Learning & Development: Real Voices

The UC Managing Implicit Bias Series

This six-module online series is designed to increase awareness of implicit bias and reduce its impact. It reinforces the UC diversity, equity, and inclusion values that enable the University to attract and retain a top talent workforce, and supports UC commitment to developing effective leaders and people managers. 

UC ANR Mentorship Program

The Mentorship Program provides a rich learning experience for academic and staff employees who are paired with Mentors who have years of experience in professional development (staff), and advancement expectations, program development & delivery, (academics) and more.

Needs Assessment

A needs assessment is an important part of program planning: to enable setting needs-based priorities. It is a systematic process to determine needs, the measurable gaps between current and desired conditions. Offered by Program, Planning, and Evaluation and our Evaluation CE Specialist.

Logic Models

Logic models are hypothesized descriptions of causes and effects that lead to an outcome of interest. Logic models can be narrative in form, but usually are depicted as "if-then" relationships between the various factors leading to an outcome.

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialog

People who can hold crucial conversations well are able to express risky ideas or controversial topics in a way that gets heard without defensive by their supervisors, direct reports, peers, and family and community members.

ANR Collaborative Tools

ANR Collaborative Tools provide ANR employees access to communicate with one another, sharing documents, staying in touch with workgroups, and keeping current with ongoing projects. As a new hire I recommend that you learn how to use it.

Writing Newsletters (Communication & Messaging) and Flesch-Kincaid

Did you know you can calculate readability statistics in word or Grammarly? Our ANR website has instructions to do this. You can identify percent passive sentences, Flesch reading ease and Flesch-Kincaid grade level. I use these statistics to help me edit my work. 

How To Video Series

The UC ANR Strategic Initiatives group produced an online webinar series about how to make "how-to" videos. The series provides information about how to put together a storyboard, which will be the outline and guide for your video.

Essential Facilitation & Intercultural Competence

In group facilitation, dimensions of success are informed by results, process, and relationships and there's an agreement that we share responsibility for a successful meeting. A well versed facilitator can help a group to collaborate to make important decisions together.

Orientation & Networking

I recommend that new hires attend Orientation to understand the system, policies, and who we are. It is helpful that new Academics ask for Mentors to help them navigate our system, processes, expecations, and performance and join a program team to identify potential collaborators.

Research Responsibility

When our research involves human subjects our academic and staff researchers must ensure privacy of their personal information. Therefore, I recommend training from the UC Davis Institutional Review Board (or IRB) for all social, behavioral, and biomedical researchers, academic and staff.

Youth Engagement Training and Resources

The Youth Engagement Training and Resource webpage is a great resource for anyone interested in learning more about youth engagement program models across Calfresh Healthy Living UC. webpage. It is a great resource for anyone.

Media Training

Your program and UC ANR benefit from media exposure. Learn how to work with the media for best results including making time in your schedule, preparing for an interview and key messages. (Communications Training)

Meeting Facilitation

Meeting facilitation skills are important for UC ANR Staff and Academics. Some of these skills include preparing an effective agenda, how to engage people so they feel heard, how to build agreement, and setting up group agreements to prevent or manage conflict.

Virtual Trainings & Workshops

On the UC ANR Learning & Development site, I learned how to prepare for and host virtual training meetings and utilized tools for engaging the audience. There are also best practices there, to learn how to prerecord a training.

Change Management

Each of us participate in change at work, as we do in life. Change Management training through the Management Development Program, helped me understand rationale for change, key steps in managing change for my team, and included building a case for change and a communications plan.

Cybersecurity

My favorite training is the UC Learning Center Cybersecurity training. Cybercrime is always changing and its difficult to keep up with. This training keeps me up-to-date and informed for keeping safe in the professional world and in my personal world.

Grant Writing Workshop

This in depth training was interactive, challenging, and appropriately detailed. It helped me apply what I was learning to my work. It improved my grant writing, especially to clearly communicate the signfigance of the research problem and how my team and I plan to resolve it.

Remote and Hybrid Teams

This UC Learning Center course focused on how to manage hybrid teams and provided me with tools to meet with both in person and Zoom participants. This included tech support, engagement, document sharing, and the chat room. I also learned how to prepare the agenda so that I cover it in a way that benefits all of the participants.

Working Out Loud

I recommend reading the book Working Out Loud. The author emphasizes generosity and connection which aligns with ANR's mission of helping Californians improve their lives and livelihoods. I learned how to make my work more visible and reach more people or connect with others who might want to partner or collaborate.