These courses provide information and hands-on practice in workplace skills such as facilitating meetings, making presentations, and managing time.

Goal Setting and Success

Goals are an important part of productivity and success. This highly-interactive course will provide participants with the tools to design, articulate, and achieve their desired goals.

Participants will:

• Learn a system for writing impactful goal statements
• Apply the five rules of goal-setting success
• Identify action steps to make goals a reality

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Leading Effective Meetings

This course explores proven methods and techniques to ensure that time spent facilitating and participating in meetings is productive.

Participants will:

• Review tips for effective meeting facilitation
• Discuss roles and strategies for productive participation
• Use proven methods to enhance verbal and non-verbal communications

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Leading Up

“Leading Up” is a concept that is beneficial no matter what position on campus you occupy. Building rapport with peers, supervisor and administration is important to a vital and successful career at the U. Applying these principles and skills in your workplace will enable you to create the conversations that are important in dealing with your leader. This course will provide the necessary tools to keep you, and your department, moving from dialogue to action more effectively.

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Transitions and Change: Understanding the Dynamics of Change

This course is a pre-requisite for "Transitions and Change: Managing Transitions at Work."

Major transitions at work are becoming more and more common. This session will outline how change and transition affect your work and personal life. This session will introduce transition and change models and allow time to practice with tools that will help you be successful in changing times.

Participants will:

• Understand key models describing transition and change
• Examine changes and transitions in their own work and personal lives
• Apply specific tools to create an action plan for managing change

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Transitions and Change: Managing Transitions at Work

Pre-requisite: Supervisors and team leaders take this course as a follow-up to "Transitions and Change: Understanding the Dynamics of Change."

Supervisors and team leaders play a key role in ensuring that change and transition occur smoothly and successfully. This session will provide the tools you need to effectively manage transitions and change within your work group.

Participants will:

• Apply change and transition models to current work situations
• Understand how to manage polarities that may arise out of transitions and change
• Learn tools for help employees be successful in managing change

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