Special Events

In the fall of 2005, the Professional Development Committee sent an electronic survey to all ACC supervisors, asking them to identify the types of training needed by new and existing ACC supervisors. In response to that survey, the Professional Development & Evaluation Office is pleased to announce that a sequence of workshops entitled “Supervisor Series” is now available to all ACC supervisors. Current offerings are listed below while additional workshops are being designed and will be added in the coming months.

Supervisor Series - Online: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)

The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is designed to ensure that everyone's health information is kept private and secure by all persons who handle, or have access to, that information. All ACC supervisors are required to complete this training module. After the online module is completed, the user will take a quiz about the material and the results will be sent to the Professional Development Office so that a record of completion may be kept.
Enroll and then visit http://www.austincc.edu/hltsci/hipaa/ to begin the module.

Supervisor Series: Budget Training

Topics covered will be responsibilities of the budget authority, clarification of related terminology, base budget, budget transfers, and the use of Datatel as it relates to the budget process.
2/21/2006, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, HBC - Room 103.2
3/24/2006, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, HBC - Room 103.2

Supervisor Series: Business Services Overview

Attendees will learn about procedures related to the following areas within Business Services: Controller's Office, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Restricted Accounts, Cashier's Office, Student Accounting, and Student Account Analysis.
3/1/2006, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, HBC - Room 301.0

Supervisor Series: Environmental Health, Safety and Insurance - Modules I and II

Supervisors must understand and apply successful management and leadership principles to safety and health issues to ensure that employees enjoy an injury- and illness-free work environment. These key elements of supervisor responsibility and accountability will be introduced: complying with the law, providing resources and support, conducting safety training, identifying and mitigating workplace hazards, and enforcing safety rules. These two modules must be completed before Modules III and IV.
2/17/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, HBC - Room 103.2
3/24/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, HBC - Room 103.2

Supervisor Series: Environmental Health, Safety and Insurance - Modules III and IV

Understanding and dealing with policies such as Workers Compensation can be overwhelming for supervisors. These modules will address the basics of the laws, policies, and procedures utilized in Workers Compensation claims and outline the steps that must be taken. This workshop will help you gain the basic skills necessary to conduct an effective accident investigation at your workplace, identify the underlying causes of an occupational injury, and to identify and implement the appropriate changes to minimize or eliminate the risk of recurrence.
Modules I and II must be completed before Modules III and IV.
2/24/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, HBC - Room 301.0
3/31/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, HBC - Room 301.0

Supervisor Series: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

ACC provides family and medical leave to employees in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Participation in this session will help you understand the supervisor's role in the FMLA process.
2/10/2006, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 214
3/22/2006, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 301.0

Upcoming Workshops

Listed below are some of the workshops being offered this Spring. Go to the Workshop and Event Registration Database to view or register for any of the 2006 workshops.

Procrastinator's Choice: Stall or Succeed?

Are you put off by putting things off? Have you considered why you procrastinate or how you would feel if you didn't do it? Join others to discuss some helpful strategies for conquering this all too common problem.
2/9/2006, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, HBC - Room 103.2

Microsoft Excel Basics

This workshop introduces you to the spreadsheet features of Microsoft Excel. This hands-on workshop covers creating and managing workbooks, editing and modifying worksheets, formatting, basic formulas and functions, and printing.
2/10/2006, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM, EVC - Room 2203.1

ACC Allies Training

Through the Gender and Sexuality Program, the Office of Student Life offers a training program that provides ACC students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to become Allies to the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender/Queer community. Through the training program, participants explore common misconceptions, cultural features, heterosexual privileges, and the effects of homophobia. This training gives faculty, staff, and students the tools they need to be able to provide adequate services and support to all ACC students regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
2/14/2006, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, CYP - Room 1074
2/28/2006, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, RGC - Room 026
3/9/2006, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, EVC - Room 2156
4/5/2006, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, PIN - Room 108

Photoshop Elements

Perfect and transform your digital photos like a pro. Introduces participants to an inexpensive, easy-to-use image manipulation program that will enhance and organize your photos.
3/3/2006, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, RVS - Room 1121
3/31/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 212

Microsoft Word: Tabs, Tables and Columns

Using tabs, tables and columns in Microsoft Word enables you to enhance documents. In this workshop you will learn how to create, move or delete tabs, how to insert and form tables and create newspaper-style columns. You should have completed the Microsoft Basics workshop or have equivalent experience before taking this workshop.
3/2/2006, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, EVC - Room 2203.1

A and E CAD Open House and Information Session

The Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) Department is now Architectural and Engineering Computer Aided Design. Since advisors play a key role in getting students into the right classes and on the right career paths, we'd like to invite advisors, deans, administrative assistants and campus managers to attend this information session. After we tell you about the courses we offer, our degree plans, career opportunities and the salary ranges of our graduates, we'll give you a tour. We'll also demonstrate what CAD software can do and show actual projects students have completed. Pizza and refreshments will be served.
3/3/2006, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, NRG - Room 4136

First Class Customer Service

Organizations prosper or decline depending on the quality of customer service they offer. Customer service has roots in the one-to-one communications between the individual employee and the individual customer. High customer satisfaction is based on positive interactions and the results they produce. With a focus on active listening, this workshop will address four types of customers and how to accommodate and thrive with them. Providing customer service can be intrinsically rewarding if one maintains a sense of enthusiasm and curiosity and takes care of the essential ingredient in the process: oneself!
3/7/2006, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, HBC - Room 103.2

ACC Faculty Online

Introduction to a web-based system for accessing online class rosters and grade rolls. Learn how to enter grades, review student withdrawals, check grades from previous semesters, and retrieve student phone numbers and addresses--all electronically. If you do not already have an ACC Faculty Online password, please request one by completing the form at https://onlineserv.austincc.edu/datatel/openweb/fc/fccontact.html before attending the workshop.
3/10/2006, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, HBC - Room 218
3/21/2006, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 212

Being a Professional and Treating Others Professionally

This workshop provides attendees with information that includes the basic tenets of professionalism, the meaning of professionalism in the workplace, the core elements of behaving professionally, and interacting with others in a professional manner. Handouts available.
2/15/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 214
3/22/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 214

PowerPoint 1 & 2

This software application can help create compelling, interactive slides that support your presentation.

PowerPoint 1 - Participants will learn how to produce overheads, handouts and speaker notes, insert graphics, sound and video, as well as become familiar with the drawing tools.
3/24/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 212

PowerPoint 2 - This workshop covers creating tables and charts, inserting voice narration, adding transitions, pre-set timings and other effects, in addition to converting your presentation to a web page.
3/24/2006, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, HBC - Room 212

Latest Developments

J. Gray's Tech Tips

Blank Lines in Numbered Lists or Bulleted Lists in Microsoft Word

When you choose to use bullets or numbering in a Word document, a new bullet or number appears when you press Enter. But what if you want to insert a blank line between two bulleted or numbered lines? All you have to do is press Shift-Enter to insert the blank. Now, to get to the next bulleted or numbered line, press Enter.

Jump between Words and Paragraphs in Microsoft Word

Instead of using your cursor keys to slowly move through your document, you can use the CONTROL keyboard button to move around in your document more quickly:

* CONTROL-LEFT-ARROW: Move to the previous word.
* CONTROL-RIGHT-ARROW: Move to the next word.
* CONTROL-UP-ARROW: Move to the previous paragraph.
* CONTROL-DOWN-ARROW: Move to the next paragraph.

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Which Comes First--Happiness or Success?

Does success in life bring happiness, or is it the other way around? Most research studies presume that happiness follows success, but the American Psychological Association recently announced findings based on 250 other studies on happiness that point to just the opposite: Success follows happiness. Other factors such as intelligence, family, and physical fitness contribute to success, but making decisions that help produce happiness really does help you achieve it. Happy individuals are more likely to have fulfilling marriages and relationships, high incomes, superior work performance, community involvement, robust health, and even a long life. It looks like the adage “do what makes you happy and success will follow” has empirical support.

From Working Solutions, February 2006, Alliance Work Partners.

ACC employees are invited to attend several workshops this spring by Alliance Work Partners. To sign up, go to https://workshops.austincc.edu. Workshops include:
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Rachel Lanham

You might have seen Rachel at Riverside Campus helping faculty in Media Services, but now she's moved on over to the mothership, aka HBC, to work as a Production Operations Specialist with Video Services. She'll be recording, editing, and uploading videos of ACC Board meetings as well as facilitating satellite downlinks and audio/web conferencing.

Rachel's one of those rare, native Austinites who can be found on weekends hiking on the greenbelt, or if it's the right weather, swimming in Barton Springs. Her other interests include reading, writing, and spending time with her high school sweetheart, a man she began dating at 16 and married in 2003.

If you have something scheduled in the IVCs, Rachel's the one to call for help. She's on the second floor near the elevator in room 216. To contact her, email rlanham@austincc.edu or call 223-7791.