Working with Others

People management and Leadership

Adults as Learners
Remember to use adults learning principles in planning your field day. Adults learn differently from children, therefore teaching techniques need to differ from those used in many schools and universities. Because adults already have considerable education, career and life experience, they want to acquire information that is relevant and which will help them.

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

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

If you need support for complex meetings contact one of our UC ANR Trained Facilitators for availability. 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

Attending Zoom Meetings - Video Learning (10 minutes)

Zoom Learning for Hosts

Live training and tutorials
Hosting Basics - Video Learning (17 minutes)

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.

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 Human Resources webpage)

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)