Finding Balance
The Office of Human Resources, in conjunction with the Employee Assistance Program (EAP),invites you to Finding Balance summer series.
These sessions offers a variety of topics designed to enhance your work performance and provide tips in managing your personal life. A qualified facilitator will guide you and answer questions in real-time.
Please note: Links below for virtual sessions open at GoTo Webinar registration page provided by our Employee Assistance Program approved vendor. In person sessions are noted in title.
Session Catalog
caring for you while you care for others
Thursday, June 11, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Caring affects an individual, their family, their relationships, and their work in many ways—practically, physically, emotionally, and financially. When people are simply coping day-to-day and responding to the needs of others, it is easy to neglect their own wellbeing. But there are ways to make simple changes to promote a better sense of health and wellbeing, whatever an individual’s caring role might be.
How to Become More Resilient During Challenging Times
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 2:00 pM - 3:00 pM
During these unprecedented times, employees have been faced with many stressful challenges. Increasing our resilience can be a key strategy to successfully coping with and managing the stress and pressure we face. This timely session discusses several approaches that can help individuals to increase their resilience and maintain their health and effectiveness day to day.
Money on my mind: dealing with anxiety (In Person Session)
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
This session will help participants recognize and understand financial anxiety, and distinguish it from worry and stress. It will teach participants how to manage anxiety in order to work toward feeling more stable in their own situation.
The Keys to Great Employee-Supervisor Communication
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Great employee-supervisor relationships are built through great communication, including the ability to skillfully discuss difficult or stressful topics together. This important presentation provides several practical strategies for maintaining effective communication including building strong connections with our colleagues and superiors, being more collaborative in our approach, and handling disagreement respectfully.
Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude
Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
This dynamic presentation explores the importance of a good attitude, and its impact on our health and career success. It includes insight into the components that make up our attitudes (beliefs, thought patterns, emotions, etc.), as well as some practical tips for making improvements.
The Keys to Creating a Thriving Team Culture
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 Am
This session is designed to help leaders to better understand the characteristics of a great team culture and provides several strategies for creating and maintaining a workplace environment in which their employees can thrive.
Setting healthy boundaries (In Person Session)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
This session will help participants identify various ways to achieve balance with personal, family, and work responsibilities. The conflicting demands of work and home can create stress that depletes the energy needed to get everything done. Participants will learn to implement techniques for being more effective and more satisfied with both their home and work lives.
People-centric leadership
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Leaders who follow a people-centric approach know what it means to be successful: to put their people at the forefront of everything they do. Great leaders not only understand themselves, but they know the people they manage and the importance of developing compassionate and empathetic relationships.
Managing psychosocial risks in the workplace (In Person Session)
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Non-physical factors in the workplace can become detrimental to employees’ health and wellbeing. When poorly addressed, factors such as workload, change management, and team dynamics become psychosocial hazards. This training is designed to help leaders identify psychosocial risks and hazards, and understand how they can be managed to promote employee wellbeing.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Supervisors
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Successful supervisors share many common traits such as a positive attitude, good interpersonal skills, and a strong work ethic. This dynamic presentation provides an overview of these and other characteristics important to employee engagement and retention, as well as, outlines several strategies for integrating these traits into your management style.
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In accordance with applicable law, the University does not require mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training in connection with any institutional function. University units are prohibited from requiring that any person participate in DEI training as a condition of employment or enrollment.