IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - MIT Human Resources

Megan Chester, Career Development Consultant

Jan/09

Tue

12:00PM-01:00PM

NE49-5145A, T-Lab, Bring your laptop or tablet

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Connecting Across MIT - Creating a LinkedIn Profile

A professional online presence can give you an advantage in a job search. This LinkedIn Profile workshop will show you how to create, refresh or update your profile to highlight your experience at MIT, your strengths and your accomplishments.  This workshop is for the novice LinkedIn user who wants to get started with profile basics and learn how to navigate the site.

Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Megan Chester, NE49-5000, 617-258-6476, mchester@mit.edu

Megan Chester, Career Development Consultant

Jan/17

Wed

12:00PM-01:00PM

NE49-5145A, T-Lab, Bring your laptop or tablet

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Connecting Across MIT - Networking Through LinkedIn

Connections with colleagues in departments, labs and centers can help you develop your career path at MIT.  This LinkedIn workshop will show you how to identify colleagues at MIT, effectively connect, communicate and build relationships that will lead to advice and new opportunities.  This workshop is for LinkedIn users who have a LinkedIn profile, some comfort navigating the site and who are looking for ways to better leverage LinkedIn to connect with MIT colleagues.

Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Megan Chester, NE49-000, 617-258-6476, mchester@mit.edu

Scott Rolph, Organization Development Consultant

Jan/16

Tue

01:00PM-04:00PM

NE49-5145, T-Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Exceptional Service

This interactive workshop will focus on ways to build and maintain relationships with customers, including administrators, faculty, colleagues and others with whom you work closely and strategies for providing exceptional customer service to your internal and external customers.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify their customers on campus and beyond
• Build and maintain relationships with customers, including administrators, faculty, colleagues, and others with whom they work closely
• Strategize ways to provide exceptional customer service to their internal and external customers

Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Elizabeth Hawley, NE49-5000, 617-253-0497, eahawley@mit.edu

Amanda Bennett, Manager, Talent Management

Feb/02

Fri

10:00AM-12:00PM

NE49-5145, L-Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Goal Setting

This interactive workshop will focus on the importance and distinction between performance and professional development goals; utilize templates that incorporate best practices for goal setting; and include time to practice writing your goals.

Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Elizabeth Hawley, NE49-5000, 617-253-0497, eahawley@mit.edu

Margaret Ann Gray, Senior Consultant, Leadership Programs, Dyan Madrey, Organization Development Consultant

Jan/31

Wed

09:00AM-04:00PM

NE49-5145, L-Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Managing With Situational Leadership® II

This course teaches a practical model for deciding how best to lead others and obtain results. It puts into perspective the ever-changing roles found in leadership, management, and supervision. This course matches clearly MIT's new emphasis on performance management.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• diagnose situations correctly to know when to direct, coach, support, or delegate
• identify and assess the effectiveness of their primary and secondary leadership styles
• communicate effectively with others about goals and performance
• get the right results from others

Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Elizabeth Hawley, NE49-5000, 617-253-0497, eahawley@mit.edu