Feb. 4, 2016

The Exercise Science Club is once again holding its annual “Commit to be Fit” competition for all faculty and staff.

This friendly competition encourages our SIUE faculty and staff to be active by competing as teams of 5-7 to accrue active fitness minutes each week.

Need more information? There will be two optional informational sessions:

7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9 in the Morris University Center University Club

5-6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11 in the Morris University Center Missouri Room

Some things to know:
• You can form your own team with your co-workers or friends on campus (teams do not have to be from within the same department).
• Each team will be assigned a student coach from the Exercise Science Undergraduate Program or the Exercise Physiology Graduate Program to help with goal setting, motivation and accountability.
• The competition officially begins Monday, Feb. 22 and runs through Sunday, April 17
• The last day to sign up is Friday, Feb. 12

We have a team, now what?
• Once you have your team together, assign a team captain and decide on a winning team name! (An award will be given for the most creative team name.)
• Team captains should email siueexercisescienceclub10@gmail.com with their team name in the subject line or their last name if they are signing up as an individual to be assigned to a team.
• The email should include ALL team members first and last names, as well as their primary email.
• Coaches will begin emailing their teams during the week of February 15, once all teams have been registered.

For more information or questions, please email siueexercisescienceclub10@gmail.com.

Save the date for the Student Fitness Center’s Annual Fit Fest.

4-7 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 16
Student Fitness Center 

The SIUE Community is invited to attend Fit Fest 2016.

The event is FREE and includes vendor tables from on and off campus, group fitness classes, fitness challenges, free food provided by Dining Services, fitness assessments provided by the Department of Applied Health, free t-shirts and plenty of chances to win other prizes!  

For more information, contact Amanda Couch, fitness coordinator, at amcouch@siue.edu or 650-5392.

The SIUE Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion invites you to nominate a Phenomenal Woman at SIUE or in the community. 

The nominee and person nominating them will be invited to attend a luncheon honoring and celebrating women from all walks of life who have made contributions to diversity and inclusion at SIUE, the region, the nation and the world. 

Through the recognition of these contributions, the annual Phenomenal Women’s Luncheon hopes to inspire other women to embrace and promote diversity within their own lives and the lives of others. 

To nominate a phenomenal woman, download the nomination form at institutionaldiversityandinclusion/PhenomenalWomen.shtml

Nominations must be submitted to siuemcc1@siue.edu no later than Feb. 22.  

For more information, contact Erika Hall or Venessa Brown, PhD, associate chancellor, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, at siuemcc1@siue.edu or 618-650-3651. 

The SIUE School of Business Executive Education program has set its project management courses and workshops for 2016. Registration is now open.

Spring 2016 Foundations of Project Management

Fridays, Feb. 26; March 4, 18, 25; and April 1

8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Learn the basics and best practices of project management and prepare for the PMP® certification. Successful completion awards the 35 educational hours required for the PMP® certification exam.

Motivating to Increase Performance Across Generations

Friday, March 18

8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Motivating employees has never been a one size fits all approach. As today’s organizations become more diverse, the need to understand what makes employees tick becomes increasingly important. Motivation is part of the performance equation. Therefore, in order to increase performance for your department and for your organization, you need to understand the power of motivation. Jenni Hunt, instructor in the SIUE Department of Management and Marketing, has developed a hands-on session that will provide participants the understanding necessary to create a motivational culture throughout the organization. She will share stories, techniques and practice scenarios to help participants master the art of motivating across generations.

Emotional Intelligence

Friday, April 1

8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

This one-day workshop will introduce components of emotional intelligence and how they shape distinct leadership styles, and you will learn how to lead in an emotionally intelligent way. We’ll start by exploring the varied aspects of emotional intelligence, self and social awareness, and self and relationship management, then move into emotionally intelligent leadership practices. 

Simply learning about leadership styles is not enough to make you an adept, insightful leader. It takes using each style repeatedly, and examining the feedback from each interaction, to really develop the skillful use of leadership styles.

Basic Statistics

Friday, April 8

8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

The course covers key statistical concepts crucial to decision making in business and government. Building up the basic ideas of statistics systematically and quickly, the course provides a review of the methods of summarizing and presenting data, estimation and confidence intervals. Mathematical details are kept to a minimum. Much of the course is practical computer work using Microsoft® Excel®.

This one-day course will cover:

• Interpretation of commonly found published statistics
• What is statistical significance and what does it mean?
• How to make the best of statistics for decision-making
• Descriptive statistics - graphical and numerical summarization of data
• Distributions - binomial and normal
• Sampling distribution of the mean
• Confidence interval

Agile Boot Camp

Thursday-Friday, April 14-15

8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Don’t do Agile - BE Agile:  An introduction to Agile using the Scrum Framework

Why Agile? – Learn the differences between Agile frameworks and the Waterfall methodology. Understand the Agile Manifesto and the principles behind it.

What is Scrum? – Learn how to use Scrum and the first steps to take to begin an Agile transformation in your organization.

This workshop will guide you through the Scrum roles, events and artifacts. You’ll learn how to use relative estimation, write user stories and plan sprints through a combination of lecture, videos and hands-on exercises.

Persuasion and Negotiations - The Art of Influence and Skill

Friday, April 15

8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

In the business world and in life there are two ways to get people to do what is required - force and persuasion.   For the project manager, who often is managing in a matrix organization without line authority, persuasion is often the only path. This workshop will take you through practical scenarios to help refine your persuasion skills to a razors edge. 

Earned Value Management Workshop

Friday, April 22

8:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

Learn Earned Value Management (EVM) from expert David Hunter. The first two hours will focus on the basics to gain a firm knowledge of the building blocks and fundamental application of EVM. The remaining two hours will be an extension of EVM Basics focusing on developing and applying the skill to move to the next level in using Earned Value Management. The course features tips and techniques on how to effectively use EVM to manage projects/programs and to create more reliable Estimates at Complete.

To register, call Kristine Jarden at 618-650-2668 or Deanna Lotter at 618-650-5440 or visit: siue.edu/business/executive_education.