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L&D: Prioritizing your time, UCD Library, ArcGIS Story Maps, Using data to tell extension stories, intercultural communication
UC ANR Learning & Development
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Extension Methods & Delivery
Building Support
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Office, Team, & Personal Management
Virtual Primer for UC Davis Library Resources and Services
December 12, 2023
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Learn about UC Davis Library resources and services including: the UCD Library VPN; searching the UCD Library catalog and delivery services; key research tools, including for data management; and library guides for specific disciplines. We will review/use the following UCCE guide during this workshop: https://guides.library.ucdavis.edu/uc-cooperative-extension
Zoom Meeting
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/92102107681?pwd=R281ZitGS3NIZTZNWTVSM3o4c0p0dz09
Meeting ID: 921 0210 7681
Passcode: 183726
December 15, 2023
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Details & Registration.
This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS or web mapping experience. Following a brief lecture, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you load and stylize spatial data online, to create Story Maps within ArcGIS Online and the new ArcGIS Story Map Builder. This exercise will conclude with you exploring some of the numerous story map template options and advanced features for publishing your content online. Image credit: https://svgrepo.com/svg/399293/story-map
Using Data to Tell Your Extension Story (Connect Extension)
December 14, 2023
11:00 a.m. -Noon PT
Details & Registration.
Discover the art of telling a compelling an Extension story! Join the Extension Foundation publication team and as they share valuable insights and tips on creating impactful data visualizations with writing techniques, accompanied by real-life examples. The session will also feature Extension projects that has effectively disseminating publications and conveying project impacts through storytelling!
Building support at UC ANR means many things such as engaging government officials and community stakeholders,
developing a public relations strategy, working with the media, raising funds through grants and fundraisers. Use the following information, training resources, and templates to help you with your work.
Public Relations training
Writing Op-eds
UC ANR handouts
Annual report templates
Contracts & Grants
In order to be a UC ANR Brand steward, review this Communication Toolkit training page.
Image credit: Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
Intercultural Communication and Competence (Virtual, UC Learning Center)
January 31, 2024
9:00-11:30 a.m.
Registration.
Cultural Competence has been defined as a set of skills and attitudes that allow individuals to effectively and appropriately communicate with people who are different from themselves. A culturally competent organization effectively and appropriately serves a diverse clientele and meets the varied needs of its diverse staff. This program will explore how individuals and organizations can become more culturally competent. Self and organizational assessment models will be presented and the various components of each stage of competence will be discussed.
March 5, 2024
9:00 -11:30 a.m.
Registration.
Managers are challenged to understand and develop skills to respond to the needs of a multicultural workforce. In the important task of hiring the best candidate for a job, managers must be aware of how culture affects the way people communicate throughout the selection process. This course will help managers assess their own cultural values and explore how they affect the recruitment, interviewing and selection processes.
Image credit:Oleg Gapeenko at Vecteezy.
New Employee Welcome (Virtual, UC ANR)
December 12, 2023
9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Register here to participate in a concise welcome to ANR! Meet our Leadership team, get to know your colleagues, and learn a bit about ANR and how your role connects to the larger ANR mission.
Who Should Attend: All UC ANR employees (academics, staff and affiliated staff on campuses, counties and RECs) who have not yet participated in a monthly New Employee Welcome meeting.
Course link. Learning objectives
*New direction for influencer marketing
*Managing private groups
*Social shopping
*Using stories effectively on social media
*Brand activism on social issues
*Advanced social media attribution
*Creating shows and series on social media
*Showcasing employees across channels
*Embracing short- and long-form video
Request your account from UC ANR IT @ help@ucanr.edu
Image by Sabine Kroschel from Pixabay
Writing Effective E-mails and Instant Messages (Online, UC Learning Center)
Course link. Email has become an indispensable communication tool for organizations, and plays a vital role in how they conduct business and maintain their operations. As a result, one of the most important communication skills to have in the workplace today is email etiquette. It can help ensure you get messages across quickly, appropriately, and concisely. In this course, you'll learn some tried and tested guidelines for writing emails. You'll explore the fundamental elements of written communication that every email should contain, and the importance of keeping emails concise. The course also covers the etiquette associated with using instant messaging programs as an extension of email.
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay.
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