The Power of a Strengths Based Mindset (Arbor Suite)
Kaitlin Ferris, Assistant Director, Clifton Strengths Institute
Alyson Lenz, Assistant Director, Clifton Strengths Institute
What are your unique talents? Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best, every day? Research tells us the most effective way to empower people is to help them develop and use their strengths. When people invest in what makes them talented and unique, it creates a powerful formula for increased engagement, collaboration, and performance.
This session aims to further explore the power we have when we start to invest in our natural talents and recognize the talents of those around us. Together, we will create strategies for individuals and teams to learn, develop, and fully maximize their potential. By understanding strengths, our ability to perform with excellence increases, revealing new possibilities and pathways to success. Are you ready to build a strengths-based mindset?
Taking an Outside View - How Thinking Broadly Might Help Us Solve Specific and Novel Problems (Prairie Suite)
Lucas Novotny, Executive Director of Housing & Dining Services, Housing Administration
What can billiard-ball collisions tell us about molecular motion; what can be understood about the principles of electricity by considering water flow through plumbing and how can fantasy sports help us understand asset evaluation. Have you ever considered how your expertise can limit your thinking? Have you ever applied outside tactics to solve internal challenges? The presentation will combine common themes as explored by popular leadership authors including but not limited to Adam Grant (Think Again), David Epstein (Range), Simon Sinek and Malcolm Gladwell to challenge participants to consider their narrow views to problem solving. This lecture style presentation will combine the conference themes of creativity and partner to challenge participants about their approach to problem solving. Participants will gain exposure to creative thinking practices by participation in this presentation that will hopefully lead to application in their areas of the university.
Compliance Updates on Pregnant and Parenting Students and Employees (Great Plains A)
Ryan Fette, Education and Outreach Coordinator, Institutional Equity and Compliance
Meagan Counley, Assistant Director and Title IX Coordinator, Institutional Equity and Compliance
This session will cover important legal updates on the rights of pregnant and parenting students and employees. We will discuss how to support pregnant and parenting students and staff, available resources, and reporting obligations you may have.
Doing SharePoint the Right Way (Great Plains C)
Celeste Spier, Director of Organizational Development, Human Resources
Jordan Malone, Project Manager, Business & Finance
Corrie Svehla, Client Services Coordinator, IT Client Services
Are you confused by SharePoint and OneDrive? Are you sure you are saving documents in the correct place and with the right file name? Or, maybe you are still saving documents on a shared network drive and afraid to even try SharePoint or OneDrive? In this session, we will give you the basics of SharePoint and OneDrive, explain how to leverage these platforms for collaboration and accessibility, teach you what NOT to do, and, of course, give you time to ask questions.
At the end of the session, we hope that you will:
- Understand the basics of SharePoint and OneDrive including both how and why you would use these resources
- Increase your knowledge of how to use these platforms to collaborate with team members while maintaining security and functionality
- Recognize some of the mistakes you might be making that have the potential to risk file loss, security, or accessibility