Minority Postdoc Coalition Meeting with Professor Masato Nakamura

Our next Minority Postdoc Coalition meeting will include a chat with Professor Masato Nakamura from CUNY’s City Tech (Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Technology; http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/mnakamura/). A recent Postdoc alum from Columbia, Professor Nakamura will be joining us to share his career journey that led him to becoming a professor at CUNY, as well as some helpful tips to navigating the world of academia as a Postdoc and faculty of color. He will also be answering any questions you may have regarding his experience.

This is a great opportunity to gain insightful knowledge and advice from a faculty member who has gone through the Columbia Postdoc experience as well as network with other Postdocs and PhD’s.

**Please RSVP to cupostdocs@gmail.com.

Morningside

Date: Thursday, May 2^nd

Time: 1pm- 2pm

Location: Hamilton Hall, room 306

http://www.columbia.edu/files/columbia/content/morningsidemap8x11-2012april.pdf

*Sandwiches and soda will be provided*

Underrepresented PhD students have been invited to attend this event as well.

English Language Communication Skills Workshop Series for International Postdocs

Topic: Academic Listening and Discussion Skills - Strategies for effective listening in academia and strategies for participating in and leading discussions

Friday, May 3, 12p-2p, Medical Center, 305 Hammer Building

To register please email cupostdocs@gmail.com with your name, uni, department, and event session.

Please join us for a panel discussion on the possible careers available for neuroscientsts. For this event, we will be focusing on neuroscience-related jobs in the private sector. The discussion will occur from 7pm - 8:30pm, and the panelists will include:

Rudy Ballani, PhD , Associate, McKinsey and Company

Rachel Schindler, MD, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Alzheimer's Disease, Pfizer

Timothy Spencer, PhD , Associate Editor, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Publishing Group

Nicole Sullivan, PhD , Intellectual Property / Patent Lawyer, Troutman Sanders LLP (also formerly with Wyeth)

Moderator:

Kelley Remole, PhD , Director of Neuroscience Outreach at Columbia University

After the panel discussion, participants are encouraged to join us for an informal networking session from 8:30pm - 9:30pm at the Rockefeller University Faculty Club.

Presenter: Coach Tom Chuna

Feeling rejected by the marketplace is the worst "place" for the job seeker to be. I will share real world, practical steps to help you regain that mental and emotional edge you need to stay engaged in the process. The webinar will run 20 - 25 minutes, with the remainder of the hour devoted to fielding questions from the attendees about your specific situations..I look forward to helping move some mountains.

Principles of Negotiating and Influencing

Contrary to popular opinion, negotiation is not something solely reserved for CEOs and diplomats; it’s a conflict resolution strategy most of us employ throughout our daily lives. Whether negotiating work activities or personal relationships we spend a great deal of our time engaged in negotiation. Be that as it may, many of us feel anxious when encountering a negotiation scenario. Or perhaps we are stuck with a negotiating style that fails to produce desirable outcomes. In this two-day seminar, we’re going to take you through the theory and best-practice of negotiation. Some of the lessons you can expect to learn include:

· How to identify correct negotiation strategies based on situation and circumstance

· Help develop an understanding of the different types of negotiations

· Look at the role of influence, power and bias.

· Understand common mistakes and dilemmas

· Bridge the gap between rational and irrational behavior

· Understand where the literature and research play out in real life.

· Help identify sustainable action plans for future negotiations that focus on developing and understanding alternatives, decision-making strategies, setting clear goals and communication skills.

· Power of habit: why certain orientations develop and become difficult to move away from.

Date: Thurs, May 9^th & Fri, May 10^th

Time: 12pm – 2pm (lunch provided)

Place: room LL108A & B (lower level), Hammer Building, 701 W. 168^th Street.

To register for the two-day seminar please email cupostdocs@gmail.com with your name, uni, and event name.

Limited enrollment.

Sponsored by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in collaboration with the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at Columbia School of Continuing Education

Principles of Negotiating and Influencing

Contrary to popular opinion, negotiation is not something solely reserved for CEOs and diplomats; it’s a conflict resolution strategy most of us employ throughout our daily lives. Whether negotiating work activities or personal relationships we spend a great deal of our time engaged in negotiation. Be that as it may, many of us feel anxious when encountering a negotiation scenario. Or perhaps we are stuck with a negotiating style that fails to produce desirable outcomes. In this two-day seminar, we’re going to take you through the theory and best-practice of negotiation. Some of the lessons you can expect to learn include:

· How to identify correct negotiation strategies based on situation and circumstance

· Help develop an understanding of the different types of negotiations

· Look at the role of influence, power and bias.

· Understand common mistakes and dilemmas

· Bridge the gap between rational and irrational behavior

· Understand where the literature and research play out in real life.

· Help identify sustainable action plans for future negotiations that focus on developing and understanding alternatives, decision-making strategies, setting clear goals and communication skills.

· Power of habit: why certain orientations develop and become difficult to move away from.

Date: Thurs, May 9^th & Fri, May 10^th

Time: 12pm – 2pm (lunch provided)

Place: room LL108A & B (lower level), Hammer Building, 701 W. 168^th Street.

To register for the two-day seminar please email cupostdocs@gmail.com with your name, uni, and event name.

Limited enrollment.

Sponsored by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in collaboration with the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at Columbia School of Continuing Education

Summer Movie Nights Out

OPA and The Postdoc Community Council would like to invite you to a movie night out this

summer! We will be hosting four summer movies, one movie each month from May

through August. Each movie will be organized and lead by your fellow Postdocs.

We are announcing the sign-up for the upcoming May movie. OPA is providing free movie

tickets. Then after the movies, Postdocs are invited to stay with the group and go out for

some drinks or food at the individual’s expense.

May Movie Night Out*

Date: Tuesday, May 21

Movie: Iron Man 3

Time: Around 7pm

(Further details will be emailed out to those interested with specific time and place)

*There is space for 18 people. To sign-up, email: cupostdocs@gmail.com

MAY Postdoc Happy Hour! Open Bar!

Join your fellow postdocs for a “special” Happy Hour at the Underground Lounge on

Thursday, May 23rd. Open bar plus appetizers! All postdocs university-wide are invited!

Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013

Time: 6:00pm—8:45pm

Location: The Underground Lounge, 955 West End Avenue (corner of 107th Street and

West End Avenue right off Broadway Avenue)

Preparing Scientists for Careers in Industry

Adapting to industry jobs can be a significant challenge for scientists coming from academia. Industry values and even requires skills that go beyond the traditional scientific/technical competencies. "The ability to work in cross-matrixed environments, demonstrate solid tactical and strategic thinking, ability to delegate, communicate and understand basic concepts of project management" are common prerequisites for jobs in industry. Although these skills are not typically emphasized during academic training, many research activities do in fact map to these competencies. Having an awareness of your skills and an ability to express those skills in business terms provides a significant competitive advantage in landing an industry job and being successful in that job. This workshop will introduce you to 24 business competencies valued in industry, relates them to post-doc research experiences, and demonstrates how to identify those competencies and relate them to job ads and descriptions.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to the kinds of companies and kinds of jobs that are available for scientists

• Developing your personal brand: your scientific, business, and social identities

• Introduce the 24 core competencies that are valued by industry and critical for being competitive in getting a job and successful in that job

• Relating the scientific method to common business practice

• How to analyze a job ad to identify the business and social skills required

• How to map a job description to the SciPhD 24 core competencies

• How to combine your self-assessment results, and experience statements to develop a targeted resume

• Effective networking, and building your network

• Preparation for Interviews

Randy Ribaudo, PhD and Larry Petcovic, MS from Human Workflows LLC are back again to provide this workshop. Dr. Ribaudo has a Ph.D in Immunology and has over twenty years of experience in scientific research and in the biotechnology industry. Mr. Petcovic has over twenty years as of experience in the social sciences and has trained thousands of scientists in the art of effective communication.

Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Time: 12pm-3pm (Lunch Provided)

Place: Room 2, Russ Berrie Building (1150 St. Nicholas Avenue), Medical Center

To register for this workshop please email cupostdocs@gmail.com with your name, uni, and event name

Sponsored by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Advance Communications Skills for Scientists

*This advance workshop is ideal for postdocs who have taken the “Preparing for Scientists for Careers in Industry” workshop in the past two years or have just taken the prior workshop. * Behavioral Sciences and Executive Coach expert Larry Petcovic will work interactively with participants to learn how to effectively communicate in different situations with different audiences. Learn how to develop your “elevator pitch” that you can use at meetings, in building your network, and during interviews. Larry will dive into the details of applying technical literacy, style flexibility, emotional intelligence and social intelligence to improve your ability to communicate in different situations. Randy Ribaudo will then work with the participants on how to apply the advanced communications skills in initiating conversation with people you don’t know, and how to apply those skills effectively in building your network and in interviews. We will discuss what kinds of questions you can expect, how to manage those questions, and use these new skills to establish favorable impressions with new audiences.

Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Time: 3:30pm-5:30pm (Refreshments Provided)

Place: Room 2, Russ Berrie Building (1150 St. Nicholas Avenue), Medical Center

To register for this workshop please email cupostdocs@gmail.com with your name, uni, and event name

Sponsored by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs