As we celebrate our 2024 spring class graduation, we thank our staff and faculty for a great semester of learning! Make professional development a priority for next semester and schedule classes before the next batch of students arrive. We look forward to guiding your learning journey this summer and into fall.
The Organization and Employee Development team in Human Resources has several trainings available to all employees at CU Boulder. Explore training programs by topic or scroll to the bottom of the page to view our events calendar. Contact perri.longley@colorado.edu with questions.
Navigate the hybrid workplace
Being a High Performing Employee in a Hybrid World
Provides individual contributors with the skills and strategies to take responsibility and agency for their workplace needs, accountability and engagement.
Managing Performance in a Hybrid Workplace
Enables leaders to accomplish unit and university goals in a hybrid environment by embracing outcomes based management.
Stay Interviews: The Proactive Strategy for Retaining Employees
Uncover, anticipate, and resolve issues and concerns with employees to prevent them from leaving the organization.
Take control of your productivity
Getting Things Done
Teaches skills to manage the constant flow of requests, tasks, and interruptions people face at all levels of the organization.
Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager
Intended for staff and faculty who work on, manage, or lead projects and who may not officially carry the title of project manager, but who still need to successfully deliver projects.
Master interpersonal communication
Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue
Speak persuasively, not abrasively; foster teamwork and better decision making; build acceptance rather than resistance, and resolve individual and group disagreements.
Crucial Conversations for Accountability
Teaches a step-by-step process for identifying and resolving performance gaps, strengthening accountability, eliminating inconsistency, and reducing resentment. To enroll in the course, you must first take Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue as a prerequisite.
Develop your leadership capabilities
Employee Management & Compliance Essentials
Provides managers and supervisors with a comprehensive overview of legal guidelines, campus policies, and CU Boulder practices related to employee management and development.
Leading at the Speed of Trust
Increase your personal credibility and model trust through character and competence. Practice the 13 Behaviors® that are foundational to every high-trust culture. Develop, restore, and extend trust to achieve sustainable results.
The 6 Critical Practices For Leading a Team
Equips leaders at every level with the essential skills and tools to get work done with and through other people. The program is ideal for leaders who need to transition successfully from individual contributors to leaders of others.
Prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion
Allyship: Advancing Diversity and Inclusion
Learn how to define and leverage your allyship, and walk away with a template to help guide your learning and steps for action.
Becoming an Inclusive Leader
Provides supervisors, managers, leaders and aspiring leaders at CU Boulder with the knowledge and skills to lead their teams to be more inclusive and equitable, as well as the ability to create a sense of belonging among team members.
Making Virtual and Hybrid Meetings Inclusive: Exploring Equity Gaps
Identify ways that people are feeling excluded in virtual meetings, identify equity gaps in virtual meetings, name common barriers to inclusion in virtual meetings, and apply strategies to mitigate barriers in virtual meetings.
Implicit Bias: Moving from Awareness to Action
Learn how our thought processes prioritize certain aspects of our interactions, communication patterns and evaluations, and come away with a variety of strategies that you can use to mitigate implicit bias.
Simplify Language
Reduce language barriers, improve your programs, and make CU a more language inclusive place.