National Work and Family Month Workshops
In celebration of National Work and Family Month in October, OSU and the Office of Human Resources is bringing faculty and staff a variety of workshops designed to improve and integrate work and life.
To attend any or all of these workshops, register online at:
http://hr.osu.edu/ohrd/training/index.asp
- Click on Customized Events.
- Click on the workshop title you would like to attend. All current classes are listed in red. A description of the workshop will appear.
- Click on “register me now” button found at the top of the page.
To register for more than one workshop offered by OHRC, just click on the box that says “Return to Workshop List” and you’ll be able to register for the next workshop without having to once again enter your OSU internet user name or confirm your email address.
Full List of Events
Why Telling Children Doesn’t Work, Verbal vs. Kinetic Learners
This interactive workshop is designed to improve communication between
couples as well as parents and children by raising awareness of preferred
communicative styles and their impact on expectations and daily interactions.
For many this is a new way of thinking about the challenges of family interaction. Registration preferred, not required.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
12-1 pm
Suite 430 Gateway - Building C, 1590 N. High Street
Presenter: Yvonne Gustafson, Ph.D., Elizabeth Blackwell Center at Riverside
Eldercare Panel of Experts
Please join this experienced panel of eldercare professionals as they discuss and answer questions about topics like adult daycare, dementia assessments, adapting a home for an aged loved one, driving evaluations, community resources, and other caregiver issues. If you have aged parents you will not want to miss this workshop. Space is limited, registration recommended.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Suite 430 Gateway- Building C, 1590 N. High Street
Representatives from: Northwest Counseling Services, John H. Gerlach Center for Senior Health, Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, OSU School of Allied Medical Professions, OSU Geriatrics and Gerontology
What’s Working for GLBT’s?
Susan Schubert will facilitate a dialogue to share positive experiences and strategies. This workshop will discuss issues like workplace relationships and respect, impact of school and peers on children, extended families, life-cycle events, community organizations, activities, activism, welcoming churches, and entertainment. Registration preferred, not required.
Monday, October 8, 2007
12-1pm
Suite 430 Gateway - Building C, 1590 N. High Street
Presenter: Susan Schubert, Diversity Matters LLC
Courageous Conversations About Eldercare
This workshop will help you with the concern of aging loved ones geared toward gaining insight, skills and resources to better communicate and resolve these issues. This seminar can help faculty and staff be more concentrated and productive during working hours.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
12-1pm
Suite 430 Gateway - Building C, 1590 N. High Street
Presenter: Linda Artis, Senior Independence
Teaching Kids to be responsible with money.
This discussion is facilitated by our own, Tally Hart, Senior Advisor for Economic Access, and will educate parents about the importance of teaching their children how to be responsible with money. Registration preferred, not required.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
12-1pm
The Women’s Place, Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
Presenter: Tally Hart, OSU Office of Academic Affairs
Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace
In today’s business environment, with a vast range of ages and background experiences at play, you are more likely to be managing, coaching and leading people who are nothing like you at all. This is the first time we’ve had all four generations actively working together at the same time in the workplace. This workshop will provide you with the understanding and tools necessary to effectively coach, manage and lead each generation at work. Registration preferred, not required.
Monday, October 15, 2007
12-1pm
Suite 430 Gateway- Building C, 1590 N. High Street
Presenter: Mona Fitzer, OSU, OHR, Work Life
Advance Care Directives- End of Life Planning
Does someone in your family know what kind of care you would like in the event you were seriously injured or critically ill and could not speak for yourself? Think it can’t happen to you? Come find out about advance care planning, living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. Protect your right to control your own destiny. Registration preferred, not required.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
12-1pm
400 Stillman Hall, Conference Room, 1947 College Road
Presenter: Patrice Rancour, OSU Faculty/Staff Wellness Program
Responding to Serious Illness in the Workplace
Join your co-workers for a presentation/group discussion about the challenges of being supportive to people who are experience grief, loss or serious illness in their lives. Often co-workers don't know what to say, so say nothing at all. Others, having problems with boundaries, may inadvertently intrude upon peoples' privacy. This workshop offers an opportunity to share ideas for ways to help us cope with our own anxiety with regards to illness and death, to learn new communication skills and practical ways of offering help to one another during such times of crisis. Registration preferred, not required.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
4-5 pm
700 Ackerman Rd. Suite 580
FREE Parking
Presenter: Patrice Rancour, OSU Faculty/Staff Wellness Program
Tour of Schoenbaum Family Center at Weinland Park
The Ohio State University in collaboration with the Columbus Public Schools Pre-Kindergarten program, the Child Development Council of Franklin County Head Start, and the Franklin County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities has created a new early care and education program of excellence for a culturally and economically diverse community of children and families in the Weinland Park neighborhood, just east of campus. The new $10 million facility overlooks Weinland Park and is co-located with the Weinland Park Elementary School, providing opportunities for collaboration across programs for children birth through 5th grade. The Colleges of Social Work, Medicine, and Public Health offer programs within the College of Education and Human Ecology facility featuring a family advocacy office, onsite health center, and facilities for teaching nutrition to families while providing teacher training and research opportunities for faculty and students . The Laboratory School housed in the Family Center is internationally known for the high quality care and education it provies to young children and their families . Registration preferred, not required.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
11:30-12pm
175 E. 7th Ave., Col. OH 43201
Tour given by: Michele Sanderson, The A. Sophie Rogers Laboratory School
Your Child and the Media
Today’s media offerings present parents with many questions. Should a child be allowed to watch tragic new stories? How much TV time is too much? What about newspapers? Radio? Hear what the experts are saying, and learn how to turn your child’s exposure to the media into a learning opportunity that can strengthen your relationship. Registration preferred, not required.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
12-1pm
Schoenbaum Family Center at Weinland Park,175 E. 7th Ave, Col. OH 43201
Presenter: Sue Bobson, Action For Children
Take This Job and Love It
Keynote Speaker (sponsored by The Women’s Place and OHR)
Richard Hadden is a nationally recognized speaker, business writer and author, and employee development expert who helps companies improve business results by creating a great place to work. He is the co-author of highly acclaimed, Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line.
Richard has appeared on CNN and MSNBC, and his work has been featured in Business Week, Entrepreneur and Inc. magazines. His column “People and Profits” appears in selected business newspapers throughout the U.S.
October 22, 2007 3:30-5 pm
Longaberger Alumni House
Healthy Fast Foods and Healthy Snacks
By attending this session you can learn how to make informed choices at fast food restaurants by practicing moderation when choosing high calorie and high fat items. Also learn ways to incorporate healthy and flavorful snacks into your day in an attempt to meet the recommended dietary guidelines for fruits, vegetables, dairy, and whole grain products. Registration preferred, not required.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
12-1pm
Room 202, Parks Hall, 110 W. 11th Ave
Presenter: Melissa Kalb, OSU Faculty & Staff Wellness Program
Medicine for the Mind, Body and Spirit
This class will focus on defining Integrative Medicine and discussing new options in healthcare to meet the needs of the whole person- body, mind, and spirit. We will also discuss evidence-based advances in nutrigenomics (nutrition based upon genetic needs) and how the applied science can enhance quality of life and promote healthy aging as well as prevent and treat disease. Registration preferred, not required.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
12-1pm,
Room 136, Center for Integrative Medicine, 2000 Kenny Road
Presenter(s): Dr. Glen Aukerman, and Laura Kunze, OSU Center for Integrative Medicine
What Do Women Really Want?
This lecture is sponsored by the Women’s Place. Celinda Lake, who has served as an advisor and pollster to national Democratic campaigns, and Kellyanne Conway, who has served as an advisor and pollster to national Republican campaigns, joined together in surveying and interviewing U.S. women of all political persuasions to try to determine what it is that women really want. They concluded that "Women are the most powerful force reshaping the future of America. Stronger than political parties, mightier than religious differences, able to leap cultural schisms in a single bound, women are quietly exerting a unified power to make changes..., meeting in the middle to achieve their goals." Registration preferred, not required.
Lake,who has served as an advisor and pollster to national Democratic campaigns, and Conway, who has served as an advisor and pollster to national Republican campaigns, joined together in surveying and interviewing U.S. women of all political persuasions to try to determine what it is that women really want. They concluded that "Women are the most powerful force in reshaping the future of America. Stronger than political parties, mightier than religious differences, able to leap cultural schisms in a single bound, women are quietly exerting a unified power to make changes..., meeting in the middle to achieve their goals."
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
4-6pm
The Women’s Place, Fawcett Center Auditorium
Presenter(s): Celinda Lake and Kellyanne Conway
