GROUP MEETINGS AND FACULTY/STAFF EVENTS Gather your colleagues
If you're planning to bring a group of colleagues together, we'll help make it engaging.
Use shareable content from our library or work with our speakers and facilitators to plan a session that works for you — whether tried and true or a new one just for your group.
These employee engagement services are available university-wide at no cost to your group.
Sessions for building employee engagement
These are all the sessions we’ve successfully delivered to groups across the university — on site and over Zoom.
Choose from a range of topics, from mental health to technology. You’ll also find a variety of formats. We offer hands-on experiences, workshops to learn and apply new concepts, and presentations that quickly and effectively share knowledge.
| Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Addressing Family Conflict | This presentation will focus on the origins of family conflict and offer suggestions on how to interrupt cycles of arguing, disagreements and negotiating rules within the family. | Elder care, Mental health |
| Agreements for Thriving | Explore ways you can choose to manage yourself in a way that keeps you thriving, even when dealing with change. | Personal resilience |
| Basic Computer Skills Workshop | This workshop is designed for individuals who have little or no computer experience and want to improve their skills. | Technology |
| Basics of Leadership | We'll explore the topic conceptually and practically to become the best leader each of us can be. | Leadership |
| Basics of Self-Compassion | Based on the works of Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, this 60-minute introductory session will give folks an opportunity to learn, practice and bring more self-compassion into their lives. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Build Your Own Self-Compassion Meditation | Offering kindness to ourselves can be a powerful tool when we inevitably struggle. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Building a Climate of Trust | Learn your role as a supervisor or leader in developing a trusting workplace environment and strategies to make it happen. | Leadership |
| Captivate: Advanced Interactions | This Captivate workshop is designed for both new users as well as experienced Captivate users. | Technology |
| Captivate: Enhancing Your Project | Now that you have a basic understanding of Adobe Captivate, it's time to add more creativity and functionality to your project. | Technology |
| Captivate: Introduction | Learn how to create a professional quality web-based tutorial that goes beyond screen capture. | Technology |
| Coaching and Feedback | Uncover talent, strengthen your team, and positively and constructively guide employees. | Leadership, Supervising |
| Coaching Yourself | Learn how to turn up the volume on the inner coach to live with less internalized criticism and more resiliency, creativity, self-regulation and connection to purpose. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Collaborative Problem Solving with Children and Teens | Use collaborative problem solving with children and teens to improve flexible thinking, frustration tolerance, parent-child bonding and conflict resolution. | Elder care, Mental health |
| Communicating With Success | Learn communication skills to help you drive effective decision making, teamwork and action. | Interpersonal skills |
| Create your own workout plan | Join MoveWell Fitness Manager, Carrie Davidson as she discusses the necessary fitness guidelines and components to create your very own work out plan based on your life, your needs, and your goals. | Physical activity |
| Creating a Resilient Mindset | We sometimes have all the tools we need to thrive, but something still stands in our way.. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Creating Sleep Habits for Better ZZZZs | A conversation about using sleep science and the body’s circadian rhythm to create sleep habits that work for you. | Personal resilience |
| Creative Writing for Psychological Well-Being, Resilience, and Social Connection | Creative writing is a unique form of play that expresses core conditions of being human. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Cultivating Habits that Last | Beginning new habits and sticking to them can be tough. We'll have an engaging conversation on the science, strategy and innovative approach of Tiny Habits. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Cultivating “The Good Life” Through Authentic Living | This presentation integrates insights and research from positive psychology and existential psychology traditions, as well as research on mindfulness, compassion, and creativity. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Customizable Mindful Practice Experience | Calm the body and mind any time with these experiential practices. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Decoding Food Labels | We'll give you easy take-home tips to demystify those grocery aisles. | Nutrition, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Developing a Winning Image | Learn how to build your personal brand, grow and nurture your network and more. | Leadership |
| DISC Team | This team session places an emphasis on team communication and how individuals can use their awareness to better communicate, manage and solve conflicts. | Interpersonal skills |
| Don't Be A Cover Band: Discovering Your Life Purpose | This interactive presentation will describe the steps to create your own life purpose statement. | Mental health |
| Don't Believe Everything You Think | Understand how to identify and manage anxiety and worry. | Mental health |
| Eating Well in a Hurry | Learn practical tips for healthful eating when time is tight and you are away from home. | Nutrition, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Emotional Eating | Learn how to tame emotional eating by understanding more about this common coping strategy and using self-reflection. | Nutrition, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | Learn about emotional intelligence, how you can increase it and use it, especially when facing challenges. | Interpersonal skills |
| Essential Building Blocks of Well-Being | Explore tangible, research-based practices and techniques to engage, re-connect and flourish more in life. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Excel: Charts and Graphs | Learn how to create a variety of charts and save them. | Technology |
| Excel: Data Tools and Time Savers | Explore useful tools to combine, separate, or extract data in a spreadsheet, look up data from another spreadsheet, protect your Excel worksheets and create Macros to automate repetitive tasks. | Technology |
| Excel: Functions and Filters | Learn how to use relative and absolute references, build formulas, work with Excel Functions, apply sorting and filtering tools and use conditional formatting. | Technology |
| Excel: Introduction | Learn how to organize, format, and calculate data with formulas in a spreadsheet. | Technology |
| Excel: Pivot Tables | Learn how to use this powerful tool to dynamically analyze Excel data sets. | Technology |
| Facing the Challenge of Change | Discover your personal change style and better understand resilience and coping strategies for nonstop change. | |
| Family-Friendly Meal Planning | Discover healthy-ish tips you can use to create more family meal wins. | Elder care, Nutrition, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| From Deciding to Doing | Learn how to think critically about your goals and how you can prepare, so that any goal is within reach | Leadership |
| Generations in the Workplace | Learn how each generation defines success and investigate the differences that impact communication and relationships in the work environment. | Interpersonal skills |
| Group Problem Solving | Explore an in-depth and inclusive approach to problem solving. | Interpersonal skills |
| Healthy Relationships at Work | Discover strategies to balance and maintain healthy relationships at work and learn coping skills that encourage positive and resilient relationships with our coworkers. | Mental health, Supervising |
| Healthy-ish Eating | Discover how to approach nutrition from a perspective that is relaxed and forgiving—one that honors the reality of your time, energy, skills and motivation. | Nutrition, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| HR Supports Employee Well-Being | Hear about the well-being benefits and resources available to UK employees, as well as how to get connected to them. | Elder care, Personal finance, Mental health, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| HR Well-Being Resource Table | Well-being experts will provide an interactive experience for employees, retirees and spouses to learn about what we offer. | Personal finance, Mental health, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Illustrator: Introduction | Learn how to use the Illustrator workspace to create and edit basic vector graphics. | Technology |
| InDesign: Introduction | This workshop will introduce you to the InDesign user interface and show you how to work with text, images, and styles in a basic layout. | Technology |
| Ins and Outs of Strength Training | Better understand the benefits of strength training, whether you're only beginning or want to improve your current regimen. | Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Integrating Work and Life: Making Choices | Discover the vibrant relationship between achievement and fulfillment in both work and life. | Leadership, Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Intuitive Eating | Learn more about Intuitive Eating: a framework that can help you rebuild trust in your internal signals around food and eating. | Nutrition, Physical activity |
| Laughter is the Best Medicine | A good laugh has great short-term benefits on both your mental and physical health, including stress reduction. | Mental health, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Leading Effective Teams | Learn positive steps you can take to create an empowering climate and influence your team to succeed. | Leadership, Supervising |
| Loosen Up with Chair Yoga! | We'll lead you through a short, guided routine of stretching and chair yoga to undo tension and stress from the workday. | Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Managing Burnout: In Life and at Work | Mental health | |
| Managing Setback and Starting Again | This program focuses on managing setbacks and barriers in the realm of goal-setting and self-care. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Managing Staff Conflict | Learn how to diagnose conflict issues, identify the three stages of conflict and apply five conflict management strategies. | Leadership |
| Managing Stress and Building Resiliency | Learn better strategies to manage stress and life's challenges, especially during adverse times. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Meditation 101 | Learn how to get started meditating and feel the benefits of mindful stillness during easy practices in a non-judgmental setting. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Microsoft 365: Overview | This overview covers the basics of logging into Microsoft365 and navigating through the different online apps such as Outlook, OneDrive, Word, and OneNote. | Technology |
| MIND Diet | Learn about simple nutrition and lifestyle changes that may help reduce your risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. | Nutrition, Personal resilience, Physical activity |
| Mindful Self-Compassion | This four-week workshop series provides an opportunity to learn, practice and bring more self-compassion into our lives | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Mindfulness in the Workplace | These practices improve emotional well-being, reduce stress and burnout, and enhance communication, creativity and collaboration. | Mental health |
| Moving More at Work or Home | We'll talk about a variety of ways to move more at work or at home and show you how to incorporate these exercises throughout the day. | Physical activity |
| OneNote: Introduction | Learn how to use this digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather information and helps teams work together more effectively. | Technology |
| Outlook: Calendar Features | Learn how to customize your calendar and how to create appointments and meetings, invite meeting participants, and share calendars. | Technology |
| Outlook: Introduction | Learn the tools that you need to navigate the Outlook screen, work effectively with e-mail and manage your contact information. | Technology |
| Overcoming Imposter Syndrome | This presentation provides a brief literature review of what defines imposter syndrome, developmental pathways and vulnerabilities to imposter syndrome, and strategies for responding to and overcoming imposter syndrome. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Parenting and Work-Life | Discuss the reality and challenges of maintaining harmony between one's work and life responsibilities while being a good parent that prioritizes child care and home life. | Working parents |
| Parenting in a Diverse World | We will explore the challenges of raising children in an imperfect, often unjust world. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Personality Differences | Explore what personality differences mean and how to turn stress and irritations into understanding and productivity. | Interpersonal skills |
| Photoshop: Editing Techniques, Effects and Filters | Learn advanced features such as various masking techniques, add special effects using layer styles, and edit photos with filters and adjustments. | Technology |
| Photoshop: Introduction | Learn about the program interface and its basic image editing features. | Technology |
| Photoshop: Marketing Material Design | This workshop covers several techniques that can be used to create innovative, high quality marketing materials such as flyers, handouts and business cards. | Technology |
| Planning for Mental Well-being after Retirement | Retirement is often viewed as our reward for hard work throughout our careers. But retirement is a change, and any change requires adjustment. | Mental health |
| PowerPoint: Engaging Presentations | Learn how to develop multiple slide masters, save a custom presentation theme, effectively use transitions, add and modify SmartArt and use action buttons to create non-linear presentations. | Technology |
| PowerPoint: Graphics and Animation | Learn how to use various graphic types, insert shape objects, create unique graphics by modifying images, apply animation to slide objects and animate objects with motion paths. | Technology |
| PowerPoint: Introduction | Learn how to navigate the PowerPoint interface, insert slides, add basic content to slides, use the Slide Master, and present your completed slideshow. | Technology |
| Practical Approaches to Self-Care | Mental health, Personal resilience | |
| Practicing Gratitude, Showing Appreciation | Gratitude and appreciation can have profound impacts on our minds, bodies and relationships. | Interpersonal skills |
| Premiere Pro: Introduction | This introduction to video editing software will show you how to set up a project, import videos, and arrange them on a timeline to produce a basic video composition. | Technology |
| Presentation Principles | This workshop is designed for the professional who occasionally, or frequently, makes presentations. | Leadership |
| Prioritizing Well-Being At Work | For supervisors, we'll review the ways HR supports employee well-being and you'll discover what you can make possible for your team. | Leadership, Personal resilience, Supervising |
| Prioritizing Wellness in the Workplace as a Supervisor | This session will focus on increasing supervisor awareness of the impact they have on their employees’ overall mental well-being and encouraging employee engagement in available resources. | Leadership, Mental health, Supervising |
| Providing Exceptional Customer Service | Learn what exceptional customer service is and why it matters, and then develop an action plan. | Interpersonal skills |
| Reframing in Times of Stress: Strategies to Change Your Thinking | When facing potential stressors, the way we view what we're experiencing can exacerbate our stress — or minimize it. | Mental health |
| Remote Work and Caregiving | This presentation will highlight some challenges and solutions that come with remote work as well as offer tips for managing caregiver responsibilities while working remotely. | Elder care |
| Resilient Relationships | This program will explore identifying and overcoming barriers and ruts in existing relationships with partners, friends and family. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Retirement: More than Financial Security | This discussion will focus on planning for your emotional well-being during retirement and how to prepare for this. | Mental health |
| Self-care for Supervisors | Learn the importance of knowing the impact and influence supervisors have on employee mental well-being; managing stress and modeling self-care in the workplace | Leadership, Mental health, Supervising |
| Self-Care Strategies | Learn 7 practical tips for supporting psychological and emotional health. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Self-Care. In Place. | Find ways to incorporate self-care into daily life. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Setting Boundaries for Work-Life Balance | This session will focus on increasing the ability of supervisors/managers to manage stress and model positive self-care strategies in the workplace | Leadership, Mental health, Supervising |
| Stress Management for First Responders | If you're a medical, law enforcement, social worker or other first responder, we'll discuss ways to manage this unique stress. | Mental health |
| Suicide Prevention Using QPR: Question, Persuade and Refer | These are three simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. It's important to remember suicide is everyone's business. | Mental health |
| Supervisor Strategies to Support the Working Caregiver | Get tips on how supervisors can support their employees that are providing care for an aging loved one. | Elder care, Leadership, Mental health, Supervising |
| SV Behavioral Styles | This course will provide Supervisors with information about personality differences and how to understand those differences while increasing department productivity. | Interpersonal skills |
| SV Corrective Action | This course will provide supervisors an overview of the university's corrective action process and related forms. | Supervising |
| SV Employee Coaching and Development | This course will provide supervisors an overview of the university's corrective action process and related forms. | Supervising |
| SV Hiring and Interviewing | Learn how the university handles record retention, as well as behavioral interviewing and documentation practices to utilize throughout the interview process. | Supervising |
| SV Performance Evaluation | This workshop will provide supervisors an overview of the university's performance evaluation process and related forms. | Supervising |
| Taking Care of Yourself | We'll explain many ways to add more care and nurturing to your everyday life so that you can be at your best at work and beyond. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Teamwork in a Changing Workplace | Explore just why working together as a team is so important to the success of the university as well as your personal success. | Interpersonal skills |
| Teen Talk: Communicating with Your Teen and Pre-Teen | Let's talk about how the teen brain works, identify roadblocks to communication, how to improve communication and when you and your teen may need professional support. | Elder care, Mental health |
| The Power of Self-Compassion | Research shows that self-compassion increases life satisfaction, happiness, self-confidence, body appreciation and immune function. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Thinking Critically | Learn how creativity connects to critical thinking and how to use both to identify and solve root problems. | Leadership |
| What to Do About Bad Attitude Behaviors | Learn how you can contribute to reducing bad attitude behaviors in your work area. | Supervising |
| Who Am I and How Did I Get Here? | Explore the challenges of identity, life transitions and purpose. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Word: Beyond Basic Documents | Learn how to easily manage longer documents with section breaks and style formatting. | Technology |
| Word: Introduction | Learn the basics of navigating through documents, as well as selecting, moving and formatting text, check spelling and grammar, utilize AutoCorrect features and insert a picture into a document. | Technology |
| Words Will Set You Free Creative Writing Workshop | This is a creative writing workshop for first timers and old pros. | Mental health, Personal resilience |
| Work-Life Balance for Faculty | This presentation will focus on strategies and practices to navigate the world of academia while balancing personal lives with partners, children and overall well-being. | Personal resilience |
| Work-Life Boundaries | Learn tips to help you effectively manage your work schedule as well as maintain boundaries between your work and your life. | Elder care, Personal resilience, Working parents |
| Work-Life Management | Learn helpful tips for effectively integrating your work and life. | Personal resilience |
| Workplace Grief | If your group has experienced the death of a co-worker, we can offer information about the cycle of grief, reactions to grief and managing grief in the workplace. | Mental health |
| Your Mindset Matters | Learn about the concept of growth mindset and how it can be utilized for both work and personal goals. | Leadership |