PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
5 Reasons why Professional Development is Important
Efficiency
Professional development grows your skills and teaches you how to perform your tasks more efficiently. Allowing you to take on more responsibility.
Confidence & Credibility
"Knowledge is Power" - Professional Development helps you become an expert in your field and provides more opportunity for your career.
Leadership
Gaining knowledge and becoming less subjective about the facts could allow you to gain credibility within your team.
Networking
Professional development allows you to build your professional network by attending training or seminars in a group setting. 95% of people say face-to-face meetings are essential for long-term business relationships.
Stay Current
Professional development and training gives you the opportunity to stay current within your career field. It's always positive to learn new trends and strategies to bring to your team.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning provides a vast online library of instructional videos covering the latest software, creative, and business skills. Online learning through LinkedIn Learning is available for all UCCS faculty, staff, and students. LinkedIn Learning content can be accessed via the myUCCS Portal.
- Log on to the myUCCS portal.
- Open the dropdown menu at the top of the screen and select Training.
- Select the "LinkedIn Learning" tile.
Skillsoft Learning
Use Skillsoft for required online training or instructor-led training courses.
To find courses in Skillsoft for CU employees:
- Log on to the myUCCS portal.
- Select the Skillsoft tile on the home page
- Select Library from the top of the screen
- Select your campus folder
- Select a topic from Categories
- Select a course and click LAUNCH
Resources
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Professional Growth and Training
Gain leadership insights and foster connections across the university system, elevating your leadership and driving success within CU.
New Leadership Development Series Available
The Office of Human Resources is excited to announce three new leadership training series: Leading Yourself, Focus on Supervision and Leading Others. These professional development opportunities have a little bit of something for everyone, regardless of where you are in your career. These training series include a carefully curated list of online leadership professional development courses with three tracks based on different roles within our campus.
These courses are at no cost to you, or your department and they are all available online and on-demand so you can take them when and where you would like.
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Leading Yourself
Target Audience: Any employee looking for career development or looking to sharpen their skills in their current role, including those currently in supervision and management roles.
Topics include building trust, change management, emotional intelligence, building resilience, conflict management, and productivity tips and resources.
Time commitment to complete all courses: 7 hours, 15 minutes. There are 7 online, on-demand courses, which will take about 5-6 hours to complete.
Click the link below to access the course.
To access the exercises for this course please click: Leading Self - Required Exercises.
Focus on Supervision
Target Audience: First time supervisors, emerging leaders, current supervisors, and managers.
Topics include Understanding Family Medical Leave, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Introduction to Employment Law for Supervisors, directing and delegating and building a coaching culture. There are additional classes for those who supervise Classified Staff.
Time commitment to complete all courses: 3 hours, 30 minutes if no Classified Staff are supervised; 7 hours, 30 minutes if Classified Staff are supervised. These are all online, on-demand courses.
Please click link below to access the course.
Leading Others
Target Audience: New supervisors, emerging leaders, supervisors that have not had formal leadership training or leaders that are looking to refresh and update their skills.
Topics include building a trustworthy reputation, leading through relationships, working with difficult people, emotional intelligence, and more.
Time commitment to complete all courses: 9 hours, 30 minutes. There are 8 online, on-demand courses, which will take about 6 hours to complete.
Please click link below to access course.
To access the exercises for this course please click: Required Exercises- Leading Others.
How to get started
Your supervisor must approve your enrollment in the training series as time spent in these training classes is considered paid work time. Depending on your job role, your ability to complete these classes may take some pre-arranging of your workload to allow you time to successfully complete these courses and successfully complete your assigned work.
Once you have supervisor approval, log into your UCCS Portal, then click on the links above for the series that interests you. This will take you to LinkedIn Learning. You will see several tiles for the courses and a tile called “Enroll- Start Here”. That will take you to a form to complete that let’s HR know you are planning to complete these courses. You can take the online courses on your schedule, and it will save your progress.
There are several reflective exercises in the LinkedIn modules. Once you register, you will receive a list of specific exercises to complete.
If you have any questions, please contact Jerilyn Taylor in the Office of Human Resources.
Trainings for Supervisors of Classified Staff
The Colorado State Personnel Rules and the COWINS partnership agreement has a variety of rules that differ from University Staff and Faculty rules, policies, and procedures.
Current Classified Staff Supervisors are required to take "Labor Relations for Leaders - Required for all Classified Staff Supervisors". This course helps supervisors and other state leaders gain a deeper understanding of the Partnership Agreement. They will focus on common scenarios and how to best navigate them while maintaining neutrality. You will be participating throughout this training, so make sure you clear your schedule! Log into the State's LXP and search for "Labor Relations for Leaders" or just click the click below on how to register for LXP.
High Performance Leadership Program
This program is designed to empower and enhance participant’s leadership skills. Each session will be led by experts who specialize in leadership development and management strategies. The sessions are carefully curated to provide participants with practical skills and knowledge that can be immediately applied to your leadership responsibilities. The High-Performance Leadership Program series aims to create an engaging and supportive environment for all participants, fostering collaboration and meaningful discussions among peers. Participants will have the opportunity to network, share experiences, and learn from each other's leadership journeys.
These sessions will be a combination of in-person and online meetings. The schedule is an in-person session one Friday per month, and one Friday a month for an online meeting for about an hour, with a requirement to take a short on-demand module before the online meeting. Sessions are scheduled to run September 2024 through April 2025.
If you are interested in attending this program or have someone on your team that would benefit from this program, please contact Jerilyn Taylor at jtaylo20@uccs.edu.