This month inside Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter: 

• Staff Performance Evaluations Are Due This Month - The current performance period ended on May 30, 2023. Human Resources recommends that all Appropriate Administrators with direct reports begin reviewing each employee's performance for the current period in preparation for timely completion. As a reminder, all staff evaluations are due to Human Resources by June 30, 2023.

• Creating Authentic Connections in a Virtual Landscape - In this episode of The Edge, David Meerman Scott, author of Fanocracy, joins host Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek to discuss how brands and people are addressing the challenge of maintaining authentic, creative connections virtually during a time of uncertainty.

• How to Change: Adapting for a Post-Pandemic World - If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's how vital it is to adapt. But why is change so hard? And how can we diagnose complacency and conquer our goals?

• Eat Right, Live Well with Jessica Coats - Everywhere you look, someone is trying to sell you the secret to a better body. But is it really healthier? Find out the not-so-secret way to a healthier way of life.

• Providing Developmental Evaluation - This session will offer strategies for using evaluation meetings as developmental, supportive spaces of learning, discuss new approaches to employee development, and address the ways evaluations can be part of a host of equitable and inclusive workplace practices.

• A Fearless Campus – The mission of a Fearless Campus is to create a supportive, inclusive, equitable and psychologically safe campus environment with a common purpose of enabling performance, commitment, and retention for all members of the campus community (leadership, faculty, staff, and students).

• Let’s Explore: Sustainable Living Tips and Ideas - The presenter will discuss topics that range from personal finance to plant-based eating and provide ample ideas to consider as we all strive to live a more sustainable lifestyle.

• Psychology of Spending with Jessica Coats - Learn about your "money personality" and its impact on your attitudes, relationship with money, and spending habits.

• Getting the Most out of your Life with Cindy Sayani - Often people get caught up in the hectic pace of life. What they really desire is a simpler, more meaningful life.

• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World [Book Circle with 4 sessions] - In Originals, Adam Grant addresses the challenge of improving the world: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions.

• Masterclass in Measurement - This masterclass is designed for supervisors who have a working understanding of SMART goals and would like to increase their ability to effectively develop and motivate teams. 

• The First 90 Days - Join this session as Rowena overviews Watkins’ The First 90 Days and highlights critical chapters. In addition, participants will learn essential strategies for moving successfully into a new role at any point in their careers.

• How Every CSU Employee Can Become a Customer Advocate - See how the Customer Advocacy approach can be an essential part of all the tasks and activities you already do every day. Whether you work with internal customers like faculty and staff or external customers like students and parents, learn to find value and focus on what’s best for them even if your resources are limited.

• Increase Productivity with MS OneNote - OneNote is a digital note-taking app that provides a single place for all your meeting notes, plans, and other information. This session is an introduction level course. 

• 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.

• CSU's Got Talent - Manage Conflict So It Doesn't Manage You: Effective Methods to Reach Positive Outcomes

• and more! 

Please visit our June 2023 Newsletter