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Breakout Session #1 Options (9:00 - 10:30 a.m.)
The Individual Contributor's Version - Accomplishing More in Less Time, Less Effort, and Less Stress - Breakthrough Productivity Principles for the Digital Age!
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Instructor: Pierre Khawand
Workplace Conflict Resolution Tools Workshop
Participants in this interactive workshop learn how to identify and assess a conflict whether it’s a conflict you are in, or a conflict between two or more people. Participants consider a constructive view of conflict and explore a 3 stage model of how conflict escalates. Participants identify common workplace irritations that can be the source of conflict and discover tools to address conflict constructively. Join us to recognize the single most important skill to engage in healthy conflict resolution.
Instructor: Rita Callahan (Ombuds Office)
Lean at UC Davis: What Can Lean do for You and Your Department
What is Lean? Lean is primarily a process improvement tool. Lean is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste by lining up the value creating work tasks in the best sequence, then conducting process tasks without interruptions. Simply, Lean means creating more value for "our campus customers" with less wasted time and energy.
What can Lean do for you? Lean gives UC Davis departments tools to empower staff, standardizes processes, and streamlines efficiency. One of the many benefits of implementing Lean in your department is to enable UC Davis departmental staff to strive for a common goal or purpose. Lean provides tools for success as well as gives UC Davis departments an opportunity to evaluate processes from a new perspective. Participating in this Lean training will empower you to see the delays in process time, dysfunctional practices in processes, and even improper layout and structure of an office. This training will offer a way to simplify and organize processes to reach peak efficiency. Also if you participate in this Lean training, you will be able to explore process improvement opportunities and options for your department in a new and different way.
UC Davis managers, supervisors and staff are encouraged to participate in this training. My intention is for you to be empowered to take action, taking time to work on process improvement through Lean. Hope to see you in the training!
ADMAN's LEAN presentation
OE's LEAN Resources
Instructor: Bryan Collins
Campus Technologies to Enhance Productivity
Recently, UC Davis has made some in-roads in subscribing to popular digital services to improve productivity for all faculty, students, and staff. These include Box.com, access to Google Apps, and others. We’ll go over what tools are available and ways in which you can use them to improve your productivity and enhance communication with others with whom you work.
Instructor: Steve Faith and Cheryl Diermyer (IET Academic Technology Services)
Breakout Session #2 Options (10:45 - 12:15 p.m.)
The Manager's Version - Time for Leadership - Breakthrough Insights and Practices for Today's Managers!
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Instructor: Pierre Khawand
Self Advocacy in the Workplace
Self-advocacy for yourself in the workplace can be difficult. It requires knowing what you want, what you do well, and what you have difficulty doing. It also includes understanding office politics, knowing your legal rights, and telling that information to the appropriate person. This session will help participants understand how to empower themselves, access resources, and develop strategies that will help them become an effective self-advocate in the workplace.
Instructor: Leilani Kupo (Women's Resouces and Research Center)
WorkLife and Wellness: From Resources to Recess
Work-life integration is the means to “putting it all together”. Attend this workshop to explore the wide array of programs, policies and information available to help you and co-workers be effective in your professional roles and personal lives. Learn tips and techniques to stretch and refresh mind and body. Leave with ideas and resources to meet commitments and pursue interests within and outside of the university.
Instructors: Barbara Ashby and Sandy Batchelor (Worklife Wellness)
Campus Technologies to Enhance Productivity
Recently, UC Davis has made some in-roads in subscribing to popular digital services to improve productivity for all faculty, students, and staff. These include Box.com, access to Google Apps, and others. We’ll go over what tools are available and ways in which you can use them to improve your productivity and enhance communication with others with whom you work.
Instructor: Steve Faith and Cheryl Diermyer (IET Academic Technology Services)
Breakout Session #3 Options (1:15 - 2:45 p.m.)
Managing the Chaos of Change
More change will likely occur in our lifetimes than has occurred since the beginning of civilization over ten thousand years ago. Change is a part of life. So why is change so difficult? Why are change efforts such messy affairs? Seldom does a change initiative proceed along a smooth path. More often, the path is crooked and full of potholes, making for a bumpy ride. You’ve been there. As organizational change efforts proceed, strategies and priorities may shift, resources may come and go, budgets may be cut, organizational support may wax and wane, new initiatives may overtake or overlap with current efforts, new pockets of resistance may develop or external factors may shift.
Change leadership during such uncertainty requires acceptance of its messiness along with patience, persistence and resilience in the face of challenges. Join Lisa Terry, Interim Director of Organizational Excellence in a highly interactive session that examines a framework for managing the chaos of change in your organization.
Instructor: Lisa Terry (Organizational Excellence)
Mentoring Matters!
Why is mentoring on our minds and in so many business publications we read these days? Mentoring matters to us as individuals, as leaders, and as an organization. It offers professional and personal growth, expanded relationships and networking, and acquisition of new technical, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Whether you are interested in being mentored, being a mentor or both, this workshop will give you an opportunity to explore mentoring and learn about UC Davis tools and resources. Developing our own careers or the careers of others through mentoring is great for UC Davis and an opportunity to engage, develop and retain talented staff – that’s why mentoring matters!
Instructor: Carina Celesia Moore (Talent Management)
WorkLife and Wellness: From Resources to Recess
Work-life integration is the means to “putting it all together”. Attend this workshop to explore the wide array of programs, policies and information available to help you and co-workers be effective in your professional roles and personal lives. Learn tips and techniques to stretch and refresh mind and body. Leave with ideas and resources to meet commitments and pursue interests within and outside of the university.
Instructors: Barbara Ashby and Sandy Batchelor (Worklife Wellness)
Growing Your Career Through Volunteering
Volunteering is a critical component in growing your career. It allows you to build a viable and diverse network, enhance existing skills, learn new skills and increase credibility. Join a panel of UC Davis staff members who have used volunteer opportunities to grow their own careers. Each panelist will provide insight on how volunteering helped them advance. Time will be left at the end for a robust question and answer period on the topic.
Panel:
Jacob P. (JP) Eres III, UCDHS
Dianne Gregory, UCDHS
Lina Layiktez, UC Davis
Rosemary Martin-Ocampo, UC Davis
Garry Pearson, UC Davis
Instructors: Lina Layiktez and Dianne Gregory (Panel by UCD and UCDHS Staff Assemblies)