NEW JERSEY BIOTECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT INITIATIVE
"A unique partnership project to provide workforce training to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey in support of Governor Corzine’s Economic Growth Strategy"

The Biotechnology Council of New Jersey
The HealthCare Institute of New Jersey
The New Jersey Institute of Technology
The New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development
The US Economic Development Administration
And the Consortium

Through funding provided by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the following training courses have been developed and are available for delivery on-site to NJ biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies at no cost:

COURSE TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS

  1. Basics of Project Management: Provides the tools and techniques to plan, implement and monitor complex projects common to those found in biotechnology firms and will focus on technical and scientific projects.
  2. Advanced Project Management: Provides the tools and techniques to plan, implement and monitor complex team projects common to those found in biotechnology firms will focus on technical and scientific projects.
  3. Basics of Good Manufacturing Practices: Provides an introduction to Good Manufacturing / Good Laboratory Practice regulations and their application.
  4. Implementing GMP/GLP: Teaches participants how to use GMP/GLP as a tool to coordinate, control and improve quality in the manufacture, processing, packing or holding of pharmaceutical products.
  5. Six Sigma Overview: Provides an introduction into the Six Sigma principles.
  6. Strategic Planning: Teaches an understanding of the steps, concepts and importance of strategic planning within a biotech company.
  7. Team Leadership: Teaches skills needed to transition into increasingly more responsible levels of management.
  8. Team Building: Teaches skills needed to establish and maintain a strong functioning team.
  9. First Time Supervisor: Provides bench scientists and other individual contributors who have recently been, or soon will be, promoted to their first supervisory position an understanding the functional structure of a biotechnology company and the unique role of the supervisory function in a scientific discovery organization.
  10. Time Management: Teaches methods to establish clear work priorities to efficiently manage and achieve multiple work objectives and goals.
  11. Problem Solving: Teaches the dynamics and sources of conflict in small biotech discovery organizations and provides proven approaches to handling interpersonal, group and organizational conflicts.
  12. Presentation Skills: Teaches biotech bench scientists and administrators the effective business presentation skills and techniques for use with internal and external audiences.
  13. Verbal Communication Skills: Teaches participants effective business communication skills and techniques for use with internal and external audiences.
  14. Written Communication Skills: Teaches effective business writing skills and techniques with internal and external audiences including proper structure, style and grammar.
  15. English as a Second Language (ESL): Teaches biotech bench scientists for whom English is a second language correct English pronunciation and delivery needed to present research proposals and findings.
  16. Business Finance for Bench Scientists: Teaches bench scientists how to understand common business financial reports and internal budgets and determine the financial performance of business units.
  17. Biotechnology for the Non Scientist: Provides the non-scientist an understanding of topics related to the principal areas of emerging technologies, drug development and targeted therapeutics.
  18. Biotechnology Business Ethics - Explores the major ethical issues posed by commercialization of biotechnology.
  19. PC Skills – Access: Teaches scientists who have a base familiarity with Access how to employ Access in a research environment.
  20. PC- Skills – Email: Teaches the effective use of Microsoft Outlook in a business environment.
  21. PC Skills – Spreadsheets: Teaches beginning level users of Excel how to enter data and navigate a spreadsheet, use formulas, modify a workbook, edit cell contents, move and copy data, format spreadsheets, printing spreadsheets and using spreadsheets in a web environment.


Contact Ron Halperin to schedule and reserve training:
 Ron Halperin, Project Coordinator
Biotechnology Council of New Jersey
1AAA Drive, Suite 102
Trenton, New Jersey 08691-1803
609-890-3185
rhalperin@njworkforce.org