To ensure staff and faculty are aware of professional development opportunities that Learning and Organization Development offers, L&OD will highlight some of its Leadership Education and Development classes and other offerings in this newsletter each month. Please register for one or more of the professional development opportunities below and visit the L&OD website to discover more learning opportunities.

Leading Collaborative and Productive Meetings

• Class time: Wednesday, Aug. 26, 9-11:30 a.m.
• Short class description: This session is based on meeting best practices from best-selling author Patrick Lencioni’s book Death by Meetings. Participants will discuss the characteristics of effective and ineffective meetings and review best practices for structuring and implementing the right meeting that aligns with their needs.  
• Audience: Faculty and staff
• Registration link: Register

Communicating Across Styles

• Class time: Thursday, Aug. 27, 9 a.m.-noon
• Short class description: This course helps participants improve their interpersonal communication and collaboration skills in the workplace. You’ll discover your preferred communication style or styles, recognize key behaviors in the communication styles of others and more. 
• Audience: Faculty and staff, including supervisors and managers
• Registration link: Register

Enneagram: Explore the Nine

• Class time: Thursday, Sept. 3, 1-3 p.m.
• Short class description: Join us as we explore the Enneagram, a personality theory that characterizes nine distinct strategies by which the human psyche develops a worldview. We’ll discuss your predominant personality and ways you can activate it in your personal and professional life. 
• Audience: Faculty and staff
• Registration link: Register

Increase Engagement and Accountability Through Effective Feedback

• Class time: Thursday, Sept. 11, 9 a.m.-noon
• Short class description: Feedback is one of the top engagement drivers in the workplace. Learn how to give and receive effective feedback in order to increase engagement and accountability. 
• Audience: Faculty and staff, including managers and supervisors
• Registration link: Register

Team Essentials: Creating the Framework for a High-Performing Team

• Class time: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1-3 p.m.
• Short class description: The most common team challenges include conflicting goals, ineffective communication and poor planning. This session helps participants identify strategies to enhance their team’s performance.
• Audience: Faculty and staff, including supervisors and managers
• Registration link: Register

Making Connections at Work and In Life

• Class time: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2-3 p.m.
• Short class description: This training will give practical tips on how to deepen relationships you already have and ways to step out of your routine to meet new people who can bring you a satisfying connection. 
• Audience: Faculty and staff
• Registration link: Register

Cultivating Your Character Strengths

• Class time: Thursday, Sept. 17, 9 a.m.-noon
• Short class description: You’ll discover your signature strengths and learn how to develop and use them to enhance team collaboration, build resilience and maximize your professional potential.
• Audience: Faculty and staff
• Registration link: Register

Facilitating Performance Accountability

• Class time: Thursday, Sept 24, 9 a.m.-noon
• Short class description: Discover how to plan and facilitate an effective accountability discussion to enable and motivate team members to improve their performance and build an ongoing commitment to meeting or exceeding expectations. 
• Audience: Faculty and staff, including managers and supervisors
• Registration link: Register

From Potential to Performance: Leading With Strengths

• Class time: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 9-11 a.m.
• Short class description: This course will begin with an exploration of your top five strengths. Then, we’ll discuss the four basic needs of followers and how to leverage your strengths to fulfill these needs within your team. Finally, we’ll identify key indicators of a high-performing team and delve into the five C’s of strength-based teams.
• Audience: Faculty and staff
• Registration link: Register

Using Reason To Resolve Conflict

• Class time: Tuesday, Sept 29, 1- 2 p.m.
• Short class description: This workshop discusses how you can replace pure emotion with rational decision-making when dealing with conflict. 
• Audience: Faculty and staff
• Registration link: Register