Concur T&E Office Hours
2022-03-01 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-03-10 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Attend the Concur Travel & Expense Office Hours to ask questions about pre-travel requests, corporate credit card requests and expense reimbursements.
No registration needed: Zoom directly into office hours here

Concur Training
2022-03-02 10:30 - 12:00, 2022-03-15 13:00 - 14:30
Learn how to use Concur to make air, car and hotel reservations for business or personal travel.
Register for class here (If you would like class completion to be on your transcript)
No registration necessary: Zoom directly into class

Travel Perks
2022-03-02 11:00 - 12:00
Explore the many benefits provided in UC’s contracts with the major airlines, hotels and car rental companies, and learn how to take advantage of them when booking travel.
Zoom: https://ucop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pT9nfsYwT6ighZIIrOwOvQ

APISA monthly meeting
2022-03-03 12:00 - 13:00
Asian and Pacific Islander Staff Association (APISA) promotes and enhances the well-being of Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander staff, faculty and students through active participation and representation in the affairs at UCOP and the community at large. We sponsor activities that foster understanding and community building about Asian, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

GROWing Your Check-in Conversations for Managers
2022-03-03 13:00 - 15:00, 2022-03-09 14:00 - 16:00, 2022-03-11 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-03-15 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 of the three-year training plan designed by the Performance Appraisal workgroup made up of colleagues from across UCOP.
Click here to register

Mindfulness at UCOP
2022-03-04 09:00 - 10:00
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.
Register here

Microsoft Excel Macros Techniques
2022-03-04 10:00 - 12:00
You may have used Excel Macros to record some steps and replay them, or even ventured into some of the underlying scripts, but wondered about what Macros are really about, how they work behind the scene, and how they can help you add important functionality to your Excel Workbooks. In this workshop you will learn exactly that and get some step by step demonstrations and instructions on how to put Macros to use into your daily work.
Registration deadline March 1
Register for class here

International Women’s Day: Gratitude Grams
2022-03-08 16:00 - 17:00
On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2022, the PACSW Women’s History Month Subcommittee will host a safe space for everyone who would like to write and send a gratitude gram to a woman in their life. This is an internal event that is open to all members of our community.
Location​: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/93624559309
Meeting ID: 936 2455 9309

MS Excel Techniques
2022-03-09 10:00 - 11:30
Take your 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 business insights, present information in a compelling way, and collaborate with others more effectively.
Register for class here

Council of University of CA Staff Assembly (CUCSA) Town Hall
2022-03-09 12:00 - 13:00
CUCSA is an assembly of staff dedicated to improving communications between University of California administrators and staff, and between staff at UC locations (Office of the President, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and all ten campuses). The Council’s objective is to provide service to the University by advising and providing a staff perspective to decision makers through reports and collaborating on the Employee Engagement Survey. Delegates are chosen by local staff assemblies to participate in CUCSA and they serve 2 years.

Concur T&E Office Hours (Drop In)
2022-03-09 14:00 - 15:00
Administrators will be on hand to answer any and all questions

People Leader Forum
2022-03-11 13:00 - 14:00
This monthly opportunity is for people managers and supervisors 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.
Register Here

Cascade CMS - Accessibility Workflow
2022-03-11 14:00 - 15:00
In this course, students are introduced to the accessibility review process that will be implemented in the Cascade content management system. The basics of web accessibility will be covered, with an emphasis on producing accessible web content for their department on the UCOP website (https://www.ucop.edu), so that it’s usable by people with disabilities.
Register here

LinkedIn Learning Introduction
2022-03-13 13:00 - 13:45
LinkedIn Learning is here! Come to this session and learn how you can leverage this new benefit to strengthen existing skills and learn new ones, too!

Women We Admire: Laphonza Butler
2022-03-15 12:00 - 13:00
Join the President’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (PACSW) for a special Women’s History Month presentation of the Women We Admire speaker series featuring Regent Emerita Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY’s List.

Box Advanced
2022-03-16 11:00 - 12:00
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.
Register for class here

Getting back to International Travel
2022-03-16 11:00 - 12:00
A panel from UC’s Risk Services will help us understand insurance coverage for business travel, what travelers should be doing to prepare and how to navigate the oftentimes confusing arena of country border restrictions
Zoom: https://ucop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pj-ZkBVaT12FJ1pQwdD_8A

Career and Life Pivots: Successful Power Moves in the Pandemic
2022-03-16 12:00 - 13:00
The pandemic has shifted many of our life and career plans. If you’re struggling to envision what’s next, you’re not alone. On March 16, join the UC Alumni Career Network in exploring how to make power moves during the pandemic.
Register online here

Inclusive Hybrid and Virtual Meetings
2022-03-16 13:00 - 14:00
UCOP Learning and Development leads this workshop featuring techniques to facilitate virtual and hybrid meetings that include all voices and engage your participants. Inclusive meetings lead to a climate of openness, greater teamwork, and increased ownership of decisions.
Objectives of the course are:

Structuring the meeting to foster engagement
Determining the right engagement strategy for a variety of participants and meeting objectives
Discussing and sharing best practices of hybrid vs remote meetings

Microsoft One Note
2022-03-17 09:30 - 12:00
This class is designed for professionals that want to understand the capabilities of OneNote and how to use its features more efficiently. The instructor will explore time-saving techniques like searching, taking screen clippings, and using templates to increase productivity.
Register for class here

PACSW Equity Chat
2022-03-17 16:00 - 17:00
Aligning with the theme of Women’s History Month, “Hope and Healing,” PACSW will dive into the practice of self-love and its influence in the workplace with the article, “Self-Love: The World Needs Us.” Please read the article in advance of the session.
Registration link

The Remarkable Hybrid Manager
2022-03-18 09:00 - 12:00
The hybrid workplace brings a whole new set of challenges. This highly interactive online live workshop is designed to help managers and supervisors tackle the hybrid workplace challenges and turn them into opportunities for them and their teams. In addition to providing a variety of concepts, techniques, and tools to help overcome the hybrid workplace challenges, this workshop helps managers learn cutting edge problem solving and collaboration frameworks, so that they can fully engage their teams and get their involvement and buy-in in addressing challenges and opportunities.
Registration here : deadline 3/15

UCOP Creating Accessible PDFs
2022-03-18 14:00 - 15:00
IT Accessibility is about empowering users with disabilities to easily access and engage with online resources. Many of these resources, such as tax forms, annual reports or policy documents, are PDFs. We will cover how to create accessible Word documents, which can be easily converted into accessible PDFs, and identify basic accessibility issues using Adobe’s accessibility checker.
Register here

OPSA Virtual Happy Mixology Hour
2022-03-18 15:00 - 17:00
All UCOP staff are invited to join OPSA for a mixology class presented by UC Riverside alumnus Micahel Cecconi of Stirred In. The class will teach you to mix a couple of cocktails and mocktails, as well as provide an overview of drink mixing principles. You must register in advance to receive the Zoom link. Please drink responsibly!
