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 is website was created with you in mind!
Lunch 'n' Learn Workshops
These drop-in workshops present strategies for academic success. You can attend just one, or attend them all.
Managing Workplace Negativity
Do you feel comfortable dealing with negativity? Would you like to learn how to manage it in your workplace?
Oracle R12 Advanced Financial Applications Upgrade Overview
This session will demonstrate the new Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI),new functionality for Account Analysis drilldown and exporting, and how to create Request Sets for reporting.
Oracle R12 Financial Applications Upgrade Overview
Our Oracle Applications system will be upgraded this spring. This session will provide an overview of the upgrade.
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.
Providing Excellent Customer Service
This informative 3- hr 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 two-hour workshops designed for those individuals at RIT who are responsible for financial transactions and/or developing and maintaining department, college, or division budgets.
Sponsored Project Activity Reporting with RAPID
If you report on sponsored project information, come learn about the RIT Awards & Proposals Information Database!
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.
The Principal Investigators Institute: A Series of Seminars about Sponsored Research Services
The PI Institute is a series of seminars that will give prospective and current Principal Investigators (PI's) an understanding of the issues and topics of sponsored funding and research administration. Interactive seminars will allow an opportunity for PI's to exchange ideas with other PI's about the funding process and grants management.
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!
Safety and Security Begins at the Front Desk
This 1 hour audio conference will inform you about different safety and security techniques. Unexpected events can have devastating effects that threaten the safety, security, and well-being of both the company and its employees. As your organization's first line of defense, you must be prepared for them.