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You can browse the learning tracks, breakout sessions and speakers below.
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
11:45 AM to 12:45 PM
Introduction: Dr. J. Davidson Porter
Speaker/Facilitator: Patrick Norton
Qatar Ballroom - Registration is required.
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Alysia Loshbaugh
Target Audience: All
An overview of the University's strategic priorities and how they impact every employee.
Knowledge of the three strategic priorities of the university.
How they relate to me.
How can I support them.
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Laura Osteen , Erica Woodley
Target Audience: Supervisors, Managers
This course will help managers and supervisors understand potential generational differences among their staff members, and how to bring out the best qualities of each individual using the generational research as a guide.
Understand the generational differences and similarities among the Baby Boomers, X'ers, Millennials and Generation Z.
Learn how to cater their approaches based on generational guidelines without overly simplifying individual differences.
Learn how to lead multiple generations in a way that brings out the strengths of each.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Tiffany Smith, Ruth Riley
Target Audience: All
Civil Treatment for Employees is a dynamic and interactive learning experience that utilizes realistic workplace scenarios to provide individuals individuals and teams with skills and insights required to enhance engagement, inclusion, productivity, and professionalism.
Understand how professionalism, fair conduct relates to and furthers Tulane’s mission.
Know your responsibilities and the role they play in fostering a professional workplace
Apply a model of speaking up about concerns to others.
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Cherie Duckworth , Omar Stanton
Target Audience: All
Employees must be actively engaged in the advancement of their careers. This session will provide attendees with tips, tools, and techniques necessary for managing their careers.
Participants will be able to evaluate their current career path.
Develop tangible strategies to aid in career development with measurable outcomes.
Participants will be able to use technology effectively to support career development.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Liv Newman , Donata Henry
Target Audience: Faculty
This presentation will examine the resistance many faculty have towards delegating and investigate potential areas in which delegating tasks can be most useful.
Identify workload bottlenecks & evaluate potential areas for delegation.
Articulate resistance to delegating tasks.
Awareness of campus and professional resources to decrease workload bottlenecks.
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Steven Siden
Target Audience: All
No one is going to be a bigger advocate for your career path than you. Join LinkedIn as they uncover tips and tools to help you assess your current skillset and how to plan to grow in your career. We will also discuss the Education industry labor market trends and reveal today’s most in demand skills.
Assess your current skillset.
Plan your career growth.
Understand current in demand skills
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Katrina Greene
Target Audience: All
Giving and receiving feedback is an essential and critical skill to be successful in any industry. This session will provide best practices to effectively deliver feedback to others and help you to better receive feedback from others.
Understand the importance of giving and receiving feedback.
Learn the STAR coaching method to effectively deliver feedback with confidence.
Gain a new perspective to receive feedback with gratitude vs. defensiveness.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Angela Breckenridge
Target Audience: All
Light-hearted, interactive session about effective communication with a focus on how we use email. Participants can expect to discuss the benefits and traps of using email to communicate. The session opens with some statistics on the use of email and a few email “myth-busters.” Participants will then examine real messages and determine why the communication was effective/ineffective . We'll discuss why email can be a double-edged sword and strategies for avoiding the pitfalls. The session will also inlcude a dramatization of a mock trial for email "violations" using real-world examples. Participants play the roles of jury, defendant, defense attorney, plaintiff and prosecutor. The jury reaches a verdict on 2 cases, and if necessary, a judge determines the penalty: probation? Community service? Or email jail?
Know when and when not to use email.
Understand when to manage email to increase productivity.
Apply best practices for effective email communication.
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Jennifer Coursey
Panel: Faculty and Staff
Target Audience: All
Join us for an honest and engaging panel discussion with some of our staff and faculty as they share their own career journey. Learn about some of the obstacles or challenges they may have faced along the way and how they overcame those barriers. Hear what advice they would give someone starting out on their own career journey. Participants will have an opportunity to ask the panel questions.
Share an example of a career journey.
Understand that each career journey is unique.
Recognize a career opportunity.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Timmothy Dickens
Target Audience: All
A “culture of coaching” means that your senior executives, managers, and front-line staff and faculty bring out the best in each other, constantly improve results, and build an unstoppable team that works for common goals. Ultimately a culture of coaching enables employees to have the business and emotional intelligence to delight customers, implement ideas which increase innovation and creativity, and increase the value of your organization.
Define coaching and understand the true value it brings to professional environments.
Know the steps of the Coaching Engagement and how it improves accountability & results.
Recognize how coaching improves communication up, down, and across the organization.
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Jenna Zeringue
Target Audience: Supervisors, Managers
This session will cover the importance of successfully onboarding new employees in your department. Effective onboarding goes far beyond just attending orientation on their first day. This session will give you the tools you need to onboard your new employees so that they are set up for success in their new position!
Understand the importance of properly onboarding your new employees beyond orientation day.
Discover best practices in onboarding new employees in your department.
Ideas & resources to better onboard your new employees to ensure a successful tenure at Tulane.
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Heather Hargrave , Pete Simonson
Target Audience: Supervisors, Managers
Do you have financial management responsibilities? What exactly does that mean and what does the University expect you to do?
This course will review the University financial model, how budgets are developed, the need for monitoring to assist in meeting the University’s financial goals, the important role that you play and what tools are available to help you.
Learn about the University’s Responsibility Centered Management financial model
Learn about the important role financial management plays in supporting the University’s mission.
Knowledge of tools available to support financial monitoring and forecasting for your departments.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Michael Dirnbauer, Bill Van Cleve
Target Audience: Supervisors, Managers
Learn how to obtain goods and services for Tulane.
Familiarization and where to find Tulane procurement policies.
Methods for contract review.
Purchase standard catalog items.
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Amanda Rosenzweig
Target Audience: All
Managing change means managing people’s fears. Getting people on board and participating in the change will make the difference. Individuals will have to do their jobs differently, and it is the degree to which they change their behaviors and processes that will make or break the experience. Come learn about one person’s experience defining, understanding and managing expectations. Engage in short activities that will help you experience shifts in the working environment.
Prioritize people by addressing concerns and improving change.
Align employees objectives to change
Recognize and celebrate change milestones.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Human Resources Business Partners
Target Audience: Supervisors, Managers
An interactive panel discussion where Tulane leaders will share their personal managerial experiences and best practices. The presentation will be an interesting opportunity for knowledge exchange between the panel and the audience.
How to coach and mentor employees for development.
Effective communication.
Accessible tools and resources.
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Carla Major , Dr. Shantay Bolton
Target Audience: All
Good leaders are emotionally literate and secure and are not threatened by others or their differing opinions and beliefs. This workshop will help attendees develop robust relationships, solve problems using both logic and feelings, maintain an optimistic and positive outlook, cultivate flexibility in stressful situations, help others express their needs, respond to difficult people and situations calmly and thoughtfully and respond to change with grace and optimism.
Clearly understand the benefit of raising their emotional quotient. Identify and assess the five components of Emotional Intelligence.
Identify and assess the five components of Emotional Intelligence :self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.
Recognize and examine their moods, emotions, and drives, as well as their effect on others.
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Liv Newman , Donata Henry
Target Audience: All, Faculty
This presentation will use the theory of effective course design to create an effective presentation.
Articulate the learning objectives of a presentation.
Create two to four learning outcomes.
Analyze different active learning techniques.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Jason Chretien
Target Audience: Supervisors, Managers
Higher education is a people-centric industry that is only as good as its workforce. With strategic workforce planning, we gain the knowledge needed to make decisions based on hiring the right people to perform the right activities at the right time. Thus, a future-aligned, talent-focused, people-centric workforce is central to achieving institutional objectives.
Understand the importance of strategic workforce planning in higher education.
Develop a strategy for starting the process at your department or school.
Understand common pitfalls with strategic workforce planning and how to avoid them.
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Brian Johnson (Panel)
Target Audience: All
Tulane students are the best and the brightest. Each and every day our students push themselves to be the leaders of tomorrow. Come join this session for an opportunity to interact and hear directly from our students in a panel discussion.
Participants will gain a deeper understanding about Tulane students leadership contribution while on campus.
Participants will learn about students hopes, dreams, and motivation to excel as students and future alumni.
Participants will be able to appreciate the diversity of experiences that our students experience during their time at Tulane.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Halima Leak Francis
Target Audience: Supervisors, Managers
This session will examine the role of managers and leaders in facilitating organizational change. It will explore the relationship between the nature and process of change within organizations and the impact on organizational effectiveness.
Develop an understanding of the role of managers and leaders during the process of organizational change.
Enhance proficiency in leading and managing self and others while experiencing organizational change.
Develop knowledge, tools, and strategies that will help organizational leaders and managers overcome barriers to successful organizational change.
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Olivia Mitchell
Innovative Learning Center & Webinar
Target Audience: All
Excel is arguably the most important software product in the modern workplace. In this workshop you will learn how to begin your journey with Excel. We will cover the basics including navigating spreadsheets, calculating functions, and sorting columns.
Understand the uses of Excel.
Know how to navigate to the Excel training in LinkedIn Learning.
Learn how to complete basic functions, freeze panes, sort columns, and print spreadsheets.
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Speaker/Facilitator: Sean Knowlton
Innovative Learning Center & Webinar
Target Audience: All
Zotero is a free, open-source citation management too to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research. In this workshop, participants will install Zotero, add sources to your library, learn the basics of organizing and managing, and create a bibliography in the citation style of your choice.
Understand the benefits of using a citation management tool.
Know how to use Zotero to capture sources, including full-text sources, organize their collection, and correct errors.
Create a bibliography manually using word processor integration.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Travis Detillier
Innovative Leaning Center & Webinar
Target Audience: All
Want to get into videoconferencing but don't know where to start? Start here!
Create a Zoom account
Schedule and host meetings.
How to use meeting controls.
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Olivia Mitchell
Innovative Learning Center & Webinar
Target Audience: All
This session takes a deeper dive into Excel. In this session we will review important tools including pivot tables, Vlookups, and Flash Fill. This session aims to prepare you in your next steps as you become more proficient in Excel.
Understand Tulane specific uses of Excel.
Know how to navigate to the Excel training in LinkedIn Learning.
Learn how to use Pivot Tables, Vlookups, Conditional Formatting and other tools.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Speaker/Facilitator: Bobbie Garner-Coffie , Kate Johnson
Innovative Learning Center & Webinar
Target Audience: All
Adobe is not just for Forms anymore. Use the tools in Adobe Creative Cloud to design and develop amazing work, solve business problems and find new opportunities for growth and professional development..
Access adobe creative cloud for Tulane.
Create a presentation using Adobe Spark
Navigate through menus in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat Tools.
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