A message from Ujima Donalson
Assistant Vice President,
Total Talent Management
Welcome to the holiday season! I truly believe it’s the most wonderful time of the year.
However, as leaders it’s imperative that we’re aware of emotional minefields, potential
triggers and tensions that may be brought on by the season so that we can be more
responsive to our team and alert to any problems or hardships.
In this festive season, we may sometimes find ourselves or others on edge. Some of us
welcome the holidays with open arms and total glee, but for many, this can be a
demanding time of year, fraught with travel plans, hosting in-laws, juggling childcare,
end-of-year work projects and other stressors, and the holidays can also trigger deep
emotions for those who have lost loved ones or have painful memories.
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Operationalizing our DEI values
Ujima Donalson, Assistant Vice President, Total Talent
Management
When President Ana Mari Cauce launched the Race & Equity Initiative in 2015, she
galvanized many of us to better educate and organize ourselves. In fact, she charged us
to take “personal responsibility for the culture of our campus and the institutional
challenges we need to address.” Over the past several years, I believe there’s been a
sea change in our lexicon and level of awareness across the University. That said, we
are hardly at the mountaintop. The need still exists and the work has not stopped; it
has evolved.
Across Total Talent Management, we are now turning our attention to operationalizing our
diversity, equity and inclusion values, and by that I mean we are looking deep into our
practices and systems in order to effect real and lasting change. Read
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Welcome Day: Introducing an enriched onboarding experience
Témo X. Madrigal-Sanchez, Onboarding Specialist, Professional & Organizational
Development
In 2018, staff across UW Human Resources joined forces to combine new employee and
benefits orientations into a half-day workshop called Welcome Day. We have now taken the
next step, and starting in 2020, Welcome Day will offer a full day of activities that
combines multiple required trainings ― new employee orientation, benefits orientation,
and addressing discrimination and harassment ― with a new diversity module and resource
fair. This expanded Welcome Day offers a “one-stop shopping” orientation facilitated by
a dynamic group of individuals from across UWHR.
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The clarity of no; the power of yes
Catherine Bachy, Organizational Excellence Partner
The start of a new academic year inspires a flurry of retreat planning and strategy
meetings for many units and schools. One of the academic leaders I assisted in strategic meeting
design earlier this fall conveyed how important it was for her and her executive team to
get very clear about their purpose and goals for the school. We need to know what we
are
saying yes to and when we can say no. This was music to my
ears as she was describing a
common experience for many leaders.
Although we may not think of it in quite this way, strategic planning requires the
ability to say no as well as the understanding of to what we can we say no. “No” can be
necessary to acquire clarity around each powerful “yes” that moves our purpose and goals
forward. Unfortunately, it can be easy to find honorable reasons to keep adding just one
more priority or project, and this culminates in diluted impact and unsustainable
organizations. Read more
POE presents succession planning workshops. Join Keya Burks,
organizational excellence partner with POD’s Partnership for Organizational Excellence (POE), for a
free
90-minute workshop on succession planning that utilizes the Succession Planning Toolkit
developed by UW Human Resources. Register
now for the upcoming February 18 workshop.
SLP 20/20. The coming year marks the twentieth anniversary of the
award-winning Strategic Leadership Program. SLP alumni should stay tuned for events and
activities that celebrate this anniversary and the transformative power of learning and
development!
It’s your choice: The Learning Lab
Earlier this year we introduced The Learning Lab, a self-directed online learning
experience with short video courses, ebooks, audio summaries and other formats. For
2020, we are offering different subscription packages at a lower rate:
- Business Skills & Productivity (annual subscription $150)
- Leadership Development Program (annual subscription $150)
- Office 365 (annual subscription $100)
You can also opt for the complete package — all three of the collections above — for an
annual subscription of $225.
Curious what The Learning Lab has to offer? Check out the 12 Days of
The Learning Lab.
This special promotion offers a $25 subscription that runs through Dec. 24. During that
time, you will have complete and unlimited access — great for fitting in some learning
and development and giving The Learning Lab a trial run!
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