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Advocacy 101: How to Influence Your Government
Katie Shulenberger, Chair of GSC External Affairs Board
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Title IX… Net-neutrality... Travel Bans…
Does the current political climate leave you feeling powerless? Learn how to make change through the GSC’s External Affairs Board (EAB) advocacy workshop!
The External Affairs Board has extensive experience advocating on behalf of graduate students on both state and federal levels. The Board also organized the GSC’s response to the recent tax reform bill and worked with the administration and local Cambridge government on graduate housing.
This three-workshop course will give you the basic skills to effectively advocate for your opinions at the federal, state, and local levels.
Workshop 1 on Jan 17, 6-8pm: Overview of legislative structure and procedure. You will be supplied with resources to contact your representatives and track issues and policies that impact you. We will review approaches the MIT GSC has taken to advocacy.
Workshop 2 on Jan 24, 6-8pm: Preparing materials for meetings or calls with political offices, and what to expect during a meeting.
Workshop 3 on Jan 31, 6-8pm: Advice from a panel of policy-makers and staff.
Participants of all three course will have the chance to apply what they’ve learned with the EAB at a Massachusetts Statehouse or Washington DC visit later this semester.
If you’re interested, please indicate which workshops you’ll be coming to by filling out this RSVP Form: https://goo.gl/forms/gjvJHsPlfcc55ZT12
Contact: Skylar Deckoff-Jones, 13-4153, (505) 795-4382, sdeckoff@mit.edu
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Jan/17 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 50-220 |
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Jan/24 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 50-220 |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 50-220 |
Bridging the Bi-Partisan Divide: A Hands-On Workshop Towards Depolarization
Patricia Weinmann, MIT Radius, Danny Becker, MIT PKG Center, Kate Mytty, MIT Center for Real Estate
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Jan/31 | Thu | 05:00PM-08:30PM | 66-160 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31
[RSVP here.]
Research and personal experience show that polarization is increasing in the United States. The great challenge is to encourage people to move from a passive, accepting mode - one that can escalate conflict - to a constructive, mediated dialogue model.
We think it requires a lot of people working within their communities to address this reality and work to strengthen connectors between and across communities.
This IAP we invite you to join us for a hands-on workshop on depolarization, where together we will learn and explore:
This is a three-part evening. You can join for all of it or choose the part to join.
Sponsored by MIT Radius, the PKG Center, The Commons. and The Move.
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So we can prepare the dinner reservations, please RSVP here.
Contact: Katherine Mytty, 617 715-5474, KMYTTY@MIT.EDU
CERT: Campus Emergency Response Team
Andrea Finnin, Security Specialist
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/28
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Join the team!
MIT’s Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) is comprised of members of the MIT community trained in basic emergency response and preparedness. This IAP, members of the community have the opportunity to join this valuable cohort by signing up for CERT training. The main mission of this program is to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people during campus emergencies.
MIT hopes to build a network of CERT trained individuals with a presence in all main campus buildings. In the event of an emergency, this network of people could help manage the event on location until disaster responders arrive, or assist in evacuating the building if necessary. To accomplish this MIT needs to build a capable team. The Emergency Management Office is excited to offer the opportunity for any member of the MIT community to receive full CERT training during IAP and become a member of this important network.
The training, developed by FEMA, takes 20 hours to complete and is split into eight units, each with duration of 2.5 hours. At the conclusion of the training, participants will be FEMA-certified CERT members, able to work alongside any of the thousands of CERT teams in the United States.
Training topics include:
Sponsor(s): Emergency Management
Contact: Andrea Finnin, E17-106, 617 715-2469, ANDREAF@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Addresses hazards specific to the campus. Materials cover actions that participants and their families take before, during and after a disaster as well as an overview of CERT and local laws governing volunteers.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/10 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Covers fire chemistry, hazardous materials, fire hazards and fire suppression strategies. PLEASE NOTE: MIT's policy is to not fight fires, but proper use of fire extinguishers will be covered.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/15 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Participants practice diagnosing and treating airway obstruction, bleeding and shock by using simple triage and rapid treatment techniques.
David Barber - Senior Emergency Management Specialist, Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Covers evaluating patients by doing a head to toe assessment, establishing a medical treatment area and performing basic first aid.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist, David Barber - Senior Emergency Management Specialist
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Jan/22 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Hands-on training covering basic first aid, CPR, and AED use.
David Barber - Senior Emergency Management Specialist, Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/24 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
In Light Search and Rescue participants learn about search and rescue planning, size-up, search techniques, rescue techniques and rescuer safety.
CERT Organizaion addresses CERT organization and management.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/29 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Disaster Psychology covers signs and symptoms that might be experienced by the disaster victim and workers. Terrorism is defined and content covered are potential targets, eight signs of terrorism, CERT operations during a terrorist event, and actions to take following a suspected terrorist incident.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Participants review and practice the skills that they have learned during the previous six sessions in a disaster activity.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
(CANCELED) Design Lab: You
Jenny Jin, MIT Alum, and Senior Product Manager at PayJoy, Cat Tu
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
This IAP 1-week workshop introduces human-center design thinking and tools (employed by Google and IDEO) and applies them to the most important product of our lives: ourselves. We're all experts on ourselves, yet designing for our own lives has never felt straightforward - why? What are our default patterns of perceptions and behaviors, and how can we redesign them from the ground up to best serve our goals? These are the types of questions you'll tackle through hands-on practice, discussion, and reflection with a community of fellow students and facilitators. You'll learn the methodology of human center design - mindsets, needfinding, inspiration, ideation, rapid prototyping, tracking - and experiment and apply it to solve the problems and needs of a very specific user of one (you!).
Enrollment: Limited to 10 participants; Advance sign-up required; Preference towards freshmen and sophomores. Grad students and other MIT community members are encouraged to express interest but will not be able to take this course.
Contact Jenny Jin (jennycataj@alum.mit.edu) or Cat Tu (cathy2tu@gmail.com) if you have any questions.
Sponsor(s): Edgerton Center
Contact: Jenny Jin, jennycataj@alum.mit.edu
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| Jan/15 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-410 |
| Jan/16 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-410 |
| Jan/18 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-410 |
Jenny Jin - MIT Alum, and Senior Product Manager at PayJoy, Cat Tu
Developing Leadership in Yourself and Others
David Niño, Senior Lecturer, GEL-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 35 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Graduate Status
Join us for this workshop series designed for MIT graduate students interested in “making a positive difference” in their chosen fields. Grounded in research but experiential and engaging in delivery, these workshops will build practical skills that apply to engineering and technology environments.
This series is offered through the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program in collaboration with GradSage, the Graduate Student Council and Graduate Women@MIT. Students are welcome to attend some or all of these workshops.
Limited to 35 participants
To Register: Email Lisa Stagnone (lstag@mit.edu)
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Graduate Student Council
Contact: Lisa Stagnone, lstag@mit.edu
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Jan/14 | Mon | 12:30PM-04:30PM | TBA |
How do you turn a smart group of people into a committed and effective team? This is not easy
to achieve and our workshop will help you learn to build real teams, right from the start. Vice
Chancellor Ian Waitz will join for part of this session.
Attendees will learn to:
Compose and launch new project teams.
Manage decision making processes to avoid hidden biases.
Formulate and communicate a compelling team vision.
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Jan/22 | Tue | 12:30PM-04:30PM | TBD |
The heart of leadership is the ability to inspire people without relying on authority. Only one in ten practicing managers are skilled in motivating others. Learn to engage and develop people to deliver their best work.
You'll be able to
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Jan/28 | Mon | 12:30PM-04:30PM | TBD |
Discover your leadership strengths and invent career pathways for putting them to work. We will be joined by John Strackhouse, who advises some of todays top leaders in technology.
Attendees will learn to:
Discover your distinctive professional strengths.
Identify work environments that can bring out your best.
Explore strategies for securing jobs that align with your life aspirations.
Developing Leadership in Yourself and Others
David Nino
Enrollment: Email Lisa Stagnone (lstag@mit.edu)
Limited to 35 participants
Attendance: Participants are encouraged to attend the entire series
Join us for this workshop series designed for MIT graduate students interested in “making a positive difference” in their chosen fields. Grounded in research but experiential and engaging in delivery, these workshops will build practical skills for future engineers and technology professionals.
This series is offered through the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program in collaboration with a group of leading graduate engineering students. Graduate MIT students are encouraged to attend the entire series and those doing so will receive a special recognition.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Prog
Contact: David Nino, dnino@mit.edu
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Jan/14 | Mon | 12:30PM-04:30PM | 36-156 |
How do you turn a smart group of people into a committed and effective team? This is not easy to achieve and our workshop will help you learn to build real teams, right from the start.
Attendees will learn to:
David Nino
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Jan/15 | Tue | 12:30PM-03:30PM | 36-156 |
Grad engineers are expected to have technical mastery of their chosen fields, but are they prepared with the professional and leadership skills to put the expertise to work?
Attend this town hall session alongside alumni and MIT representatives to critically examine MIT's leadership development for grad engineers. Attendees have a chance to provide feedback on upcoming leadership programming in the School of Engineering.
David Nino
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Jan/22 | Tue | 12:30PM-04:30PM | 36-156 |
At the heart of leadership lies the ability to inspire people without relying on authority. The goal of this workshop is to build practical skills for motivating and developing others.
Attendees will learn to:
David Nino
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Jan/24 | Thu | 12:30PM-04:30PM | 36-156 |
In a safe and open environment, conflict can serve an essential role in building collective capacity for creativity, innovation, and group learning. Learn how conflict can achieve these constructive outcomes.
Attendees will learn to:
David Nino
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Jan/28 | Mon | 12:30PM-04:30PM | 36-156 |
In this final session, you'll learn how to discover your leadership strengths and invent career pathways for putting them to work. We'll be joined by John Strackhouse, who advises some of todays top leaders in technology.
Attendees will learn to:
David Nino
Facilitation Workshop
Sofia Leung
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Jan/29 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 14E-310 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Interested in practicing your facilitating skills, whether facilitating a classroom discussion or a meeting among colleagues? Join to learn more about the role of a good facilitator and best practices for facilitation, and actually practice facilitating a short discussion! Please register so we know how many people to expect.
Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4892044
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Sofia Leung, sofial@mit.edu
Healthcare vs. Health: Can Systems Thinking Change the Game?
John F. Carrier, System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan, Dr Susan Abookire, Assistant Professor, Havard Medical School
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Jan/29 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:30PM | E51-151 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 45 participants
Prereq: Pre-read and survey - see link listed above
At 17% of GDP and climbing, the US has the world's most expensive healthcare system, yet the resuts are similar to countries with half the spend.
Despite universal recognition of the problem, and numerous efforts to improve it by skilled and well-meaning professionals, the system has stubbornly and successfully resisted every change effort.
Why?
The healthcare system is an organically evolved, complex socio-technological system made up of many stakeholders (doctors, nurses, hospital administration, IT, insurnace companies, government) before one even get to thinking about the patient. Therefore, we will need to think differently if we expect to realize different results.
MIT has a 60 year history in thinking differently about systems - and we will explore the fundamental principles of Systems Thinking that can make - or break - your efforts to improve our healthcare system, whether you are a medical professional, aspiring business leader, or a startup entrepreneur.
We guarantee that after this course, you will not see our healthcare system in the same way again!
To attend, please click here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-iap-healthcare-vs-health-can-systems-thinking-change-the-game-tickets-54939413264
Use Password: MIT
For more information about the course, plus pre-reads and survey, please visit:
https://jfcarrie.mit.edu/mit-iap-systematic-healthcare
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management, Health Sciences
Contact: John Carrier, 617-939-4396, JFCARRIE@MIT.EDU
Lab Leadership 1: The Optimally Dismal Laboratory
Dr John F. Carrier, Sloan School of Management
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Jan/31 | Thu | 03:30PM-04:30PM | 66-110 (to confirm) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 60 participants
Is your lab productivity below the sum of its parts? Is your laboratory suffering from fatigue despite the stimulating nature of your research topic? Do some of your graduate students appear "lost" in this system?
Is your laboratory environment siphoning off 10-25% of your laboratory's most precious resource - time - but you can't quite put your finger on it? Then this session is for you.
The secret is in understanding the following formula:
A Good Lab = A Great Lab + Defects
In this session, you and your team will learn how optimize your laboratory's ability to:
Only by optimizing your lab to deliver its worst performance will you be able to "see" the daily defects that gradually wear out the laboratory and reduce its total impact your team could have on behalf of MIT.
This approach is founded upon over 60 years of MIT Sloan research , including Total Quality Management (Feigenbaum), Lean Operations (Krafcik), System Dynamics (Forrester), Culture (Schein), and Little's Law.
You'll leave with 12 month playbook on how to turn around your lab by IAP 2020. In addition, the worst three labs will receive a complimentary visit from Dr. Defect himself.
Can you see into your laboratory's refrigerator and "see" when the paper in Science will come out? Dr. Defect can!
Who should attend?
For more info:
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering, Sloan School of Management, Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: John Carrier, JFCARRIE@MIT.EDU
LeaderShape 2019
Joseph A. Granado, M.S., Associate Director of Student Activities and Leadership
Enrollment: Registration required
Sign-up by 01/02
Limited to 60 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: N/A
LeaderShape has been a program provided to MIT students for almost 30 years! This FREE 4-day/3-night PREMIER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM occurs during IAP from January 13th-16th in Sharon, MA and is open to current UNDERGRAD and GRAD students.
This FREE program helps students develop their personal leadership identity via discussions, simulations, and activities facilitated by high-profile MIT faculty and Staff. Each participant is grouped with peers across the Institute to learn and enhance their leadership skill set during the 4 day experience. During this program you will create a VISION and develop skills to bring that vision to fruition. Have you ever heard of Kahn Academy? That vision started at LeaderShape!
Applications are being accepted now and are due January 2nd. Please apply via this link.
If you have any questions, please contact Joseph Granado, Associate Director of Student Activities and Leadership at jgranado@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Student Activities Office
Contact: Joseph Granado, W20-500, 617 253-7605, JGRANADO@MIT.EDU
Leadership Presence and Storytelling
Rob Salafia, MIT Leadership Center Exec. Coach & Pres. of Protagonist
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Jan/29 | Tue | 08:30AM-05:00PM | E62-221 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 30 participants
How do you show up as a leader? Can you open others up to your ideas? Are your messages sticky and memorable?
Leadership Presence and Storytelling helps you become a powerful communicator who commands respect and builds credibility with employees, colleagues and clients. This workshop will give you a first-hand practice with techniques that will help you:
Rob Salafia is an MIT Leadership Center Executive Coach and President of Protagonist Consulting Group.
Interested? Apply here
Sponsor(s): MIT Leadership Center
Contact: Abby Berenson, E52-234, 617 324-3794, BERENSON@MIT.EDU
Leading in a Socially Inclusive World - A Faith Perspective
J. Letty Garcia, Associate Director, Leadership Initiative at HBS, Jose J. Pacheco, CoDirector, MEng in Advanced Manufacturing and Design, Father Cristian Mendoza Ovando, Assoc. Prof., Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome
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Jan/16 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:30PM | 1-134 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Prereq: None
Leading in a Socially Inclusive World (IAP) is a one-day, six-hour workshop offering a simple framework to help students reflect about their calling and vocation as leaders, to enhance their personal engagement and responsibility to tangibly combat social and economic exclusion.
Students will engage in a high-level conversation about the challenges of leadership in a socially inclusive world and begin the developing a ‘thinking and doing’ agenda for their year. The workshop requires personal curiosity and reflection from students as well as personal openness and sharing in class discussions.
Pre-readings:
There are two pre-readings in preparation for the workshop:
Although inspired by the concept of Catholic Social Thought, the workshop is designed so the content is sufficiently self-contained and participants from any or no religious tradition are warmly welcomed.
Register at https://goo.gl/forms/F47cszI2bF8Gc5Yk1
Registered participants will receive an email with links to pre-reading materials and pre-work.
This activity is co-sponsored with the Tech Catholic Community.
Contact: Jose Pacheco, 617 252-1490, JPACHECO@MIT.EDU
Learning Leadership Skills Through Film, Books, and History
Andrew Silver, Retired Professor of film, MIT Alum, Chris Boebel, Media Development Director, MIT Open Learning
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 6 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: interview - email asilver@asilverproduction.com
Using selected films and books to illustrate a spectrum of leadership skills and styles, the participants will observe and discuss the essence of leadership in action with invited leaders and experts. Three sessions will focus on three separate works, and the leadership themes and questions each evokes.
Sponsor(s): Office of Open Learning
Contact: Chris Boebel, NE49-2ND FLOOR, cboebel@mit.edu
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Feb/01 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Location TBD |
Fat Man & Little Boy, starring Paul Newman, about the top secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb during World War II. Clashing leadership styles, ethical leadership, Leadership on complex scientific and engineering projects.
Andrew Silver - Retired Professor of film, MIT Alum, Chris Boebel - Media Development Director, MIT Open Learning
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Feb/01 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | Location TBD |
Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks. Leadership in crisis, improvisation, personal qualities of leadership, grace under pressure.
Andrew Silver - Retired Professor of film, MIT Alum, Chris Boebel - Media Development Director, MIT Open Learning
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Feb/01 | Fri | 06:00PM-08:00PM | Location TBD |
Selections from Leadership: In Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Transformational leadership. Turnaround leadership, Vision.
Andrew Silver - Retired Professor of film, MIT Alum, Chris Boebel - Media Development Director, MIT Open Learning
Mentor the Class of 2023: Become an Orientation Leader and/or Associate Advisor!
Chelsea Truesdell, Assistant Dean, Office of the First Year, Leslie Bottari, Staff Associate, Office of the First Year
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Jan/28 | Mon | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: current first years, sophomores, and juniors welcome
The Office of the First Year offers two fantastic leadership opportunities for undergraduate students — 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 currently in these positions speak about their roles and position responsibilities, the opportunities to work with faculty and staff, and the leadership skills they gained that will help them in the future. Office of the First Year 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 the First Year
Contact: Chelsea Truesdell, 7-103, 617 253-9764, CTRUESDE@MIT.EDU
MIT VMS Boot Camp: Crash Course in Enterprise B2B Sales for Startups
Haley Tidd, VMS Operations Manager, Kent Summers, MIT VMS Mentor
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Feb/01 | Fri | 08:45AM-04:00PM | TBA, Break from 12-1 PM |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31
Limited to 110 participants
Prereq: None
In its 8th year, this popular IAP workshop on “B2B sales” is consistently received by attendees with enthusiasm. Highlighting practical knowledge of "how to sell," the session provides entrepreneurs starting a new venture and business school graduates entering a new profession with basic tools for sales success: how to target enterprise sales opportunities, manage a sales process, acquire customers and generate revenue. Attendees gain basic knowledge and confidence to support better sales decisions.
The workshop includes two 3-hour sessions, combining lecture, interactive exercises, and anecdotal evidence from real sales situations. The morning focuses on basic concepts, tools and mechanics for sales focus and efficiency. The afternoon covers more “qualitative” aspects of selling, with emphasis on how to navigate an organization, overcome bias, build buyer team consensus, and negotiate to close deals. Attendees will troubleshoot “failed sales” and recommend corrective action or behavior.
Kent Summers has been offering the Sales Boot Camp in collaboration with VMS since 2008. He regularly presents sales workshops at the MIT Sloan School, the Harvard MBA program and the Wharton School of Business. Summers founded and sold three software companies in the Boston area, and since 2002, has helped many new MIT companies navigate critical sales challenges. His success with early-stage ventures and enterprise sales is uniquely suited to the needs of start-ups and scale-up ventures.
Sponsor(s): MIT Venture Mentoring Service
Contact: Haley Tidd, W31-310, 617 258-0720, HTIDD@MIT.EDU
Offshore Sailing Shore School
Scott Dynes, Bluewater Skipper, Ryan Conway, Bluewater Skipper
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: An interest in sailing
You know that MIT has a fabulous river sailing program, but did you also know that MIT also has an offshore sailing program, where you can sail around Boston Harbor, to P-town, along the Maine coast, and even to Halifax, Nova Scotia?
The purpose of this IAP course is to show you that sailing large, offshore boats differs from dinghy sailing only in degree: the boat and sails are bigger, you can stay out longer (days!), and you don’t have to come back to the dock at night. We are offering 8 sessions that will cover the fundamental and practical aspects of large boat sailing, with the goal of making everyone feel equipped with the knowledge to feel comfortable sailing along the coast. The classes will cover keelboats, weather, navigation (including celestial navigation), safety at sea, racing, and chartering a boat in the Caribbean.
No prior knowledge of keelboats or sailing is required (though the latter is very helpful); just an interest in learning about sailing in the salt water.
Contact: Scott Dynes, 37-438N, 781 472-9005, SBCDYNES@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:30PM | 66-144 |
In this session, we will discuss the Bluewater program, our classic boat Mashnee, what types of sails & trips we offer, and how you can get involved as crew. No big boat sailing experience is needed, but an understainding of sailing vocabulary will be helpful.
Ryan Conway - Bluewater Skipper
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Jan/10 | Thu | 06:30PM-08:30PM | 66-144 |
In this session, we will discuss how exploring sailing options outside of MIT. Whether you would like to own your own boat, charter in exotic places, looking to venture offshore, or to build upon the skills you have learned here at MIT, this session will provide options for taking your sailing to the next level.
Ryan Conway - Bluewater Skipper
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Jan/15 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:30PM | 66-144 |
Racing is a very fun and very effective way to learn how to sail well; you are on a boat with expert sailors who are helping you to sail the boat. In this session we will introduce sailboat racing and cover a broad range of topics that will enable you to have fun while racing keelboats.
Adam Traina - Bluewater Skipper
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Jan/17 | Thu | 06:30PM-08:30PM | 66-144 |
Where are you? How will you get to your destination safely? In this course we will cover the basics of coastal navigation, including how to read nautical charts, identification of navigation aids, proper compass use and the rules for safe navigation.
Theodric Young - Bluewater Skipper
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Jan/22 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:30PM | 66-144 |
In part two of this introduction to coastal navigation, we will further discuss skills for safe navigation, including understanding of tides and currents, the navigation rules, as well as techniques for using electronic devices such as depth sounders, GPS, and RADAR.
Theodric Young - Bluewater Skipper
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Jan/25 | Fri | 06:30PM-08:30PM | 66-144 |
You've probably heard `Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in morning, sailors take warning', but did you ever wonder why that is so? In this session we will cover many aspects of weather as it related to sailing, including:
Eric Brown - Bluewater Skipper
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Jan/29 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:30PM | 66-144 |
This interactive two-hour session will review key concepts you learned during the course with a focus on practical ways to keep yourself and crewmates safe,so you can focus on cruising, racing or just having fun afloat. We'll cover:
Arne Gelb - Bluewater Skipper
Sharpening Human Skills for the Future of Work: The Coaching Approach to Leadership
Meg Regan, Director, Executive Programs, Leadership Coach, Kristin Zecca, Director, Executive Programs, Leadership Coach
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Jan/31 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:15PM | TBD |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 40 participants
As AI and robotics are increasingly leveraged in our work, the demand for leaders who have mastered uniquely human skills that cannot be replicated by machines will continue to grow. Leaders of the future will need to excel in interpersonal communication to foster collaboration and cultivate leadership at all levels.
During this session you will gain an understanding of the coaching approach and its relevance to leadership effectiveness. You will engage in awareness building activities and be exposed to coaching through demonstration and practice. By participating in the session, you will gain an understanding of the potential for impact with a coaching approach, which will help you:
Apply here before Jan 25, 2019.
Meg Regan, Dir. for Executive Education at MIT Sloan & Executive Coach. Meg is responsible for directing transformational custom engagements for high-profile clients. She also facilitates sessions focused on the application of coaching principles and techniques in various contexts.
Kristin Zecca, a Dir. of Executive Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education & Executive Coach. Kristin designs and facilitates programs focused on building organizational capacity and leadership capabilities for senior leaders.
Sponsor(s): MIT Leadership Center
Contact: Abby Berenson, E52-234, 617 324-3794, BERENSON@MIT.EDU
The Improviser's Mindset
Mona Thompson, Carmelo Presicce
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Jan/10 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | Media Lab - E15-341 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 40 participants
In this interactive 3-hour session, you'll explore a series of low-pressure improv exercises to build your muscles of curiosity, generosity, resilience, and storytelling. This class is designed for students with and without any theater or improv experience. People who are a little nervous about improv but curious to check it out are encouraged to sign up!
The class is taught by Mona Thompson, who has performed improv internationally and all over the U.S. and leads improv-based sessions for tech companies, nonprofits, government organizations, and startups with her company, Collective Capital. She is currently pursuing her master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Arts in Education.
Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/nKDZtMkb8xlP3Tcq1
Edit: Sorry, the workshop reached full capacity and we are not able to accept more signups.
Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Carmelo Presicce, E14-445C, tarmelop@media.mit.edu
Your career journey: Navigating before you know the destination
Melissa Webster, Lecturer, Sloan, Erik Vogan, Program Director, Corporate Relations
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Strongly recommended to attend all sessions.
Prereq: 5+ years employment (post docs welcome)
This workshop will teach the practice of career experimentation. It is intended to help alumni, graduate students, and post docs address key questions as they consider or manage career transitions, namely how to move to your next challenge when you don’t know the destination. Focusing on practical implementation, we will leverage the experience of the instructors and participants, while integrating methodology from entrepreneurial strategy, design thinking, product development, marketing, agile methodology, and Action Learning. We will provide participants the framework and first steps needed to approach career transitions as learning processes. A significant fraction of the time will be spent in small groups working through exercises – students should be prepared to share their pains, passions, goals, fears and experiences, and should expect to leave the workshop with a plan of action.
To register, please use this link:
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Melissa Webster, E52-252, (207) 653-8585, melster@mit.edu
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Jan/15 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E62-233 |
Introduction to career experimentation practice, including framework and examples. Will synthesize background material to prepare participants for the workshop sessions.
Melissa Webster - Lecturer, Sloan, Erik Vogan - Program Director, Corporate Relations
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Jan/22 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E62-233 |
Workshop: Design thinking and entrepreneurial approaches to defining your career options and mapping your exploration areas.
Melissa Webster - Lecturer, Sloan, Erik Vogan - Program Director, Corporate Relations
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Jan/29 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E62-233 |
Workshop: Define your upcoming career experiments and plan how to shift, expand or evolve your professional community.
Melissa Webster - Lecturer, Sloan, Erik Vogan - Program Director, Corporate Relations
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Jan/31 | Thu | 06:30PM-08:30PM | E62-233 |
Make-up date in the event any other session is cancelled.
Melissa Webster - Lecturer, Sloan, Erik Vogan - Program Director, Corporate Relations
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