The considerable impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on our campus can include changing workloads as well as learning to work, collaborate, or lead in totally new ways. During this time, professional development can be as important, even more important, as ever. UF HR Training & Organization Development has identified key skills that faculty and staff can develop as individuals and as leaders. These skills are critical for navigating these times and for flourishing over the longer-term. The Keep Growing at UF Podcast will feature trainings produced by UF T&OD, presented in an audio format so that you can listen and learn at your convenience. Stay healthy, safe, and keep growing!
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This presentation will empower you with essential tools and knowledge to thrive in your professional journey. Discover effective techniques for self-advocacy, communication, and creating a work environment that supports your unique needs. Gain confidence, enhance your workplace experience, and take a step closer to achieving your career goals. Presenter: Lindsey Telg, MOT, OTR/L… Source
Join our experts for a panel discussion on accommodations in the workplace. Gain insights into what type of assistance you can ask for, how to access accommodations, and dispelling myths around seeking support. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower yourself and your team. Panelists: Russ Froman, ESQ., ED.D. – UF ADA Compliance Office Jenna Gonzalez – UF Disability Resource Center (DRC) Ann… Source
How will the trend towards remote and hybrid work change management and leadership practices? It's no secret that more flexible working arrangements have changed our workplaces forever. This 3 part miniseries opens discussion around topics such as building a remote work culture, maintaining accountability, and other considerations to navigate these new workforce realities.
How will the trend towards remote and hybrid work change management and leadership practices? It's no secret that more flexible working arrangements have changed our workplaces forever. This 3 part miniseries opens discussion around topics such as building a remote work culture, maintaining accountability, and other considerations to navigate these new workforce realities.
How will the trend towards remote and hybrid work change management and leadership practices? It's no secret that more flexible working arrangements have changed our workplaces forever. This 3 part miniseries opens discussion around topics such as building a remote work culture, maintaining accountability, and other considerations to navigate these new workforce realities.
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of fostering awareness, building capacity, and promoting action will weave throughout the offerings. This series will help UF move forward in efforts to combat anti-black racism and to promote a more diverse and inclusive campus. This week's podcast is titled Engaging in Productive Conversations on Race. In this episode, we begin to learn how to engage in and learn how to have conversations about race. There is no script for these conversations, so we must get comfortable with being uncomfortable. The conversations can be scary and risky; and they can be harmful if we don't address them with care, attention and intentionality. Positively, learning and practicing skills can be the start of healing and connection, of understanding ways in which you and others move through the same world in very different realities.
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of fostering awareness, building capacity, and promoting action will weave throughout the offerings. This series will help UF move forward in efforts to combat anti-black racism and to promote a more diverse and inclusive campus. This week's podcast is titled Understanding and Cultivating Your Cultural Intelligence. In this episode, we will explore why cultural intelligence (CQ) is essential for success in today's increasingly culturally diverse world and how it is linked to a variety of desirable outcomes including better judgment, decision making, creative collaboration, and job performance. We will reflect on aspects of our own culture, cultural identity and cultural biases so we can better understand and interact with others. We will use the Cultural Intelligence Model to provide a more thorough understanding of the four CQ capabilities, assess our own CQ, and apply strategies for cultivating our CQ.
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of fostering awareness, building capacity, and promoting action will weave throughout the offerings. This series will help UF move forward in efforts to combat anti-black racism and to promote a more diverse and inclusive campus. This week's podcast is titled Inside Out: Emotionally Intelligent Conversations about Race. In this episode, we will explore the benefits of Emotional Intelligence and the power self-awareness and self-regulation can have when engaging in conversations around race. We will unpack the R.U.L.E.R. model to explore how our emotions shape our experiences. We will discuss strategies for regulating these emotions and practice the art of a emotionally aware conversation.
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of […]
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of […]
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of […]
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of […]
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of […]
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of […]
This is part of our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of […]
This episode is the first in our series titled Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action. Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The […]
We make many decisions every day. Some decisions are inconsequential and carry little risk; and then there are those that truly require careful consideration. The ability to make choices through the use of good judgment is an essential skill that everyone must continually cultivate. This episode will share some strategies for making better choices in the workplace.
This episode defines multitasking and explains what happens in the human brain when attempting to do it. It also reviews what the research says about the dangers of multitasking and highlight some more effective strategies for tackling your lengthy to-do list.
This episode will discuss how behavioral styles affect your ability to communicate effectively with others. By learning about these styles, we can identify our own behavioral preferences as well as those of the people we encounter every day. This knowledge helps us identify communication strengths and weaknesses (for ourselves and others) and consider how we […]
Have you ever heard of a mindbug? They're sneaky critters that lurk in our subconscious. These mindbugs are hidden biases that can impact the organizations we are a part of. Learn more about mindbugs and how we can outsmart them!
Grief is a very normal and common emotion, but it is largely misunderstood. If we normalize grief and grieving, it is possible to have more empathic and meaningful conversations about various forms of loss in the workplace. After the global experience of Covid-19, it's a safe assumption that everyone has experienced some form of grief: […]
Do you feel like you are just managing to get through these challenging times? It may be your resilience muscles are weak. In this webinar we'll share with you a roadmap with concepts to build your resilience, regain your balance and move forward with optimism and energy for sustaining and, even, increasing work performance.
Are you leading a hybrid team comprised of both remote and in-office positions? This episode will provide supervisors with some best practices and strategies to increase team effectiveness when not everyone is “in the office”.
Activity Link: http://training.hr.ufl.edu/instructionguides/keepgrowing/activities_handout.pdf An important element of Productivity & Performance is one’s ability to apply performance measures to their everyday work, not just for an annual review. This podcast will help you apply an organizational structure to your work, identify and write your goals using backwards design, and ultimately track and maintain your performance records over […]
Activity Link: https://gentwenty.com/51-ways-to-build-identity-capital/ We live in a time where people are achieving early success at a rapid pace and their stories are amplified. In a short amount of time these stories have gone from the remarkable exception, to the new expectation of success. While reaching a certain level of success at a young age can […]
Communicating virtually (whether presenting, participating in a meeting, leading a class or facilitating a conversation) brings with it a unique set of challenges. A strong virtual presence allows you to engage and build credibility with your audience. In this podcast, we'll share keys to connect with people with authenticity so you can achieve your purpose […]
Our “return to work” isn't a “return to normal.” There are new safety regulations that impact our mental load. This episode is designed to help you understand that new burden and provide strategies to set you up for success.
Is Stress Your Friend? Strange right? Stress is an unfortunate part of life that we all experience to varying degrees. While it may seem strange at first, having a strategic approach to managing stress can result in a more productive and healthier you and that is exactly what today's episode is all about.
As we prepare to return to campus, there may be some new boundaries that we have to draw to feel comfortable in our new environment. On this episode, we will present tools to help you identify, communicate, and enforce boundaries in a professional setting.
Change happens. It’s a real, concrete part of life that we sometimes wish would just go away, or at least slow down. Now more than ever, we are dealing with rapid fire change and it is having an impact on our lives both professionally and personally. On this episode, we’ll review the Change Cycle, a […]
Things are stressful right now for all of us. On this episode, we are presenting a webinar titled Stop Stressing Me Out! On this episode, we will learn what each behavioral style considers stressful, the signals we each give when under stress, and flexibility tips to help each other lower their stress levels for improved collaboration and productivity […]
In light of current events, we are going to present a special episode of the Keep Growing At UF Podcast. On June 18, 2020, in a letter to the UF Community, President Kent Fuchs announced strategic goals to address racism and inequity at the University. In keeping with these goals, Training & Organizational Development has […]
One thing is certain- there is little constant in our lives right now. These challenging times can be a great opportunity to build stronger relationships and teams. On this episode, we are presenting a webinar titled Leading with Emotional Intelligence During Times of Uncertainty and Change. In this episode, managers and leaders will learn ways to leverage […]
Being together apart is all about teams and shared stories. Some people will thrive, while others will fall silent. On this episode, we are presenting a webinar titled Being Together Apart, which will provide practical tips and guidance for newly remote teams in building trust, membership and belonging.
What does the growth mindset look like when our world is flipped upside down? Embracing the growth mindset will allow us to learn and grow during challenging times. On this episode, we are presenting a webinar titled Embracing the Growth Mindset in Times of Turbulence, which will look at how we can do this while […]
Leaders who practice good judgment during times of uncertainty provide anchoring when it is most needed and appreciated by those who look up to them for direction. Modeling good judgment reassures and engages the team to remain aligned and focused on results despite an environment of doubt and ambiguity. On this episode, we are delving […]
Providing timely and meaningful feedback to your direct reports might already feel like a challenging task. And, you now must do it during a time of increased stress and physical distance. In fact, ongoing feedback is even more crucial then ever. On this episode, we are presenting a webinar titled Providing Effective Feedback for Remote […]
How can one cultivate a mindset of positivity and compassion when the world is changing so rapidly? On this episode, we are presenting a webinar titled Cultivating An Abundance Mindset, which will teach you the difference between a Scarcity Mindset and an Abundance Mindset, as well as what it takes to move from the former […]
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