Working with Others
Working with Others
Adults as Learners
Better meetings
Building Trust
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Facilitation skills
Integrate your programs
Office communication
People management and Leadership
Working remotely
Adults as Learners
Fact sheet ; online course ; Quiz ; video (4:39 min) ; exercise sheet
Strategies for Adults learners Video (37:36 min) (Lynn Brock)
Strategies for Adults learners Fact Sheet (Lynn Brock)
Options to engage different learning styles Fact Sheet
Activity options Fact Sheet
Create good learning objectives (Fact sheet)
Engage your audience
Online course (UC ANR); Fact sheet (UC ANR)
Thinking and Learning Styles Quick Tip
Better Meetings
Best meeting practices include that participants and facilitators:
- Are respectful
- Seek solutions
- Seek to build bridges and synergy,
- Seek to understand others' needs and support each other's efforts
- Listen
- Have a safe space to raise challenging issues
- Are flexible (and move on or pivot as needed)
- Provide honest (respectful, helpful) feedback
Here are some fact sheets and other resource links on conducting effective meetings:
Better meetings Fact sheet
Healthy Meetings (Tips, UC ANR Staff Assembly)
8 Tips for better meetings Video (8:52)
7 Ways to Host More Inclusive Meetings (Linkage Webpage)
Have an agenda Fact Sheet
Focused conversations for better meetings WebANR (26 mins) (Snowden) PowerPoint
See Facilitation skills below!
Zoom
- Zoom @ UC ANR
- Zorms - Tips for a better meeting
- Zoom Learning for Attendees
- Attending Zoom Meetings - Video Learning (10 minutes)
- Zoom Learning for Hosts
- Hosting Overview - PowerPoint
How to Keep the Party Crashers from Crashing Your Zoom Event
Trolls are breaking into video chats – change these settings
Live polling in meetings.
Slido (Smartphone or computer/tablet needed)
Poll Everywhere Can vote anonymously (laptop or phone needed)
Meeting Sift (Smartphone or computer/tablet needed)
Note: These are just 3 options we have heard of (no endorsement is implied - Many others also exist. There is no implication if we haven't included other options).
Build Trust
Build trust Fact sheet ; Build Trust Video (3:08)
Listening like an ally PDF (credit Interaction Associates)
The Power of Listening (YouTube, UC Davis)
Facilitation Skills
Innovation Toolkit Website - The Innovation Toolkit (ITK) by MITRE is a collection of methods and techniques to help you and your team be more innovative.
The Basics
Facilitation checklist Fact Sheet
Facilitation Fact sheet; Video (2:47)
Process versus Content Fact Sheet
Stages of Discussion Fact Sheet
Stakeholder analysis Fact Sheet
The ORID Method Fact Sheet
Interaction Skills
Active listening Fact sheet
Cultural competency Fact Sheet
Increase engagement Fact Sheet
Thinking and learning styles Fact Sheet
Using technology Fact Sheet
Getting to output
Building Key Agreements Fact sheet
Decision-making Methods Fact sheet
Desired outcomes Fact sheet
Handling difficult people
Dealing with Difficult Behavior Fact Sheet
Dealing with Difficult People Slide Deck
Tools to Reduce conflict Fact Sheet
Integrate your Programs
Tips for Program Integration Fact Sheet
Summary tips to integrate Fact Sheet
Example: UC MFP & EFNEP
Office Communication
Write better emails Fact sheet
Spanish
Common phrases and more Web (from UC)
Learn Spanish and other languages for free (e.g., Duolingo)
People Management and Leadership
Build a Team
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." Eleanor Roosevelt
People Management (UC ANR procedures)
Hiring
Onboarding New Employees
Employee Focus
Operational Focus
Organization Focus
Self Focus
Workplace Focus
Building successful teams WebANR (23 mins - Dana Hinojosa UC Davis)
Coaching and Developing Employees (LinkedIn Learning)
The Discovery Questionnaire (PDF)
Powerful Questions to Ask Your Team
The GROW Model (Goals, Realities, Options, Way forward)
Team building Fact sheet (UC ANR)
Build Consensus Fact sheet
The 5 common behaviors Fact Sheet
How to show appreciation Fact sheet and free test (From Betterthinking.com.nz)
Appreciation versus recognition Video (16:42)
Working in teams online lesson (Lumen)
Project/task planning tool (Excel file)
UC People Management Series Certificate Website (Course listing) (Contact jlazulai@ucanr.edu when completed for your certificate signed by our Vice President)
Leadership Development Plan (PDF)
Performance Evaluation (UC ANR)
Onboarding New Employees (UC ANR)
Supervisor Guide to Creating an Individual Development Plan with an employee (UC ANR)
Conflict Competence
Conflict de-escalation: ANR’s Behavior Intervention Team Webpage
Volunteer Conflict Resolution Guide UC ANR
Managing conflict Fact sheet ; Video (3:13)
Dealing with Difficult Multicultural Discussions Video (49:08) NAEPSDP
Using Conflict for Growth (Video, UC Davis)
What to Do When You're Bullied at Work (LinkedIn Learning)
UC Responding to Conflict (UC Learning Center Module)
People Management/Supervisor
Tips to be a good supervisor (Fact sheet)
Supervision 101 (Short online presentation)
Recruiting, hiring, onboarding, engaging employees (website)
Leadership
The New Leadership Literacies: Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed Everything (PDF) - By Bob Johansen, Institute for the Future
UC-CORO Systemwide Leadership Collaborative (UCOP website)
UC Leadership Development (UCnet website)
UC Management Development Program (UCOP website)