Power-Up with a Professional Development Plan
Kelly White, Director of HR Engagement & Operational Strategy
Ranelle Maltas, Training, Technology & Comm Coordinator, Human Resources
Location: Room 010
A Professional Development Plan (PDP) is a valuable document that establishes both your career development goals and a strategy for meeting them. In this hands-on session, you will learn the three steps to creating an individualized professional development plan. You will have time to use worksheets in the session to start the process of documenting a plan. By the end of the session, you have started creating a useful roadmap for your growth and success.
Developing a Comprehensive and Efficient Recycling Operation at UNL
Morgan Hartman, Sustainability Coordinator, FM&P Waste Management & Recycling
Location: Room 018
This interactive presentation will focus on recent steps UNL has taken aimed at the development of a comprehensive and efficient recycling operation at UNL, and how these efforts impact and connect the entire UNL community. An overview of the current state of waste management and recycling at UNL will be shared, including information on UNL’s recycling and landfill diversion rates and the internally managed waste management and recycling operation. Participants will gain an understanding of the Recycling Pilot Project currently operating on campus including its history and design, primary components, data and metrics gathered, and next steps regarding phased implementation across campus. Information will also be shared related to the Waste Management theme of UNL’s 2020 Environment, Sustainability, and Resilience Masterplan, including the aspirational goal to become a zero-waste campus by 2030, and strategies to achieve that goal. Participants will be engaged in developing as a person, professional, and within their university community through a focus on how they can individually contribute to sustainability by practicing positive waste management behaviors including tips and strategies to reduce, reuse, and recycle right at UNL.
Sexual Misconduct Response for University Staff
Meagan Counley, Title IX Coordinator, Institutional Equity and Compliance
Leslie Shaver, Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Institutional Equity and Compliance
Rob Dohe, Civil Rights Resolution Specialist, Institutional Equity and Compliance
Ryan Fette, Education & Outreach Coordinator, Institutional Equity and Compliance
Location: Room 032
Many of us have had a student or colleague share information with us about an experience of sexual misconduct, discrimination, or harassment. Institutional Equity and Compliance is presenting this interactive workshop to build upon the information in the mandatory online sexual misconduct training and help staff members know what to do when someone makes a disclosure. Please be sure to have completed the mandatory online sexual misconduct training prior to attending this workshop. The workshop will further refine individuals’ understanding of what should be reported, provide tips on how to respond compassionately to disclosures while explaining reporting responsibilities, and resources to refer the person making the disclosure.
Objectives:
- Be able to identify sexual misconduct, discrimination and harassment which should be reported to Institutional Equity and Compliance
- Be able to respond compassionately to disclosures and explain reporting responsibilities
- Refer individuals to appropriate support on campus
Collaborating with Microsoft Tools in Preparing and Delivering UNL Student Course Evaluations
Ben Lass, DLC Scanning Services Manager, IT Academic Technology
Location: Room 040
If you’ve been around UNL for a while, it’s likely you’ve heard of or used Teams, but did you know that Microsoft also has a project management tool called Planner? And that Teams, Planner, and other Microsoft tools can be used together for effective collaboration and management of small or large-scale projects? Join Ben Lass from ITS Academic Technologies in demonstrating how he and his student worker team collaborate with 75+ staff and faculty across campus in the preparation and deployment of student course evaluations each semester. Scope, procedures, processes, tips, tricks, hacks—it’s all packed into this 45-minute presentation designed to get you thinking: “how can I successfully, effectively manage my next project?”
Attending this presentation will assist you in:
- Becoming familiar with basic features of Microsoft Teams, Planner and other MS tools
- Learning how these tools can be used together for effective small or large-scale project management
- Generating ideas on how you can use these tools to manage your own project
Asking the Right Questions to Strengthen Relationships and Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement in Our Work
Annette Wragge, Autism Network Coordinator, Special Education & Communication Disorders
Location: Room 138
This training is designed to provide a case study of how we changed our practices using the appreciative inquiry and conversations worth having frameworks to strengthen relationships, deepen understanding, and expand possibilities for achieving goals and desired outcomes for the work of the ASD Network. The presenter will provide a variety of examples and resources for those in other fields to apply these practices for improved connection and outcomes.
Objectives:
- Build awareness of the difference between a problem-solving approach and an appreciative inquiry approach
- Recognize a generative question.
- Use generative questions to shift the tone and direction of a conversation.
- Experience flipping negative conversations to conversations worth having.
- Develop generative questions to fuel productive and meaningful engagement around challenges.
10 Ways to Support Diversity and Inclusion as a Staff Member*
Jerri Harner, Executive Specialist, Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Location: Room 211
The presentation will discuss 10 tips staff members can use to support the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of their organization. The diversity, equity, and inclusion journey can seem overwhelming and often can be seen as a top-down effort, so how do we as staff members learn from and contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplace? Staff members cannot discount the importance of personal commitment to the diversity efforts of our organization. Employee engagement at all levels is essential to the success of DEI efforts. The objective is for these 10 tips to provide employees concrete action and confidence in contributing to DEI efforts.
*Hybrid presentation