October, Emotional Wellness Month
At Cal Poly Humboldt, we care about your physical and your emotional wellbeing. One of our benefits is the Employee Assistance Program where you can speak with a licensed counselor about issues related to mental well-being, including job stress, financial issues, person relationship issues, substance abuse concerns, or anything else that you may need to talk through. To learn more, click here.
Part of gaining, or maintaining, our emotional wellness is to have better communication with our peers, learning how to pitch an idea, and how to be an empathetic and people-centered leader. Also, learning how to provide and receive feedback, how to deal with triggers, and how to facilitate challenging conversations.
This month, the Cross Campus Collaboration courses have options that touch many of these topics, as well as weekly sessions of guided mindfulness practices and meditation. We hope that you take advantage of these opportunities.
Featured Tech Skills Course
Ensuring Successful Presentation Delivery
Whether your job includes delivering sales pitches, making PowerPoint presentations, or leading team trainings, presentation excellence can only be achieved when the standard of your public speaking matches the quality of your content. Having diligently prepared your presentation, you need to make sure that your delivery is engaging, enthusiastic, composed, and confident. In this course, you'll learn how to set up the right environment for your business presentations. You'll also learn techniques for managing stage fright and using your verbal communication skills and body language to deliver your message clearly and effectively. Finally, you'll learn about how to deal with audience questions in a Q&A session and the impact this has on your credibility.
Teach with Care, Serve with Kindness
Join Dr. Geneva Craig for a transformative professional development workshop designed for faculty and staff. This workshop, Teach with Care, Serve with Kindness, emphasizes the critical role of empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence in both teaching and service roles.
Creating a Culture of Feedback Using the Plus/Delta Tool
People and teams that routinely ask, "What went well?" and "What could be even better next time?" inspire a culture of trust, continuous improvement, and collaboration. This session focuses on changing one's perspective about the value feedback can have at work and in life.
The Five Elements of Wellbeing
During this workshop, participants will take the Gallup Wellbeing Index to define their levels of Wellbeing in each of the Five Elements. The Five Elements will be briefly reviewed, including which one(s) to focus on first, and participants will be given time to identify gaps between their current levels of Wellbeing and their ideal state of thriving Wellbeing.
Dealing with Triggers
A trigger is when we react to a current situation with feelings and emotions from a prior negative experience. Learn how to overcome your triggers by addressing, processing, and resolving them.
Getting Started with MS OneNote
Increase productivity and efficiency with Microsoft OneNote. OneNote is a digital note-taking app that provides a single place for all your meeting notes, plans, and other information. This session is an introduction level course. MS OneNote is part of the Office 365 suite.
Empowerment Through Improvement: A Workshop for Ongoing Success-Session #1
Sign up today for an interactive workshop designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary for continuous improvement and operational excellence. Through a blend of theory, best practices, and hands-on simulations, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of process improvement methodologies.
Ten Steps to Financial Success
We all measure financial success differently, but all paths to get there require discipline and goals. This session teaches participants ways to maintain financial control.
Weekly Dose of Mindfulness
Weekly Dose of Mindfulness is an opportunity for all CSU community members to experience guided mindfulness practices with a trained facilitator.
Featured Soft Skills Course
Abbreviating, Capitalizing, and Using Numbers
Writing well is not just about constructing logical sentences. It also involves the correct use of abbreviations, capital letters, and numbers in your business writing. Knowing how to use them consistently is a strong asset to have as part of your communication skills. In this course, you'll learn the basic rules of capital letters, abbreviations, and numbers. You'll learn how to correctly abbreviate titles, names, locations, and countries, as well as how to capitalize direct quotes, titles, names of organizations, and product names, among other elements. In addition, you'll explore other key elements for better writing - the forms and uses of numbers with dates and time, money, fractions, and symbols.
Servant Leadership: Lessons from Ted Lasso
This engaging and interactive training session leverages the popular Apple TV series Ted Lasso to explore the concept of servant leadership. Participants will learn how to embody servant leadership principles by examining the actions and behaviors of Ted Lasso, a character renowned for his empathetic and people-centered leadership style. Through video clips, group discussions, and practical activities, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to serve others first to achieve effective and inspiring leadership.
Selling Yourself, Selling Your Ideas
Every day we sell ourselves and our ideas. As a staff member pitching a procedure or preparing your self-evaluation, or as a faculty member working on a grant application, research competition, or compiling your PIF, it is important to recognize the significance of your work, your ideas, and yourself, and how to sell or convey this in an efficient and successful way.
Excel: From Raw Data to Summarized Findings
This course offers an exploration of essential Excel techniques to transform raw data into organized, summarized findings. Participants will master common Excel formulas, learn to format data as tables, create and manipulate pivot tables, and effectively use VLOOKUP. The course focuses on providing practical skills to enhance data analysis and reporting capabilities, enabling users to turn data into clear, actionable information.
Google Inbox and Calendar Management
This workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate Gmail and Google Calendar users to advance their inbox automation and calendar management skills. Led by Thuy Nguyen, an SJSU career counselor and tech enthusiast, this session will teach you how to set healthy boundaries at work and create a personalized organizational system.
DEIA: Building Foundations for Inclusivity
This interactive, live instructor-led training session by SkillPath delves into the fundamentals of creating an inclusive workplace. Participants will explore key concepts of Equal Employment Opportunity, defining diversity and inclusion, and encouraging ideas to develop habits of inclusivity. This session is for learners of all levels, from beginners to those looking to reinforce their understanding of DEIA principles.
Gender Identity and Pronoun Use
This training will provide foundation information on gender, gender identity, and biological sex and highlight the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation. The training will provide best practices on how to incorporate pronoun usage in your day to day work and interactions that help foster a space for inclusivity and learning.
Virtual Stepping Beyond - Customer Service
Stepping Beyond: Customer Service Training will review the components of customer service and will give participants an opportunity to step out of their shoes and into those of their customers. They will learn about "stepping beyond" customers' expectations to create a culture of helping and caring on campus.
CSU's Got Talent
"Frugal Innovation - Co-building a Better World with Less" October 16 from 10:00 - 11:00 PM
Upcoming Classes
Nice to Meet You! A Framework for Cultivating Connection and Agency
This course will equip leaders with a robust framework for conducting impactful one-on-one and team meetings.
This Is Your Brain...On Feedback!
Feedback. We all give and receive it both at work and in our personal lives. It can be an emotionally exhausting experience to be on either side of the conversation. In this workshop, we will explore how our brains receive and process feedback. We will create a simple brain map to understand our personal reactions to feedback, which will in turn help us better frame the feedback we provide to others.
Facilitating Challenging Conversations: Facilitation Basics (part 2 of 3)
What a facilitator does with and for a group, sometimes before even walking into the room, can make a world of difference for how discussions will go. In this workshop we will discuss actions you can take to create the conditions for productive conversations about challenging topics, including establishing clear guidelines for interaction and providing careful structure for the discussion. We will also discuss strategies to address common facilitation concerns / challenges.
Design Studio: PowerPoint Visual Design for Non-Designers
This workshop provides practical tips and hands-on exercises to help you create visually appealing slides in Microsoft PowerPoint. Refine your designer's eye! Software note: Join workshop with PowerPoint ready to use. Skill level: Novice to Intermediate PowerPoint users.
Your Brand is Everywhere
here are little changes we can make in our day-to-day work that go a long way on the web, making our brand consistent and accessible. By the end of this session, you will have a better understanding of your brand and how to use it consistently in various channels.
Using Inclusive Language
This workshop explores inclusive language strategies that will help attendees communicate respectfully and with the goal of bringing everyone into the conversation, no matter the venue.
Breath and Health
Have you ever experienced how altering the pattern you breathe improves your state of mind? Come experience the intimate link between our breath and our emotions. During the session, we will do some light gentle stretches and guided meditation. Come prepared to leave this 30-minute virtual session afresh, anywhere you are!
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