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Educator Exchange: Climate Resources (Connect Extension)
April 9 | 11 a.m. – Noon PDT
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In this 1-hour interactive session, connect with fellow environmental educators to exchange valuable resources and receive constructive feedback on projects in progress. Hosted by the National Extension Climate Initiative (NECI) Curriculum Working Group, this event provides a space to share lesson plans, program ideas, and tools that support environmental education while gathering insights from peers.
Building Relationships and Navigating Tough Conversations (Connect Extension)
Thursday, April 10 | 11 a.m. - Noon PDT
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Go beyond the data with low-risk strategies to understand local culture, connect with your audience, and build relationships. Use this as the building blocks to initiate conversations and navigate controversial topics.
UC ANR Giving Day Webinar: How to Make Your Mark
Thursday, April 3 | 11 a.m.
This interactive webinar will give you resources to improve your online campaigns whether you are new to UC ANR Giving Day or have participated from the beginning. Learn how your group can stand out from the crowd and harness the power of generosity to raise funds for your program. Join Emily Delk, UC ANR Director of Annual Giving and Donor Stewardship, to access campaign resources, and hear from other colleagues across the state as they share how they've engaged their supporters.
Zoom https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/93625845663
Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed: Research Funding Strategies (NCFDD)
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon PDT
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Uncertainty in academia takes many forms—funding instability, job security concerns, enrollment shifts, and political pressures that affect teaching and research. During our session, attendees identified key sources of uncertainty, including:
- Research and grant funding availability
- Institutional budget constraints and hiring freezes
- Changes to DEI policies and academic freedom
- Career trajectory concerns, including tenure and promotion
- Student safety and institutional responses to political shifts
While uncertainty isn't inherently negative, it can contribute to stress, anxiety, and cycles of overwhelm. Recognizing the impact of uncertainty is the first step in reclaiming agency.
Building Shared Understanding across Cultural Divides (26 min.; UC Learning Center)
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In this course, you will learn communication strategies that will help you to effectively build and maintain relationships with culturally diverse colleagues. From building initial rapport to sharing information, brainstorming and preventing conflicts, you'll be able to recognize behaviors that will enable you to communicate effectively and achieve your business goals.
Bridging Differences in Cross-cultural Communication (26 min.; UC Learning Center)
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In this course, you will learn about two principal dimensions of culture that underlie culturally different ways of communicating and learn vocabulary that will allow you to explain differences in communication styles. You will also explore barriers to communicating effectively across cultures and identify ways to overcome them.
Navigating BOC's Processes for New Employees
First Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m. (started April 1, 2025)
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Starting a new role at ANR? Set yourself up for success by attending a BOC onboarding session - designed to help you navigate key business operations and connect with the resources you'll need from day one. During this interactive session, you'll meet your BOC business partners, explore financial processes, and learn how to use essential tools like AggieExpense, and the Chart of Accounts. We'll guide you through purchasing procedures, travel cards, supplier registration, and workflow automation to ensure you have a smooth transition into your role. Plus, there's dedicated time for Q&A, so you can get answers to any questions you have.
May 6 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Jun. 3 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Jul. 1 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Aug. 5 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Sept. 2 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Oct. 7 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Nov. 4 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Dec. 2 | 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AI in Action: UC AI Innovation Virtual Share Fair (UCOP)
April 9 | Noon -1 p.m.
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See groundbreaking AI implementations transforming workplace safety, policy navigation, and administrative efficiency across the UC system. This interactive session features real-world AI use cases, with presenters sharing their journey from ideation to implementation, highlighting key challenges, lessons learned, and alignment with UC’s AI Principles. Whether you’re exploring AI for your initiatives or looking to connect with peers, this event offers insights, collaboration, and inspiration to drive innovation.
The Secret of Giving Feedback (5:02) Video
Humans have been coming up with ways to give constructive criticism for centuries, but somehow we're still pretty terrible at it. Cognitive psychologist LeeAnn Renniger shares a scientifically proven method for giving effective feedback. From The Way We Work a TED series, this video and others is a resource where leaders and thinkers offer practical wisdom and insight into how we can adapt and thrive amid changing workplace conventions.
Give Feedback with Situation-Behavior-Impact
It can be one of the trickiest and touchiest tasks for a leader or an individual contributor– giving and receiving feedback. Here’s where “situation-behavior-impact” (SBI) model comes into play. SBI promotes feedback based on identifying a specific situation, describing the observed behavior (and when and where it happened) and explaining its impact on you. SBI can boost results-based leadership development. This video (4:40) is part of a series on Results Count™, the Casey Foundation’s unique approach and tools for leadership development.
How to Receive Feedback With Grace and Dignity (article) by Susan M. Heathfield
Are you interested in hearing more about how others view your work and your contribution? If you are, you need to make it easy for them to tell you. If they think you'll appreciatively consider their feedback, you'll get much more information. And, that is a good thing—really.
Thoughtful feedback helps you grow both personally and professionally. Accurate feedback helps you with your lifelong career development, too. It's a gift that people who care about your personal and professional success can provide for you. But, they'll only provide feedback if you are approachable and allow them to feel comfortable when giving you the feedback. Click here to read more.
Excel for Project Management (LinkedIn Learning)
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Learn the best way to set up your spreadsheet to visualize project progress, success, and even failures. Find out how to measure what's most important for projects and how to use that data to inform future decision making. Request your LinkedIn Learning account by emailing ANR IT help@ucanr.edu.
Unlocking Trust: Building Authentic Connections for Professional Success (Recording; 50 min.)
With Moses Preciado – UC Riverside Dining Services General Manager, March 25, 2025, UCR Staff Development Day
Trust; the foundation of every relationship, personal and professional. Every word you speak, every action you take, can either build trust or erode it. How often do we truly consider the trust we have built or the trust that needs building? In this engaging presentation, we'll uncover the secret to building and maintaining trust in a professional or personal setting, explore the small but powerful investments that strengthen bonds, and reveal how even one wrong move can shake the foundation of credibility. Don't miss this chance to master the art of trust.
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