Sandra Clark

Director of PR & Outreach, UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley - Sandra is an experienced professional for program sales in continuing education and works to promote UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley. She specialized for many years in offering onsite training to Silicon Valley companies. Her background also includes an extensive range of marketing, and general management expertise. Working as an leader, team builder and change manager, Sandra works with fast growth entrepreneurial and Fortune 100 companies, both in national and international markets as well as both technology and bioscience companies. Sandra is an entrepreneur who identifies opportunities to promote and market new ideas and programs for Extension, including the first University of California Extension blog. In her latest role Sandra is responsible for developing and promoting the use of social media at UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley.

PM Classes ROI – Executive Summary and Reporting

PM Classes ROI - Executive Summary and Reporting

We’re asking that every 6 months (too long/too short?) that the students in the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s (SCVWD) Project and Program Management Certificate program do a short (half-page?) report on lessons learned to date. During that time most of them should have completed 1-3 classes (30-75 hours of training.)  Since the time taken [...]

PM Classes ROI – Measuring

PM Classes ROI - Measuring

The classes in the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s (SCVWD) program this year (it varies slightly from year to year) are Role of the Project Manager, Scheduling Optimization Techniques for Managers, Project Integration & Risk Management, Creating the Successful Project Team, Project Management Negotiation Principles & Techniques, Project Leadership & Communication, and the capstone course [...]

PM Classes ROI – Getting Started

PM Classes ROI - Getting Started

I’ve occasionally been involved with trying to collect ROI data for classes UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley has offered.   It’s challenging and unless a company is really prepared to spend some money and time on doing the collection and analysis (and involving HR and confidentiality when you start talking about rating people’s skills) ROI usually [...]

Haikus from Cisco

UCSC Extension did an onsite class in Creative Thinking at Cisco last month.  I thought you might resonate with the results.  And yes, I do know that some of them don’t strictly follow haiku rules!
Cisco project team
Talented, Creative people
As always, Snafu
 
Project done, boss says
That is exactly what I asked for
But not what I want
 
Cisco Project yeah!
We work [...]