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Learning and Development: performance review, SiteBuilder Training, WebANR Café Thursday

Tips for Employees: Participating in Your Performance Appraisal Discussion

Be an active participant in your performance review discussion. It will empower you and shows that you care about your work and your development.

To prepare, review your:

• Job description
• Objectives set for the review period
• Any documentation, notes, status reports you have drafted or even a self-assessment

Continue reading here.

Check out the ANR Learning and Development website to explore learning resources, training topics, and career planning tools. Use the career planning tools to:

• Learn the difference between skills and competencies
• Identify UC Core Competencies
• Fill out a self-assessment to contemplate your skill strengths and skill gaps

SiteBuilder Training

The CSIT Web Development team is bringing several SiteBuilder training sessions to several locations:

• Monday, May 7, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in Davis
• Thursday, May 17, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Hopland (FULL)
• Thursday, May 24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Kearney

The classes are designed for ANR people in need of proficiency in creating and maintaining websites. 

Learning topics:

• The basics to get up and running with SiteBuilder
• Best practices in web design
• Search engine optimization
• Employing images
• Social media integration
• Web accessibility
• Introduction to new designs and functionalities of the future SiteBuilder platform

Register at http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=24549. A training location may be added in Southern California.

Register for the New Employee Administrative Orientation

Wednesday, May 23, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

UC ANR Building, 2801 Second Street, Davis, CA  95618

Learn more and register here.

Who should attend: All UC ANR employees (academics, staff and affiliated staff on campuses, counties and RECs) who have not participated in an administrative orientation in the past. Priority will be given to those hired by ANR within the past year.

• Learn about ANR's vision and mission
• Learn about ANR structure and individual programs and units
• Interact with ANR leadership and directors
• Meet and network with new colleagues from around the state
• Get answers to burning questions about health benefits, AggieTravel, and more!

ANR's first ever WebANR Café Thursday

You bring the coffee, tea, or beverage and we will bring you the first virtual WebANR Café Thursday on May 17 at noon: Planning makes Perfect: Best Practices for Engaging Webinars.

During this webinar, Brook Gamble, community educator specialist with the California Naturalist Program, and Steven Worker, 4-H academic advisor will help you:

• Improve your understanding of the critical steps for preparation, implementation, and post webinar follow-up
• Introduce ZOOM capabilities
• Introduce tricks of the trade to keeping webinar participants engaged and not checking their e-mail

Join us at:
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/963167636

(646) 558-8656 or + (669) 900-6833

Webinar ID: 963 167 636 

WebANRs will be recorded and linked to the WebANR Café Thursday page.

Use Your Subscription to Corporate Executive Board Learning & Development

As a UCANR 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 Corporate Executive Board (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  – Find manager development and employee development resources at this online portal (separate from the L&D member website).

UC People Management Conference to be held Aug. 2-3

Developing the people management capabilities of our leaders is a priority for the University of California. In support of this mission, Systemwide Talent Management will launch the University of California People Management Conference in August at UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles.

A networking reception will be held on Aug. 1, 2017, with the conference to follow Aug. 2-3, 2017.

Eligibility for participation requires completion of one of the following:

• UC Systemwide People Management Series and Certificate
• Management Development Program
• UC-CORO Systemwide Leadership Collaborative

Conference topics include:

• Human Resources & Management Practices
• Leadership & General Management  
• Change Management  
• Coaching
• Talent Management
• Employee Relations
• Financial Management
• Labor Relations  
• Compensation

A limited number of guest rooms are reserved at the Luskin Conference Center for a group rate of $239 per night, which you can secure using a promo code included in your registration confirmation email.

Registration is $350. Cancellations before June 1, 2017, will be fully refunded. For more information about the conference, visit https://pmc.ucop.edu.

 

 

Copyright workshop for academics, April 4

How can a law almost as old as our country work in today's high-tech universities? On April 4, UC ANR Office of Contracts and Grants will sponsor a workshop and webinar to provide academic basic information on copyright law and policies related to teaching and research, and how they affect typical needs of our university community. The workshop, which runs from 9 a.m. to noon, is intended to give academics a better sense of how copyrights work at UC ANR.

Workshop topics:

• What is copyright? How is it different from patents and trademarks?
• Who owns copyrights at UC ANR?
• How does one get a copyright?
• When and how can one use copyright-protected material belonging to someone else?
• If there is no money involved, does it really matter?
• How does the Internet affect copyright?

Presenter Jan Carmikle, Esq., has been a part of UC Davis since 1985 in a variety of roles. She is currently the senior intellectual property officer at UC Davis' InnovationAccess, a unit of the Office of Research with an emphasis on copyrights and material transfer agreements. She is also the UC Davis designated agent for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Three ways to participate:

1. In person at the UC ANR Building in Davis: Click here to RSVP so we can plan for parking, seats and coffee.

2. Online at https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/861986107. Webinar ID: 861 986 107

3. By phone by dialing (408) 638-0968 or (646) 558-8656 (toll call)

For more information about the program, contact Kim Lamar, kdlamar@ucanr.edu or (530) 750-1305. For more information about logistics, contact Sherry Cooper, slcooper@ucanr.edu or (530) 750-1256.

Deadline extended for 2017 UC People Management Conference prerequisite

At the 2017 UC People Management Conference, Aug. 1 and 2, participants will hear from inspiring speakers, learn from peers and industry experts and stay current with people management trends.

Conference topics will include

• Human Resources & Management Practices
• Leadership & General Management
• Change Management
• Coaching
• Talent Management  
• Employee Relations
• Financial Management
• Labor Relations
• Compensation

To attend the conference, participants must complete of one of the following:

• UC Systemwide People Management Series and Certificate
• Management Development Program
• UC-CORO Systemwide Leadership Collaborative

Registration is $350 and cancellations before June 1, 2017, will be fully refunded. Register at https://pmc.ucop.edu.

UC ANR Learning & Development will sponsor a limited number of eligible supervisors. If you would like to be considered for sponsorship, please complete the survey at https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=20278. To be eligible for sponsorship, UC ANR employees must complete by May 1 (extended from April 1) the UC Systemwide People Management Series and Certificate found at the UC Learning Center - http://lms.ucdavis.edu. Course numbers are at http://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/259104.pdf.  

On Aug. 1, the conference will open with a networking reception.

The conference will be held at UCLA Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. A limited number of guestrooms are reserved at the Luskin Conference Center for a group rate of $239 per night. A promocode for the group rate will be included in the registration confirmation email.

ANR members get personalized access to Lynda.com

Seeking to sharpen your skills to advance your career? You now have 24/7 access to on-demand training. UC ANR has upgraded its relationship with Lynda.com, which offers more than 6,000 video courses taught by professional instructors.

Lynda.com now provides ANR users a personalized learning dashboard and allows creation of personal training playlists. With a valid ucanr.edu email address, you now have a free subscription to Lynda.com, an online library that teaches the latest software tools, business skills and leadership development through high-quality instructional videos. To learn more, we suggest that you watch this introductory video about the service, and watch the course "How to use Lynda.com."

To access:

1. Login with your ANR portal account https://ucanr.edu/portal/
2. Click on the "Lynda.com Learning" link under "My Links" on the left
3. From this page, you can either setup your Lynda.com account or go to the Lynda.com login page https://www.lynda.com to login to your account.

Only ANR users with an "@ucanr.edu" email account can sign up for a Lynda.com account.

Benefits to using Lynda.com include:

• Unlimited access to courses on a wide variety of technology and disciplines
• Up-to-date content to keep skills current and to learn new skills
• New courses added every week
• Access to instructors' exercise files to follow along as you learn
• Closed captioning and searchable, timecoded transcripts
• Beginner- to advanced-level courses
• The option to watch complete courses or individual videos as you need them
• Earn certificates to post to your LinkedIn profile
• Download courses to use offline

Join us for our first “Learn it with Lynda.com” lunch and learn on Wednesday, March 15, from noon to 1 pm. Fill out this survey to RSVP.

For more information, contact Jodi Azulai at (530) 750-1239 or jlazulai@ucanr.edu.

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