Title | Description |
| Join Karen Watson for helpful advice on navigating Kent State's performance management system. This webinar is designed to give supervisors/managers an opportunity to view the updated online appraisal tool. Whether or not you are new to the evaluation process, you are encouraged to attend. | |
| Mental Health First Aid | The primary objective of More Aware Kent is to teach MHFA courses to students, faculty, and staff. Similar to traditional First Aid and CPR, MHFA is help provided to a person developing a mental health problem or experiencing a crisis until professional treatment is obtained or the crisis resolves. MHFA is an evidence-based public education and prevention tool which improves knowledge of mental health and substance use problems and connects people with care for their mental health or substance use problems. Those who enroll in MHFA courses will learn a five-part action plan to help others cope with mental health problems. |
| Communicating with Others | Getting your message across in a way that is clear and coherent is a critical skill in your professional and personal life. This workshop identifies the necessary ingredients of any conversation. Learn to be a better communicator by exploring the communication process and how different communication styles affect your personal style. |
| Adult Learner Needs and Challenges Training | This training is provided upon request to the Center for Adult and Veteran Services that can be modified to fit the faculty/staff audiences needs for working with adult learners. |
| Care, Connect, Contact: Support and Compliance | Stories of sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking continue to flood the news. With the #MeToo movement, more survivors are speaking out. As an institution, we need to create a safe community with an intolerance to violence and a caring environment where survivors are believed and supported in their healing. It starts with the first person they tell. Research shows survivors are more likely to disclose an assault to someone they know and trust; such as an academic advisor or respected faculty member. How do faculty and staff provide the support students seek while still following policy around notifying the university? |
| Coaching your Team | How exactly does a supervisor coach employees? What do coaches do? Practice coaching methods to help guide your employees through those tough development conversations. Discover seven characteristics of a coach, develop questions to engage employees in coaching conversations and practice holding different coaching conversations. |
| Developing your Team Performance | Add employee coaching to your supervisory tool belt! Effective coaches offer their employees leadership opportunities through development while promoting a positive, creative working environment. This workshop examines performance management via case studies and activities to help supervisors become employee motivators and provides the GAP model for supervisors to use for improving employee performance. |
| Listening With Purpose | Understanding personal listening approaches is essential to productive communication. Good communication skills in the workplace are one of the most important factors leading to successful teams, groups and organizations. Effective listening skills are crucial to communicating productively both inside and outside the organization. This workshop will help you become an active, purposeful listener in a wide variety of situations for more powerful communication. Learners will complete an online self-evaluation to learn about their preferred listening style and receive feedback on strengths and opportunities for improvement. |
| Principles of Conflict Management | Have trouble effectively dealing with workplace conflict? Ever feel like you spend too much time going around and around without any resolution? Then, this is the course for you! |
| QPR Training | The More Aware Initiative, funded by Kent State University and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through its Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, is offering QPR training. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer -- the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. |
| Kognito | Have you ever been worried about a student or friend on campus? Faculty, staff, and students are in an ideal position to recognize when someone is struggling emotionally and may need help. Kognito At-Risk Mental Health for Students and Kognito At-Risk Mental Health for Faculty & Staff are online simulations that lets you practice conversations with a virtual student, so you鈥檒l know what to say in real life. |
| The Listening Project | The Listening Project aims to foster stronger working relationships among colleagues through intentional dialogue across difference. The program is organized by pairing participants based on factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, or a related workplace difference. Trained coaches foster dialogue between partners in cluster sessions on topics that range from getting to know one another to views on race. Goals of the program include: building of relationships among individuals that normally may not develop a relationship; increased understanding of diversity and inclusion, gender, ethnic and race differences; and, improve the climate and success of diversity at KSU through building trust and credibility. |
| This course provides supervisors with several ways to manage difficult behaviors among staff members. Topics covered include how to look inward and avoid taking difficult behavior personally, maintaining self control. focusing on problem solving, confronting the employee, using performance management, coaching the behavior, and asking the right questions. |
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