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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, LinkedIn Learning modules and articles. Toolkit topics include:

• COVID-19
• Developing Your Best Professional Self
• Difficult Conversations
• Leadership Skills
• Microsoft Office
• Mindful Meeting Meditations
• Principles of Community
• 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. & 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Mondays
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. & 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. 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.

Data Warehouse – Transaction Inquiry Dashboard
10 – 11 a.m. Thursday, July 16, Zoom
The Transaction Inquiry dashboard provides lower-level detail reports of financial transactions reports.

Virtual Learning

Understanding Your Strengths: Balconies & Basements
10 – 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 14
If you know your Top 5 Strengths, join this discussion taking a deeper dive into how your Strengths can propel you forward and sometimes hold you back. All Strengths have a “shadow” side, and bringing awareness to where your Strengths may lead you in times of stress can give you the ability to tap into the balconies of your other Strengths in times of need.

Winning With A Healthy Lifestyle – Summer Edition
1 – 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Zoom
In partnership with Dr. Lisa Herzig, a series of online learnings will be available weekly through CSU Learn, and then discussed in further detail in this group.

Dare to Lead Virtual Book Club
10 – 11 a.m. Thursday, July 16, 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. Session 3 will focus on Rumbling with Vulnerability section 5; /Living into our Values Part 2 (pgs. 165 – 217). Come prepared to share.

Improving Online Engagement: Strategies for Compliance & Connection
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16, Zoom
This innovative and forward-looking webinar will provide practical guidance for developing strategies to engage students in online environments authentically. Applying student engagement theory and research regarding how individuals engage and learn online, the audience will leave with easy to implement approaches to helping their students learn, lead and connect online.

Mindful Moments
2 – 3 p.m. Friday, July 17, Zoom
Take a few minutes at the end of a busy week to focus on the present moment and regroup moving into the weekend. Led by Katie Williamson, this time will focus on gratitude, reflection and a guided meditation.

Coffee & Connect with Colleagues
10 – 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 21, Zoom
Grab your coffee and connect virtually with colleagues. We will begin with sharing celebrations and things going well, support through challenges, and participate in a mindfulness activity together. If you have been missing connecting with your Fresno State colleagues, this is a great opportunity to take a mid-morning pause and reconnect.

Online Advising: Evidence-Based Best Practices for Virtual Advising
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, Zoom
This webinar will cover the essential components of a successful online academic advising program, including the pros and cons of the various platforms that are available, how to use them effectively to develop and maintain advising relationships that have all the feature of face-to-face meetings, and concrete solutions to the problems that inevitably arise in an online environment. The focus will be on both the individual academic advisor as well as those responsible for overseeing the process in general. Also included will be opportunities for participant involvement through the use of case studies and real-time feedback via chat.