Cluster: Enhancing Faculty & Staff Performance
Courses and programs in this learning cluster are designed to enhance individual performance and assist you in investing in your continued career, professional, and personal development. Topics are wide-ranging, such as: faculty development, time management, personal growth and development, workplace safety and environment, and ergonomics for the office.
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Accent Reduction and Pronunciation Class
RIT's English Language Center will again offer an Accent Reduction and Pronunciation class during Fall quarter. The course is designed for business and professional people whose native language is not English and who believe their native language may be interfering with their comprehensibility in English.
Cash Handling Safety Procedures
Do you handle cash in your position at RIT? This informative, 1 hour session will cover the basics of the cash handling procedure on the RIT Campus. It will include information on opening/closing procedures and other RIT policies.
Early Intervention Program
This session will outline the process for handling disruptive behavior situations. This session is required for all members of the RIT faculty and staff community.
Emotional Intelligence: Maximizing Productivity through Emotional Intelligence Methods
By learning and understanding emotions and their impact on building relationships, you can expect your productivity to increase up to 75%. This 3 hour workshop will introduce participants to several of the emotional intelligence methods used for improving productivity.
Ergonomics for Productivity and Comfort
Effective ergonomic design of workstations can contribute greatly to individual productivity, performance, and comfort. In this workshop you will receive tips on how to cost effectively adjust your workstation to allow you to work more comfortably and safely. Each participant will receive a brochure with tips to use on their own work area.
Faculty Development
At RIT, real teaching and learning is complex and ever changing! Whether you are an experienced faculty member who is dedicated to continuous learning and remaining vital and effective or new to RIT and searching for ideas and strategies to help students learn, the Teaching & Learning Center’s website was created with you in mind!
Fraud in the Workplace
Occupational fraud can be found in any workplace. Whether an organization is a non-profit entity such as a university or a large for-profit corporation, fraud has occurred and continues to occur. This seminar will provide you with the knowledge to prevent fraud from occurring in your area of responsibility.
Internal Controls Training
This course will discuss the importance of, components of, and the responsibility for establishing and maintaining internal controls. Various examples of what can happen when controls are non-existent or broken will be shared throughout the session.
Introduction to Development and Corporate Philanthropy
This session introduces participants to the Development Office and helps to increase understanding of how to best work with the development staff to raise gifts for your college, department or the university.
Managing Workplace Negativity
Do you feel comfortable dealing with negativity? Would you like to learn how to manage it in your workplace?
Managing Your Time and Priorities at RIT
OSHA Training
RIT has been recently designated a U.S. Department of Labor OSHA Training Institute education center for Region 2, serving New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These hands-on programs are designed to promote safety in the workplace and reduce the cost to society associated with accidents and unhealthy work environments.
Playing it Safer at the Front Desk
Unexpected events that impede our safety and security can happen at any time. It is important for all of us, and especially those of us positioned at the front desk of our departments to learn, understand and practice crime prevention strategies in the office environment to ensure the continued safety of ourselves, our students, our peers and our work environment. Join the Public Safety department for this one hour session focusing on handling red flag situations with confidence and authority.
Principal Investigator Institute
The Principal Investigator Institute is a series of information sessions on topics of concern to researchers and principal investigators, including proposal development, project management and compliance with regulations. The series is designed to give new and experienced investigators a better understanding of the multiple issues involved in sponsored research.
Professional Development for RIT Advisors
The Center for Professional Development and the RIT Advisors Council have collaborated to offer an exciting series of professional development workshops for faculty and staff with advising roles and/or interest. These workshops will offer interactive opportunities to learn more about our students and RIT services to better support our advisees. All workshops will be facilitated by RIT professionals with expertise in the workshop topics.
Enrollment in the sessions in this series is open to RIT faculty and staff who have advising roles and responsibilities.
Providing Excellent Customer Service
This informative 3 hour workshop will introduce several key tools and skills for providing excellent customer service.
RCRA Hazardous Waste and OSHA Hazard Communication Training
This training is required for any RIT employee who generates or handles hazardous waste and for any manager who supervises employees generating or handling hazardous waste. Hazardous waste can include any material that is going to be discarded that is ignitable, corrosive, reactive or toxic or that poses some other health or physical hazard.
RIT Accounting Practices, Procedures, and Protocol
Accounting Practices, Procedures, and Protocol is a series of 2 hour workshops designed for those individuals at RIT who are responsible for financial transactions and/or developing and maintaining department, college, or division budgets.
RIT's Building Respect in the Workplace
RIT is committed to building an environment in which all people are treated with respect and dignity at all times. Through role plays, group activity and discussion learn more about the importance of respect and effective communication in the workplace.
RIT's Communication Station: Learn to Tune In before Others Tune Out
This 5-part series details all aspects of communication.
Student Employment 101
Do you hire or plan to hire student employees? With the help of the Student Employment Office, this seminar is dedicated to enhance the student employee hiring process for anyone who hires student employees.
Supervising Students at RIT
Do you employ students in your department? Learn more about our students and your responsibilities as their supervisor.
The Sponsored Programs Accounting & Regulatory Certification (SPARC) Training Track II
This series of courses is specifically designed for department administrators and other staff who provide direct post award fiscal and administrative support of sponsored projects to the Principal Investigators.
What is Alumni Relations and Why Should you Care?
Come and explore the vision of Alumni Relations!
Toastmasters
Want to learn how to manage a department or business? Lead, delegate, motivate, persuade? Conduct a meeting, speak more effectively, with confidence? Improve your communication and presentation skills? Improve your impromptu speaking? Hit the ground running as you graduate from school or prepare for your next job interview? Then Toastmasters is for you!
