Offered in partnership with Western Industrial Nevada (WIN), this new course from Extended Studies will help you take your skills to new levels in areas already familiar to you: influencing others, negotiating tough issues, and persuading others to support and take action. In one intensive daylong session, you will learn how to add powerful communication skills to your abilities and develop strategies for:
- Getting what you need when you need it
- Motivating others
- Gaining support to achieve your goals
You also will examine the similarities and differences among influence, negotiation and persuasion, and develop a communication process for transitioning smoothly from one discipline to another. This course will help you learn to incorporate new techniques and discover your unique communication style to more successfully achieve a specific result or action.

Instructor: Jeffrey Hansler, CSP, president and CEO, Oxford Company

Sept. 23, 2010 – Thurs., 9 a.m – 4 pm
University of Nevada, Reno, Redfield Campus, 18600 Wedge Parkway, Reno

Price: $195, includes course materials, parking and lunch
Register online at http://bit.ly/d8O02f or call (775) 784-4062 or 1-800-233-8928.)

Please note that instructor Jeffrey Hansler will be speaking at the WIN Breakfast September 24.

Effective marketing is nothing more than effective communication — communication that truly connects to the needs and desires of its intended audience. There are many new and exciting tools available now to send your company’s messages, but how do you orchestrate these tools into an effective campaign that makes a positive impact on your bottom line? In less than an hour, we’ll discuss the key concepts and processes you’ll need to feel 100% confident in how you approach your market for maximum impact.

Presenter: Debra Deming, NSBDC Business Development Advisor

September 23, 2010 – 11:45 PM – 1:00 PM
Reno City Council Chambers – Reno City Hall, first floor, 1 East First St.

Price: FREE to the Public

RSVP online or call 775-784-1717

Dr. David C. Redding
NASA / CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California

Dr. Redding will describe image-based wavefront sensing and control methods that he and his team developed for the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as other space and ground-based observatories. Examples will be drawn from several testbeds and operational systems.

Presented by The Right Stuff of Tahoe, the UNR Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Department,
the Northern Nevada Chapter of the IEEE Photonics and Microwave Theory & Techniques Societies, and the Reno-Tahoe Photonics Chapter of the Optical Society of America

Thursday, September 23, 2010 – 2:00 – 3:00 pm,
Room 203, Orvis School of Nursing Bldg. 33
The University of Nevada, Reno

UNR parking information and campus map at www.UNR.edu/parking/visitorparking.html

Background. Hubble Space Telescope, arguably the most productive astronomical observatory of its time, was launched with undetected flaws in its optics, which threatened to render it useless. Analysis of Hubble images revealed the problem: a mis-configured primary mirror. After a wait of 3 years and a very expensive Shuttle mission to repair Hubble, an astronaut-assisted “wavefront control” loop was closed, and the space telescope began to fulfill its spectacular promise. The Hubble experience, painful as it was, had a bright silver lining: NASA began to develop active optics and technologies for wavefront sensing and control: mirrors that can deform on command, and software that measures the errors of the system and issues correcting commands to the mirrors. Instead of astronaut servicing, space telescopes of the future will be able to correct Hubble-like problems in a real wavefront control loop. Active optics are also very lightweight and can be deployed after launch, opening the possibility of truly large space telescopes that could provide revolutionary improvements in astronomical and earth sciences.

Background article: S. Bikkannavar and D. C. Redding. The end of blur. IEEE Spectrum. 7 (3). Mar-2010. 46 – 52.

Dr. David C. Redding is Program Scientist for advanced optical systems at the NASA / CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on new technologies and mission designs. He received his PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1984 from Stanford University, working on Space Shuttle flight control at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory before moving to JPL. He became interested in optics when asked to design a control system for laser mirrors, ultimately developing a powerful optical modeling software package used on many missions at JPL. He developed image-based wavefront sensing methods as part of the Hubble recovery effort, and was the original architect of the James Webb Space Telescope optical control system. He and his colleagues were NASA Software of the Year Award winners in 2007 for wavefront sensing software, and runners-up in 1994 for their optical modeling code.

More information at www.renotahoephotonics.com

Selling to the government is a good source of additional revenue.  Attend this workshop and find out how your business can contract with the federal General Services Administration.

GSA pre-negotiates contracts with businesses like yours, which other federal agencies can use to buy goods and services. It maintains a large collection of these contracts in the ‘GSA Schedule’. Procurement managers from government agencies can view these agreements and make purchases from the GSA Schedule.

Attend this workshop and hear a GSA representative tell how to contract with the General Services Administration. Space is limited, so register now!

Who should attend the workshop?   Small businesses with two years’ history that are prepared to begin contracting, small businesses currently contracting with the government and businesses wanting to learn how to contract in the future.

Thursday, September 23, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Washoe County Government Center
Building ‘C’ Conference Room, 1001 E. 9^th St., Reno

Price:    FREE!

RSVP online or call 775-784-1717.

For information contact: Judith Hepburn, SBA, 775-827-4923.

The Sanchez Wealth Advisors, comprised of Jon Sanchez, Jamie Kalicki and Michael Bosma, will be speaking on how professionals are leveraging technology and process flow to better serve clients.

Jon, Jamie and Mike will present current issues facing businesses in the area of wealth management, estate and trust law, and taxes.  Time will be allotted to question the panelists, and seek the advice you need.  The other wealth advisors, including Scott Pomeroy, Corey Edge, Dwight Millard, and Kevin Darby will be available to respond as well.

Thursday , September 23 – 11:30-1:00pm
The Bosma Group, P.C.
5575 Kietzke Lane Suite B, Reno

To RSVP contact Christy at 786-4900 or ccarlon@thebosmagroup.com