Logos for learning programsWe recommend the following trainings for faculty leaders. These trainings are offered through our campus partner, Human Resources, OR can be customized for a group of 12-24 participants offered through Faculty Relations. Contact Suzanne Soled for more details.

Are you wondering how to hold others accountable for achieving results while also improving relationships?

This training teaches a straightforward, step-by-step process for identifying and resolving performance gaps, strengthening accountability, eliminating inconsistency, and reducing resentment. It uses video, group discussions, skill practice, and real-life application to make the course both entertaining and engaging.

What Does Crucial Accountability® Training Teach?

Crucial Accountability provides a methodology for effectively holding others accountable that’s based on more than twenty-five years of research.

  • Hold anyone accountable—no matter the person’s power, position, or temperament.

  • Master performance discussions—get positive results and maintain good relationships.
  • Motivate others without using power—clearly and concisely explain specific, natural consequences, and permanently resolve problems.
  • Manage projects without taking over—creatively help others avoid excuses, keep projects on track, and resolve performance barriers.
  • Move to action—agree on a plan, follow up, engage in good reporting practices, and manage new expectations.

Who Needs Crucial Accountability Training?

Anyone who relies on the efforts of others to get things done will benefit from attending Crucial Accountability.

Who should participate?

Sessions offered through Faculty Relations are designed specifically for those who work on the academic side of the university—such as academic and research faculty, academic administrators, staff working in academic units, post-docs, graduate students.

When is it offered?

Typically held three times per year, or pick your own date for groups of 18-24 participants.

What does it cost?

  • $260 per participant, includes:
  • Crucial Accountability Participant Toolkit
  • Cue cards for each lesson in a desktop display case
  • Crucial Accountability model card
  • A copy of the New York Times bestselling book Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior (2nd Edition)
  • Crucial Conversations Audio Companion MP3 download
  • A course completion certificate

The cost of the course, taken outside of CU, is $1,595. However, since we have certified trainers, you pay only for the cost of the training materials, $260, using a campus speedtype.
This is a live, instructor-led, online workshop. It is will be held via Zoom. For questions, please contact Suzanne Soled, Director of Faculty Development and Support.

What’s the next step?

These trainings are offered through our campus partner, Human Resources, OR can be customized for a group of 12-24 participants offered through Faculty Relations. Contact Suzanne Soled for more details.

Are you constantly busy, but don’t actually make progress on the things you need to get done?

The most requested training is for time management. Getting Things Done® is a time management method system that alleviates the stress we have caused to the seemingly endless tasks, emails, and to-do lists in our daily lives. Feeling out of control with the day-to-day tasks can impede our perspectives and ability to get to the most critical priorities.

Learn a proven system and cultivate practical skills to increase focus on your most meaningful work, organize information, prioritize commitments, create mental space for innovation, and achieve stress-free productivity.

What does Getting Things Done® teach?

This course will teach the skills to:

  • Capture - collect what has your attention
  • Clarify - process what it means
  • Organize - put it where it belongs
  • Reflect & Engage - review frequently and take action

Who needs Getting Things Done®?

Anyone who has a million tasks to do would benefit from Getting Things Done®.

What does it cost?

$185 per participant, materials fee.
The cost of the course, taken outside of CU, is $895. However, since we have certified trainers, you pay only for the cost of the training materials, $185, using a campus speedtype.
This is a live, instructor-led, online workshop. It is held via Zoom. For questions, please contact Suzanne Soled, Director of Faculty Development and Support.

Leaders at every level—including faculty and chairs—can achieve better results by learning how to influence those around them better—particularly when they are resistant to change. Drawing on five decades of social science research, Influencer reveals why people do what they do and teaches a model for influencing behavior.

What does Influencer Training teach?

Understand why people do what they do and how to help them act differently; leverage the six sources of influence to lead change initiatives; transform ingrained human behavior to improve cultures and achieve results.

What’s the next step?

This is a live, instructor-led, online workshop. It is will be held via Zoom. For questions, please contact Suzanne Soled, Director of Faculty Development and Support.

"Extending trust is the ultimate act of leadership, the defining skill that transforms a manager into a leader."
- Stephen M. R. Covey

Why Trust?

Are you able to engage those in your unit with compassion, gratitude, and support to build trust in your unit so that everyone will rally around each other and you, to achieve your agreed-upon goals? Do you know how to build the trust necessary to propel your unit forward? Trust is not merely a soft, social virtue; instead, trust is a pragmatic, hard-edged, economic, and actionable asset that you can create.

Trust is critical to getting things done; it is the one thing that changes everything. Without it, people are suspicious; everything takes longer. If you have credibility and have built a culture of trust, you will manage change better and create a group of colleagues who can work together to become more agile, collaborative, innovative, and engaged.

Who should participate?

Sessions offered through Faculty Relations are designed specifically for those who work on the academic side of the university—such as academic and research faculty, academic administrators, staff working in academic units, post-docs, graduate students.

What does it cost?

If this is your first FranklinCovey course since September 1, 2020: $90.34
(Cost includes the All Access Pass – an online Franklin Covey Training website and digital course materials, which are available through August 2021).

This is a live, instructor-led, online workshop. It is will be held via Zoom. For questions, please contact Suzanne Soled, Director of Faculty Development and Support.

What’s the next step?

These trainings are offered through our campus partner, Human Resources, OR can be customized for a group of 12-24 participants offered through Faculty Relations. Contact Suzanne Soled for more details.