Employee Development

"Intro to PDCA" is a "must attend" for all employees in order to understand work processes. This program will assist you in your vital role as a team member on any process improvement team, as it is designed to enhance collaborative skills in the working community by providing updated information regarding methods meant to strengthen your knowledge and effectiveness in the workplace. Facilitator, Hope Medina.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: TBA
Performance Measure: Organizing/Planning/Problem Solving

Employee Development

"Process Mapping" introduces us to the basic knowledge and techniques involved in data collection, interviewing, analyzing, and clearly documenting work processes. Facilitator, Marlene Masten. Notes: This class is required for Administrative Support staff, APD certification candidates, and recommended for anyone working on process teams.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Marlene Masten
Performance Measure: Knowledge; Work Quality/Reliability

Employee Development

Join us as we watch the amazing movie "Who Moved my Cheese" based on the book by Spencer Johnson and we discuss the many changes we are facing at AC and NVC. Learn how to face change and adapt in order to keep moving forward. This session will help you with personal and professional strategies for adapting to change.

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: Hope Medina
Performance Measure: Work Quality/Reliability/Teamwork/ Leadership

Employee Development

This class introduces you to the science of happiness. It takes you on a journey of discovery through the science of psychology and its newewst branch, positive psychology. This journey has several expected stops along the way - including stops at love, leisure, humor, money, health, playing, and friendships. The journey leads to a discovery for you to measure, cultivate, and maintain your own true happiness as it is relates to different parts of your life, and combines happiness with the emotions of pleasure and contentment.

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: Don Lucas, Ph.D., NVC Sciences
Performance Measure: Teamwork/Team Building/Knowledge

Employee Development

CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD IN ONE DAY! In this powerful one-day training, you'll learn new ways to think about your time, as well as practical processes and effective applications that help you live these lessons. Three sections provide the secret to becoming more focused on your priorities, better organized, and more productive overall.

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: FranklinCovey Certified Facilitator
Performance Measure: Organizing/Planning/Problem Solving

Employee Development

This briefing is designed for hiring committee members at NVC as presented by the Alamo Colleges HR Department. Tips on procedures for screening, selection, de-selection, legal pre-employment interview questions, reference checks, evaluations, and specific information regarding the employment laws governing selection and recruitment processes. Hiring committee members are required to attend once every 12 months as per by the Alamo Colleges Human Resources Department. Notes: This training is required of anyone who participates in a hiring committee.

Target Audience: Target Group
Instructor: Manuel Cerda, ACC HR Generalist
Performance Measure: Knowledge