Resume Crafting Strategies Workshop

In this session, you will learn about the vetting process that recruiters use when reviewing candidate resumes, along with the implications this has on what you decide to include on your resume and how you plan on formatting it.  The presenter, Dr. Bob Orndorff, will reinforce the importance of crafting your resume strategically versus slapping your content onto a piece of paper.  You’ll also learn how to customize and tailor your resume to the needs and values of the recruiter and their organization.

Getting to Know the Learning Resource Network (LRN) for Managers

Learn how you can quickly navigate through the over 17,000+ FREE, online courses available to faculty and staff. These courses allow you to learn at your convenience by using the Learning Resource Network (LRN) to browse, launch and learn. Plus learn how to take advantage of the over 95,000 free, online book titles that are available to you as a Penn State employee.  

Project Management Series

***Please note that this is a four-part program and that participation is expected in all four parts of the program to receive credit for attending.***

These sessions are designed for anyone new to project management.  Stakeholders, sponsors, first-time project managers, as well as team members will find value in this session

Program Schedule (*Please note varying days and times of schedule)
Part I: October 7 2022, 10:00am-12:00pm
Part II: October 14 , 2022, 10:00am-12:00pm
Part III: October 21 , 2022, 10:00am-12:00pm
Part IV: October 28, 2022, 10:00am-12:00pm

Flexible Work Best Practices -- Individual

This is session is designed to help you understand all things with flexible work. Upon completion of this course, you will have a better understanding of the expectations of this type of work, how that translates to your role, and be equipped with tools for success.

HEALTH ADVOCATE: Managing Holiday Stress

Stress is stress, but for some reason it seems to quadruple around the holidays! This workshop addresses the multiple causes of holiday stress,  and provides tips on how to reduce these stressors so participants can maintain their productivity, achieve a better balance and more fully enjoy the holiday season with friends and loved ones.

Time Management

This program discusses practical, common sense techniques to use time wisely at work.  It provides paradigms to help set priorities, manage meetings, organize workspaces, and develop personal daily and weekly plans.  Employees learn to identify time wasters at work and to recognize time-use barriers.

Managing Change in an Ever-Changing Environment

Change is constant, and not always predictable. How we manage change and interpret the experience makes a difference in how we navigate our emotions and choices. Understanding how you view and interpret change can help you manage your interactions with your  colleagues and staff. Includes Assessment: Personal ADKAR Assessment (delivered during the session) Note: While not a requirement, we strongly encourage you to attend the, “What is Change Management” Session after attending this session.

Managing Change for Managers

Managers have a unique and vital role when managing change. As a leader and a supervisor, managers are the implementers of change while also managing the people-side of change. Understanding the change process, individual reactions to change and what fuels resistance to change can help managers lead change and support their team.

Penn State Police: Who We Are and What We Do

Information on how to contact University Police and Public Safety and services and resources provided by University Park police. 

Beyond Diversity: Creating a Culture of Belonging

We interact daily with individuals who have diverse traits and beliefs and are different from us in multiple ways. How we handle these interactions will determine our individual and collective experiences in both our workplaces and larger communities, and who feels included or left out. This program helps participants understand the various aspects of diversity and the many immediate actions each of us can take to create a culture of belonging in all our spheres of influence.

Participants will learn: 

• The many aspects of diversity amongst individuals
• Examples of inclusive and non-inclusive behavior
• How to develop inclusion skills
• How to use inclusion skills to create a culture of belonging

The Art of Delegation

The course provides instruction on why delegation is important, what delegation is, and insight into a multi-step process for delegation.

PLEASE NOTE: There is PRE-PROGRAM WORK that needs to be completed as part of this course. You will receive the pre-work assignments a week or so before the course reminder email you will receive from the Learning Resource Network:
 - Read Case Studies (one page) --- will receive before reminder email
-  Complete Self Assessment (one page) --- will receive before reminder email

Effective Email Communication

To provide practical strategies that ensures efficient use of meeting time through amazing facilitation.  Have you ever sat in a meeting asking yourself, ‘why am I here’, or ‘this is such a waste of time—when will this end’? If you lead meetings, you certainly don’t what this said about your meeting leadership. Attend this interactive session to pick up some new tips and techniques to make the most productive use of everyone’s meeting time. 

Effective Meeting Facilitation

To provide practical strategies that ensures efficient use of meeting time through amazing facilitation.  

Have you ever sat in a meeting asking yourself, ‘why am I here’, or ‘this is such a waste of time—when will this end’? If you lead meetings, you certainly don’t what this said about your meeting leadership. Attend this interactive session to pick up some new tips and techniques to make the most productive use of everyone’s meeting time. 

HEALTH ADVOCATE: Working Well with Different Personality Styles

Whether working onsite or remotely, we will undoubtedly encounter a variety of personalities in the workplace.
When someone has a different communication style or personality type, it can create conflict, affecting your job and productivity. Finding ways to meet the other person and situation where they are, and adjusting as needed, is an invaluable skill to help reduce conflict in the workplace. This webinar explores effective techniques to bridge personality differences and find common ground to enhance communication and productivity.

Military Cultural Competency – Be a Veteran Ally

Do you know a military service member or veteran?  Have you ever worked with one?  What are they like and what were their experiences while they served?  What challenges do they experience while serving or as they transition back to civilian life?  How are they different from you and I, if at all?  How do I engage and talk to them?  This session is an introductory session about the military and veteran community that lives in Pennsylvania, works alongside us, and are students at Penn State.  We will discuss why it is important to understand the military/veteran culture and how to close any gaps that exist between service members/veterans and civilians.  We will also learn about the military services and the military experience. We will discuss military/veteran stereotypes and myths as well as veteran experiences and challenges.   

Decision Biases: Improving the Quality of Our Everyday Decisions

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's how vital it is to adapt. But why is change so hard? And how can we diagnose complacency and conquer our goals? As we begin to rebuild, we turn to award-winning behavioral scientist and Wharton professor KATY MILKMAN, who has devoted her career to understanding change. Milkman uses science, humor, and real-world stories from her groundbreaking book How to Change to show us how we can overcome our most difficult obstacles. The result is a science-based blueprint for adapting our behavior (and the behavior of those we lead, manage and coach) to the demands of the post-pandemic world.

Intermediate Strengths: Working with Strengths for the Individual

This intermediate workshop builds on the principles covered in the introductory workshop by going deeper into talents and strengths. We’ll discuss theme domains, themes in development, applying talents, theme dynamics, motivators and demotivators, partnerships, and problem-solving as a team. Attendees will write a theme testimonial to apply a talent to their current work. Emphasis is on utilizing talent themes to achieve workplace outcomes.
Optional Companion Book: Clifton Strengths Books LRN
Once in the Clifton Strengths Library – Choose: StrengthsFinder 2.0
***ASSESSMENT NOT INCLUDED***
PREREQUISITE  – In order to attend this program, participants will have already taken the CliftonStrengths/StrengthsFinder assessment and either have attended the Foundation/Strengths Discovery program or have a basic understanding of CliftonStrengths terminology and application.

Flexible Work Best Practices -- Individual

This is session is designed to help you understand all things with flexible work. Upon completion of this course, you will have a better understanding of the expectations of this type of work, how that translates to your role, and be equipped with tools for success.

Managing Change for Managers

Managers have a unique and vital role when managing change. As a leader and a supervisor, managers are the implementers of change while also managing the people-side of change. Understanding the change process, individual reactions to change and what fuels resistance to change can help managers lead change and support their team.

Creating a Healthy and Inclusive Work Environment Begins with You

In this seminar, you will learn how to become the ultimate team player through managing adversity and contributing to creating a positive work environment.  When faced with adversity, you have the power and the choice to “feed the good wolf” inside you and do the right thing.  Bob will present seven “Good Wolf Behaviors” that empower work teams to build and maintain a healthy work environment.  You will also learn about three Emotional Intelligence strategies that will empower you to manage work-place adversity and contribute to a positive climate and team morale.

Critical Conversations - Manager

This session will help equip leaders who manage people to explore the art of dialogue to prepare yourself to manage and facilitate critical conversations with your staff. – with a focus on discussions pertaining to the new Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA) policy.

TIAA -- Money at Work 1: Foundations of Investing

The formula for successful investing?
You plus knowledge. It doesn’t matter how old you are, where you are in your career or how much you make. Reaching retirement goals requires the same things: spend less, save more. It’s really that simple. TIAA’s workshop leader will give you information to help you figure which investment vehicles are right for you. Discover what stocks, annuities, mutual funds and IRAs are so you can determine which ones best fit your needs. Learn about risk and finding your risk tolerance. See how the same savings principles work for short- or long-term goals

Getting to Know the LRN : How to Access and Navigate OnDemand Trainings and Free Books

Learn how you can quickly navigate through the over 17,000+ FREE, online courses available to faculty and staff. These courses allow you to learn at your convenience by using the Learning Resource Network (LRN) to browse, launch and learn. Plus learn how to take advantage of the over 95,000 free, online book titles that are available to you as a Penn State employee.  

Professional Writing Essentials: Punctuation

Words are only part of writing. Punctuation keeps your writing easy to understand and expressive! This course reviews the basics of punctuation and how to properly use it. Individuals will gain confidence as they learn the building blocks to create properly punctuated, effective communication. Learners will participate in discussions and exercises to build their punctuation comprehension.  

Interfaith Education: Interpersonal Understanding

We live in a world with an incredible diversity of beliefs and belief communities. This diversity is often not discussed or engaged with when we talk about inclusion. There are a lot of needs and considerations that come with working with such a large diversity of beliefs and belief communities. It is very helpful to understand the fundamentals of religious, spiritual, and secular inclusion to better serve the people you work with and provide services for. This program helps prepare participants to engage with that diversity in an inclusive and positive way. 

Participants will learn: 

• The basics of what constitutes religious, spiritual, and secular difference. 
• The fundamentals of how to engage with religious, spiritual, and secular diversity.  
• How to think about needs and accommodations that allow inclusion of religious, spiritual, and secular diversity.  
• How to put inclusion skills into action around religious, spiritual, and secular diversity.   

Critical Conversations -- Individual

This session will help prepare you to explore the art of dialogue and how you can better prepare yourself for critical conversations – with a focus on application for conversations regarding the new Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA) policy.