Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter - October 2024
September 30, 2024
This month inside Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter:
October, Emotional Wellness Month
At Cal Poly Humboldt, we care about your physical and your emotional wellbeing. One of our benefits is the Employee Assistance Program where you can speak with a licensed counselor about issues related to mental well-being, including job stress, financial issues, person relationship issues, substance abuse concerns, or anything else that you may need to talk through.
Part of gaining, or maintaining, our emotional wellness is to have better communication with our peers, learning how to pitch an idea, and how to be an empathetic and people-centered leader. Also, learning how to provide and receive feedback, how to deal with triggers, and how to facilitate challenging conversations.
CSU Learn Courses
- Ensuring Successful Presentation Delivery - In this course, you'll learn how to set up the right environment for your business presentations. You'll also learn techniques for managing stage fright and using your verbal communication skills and body language to deliver your message clearly and effectively. Finally, you'll learn about how to deal with audience questions in a Q&A session and the impact this has on your credibility.
- Abbreviating, Capitalizing, and Using Numbers - In this course, you'll learn the basic rules of capital letters, abbreviations, and numbers. You'll learn how to correctly abbreviate titles, names, locations, and countries, as well as how to capitalize direct quotes, titles, names of organizations, and product names, among other elements.
- Teach with Care, Serve with Kindness - Join Dr. Geneva Craig for a transformative professional development workshop designed for faculty and staff. This workshop, Teach with Care, Serve with Kindness, emphasizes the critical role of empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence in both teaching and service roles.
- Selling Yourself, Selling Your Ideas - Every day we sell ourselves and our 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.
- Creating a Culture of Feedback Using the Plus/Delta Tool - People and teams that routinely ask, "What went well?" and "What could be even better next time?" inspire a culture of trust, continuous improvement, and collaboration. This session focuses on changing one's perspective about the value feedback can have at work and in life.
- The Five Elements of Wellbeing - During this workshop, participants will take the Gallup Wellbeing Index to define their levels of Wellbeing in each of the Five Elements. The Five Elements will be briefly reviewed, including which one(s) to focus on first, and participants will be given time to identify gaps between their current levels of Wellbeing and their ideal state of thriving Wellbeing.
- Dealing with Triggers - A trigger is when we react to a current situation with feelings and emotions from a prior negative experience. Learn how to overcome your triggers by addressing, processing, and resolving them.
- Facilitating Challenging Conversations: Facilitation Basics (part 2 of 3) - In this workshop we will discuss actions you can take to create the conditions for productive conversations about challenging topics, including establishing clear guidelines for interaction and providing careful structure for the discussion. We will also discuss strategies to address common facilitation concerns/challenges.
- Servant Leadership: Lessons from Ted Lasso - This engaging and interactive training session leverages the popular Apple TV series Ted Lasso to explore the concept of servant leadership. Participants will learn how to embody servant leadership principles by examining the actions and behaviors of Ted Lasso, a character renowned for his empathetic and people-centered leadership style.
- Excel: From Raw Data to Summarized Findings - This course offers an exploration of essential Excel techniques to transform raw data into organized, summarized findings. Participants will master common Excel formulas, learn to format data as tables, create and manipulate pivot tables, and effectively use VLOOKUP.
- Google Inbox and Calendar Management - This workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate Gmail and Google Calendar users to advance their inbox automation and calendar management skills.
- DEIA: Building Foundations for Inclusivity - Participants will explore key concepts of Equal Employment Opportunity, defining diversity and inclusion, and encouraging ideas to develop habits of inclusivity. This session is for learners of all levels, from beginners to those looking to reinforce their understanding of DEIA principles.
- Nice to Meet You! A Framework for Cultivating Connection and Agency - This course will equip leaders with a robust framework for conducting impactful one-on-one and team meetings.
- This Is Your Brain...On Feedback! - In this workshop, we will explore how our brains receive and process feedback. We will create a simple brain map to understand our personal reactions to feedback, which will in turn help us better frame the feedback we provide to others.
- Getting Started with MS OneNote - Increase productivity and efficiency with Microsoft 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. MS OneNote is part of the Office 365 suite.
- Empowerment Through Improvement: A Workshop for Ongoing Success - Sign up today for an interactive workshop designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary for continuous improvement and operational excellence. Through a blend of theory, best practices, and hands-on simulations, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of process improvement methodologies.
- Gender Identity and Pronoun Use - This training will provide foundation information on gender, gender identity, and biological sex and highlight the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation.
- Virtual Stepping Beyond - Customer Service - This training will review the components of customer service and will give participants an opportunity to step out of their shoes and into those of their customers. They will learn about "stepping beyond" customers' expectations to create a culture of helping and caring on campus.
- Your Brand is Everywhere - There are little changes we can make in our day-to-day work that go a long way on the web, making our brand consistent and accessible. By the end of this session, you will have a better understanding of your brand and how to use it consistently in various channels.
- Using Inclusive Language - The words we choose have the power to make people feel celebrated and valued. Our language can also - intentionally or unintentionally – exclude or alienate others. This workshop explores inclusive language strategies that will help attendees communicate respectfully and with the goal of bringing everyone into the conversation, no matter the venue.
- Ten Steps to Financial Success - We all measure financial success differently, but all paths to get there require discipline and goals. This session teaches participants ways to maintain financial control.
- Design Studio: PowerPoint Visual Design for Non-Designers - This workshop provides practical tips and hands-on exercises to help you create visually appealing slides in Microsoft PowerPoint. Refine your designer's eye!
- CSU's Got Talent - Frugal Innovation - Co-building a Better World with Less
- Skillshops @ the Library
- Book: 10 Steps to Successful Business Writing
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