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This course is strongly recommended for all supervisors and anyone who wants to improve their relationships.
This in-person, experiential learning based course provides a step-by-step process, tools, and support for resolving performance gaps, enhancing accountability, reducing resentment, eliminating inconsistency, and improving performance both at a professional and a personal level. During this 2-day training, learn how to have those difficult conversations in a way that solves problems while improving relationships.
There is no cost to employees for this course. Participants receive a free copy of the book Crucial Accountability.
To reserve your spot, find the course listed in the course catalog in NEOED Training, then click on “Join Waitlist” to be notified of the next cohort.
For questions, contact professionaldevelopmentinstitute@nmc.edu or call (231) 995-1143.
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Kudos to Kyle Morrison, Chris Hanna and Alex Jones! Kyle, Chris and Alex helped the redesign of the Great Lakes Campus room 112 to support a better student learning environment. This included better viewing monitors, room layout and room functionality. They were extremely supportive and made the transition smoothly, quickly and with no disruption to classroom activities. The feedback from our students has been 100% positive.
Kudos to Joan Sodini and Emily Crull! A massive thank you to Joan, Emily and the rest of the PR team for their help with College Night, Transfer Fair and Applying to College 101. Their support is no doubt a big factor in this year’s event successes. We had amazing attendance at all of these events and were able to make this year’s changes smooth and effective for students, community and the college reps visiting campus. We received a lot of positive feedback and cannot thank them enough!
Kudos to Jim Bensley and Marina Call! Congratulations to Jim Bensley and Marina Call for a very well attended Lunch & Learn on Study Abroad 2024. There were over 55 participants in attendance to hear about this year’s study abroad trips.
Kudos to Carolyn Andrews! Congratulations to Carolyn Andrews and her team for putting on the awesome event Building Tomorrow. This was an amazing opportunity for local middle and high school students to participate in hands-on activities in the trades field. The local sponsors and volunteers were outstanding and the students had a great time!
Kudos to Katie Sommer-Ford, Bridget Munroe and Rorie Kawula! Transfer week at NMC started off with great momentum at tonight’s Applying to College 101 session! Bridget Munroe and Katie Sommer-Ford from Advising/Student Success listened to the needs of our NMC students to bring an event focused on navigating the transfer admissions process. With collaboration from our internal admissions department including Rorie Kawula, and admissions representative Alex Lasher from NMU, a presentation highlighting the step-by-step process of college transfer and college admission was presented to more than 45 current students, prospective students and parents.
Kudos to Student Life, Student Success and student groups! Heading into the midpoint of our semester it was amazing to see the energy and student engagement for Fall Festival! Hats off to Student Life and office manager Katy Knight, our incredible student leaders from groups across campus, and our Student Success coaches for putting on a truly vibrant Fall Festival. Students had an opportunity to learn more about services and groups they could join, and got to interact with key members of their student support team. Extra thanks to our coaches, with lead efforts by Amber Marsh, for extending the Fall Festival day with a family-focused afternoon of games, crafts and good times outdoors with beautiful weather to top it off!
Kudos to Cari Noga, Emily Crull and Shannah Vergote! Thank you to Cari, Shannah and Emily for collaborating to bring college employees “EES Opportunities” in the Intercom. You are helping to promote our Extended Education & Training classes to our employees and thus improving employee wellness, and personal & professional development—which leads to creating employee culture, a sense of belonging and employee retention!
Kudos to Michelle Poertner! Michelle has voluntarily helped keep the Osterlin Testing Center up and running this semester and has now began actively working with vendors and proctors to reopen the Parsons-Stulen Professional Testing Center. The staff and students at NMC are lucky to have Michelle!
Kudos to Lisa Cooper, Ed Bailey, and Hans VanSumeren for successfully planning and running the LakeBed 2030 Conference. This is currently NMC’s largest and only binational conference. This year’s event was extremely successful with outstanding speakers, great technical demonstrations and picture perfect weather.
2023 Lakebed 2030 conference by the numbers:
This is a major endeavor and couldn’t be pulled off without the hard work of Lisa, Ed and Hans!
Kudos to Chris Little and Tamella Livengood! Last week in the testing center we had a student taking a HESI test when her computer totally froze up and we couldn’t figure out how to remote control it or otherwise get her back into the test. Both Chris and Tamella were extremely helpful in guiding us step-by-step so the student could finish her test on time after driving for six hours just to take it! Thanks Chris and Tamella, especially from someone new at the testing center!
Experts suggest maintaining an “attitude of gratitude” increases positivity for yourself and for others. Please encourage your colleagues by submitting a KUDOS. Let them know you appreciate their hard work and are thinking of them!
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Kyle Ferrill was recently promoted to Admissions Recruiter. Congratulations, Kyle!
Open Enrollment for 2024 is Nov. 6–17. Please plan to attend one of the two Zoom meetings that are scheduled for Nov. 6, 2023, at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. All employees should have received a calendar invite for these open enrollment meetings. If you did not, please contact Hollie DeWalt.
A recorded session will be available on the benefits webpage for those who are unable to attend.
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Registration begins soon for October Conference 2023! Get a sneak peek of the projects for this day. Note: You will receive an email when it is time to register for your project group.
If your project is not on the list, please email lhodek@nmc.edu.
Open to Anyone with connections to the topic:
Closed/Pre-identified teams with connections to the topic groups with:
For questions, email Janet Lively or Lori Hodek.
Kudos to Kim Gourlay & the Facilities department! Kim Gourlay and Facilities helped to welcome our College for Kids summer learning partner, Kids on the Go, in the Beckett Building. Kids on the Go provides children (ages 3-17 years old) who have special needs with physical, occupation, speech and recreational therapies. Thank you for being so warm and welcoming to our College for Kids partners, staff, instructors, and families.
Kudos to Wayne Moody and the Automotive team! Kudos to Wayne Moody and the Automotive Team for another wonderful car show! It was a great day weather-wise and a record-breaking turnout again this year! Great work!
Experts suggest maintaining an “attitude of gratitude” increases positivity for yourself and for others. Please encourage your colleagues by submitting a KUDOS. Let them know you appreciate their hard work and are thinking of them!
These employees recently started working at the college. Let’s welcome them to the NMC community!
Kudos to Marcus Bennett! Thank you Dr. Bennett for bringing in Ken James from MCC to talk about DEI issues at the community college level and adding more strategies for ways we can support our students.
Kudos to Lisa Molmen! Lisa has been so instrumental in getting all of our new employees set up during the August hiring craze. She is quicker than the flash to get files pushed through so our employees have needed access and is always there to help when things don’t work the way we want them to. Thank you, Lisa, for helping us make it work—we couldn’t do it without you!
Kudos to Alison Thornton, Michelle Beckett, Elliot Richards, and Ricky Hagberg! The fabulous Technology Help Desk team is always there to make sure our new hires have everything set up that they need to be successful. They are quick to help and always with patience and a smile. Thank you all!
Kudos to Elizabeth Sonnabend! Elizabeth Sonnabend continues to grow Workforce Training opportunities for our community by creating local partnerships. These partnerships not only ensure high quality learning, but also provide hands-on, real experiential learning as part of the curriculum, which lead to a living wage career pathway. Thanks to Elizabeth, NMC Extended Education & Training’s online Medical Billing Specialist program will be implemented in Thirlby Clinic’s new Medical Billing Apprenticeship Program. The agreement was signed at the Apprenticeship Launch Network’s conference at Great Wolf Lodge and is available for registration through the MITC (Michigan Talent Connect) website: mitalent.org/mitc. Thank you, Elizabeth, for ensuring that NMC Extended Education & Training’s programs lead to careers that are both needed in our area, and provide sustainable living wages.
Kudos to Amy Klei! We have had several changes in the Michigan Reconnect and Futures for Frontliners Scholarship programs. We are also implementing the Michigan Achievement Scholarship for 2023 graduating seniors. These programs have required numerous IT programming changes. Amy has done an amazing job in providing professional support and timeliness and crafting these changes to the benefit of the Financial Aid Department and ultimately our students.
Kudos to Lisa Thomas and Amanda Clark! Thank you for organizing Pine Palooza 2023! The students and staff were engaged in what NMC has to offer. It was a great way to start off the academic year.
Kudos to Erika Cotner! GLMA has been advertising for an assistant engineer for the training ship for greater than one year. Over this period of time Erika continuously revised the job description, researched additional avenues for advertising the position and worked with GLMA to find a candidate. Additionally, she was incredibly flexible with facilitating the ability for search team members to complete interviews while they were sailing on the training ship.
Kudos to our Student Success coaches! Once again, the Student Success coaches here at NMC provided a great opportunity for incoming students and returning students to join in various Welcome Week activities. Thank you for making our students feel a sense of community and belonging here at NMC. Go Hawk Owls!
Experts suggest maintaining an “attitude of gratitude” increases positivity for yourself and for others. Please encourage your colleagues by submitting a KUDOS. Let them know you appreciate their hard work and are thinking of them!
These employees recently started working at the college. Let’s welcome them to the NMC community!
We need you to bring your innovation mindset to October Conference on October 10 to advance projects central to the college’s mission. October Conference features problem-solving training followed by workshop time to focus on projects related to the strategic plan, the master plan or other college goals. Appropriate projects should be already vetted and, preferably, cross-departmental. Projects can have an existing working group or be open to additional participants. Projects can be just getting started or approaching completion.
Got a project you’re working on that needs support? Project leads should complete the form as soon as your project has been identified, no later than Friday, September 15, so we can begin registering project team members.
Facilitator training will be available before this event. Employee registration begins soon.
If you are not sure if your project is a fit for October Conference or if you have any questions, contact Lori Hodek at lhodek@nmc.edu or (231) 995-1143 and Janet Lively at jlively@nmc.edu or (231) 995-1231.
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Kudos to Kirk Waterstripe! Kirk was a huge help to Shannon McCann and Annie Callahan, two of our very popular College for Kids instructors (All Aboard the Hogwarts Express and STEM classes). Kudos to Kirk Waterstripe for going above and beyond to assist the College for Kids instructors in the Health and Science Building this summer (showcasing our chemistry labs to the community!). Thank you for being a special friend to Hogwarts and to our super science-y Hawk Owls!
Kudos to Dave Weaver! Thank you to Dave Weaver for supplying keyboards from our NMC e-waste, helping us recycle and learn! The College for Kids students greatly enjoyed the experience of taking them apart and learning how real keyboards work.
Experts suggest maintaining an “attitude of gratitude” increases positivity for yourself and for others. Please encourage your colleagues by submitting a KUDOS. Let them know you appreciate their hard work and are thinking of them!
These employees recently started working at the college. Let’s welcome them to the NMC community!
The following NMC employees were recently promoted. Congratulations!