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Career Enrichment workshops are your entryway into the wide range of professional development offerings from Organizational Effectiveness. Best of all, they're available when you are - attend a live class, watch online via UM Connect, or view a video of a session when it's convenient for you. You can choose to take one course, or all the courses in a series. There's no cost for University employees. Videos will be available shortly after the live session.
There are currently two workshop series available:
Resilience in the Face of Change
Best-Selling Personal Leadership
This five-session learning program will provide information on a variety of topics to help us understand the impact of change on our lives, as well as tools and techniques to build the resilience that will help us better face it. Here is an overview of the sessions. You can register for any or all of the sessions.
Week 1: Resilience in the Face of Change: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Our Brains and Change
Session presentation (powerpoint)
Week 2: Models of Change that Help Us Understand our Reactions to Change
Week 3 - How Yoga, Meditation and Exercise Help During Times of Change
Instructor: Erik Storlie, Ph.D., on behalf of the Wellness Program and Center for Spirituality and Healing
Week 4 - Helping Each Other and Our Team During Times of Change
Instructor: Brandon Sullivan, Employee Engagement Manager, Office of Human Resources
Week 5 - Pulling It Together and Creating an Action Plan
Instructor: Rosie Barry
This five-session learning program will examine the key components of four recent best-selling leadership books. Each week a brief overview of a model from one of the books will be presented to be followed by small table discussions of how to apply the concepts to situations in the workplace and in life. Here are the books that will be covered including a concluding session focused on action planning. You can register for any or all of the sessions. You do not need to read the book prior to attending the session.
Week 1 - To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth about Motivating Others by Daniel Pink
Instructor: Brandon Sullivan, Employee Engagement Manager, and Dave Dorman, Leadership Program Coordinator
Session presentation (ppt)
Session pre-work (doc)
Week 2 - Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by Margaret Wheatley
Instructor: Peg Lonnquist, Director, Women's Center
Session presentation (ppt)
Session pre-work (doc)
Week 3 - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Instructor: Scott Studham, Vice President and CIO, Office of Information Technology
Session presentation (ppt)
Week 4 - Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath
May 31, 1:00-2:00, room 210 Donhowe or UM Connect
Instructor: Mel Mitchell, Director, Organizational Effectiveness
Registration for 210 Donhowe session
Registration for UM Connect session
Week 5 - Pulling It Together and Creating an Action Plan
June 7, 1:00-2:00, room 210 Donhowe or UM Connect
Instructor: Lea Bittner-Eddy, Consultant, Organizational Effectiveness
Registration for 210 Donhowe session
Registration for UM Connect session
Organizational Effectiveness
200 Donhowe Building, 319 15th Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455