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| Safe Space Ally Training | Aims to equip students, faculty and staff with the tools for creating Safe Spaces and welcoming environments for LGBTQ students on campus. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the LGBTQ+ community, resources, and obtain the basics for making a difference in their sphere of influence. |
| Understanding Race and Racism | Race and racism are significant parts of our society and shape the way it works. Participants will explore their own understandings, discuss how racism is upheld through policy and practice, and develop strategies to disrupt it. |
| Addressing Microaggressions | Discover how everyday comments and actions can unintentionally hurt or harm someone. Participants will build skills and practice strategies to recognize and interrupt microaggressions. |
| Anti-Hazing Training | The Office of Student Conduct offers training to assist in understanding how the University and State of Ohio define hazing, how to recognize hazing, and expectations for how / when / where to report hazing. |
| Recognizing Bias | Various people, institutions and organizations help shape the way we view the world, sometimes in inaccurate ways. Participants will learn to identify implicit and explicit biases and explore strategies for challenging them in ourselves and others. |
| Mental Health First Aid | The primary objective of More Aware Kent is to teach MHFA courses to students, faculty, and staff. Similar to traditional First Aid and CPR, MHFA is help provided to a person developing a mental health problem or experiencing a crisis until professional treatment is obtained or the crisis resolves. MHFA is an evidence-based public education and prevention tool which improves knowledge of mental health and substance use problems and connects people with care for their mental health or substance use problems. Those who enroll in MHFA courses will learn a five-part action plan to help others cope with mental health problems. |
| Building Great Work Relationships | New leaders face many daily challenges at work. Workplace relationships can be demanding on your time professionally and personally. A key to becoming an effective leader is getting to know your team well - building those relationships. Work such as candor, feedback and work expectations are used constantly. What do they really mean? Find out as you create strategies to use when constructing work relationships. |
| Conflict Management: Staff-to-Staff | Conflicts that go unmanaged can have a negative effect on the working environment. However they also can provide a means to teach and model problem-solving skills for colleagues and students. This course provides college and university faculty and staff members with an overview of staff-to-staff conflict, as well as basic conflict management models. Topics include: staff conflicts, consequences and the steps to problem solving. |
| Thomas Kilmann Conflict Instrument (TKI) | Conflict is a natural part of our interactions with others. Conflict management is an extremely important skill to master. TKI measures a person's behavior along two dimensions: assertiveness - the extent in which you attempt to satisfy your concerns, and cooperativeness - the extent to which you attempt to satisfy other person's concerns. TKI lets you discover your preferred style and learn to recognize and effectively use the five different conflict styles. |
| Team Dimensions Profile | Ever wondered how some teams work together better than others? High-functioning teams understand each member's contributions and roles. The Team Dimensions Profile examines how the four stages of team development and five different team roles can predict the success of your team. |
| Coaching your Team | How exactly does a supervisor coach employees? What do coaches do? Practice coaching methods to help guide your employees through those tough development conversations. Discover seven characteristics of a coach, develop questions to engage employees in coaching conversations and practice holding different coaching conversations. |
| Developing your Team Performance | Add employee coaching to your supervisory tool belt! Effective coaches offer their employees leadership opportunities through development while promoting a positive, creative working environment. This workshop examines performance management via case studies and activities to help supervisors become employee motivators and provides the GAP model for supervisors to use for improving employee performance. |
| Listening With Purpose | Understanding personal listening approaches is essential to productive communication. Good communication skills in the workplace are one of the most important factors leading to successful teams, groups and organizations. Effective listening skills are crucial to communicating productively both inside and outside the organization. This workshop will help you become an active, purposeful listener in a wide variety of situations for more powerful communication. Learners will complete an online self-evaluation to learn about their preferred listening style and receive feedback on strengths and opportunities for improvement. |
| Principles of Conflict Management | Have trouble effectively dealing with workplace conflict? Ever feel like you spend too much time going around and around without any resolution? Then, this is the course for you! |
| A.L.i.C.E. | The 90 minute long A.L.i.C.E. sessions are designed to give participants insight and response options when encountering an active shooter. |
| Institute of Excellence | The Institute for Excellence represents a new approach to self and organizational development. Born out of the Institute for Excellence in Leadership, this new method will facilitate development and excellence at all levels of the university by utilizing two related but unique programs tailored to the needs of the individual contributor and the administrator at Kent State. These two programs are typically year long development experiences requiring an application for potential participants to be considered. |
| Project Planning Basics | Research shows that one hour of proper planning saves 10 hours of ‘doing’. This workshop explores the planning process and rationale behind making problem-solving and decision-making easier. Learners engage in the ‘basics’ of planning a project, focusing on step-by-step instructions and tools to help eliminate problems before they arise. Learners walk away with hands-on experience using various methods and techniques to construct an effective plan from the ground up. |
| C.A.R.E.S. | Learn amazing tools to enhance your customer service skills. The CARES service model fosters a culture that consistently provides value to the university community. |
| Safe Space: Trans 101 | The second step in the safe space ally training series. This training will allow participants to understand the concept of privilege, provide basic information and language, and give recommendations for how to work in solidarity with the trans community. You must complete Safe Space Ally Training before you can participate in Trans 101. |
| Communicating with Others | Getting your message across in a way that is clear and coherent is a critical skill in your professional and personal life. This workshop identifies the necessary ingredients of any conversation. Learn to be a better communicator by exploring the communication process and how different communication styles affect your personal style. |
| DiSC | DiSCover how well you understand and adapt to other peoples' behaviors through knowing their DiSC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness) style. DiSC profiles help you and your team handle conflict, improve relationships through communication and understand the perspectives of others. |
| Emergency Preparedness and Response Training - Kent State University | Custom program for Kent State staff to prepare them for emergency response situations |
| Management Skills - Getting the most of your Management Style Using Disc (Part 1 of 3) | This workshop utilizes the popular and proven DiSC methodology for understanding human behavior. Based on the work of behavior psychologist William Moulton Marston, DiSC has shown tremendous success in improving communication skills and directly improving the employee/supervisor relationship. Learners will complete an online assessment before the first workshop. DiSC results are reviewed during the classroom session. Discussion includes a general overview of DiSC management styles and their impact in the workplace. |
| Management Skills - Getting the most of your Management Style Using Disc (Part 2 of 3) | Building upon information learned in Part 1, this workshop explores methods for managers to enhance their directing and delegating skill sets using DiSC to adapt to other styles. They will discuss and write a plan on how to effectively engage an employee that has a different style from their own. |
| Management Skills - Getting the most of your Management Style Using Disc (Part 3 of 3) | Building on material learned in Parts 1 and 2, learners explore the environments they create through their styles and learn to identify the motivational needs of others. They will discuss and construct a plan on how to effectively engage employees with motivational styles different from their own. |
| Interview Dynamics | Do you have a plan when interviewing candidates? Do you have a tough time gathering information from potential employees? Most interviewers don’t know what to ask or ask the wrong questions, leading to bad hires and worse. During this workshop, learners become ‘interviewing dynamics’ and discover best practices for conducting behavioral based interviews in the workplace. Learners will create behavioral questions to give them the best chance to gather candidate information, develop a candidate evaluation strategy to achieve the best results - before, during and after the interview, and discover how to guide the interview conversation to get the answers to make the best hire. |
| Understand your Role | As a leader, how can I create the best work environment for my team? The environment a supervisor creates impacts many areas including employee development, relationships, retention and more. Continuing from Focus Your Strengths, this introductory workshop overviews four critical roles that supervisors must understand when guiding their teams. |
| The ACPA Emerging Scholars Program was implemented by the ACPA Senior Scholars in 1999. The Emerging Scholars Program supports, encourages, and honors early-career individuals who are emerging as contributors to student affairs and higher education scholarship and who are pursuing research initiatives congruent with the mission, interests, and strategic goals of ACPA. | |
| ACPA Donna M. Bourassa Mid-Level Management Institute |
The Donna M. Bourassa Mid-Level Management Institute is an ACPA educational program for those who have been in the student affairs field for five or more years or are a departmental director. The Institute guides those desiring to grow their authentic leadership, strengthen their capacities and understand self and organizational dynamics to lead well. The Institute, named for Donna Bourassa, Ed.D. former Associate Executive Director of ACPA, is a successful professional development resource to hundreds of colleagues in the student affairs profession. |
| The Ujima Institute is appropriate for emerging leaders in associate director, director, assistant/associate dean, dean, and AVP roles. This three-day, cohort-based institute offers an intensive, challenging, and collegial learning environment for student affairs professionals as they develop culturally relevant leadership skills that leverage their unique ethnic heritages and histories and prepare to lead increasingly diverse institutions | |
| ACPA–College Student Educators International is a values-centered leadership association that has worked to boldly transform higher education since 1924. Student affairs and higher education professionals, faculty, and students trust ACPA to deliver high-quality educational programs, provide access to modern research and scholarship, and promote leadership at all levels through a racial justice and decolonization lens. | |
| ACPA provides professional development, networking, and leadership opportunities to all members. | |
| Review the latest involvement opportunities within ACPA. | |
| The National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education (NINLHE) mission is to affect change in higher education in the United States and Canada in ways that improve the experiences and educational outcomes of American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Aboriginal students. | |
| Whether you are looking for a transformational in-person experience or wanting to learn and engage from where you are, NASPA has the prefect professional development experience for you. Updated coursed and events are updated periodically. | |
| Whether you are looking for a transformational in-person experience or wanting to learn and engage from where you are, NASPA has the prefect professional development experience for you. Updated coursed and events are updated periodically | |
| NASPA is the professional homes of student affairs with over a decade of service to the profession. We are a network of mentors, opportunities, and resources to support you though every stage of your career development journey. |
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