As a service to employees, numerous educational topics and presentations are available to UCA departments. Below is a list of seminars that can be requested by individual offices or departments. These can be scheduled by contacting Charlotte Strickland (chars@uca.edu), Director of Employee Engagement & Enrichment.
RETREATS:
Various content and team building activities provided.
Cost: Free
Length: To be determined based on departmental needs
TEAM-BUILDING:
Teamwork…Pulling Everyone Together
Cost: Free
Length: 60-90 minutes
This seminar discusses the four strengths of a team and ways to get the most from a team. Teambuilding exercises are used throughout the seminar to affirm the course material.
True Value (Diversity 101)
Cost: Free
Length: 90 minutes-2 hours
Value and Respect are due to all people, regardless of differences in age, gender, faith, economic level, education, etc. This session presents diversity training in a highly interactive, non-threatening, self-exploratory manner! The session includes numerous exercises and discussions on the benefits of diversity in the workplace and the goal of F.A.I.R. (Fairness, Awareness, Inclusion, Respect) as we interact with others.
Goal Setting/Strategic Planning
The success of your department/office — no matter what size or function — depends on the thoroughness of your planning and vision. A strategic plan can provide a roadmap for accomplishing specific goals, and will increase your chances of reaching objectives on time and budget. In this session a template for strategic planning will be provided and discussion will be centered on the goals and objectives you wish to accomplish.
Cost: Free
Length: 60-90 minutes
Vision, Mission, and Core Values
Cost: Free
Length: 90 minutes
Each organization needs to have the foundation of a vision and mission statement and a list of agreed-upon values. These reflect the organization’s identity and provide guidance to the team on not only what the goals are but how to go about achieving those goals. This session assists organizations in creating and/or updating their vision, mission statements and core values. Opportunities are given through numerous exercises to create the statements and values.
LEADERSHIP:
Survival! Essentials in Maintaining Perspective (and Sanity) in the Midst of Leadership
Cost: Free
Length: 60 minutes
A fun and energetic session that covers the following six points and calls for stories and reflection with each. Learning to set, Playing to your strengths, Planning for pain, Speaking up, Phoning a friend, and Finding your happy place!
Leadership…Casting a Wider Net
Cost: Free
Length: 60-90 minutes
A leader needs to be reminded of the essentials of leadership and regularly complete a mental checklist to determine their implementation of these essential components. The components consists of Inward Integrity and Outward Skill. Inward Integrity includes conviction, courage, contagious, & centered. Outward Skill includes connection, priorities and engagement. This material will be presented in an engaging manner and include personalized and group activities. Participants will be challenged to incorporate these essential leadership components in their daily routines. Expect personal stories, introspective exercises and interesting group conversations.
SUPERVISORY:
Building Morale
Post-covid has been rough. Employees feel sluggish and/or unmotivated. As the supervisor, how can you revive the team? It is critical that supervisors work to not only retain their employees but retain the motivation and energy of the employees. This session presents the Motivation Formula (knowledge, incentives, timelines, perseverance, etc.), reasons why people join and leave an organization, and concludes with ideas to build morale.
Cost: Free
Length: 60-90 minutes
Effective Communication
There are three forms of everyday communication – listening, speaking and non-verbal. This seminar discusses the importance of each and provides exercises to improve in each.
Cost: Free
Length: 60-90 minutes
Employee Accountability
Cost: Free
Length: 60-90 minutes
There are two types of employees – “Can’t do the job” (haven’t been trained or equipped) and “Won’t do the job” (attitude issues). With the “Can’t do” employees we train and equip them until they are confident and prepared. But how do we as managers and supervisors resolve the “Won’t do” employees? This session will provide information on attitude issues and a specific model to follow when confronting employees. Opportunities to discuss these issues with peers will be provided during the session.
Office Bullies
Cost: Free
Length: 60-90 minutes
They intimidate, hassle, undermine and terrorize fellow employees. In doing so, they reduce the level of productivity and run off valuable employees. As a supervisor, how do we supervise the office bully? As a peer, how do we confront the office bully? This seminar will discuss common traits of the office bully and provide proactive steps in dealing with the bully in a professional and proactive manner.
Supervisory Skills
Cost: Free
Length: 90 minutes
Whether you supervise one or thirty, there are certain skills that will assist you in the job! This seminar addresses the five essential traits and skills of a strong supervisor. A self-assessment and employee reward assessment is included in the seminar.
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS:
Personality Styles
Cost: Free
Length: 60 minutes
Understanding yourself and others is critical if you want to be effective. Participants will complete an instrument which will assist in the identification of their personality style. The speaker will then discuss the various styles (Congenial, Action, Reason, Excellence) and address how we can understand and appreciate each. This course is essential for any organization wanting to improve communication and affirm value in the midst of differences.
Change Style Indicator
Cost: $24.00 a participant
Length: 2 – 4 hours
The Change Style Indicator (CSI) is designed to capture an individual’s preferences in approaching change and in dealing with situations involving change. The CSI Self-Assessment offers a quick and accurate self-assessment of preferred change style. The CSI can assist in better understanding one’s response to new situations and to changes in existing situations. It allows for increased flexibility and increased effectiveness of one’s response to change, while also enhancing an understanding of the reactions of others.
Results of this instrument place an individual on a continuum ranging from a Conserver orientation to an Originator orientation. A Pragmatist orientation occupies the middle range of the change style continuum. The closer an individuals’ score is to one end of the continuum, the stronger the preference for that “change style.”
The instrument poses 20 assessment items for evaluating preferences. It takes 15-20 minutes to complete. Online and self-scoring versions are available.
EQi (Emotional Intelligence Assessment)
Cost: $72.00 participant assessment & follow-up report
Also available: $25.00 Higher Education Student Assessment and Report
Length: 3 hours
Emotional Intelligence is a set of emotional and social skills that collectively establish how well we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way. Emotional Intelligence is our behavioral face. It’s what it looks like, it’s what it sounds like, and it’s what it feels like when we show up and engage with the world around us. It’s the choices we make: emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral. These choices have everything to do with how effectively we understand ourselves and communicate who we are, and how effectively we work to build relationships and understand others.
The EQi is an assessment that was developed to capture and to quantify our connection and engagement with 16 different elements of social emotional functioning. The results provide a model and vocabulary for self-awareness that reveals potential strengths and growth opportunities. The EQi yields results that are not static. Results will change because growth work is being done continually, and life’s events and experiences will influence our responses. EQi is NOT an IQ (intelligence) qualifier nor a Skills assessment. It does not measure personality or vocational preferences. The EQi is a statistically validated tool that deals with many objective elements, including problem solving, reality testing, flexibility and independence to name a few.