Change Essentials, session 2
2025-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

Change Essentials, session 3
2025-10-16 10:00 - 12:00
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 Wellbeing Monthly Lunch and Chat: Wellness Resolutions
2026-01-09 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.

Productivity Breakthrough: Accomplishing More with Less Stress
2026-01-13 09:00 - 12:00
This transformational workshop equips busy professionals with practical strategies to work smarter, reduce stress, and achieve results that matter. Participants consistently describe it as a breakthrough in how they approach their time, priorities, and energy. Through engaging exercises and proven frameworks, you’ll learn how to cut through digital overload, skillfully manage the constant flow of email, manage competing priorities with clarity. and focus on the work that drives meaningful results. In this highly interactive session, you will:
• Prioritize with clarity to focus on high-value work.
• Stay on track by reducing interruptions and distractions.
• Simplify your systems for email, calendars, and tasks.
• Organize information for quick access and less clutter.
• Build sustainable habits that boost energy and resilience.

GROWing Your Check In Conversations for Managers
2026-01-14 08:00 - 17:00
This workshop is the first session of a two-part series required for managers and supervisors. GROW is a popular conversation 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 employee-manager conversations.

Reflective Listening
2026-01-16 10:00 - 12:00
Reflective Listening is a necessary skill for today’s workplace, both as a leader and a team member. It is a skill that you can learn. This course will teach you some of the fundamentals of Reflective Listening so that you can start practicing today. This course is part of the UCOP Communication series certificate.

Subtle Acts of Exclusion
2026-01-27 09:00 - 12:00
Join us as we explore Subtle Acts of Exclusion (SAE) framework and participate in group dialogue on best practices to interrupt SAEs to create an inclusive workplace.

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents 2: PDFs
2026-01-28 10:30 - 12:00
Building off the Creating Accessible Documents 1: MS Office training, Accessible PDF Documents offers a deep dive into using Adobe Acrobat Pro to manipulate, tag, and test PDF documents for accessibility. We will cover tagging documents from scratch, what common accessibility errors are, tables, and building accessible PDF forms. In order to fully participate in this class, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Pro installed (not just Acrobat Reader). Please note: Creating Accessible Documents 1: MS Office training is a prerequisite for this class.

Box Fundamentals
2026-01-28 13:00 - 14:00
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.
