Professional Development Portal
Looking for Professional Development Opportunities?
Several departments across campus offer professional development for faculty and staff. We encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities. Check out the links below for more information regarding workshops currently being offered across campus.
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Canva
Canva is a graphic design platform that is used to create graphics and presentations.
Workshops Offered
- Creating Social Media Posts
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CETL Programming
Programming for faculty and staff to enhance their work as educators. We offer inclusive space for faculty and staff to meet for personal and professional growth. We focus on teaching, learning, and instructional technology.
Workshops Offered
- Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done Reading Group
- Universities on Fire Book Talk
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EAB Navigate Refresher
Set up student scheduling and get a refresher on how to issue notifications for academic concerns.
Workshops Offered
- Navigate refresher on how to set up student scheduling hours or when to issue notifications for academic concerns in your class.
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Employee Wellness
Wellness programs offered through Human Resources.
Workshops Offered
- Everyone Grieves: In-person
- Everyone Grieves: Virtual
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Equity, Diversity + Inclusion Programming
Tier 2 EDI programming provides participants with the conceptual framework, opportunities for self-reflection and group discussion, and skill-building experience necessary for being an effective advocate for equity and diversity.
Workshops Offered
- "The Garden Left Behind" Film Screening and Panel
- CETL Reading Group: Design for Equity
- CETL Reading Group: Inclusive Day-to-Day Teaching
- Reading Group: Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
- Sexual Assault Bystander Intervention Training
- The Freedom of the Press & Role of New Media with special guest Bari Weiss
- The Gender Gap 101
- UWEC Accessibility Training for Instructors
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Friday Favorites
Friday sessions covering a variety of topics including leadership and Well-being.
Workshops Offered
- FEAR Workshop
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Growth Mindset for Leaders
Learning and development opportunities are now available for ALL in leadership positions or looking to be in these roles in the future. (Please note leadership comes at any level and does not depend on a title.) This program explores the fundamentals of leadership through exploration of UWEC-centric practices and through general leadership principles through a common language via Franklin Covey offerings, including the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 6 Critical Practices and Leading at the Speed of Trust for Leadership. Registration is open to all employees.
Workshops Offered
- 6 Critical Practices for Leadership
- 6 Critical Practices for Leadership (Session 1)
- 6 Critical Practices for Leadership (Session 2)
- 6 Critical Practices for Leadership (Session 3)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - (Session 1)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - (Session 2)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - (Session 3)
- Communication, Budget, and Working with Others
- Employee Performance Management
- Hire to Retire
- Leadership at the Speed of Trust (optional)
- Policies, Benefits & Career
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Kaltura (My Media)
Kaltura (also known as My Media) is a recording device for screen and video capture. Users often use Kaltura to create their own videos, tutorials, or recorded presentation. Users also have the ability to upload footage from other devices to Kaltura.
Workshops Offered
- Asynchronous Lectures
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Microsoft Teams
The Teams service enables instant messaging, audio and video calling, rich online meetings, mobile experiences, and extensive web conferencing capabilities.
Workshops Offered
- Integrated Web Applications
- One Drive and SharePoint Relationships
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PowerPoint
Learn how to spice up your PowerPoint presentations!
Workshops Offered
- Asynchronous Lectures
- PowerPoint Poster
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Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a university supported survey software. This program offers a variety of survey options, survey appearance, survey statistics, and mass distribution options. The Qualtrics workshops will show learners how to create a basic survey, download results into Excel/Word, and how to create panels in order to distribute a survey to email list of participants.
Workshops Offered
- Course Evaluations
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Remark Test Grading
Remark is the new software on UWEC's campus to replace the old scantron sheets and machines.
Workshops Offered
- Remark Test Grading (scantron replacement) Training
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WEDGE Removal Training
Human Resources is excited to offer free, in-person professional development opportunities with UW-Eau Claire employee Gerry Preciado. Gerry has worked with City Managers, Executive Leadership teams, Presidents, and Chancellors of universities, as well as front line managers and supervisors to identify and remove dysfunctional wedges. After spending several years as an employment law trial attorney, he realized that by the time his clients called him it was too late, damage was already done. Gerry spent several years developing an approach to leading and managing people while empowering them to positively navigate conflict and other workplace challenges before it became "too late" for them. He has helped countless groups move from dysfunction and discord to productive and harmonious teams.
Workshops Offered
- The Maxims of Change: Four Keys to Positive Sustained Change
- The Wedge: A Simple Metaphor to Improve All Your Relationships at Work
- Understanding Your Role as a Leader: Leader v. Manager
Firstsource
The Firstsource Support Team offers 30-minute individual, small group and department-specific travel training (additional time may be scheduled).
Unravel Your Travel
- Travel authorization – if required
- Best practices for travel booking
- Airfare, lodging, vehicle rental
- Acceptable payment methods
- Cash advance process
- Expense reimbursement
- How to get your expense reimbursement report approved the first time
- Top 5 expense report send back reasons and how to avoid them
- Student travel
- Updates, tips and tools
Contact the Firstsource Support Team, (715-836-3131) of the ASK Center to schedule.