Supervisor and Leadership Learning
The Principles of Supervision learning series is being offered virtually, over 7 sessions, on Wednesdays at 8:30-10:30am from September 29 through November 10. This series focuses on developing supervisory skills with higher education in mind.
Through instruction, discussion, practice and reflection, participants will gain a greater mastery of their own supervisory skills and learn strategies for more effectively leading others. It is open to Humboldt employees responsible for supervising other employees, with preference given to those who supervise three or more full-time employees. Participants must attend at least six of the seven sessions. Space is limited to 20 participants.
September also offers nearly two dozen additional learning opportunities on such topics as mitigating bias, onboarding new employees, positive psychology, OpenHSU and Drupal editing, and much more - read on to find the learning opportunities that are right for you!
CSU's Learning Cross-Campus Collaboration
We are pleased to announce a new partnership with more than a dozen CSU campuses to bring you increased access to high-quality professional development opportunities. Each month, learning and development specialists from these campuses are offering virtual, synchronous learning opportunities on a wide variety of topics.
Visit Training.Humboldt.edu to explore learning opportunities and to register. When you click on the course links, you will be taken to a CSU systemwide portal for registration. These courses are open to all employees at participating campuses, and are expected to fill up quickly. Waiting lists will be created if courses fill up.
Featured Tech Skills Course
EVERNOTE 6.0: Sign In & Setup
Evernote gives you everything you need to keep life organized—great note taking, project planning, and easy ways to find what you need, when you need it.
Discover how to work with Evernote notes, including reading and creating them, viewing and editing properties, and using Web Clipper. Explore creating a note from the desktop or a screenshot, annotating, and creating a note from email.
Course time: 55 minutes
Intro to OpenHSU and Drupal Editing
Come learn about OpenHSU and Drupal basics of updating, editing and creating content within your website.
Topics covered include the following:
- Adding a basic page
- Linking to files and other web pages
- Uploading images
Connect and Center
Wind down from the work week and prepare to enter the weekend grounded and with ease. This 30 minute opportunity to connect with others and experience guided meditation is offered weekly on Fridays at noon.
Respect in the Workplace
Designed to create a healthy work environment that promotes mutual respect and positive working relationships. Participants will learn how to:
- Recognize characteristics of a respectful workplace,
- How to promote a respectful workplace with employees,
- How to respond appropriately to disrespectful behavior.
Exposing Hidden Bias
Join us for an important discussion that brings attention to the unconscious biases we all possess and provides some strategies for overcoming its impact in our work and relationships. Come learn about diversity & inclusion, how to recognize areas where unconscious bias may surface, identify strategies for avoiding bias, and learn of resources available for additional learning and involvement.
True Colors Personal Success Workshop
Discover Your True Colors! What are your True Colors? The True Colors Personal Success Workshop combines the element of fun while asking participants to identify four distinct aspects of their personalities. These personality aspects are identified using four different colors: Gold, Blue, Green, and Orange. Each of the color types understands information, interacts with people, and learns differently. Knowing about these differences can increase positive communication between coworkers and help build effective teams. Join us as we learn about ourselves, understand others, and appreciate the differences!
Featured Soft Skills Course
Become a Great Listener
Communication is a two-way process – while one person provides information, another must not only understand what is meant, but also show that they’re being receptive to that information. This requires strong listening skills – a vital asset in any business environment. In this course, you'll work on sharpening your listening skills and getting yourself in the right receptive mindset for communicating. You'll learn how to recognize the behaviors that indicate receptivity, as well as to identify the different types of listener. You’ll also learn how to ask the right questions to ensure that you understand what is being communicated.
Course time: 24 minutes
USC Race & Equity Center's Equity Now! Series
The CSU Student Network is excited to partner with the USC Race & Equity Center for its workshop series Equity Now! — an equity-focused professional development series for CSU staff, faculty, and administrators.
During the 4-week span of the project, Equity Now Project practitioners will:
- Engage in critical identity exploration, increase your understanding of key terminology, complicate your positionality, and identify the various levels racism operates on;
- Gain facility using the following concepts as foundations for racial literacy: peace, racism, power, privilege, equity-mindedness, and antiracism. Learn to identify and combat racial equity detours;
- Learn how to more skillfully access, analyze, and share disaggregated data in your institution as an advocacy tool for racial equity; and,
- Identify key action steps you can take for yourself and in your institution to effect meaningful and sustainable change. Understand how to effectively hold yourself and others accountable.
On the Bookshelf
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
by Adam Grant
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success : passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today's dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In 'Give and Take', Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton's highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom.
De-Siloing: Building Collaboration between Departments
Understand the pitfalls of working in silos and learn simple - but critical - approaches to begin collaborating across departments.
Positive Psychology
Research has shown that happiness and positivity lead to success. During this workshop we will answer the question of “what fuels success?” If we work hard, become successful then we will be happy; however, the formula is backwards. If we choose happiness, the brain works better, and we become successful.
Join this engaging and interactive learning experience on how positive psychology can lead to personal and professional success. We will explore the happiness advantage principles that can help shift our mindset through positive psychology.
CSU's Got Talent
"Cultural Intelligence: As the foundation to diversity, equity and Inclusion" September 29 from 10:00 - 11:00 AM PT
Personal Resilience in an Uncertain World
We already lived in a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, ambiguous and uncertain. Then 2020 arrived. At the onset of the pandemic, we as a University scrambled to rapidly adapt to working and teaching remotely, with commitment to maintaining excellent work quality and continuing to support our students. But this is taking a toll on all of us, and our resilience can wear thin. This session will explore easily accessible ways to build your personal resilience, now and as we continue to adapt in the future.
Creating a Culture of Service Excellence
A must-attend foundational workshop for anyone who desires to create a culture of service excellence. This workshop will provide skills, tips and techniques on how to interact with constituents, manage customer expectations, enhance virtual communication skills, and create a customer-focused environment. This workshop is a great refresher for all, and a good investment of time for new employees and student assistants.
Onboarding New and Reassigned Employees
Employees who move into a new position on campus benefit greatly when their onboarding experience is well-managed and meaningful. Research shows employees who are onboarded with intention and thoroughness are 70% more productive and 82% more likely to stay with their employer. This course will equip anyone with employee onboarding responsibilities with clear guidelines and best practices for onboarding new and reassigned employees.
Change Management – Prosci ADKAR Basics
Change at an institutional, department or even individual level is more than the business side of planning. Every bit as important is the people side of change. Prosci's ADKAR Model is designed to guide change based, fundamentally, on how we as human beings experience change.
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