HSU Professional Development Newsletter - May 2020

May 4, 2020

This month inside HSU Professional Development Newsletter:  

  • Learning in This New Reality - Learning is inevitable in a dynamic and challenging time like we are all experiencing. None of us signed up for this, and it's probably fair to say none of us saw this coming just a few short months ago. And yet we move forward, adapting and learning as we go. 

  • Adobe CC Overview of New Features - This course introduces learners to the new features for the Design, Web, and Video tools in Adobe Creative Cloud. 

  • Creating Work/Life Balance - This Challenge Series exercise explores the ways that work/life balance can be created to minimize stress and maximize productivity. 

  • CSU's Got Talent: Leveraging Positivity - Bolstering capacity when difficult conversations, tense moments, and unwelcome change loom.

  • CSU's Got Talent Webcast Special Event - Stay Positive - Join a special CSU's Got Talent with Shola Richards, author of "Go Together" and "Making Work Work". 

  • Performance Evaluations for 2019/2020 Period - It is time for annual staff evaluations to be completed. Due to contractual reasons, the performance evaluation periods are unchanged. The performance period for evaluation staff continues to be May 1st to May 1st, final-signed evaluations due in HR by May 31st. 

  • On the Bookshelf Rising Strong by Brené Brown 

  • Resources for Managing Stress during COVID-19 

  • Managers: Here's A 7-Step Practical Guide To Leading A Remote Team - Managers of remote teams do all the same things in-office managers do: Hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, weekly check-ins, and more. We just do them a little… differently. 

  • If You Suddenly Work Remotely, Communication Matters More Than Anything Else

  • Online Skillshops @ the Library 

  • Upcoming Training Opportunities 

  • and more! 

Please visit our May 2020 Newsletter.