HSU Professional Development Newsletter - March 2021

March 1, 2021

This month inside HSU Professional Development Newsletter

  • Celebrating Women's History Month - This month we are pleased to share learning opportunities that support women who want to build a legacy of forward movement in the workplace. From learning opportunities designed to prepare you for supervisory and leadership roles, to compelling stories from women leaders around the globe, we hope you find these resources informative and inspiring.
  • Twitter for Professionals: Using Twitter Media Studio - Learn how to upload videos, GIFs, and images, share and schedule tweets, and keep track of your audience engagement and interactions.
  • Making the Move Into Management - Transitioning into a management position can be both exciting and potentially overwhelming. The shift from individual contributor to leader requires confidence, solid communication, and a clearly defined plan of action. 
  • Writing Effective Performance Evaluations - This course will prepare you to successfully complete annual performance evaluations for your employees.
  • HSU Introduction to Writing Effective Position Descriptions - The Introduction to Writing Effective Position Descriptions offers employees and administrators an opportunity to learn best practices when approaching the often difficult task of creating or revising a position description.
  • Facilitating Effective Meetings - This course teaches the fundamentals of planning, facilitating and participating in successful meetings. 
  • Staff Compensation & Classification Request Informational Session - Informational session regarding the process for submitting staff classification and compensation related request for review such as requests for in-range progression and classification review.
  • On the Bookshelf - Real Women, Real Leaders: Surviving and Succeeding in the Business World by Kathleen Hurley.
  • Video - 6 Essential Lessons for Woman Leaders.
  • Meditation Opportunities - Monday morning sessions, Fridays at noon sessions and a  session to gain understanding of meditation basics, and how a regular practice can help you become more resilient, productive and centered.
  • When Employees Leave - Learn the basics of retaining institutional knowledge, transfering key partnerships, appropriately acknowledging exiting employees and more.
  • Change Management – Prosci ADKAR Basics - Prosci's ADKAR Model is designed to guide change based, fundamentally, on how we as human beings experience change.
  • Principles of Supervision Series - The Principles of Supervision learning series focuses on developing supervisory skills with higher education in mind. Through instruction, discussion, practice and reflection, participants will gain a greater mastery of their own supervisory skills and learn strategies for more effectively leading others.
  • Are You In Need of Help Creating Courses for Your Staff? - The Learning Technology area of the Human Resources department can help you create custom elearning and microlearning courses or videos.  For your staff, they can help as a training tool and always available reference.
  • CSU's Got Talent - Trauma in the Time of Corona: Implications for Educators, Students and Our Learning Communities.
  • Online Skillshops @ the Library
  • HSU Workshop for Avoiding Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process
  • Upcoming Training Opportunities 
  • and more! 

Please visit our March 2021 Newsletter