Programs and Workshops
Following is a list of open workshops the Strategy & Organizational Development unit has developed or purchased. These courses will be offered on a rotating basis. See Workshop Calendar for the sessions that are currently scheduled. However, if you are interested in the StratOD unit presenting any of these programs for your department, unit, or workgroup we can set-up a specific time to train your area.
On-Line Training for CMU Employees
StratOD also offers the Leadership Excellence Series. To learn more about the Leadership Excellence series please click here.
Open Workshops: CALENDAR 2008 - 2009
Open Workshop Descriptions
| 5 Dysfunctions of a Team | Based on the best selling book by Patrick Lencioni. In his book, Lencioni reviews the five dysfunctions that prevent most organizations from optimally performing: absence of trust, fear of conflict, inability to commit, lack of accountability, and inattention to results. Participants will explore how to apply strategies to overcome the challenges teams encounter. |
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | This intensive, two-day workshop provides participants with a robust and tactical implementation plan to fully integrate the 7 Habits into their lives. It is designed for anyone looking to become a more effective person - regardless of your occupation, position, or stage in life. You'll learn how to improve focus, communication, and balance for yourself and your organization; how to develop professional relationships for productive collaboration; the importance of responsibility, accountability, and commitment; skills for increasing productivity by staying focused on the right things; and how to reduce conflict by understanding exactly what you can influence. Cost is $105 and covers lunch on both days and Franklin Covey workbook. |
| Body Talk | How can you tell if a person is lying? How do you know if someone is interested in asking you out? What is a sign of confidence and self-assuredness? This program will teach you how to read another's body language like a book. Understand non-verbal behavior and learn how to listen with your eyes! |
| Coaching For Improved Work Performance | Learn the art of coaching and reap the benefits of increased employee productivity and satisfaction. Whether you need to coach someone to improve performance or for professional development, the same principles apply. You will discover that coaching is the best way to earn respect, build trust and help others succeed! |
| Coalition Building Workshop | The workshops are an opportunity to identify and work through stereotypes, to hear about the personal effects of discrimination, and to learn ways of intervening when confronted with inappropriate behaviors. For more information or to register contact the Multicultural Education Center at 7318. |
| Core Values | This session provides knowledge and insight on the widely held principles that guide and motivate CMU thus bringing better understanding and awareness for people involved with the university. |
| Difficult Conversations | We’ve all been there. We need to talk, but we would rather not! Whether it’s about performance, discipline, emotions, or the neighbor’s dog, the struggle of what to say and how to say it weighs heavy. Utilizing principles and ideas from a variety of resources, we will look at the dynamics of what is involved in this kind of conversation, and explore practical ways to make them less stressful and more productive. |
| Effective Meetings | Spend too much time in meetings? Many of us do. Learn techniques to increase buy-in, participation, and commitment. Be a meeting leader who uses meetings to get things done, make decisions, build morale, and communicate pertinent information. Participants will review how to bring more structure and direction to their meetings, while keeping them interactive and positive. |
| Employee Engagement Surveys | What we have known all along has now been quantified by solid research: a happy employee is a productive employee. Employee morale impacts absenteeism, turnover, productivity, and virtually every business measure imaginable. This one hour workshop is designed to introduce you to the key factors that impact employee engagement, and how you can use a simple survey in your units to improve employee satisfaction. |
| Find Success through Mentoring | Join us for this interactive program about mentoring staff at CMU. A mentor is a wise and trusted counselor, a role model, a guide, a tutor, a coach and someone who can guide your career. Learn how to cultivate informal mentoring relationships through discussing shared values, interests, hobbies or mutual respect for one another. Discover the benefits of an informal mentoring program and how you can go about building a mentoring relationship. |
| FISH | This seminar focuses on creating a motivational environment and service orientated culture in your organization. It also features a video on the Fish Philosophy. |
| FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities | Picture a life that’s more organized, more peaceful, and more productive. Imagine balancing your roles more successfully and achieving your highest priorities. Envision a workplace that’s productive rather than reactive, where focus and direction leave little room for crisis, stress, and frustration. Sign up for FOCUS, a new time management and life leadership workshop from Franklin Covey that helps you improve your job performance and maintain a healthy balance in all facets of your life. |
| From the Inside Out | Key to success at work and home begins inside each of us. Research shows a significant link between positive self-concept and satisfaction with work and life. This session will review the critical factors necessary to build a positive self-concept. |
| Humor in the Workplace | Ever have fun at work? Do you know why having fun is important? Understand this and other important tips for having fun in the workplace. Understand the appropriateness of using healing, rather than harmful, humor in your job. Leave with concrete ideas and a complete list of resources for making work fun! |
| In This Together! | Increase trust and respect in your workplace. Reflect on the environment and assess your actions. Learn to be a positive force in building community. |
| Jump Start Your Career | Take time out to consider where you have been and where you want to go. Learn how to set career goals and utilize resources to gain experience. |
| Magnificent Presentations (Train-the-Trainer) | Develop and facilitate meaningful and engaging presentations. Review adult learning theory, practice interactive exercises, and evaluate your efforts. |
| Manage Time & Projects | Learn to practice time and project management techniques. Attend this comprehensive and interactive program facilitated by Fred Pryor Seminars. |
| Managing Change | Change isn't easy for anyone. But, based upon the bestselling Who Moved My Cheese? book by Spencer Johnson, this program will examine top organizational adaptations to change, review the four change perspectives, and provide information on the stages of loss and gain. Think deeper about change and how you can become a change agent in your work unit using the "cheese" metaphor. |
| Microsoft Project Software Training | MS Project is project planning/management software that assists project planners in developing plans, assigning resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads. Dan Schluckbier from Yeo & Yeo Computer Consulting of Saginaw will facilitate. Registration fee is $85 per person and includes the full-day workshop, a lunch voucher, and a MS Project workbook. |
| Motivation For Improved Work Performance | What is motivation? How can I motivate myself and others? How do I utilize all the theories and research most effectively? Find the answers to those questions and learn how to create a motivational environment where you work and live! |
| Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality Assessment | Take the MBTI personality inventory and discover your natural preferences and style. Learn to develop an understanding of personal style so that you are able to interact more effectively with others. This session explores the impact of personal style on relationships, teams, and work units. Communication, decision-making, and problem-solving will all be addressed. |
| New Employee Diversity Orientation | CMU's Multicultural Education Center and S/OD would like to invite you to be a part of Diversity Orientation! This interactive presentation will allow you to think about the unique and special skills you bring to the university; review how stereotypes affect individuals and groups; provide knowledge about how to build a hospitable and respectful climate; highlight CMU's diversity initiatives and goals. Please take an active role in supporting a climate of appreciation and acceptance for all people and groups at CMU. |
| Online-Survey Training - Beginning | The 'Beginning' workshop will cover how to establish an account using SurveyMonkey.com and how to create, collect, and analyze data using this online tool. Seating is limited to 15 participants. |
| Online-Survey Training - Advance | The 'Advanced' workshop will be a working session for building a survey using SurveyMonkey.com. Participants should have a survey in mind when attending. 'Beginning' Online-Survey Training workshop is prerequisite. Seating is limited to 15 participants. |
| Performance Review Conversation Training | This training is specifically designed for the supervisor, and will cover the 4 basic needs of every employee, and what you can do through the Performance Review Process to best meet those needs. |
| Performance Management | Performance Planning is a partnership. Learn how to develop SMART goals, deliver effective feedback, focus on career development for yourself and your staff and utilize the CMU Performance Management process. |
| Project Management I | This workshop will provide an overview of the major stages involved in taking a project from inception to completion. Some basic tools for managing the project will be shared and hands-on practice provided. It will lay the groundwork necessary for such scheduling tools as Gantt charts and Microsoft Project to be used effectively. |
| Project Management II | The focus of this workshop is on scheduling the project, using the tools of work breakdown structures, network diagrams and Gantt charts. Hands-on practice is provided in manually producing these tools. The Project Management I workshop is not a prerequisite to this workshop, but it is highly recommended if one doesn’t have much official background in project management. |
| Service Excellence | Care, Knowledge, Availability, Follow-Through. These service standards and CMU’s long tradition of service excellence are reinforced at this session. Also learn how to deal with difficult people and difficult situations. |
| Service Excellence II | If you’ve been to Service Excellence I, you won’t want to miss this workshop! Take service to the next level with step two training. Be a service advocate and learn how to instill the message of service excellence to others through leadership, coaching, and training. Improve service quality by creating a development plan for you and your department! |
| Service - Train-the-Trainer | Help spread the message about service excellence and learn how to coach others. You'll leave with a complete 45-minute agenda and all the materials needed to train others in Service Excellence. |
| Stress Management | Do you have stress in your life? Sign up for this interactive program and learn how to manage your stressors and strains. Learn more about good stress and bad stress, causes of stress, and reactions to it, as well as tips to cope with the stressors of everyday life. You're guaranteed to have fun, so come and enjoy our shenanigans! |
| Super Memory | Learn 10 methods to enable you to recall names, dates, faces, agendas; the latest research in memory effectiveness; how and why we forget and what we can do about it; and how to increase memory by 50 percent. |
| Supervising Students | Are you responsible for hiring and supervising student employees? Come to this interactive program and learn tips for scheduling, on the job training, hiring and giving feedback. Learn how to make work meaningful for student employees in your office. |
| Teambuilding | Join S/OD
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| The Winning Balance | We seek to create a work environment and organizational culture that creates a climate for success of each and every faculty, staff member or student by appreciating the uniqueness they bring to the workplace. This session raises participants awareness of how personal values and biases can impact interactions with individuals. The bottom-line impact for effectively managing a diverse workforce is discussed. |
| True Colors Personality Workshop | Provides an enjoyable and easy to remember way for you to explore your own and others distinctive personality strengths and stressors. You learn to respect and appreciate differences in the ways people function and better understand relationship and team building. You will identify your True Colors spectrum of personality traits, distinguish your strengths, values, joys and motivations, and recognize the commonalities and differences of personality styles. Amy McGinnis is a certified True Colors facilitator. Visit www.truecolors.org for more information. |
| Understanding Students | We invite faculty and staff to join us in a discussion about the needs and goals of the CMU student. Gain a better understanding of today's college students and apply that knowledge to the classroom and office settings. This presentation will incorporate research, a discussion with various college students, and examples of how the faculty and staff have made powerful connections with students from a variety of backgrounds. |
| Violence Prevention | Join us for an eye opening presentation about the dangers of workplace violence in Higher Education. Topics to be discussed include CMU’s workplace violence policy, how to be proactive in dangerous situations, and what to do if you are ever threatened or find yourself in a crisis. Help keep yourself and others safe. |
| Who Moved My Cheese? | This workshop is based on the #1 Best Selling Book and has been used in large and small organizations around the world. “Cheese” is a metaphor for what you want in life and “The Maze” is where you look for it. Learn tips |