Job Builder by JDX: Employee Training
2023-02-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-02-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Learn how to navigate and use all the features of UCOP Job Builder by JDX.
Attend via Zoom: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/96516235918

Meeting ID: 965 1623 5918
No passcode required

Job Builder by JDX: Manager/ Supervisor Training
2023-02-03 10:00 - 11:30
Learn how to navigate and use all the features of UCOP Job Builder by JDX.
Zoom: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/96516235918

Meeting ID: 965 1623 5918
No passcode required

People Leader Forum: Sep - Steady Leadership in Turbulent Times
2025-09-05 13:00 - 14:00
Steady Leadership in Turbulent Times: Psychological Tools for Navigating Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) 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 This is a chance to reframe your mindset, build resilience, and lead with confidence no matter what comes your way.

Box Fundamentals
2025-09-17 11:00 - 12:00
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

GROWing Your Check In Conversations for Managers
2025-09-23 10:00 - 12:00
GROWing your Check-in Conversations for Managers is a required two-hour virtual live workshop that provides managers with an opportunity to practice using the GROW model in STEP check-ins. Instructors will share tips and strategies for providing clear, thoughtful and constructive feedback to employees. Specifically, this training offers best practices on effective feedback and coaching conversations, and provides managers time for sharing and an opportunity to practice having Check-in conversations using the GROW coaching model.
This is part one of a two part required series on Check-in conversations for managers/supervisors.

Delivery Skills for Connecting with Your Audience
2025-09-24 09:00 - 12:00
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 Wellbeing Lunch and Chat: Vulnerability & Resilience
2025-09-26 12:10 - 12:55
Take a mindful pause in your day and join us for this virtual monthly series for individual and collective wellbeing. There will be space for reflection, discussion, and real-life application. Bring your lunch, curiosity and a willingness to connect. All are welcome!
Imagine you’re feeling inadequate after a critical comment from your supervisor. Instead of going down the rabbit hole with this narrative, you can transform negative self-talk to constructive reflections by reframing the story. (Learnings based on the work of Brene Brown)

Excel Power Pivot - Session 1
2025-10-01 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
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. This is the first of two sessions. Must attend both sessions to complete course.

Change Essentials, Session 1
2025-10-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Change Essentials is based on the best-selling book, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. Dr. Kotter’s research revealed eight key steps and four critical leadership principles that, when applied effectively, help to ensure successful change. This three-part workshop will provide you with a foundational level of knowledge and skill to help you identify strategies to apply those steps and principles to a current or anticipated change within a department, or as part of a broader organizational change initiative. This is the first of 3 sessions. Attendance is required for all three sessions. Thursdays Oct 2, Oct, 9, Oct 16

People Leader Forum: Managing Newer Professionals
2025-10-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
The People Leaders The People Leaders 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.

Smartsheet Essentials: Project Planning Made Easy
2025-10-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Learn the core skills needed to manage projects effectively using Smartsheet. This foundational session is designed for new users and project managers seeking to understand how to leverage Smartsheet for project planning and execution. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on activities, participants will gain the knowledge to set up and manage projects confidently, using features such as Gantt charts, task assignments, and resource allocation. This workshop focuses on the essentials, helping participants create organized workflows and understand best practices for using Smartsheet in real-world scenarios. Whether you’re planning a single project or managing multiple teams, this session equips you with the tools to stay on track and deliver successful outcomes. Key Takeaways:
• Understand Smartsheet’s project management basics, including workspaces and sheet creation.
• Build and manage Gantt charts with dependencies and critical paths.
• Assign tasks and manage resources effectively.
• Explore Smartsheet templates for efficient project planning.
• Learn best practices for reporting project progress.

Mentorship Program Information Session
2025-10-07 14:00 - 14:30 | Online
Come learn about the 2026 UCOP Mentorship Program. The Mentorship Program is an exciting opportunity to share and learn career skills and leadership practices, guide and navigate the UCOP culture, and establish long term professional relationships. The goal of the Mentorship Program is to create mentor–mentee pairings that provide a supportive structure for UCOP employees to cultivate contacts, explore challenges and enhance their effectiveness as they grow both personally and professionally.

UCOP Excel Power Pivot Session 2
2025-10-08 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
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. This is the second session of two sessions. Session 1 is a prerequisite.

Change Essentials, session 2
2025-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Change Essentials is based on the best-selling book, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. Dr. Kotter’s research revealed eight key steps and four critical leadership principles that, when applied effectively, help to ensure successful change. This three-part workshop will provide you with a foundational level of knowledge and skill to help you identify strategies to apply those steps and principles to a current or anticipated change within a department, or as part of a broader organizational change initiative. This is the second of 3 sessions. Attendance at session 1 is a perquisite. Attendance is required for all three sessions. Thursdays Oct 2, Oct, 9, Oct 16

Excel Intermediate/ Advance-Session 1
2025-10-15 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
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 three-hour 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
This is the first of two sessions. Both sessions are required to get credit for the course.
Oct 15: 9 am- 12 pm (PST)
Oct 22: 9 am -12 pm (PST)

Change Essentials, session 3
2025-10-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Change Essentials is based on the best-selling book, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. Dr. Kotter’s research revealed eight key steps and four critical leadership principles that, when applied effectively, help to ensure successful change. This three-part workshop will provide you with a foundational level of knowledge and skill to help you identify strategies to apply those steps and principles to a current or anticipated change within a department, or as part of a broader organizational change initiative. This is the third of 3 sessions. Attendance at sessions 1 and 2 are a perquisite. Attendance is required for all three sessions. Thursdays Oct 2, Oct, 9, Oct 16

UCOP Safety: Basic Awareness
2025-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Melissa Collins, Program Manager for Security, Risk and Resilience, will facilitate this 30-minute live virtual class that will provide basic safety tips to help employees feel informed, alert, and safe as they travel to and from the workplace. Extra time will be allotted for questions and feedback. Melissa recently joined UCOP after serving 20 years with the UC San Diego Police Department, retiring as a lieutenant, and is a safety expert.

Excel Intermediate/Advanced- Session 2
2025-10-22 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
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 three-hour 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
This is the second of two sessions. Both sessions are required to get credit for the course.
Oct 15: 9 am- 12 pm (PST)
Oct 22: 9 am -12 pm (PST)

UCOP Wellbeing Lunch and Chat: Strategies and Practices to Manage Stress
2025-10-23 12:10 - 12:55 | Online
Take a mindful pause in your day and join us for this virtual monthly series for individual and collective wellbeing. There will be space for reflection, discussion, and real-life application.

Subtle Acts of Exclusion
2025-10-29 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
The term “microaggression” has become widely used, yet just as widely misunderstood. Join us as we reframe microaggressions as Subtle Acts of Exclusion (SAE). Explore the SAE framework and participate in group dialogue on how to normalize interrupting these acts and engage colleagues in discussion. In this session, participants will: Reflect on socialization and its impact on our outlook, attitudes, and behaviors Understand the shift in language from Microaggressions to Subtle Acts of Exclusion Explore the Subtle Acts of Exclusion Framework Participate in group dialogue on best practices to interrupt SAEs

GROWing Your Check In Conversations for Managers
2025-10-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Online

UCOP Mentor Program Information Session
2025-11-05 12:30 - 13:00 | Online
Come learn about the UCOP Mentorship Program. The Mentorship Program is an exciting opportunity to share and learn career skills and leadership practices, guide and navigate the UCOP culture, and establish long term professional relationships. The goal of the Mentorship Program is to create mentor–mentee pairings that provide a supportive structure for UCOP employees to cultivate contacts, explore challenges and enhance their effectiveness as they grow both personally and professionally.

Difficult Conversations
2025-11-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
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. This is part of the UCOP Communication series certificate.

Influencing Without Authority: Leadership as an Individual Contributor
2025-11-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Author and CEO coach Kim Scott says that there are two types of star employees: “superstars” and “rockstars.” While superstars are gunning for promotions, rockstars are grounding themselves as experts in their roles. According to recent research, most individual contributors (62%) plan to stay in IC roles over becoming a manager. How can ICs take ownership of their career growth, leverage their knowledge and skills, and make an impact without climbing the ladder? In this workshop we’ll dive into the leadership skills all “rockstars” need to become influential contributors: building trusting workplace relationships, managing up, carving out a niche area of expertise, and connecting the dots from your role to the organizational mission.
Attendees will:

Gain insight into their unique position of influence within the organization.
Explore the leadership skills of relationship building, managing up, honing expertise, and aligning work to the organizational mission.
Identify one skill they want to strategically focus on for the next month

Mastering the Logistics of Hybrid
2025-11-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Hyrbid: Zoom + B4001
Effectively facilitating hybrid meetings can be technically challenging. Come learn how to set up hybrid meetings to fully engage both remote and in-person attendees. In this training, we will walk through how to prepare effectively and set up all technical components including audio, camera, and the use of Zoom features.

Excel Power BI - Session 2 of 3
2025-11-13 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
You must attend session 1 on November 12 to attend session 2.
In this 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.

Impactful Storytelling: Making Your Presentation Captivate
2025-11-18 13:00 - 15:30 | Online
This workshop is designed for people seeking to master storytelling as a strategic communication tool. Through interactive exercises, participants will discover how to effectively use storytelling to clarify their vision, motivate teams, and drive organizational objectives. The workshop highlights the critical role of understanding your audience, crafting engaging narratives, and applying storytelling principles. This course is part of the UCOP Communication series certificate.
Key Takeaways:

Effective narrative crafting techniques for a broad organizational audience.
Utilization of psychological principles to deepen audience engagement and message retention.
Customization of storytelling to align with audience needs and organizational goals.
Hands-on experience in refining and presenting stories for maximum impact.
Integration of storytelling into regular business communication and strategic presentation

Wellbeing Lunch and Chat: Mindfulness Practices
2025-11-21 12:10 - 12:55 | Online
