A three-module online learning program highlights the skills and thought models necessary to be a persuasive, effective human resources leader.

Module One: Enhancing Your Persuasion Skills

In this session with leadership expert Jay Conger, you will learn how to improve your persuasive ability. Drawing on his research about the persuasion skills of highly effective leaders, Conger will discuss the tactics that are critical to successful persuasion. You will learn how to position your initiatives so that stakeholders are far more receptive to your ideas and requests. Specifically, you will learn about the four components that make for effective persuasion:

• Building your credibility through powerful substitutes
• Framing your initiative or request for common ground
• Devising more compelling positions in order to persuade
• Connecting on an emotional level

Module Two: The Content of the Persuasive Message

While human resources (HR) professionals spend a great deal of time and effort learning the process of persuasion, and how to become more trusted, respected and credible, the process of persuasion is only one part of success. A key component is the content of the persuasive message. In particular, John Boudreau will discuss how HR professionals can enhance their effectiveness by learning about the "mental models" already used by their clients, and how those proven models can be a powerful persuasive tool for HR-related issues.

Module Three: Roundtable

Ed Lawler will facilitate a discussion among Jay Conger, John Boudreau and HR executives. The panel will be filmed in front of a live audience of HR executives.

Key issues to be addressed:

• HR as a business partner: How can HR make it happen? What does this arrangement look like? What does HR need to bring to the table?
• How can HR pave the way to becoming a strategic partner?
• How do HR professionals interact with their clients? What are the ways in which the relationship can be defined?

Daily: Monday 02/08/2010 - Monday 03/01/2010; All day

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As the Supreme Court enters the second half of its term, the judges will rule on a variety of crucial cases that could change the nation’s legal climate. Savage will talk about the Roberts Court, Sonia Sotomayor, and what lies ahead. He will also discuss Citizens United v. FEC, a case that will fundamentally change the nature of political campaigns.

Lunch will be served.

The event is sponsored by the USC Gould School of Law and the USC student chapters of The American Constitution Society and The Federalist Society.

Tuesday 02/09/2010: 12:20 PM - 1:10 PM

University Park Campus Musick Law Building (LAW) Room 7

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Jacek Kugler of Claremont Graduate University argues against the concepts and policies of classical nuclear deterrence.

Nuclear weapons are the single most devastating tool of war that, if used, could literally destroy a viable society or even generate a global catastrophe. Classical deterrence, defined as the threat of unacceptable nuclear retaliation following an initial attack, was conceived to avert nuclear war. Since 1945, the terror generated by sequential deterrence postures is credited for the non-use of nuclear weapons. Classical deterrence policy is a success because under Massive Retaliation, and later under Mutual Assured Destruction, the international system has averted a nuclear war.

This success is not totally consistent with theory. Classical deterrence implies that nuclear proliferation and the buildup of nuclear arsenals ensures terror, and that in turn terror secures stability. Yet policymakers who adopted deterrence have universally rejected nuclear proliferation as a prescription for peace. Thus only half of the logical implications of deterrence have been implemented: Build nuclear arsenals to secure peace, but prevent the buildup of nuclear arsenals by third parties because they challenge peace. Moreover, this inconsistency reduces the credibility of deterrence arguments and limits anti-proliferation efforts. North Korea or Iran and the rising specter of a nuclear terrorist threat directly challenge classical deterrence’s stable view of the international system. Are these developments dangerous, or will they stabilize the Middle East and East Asia?

Kugler will present arguments showing that nuclear deterrence is tenuous. He will show that the original conception of classical nuclear deterrence is internally flawed and underspecified. Restructuring nuclear deterrence to include risk propensity and trust in the status quo shows the likely conditions for deterrence failure.

1. Nuclear war can be successfully deterred between nuclear powers when one has overwhelming asymmetric superiority.

2. Limited nuclear war is possible between a very week nuclear entity (i.e., a terrorist) facing overwhelming conventional asymmetry.

3. Major nuclear war is possible between powerful nuclear entities facing conventional parity.

The policy implications are profound. Mutual Assured Destruction is not stable. Terrorist nuclear attacks are not deterred by the buildup of nuclear arsenals.

What can be done? Technological breakthroughs make it impossible to unlearn how nuclear devices are made and to ensure that they can be eliminated from our environment. It is imperative therefore to limit, as much as possible, the likelihood of conflict. Kugler proposes a novel policy to insure stability: Create a Nuclear Security Council consisting of the few nuclear nations which have Global Massive Retaliation that can act independently to reduce the likelihood of nuclear war.

About the Speaker

Jacek Kugler is the Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of World Politics in the Department of Politics and Policy, School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is the editor of International Interactions and past president of the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society. He founded the Sentia Group Inc., dedicated to the formal study of decision-making, policy analysis and advice. He has been a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the State Department, the Department of Defense and a number of U.S agencies and private businesses. His research has been funded by the NSF, DARPA and the Ford Foundation, among other institutions. Through extensive publications on the causes and consequences of war, Kugler has forged a reputation for innovative formal modeling and empirical analysis.

Tuesday 02/09/2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40

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Dr. Henri Ford, Haitian native and vice dean of medical education at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, joins fellow members of the USC/L.A. County Haiti Medical Aid Team to recount their surgical and medical work with survivors of the Haiti earthquake.

The event will include an opportunity for audience members to participate in a discussion, moderated by Keck School Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, M.D., about what the USC community can do to assist in efforts to restore and rebuild Haiti.

The event will include presentations from Dr. Ford and Dr. Ramon Cestero, trauma surgeon, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, about the devastating injuries that they and team members treated over the course of two weeks. Now that immediate medical needs for earthquake victims have been met, there is concern about what will happen to the hundreds of Haitians who have ongoing medical and rehabilitation needs, as well as how to rebuild structures in time for hurricane season and how to meet needs for safe food and water.

A reception will follow.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Salvatori Computer Science Center Room 101

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A comparative look at international laws that protect or restrict the civil liberties of individuals within the LGBT community.

Shafiqa Ahmadi, J.D., faculty member at the Rossier School of Education, will discuss the cultural and religious views which inform recent anti-gay laws that have been proposed and passed in some countries. These include the infamous “kill the gays” bill in Uganda and the recent sentencing of a gay couple in Malawi.  

Ahmadi is a faculty member at the Rossier School of Education and has taught at the Gould School of Law. Most recently, she worked for the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, where she investigated alleged violations of civil rights and discrimination in areas such as employment, housing, and access to state and state funded services.

Her area of research include: the legal protection of and services provided for underrepresented student populations in the institutions of higher education, such as Muslim students, students from the LGBT community, student veterans, and students with disabilities. She is also interested in researching and writing on Shariah or Islamic law, the historical effects of Shariah on Muslim women, the status of women in Islam today, the portrayal of women in classical Persian literature, and Title IX and its impact on women on college campuses.
 
Ahmadi received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Indiana University School of Law.

Lunch will be provided.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Waite Phillips Hall (WPH) 403

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Professors and students from across USC host an interactive forum on the use of PowerPoint in teaching and communication.

Students shuffle quietly into the darkened room, past the figure of the professor who, head down, is preparing his presentation. The students notice the pile of slide printouts and dutifully take one. The harried professor finally seems to have solved his technical problems and has located his presentation. He opens it up, and fumbles his way over to the “start presentation” icon. Collective dread and resignation settle over the room, as professor and students embark on slide 1 of 76. This is Death by PowerPoint.

How and why does this happen? What are the alternatives?

Geoffrey Spedding, Doe Mayer, Jeanine Yutani, Bryan Susman, and teaching and undergraduate fellows for the Center for Excellence in Teaching will question and deconstruct some all-too-popular current practices. They will then construct some ways to manage the situation. For overworked professors and students alike.

The discussion will be hosted on... PowerPoint.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Leavey Library (LVL) Auditorium

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USC’s Judith Halberstam and Karen Tongson will serve as moderators.

Friday 02/12/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Taper Hall of Humanities (THH) 420

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USC faculty and graduate students host a new Native American Studies workshop series this semester, drawing together academics who work on Native American material.

The workshop will meet on selected Fridays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the American Studies Conference Room.

Attendees are encouraged to read the papers before attending. In future, the speakers’ essays will be published online prior to the meetings. For the first session, please email one of the workshop coordinators (Jonathan Berliner at berliner@usc.edu or Tok Thompson at  thompst@earthlink.net) for a copy of the essay.

February 5
“Disease, Culture and Transnationalism in the Americas”
John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates Chair in Humanities and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
 
February 12
“Native Americans and the Confederate States of America: A Model for Indigenous/State Relations in the 21st Century”
Walter Williams, professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and History, USC
 
March 5
“Written in the Birch Bark: The Linguistic-Material Worldmaking of Simon Pokagon”
Jonathan Berliner, lecturer in English, USC

March 26
“Alternative Images? Urban Indians as Reel Indians”
Laura Fugikawa, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
 
April 2
“Speaking with the Elder Brothers: Interspecial Communication in Native American Traditions”
Tok Thompson, assistant professor of teaching in Anthropology, USC

April 16
“Telling Paula Starr”
Joan Weibel-Orlando, associate professor emerita of Anthropology, USC; and Paula Starr, executive director of the Southern California Indian Centers

April 23
“Those Long, Lonely Nights at the Diner: Specificity of Home and Place in Arigon Starr’s The Red Road”
Carolyn Dunn, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC

Dates: 02/05/2010, 02/12/2010, 03/05/2010, 03/26/2010, 04/02/2010, 04/16/2010, 04/23/2010: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Waite Phillips Hall (WPH) 303

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A lecture by Dr. Louise McReynolds, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. McReynolds is a specialist on the popular press in Russia before the Revolution. Her current project is a book on sensational murder in the late imperial period, in which she explores the limits of positive law.

Friday 02/12/2010: 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Taper Hall of Humanities 271

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Learn how USC employees, academic units and outreach programs can obtain grants to fund university-community partnerships.

February 1, March 11, 9-10 a.m.
University Park Campus, Leavey Library, Auditorium

February 17, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Health Sciences Campus, Norris Medical Library, West Conference Room

February 18, 2-3 p.m.
University Park Campus, Leavey Library, Auditorium

March 5, 2-3 p.m.
Health Sciences Campus, Norris Medical Library, West Conference Room

USC Neighborhood Outreach is a nonprofit grant-making organization funded by USC faculty and staff contributions to the Good Neighbors Campaign.

We welcome applications for grants from USC employees, academic units and outreach programs. Proposals are reviewed by a committee representative of staff and faculty from the Health Sciences and University Park campuses.

Proposals are selected based on community impact, cost-effectiveness, volunteer involvement, and measurable progress toward achieving one or more of the university’s community objectives.

Applicants to USC Neighborhood Outreach grants should realize that this is a competitive process and that not all requests will be satisfied. The demand is such that past-funded projects cannot assume that they will continue to be funded.

The number of applications for grants and the total amount of money requested by proposed projects and programs is substantially greater than capacity. In 2009, USC Neighborhood Outreach received 56 proposals totaling $1.6 million and was were able to fund 37 projects for a total of $850,000. Grants ranged from $3,550 to $52,925.

For more information on eligibility and the application process, click here.

Dates: 02/01/2010, 02/17/2010, 02/18/2010, 03/05/2010, 03/11/2010: All day

Multiple Locations Leavey Library (LVL)

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It will examine how the nation’s best college and university professors utilize this concept, and how teaching-centered methods have a role during this paradigm shift of college teaching. New teaching and older successful methods will also be reviewed.

The program concludes with a review of speaker Lawford Anderson’s tutelage of undergraduate students performing research at Yosemite.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Keith Administration Building B21/23

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Food for Thought’s ongoing “Jesus at the Movies” series screens and discusses the 1989 Quebecois film.

Jesus of Montreal will be screened on Wednesday, February 17 and Monday, February 22. On Wednesday, February 24, Father James Heft will lead a discussion based on the film.

After finishing his doctoral studies in historical theology at the University of Toronto, Father Heft spent many years at the University of Dayton, a Catholic university founded by the Marianists. There he served as chair of the Theology Department for six years, provost of the university for eight years, and chancellor for 10 years. He left the University of Dayton in the summer of 2006 to work on the foundation of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC, where he is currently Alton Brooks Professor of Religion, and president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies.

Dates: 02/17/2010, 02/22/2010, 02/24/2010: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus United University Church (UMC) Peace Center

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Join students and faculty from the Department of Comparative Literature for a dynamic discussion of new media and the vanishing of the material.

In the morning, keynote speaker Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and English at Cornell University and author of Digital Baroque: New Media and Art and Cinematic Folds, will lead a roundtable discussion of papers by USC graduate students. (These papers will be available for online reading on the USC Comparative Literature Web page in the weeks before the symposium.)

In the afternoon, Professor Murray will give a lecture related to the themes of the symposium, followed by a question and answer session.

The USC Comparative Literature Symposium is an annual event organized by the graduate students of the USC Department of Comparative Literature. In the past, it has been funded by several USC College departments and centers and the USC College Graduate Professionalization Initiative. The format changes somewhat each year, but one constant is that distinguished symposium guests — among them Giorgio Agamben, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida and Samuel Weber — respond to students’ lectures. The USC Department of Comparative Literature has a rich and successful tradition of hosting both emerging and established scholars for symposia, to the great benefit of the campus community.

Lunch will be provided. All faculty and students are welcome to attend.

Friday 02/19/2010: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building B40

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Distinguished Hollywood executives, agents and producers discuss the factors that contribute to the realization of creative goals in the movie industry.

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a movie studio? Former Senior VP of William Morris Agency Arthur Axelman headlines a panel of creative executives, agents and producers as they they discuss how stable financial backing can turn a script into a greenlit project.

In an industry in which the financing, packaging and distribution of a film can be just as important as the creative decisions made within the film itself, the business of Hollywood is now more important and impactful than ever.

This panel is open to the public and will begin with a seminar portion conducted by our moderator, followed by an audience Q&A segment and concluding with a short networking session with the guests.

“How Films are Really Made: Film Financing and Packaging” is just one part of the third annual Southern California Business Film Festival, a weeklong business-themed short film competition that runs February 16 through February 21. Sponsored by the USC Marshall School of Business and the Center for Investment Studies, the festival combines business and film to create a series of cast- and crew-hosted screenings and panels, culminating in an exciting student film competition.

Saturday 02/20/2010: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC)

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Colin Wight worked as a professional musician and a journalist before turning to academic life. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1997. His dissertation dealt with the agent-structure problem in international relations theory. Wight was a member of the staff at Aberystwyth from 1998 to 2003 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2001. In 2006 he was appointed professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter. His primary research interests lie in the relationships among international relations theory, social theory, political theory and the philosophy of social science. Although institutionally based within a politics department, he considers himself to be a global social theorist. His most recent book is entitled Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

For information on the European Journal of International Relations, click here.

Organized by USC Politics and International Relations Ph.D. candidates Eric Hamilton and Mariano Bertucci.

Monday 02/22/2010: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40

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Victoria Schofield has been reporting as a writer and broadcaster on Pakistan and South Asia for 30 years. She is the author of Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia (2003 and 2009), Kashmir in Conflict (2000, 2003, 2009), Bhutto: Trial and Execution (1979 and 1990) and Old Roads, New Highways (1998). She has also written a biography of Field Marshal Earl Wavell and is currently writing the history of The Black Watch. Schofield has traveled widely in South Asia and is a frequent commentator on BBC World TV and BBC World Service and contributor to numerous journals and publications. She has an M.A. (Hons.) degree from the University of Oxford and was president of the Oxford Union (1977).

Co-sponsored by the USC Center for International Studies and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. 

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) Lecture Hall Room 240

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The Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series presents Howard Gillman, dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Join us for the second installment of the 2010 Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series, presented by the Alumni Club of Newport Beach/Irvine.

Howard Gillman is dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences and professor of political science and history. He is a nationally recognized scholar, longtime faculty member and leader in university and community affairs. Dean Gillman has received numerous scholarly awards and has been recognized repeatedly for his teaching, service and mentorship. He will discuss efforts to prepare the College to address the changing nature of undergraduate education, graduate training and academic scholarship.

Please note: If the USC Orange County Center parking lot is full when you arrive, overflow parking is available at the Von Karman Corporate Plaza, located at 18551 Von Karman, the next driveway past the center.

Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:00 PM

USC Orange County Center C 2300 Michelson Drive Irvine CA 92612

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Deborah Burke of Pomona College lectures for the Spring 2010 Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging.

Deborah Burke, Ph.D., is W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and professor of Psychology at Pomona College.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) Room 224

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Learn about current problems and best practices in charter school authorizing, and how federal policies can strengthen the quality and performance of charters.

President Obama has said he supports increasing quality charter schools nationally, but who decides which ones are good and which ones are not?

Charter school authorizers are the gatekeepers of quality, with the responsibility to decide which charter schools are approved, how they will be monitored and overseen, and which schools will be renewed or revoked. However, state policies vary on which organizations can serve as authorizers — these range from local school boards and state departments of education to special authorizing boards and public universities.

Research has emerged showing that states featuring multiple authorizers tend to have more, higher quality charter schools. The same studies argue that the existence of multiple authorizing bodies helps to insulate authorizing from any one particular political influence.  Still more needs to be done to share best practices amongst authorizers, and to provide guidance for those states in the process of revising their existing charter school legislation or creating new legislation in response to President Obama’s charge.

The model charter law developed by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools calls for states to provide each applicant at least two viable routes to obtaining a charter, and stresses transparency about the performance of each authorizer’s portfolio of schools.  Although each state determines who can authorize and how (or whether) authorizers are held accountable, there is growing federal interest in this work. The Race to the Top competition scores points for strong authorizing, and the forthcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act might include new incentives for authorizers to do a conscientious job of approval, oversight and renewal.

This discussion will be led by Dr. Priscilla Wohlstetter, a renowned researcher in charter school governance, along with nationally recognized charter school experts Nelson Smith, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; Jonas S. Chartock, executive director of the SUNY Charter Schools Institute; and Nina Gilbert, founder and director of the Ivy Preparatory Academy.

Friday 02/26/2010: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Cannon House Office Building 121 Washington DC 20515

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Levan Coffeehouse Conversations on Practical Ethics explores the checks and balances of teenage risk.

Our society often complains that teenagers waste their time with idle, senseless distractions. We like to see teenagers push themselves, strive to achieve great things, and take risks. And we turn those who are the youngest-ever to accomplish anything of significance into celebrities.

But taking risks can mean putting themselves in dangerous situations, particularly when it comes to extreme sports and nature expeditions. The question was recently brought to a head, as Dutch authorities struggled with whether to allow 13-year-old Laura Dekker (now 14) to attempt to become the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the world without assistance. Dekker’s father approved of the voyage. But what of society’s interest in protecting its minors from harm? How dangerous is too dangerous? How old is old enough? What principles should guide us when determining when to allow minors to put themselves in dangerous situations?

To RSVP, click here.

A light lunch will be served.

Friday 02/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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A panel on USC’s five-year plan to deliver high quality, supportive and appropriate learning environments for students and faculty.

As part of an international movement considering the totality of settings and circumstances in which education occurs, USC has launched an ambitious five-year plan. The first phase of the plan — which encompasses technology, furnishings and infrastructure — will be operational in fall of 2010.

This event provides the USC community with a context for, overview of and suggestions on how to utilize these dynamic new spaces. Learning environments and their impact will be a focus of this discussion, but so too will people, processes and places.

Panelists

• Joseph Cevetello, director of Learning Environments, Technology-Enhanced Learning; assistant professor of Clinical Education
• David Dwyer, Katzman/Ernst Chair in Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation, Rossier School of Education
• Geoffrey Middlebrook, associate teaching professor, College Writing Program

Moderator

• Lawford Anderson, director, Center for Excellence in Teaching; professor, Earth Sciences

Friday 02/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) 100

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Topics will include interface navigation, basic editing, creating a score, etc.

The application deadline is February 16. Email ering@thornton.usc.edu for an application.

Saturday 03/06/2010: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Music Practice and Instructional Center,

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Go past collecting data to coaching managers. A workshop on using data to tell stories, influence behavior and drive results.

Today, the best leaders win with data. Learn to fuel your organization by combining data, dialogue and understanding to soar ahead of the competition.

Data coaches help leaders and organizations use data from and about employees to drive action that leads to measurable results. Data coaching will take your metrics to the next level.

Objectives:

• Understand the measurement map — a tool that allows participants to audit their current employee and human resources data
• Walk away with a deep understanding of the conditions under which data do or don't drive action
• Develop strategies to refine data and dialogue or to readjust which types of data are being used
• Learn how optimal data strategies drive results
• Obtain tools that are immediately applicable to your organization

This program is focused on building skills. You will be given a pre-work assignment and will use a special tool to learn, practice and build your data coaching skills during the workshop. Participants will take part in team coaching and will actively practice the skills they learn with their peers in the program.

The course will be taught by Theresa Welbourne and Lacey Leone McLaughlin.

Daily: Tuesday 03/16/2010 - Thursday 03/18/2010; All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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We all know that parents have to take care of their children. But does there come a time when we have to start taking care of our parents?

What if it costs us serious time and serious money? What if they fight us and tell us to go away and leave them alone? Should we respect their autonomy as we watch them deteriorate, or should we force them to do what we think best for them? How should we parent our parents? The Levan Coffeehouse Conversations on Practical Ethics series explores these questions.

For reservations, click here.

Friday 03/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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The Alumni Club of Newport Beach/Irvine welcomes Gerard Tellis, professor of marketing at the Marshall School of Business.

Join us for the third installment of the 2010 Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series: “Do Innovations Really Pay Off?”

Gerard Tellis, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Global Innovation, the Neely Chair of American Enterprise, and a professor of marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business. He specializes in the areas of innovation, global strategy, market entry, new product growth, advertising, promotion and pricing. He has published more than 100 articles and four books.

To purchase tickets, click here.

Please note: In the event that the USC Orange County Center parking lot is full, overflow parking is available at the Von Karman Corporate Plaza, located at 18551 Von Karman, the next driveway past the center.

Wednesday 03/31/2010: 7:00 PM

USC Orange County Center Room C Irvine CA 92612

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Jack Rowe, M.D., of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, lectures for the Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging.

Thursday 04/08/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) Room 224

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In a networked global culture, sophisticated multimedia is quickly becoming the worldwide currency. A longtime staple in the industries of advertising and entertainment, multimedia has now carved a new niche for itself: academia.

The Digital Studies Symposium is designed to introduce us to diverse scholarly media-based production. The speakers in this series are artists, programmers, scholars and designers, and their projects include cutting-edge gestural interfaces, mobile media experiments, innovative Web sites and augmented reality pieces.

The presentations will be moderated by Anne Bray, the executive director of L.A. Freewaves. Freewaves is a nonprofit organization that facilitates cross-cultural dialogues by inventing dynamic new media exhibition forms at experimental and established venues throughout Los Angeles.

Mirjam Struppek is based in Berlin and works internationally as urbanist, researcher and consultant. With a background in urban and environmental planning, she has internationally lectured and published essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, the public sphere, and that sphere’s transformation and acquisition through new media. She is currently working on further implementing this concept of utilizing outdoor screens for a sustainable urban society.

For further information, please contact the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at (213) 743-4421 or visit dss.usc.edu.

Thursday 04/08/2010: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Robert Zemeckis Digital Arts Center (RZC) 111

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Produced by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the USC Marshall School of Business and the U.S. Commercial Service, this conference will provide exceptional access to the information and people who will help you operate profitably in Asia.

Two hundred and fifty participants, 50 sessions, 15 economies, two days, in one event. Asia/Pacific Business Outlook (APBO) is an extraordinary opportunity to meet the people with the clout and contacts essential to your company's success. Meet one-on-one with Asia business experts, and have private appointments with senior commercial officers from American embassies/consulates in 15 economies.

Access a wealth of timely information in two days. APBO offers the latest, relevant information, all focused, organized and distilled. You'll get current intelligence on trade and investment opportunities in each country, and learn which sectors are hot, who's who, and how to navigate the different cultural, social and administrative barriers in each of the 15 economies. You will also get practical solutions to your logistical, legal, financial, marketing, planning and human resource needs from the experts who have been there... and succeeded.

Whether you're an experienced exporter to Asia, new to export, or new to the region, you can customize your conference experience by choosing the seminars, outlooks and workshops you want. More than 50 concurrent sessions let you focus on the topics that matter most to your business.

Some of the topics to be covered:

• Devising market entry strategies and building distribution networks; financing your operation in Asia/Pacific
• Refining communication and negotiation techniques; exporting to Asia for the first time
• Launching products and services in new markets
• Understanding cultural sensitivities and contexts
• Learning of opportunities in new sectors and industries
  

Go to www.apbo2010.com for the latest details.

Dates: 04/19/2010, 04/20/2010: All day

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center

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The last installment of the 2010 Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series features Bob Murrin, architect of the new Ronald Tutor Campus Center.

Bob Murrin ’74, M.Arch. ’76, is a licensed architect and a principal with the Los Angeles architectural firm of AC Martin, an industry leader in innovation and artistry, where he has practiced for more than 33 years. Murrin is a member of USC’s Board of Governors and served as president of the USC Architectural Guild. He is the principal architect in charge of designing USC’s new student center.

In the event that the USC Orange County Center parking lot is full when you arrive, overflow parking is available at the Von Karman Corporate Plaza, located at 18551 Von Karman, the next driveway past the Orange County Center.

Wednesday 04/28/2010: 7:00 PM

USC Orange County Center Room C 2300 Michelson Drive Irvine CA 92612

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This seminar will provide a proven framework that helps leaders in business, human resources (HR) and organization answer this key question.

You will learn and apply the framework featured in Beyond HR (Harvard Business School Publishing) by John Boudreau and Pete Ramstad. Using that framework, Boudreau and Ramstad will show you how to analyze your own strategy to uncover hidden, vital pivot points where your HR and talent management will make their biggest strategic contribution.

The seminar is built on Boudreau and Ramstad's unique "decision science" for talent, which uses many of the same principles of decision sciences, such as finance and marketing. This framework has enabled organizations to achieve true line-of-sight between HR investments and their sustainable strategic success. This framework and the talentship decision science are based on 10 years of research, application and work with leading organizations.

Benefits

• Unique focus on the integration between business strategy, HR strategy, and talent and organization implications
• Hands-on experience with the proven framework featured in the Harvard Business School Publishing book Beyond HR, using developing and analyzing strategies to discover unique strategic value in human and organizational capital
• A guided learning process with a proprietary array of rigorous and practical tools that have been used by organizations such as Allstate, Corning, Deluxe, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, PepsiCo and The Toro Company
• A workshop-learning approach that is based on leading research in strategy, economics, organizational behavior and psychology

This is a highly interactive workshop. Participants work directly with tools to analyze organizational strategy at all levels. You will use tools to identify the "lenses" that reveal where talent and organization decisions most affect strategic and business success, and the implications for human resource and organization practices. You will practice by applying these tools to available information from organizations, and you will learn about other organizations through discussion and breakout work.

Who Should Attend

This event is for any leaders who want to help their organization find unique strategy opportunities in their talent management strategy and how it is organized and deployed. This includes leaders in human resources, HR strategy, organization effectiveness and talent management. This workshop is particularly valuable for HR generalists, business partners, strategists, functional leaders, leaders outside the HR function, or those with non-HR backgrounds who have recently taken HR leadership positions.

Daily: Wednesday 06/02/2010 - Friday 06/04/2010; All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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This seminar will show you how to go beyond simple benchmarking to a more strategic and uniquely functional approach to talent management. The focus of the course is designing and implementing a world class talent management system. Drawing upon a broad range of organizations and the latest thinking, participants will learn about best practices and pitfalls across the full spectrum of components — high-potential pools, linchpin or pivot roles, metrics, tracking systems, and talent strategies. Participants will examine out-of-the-box approaches that challenge conventional wisdom.

The seminar will be a pragmatic, application-oriented experience focused on designing and implementing talent management processes.

Presenters will include Jay Conger, John Boudreau and Ed Lawler.

Dates: 09/21/2010, 09/22/2010: All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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Participants will learn from best-practice examples about the critical design features of well constructed leadership development systems, including action learning, coaching, 360-degree feedback, executive education and on-the-job learning. A central feature of the course will be effectively deploying and implementing these interventions.

This workshop will employ a hands-on, application-oriented approach to leadership development, resulting in a highly interactive and case-based experience.

Presenters will include Jay Conger.

Dates: 09/22/2010, 09/23/2010: All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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