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5 Habits of Intentional Leadership
After taking an "Intentional Leadership" survey based on the 5 habits, learn to identify your strengths, areas to improve, opportunities for growth-needed risks, create ownership with others about the future, build collaboration, teamwork and trust.
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Advanced Presentation Skills
Extensive 1:1 coaching, feedback, and videotaped exercises allow participants to hone in on strengthening their presence and increasing effectiveness in distilling key ideas into actionable business initiatives. Class size limited to 10 participants.
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Advanced Project Management
Building on the basic practices of project management, this workshop focuses on advanced techniques for defining, planning and controlling large complex projects.
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ASIC Design Using Verilog HDL
An intensive three-day program that introduces participants to: ASIC Design Overview, Verilog Modelling & Simulation, and Verilog Synthesis. using the IEEE standard Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language).
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Audit Presentations with Style and Ease
Gain self-confidence by zeroing in on your unique style to present on an audit project directly and clearly
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Behavioral Interviewing
Hiring top performers is key to implementing business needs and plans. Incorporating a proven approach, behaviorial based interviewing will lead to a better selection of employees; thus, reducing costs associated with poor permance and turnover.
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Breakthrough Project Management
Participants develop an actual project from definition to launch; learn project skills that increase role clarity and communication within the project team; tools that produce results through improved accountability, reliability and consistency.
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June 7th to 8th


  • 8:30 AM 4:30 PM each day
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Cypress Semiconductor- San Jose, CA
Budgeting Essentials
Tired of the dartboard approach to budgeting? This introductory class will help you understand the context and purpose of budgeting, and it will teach you techniques to make your budgets accurate, fair, and complete.
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Challenges In Testing System-on-Chip Designs
This two-day course introduces the student to the field of SoC (System-on-Chip) DFT (Design For Testability) and ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation). Course is divided into three parts: Test Synthesis, ATPG, and BIST (Built-In Self Test).
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Clear Business, Technical, and Email Writing
This workshop provides a step-by-step process for designing and writing a clear and concise document, e-mail message, or report. You'll learn by doing. The training involves writing, revising, and editing exercises; critiquing documents; and games.
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March 14th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Integrated Device Technology, Inc.- San Jose, CA
Clear Business, Technical, and Email Writing (Webinar)
This self-paced & on-demand webinar works at the convenience of the learner, reduces learning times, and eliminates travel costs. It includes customized content and personal coaching.
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Clear Business, Technical, and Email Writing - 2 Days
This workshop provides a for designing and writing a variety of clear and concise documents, e-mail messages, and reports. You'll learn by doing. The training involves writing, revising, and editing exercises; critiquing documents; and games.
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Coaching Others to Excellence
Guiding others to higher levels of productivity is the essence of a manager's job. This -day workshop equips you with a model and useful tools to enhance your coaching skills and increase your level of confidence in dealing with performance issues.
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Collaborative Negotiating
By applying techniques from the Harvard Negotiating Project, see first hand how the shift of negotiations from win-lose to win-win strategies enables both parties to come away from the table with more than either had hoped.
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Communicate Powerfully: Speak, Listen, and Act
Listening and speaking are arguably two of the most fundamental competences in business and in life. In this program, you'll experience the ability to be present, be open-minded, and to connect to others in an authentic, natural and powerful way.
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Communicate to Manage Expectations
Six words you hate to hear: "You should have managed their expectations." This program covers a 4-step process on how to set clear, realistic expectations, deal with deviations, and achieve fulfillment for yourself, your team and/or your client.
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April 17th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by IEEE
    Hosted by TIBCO Software- Palo Alto, CA
Communication and Conflict Using MBTI
Using the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), you'll learn the four basic "people patterns" that are key to leadership styles, effective communication, conflict, and team building. You'll learn your own communication strengths and blindspots.
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Competitive Negotiation
You'll learn strategic and proven verbal and non-verbal techniques on how to deal with "hardball" tactics, difficult people, competitive situations, silence, deadlocks, and how to say "no" without damaging the relationship.
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Conflict Resolution
This course provides a simple, but highly effective, 4-step model that enables you to reduce the emotional charge in any conflict situation by using techniques to keep the communication focused and productive.
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Consultative Essentials for Account Managers, Professional Services or Sales Support Engineers
This course will change the way your account managers, consultants, and sales engineers think about and interact with customers, as well as, the sales team.
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Consulting Skills for Engineers: How to Become a Trusted Advisor
"Consulting Skills - How to Become a Trusted Advisor" is a unique program designed to help engineers elevate the perceptions that others hold of them beyond technical experts and into the realm of "trusted advisors."
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Cross-Cultural Simulation: BaFa BaFa
The BaFa BaFa simulation makes participants personally aware of the issues around culture differences. It shakes participants out of thinking in stereotypes about anyone who is different.
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Customer Focused Technical Presentations
This class goes beyond basic presentation skills by providing components specifically designed for this population with tailored course materials. The result is an on-target participant experience all in the context of presenting to customers.
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Customer Service for Technical Support
A critical part of technical support is providing consistent and effective responses to customer issues. This program focuses on listening actively, asking high-gain questions, reviewing for understanding, and moving into solving customer issues.
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Customer Service: Raising the Bar
"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it." - Peter Drucker. This interactive customer service course helps you to get in step with your different internal & external customers.
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Delegation and Coaching: The Winning Combination
Effective managers achieve results by providing staff with opportunities to develop and grow. This program gives specific & critical techniques needed to assess and delegate a task, develop & support performance, and resolve performance problems.
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April 26th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by IEEE
    Hosted by TIBCO Software- Palo Alto, CA
Designing a Career Path Within Your Organization
Developed by two leading experts in career design, this workshop assesses employees' "motivated skills" and helps to align the skills with the appropriate career path in their organization.
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DiSC Profiles and Self-Assessment Workshop
Learn your DiSC communication style profile and tactics to help you work better with people who communicate in a style different than you. Identify your strengths and personal preferences, as well as, the strengths of others.
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Disruptive Innovation
Managers learn how disruptive business practices and technology are managed to create a competitive advantage and improve organizational value in strategies, processes, products, and services.
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Driving Meaningful Change
This course will provide managers the knowledge and tools to adapt to ever-evolving dynamic workplaces and to enable them to act as effective change agents within their organizations and their communities.
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Effective Email Communication (T3)
This two-day train-the-trainer program enables human resources professionals and others to become internally certified to deliver training on effective email communication.
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Effective Email Writing
Participants will learn to overcome the inherent challenges with e-mail: unclear subject lines, meandering messages, misinterpretation of tone; and to write clear, concise, and accurate e-mail messages.
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Effective Presentation Skills
Presentation Skills is a one-day skill-building program for professionals who are called upon to make formal or informal presentations. The most persuasive presenters deliver their ideas clearly, demonstrate confidence and enthusiasm, and handle objection
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Effective Sales Presentations
Executives and sales professionals, learn to present ideas powerfully and persuasively; Deliver product knowledge clearly, confidently, and with enthusiasm; Highlight value, added services, and handle objections with poise.
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Effective Technical Presentations
A two-day skill-building course for all technical professionals who are called upon to make formal or informal presentations, or communicate complex data. You'll learn to present highly technical information to diverse audiences and knowledge levels.
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Emotional Intelligence
This highly interactive workshop provides a "safe" environment to practice using tools to become more self-aware, self-managing and connect emotions and actions to positively impact your work.
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March 15th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by IEEE
    Hosted by TIBCO Software- Palo Alto, CA
Experiential Team Building
Experiential Team Building is a highly interactive program designed for intact teams. It can be designed to meet the specific needs of your team and organization. The program is rooted in the theory and concepts of the Experiential Learning Cycle.
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Facilitating the Client Meeting for Professional Services
This is a two day program designed to teach Professional Service consultants critical facilitation techniques for increasing meeting productivity and the value derived by attendees at PS-led events.
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Facilitation Skills
Increase the productivity and enjoyment of meetings and presentations by improving your ability to generate stimulating interaction, resulting in attendee buy-in of action items.
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Feedback: Giving, Receiving, and Making it Constructive
This 1-day program focuses on the importance of delivering both positive and constructive feedback on a regular basis. Participants will learn a 4-part model and will practice planning and delivering high impact feedback messages.
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Finance for Non-Finance Professionals
We survey 5 analysis techniques for evaluating projects, emphasizing what critical question each techniques seeks to answer so that project engineers & managers can work more intelligently finance dept. to assess their project's potential.
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March 23rd


  • 8:30 AM 12:30 PM 4 hours
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Cypress Semiconductor- San Jose, CA
Flexibility: Understanding Differences and Conflict
This course is designed to help participants create conversations for results by analyzing the situation and the person(s) involved in the situation, and adapting personal communication style to the audience.
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May 3rd


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by IEEE
    Hosted by TIBCO Software- Palo Alto, CA
Getting Things Done Across Organizational Borders
Right-sizing & restructuring puts new emphasis on lateral communication & inter-departmental cooperation. This workshop teaches you innovative practices for dealing with people who do not report to you, but whose assistance and support are critical.
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May 8th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by IEEE
    Hosted by Synopsys, Inc.- Mountain View, CA
High-Impact Coaching for Human Resources Professionals
This one-day workshop equips you with useful approaches that enhance your coaching skills and increase your level of confidence when working with others.
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High-Performance Virtual Teams
A one-half day program consisting of team assessment activities, interactive presentations, shared problem solving, and action planning for improving the performance of your virtual teams.
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Influential Communication
Productive working relationships require 3 underlying conditions: mutual values, trust & respect. When these conditions break down, conflict often results. This 1-day experiential workshop teaches you key communication skills that make a difference.
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Innovation and Creative Problem Solving
Learn how your ideas, language & behavior impact other people & encourage, or discourage, creativity. Learn a 5-step problem resolution process: problem identification & analysis, idea generation, idea selection, idea development & action planning.
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Innovation and Creativity
This course explores the intricacies and methods of knowing how to be innovative and creative in problem solving and in the application of both internal and external innovation drivers for organizational success and as a competitive advantage.
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Interviewing and Hiring the Best Talent
Learn Behavioral Interviewing and the proper interviewing skills required to best assess candidates while staying within legal boundaries. You will focus on specific, actual job categories & develop an interview plan to apply to a real interview.
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JTAG (Boundary Scan Design)
Intro to design & implementation details of JTAG technology & its integration at chip, board & system levels; covers central role of JTAG in system testability & its use in controlling the overall test application process in digital & mixed-signal.
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Leadership and the Innovative Organization
Course examines principles, models, guidelines & strategies to support organizational innovation; emphasis on leadership, innovative business models, metrics, learning systems & the strategic & tactical considerations of an innovative organization.
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Leading and Managing Change
Change is constant. If managed well, change can produce growth & new opportunity for individuals, teams & organizations. When managed poorly, change can lead to poor morale & decreased productivity. Learn a constructive approach for leading change.
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Making Meetings Matter
This workshop trains meeting facilitators in a process that targets meetings toward specific outcomes and ensures meeting attendees contribute in a constructive, concrete way.
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Management Essentials
The 2-day topics include: leadership skills, the strengths & weaknesses of your personal style; setting goals, priorities, expectations, delegating, coaching, reinforcing productive behavior and dealing confidently with performance problems.
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Manager as Coach
Discover innovative ways to guide staff to a higher level of productivity and prevent performance problems by using an eight-step coaching process.
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Managing and Leading Change
This course covers: key models to successful change, the psychology of change, a 3-Phase change management process, 5 reasons for resistance, and learn 10 things to remember when implementing change.
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Managing Customer Relationships
This class teaches how to build long-lasting customer relationships and to listen actively to customers' key business issues, concerns, and objectives. Create value for customers by partnering with them to increase their productivity and efficiency.
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Managing Difficult Conversations
Using a series of role plays focusing on situations from today's highly competitive business world, you will learn how to plan for and successfully execute the very conversations that we too often avoid.
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Managing Managers
First-line managers are often promoted to senior management positions without adequate preparation. This high energy, action based training provides the new manager of managers with the tools, skills & knowledge needed to make a smooth transition.
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Managing Time and Multiple Priorities
The way you prioritize your time determines your success. You'll learn to stay organized and focused, manage paperwork and emails, increase your productivity, overcome procrastination and focus on high-payoff activities.
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Mastering Presentations
A 2-day skill-building course for individual contributors & managers who make formal or informal presentations, or communicate complex data. The ability to present information and ideas effectively is clearly a critical success factor in business
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Meeting Management
Learn 5 basic tools to handle classic meeting complaints: meetings are unfocused, take too long, revisit same issues, fail to produce action items, people come late, leave early, same few people dominate, and some people resort to personal attacks.
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Microsoft Project Training - Advanced
Learn by doing in an intensive 1-day training on Microsoft Project 2003 or 2007. Lecture, exercises and a sample project give students practical experience using the tools and methods covered. Bonus 25-page quick reference guide/tips/tools handout.
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Microsoft Project Training - Fundamentals
Learn by doing in this intensive 1-day training s on Microsoft Project 2003 or 2007. Lecture, exercises & a sample project gives students practical experience using the tools & methods covered. Bonus 25-page quick reference guide/tips/tools handout.
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Negotiating Value
Negotiating skills helps sales professionals to grow their customer base, improve profitability & maintain excellent relationships with internal team members. Role-plays will enable you to discover your negotiation strengths & areas for improvement.
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Negotiating Vendor Relationships
Designed for business professionals outside the sales arena, this program will help you to effectively negotiate: price, delivery timeframes, quality agreements, turnaround times, unusual terms and conditions, cross-functionally for resources.
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Performance Review Conversations
Through discussion and role-plays, this workshop provides managers with knowledge and tools to set and align clear performance expectations and to work with employees who are not meeting the expectations.
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Precision Questioning and Answering (PQ&A)
This PQ&A course teaches tools for doing two things: 1) improve the efficiency of a business conversation, and 2) raise the level of critical thinking. PQ&A provides a discussion format that sharpens questions and tightens answers.
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Predictive Hiring
This course provides Hiring Managers with the tools needed to ask the right questions to better ensure the candidate is the right person for your company and will become an ""A player"" for your organization.
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Preparing Powerful Presentations
By examining the differing perspectives of business-focused & technology-focused professionals, you'll learn to focus your presentation on the results you want to achieve for effective communication to those with the power to advance your project.
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Presentation Skills
The most persuasive presenters deliver their ideas clearly, demonstrate confidence and enthusiasm, and handle objections with poise. Participants receive video and personal coaching and feedback. Class size limited to 10 participants
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April 12th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Cypress Semiconductor- San Jose, CA

June 1st


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Cypress Semiconductor- San Jose, CA
Presenting to Executives
Incorporating one-on-one coaching and video-recorded feedback, this one-day program provides a highly interactive practice format to drive lasting behavior change.
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Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution
How do you handle conflict? Do you "give in" or stay quiet to avoid an uncomfortable situtation? Learn tools to deal with conflict appropriately, thus creating an opportunity for better communication, and a sense of personal power and influence.
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Problem Solving and Decision Making
This course is about proactively attacking problems and making timely decisions, designed to help you solve work problems and make decisions to bring value to your company and your customers.
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June 19th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Integrated Device Technology, Inc.- San Jose, CA
Project Management: A Team Approach for Accountability & Results
This powerful 2-day project management course gives you the framework, people skills, methodology, and common language to set achieveable expections, overcome obstacles to productivity and generate superior results for project sponsors and customers.
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April 23rd to 24th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM each day
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Integrated Device Technology, Inc.- San Jose, CA
Project Management: Executive Overview
Project sponsors must know how to set expectations that drive achievable results. Learn a methodology and language to generate the accountability and results you know are possible from your project teams.
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Project Planning and Risk Management for Development Teams
This course builds on Project Management: A Team Approach for Accountability & Results, by adding information on customer requirements, engineering specifications, requirements risks, anc a task-responsibility matrix specific for development teams.
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Reliability Concepts and Practices
This 2-day course covers the basics of reliability theory and implementation for design and quality. Emphasis is placed on learning the proper application of each reliability tool and technique and knowing when to apply each-and why.
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Reliability Statistics, Design of Experiments, and Analysis of Variance
Design of Experiments (DOE) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) are fast, efficient, and cost-effective statistical methodologies for studying the effects of experimental factors on response variables of interest.
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Report Writing with Clarity
This one-day workshop provides those who write reports with (1) an efficient process for documentation and (2) techniques to ensure that the information is communicated in an organized, clear, and concise way.
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Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking is how people think about, evaluate, construct, and implement a future that brings value to themselves and their organization. Approaching our work strategically allows us to produce improved results faster and make better utilization
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March 6th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Integrated Device Technology, Inc.- San Jose, CA
Stress Management - Conquering Overwhelm
This program is for people who want to manage the competing priorities of business and home life. Overwhelm is an unproductive reaction to having too much to do -- a condition largely of our own invention. The good news is that there is a way out.
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Supervisor Training
A supervisor or team leader provides the link between management and the workforce. This course provides supervisors with the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviors to increase their effectiveness in their current roles.
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System-on-Chip (SoC) Design Methodology
This two-day course introducse the major SoC logical and physical design challenges and the integration of these two design types to achieve the best performance and power consumption trade-offs.
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Team Based Problem Solving
Learn to identify defeating aspects of quick fixes and create long-term, total system solutions. Use a five-stage problem solving model based on Peter Senge's work to find solutions and to enhance group decision-making.
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Team Building
"Learn the skills to become a successful team member & team leader. This highly interactive session blends activities and games highlighting the importance of TEAM collaboration; team work based self-assessments and role-plays wherever relevant."
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Team Building Using MBTI
Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) is the most widely used tool in the world to gain a deeper understanding of self & others. MBTI enables teams to establish a framework that combines different strengths within a team to form an effective whole.
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Team-Building Activities and Business Simulations
Team building events for groups of 5 to 500 are designed to address the client's needs and produce the client's desired results. All events produce a sense of spirit, energy and personal connectedness.
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TeamWorks: 5 Essential Conversations for High-Performance Teams
In this hands-on, interactive workshop, participants will explore the key elements of a high performing team: Shared Purpose, Mutual Agreements, Clear Roles and Expectations, Stages of a Team, and Best Practices.
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Testing Mixed-Signal System-on-Chip Designs
This class overviews Mixed-Signal SoC testing with emphasis on DSP designs; Mixed-Signal test techniques (A/D, D/A, PLL & Sampling testing); Mixed-Signal DFT & BIST techniques, & examples of Leading state-of-the-art SoCs using the techniques.
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Transitioning from Individual Contributor to Manager
Learn to develop a greater flexibility in dealing people by leveraging a deeper understanding of your own style and how it impacts others. Newly-promoted managers will find these concepts and skills critical to a successful assumption of leadership.
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Verilog for Experienced VHDL Designers
The objective of this course is to help experienced VHDL ASIC/SoC Digital Designers in quickly mastering the Verilog HDL. It focuses on focus on the contrast between Verilog and VHDL in representing the different forms of designs and test benches.
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Virtual Teams: Working Together Apart
Planning and collaboration are key to the successful execution of complex projects involving distance and cultural barriers. This class provides you with the tools to get things done in a distributed team environment.
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May 8th


  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 8 hours
    Sponsored by ETA
    Hosted by Integrated Device Technology, Inc.- San Jose, CA
Writing Audit Reports with Clarity
This workshop provides auditors with a concrete writing process that will guarantee better organization, clarity, and conciseness of their audit status updates and reports.
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Writing Clear Policies, Processes, and Procedures
Learn the key steps of the writing process and how they apply to writing policies and procedures. Learn to plan quickly, format based on purpose and audience, edit and proofread for clarity and correctness.
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