Deputy Director for Management (DDM) Seminar Series

The DDM Seminar Series offers the NIH community engaging presentations that provide meaningful insights into leadership and management concepts, challenges, and solutions. The seminars provide NIH employees the opportunity to advance their knowledge of best practices in a variety of leadership and management issues.

• December 15, 2011
  Harvey Coleman
  Author of A World of Diversity, which seeks to capitalize on the opportunities inherent in a diverse workforce, and providing organizational tools to embrace differences.
  
  
• New Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012
  Michael Roberto
  Trustee Professor of Management and author of Know What You Don't Know, which examines strategic decision-making processes, senior management teams, and the dynamics of organizational failures.
  
  
• April 19, 2012
  Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.
  Georgetown University professor and New York Times best-selling author of Talking from 9 to 5, which shows how gender-related communication styles affect who gets heard, who gets ahead, and what gets done at work.
  
  
• June 14, 2012
  Daniel Pink
  Author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offers a more effective path to high performance.

The 2011-2012 speakers will address topics to include managing and valuing diversity, strategic decision-making, cultural differences in ways of communicating, and human motivation.  

Onsite participants who sign in at the DDM Seminar Series will receive 1.5 hours of supervisory refresher credits per event.

Each event will be videocast live at http://videocast.nih.gov/. American sign-language will be provided. Please call the NIH Training Center for other reasonable accommodations at 301-496-6211.

Please see "Past Seminars" to view archived webcasts of the lectures.

The NIH DDM Seminar Series is presented by the Deputy Director for Management (DDM), NIH.