UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 7, Page 9
October 15, 1992
Employee development
Listed below are upcoming Employee Development workshops. In
addition to weekly UpDate listings, a complete Fall schedule with
accompanying articles was published as an insert in the August 20
UpDate. If you are interested in a copy for reference or to post,
please contact Employee Development at 831-8725 or use the form posted
on the EMC2 Employee-Development Bulletin Board.
Organization of the University of Delaware
Career development at the University of Delaware requires
extensive knowledge of how the various units within the University fit
together. Learn what different departments do, how they relate to one
another and their academic and administrative reporting lines.
Date: Oct. 29
Time: 8:30 a.m. - noon
Location: Kirkwood Room, Perkins Student Center
Deadline: Oct. 15
Audience: University employees
Supervisor's Orientation to U.D. Personnel Policies and Procedures
Particularly beneficial for new supervisors of professional and
salaried staff, this workshop presents an overview of the contents of
the Personnel Policies and Procedures Handbook and the function of the
Employee Relations Office.
Date: Oct. 21
Time: 9 - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Kirkwood Room, Perkins Student Center (location changed)
Deadline: Oct. 15
Audience: Professional and salaried supervisory staff
Primer on Affirmative Action for Supervisors
Review of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws and judicial
actions related to age discrimination, sexual harassment, Americans
with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. The roles of federal
and state agencies in enforcing EEO law will be discussed.
Participants will examine the major elements of an affirmative action
plan and explore the application of affirmative action in hiring. The
course is designed for supervisors, managers and others involved in
carrying out personnel actions.
Date: Nov. 10
Time: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Ewing Room, Perkins Student Center
Deadline: Oct. 27
Audience: Professional and salaried supervisory staff
Communicating Standards and Objectives
This companion program to Setting Standards and Objectives
addresses the discussion between the supervisor and the employee. The
training program provides practice opportunities for supervisors to
ensure their employee understands and/or agrees with the performance
criteria that will be used to evaluate her or him. Participants must
have attended Setting Standards and Objectives and should bring their
completed worksheets from that class.
Date: Nov. 11
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Kirkwood Room, Perkins Student Center
Deadline: Oct. 28
Audience: Professional and salaried supervisory staff
NEW! Developing Leader Competencies
Frequently, non-supervisory professionals find themselves
convening a sub-committee, heading a taskforce or chairing a search
committee. By popular request, this class has been reconfigured to
accommodate the unique situation that occurs when one is asked to lead
a group over whom they have no formal authority. It is an advanced
level program in which participants examine the role of self
development, follower attributes and group behavior in the context of
leadership development. In addition, participants complete a self
assessment and elicit anonymous feedback from people they lead,
ranking the frequency with which they practice five leader
competencies.
Date: Nov. 12
Time: 8:45 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Clayton Hall
Deadline: Oct. 22
Audience: Non-supervisory professionals
Coaching for Performance Improvement
This workshop includes presentation of a coaching model, a brief
review of the listening skills covered in the Management
Communications class and practice incorporating feedback techniques
into performance discussions. Coaching is a vital management tool,
especially in changing environments, because it creates shared
responsibility between the manager and the employee and a joint
commitment to problem solving and skill development. Coaching
encourages employee participation and the "buy in" necessary to
achieve management and organizational goals. Participants must have
attended Management Communications: Listening class.
Date: Nov. 17
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Blue and Gold Room, Perkins Student Center
Deadline: Nov. 2
Audience: Professional and salaried supervisory staff
Understanding and Utilizing Monthly Account Statements
An introduction to the University accounting system, this
workshop is designed to benefit employees responsible for monitoring
monthly account statements, those in administrative support positions
desiring greater knowledge of monthly account statement and new
principal investigators unfamiliar with the University's internal
accounting statements. Topics include object and transaction codes and
recent accounting system changes.
Date: Dec. 10
Time: 9 a.m. - noon
Location: Ewing Room, Perkins Student Center
Deadline: Nov. 19
Audience: University employees
Course registration
To register for workshops use the printed form, complete the
e-mail form posted on the EMC2 Employee-Development Bulletin Board or
reply from UNIX newsgroup udel.employee.development to
Empldevreg@mvs.udel.edu, or call the registration hotline at 831-8725.
Participants will be notified of their enrollment by a course
confirmation letter approximately two weeks prior to the workshop
date.