{"id":400226,"date":"2023-10-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=400226"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"NMC-CDI-elevates-gov-t-communications-skills-for-PAO","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/NMC-CDI-elevates-gov-t-communications-skills-for-PAO\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC-CDI elevates gov\u2019t communications skills for PAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coordinated by Northern Marianas College\u2019s Community Development Institute, the CNMI Public Assistance Office recently completed the GovComms: Effective Communication for Government Employees Training Initiative, a four-session government communication program designed to improve communication skills, teamwork, and productivity in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The GovComms initiative focuses on the topic of effective communication in the workplace, with the goal of enhancing teamwork, productivity, and overall job satisfaction for employees. The CDI provided the program\u2019s content, materials, and instructors for the training.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were able to expand on the skills and strategies necessary to effectively communicate in internal and external professional environments.<\/p>\n<p>Skills included but were not limited to writing concise emails, memos, and reports, conducting effective meetings and presentations, effectively communicating with clients and colleagues, workplace communication ethics and etiquette, and the importance of nonverbal communication, active listening, and conflict resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Community Development Institute is committed to empowering professionals through our innovative training,\u201d shared CDI director Monique Sablan. \u201cPrograms such as GovComms are tailored to enhance communication skills, making employees more effective in their roles. Our mission is to help enhance productivity, equipping our clients and their staff with customized training that ensures that they can excel in their essential work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say the Gov Com class was a great opportunity,\u201d shared participant PAO Project Specialist Francisco Deleon Guerrero. \u201cI encourage all to take the course. It\u2019s a very informative training that will enhance your etiquette and speech performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, participants received a certificate of participation, and are able to apply their contact hours toward NMC\u2019s CE250 (Cooperative Education 250) course.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about CDI and its programs, please contact cdi@marianas.edu. <em><strong><em>(NMC)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/0388ee2b1411eee877703ec690345b59.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Employees of the CNMI Public Assistance Office recently completed a four-session government communications training conducted by the Northern Marianas College\u2019s Community Development Institute.<\/p>\n<p>-NMC<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coordinated by Northern Marianas College\u2019s Community Development Institute, the CNMI Public Assistance Office recently completed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}