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NEW! SUMMER WEBINARS OFFERED BY STANFORD'S TRAINING & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

WHAT'S A WEBINAR?
webinar = live, online, interactive training facilitated by a skilled trainer accessed from your computer.

T&OD is offering 7 new webinars on a variety of topics this summer. Interactive training offered in short timeframes from the convenience of your office. No fee. Check them out. Register via STARS (axess.stanford.edu). Webinar instructions (computer setup, URL access, and Webinar phone number) will be emailed to participants in the reminder email notification.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT
A Guide to College Success (TOD-2069)
This COMPASS webinar is designed for employees with fewer than 30 college credits who want to pursue their degree or who are new to the college experience and need help navigating the college maze. The class features two 1-hour telesessions. Between sessions, participants will complete a learning styles inventory. Topics covered:
• Choosing a major
• Balancing work, life, and school
• Placement tests
• Learning styles
• Study skills
• Transfer of credits
• Local and distance learning options for degrees
• Gaining credits for military, certificates, and work experience
• SkillScan assessment
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 14, and Wednesday, August 15, 10:00 – 11:00
Instructor: Sandy Womack

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Working Across Generations (TOD-3057)
Never before in Stanford's history there been so many people of different age groups working together to fulfill the university's vision. This great diversity, however, brings multiple worldviews, work philosophies, and approaches to getting projects done. To accomplish your goals, it's critical to understand those in each of the generations you are working with, what motivates them, and how best to collaborate with them.
This powerful webinar will help you learn more about working cross-generationally. You will:
• Identify the generations at work at Stanford.
• Understand your own team in the context of its generational similarities and differences.
• Learn the 3 biggest challenges faced when working across generations.
• Determine key actions necessary to be an effective leader for all generations.
• Create your own Working Across Generations action plan.
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 25, 2:00 – 3:30
Instructor: Athena Williams

SUPERVISORY SKILLS
Individualizing Recognition (TOD-6427)
Umbrellas and baggy t-shirts may come in one-size-fits-all, but recognition certainly does not. As a manager or supervisor, you probably understand that recognition that takes your employees’ individual needs and preferences into consideration is far more effective! This session is intended for leaders who already recognize their employees but want to boost their effectiveness in doing so. Cindy Ventrice, author of the best-selling book Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works, will lead this fun and fast-paced session. You will:
• Identify clues to employee recognition preferences.
• Learn techniques for matching recognition to the employee.
• Brainstorm ideas that you can use immediately.
Date/Time: Thursday, September 13, 1:15 – 2:30
Instructor: Cindy Ventrice

WORK EFFECTIVENESS
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life (TOD-4106)
How you think is all-important, Your thoughts form your mindset, your mood, and your habits. So when you go through change, your success depends directly on being able to change your mindset. If a leader spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on a reorganization or the greatest computer system, but team members remain stuck in the past, unable to change their mindset or habitual ways of doing things, then change will not happen.
In this interactive and invigorating 1-hour webinar, we'll discuss the latest scientific breakthroughs showing how your mindset is actually formed and how to change a mindset into a successful one. You'll leave with tools and practices that you can apply immediately both on the job and in your personal life.
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 9:00 – 10:00
Instructor: Kate Powers

Collaborative Team Decision Making (TOD-4107)
Teams often get caught in “decision-making paralysis.” Collaboration can degenerate into power struggles with everyone working at cross purposes instead of receiving a decision. In this webinar, you'll learn to use "shades of agreement" to flush out the differences between a true "yes" and a true "veto." You'll learn to collaborate and remove the obstacles to clear and collaborative team decision making.
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 8, 10:00 – 11:00
Instructors: Krista Henley, Rossella Derickson

Project Management Essentials (TOD-4108)
Do you get the support from management that your projects deserve? Are you confident that your team members are doing the right things? Do you complete your projects consistently on time and under budget? This interactive webinar will provide several essential tools to help you get your projects organized and off to a successful start. Come prepared to do some real work on a current or upcoming project. You'll learn how to:
• Identify project success factors.
• Describe the process of managing projects.
• Diagnose project complexity and choose appropriate management tools.
• Create and use a project charter.
• Read a Gantt chart and implementation table
• Create and use a tree diagram for project planning (time permitting).
This is an abbreviated session of a multisession course. Participant materials include a downloaded handout and an optional $8 pocket text: Goal/QPC Project Management Memory Jogger.
Date/Time: Thursday, August 16, 9:30 – 11:00
Instructor: Karen Bantuveris

WRITING SKILLS Avoiding Email Evils: Writing Emails That Get Results (TOD-3628)
Learn the tools you need to improve your email writing: how to write a subject line that captures your reader’s attention, organize an email for maximum readability, and eliminate redundancy and rambling sentences.
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 12, 10:00 – 11:00
Instructor: Pat Haddock


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