Julia Somerdin - Graduate Student
How to Run a Meeting
Ruth Levitsky, Coordinator for Speaking Clubs
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Jan/05 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | E51-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Join members of PowerTalk International Training in Communications to learn how to run a meeting.
The group will cover the before (planning your meeting effectively), the during (the nuts and bolts of getting business accomplished) and the after (preparing minutes that document what is to come)
This workshop is for all who have suffered through a badly organized meeting and/or are preparing to “be in the know” for the time when it’s their turn to plan and preside at a meeting.
Contact: Ruth Levitsky, E18-201C, 617 253-3399, LEVITSKY@MIT.EDU
Innovation Tournament
Kevin Cohen, Robert Atkins, Ken Gregson, Matt Cornick, Hamilton Shepard, Bob Galejs
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Do your innovative ideas get the attention they deserve? Would you like to become more innovative? In this interactive innovation tournament, we will collectively generate hundreds of new ideas to present, evaluate, refine, and ultimately transform into system concepts that solve relevant and challenging problems. We will discuss techniques and tools for brainstorming and concept development, including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Blue Team process, and provide mentoring, presentation skills training, and lectures in advanced technology across diverse fields. This is the perfect opportunity to practice innovation and hone your skills for future research, development, and entrepreneurship.
*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Kevin Cohen, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, cohen@ll.mit.edu
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Jan/20 | Tue | 08:00AM-12:00PM | NE45-202, Beaverworks Center |
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Jan/22 | Thu | 08:00AM-12:00PM | NE45-202, Beaverworks Center |
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Jan/27 | Tue | 08:00AM-05:00PM | NE45-202, Beaverworks Center |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 08:00AM-05:00PM | NE45-202, Beaverworks Center |
Kevin Cohen, Robert Atkins, Ken Gregson, Matt Cornick, Hamilton Shepard, Bob Galejs
Leadership through Storytelling: Using Stories to Lead and Manage Others
Michellana Jester, Director, Action Learning
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Jan/21 | Wed | 08:30AM-04:00PM | E62-221 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: None
Stories fuel our imagination and shape the way we organize information, remember information, interpret the events of our lives, communicate our thoughts, and connect through and with our feelings.
In this workshop, participants will analyze and model what makes a good story and apply the principles and techniques developed in the workshop to share their own stories. Video recording will be used to allow participants to note their strengths and areas for further development, as well as track their progress.
As a result of this workshop, participants will know how to better speak and listen in ways that demonstrate authenticity, build trust, and foster collaboration in their professional and personal lives. Participants will share experiences to enhance their understanding and respect for one another. The workshop will be held Wednesday, January 21 through Thursday, January 22, 9:00- 4:00pm.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Michellana Jester, E40-196L, 617 324-1359, MJESTER@MIT.EDU
Mentor the Class of 2019: Become an Orientation Leader and/or Associate Advisor!
Elizabeth Young, Associate Dean, Leslie Bottari, Staff Associate, Meghan Kenney, Assistant Dean
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Jan/22 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-149 |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-149 |
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Feb/04 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: freshmen, sophomores and juniors welcome
The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming offers two fantastic leadership opportunities for undergraduates—orientation leader (OL) and associate advisor (AA). Both positions play a key role in helping first year students make a successful transition to MIT. Hear from students in these positions speak about their roles and responsibilities, the opportunities to work with faculty and staff, and the leadership skills they gained that will help them in the future. UAAP representatives will be available to give an overview of the application process and important dates. Light refreshments will be served. Bring any and all questions!
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Meghan Kenney, 7-103, 617 253-9764, MKENNEY@MIT.EDU
Non-Violent Resistance: Gandhi's Satyagraha Approach to Social Change Activism
David Slesinger, MIT Alum
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Jan/06 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 34-302 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Learn about Mahatma Gandhi's approach to nonviolent civil disobedience, called "satyagraha", as a valuable and honorable approach to social change, including climate change. An MIT alum who has been arrested over thirty times will explain how most activists appeal mainly to their supporters, while Gandhi was concerned with the spiritual development of his adversaries.Those who aren't ready to be arrested or serve time in jail for your beliefs can still support those who are ready, as some of those could handle jail time if they had logistical support.
Arrange to get a copy of Gandhi’s jail writings: Email David Slesinger at dslesinger@alum.mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: David Slesinger, davidslesinger@yahoo.com
Speechcraft (Speech Communication)
Kitty Huang, Copywriter, screenwriter, journalist and teacher
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants are urged to attend all sessions, although it's not mandatory.
Speechcraft programs are short courses in public speaking that are offered by Toastmasters International for people not wishing to make the full commitment to join a Club.
How does this program work?
Class One: Introduction & Organize Your Thoughts
Objectives:Learn the skills to organize speech content. Arrange thoughts into a logical sequence that leads the audience to a clearly defined goal. Understand the practical use of speech communication and introduce the techniques in speech communications.
Class Two: Deliver Effective Presentations & First Speech
Objectives: Begin speaking before an audience. Benefit from evaluation to improve speaking skills. Start with self-introduction. Introduce a speaker effectively.
Class Three: Polish Communication Skills & Get to the Point
Objectives: Build a speech outline that includes opening, body, and conclusion. Select a speech topic and determine its general and specific purposes. Organize the speech in a manner that best achieves those purposes. Ensure the opening, body, and conclusion reinforces the purposes.
Class Four: Be an Influential Speaker & Your Body Speak
Objectives: Learn listening and speaking techniques. Use gestures and body movements as part of the speech delivery. Explore different ways to use body language. Develop a natural and smooth body movement.
*Participants who attend all sessions will receive a Toastmaster's certificate.
Sponsor(s): Toastmasters@MIT
Contact: Keesler Welch, E53-307, 617-324-7174, KEESLER@MIT.EDU
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Jan/07 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E51 - TBD |
Kitty Huang - Copywriter, screenwriter, journalist and teacher, Keesler Welch - Administration, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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Jan/14 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E51 - TBD |
Kitty Huang - Copywriter, screenwriter, journalist and teacher, Keesler Welch - Administration, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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Jan/21 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E51 - TBD |
Keesler Welch - Administration, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Kitty Huang - Copywriter, screenwriter, journalist and teacher
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Jan/28 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E51 - TBD |
Kitty Huang - Copywriter, screenwriter, journalist and teacher, Keesler Welch - Administration, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
The Optimally Dismal Laboratory
Dr John F. Carrier, Sloan School of Management
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Jan/29 | Thu | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 45 participants
Would you like to reduce your lab's output by 10%, 20%, or even as much as 50%?
Then Optimally Dismal Laboratory is a must attend event for you!
In this session, we provide an optimal approach for disrupting productivity, reducing safey, and dampening morale for your laboratory. We will explain the rationale behind these techniques through the systems and psychological studies of several notable MIT faculty, including Jay Forrester, John DC Little, Ed Schein, Douglas McGregor, and Kurt Lewin.
Finally, we will show some "best practices" from several MIT labs. Also, feel free to submit photos of your lab's best productivity-disrupting activities for inclusion in the talk.
Sign up today at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-dismally-optimal-laboratory-tickets-15015572983
Finally, we'll present our “30 minute recipe” for reducing your lab's productivy - so you can start seeing results today!
Common Questions
Q: I am worried about the impact on my colleagues' productivity.
A: No need to worry. It will reduce their productivity as well.
Q: Could these techniques be used in reverse to improve productivity, safety, and morale?
A: Yes, but that would require a modicum of consideration and self-discipline.
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering, Sloan School of Management, Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: John Carrier, jcarrier@adv-mfg-group.com
Using self-awareness profiles in professional development and career planning
Dr. Pejman Azarmina, Founder, Thinkocrats, Dr. Samira Kiani
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Jan/29 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | NE 47-189 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: Please complete Pyramid of Self-Awareness Scale available
Self-awareness is the starting point for an insightful journey toward self-actualization. In order to gain a better understanding of our key strengths and areas for improvement, we will look at 5 dimensions of our lives: personal values as a source of motivation and intention for our key decisions; thinking content and thinking process as the fuel and engine for our behaviors; modus operandi which in itself is divided into intellectual, moral, operational and social excellence and counter-excellence behaviors; and finally connection channels which show how we typically connect with other people and make impressions.
In this workshop, participants will learn to interpret their profiles and identify areas for personal growth and professional improvement. In addition, participants will evaluate their long term career plans in the
context of their personal values, thoughts, behavioral patterns and connection styles. The workshop is organized in a 4 hour interactive session consisting of presentations, case studies, small group discussions
and reflective time to create an outline for a personalized professional development plan and career strategy.
Prereq: Please complete the Pyramid of Self-Awareness Scale available on
http://thinkocrats.net/tools/psas/psas-for-individuals/. As an "optional"
activity, you may order a personalized summary report with your 5
profiles that will be emailed to you prior to the workshop.
Contact: Samira Kiani, NE47-285, 347 210-1753, SAMKIANI@MIT.EDU
YesPlus Intro: Mind, Body, Breath
Sam Nicaise, Blake Elias, Neha Saxena, YesPlus Instructor
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Jan/08 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-180 |
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Jan/12 | Mon | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-180 |
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Jan/15 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-180 |
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Jan/19 | Mon | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-180 |
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Jan/22 | Thu | 04:30PM-05:30PM | 56-180 |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-180 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Free introductory session for YesPlus workshop being held on January 22 - 26.
http://web.mit.edu/artofliving/www/Courses.html
Learn some simple breathing techniques, explore the mind-breath connection, meditate and get more info on the YesPlus workshop! Learn how the breath can affect the state of our mind, reduce stress, make us more productive and effective at working with others. Sample a few of the breathing techniques taught in YesPlus and enjoy some guided meditation!
RSVP here so we can get a headcount for some light snacks at the end!
Contact: Blake Elias, ELIASB@MIT.EDU
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