May, 1999 HGS Seminars, Courses and Field Trips

May, 1999Seminars, Short Courses, and Field Trips

Career Decision Workshop: In order to solve a problem, you need to describe it. This workshop adds the words to describe it.

Instructor: Dr. John Dyck of Drake Beam Mortin, Inc.
Date: Session B: Wednesday May 5, 1999
Time: 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: To be announced
Reservations: Please telephone the HGS office (713-785-6402) or e-mail.
Note: The first session, "Session A", was held Thursday April 8, 1999.

Description: Attendees walk out with an action plan for the next day, next week, and next month after assessing skills, interests, and personality for best fit. This workshop will be given twice, once in April and again in May. Class size is limited to 20-25. Cost is $25.00 to cover the price of materials. This class is being underwritten by Drake Beam Mortin, Inc. and the HGS.
Speaker Biography:
Drake Beam Morin is the worldwide leader in providing strategic consulting solutions that align organizational and individual goals, values, and competencies to achieve business results and career success. Drawing on its incomparable experiences, resources, and global network, Drake Beam Morin delivers state-of-the-art human resource services that focus on employee selection, development, retention, and outplacement, as well as individual career management and transition.
With more than 180 offices in over 35 countries, Drake Beam Morin is a subsidiary of Harcourt General, a $4 billion publishing, education, and specialty retailing company.
John W. Dyck, Jr., Ph.D. serves as the staff psychologist and managing consultant in Houston. In addition to performing psychological assessments for executive and senior clients, he provides career counseling, management consulting, and executive coaching to numerous businesses and executives at all organizational levels.

Mastery of Learning

Instructor: To be announced
Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 - Satrurday, May 16,1999
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday evening, 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Location: Westchase Hilton
Cost: $250 (normally $1250)
Reservations: The HGS is underwriting a major portion of this course as an aid for displaced workers. The registration fee covers tuition, program materials, snacks, and refreshments each day. Time is allotted for meals. Attendance is limited to 25, so full payment is required at time of registration. To register, Click here to get a copy of the registration form . Then print it out and mail the send registration form with your check for $250 to the Houston Geological Society , 7457 Harwin, Ste. 301, Houston, TX 77036-2190.
For more information contact: Chris Welsh (800-289-1442 / 713-439-1442 / chris@masteryoflearning.com) or Synthia Smith (713-621-5720 / synthia@masteryoflearning.com.)

Description:
Handle the Information Overload with Mastery of Learning
Modern technology is supposed to make our lives easier. Instead, we are overloaded with a glut of information and a never-ending, ever-steeper learning curve. Daily there are faxes, e-mails, new software programs and other things that give us more to do in less time. Stress increases due to the fact that people are using old learning methods to incorporate information. There is a solution. Mastery of Learning is an experiential course designed to help you rediscover the joy of learning and gain the new skills required for today's learning environment.
"The last decade of the 21st century is the first time that we've had to deal with a glut of information. We're trying to mine that glut with the same tools we used to mine the scarcity of information. Learning is a whole body experience and a key skill for the new economy. Through Mastery of Learning, participants learn how the brain processes information. Old learning blocks from the past are deconstructed." Chris Welsh, President of Mastery of Learning.
Course contents include:

• New Models - from the emerging science of chaos and complexity applied to learning, systems thinking, personal mastery and change resiliency
  
• Idea mapping - a process of visually capturing and displaying information
  
• Looping - draws out your inner thoughts directly from the subconscious onto paper
  
• Visualization - applies sports psychology techniques to clarifying and achieving your learning goals
  
• Reading - more than doubles your reading speed with equal or better comprehension

Most participants want to keep up with change on the job and learn faster.

SIPES seminar You're On Your Own, Kid or Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur(Helping the Self-Employed to Survive)

Date: Tuesday May 18, 1999
Place: The Shell Auditorium, conveniently located downtown on the tunnel system beneath the lobby of One Shell Plaza.
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Please plan to arrive by 7:30 a.m., so that we may begin promptly at 8:00
Location: The Shell Auditorium, conveniently located downtown on the tunnel system beneath the lobby of One Shell Plaza.
Cost: Pre-registration $50.00, At the door registration $65.00
To Pre-Register: Please send your name, address, phone number and a check to:
SIPES HOUSTON CHAPTER811 Dallas, Suite 1416Houston, Texas 77002Questions? Call B. K. Starbuck @ 713-651-1639

Background Information:
SIPES is an organization of independent geoscience contractors and consultants. Members include a wide range of geoscientists including contractors, prospect generators, and those who work for participatory interests.
"The message we want to send is that this is the best of times and the worst of times," said Deborah Sacrey, a national director for SIPES. "There are many opportunities out there for independents during difficult economic times."
The course will include sessions on getting started as an independent, finding your market niche, marketing yourself, how to approach specific companies, how much to charge for your work, financial and legal aspects, proposals, finding geoscience data bases, selecting and learning to use computer hardware and software, subcontracting, invoicing and collecting fees, and ethical considerations of independents.
More than 200 geoscientists attended the seminar when it was last offered in 1991. SIPES expects the course to be as popular now, and additional sessions will be scheduled if there is enough interest.
The Houston Geological Society and AAPG are co-sponsoring this very timely seminar. If you are contemplating becoming an independent consultant/entrepreneur, you will want to attend. An abbreviated version of this seminar is scheduled for the AAPG convention in San Antonio. Look for the specific time and place at the AAPG registration area in San Antonio. You will benefit by attending both the abridged version in San Antonio and the complete seminar in Houston.
Topics to be covered include:

1. What type of work to do—Robert Pledger
   
2. Bookkeeping and tax information for the self-employed—Neil Blakely
   
3. Legal liabilities, business structure, and oil and gas agreements—Ron Moore
   
4. Intellectual property— the consequences of theft of geological ideas—Jim Pearson
   
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