This month inside HSU Professional Development Newsletter: 

• December Learning Opportunities and Mandatory Training Reminder - This is a short working month for most of us, as we celebrate many different holidays at year-end. Coupled with the end of the semester and Fall graduation, it is a busy time! December 31 is the deadline to complete multiple mandatory training assignments, including Anti-Harassment, Discrimination and Retaliation and Conflict of Interest. 

• Firefox 50: Customizing the Browser - Discover how to customize the browser's toolbars, appearance, and download settings,

• Creating a Plan for Performance Management -  You'll learn about the factors involved in successful performance management. You'll explore the phases of the performance management process, critical success factors, and key performance indicators. 

• True Colors Personal Success Workshop - The True Colors Personal Success Workshop combines the element of fun while asking participants to identify four distinct aspects of their personalities. 

• Retaining Continuity when Employees Leave - Learn the basics of retaining institutional knowledge, transfering key partnerships, appropriately acknowledging exiting employees and more.

• Personal Resilience in an Uncertain World - This session will explore easily accessible ways to build your personal resilience, now and as we continue to adapt in the future.

• Positive Psychology - Join this engaging and interactive learning experience on how positive psychology can lead to personal and professional success. We will explore the happiness advantage principles that can help shift our mindset through positive psychology. 

• On the Bookshelf - HSU Staff Cookbook 2020-2021

• Re-Discover and Re-Imagine: Agility - Understand the role agility plays in your ability to respond effectively to disruption.

• The Value of Making Values Valuable for You and Your Team - In this workshop, participants will develop a set of core personal values as well as an action plan to utilize those values to communicate effectively, resolve conflict, and build teams.

• Re-Discover and Re-Imagine: Vulnerability - This workshop will explore the vulnerability concept in the workplace and review the correlation between vulnerability and courage and how these concepts impact team culture. 

• 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.

• Connect and Center - This 30 minute opportunity to connect with others and experience guided meditation is offered weekly on Fridays at noon.

• Online Skillshops @ the Library

• HSU Workshop for Avoiding Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process

• Upcoming Training Opportunities 

• and more! 

Please visit our December 2021 Newsletter