Learn & Grow in Your Career

Outlook is a versatile and important tool. Learn more about it through this training.

With Outlook on your PC, Mac or mobile device, you can:

• Organize your email to focus on the messages that matter most.
• Manage your calendar to schedule meetings and appointments.
• Share files from the cloud so everyone always has the latest version.
• Stay connected and productive wherever you are.

Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Other lessons cover how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, use the printing capabilities of Excel, and more.

Join your colleagues and debrief the Managing Stress and Finding Vitality at Work Self-Guided Virtual Course! This is a live virtual discussion. You will receive a link 24 hours before the session in your email.

Why should you attend?

• Reflect on how you have used strategies from the self-guided virtual course

• Hear what strategies others are using to manage stress

Change is constant in our lives, and an essential element of the workplace. Navigating times of change can provoke a wide range of emotions including anxiety, excitement, and confusion. This course provides you with tools to understand the types and characteristics of change. You will also examine change management strategies, and develop a personal action plan to meaningfully navigate your situation of change. This is a virtual course. You will receive a link 24 hours before the course in your email.

Why should you attend?

• Answer: What are the different types of change?

• Reflect on: How does change affect me?

• Identify strategies to manage yourself through change

Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficulties. It is an ability that can be strengthened and improved. In this 90-minute virtual module, we will explore ways to increase personal resilience and show up for others during these challenging days. In this course you will:

• Learn six variables that can be strengthened to increase resilience
• Participate in a focused activity or discussion of a concept in each variable
• Develop an action plan for your personal resilience

Time Management is really all about self-management. Everyone has a finite amount of minutes, hours, and days to get work done. But, some people are able to accomplish more than others. This class will explore where your energy is spent and strategies for how to consciously decide how to eliminate or mitigate obstacles that get in the way of productivity.

As a result of this module, you will:

• Identify where you currently spend and where you want to spend time and energy
• Recognize your time/self-management skills and weaknesses, in order to minimize or eliminate “time robbers”
• Utilized strategies and create an action plan to better manage time/self

Your training  link can go here. Contact Kayla Ruplinger for trainings you’d like entered

This training program focuses only on Academic Staff (AS), Faculty (FA), and Limited Appointee (LI) hiring types. The content focuses on JEMS HIRE navigation, “step by step” processing and managing transactions, along with hiring employees into vacancies. The course will also provide an understanding of how data ‘pushes’ and ‘pulls’ between various common systems along with where to locate supporting resources (e.g., job aids, KBs, and policies).

Provides an overview of basic information that all professionals that work with HRS or Related Technologies should be familiar with. Resources and learning opportunities, basic human resources concepts, and an overview of commonly used technologies are emphasized, as pre-requisites prior to completing or attending many of the HRS and related technology learning opportunities. Participants may want to complete this as a refresher course a few weeks after their onboarding while becoming acclimated to their roles and responsibilities.

This module is intended to support employees in how to prepare for formal and informal performance conversations.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand ways to plan, prepare, engage in performance conversation
2. Identify resources to use in the preparation of a performance conversation

Learning Outcome:

1. Employees are empowered to participate and engage in the performance process by using some/all techniques outlined in training

This training should take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.

All FP&M Employees

This module is intended to assist employee who are new to their position become familiar with performance management and development at FP&M.