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Category: Learning and Education
Category: Learning and Education
| Event Name | Event Date | Description | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participating In Performance Appraisals for Staff | 10/18/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Join this workshop to understand the performance appraisal process and learn how you can prepare to have a productive review session. | Registration Open |
| Project Management | 10/19/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Not everyone who has to manage a project knows how to do it well. This brief session will provide solutions for project leaders to better manage your team and meet your objectives and timeline. |
Registration Open |
| Using the Tuition Benefit for You and Your Family | 10/23/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. The University offers employees and their families tuition assistance. Join this session to learn more about the tuition benefit program and how you can use the benefit for yourself at Penn, or how the tuition benefit can support your dependents or spouse in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. At this session, you will learn more about coverage, how to request the benefit using the online tuition management system and tax implications if you are using the benefit for a graduate program. | Registration Open |
| Conducting Performance Appraisals for Supervisors | 10/24/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. You are supervising or managing other employees and feel the need to learn more about how to prepare for and conduct performance appraisals. This is the course you've been looking for! Join us to find out best practices for this important annual procedure. | Registration Open |
| Conflict Resolution | 11/10/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. During this course, we will learn the different types of conflict, learn to use several tools to help us address conflict in healthy and productive ways, learn how to reap the benefits of conflict, and finally how to mitigate its risks. We’ll also practice using these tools together so that we can all become more confident in handling disagreements within our team and in our personal lives. | Registration Open |
| Strategies for Fostering Positive Attitudes and Embracing Change | 11/15/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. With the right tools and tactics, every person has the power to reframe and adjust their own thoughts and attitudes when it comes to everyday life, stressful situations, and even in times of change. Participants will learn how to self-assess their own attitudes, deal with their thoughts more effectively, manage their perspectives in negative situations, and learn coping tools for dealing with change. | Registration Open |
| Effectively Communicating in the Workplace | 11/17/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. With successful communication organizations have increase in morale, productivity and staff commitment. This brown back will help participants understand the importance of workplace communication, identify proper communication channels, identify barriers to communicating effectively, and how to overcome communication challenges. |
Registration Open |
| Cultivating Growth and Resilience in Difficult Conversations | 11/21/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Learn how to greater self-awareness and cultivate a learning mindset within the context of having difficult conversations. Using questioning techniques and tools such as "Feedforward" and "Improvisation", the course will help you increase engagement and resilience in conversations to improve outcomes. |
Registration Open |
| How To Make Yourself Indispensable | 12/05/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Indispensable employees perform with a mindset that drives them to think, act, and behave differently. In this seminar, you’ll learn how to: take ownership of your responsibilities and results, take initiative to go above and beyond what is expected of you, expand your sphere of influence, perform well under pressure, adapt to changing situations, and avoid being “irreplaceable”. | Registration Open |
| The Gift of Feedback | 12/13/2023 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Feedback can be an amazing gift that helps improve performance, but many managers feel challenged by giving and receiving feedback. In this session managers will learn how to frame feedback as a gift that creates productive dialog and improved performance. Additionally, we will cover how managers can solicit feedback from staff in order to become a more effective leader. | Registration Open |
| Tools for Career Assessment and Development | 01/16/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. In this program we will examine questions for assessing and developing your career. You will contrast your career options by utilizing a variety of tools. By the end of the session you will have the resources needed to develop a plan for career success. | Registration Open |
| Strategies for Fostering Positive Attitudes and Embracing Change | 01/24/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. With the right tools and tactics, every person has the power to reframe and adjust their own thoughts and attitudes when it comes to everyday life, stressful situations, and even in times of change. Participants will learn how to self-assess their own attitudes, deal with their thoughts more effectively, manage their perspectives in negative situations, and learn coping tools for dealing with change. | Registration Open |
| Being an Effective Team Member | 02/28/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Effective teams are key to providing quality service and remaining competitive. This interactive seminar focuses on each individual team member’s responsibility to improve their productivity and value through the contribution of new ideas. The facilitator will defi ne the purpose and characteristics of teams, discuss individual behaviors that contribute or detract from team success, and outline specific tips and techniques to become a more effective team member. |
Registration Open |
| Adapting Your Leadership Style | 03/13/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Leadership styles can vary based on working environment, personal background, or industry. Knowing how to effectively channel the right leadership style given a specific audience or setting is key to being an effective leader. In this course, we will uncover the qualities it takes to be a leader, recognize style differences, understand how to conduct one-on-ones, and develop motivation approaches for employees. |
Registration Open |
| Virtual Training 101 | 04/04/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Using our training structure roadmap, we will take a look at how to prepare and execute a virtual training. We will examine the phases of training and how those are structured for a virtual training, how to reformat course activities and communication to participants, tips for using video platforms, and best practices for facilitating your course. | Registration Open |
| Participating In Performance Appraisals for Staff | 04/10/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Join this workshop to understand the performance appraisal process and learn how you can prepare to have a productive review session. | Registration Open |
| Conducting Performance Appraisals for Supervisors | 04/12/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. You are supervising or managing other employees and feel the need to learn more about how to prepare for and conduct performance appraisals. This is the course you've been looking for! Join us to find out best practices for this important annual procedure. |
Registration Open |
| Time and Energy Management: Ideas for Sustainable Life Balance | 04/25/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. As part of our Ideas for Sustainable Life Balance series, this interactive workshop defines energy management in terms of its relationship to work-life balance asserting that time is finite but energy is not. Several traditional tools are presented but the focus is largely on the need for sustainable practices of working and living in the midst of a pandemic. Individuals will be asked to do a personal energy assessment and to consider a habit that will serve them. | Registration Open |
| Conflict Resolution | 05/02/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. During this course, we will learn the different types of conflict, learn to use several tools to help us address conflict in healthy and productive ways, learn how to reap the benefits of conflict, and finally how to mitigate its risks. We’ll also practice using these tools together so that we can all become more confident in handling disagreements within our team and in our personal lives. | Registration Open |
| Radical Resilience: Ideas for Sustainable Life Balance | 05/23/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. The term “anti-fragility”, coined by NYU professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb takes the concept of resilience to the next level by asserting that there are conditions whereby we are not only able to bounce back, but we become even stronger as a result. This interactive workshop is part of our Ideas for Sustainable Life Balance series that provides tools for increasing your ability to be super-resilient. Based on the work of Harvard educator Dr. Ben-Shahar, author of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment. | Registration Open |
| Effectively Communicating in the Workplace | 05/28/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. With successful communication organizations have increase in morale, productivity and staff commitment. This brown back will help participants understand the importance of workplace communication, identify proper communication channels, identify barriers to communicating effectively, and how to overcome communication challenges. | Registration Open |
| Writing Emails that Get to the Point | 05/30/2024 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | *NOW VIRTUAL: dial-in instructions will be posted soon and emailed to participants prior to the class. Because so many of your communications are via email, this is a great chance for you to spend a short time learning how to do it better. Email demands clear and efficient writing, but we’ve all seen how easily misunderstandings in email messages can compromise clear communication. Attend this helpful brown bag to get a fast-paced, hands-on lesson to strengthen your email writing skills. Through examples and exercises, you will learn how to target your audience, get to the point, and develop and maintain a professional email style. | Registration Open |