Webinar: Accomplishing More With Less (3 of 3)
2019-10-15 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Bombarded by information? Persistently interrupted and side-tracked? Always juggling competing and changing priorities? Frustrated with digital overload? This fun and engaging series of 3 workshops, facilitated by “People on the Go,” gives breakthrough techniques for difficult time and productivity challenges.
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Microsoft Excel Techniques
2019-10-15 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
Learn powerful Excel techniques that help you save time, analyze data and extract important organizational insights, present information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
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Advanced Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables
2019-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Have you used PivotTables and wondered what more you can do with them? Or maybe you are running into obstacles and wishing you can get around them? This workshop will help you unleash the power of PivotTables and get outstanding results.
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Sharepoint Intermediate: List Management
2019-10-10 09:15 - 11:45 | Franklin 7107
SharePoint is a powerful tool to track items of work in lists such as events, action items, tasks, issues and projects. People typically use Excel to track these items and may experience limitations in doing so. SharePoint lists are a much better alternative and you can even import existing data from Excel into a SharePoint list so you don’t have to rekey the information. There are many obvious benefits of using SharePoint lists and there are many hidden features that we will uncover during this training.
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Managing Change and Transitions
2019-10-10 09:00 - 16:00 | Franklin Lobby 1
“The only thing that is constant is change” — Heraclitus who lived 100 years before Plato knew this, and it is never more true than in today’s organizations. This workshop focuses on change and your role in understanding, communicating, and managing change and transitions. All employees are encouraged to attend.
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Adobe Acrobat Accessibility (Online)
2019-10-10 09:00 - 16:00 | Online (via Zoom)
Do you need convert documents into PDFs and ensure they are accessibility compliant? Want to learn tips and tricks to make the process faster? Come learn in this engaging and custom workshop from Academy X.
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Webinar: Accomplishing More With Less (2 of 3)
2019-10-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Online

New Employee Orientation
2019-10-08 08:45 - 12:30 | Franklin Lobby 1
Welcome to UCOP! New Employee Orientation is offered once a month from 8:45 am until 12:30 pm (breakfast is provided including vegetarian options). Register now and let us welcome you!
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Mindfulness at Work Webinar
2019-10-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
This one-hour webinar led by People-OnTheGo focuses on increasing awareness of our surroundings and the impact that our thoughts, emotions, and actions have on our experience. Most importantly, this workshop will equip you with a method to become more mindful, more purposeful, and more effective at work and beyond. Note: Registration deadline is 7 days before the class date.

IABC Workshop: Communicator's Role in Change Management
2019-10-02 17:30 - 19:30
Join the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for a special professional development event: Keep the Change — The Communicator’s Role in Change Management.
UCOP employees are eligible to register using a special discount code (SFIABC) for $15 off the non-member price. (Pricing is tiered by registration timing but varies between $20-30, excluding fees.)
5:30–6:00 p.m. – Networking
6:00–7:30 p.m. – Presentation

Powerpoint Beginner/Intermediate
2019-09-27 09:00 - 16:00 | Franklin 7107
Learn to develop persuasive, dynamic slide show presentations which combine graphics, text, and animation effects to maximize the impact of the information you want to convey. To get the most out of this class, attendees should bring their own PowerPoint presentation to work on. If you do not bring a presentation, one will be provided.
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Powerpoint Advanced, part 2 (online)
2019-09-26 09:00 - 12:00 | Online (via Zoom)
Do you already know how to create a good slideshow, but still have some lingering questions? The PowerPoint Advanced course will help you become adept at adding videos, using master slides, and managing animation effects and timings efficiently.
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Powerpoint Advanced, part 1 (online)
2019-09-25 13:00 - 17:00 | Online (via Zoom)

Advanced MS Excel Pivot Tables (Online)
2019-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Online (via Zoom)
In this workshop you will learn the most powerful capabilities of Excel PivotTables and how they can be an invaluable tool in helping you analyze your data and present your conclusions in compelling ways. If you have been using PivotTables and are wondering what more you can do with them, or are maybe running into obstacles and wishing you can get around them, this workshop will help you unleash the power of PivotTables and get outstanding results.
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Sharepoint Fundamentals (Online)
2019-09-24 09:00 - 16:00 | Online (via Zoom)
This highly rated class is now back by popular demand! If you use Microsoft SharePoint to facilitate collaboration, you’ll want to attend this hands-on workshop to improve your skills. You will learn tips on managing your SharePoint site including lists, documents, and the new sorting, filtering, and searching tools. Register early as seats are limited.
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Powerpoint Beginner/Intermediate (online)
2019-09-23 09:00 - 16:00 | Online (via Zoom)

Do's and Don'ts of Effective Presentations
2019-09-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Franklin Lobby 1
Public speaking and giving presentations is one of the most difficult thing that anybody will do in their career. In this informative workshop, participants will learn the 14 elements that can make their next presentation shine or bomb. As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be equipped with knowledge and skills that will help them be more impactful when delivering a presentation to an audience that’s either large or small.
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Box Fundamentals
2019-09-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Franklin 7107
This course will give you an overview of Box, the cloud-based service that provides secure file storage and file sharing.

How to use Box
How to collaborate with UCOP and non-UCOP people
Commenting 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. More info on Box can always be accessed on our webpage.
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Project Management for Non-Project Managers (Online): 2-Part Series
2019-09-17 11:00 - 12:15, 2019-09-10 11:00 - 12:15 | Online (via Zoom)
This workshop is designed for professionals who want to enhance their project management skills and better manage projects of all kinds. While traditional project management concepts are covered, this session is focused on bringing innovative insights and practical techniques to revolutionize managing projects of all sizes.
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Mindfulness at UCOP
2019-09-17 10:30 - 11:30 | Kaiser 512
Less stress. Enhanced awareness and focus. Improved health.
These are some of the benefits shown in research studies on mindfulness. In this one-hour workshop, you will learn how to both reduce your stress and increase your effectiveness at work through simple mindfulness techniques. Some highlights:

Research on mindfulness benefits
Mindfulness vs meditation
Simple mindfulness practices at work

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MS Excel Techniques (Online)
2019-09-17 09:30 - 11:00 | Online (via Zoom)
This workshop is for people who want to take their Microsoft Excel skills to the next level. In this workshop, users learn powerful techniques that can help them save significant time, analyze data and extract important organizational insights, present information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
Register here.

SharePoint: Site Administration
2019-09-12 09:15 - 11:45 | Franklin 7107 + Zoom
SharePoint is a powerful tool that provides collaboration team sites for workgroups to share documents, calendars, project information to name a few. For SharePoint to be effective, the day-to-day team site administration needs to be in the hands of the teams rather than a central authority. Therefore individuals in the business units need the knowledge to administer team sites. This workshop focuses on the primary skills necessary for site administration such as permissions, site and list creation, page editing and navigation.
Discussion Topics:
• Permissions overview
• Permissions Best Practices
• Site Management
• Lists and Libraries
• Navigation
• Web pages and Web Parts
Hands-on exercises:
• Create a site
• Configure permissions
• Modify navigation
• Edit the site’s homepage
• Add Web Parts
• Create a site column and apply to pre-existing lists
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Accomplishing More With Less (Online, Part 3 of 3)
2019-09-05 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Bombarded by information? Persistently interrupted and sidetracked? Always juggling competing and changing priorities? Frustrated with digital overload? This fun and engaging series of 3 workshops, facilitated by “People on the Go,” gives breakthrough techniques for difficult time and productivity challenges. Attendance at all three sessions is required to register.
Register here.

Accomplishing More With Less (Online, Part 2 of 3)
2019-08-29 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Bombarded by information? Persistently interrupted and side-tracked? Always juggling competing and changing priorities? Frustrated with digital overload? This fun and engaging series of 3 workshops, facilitated by “People on the Go,” gives breakthrough techniques for difficult time and productivity challenges. Attendance at all three sessions is required to register.
Register here.

Tableau Workshop: Desktop Intermediate/Advanced
2019-08-28 09:00 - 12:00 | Franklin 7107
This workshop will provide hands-on work with Tableau Desktop on advanced and intermediate topics with a special focus on calculations. It is not appropriate for first-timers. Some prior usage of Tableau is required.
Highlights:

Viz in tooltip, Parameters, Sets
Calculations

Logical, REGEX
Table Calculations
Level of Detail

Order of Operations
Bump chart
Set Actions

Technical Requirements:

The computer lab computers already have Tableau installed, so there are no additional technical requirements.

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Building Strong Work Relationships (Online, Part 2 of 2)
2019-08-27 10:00 - 12:00 | Online (via Zoom)
In this live online version of the course, we will cover the material in two parts: 8/15 and 8/27. Both sessions are required to register for the class.
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Accomplishing More With Less (Online, Part 1 of 3)
2019-08-22 10:00 - 11:30 | Online

Leveraging Your UC Network
2019-08-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join fellow UC alumni online on Wednesday, August 21 for an action-packed hour focused on networking strategies and tips to tap into your University of California network. Cal alumnus, Oscar Garcia, Founder & Chief Empowerment Officer of Aspira, will share actionable tips to help you build and nurture relationships, identify opportunities to connect with others, and authentic ways you can leave new connections with a lasting positive impression. This event is part of the UC Alumni Career Network series hosted by the ten UC alumni associations and the UC Office of the President. This event will be recorded. Please use this form to sign-up attend the online event or to receive a link to the recording following the live session.
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Tableau Workshop: Desktop 101 and Prep
2019-08-21 09:00 - 12:00 | Online (via Zoom)
Note: This is the ONLINE version for remote participants.
Is data visualization important to your work? Join us for a hands-on workshop of Tableau Desktop plus Tableau Prep! Some things you will learn:

Demo of Tableau visualizations built by other Tableau Higher Ed customers
Connecting to your data, live connection vs Tableau Data Extract
Creating Tableau Data Source, hierarchies, formatting, aggregation
Tableau Desktop user interface & terminology
Working with dates, filters, sorting, calculations
Creating Worksheets using line charts, bar charts, cross tabs, heat maps, tree maps, word clouds, scatter plots, etc.
Using the Analytics tab for statistical calculations such as trends, forecasts, clusters, averages, etc.
Using maps: filled maps and plotting points (lat & long)
Combine Worksheets to create interactive Dashboards
Publish your Dashboard to Tableau Server and view/interact with it in a web

In addition, Tableau Prep empowers you to get to analysis faster by helping you quickly and confidently combine, shape, and clean your data. A direct and visual experience makes data prep simple and integration with the Tableau workflow allows for faster speed to insight.
Target Audience:

Analysts or advanced business users who prepare data for themselves or others on their team. Anybody who needs to do some data manipulation to accomplish their analysis. Today they may use a variety of tools including Tableau Desktop or Excel.

Technical requirements for attendees:

Attendees should have Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep installed (click the links to download the trial versions).
The 14-day trial versions are sufficient, and the class instructor can extend your trial by 30 days, if needed.
To install: You will need to open a ServiceNow ticket to get “temporary admin rights” so you can install the software:

Go to ServiceNow. Click on “Get Help” –> “Submit Other Requests”
Copy/paste the following for Subject: “I need temporary admin rights to install Tableau for class”
Copy/paste for Description: “For L&D class, I need to have Tableau software installed.”

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Tableau Zoom, Tableau Zoom
Virtual
Location URL : https://zoom.us/j/266201956
