Invest in your Professional Growth Before the Semester Ends
Take advantage of CU Boulder’s HR training opportunities to build new skills, strengthen your leadership, and support your professional development. Whether you're looking to enhance your communication, improve team dynamics, learn best practices for faculty searches, or prepare for future roles, these sessions are designed to help you thrive.
Carving out time for your own education and growth can help you end the semester strong--and help shape your professional goals and development for 2026. You can enter the new year equipped with new tools, tricks, and trainings!
Register now and finish the semester strong!
Effective Faculty Search Training
October 8th, 2025
- Identify effective components and best practices in the faculty search process.
- Utilize strategies to ensure an effective faculty search process.
- Identify best practices to broaden the candidate pool.
- Comply with federal regulations and university requirements.
- Implement strategies to mitigate bias throughout the search process.
Implicit Bias: Moving from Awareness to Action
October 14th and 16th, 2025
- Explain what implicit bias is, and how it works to influence our decisions, actions and evaluations.
- Describe how patterns we take in from our environment can cause our brains to take shortcuts.
- List five common implicit biases, and three ways to mitigate bias
- Explain how implicit bias has a negative impact on marginalized groups.
- Describe how people tend to shift evaluating criteria because of implicit bias.
- Identify appropriate strategies for managing implicit bias when evaluating.
- Describe System 1 and System 2 thinking.
- List effective and inclusive communication strategies while mitigating implicit bias.
Interviewing Strategies: How to Ask Effective Questions, Evaluate Answers, and Make Outstanding Hires
October 20th and 21st, 2025
- Effectively prepare for the interview and organize related components of the interview process.
- Develop and ask effective interview questions.
- Appropriately evaluate candidate answers.
- Create a positive candidate experience.
Getting Things Done
October 21st and 23rd, 2025
- Create a system to capture all to-dos and outside requests or inputs.
- Direct all inputs to a few chosen capture tools.
- Clarify what each input means.
- Identify the very next action to move a task or project to completion efficiently.
- Create a system to effectively and regularly process inputs in inboxes.
- Utilize your calendar effectively to free up time.
- Create and track project outcomes.
- Create a trusted organization system.
Simplify Language
November 7th, 2025
- Organize and reduce writing by 20-50% without removing or “dumbing down” content.
- Build awareness around language exclusion and impacts of power and privilege.
- Improve the effectiveness of translations and decrease costs.
- Learn skills to communicate with beginning to advanced English learners.
- Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make written communication more accessible.
- Improve engagement, trust, efficiency, inclusion, recruitment, and retention.
FranklinCovey All Access Pass
September 1st, 2025 - August 30th, 2026
From the platform, you can access the following resources:
- On Demand Courses: Multi-week self-paced learning experiences built around core FranklinCovey content with activities and reminders sent to you via email.
- On Demand Microcourses: Not ready to engage in a full impact journey? You can subscribe to 3-week Microcourse; providing you with skill-specific content sourced from FranklinCovey’s extensive content library.
- Microlearning Library: Skill-specific microlearning resources that are quick and easy to reference, and include a variety of media such as articles, videos, worksheets, and quick tips.
Please direct any questions to our Program Administrator.