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Online Toolkits

The Office of Organizational Excellence has put together a number of toolkits to support you and your professional development with a variety of courses from CSU Learn. Toolkit topics include:

• Accessibility
• COVID-19
• Developing Your Best Professional Self
• Difficult Conversations
• Email Communication, Grammar & Writing
• Innovation
• Leadership Skills
• Microsoft Office
• Mindful Meeting Meditations
• Principles of Community
• Returning to the Workplace
• Technology Resources
• Tools for Managers
• Tools for Student Assistants
• Working Virtually
• Work/Life Balance

Toolkits can be found in the "Online Resources" section of the Organizational Excellence webpage.

Make sure to register through CSU Learn to receive the Zoom links and have the course added to your calendar.

Enhancing Your Technical Skills

OU Campus
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays
Learn how to navigate OU Campus and post text, photos, graphics and tables to your campus websites. Trainings are one-on-one, please register on CSU Learn to reserve your spot and submit a ticket to request training: fresnostate.edu/websupport.

Introduction to DocuSign
9 – 10 a.m. Tuesdays
Learn how to navigate DocuSign to send documents for signature and manage workflows to each recipient. Create templates for commonly used routing lists.

DocuSign Bulk Send, Conditional Routing and PowerForms
9 – 10 a.m. Thursdays
Create templates with conditional routing to streamline processes. Distribute a link to a PowerForm to capture signatures and data from an on-demand form. Easily send the same documents for signature to a large number of receipts using bulk send.

Introduction to Zoom
10 – 11 a.m. Thursdays
Everything you want to know about Zoom but you couldn't get on Zoom to figure out how to ask!

Virtual Learning

Dare to Lead Virtual Book Club
10 – 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10, Zoom
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
Join us this summer for a virtual book club as we explore the four skills of Brave Leadership in Brené Brown’s bestseller "Dare to Lead." These will be interactive sessions. Come prepared to share.

We’ve Got This! Campus Circle for Working Parents
1 – 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, Zoom
Facilitated by Gaby Encinas, coordinator of the Dream Center and mother to Damian, age 5.

We’ve Got This is a new program organized by Organizational Excellence where we will create learning and networking communities for employees sharing similar experiences and challenges. August's Campus Circle will be focused on Working Parents.

Trying to juggle work at home (or work on campus) with parenting? Overwhelmed with the thought of homeschooling this fall? Figuring it all out and willing to share with others … or in need of ideas and moral support from others with similar challenges? Let’s connect and support each other! Join us for an informal conversation – bring an open mind and your ideas … what is working and what is NOT!

Have ideas for other Circles? Send your suggestions to Katie Williamson at kwilliamson@csufresno.edu.

I CAN HELP
10 a.m. – noon Friday, Aug. 14, Zoom
Learn strategies to support and refer students in distress in the new virtual space. This is a 2-hour workshop that includes activities, discussions, and questions.

Coming this month!

Administrative Academy Registration Open!
This year's Administrative Academy will be fully virtual and include new speakers, content, and discussions centering around transitioning to virtual collaboration, building connections in a virtual world, taking care of yourself and soul despite numerous competing demands, cultivating positive momentum, how to have difficult conversations and overcome implicit biases and more! Each session will focus on learning, connecting, networking and collaboration. All administrative support staff, whether you have participated before or not, are encouraged to participate!

Campus Spotlight Series
11:30 – noon Monday, Aug. 31, Zoom
The first Campus Spotlight will feature the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning. They are responsible for coordinating the University's community engagement and service-learning efforts. We are dedicated to improving the education and development of our students and helping create a better community through service and learning. Learn what changes they’ve made to their initiatives, how their team is continuing to impact students and their vision for this upcoming year.

If your department/office is interested in participating this year, you can fill out this short Google Form and the Office of Organizational Excellence will be in touch to schedule a date.