 | The WSU Career Fundamentals series is designed to help WSU employees acquire awareness and skill in three areas: - Career Management
Skills assessment, communication, interviewing and application processes, etc. - Job Management
Position descriptions, annual reviews, State Ethics, leave processes, etc. - Worklife Management
Stress management, wellbeing issues, worklife balance, Employee Assistance Program, etc.
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WSU Career Fundamentals
Career Assessment and Planning
To be determined
Debbie Edwards and Stefany Unda, Center for Advising and Career Development
Our careers are among the most important and impacting aspects of our lives. Yet, for many of us, this is something that is often left to chance. This course provides a set of concrete tools and strategies for assessing and planning career goals. Specific topics include skills assessment, identifying career paths, networking and mentoring, and integrating personal strengths with career growth opportunities.
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Communication in the Workplace: Developing Relationships
to Help You, Your Team, and Your Department Achieve More!
10/01/09 | 9:30am
Edwin Hamada and Kari Fass, Residence Life
Successful communication in the workplace can be achieved by improving your skills in knowing and reading others. Working through frustrating kinks and barriers with others allows us to be more productive, more collaborative, and contributes to a more enjoyable and positive environment. This enables us to better represent our department and our institution.
This workshop explores how to be an adaptable communicator in ever-changing multicultural and multi-generational workplaces. Attendees to this session will leave with additional tools for their proverbial communication toolbox, increase their confidence in managing difficult conversations, and build on their instinctual ability to be flexible with others.
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State Ethics Law
10/06/09 | 1:30pm
Frank Hruban, Attorney General Office
This overview of the Ethics in Public Service requirements addresses such questions as: To whom do the ethics requirements apply? Who is responsible for interpreting ethics laws and adopting ethics regulations? What are the major principles of the ethics requirements? Where can I obtain further information?
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Computer and Network Security Awareness
10/13/09 | 9:30am
Dave Whelchel, Information Technology Services
This course highlights best computer security practices - and most common mistakes - to help you protect yourself from hoaxes, spyware, phishing, ID theft, copyright issues, spam, viruses, social engineering. Appropriate WSU policies are also identified.
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Career Application
10/19/09 | 1:30pm
Jennifer Klein, Human Resource Services
WSU offers some of the best career opportunities in the region. Tapping into these possibilities, however, requires conscientious effort. This course will help participants realize career advancement goals by providing information on constructing effective résumés, preparing winning applications and presenting successful interviews.
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WSU Employment: The Basics
10/21/09 | 1:30pm
Kendra Wilkins-Fontenot, Human Resource Services
What is a WAC? An RCW? A BPPM, a bargaining unit, a layoff unit, etc., etc., etc.? This course will provide an overview of rules, regulations, and policies that govern WSU employment. Basic terms and concepts will be provided along with some of the background that has led to the development of current practice. The goal is to help all employees experience greater success through clearer understanding of the employment systems in place.
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WSU Employment: The Day-to-Day
10/27/09 | 1:30pm
Kendra Wilkins-Fontenot, Human Resource Services
WSU employment is governed by a great many statutes, policies and procedures. Understanding the processes and guidelines that affect our day-to-day work experience has a lot to do with our professional success. This course provides an overview of many key regulations with which all employees should be familiar, including position descriptions and expectations, classifications, performance reviews, promotions and demotions, leave issues and training opportunities.
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Coping with Stress
11/04/09 | 9:30am
Scott Case, Counseling Services
This workshop provides an introduction to the basics of understanding stress, stressors and the stress response in people. You will learn about the stress continuum and the four areas in which stress exists in all of us. You will be taught a simple breathing technique that the latest research demonstrates can be highly effective in managing the stress reactions in both our minds and our bodies. We will focus on ways you can begin to control how external & internal stressors affect you. We will talk about aspects of personality and behavior that can contribute to escalating our stress levels and how we may, with practice, learn to manage our unwanted and unhealthy responses to the stressors in our lives.
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Wellbeing and Worklife Balance
11/18/09 | 1:30pm
Matt Bumpus, Human Development
There is no perfect, one-size fits all balance that is right for everyone. The “best” worklife balance is different for each of us because we all have different priorities and different lives. What's more, since our personal and professional priorities often change over time, so too must our approach to achieve balance.
This course interweaves basic concepts of wellbeing and worklife balance together, providing participants with strategies for assessing their current situation, addressing what is getting in the way of achieving balance, and analyzing the “fit” between the individual and organization.
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