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Author Katherine Boo To Visit for 2012’s One Book, One Community

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This year’s One Book, One Community author may only have one book under her belt, but she’s got plenty of background and experience to make for an interesting and thought-provoking program this year.Behind the Beautiful Flowers book

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Katherine Boo is a current writer for The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, chronicles the three years she spent in an Indian slum known as Annawadi, located in the shadows of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. Boo lived with the residents in order to hear their stories, understand their lives and discover characteristics that all humans share.Continue Reading… Author Katherine Boo To Visit for 2012’s One Book, One Community

What Does Leadership Look Like? Part 2

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Last week, we shared with you the first two tips in the four Fs to great leadership. Director for Organization and Employee Development Dawn Hecker helped us finish this list with the remaining two tips. As she said before, there are hundreds of tips for becoming a respected and effective leader.

1. Firm Firm

Being firm means maintaining accountability. Have respectful and direct discussions about a problem in order to give proper feedback about your expectations. Start with the facts of the event that occurred, make sure there’s an understanding among all parties, explore possible solutions, try one out and then evaluate. If you are firm with what you want, employees will respect your expectations.Continue Reading… What Does Leadership Look Like? Part 2

Job of the Week 8/16/12

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This week we’re highlighting a Secretary III position in the Eli Broad College of Business Dean’s Office (Posting #6607). Some of the job duties for this position include providing direct administrative support to the assistant director and advisors; providing backup assistance to assistant/associate directors, assistant dean, office supervisor and support staff; leading support for Broad College Admissions, Broad Scholar Program, undergraduate scholarships, Residential Business Program and ADS; utilizing knowledge of university policies and procedures; and assisting in training and development of student employees within the unit. For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

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Delta Dental helps assess your risk of dental disease

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One of MSU’s dental providers has come out with a quick quiz on whether you may be at risk for dental disease. If you answer ‘yes’ to any of the following statements, you may be at risk! Click on the link below for more information on why each subject may cause dental disease.

What Does Leadership Look Like? Part 1

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Entering a new leadership position may be intimidating if you’ve never been in one before. Director for Organization and Employee Development Dawn Hecker says there are probably hundreds of tips on how to be an effective leader, but here are two of four simple and easy-to-remember tips to start better communicating with and leading your coworkers.

1.       FirstFirst

Before you begin working with a group of people, you must model the behaviors you want in them first. Set some standards and expectations at the pace you want before delegating anything. Focus on the mission at hand rather than a specific task and remember to keep a positive attitude.Continue Reading… What Does Leadership Look Like? Part 1

Events Round-Up 8/14 to 8/24

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Tuesday, August 14

Meet the Spartans, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Downtown East Lansing

Wednesday, August 15

Time Mastery Essentials, 8:30 a.m. to noon, 10 Nisbet

Cascade Server Content Manager, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., 216 Bessey Hall

Thursday, August 16

Time to Treat, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Sparrow Hospital Auditorium

Tour of Beal Botanical Garden, 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m., Beal Garden

Friday, August 17

Renegade Theatre Festival, 7 p.m., Old Town

Saturday, August 18

2nd Annual Grand Art Market, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lansing City Market

Tuesday, August 21

ANGEL Introduction, 9 a.m. to noon, Main Library Basement Instruction Room

New Faculty and Organizational Research Fair, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., Kellogg Center Big Ten A

Wednesday, August 22

U Can Quit Support Group, 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m., 248 Olin Health Center

Old 27 Motor Tour, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Mega Mall in Lansing

Thursday, August 23

Outlook 2010 – Level 2, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 403 Computer Center

Moonlight Film Festival: Back to the Future, 9 p.m., Valley Court Park

Friday, August 24

Sun Dried Music Festival, through Saturday, Downtown Mason

Job of the Week 8/9/12

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This week we’re highlighting two Administrative Assistant I positions in the Controller’s Office (Postings #6546 and #6575). Some of the job duties for these positions include assisting in the operational activities of the Cashier’s Office, including Delinquent Receivables, Delinquent Parking Tickets, Returned Checks/ACH, Cash Advances and payment card merchant support, including compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS); serving as backup to the office manager and assistant managers; providing backup to the Departmental Receivables function as necessary.

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For a complete description of these positions, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

Thank You Neighborhood Facilities Staff!

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Year round, facilities workers keep MSU’s neighborhoods intact. Providing custodial, maintenance and construction services for the residential halls, the staff and student employees gets little notice for their day-to-day efforts. So today, we’re thanking them for keeping things running smoothly while students are away for the summer and while they’re here for the fall and spring semesters!Continue Reading… Thank You Neighborhood Facilities Staff!

MegaBus Has Arrived in East Lansing

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The famous $1 bus trips now have a stop in East Lansing. Since Thursday, July 12, megabus.com has three daily stops at the East Lansing Amtrak station to and from Chicago.

The newly-added route starts in Detroit and stops in East Lansing and Grand Rapids before arriving in Chicago. The opposite route to Detroit also has three daily stops in East Lansing. MegaBus has had a Detroit-Ann Arbor-Chicago route since 2006.

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Megabus.com can now be found parked in East Lansing! Photo courtesy of megabus.com.

The daily stops to Chicago are 2:15 a.m., 10:15 a.m., and 7:45 p.m. and the trip takes roughly five hours, where you’ll arrive at Union Station. The daily stops to Detroit are 5:50 a.m., 1:25 p.m, and 9:25 p.m. and the trip takes roughly an hour and a half.Continue Reading… MegaBus Has Arrived in East Lansing

Job of the Week 8/3/12

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This week we’re highlighting an Accountant II position in the Human Medicine Dean’s Office (Posting #6537). Some of the job duties for this position include assisting in developing financial structures to facilitate reporting requirements; analyzing complex integrated business processes to assess opportunities and risks; assessing accuracy of accounting transactions; assisting in development of college-level business policy in complement with University policy; and working with staff and faculty across the college on project-related work. For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.