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L&D - Food access, program development, actor mapping, workforce development, activating DEI
UC ANR Learning & Development
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A Closer Look into Food Access in the U.S. (Virtual, Extension Foundation)
Aug. 13 | 9 p.m.-1 a.m. PT
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Don't miss out on this chance to deepen your understanding and engage in a meaningful discussion on food access in the U.S. Ms. Rhone will be sharing her expertise on the critical issues surrounding food access, exploring the economic impacts, challenges, and solutions that affect communities across the nation. This is an invaluable opportunity to gain insights from one of the leading voices in agricultural economics and food assistance.
Program Development & Evaluation Capacity Building Training Series, 2024 (Virtual, UC ANR)
Aug. 6-Oct. 15| Every Tuesday, 10 a.m.-noon
Registration. Join us for online interactive trainings to help you with planning and evaluatingprograms and projects. These trainings highlight UCCE examples. This is a 11-part series offered a la carte, select whichever interests you or take the complete series! Instructors: UC ANR Program Planning and Evaluation; UCCE Evaluation Specialist Vikram Koundinya, UC 4-H Evaluation Coordinator Roshan Nayak, and the UC ANR Office of Diversity & Inclusion.
Details & Registration. Actor maps allow you to critically reflect on past efforts, identify new partners to engage, and track progress. This is a particularly useful tool for Extension professionals, who are often doing the challenging but essential work of acting as a ‘community convener,' bringing together partners across diverse sectors to leverage their unique assets and work to address issues.
Workforce Development in Missouri Extension
Aug. 22 | 11 a.m. - noon PDT
Details & Registration. Come and learn about the University of Missouri Extension (MU Extension) who's Labor and Workforce has been rebranded to Business and Communities (B&C). Find out about their variety of programs related to workforce development, including:
- Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
- Labor Education Program
- Leadership training programs for trade union leaders in Missouri and other Midwestern states.
The UC ANR Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) (UC ANR Web)
OCG is the authorized organizational representative for all extramurally sponsored projects at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Find the analyst assigned to your county or program. The unit's mission is to empower ANR's academics to pursue extramural funding to further their research and programmatic interests.
Engaging government officials and community stakeholders is a critical tool that helps builds awareness and support for your work and that of the University as a whole. For more information, read here.
Public & Media Relations (UC ANR Web)
UC ANR has subject matter experts to help you with media and other public relations. Be sure to contact them for support.
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Activating DEI Culture Shifts (eCourse, 29 min UC Learning Center)
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In this course, leaders and managers will learn how to push in the direction that produces an inclusive work environment, including using inclusive language, to lead toward transformation for the total enterprise, not just its component parts. You'll also learn how a new way of leadership can support DEI, and what techniques can keep employee engagement and motivation in the work of DEI consistently high.
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In this course, you'll learn to recognize how systems thinking applies to DEI and practices for examining DEI goals. You'll also learn strategies to build organizational culture awareness for DEI, identify how organizational culture is represented in your team and processes, and recognize how to make DEI part of how you do business, including using more gender-neutral language.
Site Builder and Blog Clean Up Session Office Hours (Virtual, UC ANR)
Every Thursday, 3-4 p.m.
The new integrated web platform (IWP) is coming, and it's important to clean up your Site Builder pages and Blogs now in preparation for migrating to IWP in December. Stephen Dampier is offering Site Builder and Blog Cleanup Office Hours. Learn about the essential steps required to clean up your sites at a Weekly Zoom Meeting for Site Builder and Blog Clean Up.
Changes to AggieExpense due to Implementation of Aggie Enterprise (Virtual, UC ANR)
Aug. 15 | 12-12:30pm
Learn how Aggie Enterprise implementation has impacted expense reporting and account allocations in AggieExpense. Tracy Roman, Associate Director of the BOC and Veronica Geiger, Business Partner Lead will present.
Zoom Webinar: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Aug. 27 | Noon - 1 p.m.
Virtual Instructor-led
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Drawing from negotiation and conflict management best practices, this interactive webinar will provide a road map designed to help you discover solutions that meet your needs in complex and challenging situations.
Learning Excel: Data Analysis (LinkedIn Learning)
This course teaches how to leverage Excel's data analysis and visualization features. It covers foundational concepts like mean, median, standard deviation, and the central limit theorem. The course also includes data visualization techniques using histograms, graphs and charts, hypothesis testing, data distribution modeling and calculating covariance, correlation, probabilities, combinations and permutations. Practical examples throughout demonstrate applying these techniques to real-world business problems. Request your LinkedIn Learning account by contacting UC ANR IT at help@ucanr.edu.
Image credits:
https://nnsi.northwestern.edu/tips-tools-for-network-instigators-actor-mapping/
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