Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities

Course Description: Enhancing Your Facilitation Skills
In today’s collaborative work environment, effective facilitation is crucial for fostering productive discussions and achieving group goals. "Enhancing Your Facilitation Skills" is a comprehensive training workshop designed to equip you with the essential tools and techniques to excel as a facilitator. This interactive course focuses on developing your ability to guide group discussions, manage activities, and navigate complex group dynamics.

Course Objectives:

• Understand the Role of a Facilitator: Gain a deep understanding of the facilitator’s role and its significance in shaping group dynamics and outcomes.
• Learn Key Facilitation Techniques: Master essential techniques to effectively manage group discussions, ensure active participation, and keep activities on track.
• Enhance Communication and Active Listening Skills: Improve your communication skills, with an emphasis on active listening to foster a more inclusive and engaging environment.
• Develop Strategies for Handling Difficult Group Dynamics and Conflicts: Learn practical strategies to address and resolve conflicts, and manage challenging group dynamics with confidence.
• Practice Facilitation Through Interactive Activities and Case Studies: Apply what you’ve learned in real-world scenarios through interactive exercises and case studies, receiving constructive feedback to refine your facilitation skills.

Join us in this dynamic workshop to enhance your facilitation capabilities, ensuring you can lead groups more effectively, handle conflicts with ease, and create a collaborative atmosphere that drives success.

Facilitator: Doug Eldridge, People Excellence

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 • 9:00am-12:00pm

The "Inspire General Overview Training" is designed for the University of Texas at San Antonio community users, focusing on introducing and leveraging the Civitas Inspire platform to enhance student success. This training is mandatory for all new Inspire users and covers essential features such as login settings, student information management, group creation, advanced filtering, and reporting tools. Participants will learn how to activate their HUB account, access and manage student lists, and utilize Inspire's capabilities to support student persistence and academic history insights, facilitating a general understanding of the platform's benefits for student engagement and success. This training will be interactive with opportunities to practice basic tasks.  Participants should submit their Inspire access request prior to the training so that they are able to participate fully in the training. For information about this training or Inspire account access please contact Maggie Floyd at margaret.floyd@utsa.edu

Presented by Maggie Floyd, Senior Director

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• Monday, May 20, 2024 • 1:00-2:30pm
• Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • 9:30-11:00am
• Tuesday, July 9, 2024 • 2:00-3:30pm

The Civitas Inspire Campaign Training is designed for Student Success Hub & Spoke teams at the University of Texas at San Antonio, focusing on the strategic implementation of campaigns to enhance student success. It covers the purpose and process of strategic campaigns, campaign tracking, communication techniques, and team activities for visioning. The training aims to identify high-need student groups, tailor messages for personalized service delivery, and establish a community standard of care within the Academic Support and Engagement Inspire Student Success Units. Participants are encourage to sign up as a team to gain the most benefit from activities. For additional information about this training, please contact Maggie Floyd at margaret.floyd@utsa.edu 

Presented by Maggie Floyd, Senior Director

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• Thursday, June 13, 2024 • 10:00am to 12:00pm
• Additional opportunities will be added