Staff Enrichment Day

• 8:00-9:00 a.m. --- Check-In/Coffee Service
• 9:15-10:30 a.m. --- Opening
• 10:45-11:45 a.m. --- Morning (AM) Workshops
• 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. --- Lunch and Vendors Fair
• 1:45-2:45 p.m. --- Afternoon (PM) Workshops
• 3:00-4:00 p.m. --- Closing/Giveaways

1. Active Listening: Embracing Positive Communication and Hearing the Best in Every Conversation
2. Adapting to Management Change, Led by Marty Altman, ComPsych
3. Caregiving: Relationships, Identity, and Transformations
4. Connecting with the Middle States Self-Study Reaccreditation Process
5. Crafting Connections: Create, Share, Belong
6. Estate Planning 101 - Important Items to Understand with Legal Aid
7. Emergency Preparedness Jeopardy
8. Fitness and Movement 101, Move Your Body, Abril Istre, MC Wellness
9. Fresh Floral Design Basics
10. Get the Most Out of Your Cigna Health Insurance Plan
11. Harmonize & Heal: A Wellness Symphony of Scents and Stillness, MC Wellness
12. Healthy Affordable Cooking with Alana Sugar
13. How to Create a Community Partnership with Montgomery College
14. Intro to Coding with Swift with the ignITe Hub
15. Introduction to Retirement Planning & Wealth Management
16. Know Your Numbers: Check Your BP & Take Charge of Your Heart Health
17. Know Your Union -- AFSCME 2380
18. “Let's Talk It Out" with Kaiser Permanente
19. Learn the 10 Steps to Consider as You Begin Planning for Retirement
20. Making Digital Documents Accessible: Simple Fixes
21. Managing Life in the Workplace
22. Practical Academic Success Tips for Non-Traditional Students
23. Recruiting with Purpose: Navigating Job Market Change and Delivering Exceptional Candidate Experiences at MC
24. Retirement Basics with Sue Redding, MC HRSTM
25. Sound Bath and Meditation, Stacee Johnson
26. Understanding the New Montgomery College 403b/457b Plan
27. Yoga for the Workday with Ana Lincoln, MC Wellness & Grace Studios
28. Zumba Fitness, Roxy Berkheimer, MC Wellness

1. Adapting to Management Change, Led by Marty Altman, ComPsych
2. Baker's Clay: A Restorative Sculpture Workshop
3. Caregiving: Relationships, Identity, and Transformations
4. Connecting with the Middle States Self-Study Reaccreditation Process
5. Everyday Mediation: Practical Tools for Navigating Conflict at Work and in Life
6. Fresh Floral Design Basics
7. Fun and Relaxation with Crafting
8. Harmonize & Heal: A Wellness Symphony of Scents and Stillness, MC Wellness
9. Healthy Affordable Cooking with Alana Sugar
10. How to Create a Community Partnership with Montgomery College
11. Introduction to Retirement Planning & Wealth Management
12. Know Your Numbers: Check Your BP & Take Charge of Your Heart Health
13. Know Your Union -- AFSCME 2380
14. Learn the 10 Steps to Consider as You Begin Planning for Retirement
15. Line Dancing, Gizelle Merced, MC Wellness
16. Microsoft Excel: The Pizza Party Challenge
17. One Sky, Many Stories: A Guided Journey Under the Stars
18. Practical Academic Success Tips for Non-Traditional Students
19. Retirement Basics with Sue Redding, MC HRSTM
20. Sound Bath and Meditation, Stacee Johnson
21. Spring Forward: Embracing Seasonal Shifts in Nutrition and Wellness, MC Wellness
22. Tai Chi Demonstration/Class
23. Understanding the New Montgomery College 403b/457b Plan
24. Yoga Basics, Ana Lincoln, MC Wellness & Grace Studios

Instructions:

1. Access Workday, click Menu, select Learning

2. On the left-hand menu, select My Learning.

3. You should see 2026 Staff Enrichment Day tab. Click View More to see all offerings.

4. Enroll in the Main Event new window and AM and PM workshops.

The Staff Distinguished Service Award is a cash award established from an endowment fund left by Ms. Peggy Bebee, former special assistant for staff concerns. The award is presented yearly to a deserving staff employee as determined by their peers.

The criteria are as follows:

• Nominee must be a regular staff employee with a minimum of five (5) years of service
• Nominee shall have demonstrated or performed a high degree of service for the benefit of staff employees at Montgomery College to one or more of the following:
  1. Served as a staff representative in the governance system
  2. Served as a committee chair or member on standing governance Committee representing staff concerns
  3. Served as a committee chair on a college/campuswide committee representing staff
  4. Nominee would have performed a high degree of service affecting staff within a College unit
  5. Nominee would have performed a distinguished service or implemented a plan or idea which would positively affect staff at Montgomery College.

The recipient of the award will be announced at Staff Enrichment Day event in March. 

To help make this a successful day of personal and professional development, we encourage all staff who are interested in facilitating a workshop to submit a workshop proposal.

Important Note: Only Montgomery College employees and approved Montgomery College vendors may lead Staff Enrichment Day workshops and attend the Information Fair.

We would like to recognize your achievement! Staff who have completed a degree/certificate program since June 2025, or will complete a degree/certificate program by May 2026, will be presented with a certificate.

The SED Planning Committee consists of all staff members at the College. The Chair and Co-Chair oversee the committee while other members work on various parts of the event including catering, professional workshops, communications, and volunteering. 

Shakenna Adams-Gormley (Chair), Antonio Montano (Co-Chair), Nghi Nguyen (Staff Council Chair), Megan Cooperman, Angie Moy, Kaylin Nguyen, Toro Oladokun, Veronica (Michelle Pagan), Adaora Nwigwe, Jeff Chuang, and Jennifer Miranda.

We are also looking for volunteers to help us during the event.