Classes and Workshops

Note: All listings on this page reflect Pacific Time. Unless noted otherwise, classes are held virtually via Zoom.

Class Spotlight!

LinkedIn Learning for Managers | Thursday, September 28 – Learn how to use LinkedIn Learning with your team as a professional learning tool. As a UCOP Manager or Supervisor, LinkedIn Learning has tools and features to make assigning and tracking team learning easy!

Box Advanced | Tuesday, October 10 – Learn how to securely store sensitive data in Box, how to get data into Box via email or URL, how to set up alerts to monitor folders and how to use Box groups to manage department collaborations.

Project Management II Series – This workshop series emphasizes traditional project management techniques that are highly relevant to the UC project environment with practical tools, methods and techniques for immediate application in your work environment.

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Upcoming Classes and Workshops

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LinkedIn Learning for Managers

Online: Thursday, September 28, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Learn how to use LinkedIn Learning with your team as a professional learning tool. As a UCOP Manager or Supervisor, LinkedIn Learning has tools and features to make assigning and tracking team learning easy!

Self Care in the Workplace

Online : Friday, September 29, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Successful employees have an array of unique skills, talents, personalities, and passions. One thing many of them have in common is self care. In the last few years, the term self care has become common, with little attention on its importance not just for self, but also for healthy teams. Adapting the necessary tools of self care improves emotional, cognitive, and spiritual capacity, while offering the opportunity for connection and thoughtful partnership. Creating the spaces and opportunities to care for yourselves opens the possibility of sustainability, longevity, and healthy personal and team dynamics. In this course we will identify the different components of self care, identify key attributes of each component, highlight self care specific for leaders, and create a plan for better self care.

Excel Intermediate/Advanced

Online: Wednesday, October 4, 9:00am - 12:00pm

Microsoft Excel has hundreds of features and hundreds of functions. Getting the right feature, at the right time, used in the right way, in the right sequence is very often a problem. In this session, you will become aware of a few core Excel features that you can use right away and that other capabilities do exist that you can build on later as your Excel knowledge increases. Knowledge gaps will be filled in and you can rapidly build your skill sets around the featured tools in this class. We start with these features, and if time permits, cover other interesting features.

SumIFs, AveregeIFs, CountIFs : Get what you need from your data with minimal effort
Tables (with structured referencing): Look good and be organized
Pivot Tables: The easiest, best method to get unexpected and expected answers from you giant, messy data set

Participants must attend both sessions:

Wednesday, October 4 (9am-12pm)
Wednesday, October 11 (9am-12pm)

Box Advanced

Online : Tuesday, October 10, 1:00 - 2:00pm

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.

People Leader Forum

Online: Friday, October 13, 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.

October: On Boarding and Creating a 30-60-90 Day Plan

Upcoming Sessions:

Friday, November 3: Psychological Safety

Excel: Power Pivot

Online : Tuesday, October 17, 9:00am - 12:00pm

Advance your Excel skills with learning Power Pivot. In this class you will:

Become familiar with the PowerPivot application and import data.
Manipulate data in a PowerPivot worksheet.
Create reports using PowerPivot data.
Use DAX functions in PowerPivot.
Distribute PowerPivot Data.

Participants must attend both session:

Session 1: Tuesday, October 17 | 9am-12pm
Session 2: Thursday, October 19 | 9am-12pm

Project Management II

Online : Wednesday, October 18, 8:30am - 12:30pm

This workshop series emphasizes traditional project management techniques that are highly relevant to the UC project environment with practical tools, methods and techniques for immediate application in your work environment. Agile project management techniques designed to support highly iterative software development projects is not the focus of this series, and professionals seeking highly iterative agile project management techniques will also find practical value in the content of this series.

This is a three-part series, Project Management Level II, led by The Center for Project Management. Participants must attend all three sessions.

Session 1: Wednesday, October 18 | 8:30am – 12:30pm
Session 2: Wednesday, October 25 | 8:30am – 12:30pm
Session 3: Wednesday, November 1 | 8:30am – 12:30pm

Prerequisite: Completion of Project Management I, or previous PM experience

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents

Online : Wednesday, October 18, 9:00 - 10:30am

In this two-part training we will provide you with all the information you need to create accessible Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF documents. The first session will focus on the principles of accessibility, how to generate accessible Microsoft Office documents, and how to export these to PDF. The second session will focus on Adobe Acrobat and how to edit or enhance accessibility within a PDF file. We will be remediating a Word document during session one and a PDF during session two. While sample documents will be provided, please feel free to bring your own documents to practice on.

Participants must attend both sessions:

Session 1: Wednesday, October 18 | 9-10:30am
Session 2: Wednesday, October 25 | 9-10:30am

Creating an Inclusive Culture: Intergenerational Collaborative Work Teams

Online : Friday, October 20, 10:00am - 12:00pm

In today’s workforce there are 5 generations that work alongside each other. Each generation, from youngest to oldest, spans 83 years, and includes values, assets, and viewpoints that enhance organizations, and enrich culture. While there is great benefit to organizations that experience this diversity, this array of experiences and talent can also create its challenges. This workshop is designed to define and understand culture within teams, identify the invisible strengths of each generation and how they contribute to the team dynamic, identify silent team “killers”, and develop methods to shape a diverse, and inclusive team grounded in equity.

Design Thinking to Focus, Collaborate, and Play

Online: Tuesday, October 24, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Have you been curious about Design Thinking and want to learn more? This hands-on workshop includes an overview of the design thinking process and leaves you equipped with the key design thinking concepts and techniques that you can apply right away. Design Thinking helps build ability to think creatively and work collaboratively to solve significant problems.

Key takeaways:

Understand the key aspects of design thinking including working with your stakeholders to co-create innovate solutions together
Get insights into the challenges related to workplace interruptions and solutions to address them
Learn valuable tips and techniques for collaborating and problem solving in the workplace and beyond

Delivery Skills

Online : Thursday, October 26, 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.

UCOP Safety Active Attacker Training

Online : Thursday, November 2, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Melissa Collins, Program Manager for Security, Risk and Resilience, will facilitate this live virtual class in which participants will learn skills and strategies to respond if exposed to active attacker situations. The course will review real-life incidents and discuss options in the event of potential similar encounters. Melissa joined UCOP after serving 20 years with the UC San Diego Police Department, retiring as a lieutenant, and is a safety expert.

Additional Classes

UCSB Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Training

Online: , Register for UCSB Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Training on

This certificate course will be facilitated UCSB Lean Six Sigma instructors at no cost to participants. Each cohort will consist of 3- four hour sessions with hands on practice, project simulations, and intersession homework. Attendance at all 3 sessions is mandatory for course completion. At the end of the cohort, Participants will receive a Yellow Belt certificate of completion.

To register login to the UC Learning Center and type UCSB Lean Six Sigma into the search bar at the top right of your screen.

Using the UC Learning Center

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.