Lessons from Our Leaders: Malisa Lee
10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 27
Grab a cup of coffee and join us via Zoom to get to know Malisa Lee, associate vice president for Enrollment Management. We will explore highlights from her leadership journey, lessons she has learned along the way, and how she is navigating during this time and some fun facts. Bring your questions.

Click here for the Organizational Excellence calendar and registration links.

Other opportunities this week:

Effective Communication Online or Off
10 a.m. Wednesday, May 26
Secrets to Getting Your Message Heard, presented by Betsy Hays, M.A., professor, advertising and public relations. How we communicate is a significant component to effective leadership. In this session, discover communication practices to increase your impact in the digital space and during a pandemic. We'll review core communication principles and keys for success, as well as tips for modifying your messaging in relation to your environment and the needs of your team, colleagues, manager and beyond. If you want your messages to be heard (and better yet, acted upon), you'll want to join us.

This session is offered as part of the CSU’s Got Talent webcast series. You can join the webcast here: calstate.adobeconnect.com/CGT

Respect in the Workplace
10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 26
Discover how to create a healthy work environment that promotes mutual respect and positive working relationships. Participants will learn how to:

• Recognize characteristics of a respectful workplace.
• How to promote a respectful workplace with employees.
• How to respond appropriately to disrespectful behavior.

Virtual Facilitation
9 a.m. Thursday, May 27
This three-hour workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn skills and techniques that are crucial to facilitating virtual activities successfully. Whether you host meetings, facilitate trainings, or present to large groups, this class will provide best practices that effective facilitators employ to ensure the highest levels of engagement from participants. Learners will walk away with a toolkit of options they can use in their next virtual meeting or facilitation opportunity.

Identify and Prioritize Your Savings Goals
Noon Thursday, May 27
If you want help saving for multiple goals: Get strategies and tips on prioritizing and funding your specific savings goals, like buying a new home or car, saving for a child’s college and more.

This workshop is offered by Fidelity Investments and sponsored by the Chancellor’s Office.

CSUBUY Marketplace
2 p.m. Thursday, May 27
CSUBUY Marketplace is a CSU systemwide initiative to streamline the purchasing and payment processes on campus. Training will review how to navigate through the CSUBUY Marketplace and ordering from the 22 vendors in the marketplace.

Effective Family Communication
1:30 p.m. Friday, May 28
When people complain of a lack of communication, they usually are complaining about unclear expectations. In most cases, they don’t need to communicate more, they need to express themselves more effectively.

Content includes:

• Nonverbal communication and listening
• The two meanings of words
• Talking to kids as they grow
• Talking about tough subjects
• Creating family talk time and guidelines

Sponsored by LifeMatters by Empathia.

Self-Coaching
1 p.m. Tuesday, June 1
Self-coaching is about feeling better and doing better. Everything we do in our lives is because we want to feel better. When we give, it feels good. When we help others, it feels good. When we accomplish something, it feels good. Whenever we feel bad, we are usually seeking a way to feel good. Through coaching ourselves we can feel good much more of the time and be our best version of ourselves in every interaction and situation. By coaching ourselves, we find what is and is not working in our lives. We find that trying to change the external circumstances to change how we feel is impossible. We find that our thinking is the most important thing we can pay attention to in order to feel better now.

Self-coaching 101 teaches you the basics of how to do this and the basics are enough. Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Appreciate the value of Self-Coaching in terms of its impact on our feelings, behaviors and outcomes.
• Understand the Self-Coaching model, with particular emphasis on the impact of thoughts on feelings and our actions and our results.
• Develop the ability to monitor your thoughts and adjust, as necessary, thereby improving how we show up in our daily lives.

CSU Collaboration Trainings
Fresno State is participating in a CSU cross-campus professional development collaboration program which allows Fresno State employees to participate in select workshops offered by other CSU campuses. Space is limited and registration closes 48 priors to the session. The facilitator will send the Zoom link before the class begins.

Enhancing Your Technical Skills

Omni CMS Training
9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26
OU Campus has changed to Omni CMS. Learn the new Omni CMS platform, how to edit and maintain your department websites.

See the Organizational Excellence calendar for a complete list of events.