Course Catalog

This 2-day Franklin Covey course will help you develop your ability to effectively lead others, explore how to better influence, engage and collaborate.

Adobe Acrobat DC Level 2 is advanced Acrobat learning to include converting technical documents to PDF files and preparing files for commercial printing.

Adobe Acrobat DC Level 1 is an introduction to Adobe Acrobat DC and provides students with information needed to create and share PDF files and PDF portfolios.

The target audience for this course will be CORs with extensive experience desiring a higher-level refresher approach and/or CORs planning to achieve their FAC-COR Level 3 certification or re-certification.

Students will explore various timekeeping issues that may arise for timekeepers and administrative officers. Learn how to troubleshoot employee timecards.

This is a follow-on to the Basic Simplified Acquisition course.

This one-day session summarizes recent changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Course material is continually updated and covers FAR changes finalized in the 12-month period preceding each class.

This one-day course highlights the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) role, responsibilities, conduct, authority and ethics as well as the acquisition phases including planning, solicitation, evaluation and award and contract administration.

Please note that the Basic COR Essentials I class is NOT a pre-requisite.

Learn how to use the Integrated Time and Attendance System (ITAS) - a computerized application tool that timekeepers, supervisors, and employees use to report and track time and attendance.

This course provides an overview of simplified acquisition procedures utilizing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 10, 12, and 13.

This 3 hour course is designed for Principal Investigators, Staff Scientists, and others involved in scientific programs (Intramural and Extramural) whose work may include budget management.

Your ability to build effective teams requires on-going communication. Explore new techniques on how to enhance your communications and hold your people accountable. Do you manage employees that you don’t often see in-person?

In our new work from home environment, face-to-face presentations are a distant memory.

This course is specifically designed for those new to contracting.

This course focuses on executing the acquisition plan through the solicitation phase to include making the source selection decision and awarding a contract.

This two day course is open to CORs, Contract Specialists, Purchasing Agents or other program officials and can be used for elective credit or be applied towards earning a FAC-C Level I certification.

This rigorous two week course provides foundational knowledge of contract cost and price analysis designed for GS-1102 Contract Specialists or may be used as an elective course for CORs and PPMs.

This one day training addresses the proper close out and disposal procedures specific to Research & Development (R&D) contracts, Cost Reimbursement contracts, Fixed Price, Time & Materials and GSA Schedule contracts.

This course looks to improving contractor performance by enhancing COR knowledge and practical application of IT contract management principles, policies and procedures from contract award through contract completion.

This course meets one of the requirements to maintain a FAC-COR certification at NIH.

This course provides students with a full review of COR duties and responsibilities and is intended for students who have already obtained a COR certification.

In today's complex, data-driven world, professionals face many "gray" areas in which they need to think critically and exercise personal judgment.

The late great poet Maya Angelou once said, "I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." At NIH, we feel the same way.

This 2-day course is designed to go beyond the qualitative side of data analysis. Explore proven quantitative tools and methods for analyzing, interpreting, and utilizing data.