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Join HR Career Development in this four-week workshop aimed at improving your success in identifying your potential career trajectory. Identify your unique skills and experiences to guide your next steps in your professional development.
Learning Outcomes:
- Align your career potential by assessing your experience and skills.
- Determine a starting point for the next steps in your professional development.
- Develop career research skills and networking skills.
Date/Time/Location:
October 11th, 18th, 25th, and November 1st, from 1pm - 3pm each day. Attendance of all 4 sessions is required. Location TBD, in-person.
Who Should Attend?
Any staff member interested in exploring their career possibilities.
Instructor:
Dahlia Smith, LCSW
Staff Career Development Advisor & Program Manager
Cost: There is no cost to attend this workshop.
Register: Email Dahlia Smith, dahlia.smith@colorado.edu, to enroll in this workshop.
Future of Work/Hybrid Work
The Future of Work/Hybrid Work Training Series supports the campus community in navigating the hybrid workplace. The transition taking place as the campus adjusts to a flexible work environment poses challenges and opportunities for supervisors and employees. This training series provides the necessary mindsets, skillsets, and strategies to better thrive in this new environment.
This training series is grounded in Guiding Principles created by HR and Campus Leaders. The following Guiding Principles have been adopted by the campus and provide criteria for how the optimal work environment should:
- Advance the mission of the campus and affected units
- Enhance and not detract from the student experience or research and creative work
- Include planning for impact on diversity, equity and inclusion
- Include planning for impact on sense of place, community and affinity
- Increase/maintain hiring, engagement and retention
- Support the health and wellness of our community
- Support responsible stewardship of resources
- Cultivate a work culture built on trust and productivity
The series is based on the most current research on leading and working in a hybrid environment.
This course provides an introduction to the mindsets and skillsets necessary for managers and supervisors to successfully transition to leading in a hybrid environment. Research shows that the foundational principles of leadership have not changed, however the application of these principles must be modified to better suit the hybrid environment. This course will connect leaders with the most recent research and practices that enable high levels of employee engagement and workplace productivity.
Learning Outcomes
After attending this course, managers and supervisors will be able to:
- Identify the mindset shifts needed to operate as a hybrid leader
- Apply strategies to cultivate psychological safety within their teams
- Name the strategic, operational, and affinity ‘distances’ that must be minimized in a hybrid workplace based on Ferrazzi’s model
- Evaluate workplace expectations and boundaries for and with employees
- Integrate synchronous and asynchronous technological tools
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for CU Boulder supervisors and managers who are responsible for leading hybrid teams - employees who are working fully remote, fully on campus and hybrid.
Upcoming Sessions
- more sessions coming soon
Instructor
Lauren Harris, MS is the Assistant Director of Training and Development for Organization and Employee Development in the Department of Human Resources at CU Boulder.
This course identifies the shift needed for leaders to accomplish unit and University goals in a hybrid environment. Outcomes based management is one key to managing performance in a hybrid workplace along with keen attention to continuous progress on goals.
Learning Outcomes
After attending this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify the eight attributes of a high performing team
- Construct organizational, team, and personal goals that align to unit and University purposes
- Apply the principles of creating aligned goals for teams and employees
- Utilize strategies to ensure progress toward goals accomplishment
Who should attend
This workshop is intended for supervisors who are responsible for creating, cascading and evaluating performance goals.
Upcoming Sessions
- Virtual: September 26th, 2023, 10am - 12pm; zoom
- Virtual: November 16th, 2023, 10am - 12pm; zoom
- Virtual: January 3rd, 2024, 10am - 12pm; zoom
- Virtual: February 13th, 2024, 1pm - 3pm; zoom
- Virtual: March 20th, 2024, 2pm - 4pm; zoom
Instructor
Lauren Harris, MS is the Assistant Director of Training and Development for Organization and Employee Development in the Department of Human Resources at CU Boulder.
This course provides individual contributors with the skills and strategies to take responsibility and agency for their workplace needs, accountability and engagement. The hybrid workplace is not only demanding changes from managers and supervisors, but changes from individual contributors as well. This course will provide the necessary skills to enable a successful hybrid workplace.
Learning Outcomes
After attending this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the different degrees of ownership between employee and supervisors as it relates to accountability, goal accomplishment and personal engagement.
- Name indicators of burnout and implement strategies for long-term sustainability
- Implement technological tools to maximize work productivity
Who should attend
This workshop is intended for individual contributors who are interested in improving their performance as a hybrid employee.
Upcoming Sessions
- Virtual: October 25th, 2023, 10am - 11:30am; zoom
- Virtual: January 9th, 2024, 1pm - 2:30pm; zoom
- Virtual: April 25th, 2024, 1pm - 2:30pm; zoom
Instructor
Lauren Harris, MS is the Assistant Director of Training and Development for Organization and Employee Development in the Department of Human Resources at CU Boulder.
A stay interview is an easy-to-use tool to uncover, anticipate, and resolve issues and concerns with employees to prevent them from leaving the organization. Stay Interviews do three things that exit surveys do not: they deliver information that can be used today; they provide time to adjust, and they provide managers with a reliable process for developing individual stay plans. If you don’t have 30 minutes now to conduct a stay interview, you don’t have the time to interview and hire a replacement.
In this session you will learn what a stay interview is, and why managers should be conducting them regularly. We will also practice conducting an interview. Participants will leave with an action plan of how and when they are going to follow up with their employees. Participants will also generate ideas for putting feedback into action.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the session, participants will:
- Explain what a stay interview is and how it is used.
- Practice the steps to conducting a stay interview.
- Outline one way to increase trust with your employees to conduct a successful stay interview.
- Demonstrate the skills and attitudes managers need to receive feedback during the stay interview process.
- Design a plan for implementing the stay interview process.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for supervisors who want to implement proactive strategies for retaining their employees.
Upcoming Sessions
- Virtual: October 11th, 2023, 9am - 11am; zoom
- Virtual: February 26th, 2024, 1pm - 3pm; zoom
Cost: No Cost
Employee engagement encompasses serval aspects of the employee experiences in the organization - commitment, enthusiasm, connection, pride, to name just a few.
The term employee engagement relates to the level of an employee's commitment and connection to an organization. High levels of engagement promote retention and improve organizational performance. Aligning employees' values, goals, and aspirations with those of the organization is the best method for achieving sustainable employee engagement.
This session is designed to provide a framework that will help you move the needle on engagement. You will learn about the drivers of employee engagement, and strategies you can implement to retain employees in person, hybrid, and virtually and make movement toward your most important organizational goals.
Learning Outcomes
- Define employee engagement.
- Describe factors that contribute to engagement being at risk.
- Describe the three root causes of the job misery model and identify one strategy to increase employee engagement.
- Schedule 1-3 hybrid community building activities into team meetings to engage employees.
- Create a plan to support your well-being so that you can support your employees.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for supervisors who want to implement proactive strategies for managing and increasing employee engagement.
Upcoming Sessions
- more sessions coming soon
Cost: There is no cost to attend.
Crucial Conversations
Consider these questions:
- Have you ever wanted to give a coworker sensitive feedback but decided not to for fear the conversation would not go well?
- Does it sometimes feel unsafe to share your honest viewpoint because there is a chance that doing so could lead to backlash?
- Do you ever keep silent about a matter, hoping someone else shares your concern and will speak up?
- Have you ever been lectured or verbally attacked and wished you could respond without making matters worse?
If so, you, your team, or your department need the Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue training.
Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics. By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you will surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment.
The CU Boulder Department of Human Resources has teamed up with Crucial Learning to offer this important course to CU Boulder employees. Based on the national best-selling book Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High, the course teaches nine powerful skillsets grounded in decades of social science research. The course helps learners develop these vital skills through instruction, application, practice, group discussion, and self-reflection—not just theory – for lasting improvement. Learners will walk away with the ability to speak persuasively, not abrasively; foster teamwork and better decision making; build acceptance rather than resistance, and resolve individual and group disagreements.
What is a Crucial Conversation?
A Crucial Conversation is a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. When conversations turn crucial, people tend to follow one of two ineffective paths: they either speak directly and abrasively to get the results they want but harm relationships, or they remain silent with the hope of preserving relationships only to sacrifice results.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify problems contributing to poor results and broken relationships.
- Keep composure when feeling angry, defensive, or intimidated. Spot the warning signs that indicate safety and dialogue are at risk.
- Identify victim, villain, and helpless stories you might be telling yourself to justify behavior.
- Recognize when you are at cross-purpose and take steps to rebuild safety and return to dialogue.
- Find and cultivate mutual purpose with those who hold opposing viewpoints.
- Turn each Crucial Conversation into a course of action that leads to results.
Upcoming Course Dates for Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue
- In Person: October 31st, November 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2023, from 9am - 1pm each day, Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) 346
- Virtual: November 7th, 8th, 9th, 14th, and 15th, 2023, from 9am - 12pm each day, Zoom
- Virtual: January 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th, and 31st, 2024, from 9am - 12pm each day, Zoom
- In Person: February 28th, 29th, March 6th, and 7th, 2024, from 9am - 1pm each day, Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) 346
- In Person: April 23rd, 24th, 30th, and May 1st, 2024, from 9am - 1pm each day, Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) 346
Register for Crucial Conversations*
*Note: Double-check the City/State column. This will indicate if the session you are registering for is online or located on campus (Boulder, Colorado).
Total Course Duration: 15 hour (virtual) or 16 hours (in-person)
Who Should Attend: Crucial Conversations training is appropriate for employees at all levels of the organization. Supervisors, managers, and executive leaders will find the course to be particularly relevant to their work.
Instructors
Human Resources Crucial Conversations Trainers
- Lauren Harris, Assistant Director of Training and Development
- Merna Jacobsen, Associate Vice Chancellor of Organization and Employee Development; Interim Chief Human Resources Officer
- Lisa Nelson, Senior Training and Development Specialist
Cost: $250
Virtual: The course fee includes a digital, fillable PDF Crucial Conversations Toolkit, digital cue cards for each lesson, a digital Crucial Conversations model card, an e-book copy of the New York Times bestselling book, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, the Crucial Conversations audio companion MP3 download, and a digital course completion certificate.
In Person: All the above are included, except your learner toolkit and book are physical copies.
*If you were to take this course directly from Crucial Learning, the cost would be $1,595. Because CU Boulder has certified trainers to deliver the course, we are able to offer it to CU Boulder employees for $250.
Crucial Conversations for Accountability
- Are you reluctant to address poor performance or bad behavior because doing so might seem critical and could affect your reputation?
- Have you ever had a colleague fail to deliver on a promise? Do they often say they’ll deliver by a certain date and then don’t?
- Have you ever seen your team reach agreement during a meeting, and then later see team members express concern and frustration with the meeting’s outcome?
Building on the skills taught in Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue, Crucial Accountability teaches a step-by-step process for identifying and resolving performance gaps, strengthening accountability, eliminating inconsistency, and reducing resentment. To enroll in the course, you must first take Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue as a prerequisite.
Learning Outcomes
- Hold anyone accountable: Speak up no matter the person's power, position, or temperament.
- Manage performance: Get positive results and maintain good relationships.
- Motivate others without force: Permanently resolve problems by clarifying natural consequences.
- Manage projects without taking over: Help others avoid excuses, keep projects on track, and resolve performance barriers.
- Improve performance: Agree on a plan, follow up, engage in good reporting practices, and manage new expectations.
Upcoming Crucial Conversations for Accountability Sessions
- In Person: October 17th, 18th, and 19th, 2023, 1pm - 4pm each day, Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) 346
- Virtual: February 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2024, 9am - 11:30am each day, Zoom
Register for Crucial Accountability*
* Note: Double-check the City/State column. This will indicate if the session you are registering for is online or located on campus (Boulder, Colorado).
Total Course Duration: 6 hours
Who Should Attend: To enroll in the course, you must first take Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue as a prerequisite.
Cost: $180
Virtual: The course fee includes a digital, fillable PDF Crucial Conversations for Accountability toolkit, digital cue cards for each lesson, a digital model card, an e-book copy of the New York Times bestselling book, Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments and Bad Behavior, the Crucial Conversations for Accountability audio companion MP3 download, and a digital course completion certificate.
In-Person: All the above are included, except your learner toolkit and book are physical copies.
Diversity Courses and Programs
Are you interested in becoming an ally? You can start by learning the three basic steps to defining your allyship journey. As our society continues to be faced with a number of social crises, many people desire to take the necessary steps to be an ally for different groups, such as the AAPI community, the BIPOC community, or the LGBTQIA+ community. You can learn how to define and leverage your allyship, and walk away with a template to help guide your learning and steps for action.
Learning Outcomes
After attending this event, the participants will be able to:
- Define allyship
- Explain the importance of allyship
- Identify and apply effective ally behaviors
- Reflect on the impacts of their allyship
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for anyone on campus who is interested in how to become an ally, including faculty and staff.
Cost: There is no cost for this course.
Upcoming Sessions
- In Person: September 18th, 2023, 10am - 12:30pm; Administrative & Research Center (ARC) Building, Room 346
- Virtual: December 5th, 2023, 1:30pm - 3pm; zoom
- Virtual: February 20th, 2024, 12pm - 1:30pm; zoom
- Virtual: April 4th, 2024, 10am - 11:30am; zoom
- In Person: May 8th, 2024, 10am - 12:30pm; Administrative & Research Center (ARC) Building, Room 346
Instructor(s)
Clara Smith, PhD; Senior Diversity & Inclusion Training & Development Specialist for Organization and Employee Development in the Department of Human Resources at CU Boulder.
The purpose of Becoming an Inclusive Leader series is to provide supervisors, managers, leaders and aspiring leaders at CU Boulder with the knowledge and skills to lead their teams to be more inclusive and equitable, as well as the ability to create a sense of belonging among team members. CU Boulder is committed to advancing the IDEA Plan and building an inclusive culture on campus.
Weekly Learning Outcomes
Each week, CU Boulder supervisors and aspiring leaders will be addressing varying aspects of diversity and inclusion.
- Understand how a leader's lived experiences, identities, biases, and leadership style influence their role as a supervisor/manager in creating an inclusive environment. Select inclusive strategies to support a sense of belonging for their teams.
- Apply inclusive practices to retain and engage direct reports. Examine ways to increase their intercultural competence.
- Develop inclusive habits for managing performance. Design an inclusive excellence plan to operationalize the IDEA Plan.
Who Should Attend
This event is intended for any CU Boulder supervisor or aspiring leader who wants to learn more about leading teams for inclusion.
Commitment
Becoming an Inclusive Leader is a multi-week series. It is highly recommended to participate each week, however, attendees are welcome to join as their schedule allows.
Upcoming Sessions
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In Person: September 26th and October 3rd, 2023, 9am - 12pm each day; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
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Virtual: March 5th, 12th, and 19th, 2024, 10am - 12:30pm each day; zoom
Instructor: Clara Smith
Cost: There is no cost for this course
CU Boulder faculty and staff are invited to join Human Resources for a training focused on understanding the potential inequities in participating in virtual meetings. The purpose of this seminar “Making Virtual Meetings Inclusive: Exploring Equity Gaps” is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills for making virtual meetings inclusive.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this training, you will be able to...
- Identify ways that people are feeling excluded in virtual meetings
- Identify equity gaps in virtual meetings
- Name common barriers to inclusion in virtual meetings
- Apply strategies to mitigate barriers in virtual meetings
Who should attend
This training is intended for any CU Boulder faculty or staff member who wants to learn how to make virtual meetings more inclusive.
Session/Course Dates
Upcoming Sessions
- Virtual: October 12th, 2023, 10:30am - 12pm; zoom
- Virtual: January 17th, 2024, 9:30am - 11am; zoom
- Virtual: March 12th, 2024, 1:30pm - 3pm; zoom
- Virtual: May 6th, 2024, 12pm - 1:30pm; zoom
Instructor: Clara Smith, PhD, is the Senior Diversity & Inclusion Training & Development Specialist
Cost: There is no cost for this course
Understanding how implicit bias works is one of the cornerstones of diversity, equity and inclusion principles. Implicit bias influences our decisions, actions and judgments, and can have negative impacts on marginalized and minoritized groups of people. Learn how our thought processes prioritize certain aspects of our interactions, communication patterns and evaluations, and come away with a variety of strategies that you can use to mitigate implicit bias.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of Session One, you will be able to:
- 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
By the end of Session Two, you will be able to:
- 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
Who should attend
This workshop is intended for staff and faculty who are interested in learning about implicit bias.
Upcoming Sessions
- In-Person: September 25th and 27th, 2023, 9:30am - 12pm each day; Administrative and Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
- Virtual: October 17th and 19th, 2023, 12pm - 2pm each day; zoom
- Virtual: November 14th and 16th, 2023, 1pm - 3pm each day; zoom
- Virtual: December 11th and 13th, 2023, 12:30pm - 2:30pm each day; zoom
- Virtual: February 13th and 15th, 2024, 12pm - 2pm each day; zoom
- Virtual: March 5th and 7th, 2024, 1:30pm - 3:30pm each day; zoom
- Virtual: April 9th and 11th, 2024, 10am - 12pm each day; zoom
- In-Person: May 14th and 16th, 2024, 9:30am - 12pm each day; Administrative and Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
Instructor
Clara Smith, PhD; Senior Diversity & Inclusion Training & Development Specialist for Organization and Employee Development in the Department of Human Resources at CU Boulder.
Cost
There is no cost for this course
In this interactive workshop, you will learn and practice 15 skills to improve spoken and written communication with people from diverse language and academic backgrounds. Our ability to communicate and understand each other is fundamental to collaboration, trust, and success.
Simplifying increases the accessibility of communication that is received in English and communication that gets translated. Simplifying typically reduces text by 25-40%. Learn actionable skills to reduce language barriers, improve your programs, and make CU a more language inclusive place.
Learning Outcomes:
- Speak with people from diverse backgrounds in better, more inclusive ways.
- Write communications to help people from diverse backgrounds to understand quickly.
- Impact awareness, empathy, belonging, recruitment, retention, and trust.
- Improve translations and reduce organizational costs.
Who should attend:
Anyone who interacts with colleagues or students who are non-native English speakers or who come from diverse academic backgrounds. This is also helpful for anyone who wants to make their written communication clearer and more concise without changing content.
*Please be prepared to leave your camera on and to do activities in small groups.
Upcoming Sessions
- (Virtual) October 25th, 2023, 10am - 12pm, via Zoom
- (Virtual) November 6th, 2023, 10am - 12pm, via Zoom
Instructor
Lee Shainis
Cost
There is no cost for this course.
FranklinCovey
- All Access Pass (Required for Workshops)
- The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership
- The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity
- The 6 Critical Practices For Leading a Team
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Project Management Essentials: For the Unofficial Project Manager
- Leading at the Speed of Trust
FranklinCovey is a global leader in helping organizations achieve transformational workplace results, providing content, tools, methodology, and thought leadership in more than 150 countries.
Through the FranklinCovey All Access Pass, learners have access to a comprehensive suite of personal and professional development opportunities and resources.
- Live facilitated learning experiences (in-person or virtual) through CU Human Resources:
- The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team
- The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership
- Leading at the Speed of Trust
- Project Management Essentials for the Unofficial Project Manager
- Jhana “virtual mentor” – an on-demand resource providing the latest research, tips, and guidance for managers and supervisors on a wide range of relevant topics including Developing Your Leadership Style, Managing Change, Managing Remote and Hybrid Workers, and much more.
- OnDemand Impact Journeys – self-paced on-demand short courses on a variety of topics related to Leading Others and Leading Yourself
- Solutions – 22 different on-demand courses to build skills and competencies in Individual Effectiveness, Leadership, and other areas.
The All Access Pass is a dynamic learning tool and will provide an immediate benefit to you and your team! We invite you to get started today.
Cost: FranklinCovey content is available on an annual subscription that runs from September 1 to August 30 each year. The subscription cost is $136. All virtually facilitated courses and all online content are available through the subscription, at no additional cost. Any additional FranklinCovey course facilitated in-person, has an additional $35 per course materials fee. (Outside of CU Boulder, each training can cost between $399 - $2,395 per course.)
Sign up to purchase the All Access Pass!
If you need help or have additional questions about the All Access Pass, email hrtraining@colorado.edu.
Every day, leaders are making countless decisions and facing problems they’ve never encountered before. What worked yesterday can change overnight. The rewards are great for those who can lead a team to consistently achieve extraordinary results. So how can leaders stay ahead of the curve and differentiate themselves and their teams when so much is changing so quickly? The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership develops the roles leaders play that are highly predictive of success.
Learning Outcomes
- Inspire Trust: Be the credible leader others choose to follow – one with both character and competence.
- Create Vision: Clearly define where your team is going and how they are to get there.
- Execute Strategy: Consistently achieve results with and through other suing disciplined processes.
- Coach Potential: Unleash the ability of each person on your team to improve performance, solve problems, and grow their careers.
Who Should Attend
The program is ideal for mid to senior-level leaders responsible for setting and executing vision and who lead multi-level organizations.
Upcoming Sessions
- more sessions coming soon
Register for 4 Essential Roles of Leadership*
*Note: Double-check the City/State column. This will indicate if the session you are registering for is online or located on campus (Boulder, Colorado).
Total Course Duration: Virtual course - 14 hours; In-person course - 16 hours
Cost: FranklinCovey content is available on an annual subscription that runs from September 1 to August 30 each year. The subscription cost is $136. All virtually facilitated courses and all online content are available through the subscription, at no additional cost. Any additional FranklinCovey course facilitated in-person has an additional $35 per course materials fee.
It’s not about getting everything done, it’s about getting the right things done without burning out. The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity® combines timeless principles with current neuroscience research to help better manage decisions, attention, and energy.
Participants learn to make more selective, high-impact choices about where to invest their valuable time, attention, and energy.
Time management alone isn’t enough. Decision management, attention management, and energy management are required to achieve extraordinary productivity.
Learning Outcomes
- Discern the important from the urgent and increase your ability to focus in the midst of fierce distractions.
- Guide your decision-making through a framework of what success looks like in your most important roles.
- Use tips and tools to schedule your priorities instead of prioritizing your schedule. Execute with excellence on the most important things.
- Make your technology work for you, not against you, and turn it into a productivity engine.
- Increase your energy to think clearly, make good decisions, and feel more accomplished at the end of every day.
Upcoming Sessions
- In Person: March 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2024, 9am - 1pm each day; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
Supervisors and managers make a significant impact on employee productivity and engagement, innovation, and performance. They are the creators and carriers of culture for their teams and directly influence whether top talent stays or leaves. Their role has always been tough and today’s realities make the role even tougher. Both new and experienced supervisors and managers can struggle when it comes to excelling at leading teams in today’s workplace.
Learning Outcomes
- Explore the critical mindset shifts that will maximize your success as a leader of others.
- Increase engagement of team members by conducting regular 1-on-1s, deepen your understanding of team member issues, and help them solve problems for themselves.
- Create clarity about team goals and results; delegate responsibility to team members while providing the right level of support.
- Give feedback to develop team member confidence and competence; improve your own performance by seeking feedback from others.
- Identify specific actions to help team members navigate and accelerate through change and achieve better performance.
- Use weekly planning to focus on the most important priorities, and strengthen your ability to be an effective leader by applying the 5 Energy Drivers.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for staff and faculty who are first time supervisors looking to transition successfully from individual contributors to leaders of others. It also applies to leaders who have been in their roles for some time and are looking for practical and relevant guidance on how to effectively lead and manage their teams.
Upcoming Sessions
- In Person: October 4th and 5th, 2023, 9am - 1pm; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
- Virtual: February 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2024, 9am - 11:30am each day; zoom
Register for 6 Critical Practices*
*Note: Double-check the City/State column. This will indicate if the session you are registering for is online or located on campus (Boulder, Colorado).
Total Course Duration: Virtual course - 7.5 hours; In-person course - 8 hours
Cost: FranklinCovey content is available on an annual subscription that runs from September 1 to August 30 each year. The subscription cost is $136. All virtually facilitated courses and all online content are available through the subscription, at no additional cost. Any additional FranklinCovey course facilitated in-person has an additional $35 per course materials fee.
Habits are powerful forces in our lives. They determine our level of effectiveness or ineffectiveness. The purpose of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is to help you lead your life in a truly effective way. They represent a proven process of personal and interpersonal growth that can have an immediate and lasting impact. As relevant today as when Stephen R. Covey first wrote them, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is based on principles of effectiveness that endure.
Learning Outcomes
- Focus and act on what can be controlled and influenced, instead of what can’t.
- Define clear measures of success and create a plan to achieve them for both life and work.
- Prioritize and achieve the most important goals instead of reacting to urgencies.
- Develop innovative solutions that leverage diversity and satisfy all key stakeholders.
- Collaborate more effectively with others by building high-trust relationships.
Who Should Attend
This program is intended for CU Boulder faculty and staff at any level of the organization.
Upcoming Session
- In Person: April 8th, 10th, and 12th, 2024, 9am - 1pm each day; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
Cost
FranklinCovey content is available on an annual subscription that runs from September 1 to August 30 each year. The subscription cost is $136. All virtually facilitated courses and all online content are available through the subscription, at no additional cost. Any additional FranklinCovey course facilitated in-person has an additional $35 per course materials fee.
When a project is poorly navigated and falls short of goals, it can cost you more than just money, it can cause irreparable damage to reputation, confidence, and client trust. The answer isn’t just dedicated project managers but instilling your entire team at every level with project management abilities. This course distills robust processes from the Project Management Institute and delivers key principles and processes to equip people with the skills for consistent project success.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the people and process skills that lead to consistent project success.
- Initiate: Prepare your project for success by clarifying your expectations.
- Plan: Create a specific project plan to guide decisions.
- Execute: Engage your team effectively to carry out the project plan.
- Monitor and Control: Drive project progress.
- Close: Close it out in a way that supports future success.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for staff and faculty who work on, manage, or lead projects and who may not officially carry the title of project manager, but who still need to successfully deliver projects.
Upcoming Sessions
- In Person: December 5th and 7th, 2023, 9am - 1pm; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
- In Person: April 2nd and 3rd, 2024, 9am - 1pm; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
Total Course Duration: 8 hours
Cost: FranklinCovey content is available on an annual subscription that runs from September 1 to August 30 each year. The subscription cost is $136. All virtually facilitated courses and all online content are available through the subscription, at no additional cost. Any additional FranklinCovey course facilitated in-person has an additional $35 per course materials fee.
Trust is not merely a soft, social virtue; rather, trust is a pragmatic, hard-edged, economic, and actionable asset that you can create. There is a compelling business case for trust. Teams and organizations that operate with high trust significantly outperform teams and organizations with low trust. This has been proven in dozens of studies, across a multitude of industries and sectors. This training helps organizations better manage change and create high-performing teams that are agile, collaborative, innovative, and engaged.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how trust is a learnable skill and the most critical competency for leaders today.
- Increase your personal credibility and model trust through character and competence.
- Practice the 13 Behaviors® that are foundational to every high-trust culture.
- Develop, restore, and extend trust to achieve sustainable results.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for staff and faculty who lead or manage others.
Upcoming Sessions
- Virtual: November 28th, 29th, 30th, and December 1st, 2023, 9am - 11am each day; zoom
- In Person: March 19th, 20th, and 21st, 2024, 9am - 12:30pm each day, Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) Room 346
Register for Leading at the Speed of Trust*
* Note: Double-check the City/State column. This will indicate if the session you are registering for is online or located on campus (Boulder, Colorado).
Total Course Duration: Virtual: 8 hours, In-Person: 10.5 hours
Cost: FranklinCovey content is available on an annual subscription that runs from September 1 to August 30 each year. The subscription cost is $136. All virtually facilitated courses and all online content are available through the subscription, at no additional cost. Any additional FranklinCovey course facilitated in-person has an additional $35 per course materials fee.
Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done training isn’t just about getting more things done. It’s about learning how to be more appropriately engaged with your work and life. In this course, participants will learn and practice new behaviors to engage more effectively with their to-dos and commitments, so they can focus their attention on things that matter most and create more mental space at work and at home. Getting Things Done is a system that teaches skills to manage the constant flow of requests, tasks, and interruptions people face at all levels of the organization. In this workshop, participants will learn powerful methods to capture, clarify and organize incoming requests to increase their focus on their most meaningful work, creating mental space for innovation, and the conditions to achieve stress-free productivity.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Articulate the CCORE methodology
- 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 their calendar effectively to free up time
- Create and track project outcomes
- Create a trusted organization system
Upcoming Sessions
- Virtual: January 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2024, 1pm - 3pm each day; zoom
- In-Person: May 2nd and 3rd, 2024, 9am - 1pm each day; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) 346
Register for Getting Things Done*
Total Course Duration: 8 hours
Cost: $185
Who Should Attend: Staff and faculty at any level of the organization who are looking to increase their skills in workflow management and focus on the right priorities.
Instructors
Lisa Nelson, Senior Training and Development Specialist, Organization and Employee Development, Human Resources
Employee Management and Compliance Essentials
Employee Management and Compliance Essentials is a blended course that provides managers and supervisors with a comprehensive overview of legal guidelines, campus policies, and CU Boulder practices related to employee management and development.
This course includes live, online facilitated sessions as well as self-paced modules to fit your unique schedule. Participants who attend all live sessions and self-paced online modules are eligible for a certificate of completion.
Learning Outcomes
- Pre-employment essentials (position management, compensation, and recruitment).
- Employee development guidelines and strategies (onboarding, performance management, and progressive discipline).
- Special topics in employee management (federal and campus policies and procedures related to discrimination and harassment; the Americans with Disabilities Act; and the Family Medical Leave).
Upcoming Sessions
- In-Person: October 24th and 26th, 2023, 9am - 1pm each day; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) 346
- Virtual: January 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2024, 9am - 11am each day; zoom
- Virtual: February 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, 2024, 9am - 11am each day; zoom
- In-Person: April 17th and 18th, 2024, 12:30pm - 4:30pm each day; Administrative & Research Center (East Campus) 346
Register for Employee Management and Compliance Essentials*
*Note: Double check the City/State column. This will indicate if the session you are registering for is online or located on campus (Boulder, Colorado).
Total Course Duration:
- Live online: 4 sessions, each 2 hours in duration
- Self-paced: 8 online modules ranging in duration from 10 to 30 minutes each
Cost: There is no cost for this course
Who Should Attend: Anyone who supervises employees on the CU Boulder campus.
Instructors
Lisa Nelson, Senior Training and Development Specialist, Organization and Employee Development, Department of Human Resources
Teresa Wroe, Senior Director of Education & Prevention & Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance
Participants who attend all four (4) live sessions, as well as all eight (8) self-paced online modules within four (4) months, are eligible for a Certificate of Completion.
CliftonStrengths™ for Faculty & Staff
Join almost 30 million people worldwide who are using their CliftonStrengths to thrive at work and everywhere else.
- discover what you naturally do best
- learn how to develop your greatest talents into strengths
- use your personalized results and reports to maximize your potential
Benefits of Knowing Your Top 5 CliftonStrengths:
- a basic understanding of your innate talents and how you can succeed using personalized insights about your first five CliftonStrengths themes
- greater confidence and empowerment thanks to a deeper understanding of how you can use your CliftonStrengths to succeed
- an easy way to describe your unique talent DNA to teammates and others using the common language of CliftonStrengths shared by millions of people around the world
- improved performance at work and anywhere when you use the proven advice and ideas for how to apply your strengths in every part of your life
- success despite your weaknesses, with concepts and strategies that help you manage -- not fix -- what you don’t do best, so you can focus on getting the most from your strongest CliftonStrengths themes
Before You Take the CliftonStrengths Assessment (formerly StrengthsFinder), Watch This:
There are multiple ways to interact with CliftonStrengths. Take the assessment on your own, meet with a trained coach in a one-on-one session to learn more about your strengths or sign up for your work group for a team session!
Step 1: Provide your information.
Fill out this form with your first name, last name and department Speedtype. The training coordinator will send you an email with a unique access code and instructions for completing the assessment.
CliftonStrengths Assessment Request Form
Step 2: Take the CliftonStrengths assessment.
During this hour-long assessment, you’ll see 177 paired statements and choose which one best describes you. The assessment is timed so you’ll need to make decisions that feel most true for you. If you need accommodation for the timer to be turned off, you can request that directly from Gallup on the first page of the assessment.
Top 5 CliftonStrengths reveals the first five talent themes in your CliftonStrengths profile and includes basic strategies to help you start applying your most powerful CliftonStrengths to succeed.
The assessment measures your natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
Once you’ve completed the online assessment, you will have access to personalized CliftonStrengths reports. These reports help you understand what you naturally do best and how you can develop and use your talents.
Top 5 CliftonStrengths is ideal for people who want a basic understanding of what they naturally do best. This is the report we recommend for most people.
Gallup also offers upgraded reports to see the full list of 34 strengths or reports with specific action items related to strengths for managers and leaders. View the report comparisons on their website.
Re-Taking the Assessment:
If you have already taken CliftonStrengths at CU Boulder, we encourage you to use your past results. However, there are many reasons why someone may want to re-take the CliftonStrengths assessment. It is important to know, that most individuals will not see meaningful changes in their results over time and, as a result, Gallup's general recommendation is that individuals do not need to retake the assessment.
However, there are certain situations when it may be helpful to retake the assessment:
- When an individual took it right before or after a traumatic life event.
- When an individual took it in their non-native language.
- When an individual was distracted when they took it.
- When an individual took it in school or early in in life, and years 10+ have passed.
- When an individual was not authentic in their responses the first time that they completed the assessment.
Step 3: Get your personalized results.
Your customized CliftonStrengths reports and guides will give you an “aha” moment as you experience new ways to understand what makes you so unique.
- discover what you naturally do best
- learn how to develop your greatest talents into strengths
- use your personalized results and reports to maximize your potential
Step 4: Apply your Strengths!
Take our online, CliftonStrengths Introduction course or sign up for individual coaching.
Cost:
$14.99 CliftonStrengths (Top 5 Strengths)
$59.99 CliftonStrengths 34 (All 34 Strengths)
$49.99 CliftonStrengths for Managers (Top 10 Strengths)
$49.99 CliftonStrengths for Leaders (Top 10 Strengths)
CliftonStrengths™ Introduction provides an opportunity for CU Boulder employees to identify their natural talents by taking the CliftonStrengths assessment. During this interactive workshop participants will learn to develop their talents into strengths. These strengths will allow participants to continue developing in their careers and enhance working relationships.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Recognize their top five talents and discover their meaning
- Explain their top five talents
- Identify strategies to develop talents into strengths
- Compare ‘balconies’ & ‘basements’ associated with each strength
- Use four domains to strengthen working relationships
Course Duration: Self-Paced, online course.
Cost
There is a one-time $14.99 assessment fee to take the CliftonStrengths assessment. There is no cost to attend the workshops once you have taken the assessment. However, taking the assessment once is required to attend the workshops. You can use results from a previous job or past experience.
Course Sign Up
*Online course coming in Fall 2023.
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for individuals at all levels of the organization who would benefit from having a deeper understanding of their individual talents and continuing to develop in a way that contributes exponentially to their work and team.
Course Contact
Do you know why your team members do what they do or what motivates them or when they’re at their best? When you and your team use the CliftonStrengths assessment to discover what you do best, you’ll have stronger team dynamics, better conversations and increased collaboration.
A strengths-based approach to team engagement can help answer questions like:
- How can I improve teamwork?
- How can I improve team dynamics?
- How can I improve team collaboration?
The CliftonStrengths assessment gives people a common language and vocabulary to better describe, communicate with and understand each other. When people are in roles that fit their talents, their energy and passion can fuel their own great performance and inspire the same from their colleagues.
If you’re a department, unit or team, CliftonStrengths is the perfect tool to use to help teams get to know one another. The tool inspires higher organizational and team performance when team members know the strengths they bring and how to work with the strengths of their colleagues.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Recognize their top five talents and discover their meaning
- Explain their top five talents to others
- Compare ‘balconies’ & ‘basements’ associated with each strength
- Use four domains to strengthen working relationships
- Analyze a team talent map to understand how your team works together
How to Schedule a Team Training
Step 1: Schedule an intake call.
Set up an intake call with Lauren Harris (lauren.m.harris@colorado.edu). During this call we will evaluate:
- Training needs and goals
- Date, time, location, in person or virtual. *For in-person training, clients are responsible for booking space large enough for the group. For virtual trainings the OED training team will send a zoom link.
- Group size
- Other important details about your group
- Decide which report to use with your group. Compare all reports and view sample reports.
Step 2: Submit roster.
Fill out this roster and upload it to this form. Please provide the first name, last name and email address of everyone who is attending the training. You will also be asked to provide a department Speedtype so that we can charge the cost of the assessment.
CliftonStrengths for Teams: Roster Spreadsheet
CliftonStrengths for Teams: Request Form
What to Expect
After the training is scheduled and the roster is submitted, our team will send each participant an email with instructions for taking the assessment. It will include a unique access code that is not to be shared with anyone else. We will set a deadline for the team by which assessments should be completed.
We will communicate with you about the draft agenda to make sure it meets your needs and expectations.
Our team will bring everything with us that we need to present. For team sessions, we will bring a printed report for each person, team talent maps and a handout or learner packet.
Cost for Different Assessments
$14.99 CliftonStrengths (Top 5 Strengths)
$59.99 CliftonStrengths 34 (All 34 Strengths)
$49.99 CliftonStrengths for Managers (Top 10 Strengths)
$49.99 CliftonStrengths for Leaders (Top 10 Strengths)
Compare all reports and view sample reports.
*Training sessions are provided by Human Resources at no cost, units are responsible for the cost of the assessment.
Who Should Attend
Teams or groups working together at all levels of the organization who would benefit from having a deeper understanding of their individual talents and continuing to develop in a way that contributes exponentially to their work and team.
Instructors
Lauren Harris, MS is the Assistant Director of Training and Development for Organization and Employee Development in the Department of Human Resources at CU Boulder.
CU Boulder employees have the opportunity to schedule an hour-long coaching session with a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. These coaching sessions help employees to understand their Signature Themes in a meaningful way, enabling them to create strategies that allow them to learn, grow, develop and succeed here at CU Boulder.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a partnership where a trained coach asks thought-provoking and creative questions that inspires a person to maximize their personal and professional potential. It can unlock untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership. Trained coaches help you flourish by helping you focus on doing more of you naturally do best. We work with you to understand your strengths and weaknesses and how to manage both more effectively. We can work with you to provide professional development, management effectiveness, team dynamics, conflict resolution, team performance, career transitions, and leadership development.
What to Expect in a Coaching Session
These employee-driven coaching conversations can be focused on a variety of different topics to support employees including personal/professional development, closing skills gaps, and working towards defined goals or outcomes. Through intentional development and application of identified Strengths, individuals can improve their ability to build relationships, manage daily responsibilities, influence and respond to others, and think about and process information.
Prerequisite
You must have completed one of the CliftonStrengths Assessments to schedule a coaching session. If you haven’t taken the assessment, fill out this form.
CliftonStrengths Assessment Request Form
Cost
$0
Schedule a Coaching Session
Lauren Harris: Email Lauren Harris at lauren.m.harris@colorado.edu to find a time to meet.
Gallup Certified Coaches
Lauren Harris, MS is the Assistant Director of Training and Development for Organization and Employee Development in the Department of Human Resources at CU Boulder
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• When an individual took it right before or after a traumatic life event.
• When an individual took it in their non-native language.
• When an individual was distracted when they took it.
• When an individual took it in school or early in in life, and years 10+ have passed.
• When an individual was not authentic in their responses the first time that they completed the assessment.
If you want to retake the CliftonStrengths assessment, you will need to obtain a new access code and redeem it with a new Gallup Access account. Contact Perri Longley at perri.longley@colorado.edu.
ProSci Change Management
Prosci Change Management for Managers provides managers and supervisors with tools and skills to understand change theory, facilitate change processes, and successfully lead teams through change. This workshop is critical for managers whose departments are planning change or in the process of change. Participants receive a comprehensive toolkit and materials.
After completing the workshop, learners will be able to:
- Apply tools to effectively lead others through the process of change management.
- Evaluate changes that are happening in their departments and understand the impact the changes will have on them and their teams.
- Use the Prosci ADKAR® Model to create action plans to lead their teams through current and future changes.
- Identify their role as a manager in leading their teams through change.
- Fulfill the five critical change leadership roles: communicators, liaisons, advocates, resistance managers and coaches.
Cost: $370
Total Course Duration: 6 hours
Sessions
Workshop dates are still being finalized
Who Should Attend
Managers and supervisors
Why Attend?
Managers play a significant role in any successful change because they are the closest to the people being impacted. If your organization is planning a change or is in the process of change, this program will increase your ability to effectively lead change. You will gain an understanding of how to coach your people through a change process and the concepts of change management.
Facilitators
Enjoy hands-on learning in this immersive three-day experience, applying holistic change management methodologies and tools to one of your team’s real-world projects.
What is Change Management?
Change management is the people side of any organizational change—whether you’re fixing problems, responding to trends, or taking advantage of new opportunities. It focuses on the processes, tools, and techniques used to ensure that your whole team embraces your new direction or adopts and learns to use your new systems and approaches.
Workshop Outcomes
During this three-day experiential session, you and your team will apply the Prosci change methodology and the ADKAR Model to one of your team’s active projects. You will leave with the tools, know-how, and support you need to consistently drive successful change going forward.
You will benefit from three full days among like-minded change leaders—from individual practitioners and project managers to IT professionals and improvement specialists. You will not only gain the knowledge and one-to-one feedback of our Campus’s Certified Prosci Instructors, you and your peers will also share challenges, solutions and insights, for a truly collaborative approach to change management.
Who Should Attend
This three-day workshop is appropriate for teams of 3-5 tasked with delivering a project that will require impacted individuals to approach their work differently.
Cost
$1275 per participant (The course fee includes two books on change management, hard & electronic copies of course slides, access to Prosci’s change management templates & tools)
Interested in Taking this Course?
This course is scheduled by request only, please email Kenny.Nelson@colorado.edu if you wish to attend.
Request a Team Training
Please complete our Training Request Form to request a training for a department or in-tact team. A member of the training team will reach out to discuss your request.