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Public Safety, in partnership with the Division of People, Culture and Belonging, is conducting A.L.i.C.E. workshops. The 90-minute-long A.L.i.C.E. sessions are designed to give participants insight and response options when encountering an active shooter. ALiCE: Alert, Lockdown, Information, Counter and Evacuation is crisis training created by two Texas law enforcement officers.

As a result of A.L.i.C.E., you will:

• Consider data and statistics from previous active shooter events
• Understand the key differences between A.L.i.C.E. and standard “Lockdown”
• Learn and practice the A.L.i.C.E. active shooter response tactics

This workshop is ideal for all �鶹��Ƶ faculty and staff and counts toward 1.5 hours of your annual Beyond Compliance requirement.

Visit the ALiCE registration site to search for workshops on your campus.

New leaders face many daily challenges at work. Workplace relationships can be demanding on your time professionally and personally. A key to becoming an effective leader is getting to know your team well – building those relationships. Words such as candor, feedback and work expectations are used constantly. What do they really mean? Find out as you create strategies to use when constructing work relationships.

Though Build Great Work Relationships, you will:

• Create a feedback framework to handle most tough work conversations
• Discover how trust lays the foundation for great relationships across the organization
• Learn to build and maintain effective relationships with your peers and management

This workshop is designed for managers and supervisors, but relevant for all faculty and staff.

Stop trying to be someone you’re not and start focusing on what makes you naturally powerful and unique. Maximize your potential with our Discover Talents, Build Strengths workshop, using Gallup’s CliftonStrengths.

Every day, Don Clifton’s strengths-based approach to management and leadership powers some of the greatest teams in the world’s most successful organizations. The premise is simple: people perform at their best, both on the job and in daily life, when they understand and utilize their natural talents. This enables them to build stronger relationships, be a better teammate, and focus more on what they do best, accelerating their personal and professional growth.

Whether you’re an individual contributor or a leader wanting to improve, or a leader wanting to empower your team to perform better, your efforts start here.

Through Discover Talents, Build Strengths, you will:

• Learn about CliftonStrengths and consider its potential impact on workplace culture
• Understand the Deficit and Strength Assumptions
• Learn CliftonStrengths Terminology
• Learn about your top five themes and help others understand theirs
• Develop methods for using your natural talents to enhance your work and professional life

This workshop is ideal for all �鶹��Ƶ faculty and staff and will involve participants completing the CliftonStrengths assessment.

Prerequisite: Clifton Strengths assessment and 1-hour feedback meeting with a certified strengths coach

Welcome to the world of leadership! How will you lead others? How do the supervisor and coworker roles differ?  What does it take to be a successful supervisor? What should you do when taking the leap? All these questions are important considerations. Applying their top five Clifton Strengths, learners consider different aspects of adopting a supervisory mindset by exploring issues that affect the transition from coworker to supervisor.

This workshop is designed for managers and supervisors, but relevant for all faculty and staff.

Through Focus Your Strengths, you will:

• Approach your leadership style from a strengths-based standpoint
• Identify personal traits and skills that set you up for success as a new leader
• Focus on adopting a leader’s mindset and role expectations
• Develop a leadership philosophy for going forward

Bullying happens in more places than just the playground. How should we respond to bullying in the workplace?

So how should we respond? This workshop explores what this social issue is and how we can respond by improving workplace relationships, communication and promoting healthy campus expectations.

Through Prevent Bullying in the Workplace, you will:

• Differentiate between bullying, harassment, conflict, and normal expectations
• Discover tactics to prevent workplace bullying
• Explore university reporting procedures for bullying
• Care for yourself in the midst of bullying

This workshop is ideal for all �鶹��Ƶ faculty and staff.

This workshop counts toward 3.0 hours of your annual Beyond Compliance requirement.

How exactly does a supervisor coach employees? What do coaches do? Practice coaching methods to help guide your employees through those tough development conversations. Discover seven characteristics of a coach, develop questions to engage employees in coaching conversations and practice holding different coaching conversations.

This workshop is idea for supervisors and managers.

Through Coaching Your Team, you will:

• Discover seven characteristics of a coach
• Develop questions to engage employees in coaching conversations
• Practice holding different coaching conversations

This workshop, based on the 2008 Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act, gives learners an opportunity to understand the laws under the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA). Learners will increase their understanding of the original intent of the definition of disability, factors that qualify an individual as disabled, and information about the complaint process and the reasonable accommodation request process. Participants will:

• Enrich knowledge about employment laws specific to Americans with disabilities.
• Become familiar with the university's process regarding employees with disabilities. 
• Discuss and practice finding solutions for various accommodation needs.

This workshop is ideal for all �鶹��Ƶ faculty and staff.

This workshop counts toward 2.5 hours of your annual Beyond Compliance requirement.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of discrimination and harassment through the interactive use of scenarios and discussion around real workplace application.

We all face a daily dilemma: too much to do and not enough time to do it.  The concept of time management addresses how we resolve the daily dilemma. Time is the limiting factor, not our job duties and tasks. We must make tough choices about what to do and what not to do.

Take a journey through the Time Mastery concept, which looks at 12 categories that impact a productive use of time. The Time-Wise workshop showcases the Time Mastery Profile, a time-management instrument developed by Dr. Larry Baker and Dr. Merrill Douglass. The Time Mastery Profile is based on 40 years of research and conducting seminars around the world.

As a result of Time-Wise, you will:

• Be introduced to the time mastery concept
• Identify ways that you use time effectively and ineffectively
• Improve your time handling abilities by replacing the self-defeating behaviors that hinder your effectiveness

As a leader, how can I create the best work environment for my team? The environment a supervisor creates impacts many areas including employee development, relationships, retention and more. Continuing from Focus Your Strengths, this introductory workshop overviews four critical roles that supervisors must understand when guiding their teams. 

• Creating Work Plans
• Coaching/Developing Your People
• Managing Performance
• Building Effective Relationships

This workshop is designed for managers and supervisors, but relevant for all faculty and staff.

Through Understand Your Role, you will:

• Overview four crucial roles that lead to supervisor excellence
• Practice supervisor skills in the four areas
• Develop a personal action plan

Register for Understand Your Role Here