Classes & Workshops

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Class Spotlight

Delivery Skills | Friday, April 18: This session will focus on identifying anxieties about presenting and how to prepare for them, explore different presentation styles and techniques to engage with your audience, and tips and tricks to making your next presentation a success!

Steady Leadership in Turbulent Times | April 25: In today’s fast-changing world, leaders are constantly faced with unpredictability, high-stakes decisions, and pressure to maintain stability. How do you stay steady when the ground beneath you keeps shifting? Join Dr. Ana Dolatabadi from the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) for this training designed specifically for leaders navigating uncertainty.

STEP Deadlines & Resources

STEP learning resources | Watch the short STEP overview video | Contact your STEP team

2024/2025 Performance Year (April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025)
– Finalize Criteria: Complete by March 31, 2025
– Manager Review : Complete by April 15 2025

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Upcoming Classes and Workshops

Featured

GROWing your Check In Conversations for Managers

Online: Friday, April 11, 10:00am - 12:00pm

GROW is a popular coaching framework used around the world for problem solving, goal setting and performance improvement. This interactive session provides managers the opportunity to discuss and practice using GROW framework as a strategy and tool to support engaging STEP checkpoint conversations.

The framework breaks down the conversation into 4 parts: Goal, Reality, Options, & Will:

Determine Goal
Discuss Current Reality
Discuss Options
Determine the Will

Note: The ecourse “GROWing your Checkpoint Conversations must be taken prior to this class”

Box Advanced

Online : Wednesday, April 16, 10:00 - 11:00am

Want to know how to securely store sensitive data in Box? Interested in how to get data into Box via email or URL? Sign up for this advanced Box class and we will cover a wide range of topics including setting up alerts to monitor folders and using Box groups to manage department collaborations.

UCOP STEP: Successful Check-Ins

Online : Wednesday, April 16, 10:00am - 12:00pm

In this new course for individual contributors, participants will explore how to get the most out of their STEP Check-ins. The course will review best practices for tracking progress on STEP goals, managing emotions when receiving feedback, and delivering upward feedback utilizing the CARE model. The highly interactive two-hour virtual live workshop will provide employees the opportunity to practice the CARE model when delivering feedback to others and upward feedback to their managers. The goal of the course is for employees to be best prepared to engage their managers during their STEP Check-ins. The framework breaks down the conversation into parts: Context, Action, Results, Explore, and Envision.

Note: The ecourse “GROWing your Checkpoint Conversations must be taken prior to this class.”

Delivery Skills for Connecting with Your Audience

Online : Friday, April 18, 9:00am - 12:00pm

For many, public speaking and giving formal and informal presentations can be uncomfortable and daunting. Luckily, delivery skills ca be practiced and improved on with each presentation. This session will focus on identifying anxieties about presenting and how to prepare for them, explore different presentation styles and techniques to engage with your audience, and tips and tricks to making your next presentation a success! This session will be interactive and participants are asked to bring a recent presentation, outline, or presentation idea to practice.

Connections in a Hybrid World

Online : Wednesday, April 23, 1:00 - 2:30pm

Today more than ever it is important to be strategic about connecting with others, building relationships, and expanding your network. Join us for this interactive workshop to explore the current realities of working in a hybrid environment and discuss tangible actions you can take to build authentic relationships in the workplace. The session will highlight the importance of emotional intelligence in building your social capital to leverage connections and accomplish more at work.

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents

Online : Thursday, April 24, 10:00 - 11:30am

Digital accessibility is about ensuring users with disabilities can easily access and engage with any digital content. In this course, you will learn the principles of digital accessibility, how to generate accessible Microsoft Office Documents and how to export these to PDF.

GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers

Online: Friday, April 25, 9:30am - 12:00pm

GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers is the second part in the required live training series on manager and employee performance conversations. This training answers the question: What do I do when my coaching is not improving performance? In this virtual, live, and highly interactive workshop, we will cover: providing productive critical feedback, managing emotions, creating efficient documentation, and holding effective accountability conversations. Managers will also practice having role Accountability Conversations using the UCOP GROW Plus framework.

Steady Leadership in Turbulent Times: Psychological Tools for Navigating Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA)

Online : Friday, April 25, 1:00 - 2:00pm

In today’s fast-changing world, leaders are constantly faced with unpredictability, high-stakes decisions, and pressure to maintain stability. How do you stay steady when the ground beneath you keeps shifting? Join Dr. Ana Dolatabadi from the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) for this one-hour training designed specifically for leaders navigating uncertainty. You’ll gain practical, psychology-based strategies to:

Focus on what you can control—and let go of what you can’t
Cultivate stability for yourself and your team during times of change
Reduce stress when facing unknowns
Avoid common leadership pitfalls in volatile environments
Learn from real-world examples of leaders who have successfully weathered difficult times

Register for Steady Leadership in Turbulent Times: Psychological Tools for Navigating Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA)

Excel Power BI

Online: Thursday, May 1, 9:00am - 12:00pm

In this 3-part class, users will learn about and practice using Power BI. Users will learn how to: Connect to data sources. Perform data cleaning, profiling, and shaping. Visualize data with Power BI. Create interactive visualizations. Enhance reports and dashboards. Publish and share reports and dashboards.

Note: Participants must attend all 3 sessions on Thursday, May 1, 7 and 15 to receive credit for the course.

People Leader Forum - Managing in 2025: Current Research

Online: Friday, May 2, 1:00 - 2:00pm

The People Leader Forum is a monthly opportunity for people managers to connect with one another to develop leadership skills, build community, share best practices, swap strategies for navigating current challenges and learn to better support themselves and their teams.

May 2: Managing in 2025: Current Research
June 6: Understanding UCOP Leaves and Accommodations
August 1: Difficult Conversations
September 5: Steady Leadership in Turbulent Times: Psychological Tools for Navigating Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity l(VUCA)
October 3: Equity Process Review
November 7: Building Effective Teams

UCOP STEP: Setting Goals and Competenices

Online: Wednesday, May 7, 11:00am - 12:00pm

In this instructor-led training on the Staff Talent Evaluation Process (STEP), we will expand on the materials presented in the STEP Fundamentals for Employees eCourse by going into detail on the first stage of STEP, Define Criteria. You will practice writing goals and review how to align them to the UCOP Competencies. This course is designed to support new employees and employees who would like a refresher to elevate their STEP goals.

Project Management I

Online : Thursday, May 8, 8:30am - 12:30pm

This is a three-part series, Project Management Level I, led by The Center for Project Management. This workshop series emphasizes the fundamentals of how to initiate, create and manage a project.

Session 1 Objectives: This course helps students to recognize the critical importance of having a clear, shared understanding of a project at the outset by creating a comprehensive project charter, or the decision document that authorizes the project to move into detailed planning and designates the project manager.
Session 2 Objectives: In this course, students learn how to build a professional-grade project plan and detailed estimates.
Session 3 Objectives: In this course, students learn how to convert a project plan and estimates into a project schedule, and to track and communicate project status.

Note: Participants must attend all 3 sessions on Thursday, May 8, 15 and 22 to receive credit for the course.

Box Fundamentals

Online : Wednesday, May 14, 10:00 - 11:00am

This course will give you an overview of Box, the cloud-based service that provides secure file storage and file sharing. Topics covered include:

How to use Box
How to collaborate with UCOP and non-UCOP people
How to comment directly on files, folder permissions, shared links, and many other tips that will help you when using Box.

Administrators from IT will be on hand to answer your questions and review the best features of Box.

The Science of Managing Stress

Online : Friday, May 16, 10:00 - 11:00am

Job stress can be all-consuming — but it doesn’t have to be. Find ways to identify your triggers, keep perspective, learn helpful strategies, and know when to seek help.

Difficult Conversations

Online : Wednesday, May 21, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Ever had a disagreement with someone where the conversation didn’t go quite the way you wanted it to? As conflict is inevitable, join us in exploring strategies for navigating difficult conversations in both your personal and professional life. In this highly interactive course, you will learn Core Principles to successfully navigate disagreements and apply them through practice role-playing. By the end of the workshop, you’ll feel more confident in approaching difficult conversations with anyone in your life.

Additional Classes

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Registration: Log in to the UC Learning Center using your UCOP login and password. In the Search box on the left, enter the name of the class you want. Select the session you want, then select the Register box and Submit.

Cancellation: You can cancel your registration through the UC Learning Center. We ask that you cancel 48 hours before the scheduled class time so that others may sign up, or contact the Learning & Development Team.

If you require any assistance or accommodation with finding, registering or attending a class please email the Learning & Development Team.