Roadmap to a Balanced Life Workshop

What: This workshop will provide you with a roadmap to achieving work/life balance. This interactive seminar will help you define your work/life balance on a daily basis and show you strategies to get around barriers and to handle detours. Techniques for refueling and recharging your batteries while you juggle the demands of your job and personal life will be offered as well. Participants will:

* Assess their current work/life balance
* Identify areas for change
* Create a personal vision of what a successfully balanced life would be
* Learn and practice strategies to balance lives, including setting limits and saying "no"
* Identify ways to keep energy up while juggling the competing demands of work and personal life

Michele Ginnerty has over fourteen years of experience as a trainer and consultant specializing in training, facilitation, team building, curriculum development, career transition and work/life programs. She has been published in the Wharton Business School Work/Life Resource Guide and was selected as a premier faculty member of the USDA Graduate School in 1999. She has presented to groups ranging in size from 10 to 200. Clients include federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and private sector firms including WashingtonPost.com, Bechtel Corporation, Motley Food and John Snow, Inc.

When/Where: Mon, Sept 16 in building 3 Goett Auditorium from 11:30-1:00.

For more info: Please contact Michelle Mumford on 6-6163.

Health and Wellness Seminars

What: Code 200 and the GSFC Health Unit staff invite you to bring a lunch and join us in a series of health and wellness seminars. The goal of these presentations is to ensure our personnel are informed health care consumers.
Dr. Terrence A. Bidnick will discuss the topic, "Physical Exams and Health Screening: Who, What, When, Where and Why."

When/Where: Mon. Sept. 16 from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in bldg 1, room E100D. *Seating in this room is limited to approximately 25 people.

Information Science & Technology Colloquium

What: Goddard’s Office of the Assistant Director for Information Sciences and Chief Information Officer announces the first GSFC Information Sciences and Technology (IS&T) Colloquium presentation of the Fall 2002 Series. Mr. Paul Strassmann, Senior Executive at NASA Headquarters, will talk about Information Productivity: A Metric for the Information Economy. Mr. Strassmann will describe his work on measuring the effectiveness of information technology investments starting with initial findings in 1979, pilot research from 1982-1985, institutional resistance to measuring the total costs of information resources and gradual acceptance of the metric. The presentation will conclude with a demonstration of just released software that relates information productivity to conventional financial accounting practices.

When/Where: Wed, Sept 18 at 3:30 in the bldg 3 Goett Auditorium followed by a Q&A session made available to Wallops Flight Facility via Wallops TV and NASA IV & V via Video Conference.

For more info: Visit http://isandtcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Mid-Autumn Moon Luncheon

What: The Goddard Chinese American Club invites employees to join in and have some fun and good food at the Mid-Autumn Moon Luncheon. Menu includes: California rolls, chicken teriyaki, seafood delight, pepper steak, salt and pepper fish, general tso chicken, Chinese vegetable with mushroom, vegetable lo mein, moon cake and cookies, tea and soft drinks. The cost is $8 per person

When/Where: Thurs Sept 19 at the Goddard Rec Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

For more info or to purchase tickets, contact: Josephine San, bldg.11 6-5335, Maria So 6-6113 bldg. 22, JC Qin 5-5323 bldg 32, Jenny Wu 5-6236 bldg 33

Paella Night

What: The Goddard Hispanic Heritage Club invites employees to join in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by attending the Paella Night Dinner. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and includes sangria, Paella (w/and w/o seafood), dessert, soft drinks and beer. The cost for: GHHC members - $14, General admission - $18, young adults (12 - 16) -$10 and free for children under 12.

When/Where: Fri, Sept 20 at 5:00 p.m. at the Goddard Rec Center

To purchase tickets and for more info, contact: Rosa 6-4727, Adan 6-3295, Gab 6-4406 or Bob 6-4411

Library Open House - Creating Value from Knowledge Assets

What: Come see what is being done to Create Value from Goddard’s Knowledge
Assets. The staff of the Goddard Library invites you to an Open House. At 1:00 p.m. Center Director Al Diaz will introduce the Keynote Speaker Simon Szykman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Szykman is currently on an assignment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He will be discussing his work on the NIST Design Repository Project to develop a computational framework for the creation of design repositories and the
proof-of-concept prototype.

Additionally, throughout the day there will be demonstrations of exciting new technologies, services and projects. Demonstration highlights will include:

*Digital Archiving of Goddard Knowledge Assets
*MyGoddard Portal
*NASA Technology Inventory
*Goddard’s Virtual System Design Environment
*IMAGES (Image and Movie Archive of Goddard’s Earth and Space Sciences)

*JOINed Digital Library for Earth Science Education
*New Library Knowledge Assets
*Preserving Project Documents: A Standards-Based Approach (UMD/CIS
Partnership)
*Vbrick - Video and Audio Encoders/Decoders
Refreshments and giveaways will be available throughout the day.

When/Where: Thur, September 26, 2002, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

EOY Island Party Shrimp Feast

What: The authentic island steel band "Ewabo" and a catered dinner will highlight a great party along with the scrumptious menu of 1 lb. jumbo steamed shrimp per person, jerk chicken, grilled burgers/hot dogs, potato salad, "island rice", baked beans, slaw and beer/wine/sodas. Plus CASH door prizes!

When/Where: Thurs., Sept. 26 at the Rec Center from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Cost: Tickets cost $11/person until COB September 13th, then the price goes up to $15/person through September 20th. Only 200 tickets will be sold and no tickets will be sold after September 20th (no exceptions). (Sponsored by GEWA)

Upcoming Training

Course Catalog: http://ohr/DevGuide/Catalog.htm

September 2002

Linkage Leadership Series Prime Minister Bhutto on Diversity.
Sept. 23. 11-12:30 Contact: Diane Severn 6- 4121 or Jim Regan 6-8851

How to Make Your Website Section 508 Compliant
Sept. 26. 12:30-4:00 Contact: Sherry Tharpe 6-6533 or Kara Zaimis 6-5378

Cultivating a Creative Learning Group (CLG) No website
Sept. 25. 9:00-4:00 Bldg. 1, Rm. E100B
To register, contact Tracey White on 6-7823 by COB Friday, September 20.

In this interactive session, members of the Creative Learning Groups will share their experiences and the impact of their work. They will focus on how to create a community of trust, learning, and enjoyment of every day life at work building a path to a true knowledge organization. New CLGs will be seeded at this session.

October 2002

Intellectual Property Negotiation (Civil Servants only)
Contact: Dale Hithon 6-2691
Two day course. October 2. 8:00-4:30 and October 3. 8:00-12:00.
This course acquires and refines the necessary skills and approaches for negotiating intellectual property license agreements. Participants engage in hands-on negotiation exercises to enhance their skills.

Individual Development Planning (IDP) Workshop
Oct. 8 and Oct 16. 9:00-11:30. For Employees Contact: Tracey White 6-7823 or Nichole Richmond 6-5757

Individual Development Planning (IDP) Workshop
Oct. 10. 1:00-3:30 For Supervisors Contact: Tracey White 6-7823 or Nichole Richmond 6-5757

Individual Development Planning (IDP) Workshop
Oct. 22. 9:00-11:30 For Supervisors Contact: Tracey White 6-7823 or Nichole Richmond 6-5757

Linkage Leadership Series: Howard Schultz on Leadership Oct. 22. 11:00-12:30. Contact: Diane Severn 6-4121 or Jim Regan 6-8851

Individual Development Planning (IDP) Workshop
Oct. 24. 1:00-3:30 For Employees
Contact: Tracey White 6-7823 or Nichole Richmond 6-5757

November 2002

Life Safety Code Nov. 5-7. 8:30-4:30 Contact: Jeannine Womack 6-6118 or Matt Jarvis 6-4126 No website

Valuation of Intellectual Properties (Civil Servants only)
Contact: Dale Hithon 6-2691
Two day course. November 13. 8:00-4:30 and November 14. 8:00-12:00.
This course identifies the methods for valuing a technology by outlining strategies for determining the net present value of the business the technology supports and the portion of profits that can be attributed to the technology. The Relief from Royalty and Technology Factor valuation methods are examined thoroughly.

Linkage Leadership Series: Marcus Buckingham on Great Management
Nov. 20. 11:00-12:30. Contact: Diane Severn 6-4121 or Jim Regan 6-8851