- Author: Jodi Azulai
NAEPSDP to hold annual conference in December
The National Association of Extension Programs and Staff Development Professionals (NAEPSDP) will hold their annual conference at Green Valley Ranch Resort in Las Vegas on Dec. 4-7, 2017.
Consider joining NAEPSDP where “The professional development of members influences the professional development of all Extension Personnel.”
Several ANR employees are members of NAEPSDP. NAEPSDP was formed to bring the national community of program and staff development professionals together. This community includes individuals with a range of responsibilities in support of extension educators and the overall mission of Cooperative Extension.
NAEPSDP members include middle managers, evaluation specialists, program and staff development specialists, instructional designers, human resource specialists, information technologists, and accountability specialists/programmers. Sixty-eight percent of members have statewide responsibilities. The remainder work at the following levels: 24 percent regional, 5 percent national and 3 percent county. The NAEPSDP mission includes:
- Improving communication & collaboration
- Sharing resources
- Enhancing multi-state efforts
- Sponsoring and promote educational training programs and activities that advance program and staff development practices, and
- Advancing the professional status of program and staff development extension professionals by encouraging continuous improvement.
Use your subscription to Corporate Executive Board Learning & Development
As a UC ANR employee you have automatic membership to a top-notch professional development resource. Interested in cultivating your career to the next level of performance? If yes, check out CEB Learning & Development. It takes seconds to register or reset a password and participate in webinars, download job aids, and participate in discussion forums.
Here is a quick list of a few CEB resources:
Resources for All Employees – Develop yourself as a high-performing employee, not only effective at your tasks, but also as someone who contributes to others' performance and uses others' contributions to improve your own performance.
On-the-Job Activity Builder – Use this interactive tool to build employee development plans with recommended on-the-job learning activities, based on the competencies you select.
Manager Guide: Holding Effective Career Discussions – Guide your direct reports through identifying and progressing toward their career aspirations.
Manager Excellence Resource Center – an online portal (separate from the L&D member website) to find manager development and employee development resources.
Get the most out of your CEB Learning & Development membership—check it out today!
Performance Appraisals: Empower yourself with career planning tools
Performance appraisal can be stressful for many of us, and receiving performance feedback can trigger negative feelings. Understanding that these feelings are normal, and preparing yourself in advance, whether you're a supervisor or an individual contributor, can help reduce the stress and make it a positive experience.
You have many tools available to guide you through the appraisal process, starting with the ANR Learning & Development Career Planning Tools page.
Use the Self-assessment Worksheet to help you identify your strengths, skill gap areas, career goals, interests, and values. You can share it with your supervisor or use your responses to help draft your individual development plan (IDP). You can also find help from UC Davis with writing your Summary of Accomplishments.
If you struggle with feedback, here are some additional resources to empower you:
- UC Learning Center (UC Davis): Receiving Feedback and Criticism; for People Managers UC Performance Management: Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Corporate Executive Board Learning & Development Leadership Council (CEB register or reset a password): 3 Tricks Your Brain Plays When Receiving Feedback and Manager Guide: Improve Employee Performance through Informal Feedback
- TED Talk: How to use others' feedback to learn and grow with Sheila Heen, Professor Harvard University (19:28 minutes)
For more information about professional development opportunities, visit the ANR Learning & Development website at http://ucanr.edu/sites/Professional_Development or contact Jodi Azulai, Learning and Development coordinator, at (530) 750-1239 or jlazulai@ucanr.edu.
- Author: Mary Roberts
- Author: Jodi Azulai
UC ANR Human Resources is preparing to launch the 2017 UC Systemwide People Management Series and Certificate Program. The program is for all people managers who want to build on their baseline supervisory skills. The course list includes 10 core and four electives covering performance management, managing people, administrative & operations, change management and communications. The courses are available online through our Learning Management System.
You can complete the certification program either as part of a facilitated group or an individual, self-directed basis. The group approach will include monthly peer networking calls facilitated by Human Resources.
In addition to receiving a certificate of completion, successful participants will be eligible to attend the UC Systemwide People Management Conference to be held in the summer of 2018. The conference brings together leaders from across the UC system to collaborate, learn about current topics, share best practices and continue their learning on relevant leadership topics.
If you are interested in participating, please complete the following brief survey by Feb. 10 so we can send you program details and logistics: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=19877.
If you have any questions in the interim, please contact Jodi Azulai at jlazulai@ucanr.edu or Mary Roberts at maroberts@ucanr.edu.
See additional information and an introduction video at http://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/working-at-uc/your-career/talent-management/people-management-series-and-certificate/index.html.
- Author: Jodi Azulai
UC ANR's new strategic plan emphasizes expanding career and leadership development for our members in one of its goals. Strategies for achieving the goal include training staff and academics in people management, preparing future leaders and developing cultural competencies. To foster your own professional development, you can talk with your supervisor and peruse the career development tools at ANR Learning and Development.
“Onboarding New ANR Employees: Supervisor's Guide” just published
Congratulations to supervisors who have recently hired a new employee. Before you go searching for your old checklist and other HR resources to make sense of the orientation process, check our new guide.
ANR Learning & Development just published “Onboarding New ANR Employees: Supervisor's Guide” to help supervisors onboard new staff and academic employees.
In addition, and currently underway, is a guide for new ANR employees. ANR L&D will also develop an onboarding buddy guide for employees to help new colleagues.
If you have any additional information or comments, please contact me, Jodi Azulai, at jlazulai@ucanr.edu.
What happened to Lynda?
If you try to log in to Lynda.com from your ANR Portal, you will see that we are taking a break to upgrade our subscription.
The new subscription to Lynda.com will give each ANR employee a personalized dashboard, transcripts for completed courses, and certificates of completion that can be added to your LinkedIn profile. When you take a break from a session, it will show you where you left off.
By mid-February we should be fully integrated. We will send out announcements on how to sign in and access a new Lynda.com experience.
Upcoming employee learning events
Below is a list of some upcoming training events that ANR Learning and Development is sponsoring.
Crucial Conversations®
Crucial Conversations® training is aimed at providing skills and confidence to improve your performance at work, strengthen a strained relationship, speak up and advocate for yourself and your ideas, engage in productive dialogue, and more.
Dates: Feb. 1-2, 2017, Davis, and April 26-27, 2017, South Coast REC in Irvine
Contact: Jan Corlett
Sustainable Communities: Online course explores community systems (eXtension)
As communities struggle with increasingly complex social, economic and environmental issues related to sustainability they need the expertise of community development professionals now more than ever. Whether your expertise is in agriculture, natural resources, youth, family or economic development you will be asked to help guide a stakeholder group through a difficult decision making process. The Foundations of Practice course, Sustainable Communities, offers you the tools, skills and knowledge to be the trusted resource community groups need in the emerging dialogs around local foods, energy and natural resources. For more information read here.
Contact: Mary Peabody, Mary.Peabody@uvm.edu or 802-656-7232. (Individuals requesting a disability-related accommodation to participate in this program should contact Mary Peabody by Jan. 27, 2017.)
Webinar: Beyond Surveys
Program evaluation is critical to help develop and improve programs, share program outcomes and generate funding for further programming. However, evaluation is commonly in the form of long, tedious surveys that can lead to inaccurate data. The purpose of this webinar is to share ideas with and among participants of engaging ways to collect program delivery (formative) and outcome (summative) data from youth. (Kendra Lewis, Academic Coordinator California 4-H)
Date: Feb. 2, 2017
Time: 10-11 am
Zoom: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/598226612
Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US toll)
Meeting ID: 598 226 612
Contact: Gemma Miner
Informatics and GIS Training
Agricultural Remote Sensing with Drones
Date: Wednesday Feb. 8, 2017
Time: TBD
Location: Desert Research and Extension Center
Image Processing and GIS for Agricultural Mapping
Date: Thursday Feb. 9, 2017
Time: TBD
Location: Desert Research and Extension Center
Drone Technology and Regulations for Agriculture and Natural Resources
Date: Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017
Time: 1-4:30 pm
Location: Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
For more IGIS training events, check out the IGIS website.
Programmatic Orientation (register here)
Who should attend? All early career UC Cooperative Extension advisors and specialists, academic coordinators, academic administrators, and Agricultural Experiment Station faculty.
Join ANR leadership to discuss the mission of UC ANR and our varied roles in California and the University, as well as see examples of successful research and outreach programs.
The program will begin at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 22, and end at noon on Friday, Feb. 24. Take this opportunity to engage in discussions with colleagues about the resources and opportunities available through ANR as a division.
Contact: ANR Program Support (530) 750-1256.
Webinar: Culturally Relevant Programming (Karina Diaz Rios, UC ANR Specialist)
This session will explore concepts to consider when communicating with culturally diverse audiences, and strategies to develop cultural competency.
Date: March 2, 2017
Time: 10-11 am
Zoom: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/598226612
Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 598 226 612
Contact: Gemma Miner
Water Strategic Initiative & Sustainable Food Systems Strategic Conference
The conference will provide an opportunity for colleagues to learn about the projects, programs and research efforts related to water that are happening throughout the division. Presentations and discussions will include:
- Climate Change
- Salinity: What are Remediation Steps?
- Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)
- SGMA Town Hall Discussion: The State of Your Water Resources
- Water Conservation Goals Across the State
Date: March 14-17, 2017
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Ontario Airport
More information: http://ucanr.edu/sites/SIconferences/2017_Water_Strategic_Initiative_Conference_
Essential Facilitation®
The skills and techniques offered in Essential Facilitation® are designed to produce significant performance improvement, career development and personal growth. Essential Facilitation® shows how to effectively facilitate in situations that have one or more of the following "three Cs":
- Complex or high-stakes content.
- Conflict — the situation is emotionally-charged or controversial.
- Context — when you must balance multiple stakeholders' needs and points of view
Date: March 28-30, 2017, Davis
Contact: Jodi Azulai
Statewide Manager Workshop
Training objectives include providing updates of UCCE financial services, account management, and timekeeping/payroll processes between UCCE county offices and the Business Operations Center. These include purchasing, travel, entertainment, gift acceptance, cash collections, timekeeping, payroll changes, and account management updates. This two-day session will also serve as an orientation opportunity for new UCCE office managers to network with other office managers and meet BOC staff. (Cherie McDougald, Emily Larue)
Date: March 7-8, 2017, Davis
Contact: Emily Larue
Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP)
The Management Skills Assessment Program is designed to strengthen the engagement and preparation of high potential UC supervisors, managers, and professionals. It offers an intensive, off-site, assessment center experience for early career managers.
Date: April 17-20, 2017, at the UCLA Conference Center in Lake Arrowhead
Contact: Jodi Azulai
UC Cybersecurity
As part of the university's ongoing efforts to secure our information systems and data, the UC Office of the President maintains a mandatory security awareness training program for all UC employees. All UC faculty, staff and student employees are required to complete the standard online UC Cybersecurity Awareness Training when they begin their jobs, as well as complete a shorter, refresher course during each subsequent year. The refresher training has been updated for 2017 and is accessible through the UC Learning Center (http://lms.ucdavis.edu).
ANR Learning and Development
To position ANR as the premiere source of knowledge and science for agricultural and natural resources issues, it is vital that our people keep their knowledge and skills at peak performance. The ANR Learning and Development website offers an array of opportunities for employee learning and professional development that can help serve that goal. I strongly encourage employees to take full advantage of these resources as well as other opportunities to enhance their personal and professional growth. –Glenda Humiston, Vice President
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
ANR Learning and Development will offer an Essential Facilitation® workshop March 28 to March 30, 2017. The training will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the UC ANR Building at 2801 Second Street in Davis.
UC ANR employees who organize or lead meetings should apply to attend the training byInteractive Associates for Social Change.
The skills and techniques offered are designed to produce significant performance improvement, career development, and personal growth. Essential Facilitation® shows how to effectively facilitate in situations that have one or more of the following "three Cs":
- Complex or high-stakes content.
- Conflict — the situation is emotionally charged or controversial.
- Context — when you must balance multiple stakeholders' needs and points of view. (read more).
Seating is limited to 24. Register at https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=19310.
Applications will be reviewed to give opportunities to both staff and academics as well as people from different program and unit areas and job titles. Priority will be given to those in Northern California who have not participated in this training. However, others should apply and acceptance will be reviewed at on a case-by-case basis. Please clear with your supervisor for release time.
Registration fees for approved registrants will be covered by ANR Learning and Development funds.
Because this event is fully funded by ANR, we need to limit the possibility of last-minute, costly cancellations. Please provide a UC account number that can be charged in the event of a late cancellation. If you cancel within one week of the workshop, your UC account may be charged for meeting expenses.
For more information, contact Jodi Azulai, Learning and Development coordinator, at jlazulai@ucanr.edu or (530) 750-1239.
- Author: Jodi Azulai
Feeling overwhelmed or scattered? Want to manage distractions for better productivity? Then join us for “The Perfect 15-Minute Day Method: From Scattered to Accomplished and Happy!” from 12:15 p.m. to 12:55 p.m. (40 minutes) on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Pierre Khawand of People-OnTheGo will deliver this complimentary webinar for ANR employees on how to be more efficient.
The maximum number of participants is 500 so register now to attend at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/115705284730571268.
Description
Information overload, social media, mobile apps, constant interruptions, competing priorities, you name it! Our day has become so fragmented and so inefficient. Fulfillment and satisfaction have become rare commodities!
Fear not! The Perfect 15-Minute Day Method (PDM) comes to the rescue! PDM uses “tags” to allow you to be more mindful about what you are working on at all times, and prompts you to work in 15-minute increments and stay mindful and strategic all day long. Most importantly, PDM provides a method for recording and managing distractions of all kinds. It is like a new “language” that makes mindfulness achievable every step of the way, every day.
In this complimentary lunch and learn webinar, Pierre Khawand, the founder of People-OnTheGo and creator of the Perfect 15-Minute Day Method (PDM), explains the fundamentals of PDM and some of the underlying research and deeper meaning.
Key takeaways:
- Free access to the Perfect 15-Minute Day eCourse so you can learn the details of the method quickly and easily, try it out, and reap its benefits.
- Becoming aware of how you spend your time, how long things take, and what time wasters are getting in your way.
- Ability to focus and get amazing results, and when needed, multi-task and manage competing demands with ease.
- Discover mindfulness at work, be calmer and less stressed, happier and more fulfilled than ever before!
About the presenter
Pierre Khawand has led several technology ventures and completed successful mergers and acquisitions. He founded People-OnTheGo in 2001 to enable business professionals to communicate and collaborate more effectively using leading-edge technologies. His bestselling “Accomplishing More With Less Workshop” and "The Accomplishing More In Less Time, Less Effort, and Less Stress Leadership Program" enable business professionals to better cope with information overload and competing priorities. He has published Time for Leadership, The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook, Accomplishing More With Google Apps, The Results Curve,The New New Inbox, and The Perfect 15-Minute Day: Managing Your Time, Thoughts, and Emotions.
For those of you who are unable to join the live webinar, it will be recorded and I will provide a link to the recording later.
