The CU Grow: Management and Leadership Series, offered by the Office of Organizational and Employee Development (OED), provides CU-Boulder supervisors, managers, and leaders with current, influential, and critical topics in the fields of management and leadership. CU Grow is starting its second year in 2016 and we are pleased to announce our fall seminars.
Programs are offered free of charge to CU-Boulder employees. Register now! Space is limited and sessions are filling up fast.
CU Grow: Giving Helpful Feedback
Date: October 18, 2016
Time: 9:00am 鈥� 12:00pm
Location: UMC 247
Presenter: Tracy Jennings, Senior Instructor in the Management and Entrepreneurship Division
This course teaches you the simple principles expert managers use to improve and motivate employee performance. You鈥檒l never have to avoid telling an employee 鈥渢he truth鈥� again, because the seven techniques we teach will not make employees defensive or afraid. As a manager, or someone who would like to be a manager, you鈥檒l also learn specifically what feedback is, how negative feedback is weighed more heavily than positive, and how positive feedback can super-charge behaviors such as creativity and teamwork. Giving feedback is a skill which develops over time. We give you a process you can use to improve your feedback skills and deliver it with confidence. You will find that there is a scientific basis for many of your observations and intuitions about feedback鈥攕uch as, it is hard to give correctly, people don鈥檛 like it, and more. This will be reassuring as you learn how to overcome these difficulties. We hope you have a fantastic time becoming a better manager! Register at: or call 303-492-8103.
CU Grow: (Re)humanizing Leadership: The Dignity Model
Date: December 1, 2016
Time: 9:00am 鈥� 12:00pm
Location: UMC 247
Presenters: Connie North, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the Faculty Staff and Assistance Program (FSAP)
Are you seeking to enhance relationships with your employees? Do you want to strengthen the sense of value and worth for individuals in your organization? This presentation draws on Donna Hicks鈥� dignity model to explore how honoring the essential elements of dignity and avoiding the temptations to violate dignity can greatly bolster our well-being and interactions with others, thereby making us more effective leaders. By the end of this workshop, you will have learned tools for restoring your own and others鈥� dignity, enhancing interpersonal communication with those that you manage, and building inclusive, strong teams. Register at: or call 303-492-8103.
