Office & Team & Personal Management
On this page discover resources for enhancing workplace effectiveness, wellness, career planning, positivity, mentoring, resilience, time management, becoming an effective supervisor, building successful teams, fostering excellent communication, and maintaining respect.
People Management Excellence
An excellent supervisor is characterized by great communication skills, effective team-building, respectfulness, and the ability to foster a positive work environment. They exhibit leadership, provide constructive feedback, support professional development, and demonstrate empathy. Additionally, they maintain fairness, manage conflicts efficiently, and possess emotional intelligence and cultural competency, ensuring they can relate to and support a diverse team effectively.
Being an effective and good ANR supervisor (PDF)
Being an effective supervisor takes skills and development. Such skills result in successful team building, excellent communication, and building trust. Good supervisors know how to engage their direct reports, treat their reports with respect, and are willing to continuously learn and practice managerial skills.
Connecting, Diversity, Health & safety, Orientation, Working with students, Who does what?
Adults as learners, Leadership, Meetings, Teams, Volunteer Engagement, Affirmative Action, Diversity & Inclusion, Facilitation, Integrating, Office Communication, Conflict Competence.
Understanding and appreciating diversity requires an understanding of yourself and the ways in which you and others view the world. Your ability to use a variety of strategies to effectively deal with diverse situations in and out of the workplace and out in the UC ANR community is very important.
Systemwide Training
UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development
Read more on the official webpage (UCOP Web).
The UC Women’s Initiative for Professional Development (UC WI) is a unique, experiential, systemwide professional development program to support the success and advancement of mid-career, woman-identified professionals and is open to all employees who support and are committed to this mission. The program brings together participants from every UC location. Participants represent faculty, academic personnel and staff, people managers and non-people managers.
Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP Web)
The Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP) 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.
The program guides participants through a series of structured exercises and simulations observed by trained assessors who offer feedback about observed strengths and development areas. Subsequent, collaborative work after the program between the assessee participant and his/her sponsoring manager fine tunes a professional development plan designed to optimize assessment feedback.
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