This month inside Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter: 

• Enjoy the Journey - CSU Learn has implemented a new type of content called Journeys.  Each Journey is a guided collection of courses, book and audio summaries about specific roles and skills.  A journey keeps you working toward an overall goal, helping you to achieve your career aspirations.

• Java Novice to Javanista Journey - If you are new to Java development, you may be a little apprehensive - how easy is Java to learn? This journey helps you get started with Java and it will take you all the way to becoming an accomplished Java developer!

• Delighting Customers with Design Thinking Journey -  Design thinking is a customer-centric approach to determining how best to meet customer needs, and advocates early stakeholder engagement in the co-creation and development of solutions. 

• Continuous Improvement Essentials - "Lean Basics" - This workshop is designed for staff to understand the basics of Continuous Improvement using Lean tools. 

• How to Electrify Your Drive – The Switch to an Electric Car - Have you been thinking about driving electric, but still have questions? How will I charge? How far can I go? How expensive is it? Will I miss stopping at the gas station?

• Personal Branding - Building your Professional Presence – What does your personal branding say about you? Join us as we discuss the importance of personal branding in attaining your professional presence and aspired goals.

• Decisions, Decisions! Creative Problem Solving and Decision-Making Techniques - In this workshop you will learn and apply creative thinking techniques to problems, learn and practice a method of Problem Solving which can be applied to nearly any situation, and learn four styles of effective Decision Making and match them to appropriate situations.

• Success as 1st Gen Professional - Join us to learn about potential barriers and strategies to address concerns as you transition from college to career. This session might be most beneficial for those recently switching from a student to staff opportunity in higher education or other industries.

• Trust is a Verb! - The Action you can Observe, Measure, and Create - Learn practical ways you can build, observe, and measure trust starting with self trust. 

• Selling Yourself, Selling Your 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.

• CSU's Got Talent - Unleashing Your Greatness: 5 Keys to Being Extraordinary.

• Productivity Tools - This workshop will provide a demo and overview of different productivity tools you can use to increase work productivity, manage large projects, and improve collaboration across team members.

• Video -  Top 7 NEW Features in Microsoft Word

• Online Skillshops @ the Library

• Upcoming Training Opportunities 

• and more! 

Please visit our October 2022 Newsletter