Excel Power BI - Session 2 of 3
2025-11-13 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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
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

GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers
2025-12-03 09:30 - 12:00
GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers is the second part in the required live training series on manager and employee performance conversations. The previous STEP trainings are all prerequisites to this training

Managing Up: Cultivating a Partnership with Your Manager
2025-12-04 10:00 - 12:00
In this workshop we’ll focus on exploring ways to develop a mutually beneficial working relationship with your supervisor as an individual contributor. This workshop will explore how individual contributors can develop trust by exploring their manager’s perspective, advocating for self, and providing upward feedback. This highly interactive session will review best practices to document your performance, communicate clearly, and practice delivering upward feedback.

ME@UCOP: Recruitment and Onboarding
2025-12-05 09:00 - 12:00
This is a live, virtual, instructor-led session where we will discuss UCOP Talent Acquisition and On Boarding, including: – UCOP Hiring steps and process – Inclusive Recruitment – UC, State, and Federal policies and laws – On Boarding process, tools, and best practices This is part of the Manager Essentials at UCOP (ME@UCOP). It is required for all people new to a management or supervisory positions at UCOP since 2020 (internal promotions and external hires). All managers are welcome to attend.

Managing Psychologically Safe Team (For Managers only)
2025-12-10 10:00 - 12:00
Join us in this workshop designed for managers as we: Define the benefits of building a culture of psychological safety on your team. Explore the 4 Stages of Psychological Safety and the behaviors associated with each. Assess your current team culture and behaviors that contribute to or reduce psychological safety. Engage with the BICEPS framework for keeping a pulse on psychological safety on an individual level. Prior to the class, we encourage you to watch this TED talk by Amy Edmondson, godmother of Psychological Safety: Amy Edmondson: Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhoLuui9gX8

Communication in the Workplace
2025-12-11 08:30 - 12:30
This engaging workshop provides practical tools and techniques to strengthen communication skills in professional settings. Participants will explore strategies to enhance their professional presence, improve emotional intelligence, and apply both verbal and non-verbal communication techniques to foster effective engagement. The session focuses on helping individuals make a positive impact in the workplace by communicating with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Whether in team meetings, one-on-one conversations, or high-stakes presentations, participants will walk away with actionable strategies to communicate more effectively and build stronger professional relationships. This course is part of the UCOP Communication series certificate.
