Welcome to the 2021 Next Opportunity at Work (NOW) Conference!
We have a great day lined up for you today! Follow along with the agenda below.
A member of the NOW Planning Committee will be available throughout the whole day to answer any questions from attendees. Attendees can chat or email us at nowconference@berkeley.edu.
Opening Remarks: Angela Stopper, PhD
About Angela Stopper:
Dr. Angela Stopper is our Chief Learning Officer & Director of People and Organization Development. She is responsible for the team who creates and delivers campus-wide learning initiatives supporting supervisory, management, functional, and technical learning efforts for campus staff. In addition, her team is responsible for onboarding, campus career and professional development programming, and organization development efforts focused on strategic planning, succession planning, change management, and more. Angela is also a member of the teaching faculty with Penn State World Campus, where she teaches a course for their Organization Development and Change Master’s degree program.
Welcome: Chancellor Christ
About Chancellor Carol Christ:
Carol Christ is the 11th Chancellor and the former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of the University of California, Berkeley. She previously served as President of Smith College from 2002 to 2013, and before that was a professor of English and an administrator at Berkeley for more than three decades. Chancellor Christ is an advocate for quality, accessible public higher education, a proponent of the value of a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences, and a champion of women’s issues and diversity on college campuses. Since her return to Berkeley, she has worked to foster community and improve the campus climate, strengthen Berkeley's financial position, address the campus' housing shortage, and celebrate the institution's longstanding commitment to free speech.
Morning Keynote: Aiko Bethea
Why do you want to Live B.I.G. and what does it take?
Aiko will introduce attendees to Dr. Brené Brown's concept of Living B.I.G.- a life of boundaries, integrity, and generosity. She will unpack the benefits of honoring B.I.G. and share with attendees the mindset, some practical steps to take, and barriers that get in the way. Attendees will be invited to develop a refreshed view of their potential and the many opportunities that are waiting for them.
About Aiko Bethea:
Aiko Bethea is a leader, builder and connector. She successfully navigated leadership roles in government, philanthropic, nonprofit, and privatesectors. In each sector she created and served in inaugural roles to meet growing organizational needs.
Aiko is an award-winning and highly sought after equity consultant, executive coach, and speaker. She is founder of RARE Coaching & Consulting, a consulting practice focused on coaching leaders and organizations to remove barriers to inclusion. Her practice integrates operations, leadership coaching and education strategies that yield measurable outcomes.
Aiko is Sr. Director of the Daring Way™ and Dare to Lead™ communities of Brené Brown Education and Research Group. She oversees development and implementation of the overall strategy for the communities, as well as the specific diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategy and oversite of the global 1000+ member facilitator community. Read Aiko's full bio here.
Creative Visualization Meditation with Diana Acidera
Creative Visualization Meditation
Join us for a 10 minute activity break before transitioning to your first breakout session.
About Diana Acidera:
Diana Acidera currently serves as the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Office in the Arts & Humanities College of Letters and Science as Program Manager. As a first-generation college student from Fresno-Central Valley, she remains passionate about serving diverse populations and advocating for underrepresented and underserved communities in education. She hopes to positively impact the lives of individuals by creating safe spaces to actively journey and engage in practices of mindfulness, empowerment, and healing modalities.
Coaching Fundamentals with BetterUp
Presenters: Kyle Sandell and Ali O'Malley
About: This workshop will explore the transformational power of coaching. The personal, goal-oriented, and business-related coaching that helps individuals develop necessary skills and meet their full potential has a direct impact on individuals, teams, and organizations. Coaching also allows leaders to build meaningful connections based on trust and mutual understanding. Coaching is a fundamental part of leadership and supervising. This workshop will cover topics including workplace relationships and communication.
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Meeting ID: 979 6150 6916
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Discover your Unique Edge to Land the Job you Always Want
Presenter: Jolie Lam
About: The personal Hedgehog Concept is described in the book, Good to Great by Jim Collins. It is a concept that flows from deep understanding about the intersection of three circles:
- what you are deeply passionate about,
- what you can be the best in the world at, and
- what best drives your economic or resource engine.
Are you looking for a job, or is this a hobby or is this just a dream? Through small group exercises and sharing of the presenter's personal experience, participant will learn how by collaborating with people outside inside / outside their departments, communities, social organizations, etc. could help participants build their relationships. First step is to identify your edge by utilizing the personal hedgehog concept, second is to find the job you would like, third is to build relationship and extend your network.
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Meeting ID: 910 0058 0366
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How to be an Anti-Racist Within Your Sphere of Influence
Presenters: Audrey Thomas, Michele Rabkin, Roia Ferrazares and Thembi Jackson
About: Whether we are managers or individual contributors, we ALL have a role to play in making UC Berkeley an anti-racist institution--you don't need to be an "Equity & Inclusion professional" to do this work! Are you ready to GROW in this area? Wondering how you can make a difference? Get inspired by colleagues who are involved in anti-racist organizing at the college, division, and department level, and spend time brainstorming with your peers about how YOU can be a changemaker in your area.
You'll hear from Thembi Jackson, one of the leaders of the Staff Circle on Anti-Racism at Berkeley Law; Audrey Thomas, a member of the Equity & Inclusion Team in the Division of Undergraduate Education; and Roia Ferrazarres, who leads anti-racism workshops in the Department of Physics. Each panelist will share what inspires them, a project they've worked on, challenges encountered, lessons learned, and advice for colleagues who want to get involved. Panel moderator and workshop facilitator Michele Rabkin is a founding member of the Dismantling Racism Study & Action Group and a master facilitator with the Multicultural Education Program.
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Meeting ID: 963 2318 6049
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It Starts with You: Relationship Building at Berkeley
Presenters: Charlotte Cowden and Jennifer Mora
About: Working at a large university can be difficult to navigate, and creating connections in a decentralized environment is sometimes a challenge. And this was before 2020. This past year, we stretched, pivoted, and demonstrated resilience in new and unexpected ways. As we reimagine our work life in the coming year, strengthening relationships with campus colleagues will require creativity and courage to get out of our comfort zones. Our relationships are critical to making connections, feeling satisfied at work, and building community at UC Berkeley. How can we make Berkeley feel small and a place where we all belong? It starts with you!
In this session, we will explore ways to foster a culture of recognition and appreciation, find space to connect with others, and cultivate strategies to champion our contributions. We will share ways that staff can empower themselves and intentionally lift each other up in the workplace. Topics include: developing your personal and professional networks; celebrating your accomplishments; and communicating in a decentralized environment.
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Meeting ID: 951 3848 0648
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Let's Talk About It: Learn to communicate Assertively!
Presenter: Dionne Teasley
About: Assertive communication is the ability to express positive and negative ideas or feelings in an open, honest and direct way. It recognizes our rights while still respecting the rights of others. It allows us to take responsibility for ourselves and our actions without judging or blaming other people.
At this workshop you will learn:
• The Four Basic communication styles
• Finding your Assertive Voice
• Benefits of using Anger as a tool not as a Weapon
• How to recognize Negative Self-Talk
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Meeting ID: 923 7877 7889
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Promoting Professional Development & Community Building Through the Dean of Students Externship Program
Presenter: Deepak Sharma
About: As Berkeley has many unique campus departments there is often a desire to collaborate across departments, and for colleagues to grow and learn in new areas. Our day-to-day often times makes this difficult and even with existing campus fellowships for staff, there continues to be a need to provide opportunities like this. Through the Dean of Students Externship Program, this need is being addressed.
What began as a job shadowing experience has evolved to a project based approach, stimulating autonomy and creativity for externs and sponsors. This opens new ideas and opportunities for colleagues to support each other in professional development, while also developing new approaches to serving students and addressing departmental needs. Sponsors propose a short-term project ranging from 1 week to 3 months, and externs share their development goals. As coordinators for this program, we match the sponsors’ projects with an extern’s developmental goals. In addition, the coordinators will conduct outreach to potential externs or sponsors in order to insure that a match is well suited.
As the 4th iteration of this program gets under way, this program has created nearly 20 matches between sponsors and externs resulting in new knowledge gained as well as new insights from colleagues. This program provides an innovative path to professional development that incorporates experiential learning and promotes community building across departments.
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Meeting ID: 961 3964 8153
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Snowball: Harnessing the Power of Compound Interest in Life and Finance
Presenter: Dave Schonenberg
About: Keeping the theme of compound interest close at hand we will discuss how to apply this core financial principle not just to your personal finances, but to your career development and mental health. We will dive into hacking the UC savings plans for earlier retirement, reclaiming your present from screen overload, and a few actionable steps—lets call them investments—that you can make in the short-term to start building that snowball.
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Meeting ID: 991 8059 2567
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Zumba! with Nadia Qabazard
Zumba!
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About Nadia Qabazard:
Nadia is a Bay Area Native dance teacher. She specializes in Dance Fitness and Brazilian Samba. She began by teaching Zumba in 2011, and then expanded her teaching, by choreographing and creating her own Dance Fitness material. She travels yearly to continue her studies of Samba and has continued to teach online and outdoor in-person classes. Her classes are for all dance levels and experience levels, her only expectation is for her students to have a fun time!
Berkeley Changemaker - The Sum of Us: Building a Culture of Belonging
Presenters: Laura Hassner, Rich Lyons and Cristy Johnston Limón
About: Berkeley Changemakers lead inclusively, understanding that by working together we build a better society. Participants will acquire tools and apply practices that create inclusive spaces by providing opportunities to connect through narrative and lived experience and engage people as they are. We will dive into the concept of belonging, why it matters, and how to build a culture of belonging in the workplace. Belonging is that sense you get that you are a valued member of a community. Feeling valued in a community puts a sense of purpose and meaning to our lives.
In this third offering in the Berkeley Changemaker staff series, we propose a hybrid workshop: providing information about the Berkeley Changemaker and sharing tools around belonging that will empower our colleagues and ourselves to lead from where we are.
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Meeting ID: 961 3964 8153
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Community Care in a Challenging Time
Presenters: Tina Herod, Emma Ringer, Paola Alonso and Iberia Zafira
About: A year into the pandemic, Prospect Development has grown closer as a result of these intentional initiatives. Examples of what Prospect Development has done during the pandemic include: PD Healthy Pod Teams, Virtual Greeting Cards, Slack Community, Encouraging Time to Refresh/Relax, Alternative Meetings Led By Team Members, Optional Co-working Paloozas and many more! These activities have led to increased productivity, stronger sense of community and well-being, connectedness.
How do you stay healthy when it feels like everything is falling apart? In this interactive workshop, UDAR’s Prospect Development (PD) team will share how they innovated to stay healthy and grounded while navigating the unknown. In pandemic times with no communal kitchen or water cooler, how can we all create inclusive, community-based spaces for people to interact? How can we identify opportunities for connection and collaboration?
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Meeting ID: 963 2318 6049
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Dante's Comedy and the Art of Work
Presenter: Nicole Pagano
About: What if a wise and beautiful work of art could help you turn toward the promise and challenges of our time and inspire a new way forward? Can diverse experiences serve as a springboard for transformative work? Perhaps, after a year of unprecedented change and isolation, you feel motivated to dig deep or chart a fresh path—or both!
The Divine Comedy is a poetic masterpiece by Dante Alighieri that has inspired readers for over seven centuries and remains one of the most actively translated works of all time. The poem’s lasting relevance speaks to the rewarding journey it offers readers to this day—from a place of troubling uncertainty to one of courage and community. In a world that can feel more divided than ever, we will turn to the souls in Dante’s Commedia for their wisdom on the themes of work and see how they can support our professional growth and the service we provide for others.
This workshop will offer an introduction to Dante’s opus and a brief visit to his realms of the afterlife: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Our activities will incorporate artistic renderings of the poem to accommodate multiple learning styles. Attendees will be asked to work in one small group and participate in brief reflection exercises that require no previous knowledge of the poem. All are welcome!
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Meeting ID: 979 6150 6916
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How to Protect Your Peace While Fighting for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Presenters: Aryn Jackson, Breanne Tscheng and Justin Oliver
About: As if the fatigue of working virtually during a pandemic wasn’t enough, the demand for many BIPOC staff is compounded by the everyday work of fighting against systemic racism and oppression. Given the nature of the current climate and events there’s a new sense of urgency across many departments to address issues of racial diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and often as BIPOC staff we feel a moral obligation to take on this work even at the expense of our own physical, mental, and emotional health.
So how do we move the needle on toward social justice without dismantling ourselves? During this session we will discuss our journey establishing our department’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Awareness, & Action committee (IDEAA) including the lessons learned about how to manage battle fatigue and bureaucracy.
We hope this session serves as a brave space for BIPOC staff to be in community and share strategies for managing burnout. In addition, we hope that our non-BIPOC staff will learn how they can serve as allies to not only help support their fellow colleagues but to hold departments accountable for the espoused DEIB values we aspire to embody.
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Meeting ID: 910 0058 0366
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Interrupting Impostor Syndrome Through Creative Play
Presenter: Sabina Morgan
About: Impostor syndrome is defined as a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud." These doubts limit our participation in many activities and prevent us from believing that we are worthy of opportunity and career advancement. Together we will explore our self-limiting stories through creative expression such as meditative drawing, vision boarding, and creative writing in order to make our stories known to ourselves.
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Meeting ID: 951 3848 0648
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Interviews that Result in Offers: Becoming the Candidate of Choice
Presenter: Kim Sapp Dinwiddie
About: Getting invited for an interview is huge accomplishment! Next, you must meet the interview committee and demonstrate that you are the most qualified candidate for the job. We will explore the critical areas that you must know to 'become the candidate of choice' for that position:
- interview types and formats,
- preparing for and conducting the interview,
- post interview,
- interview do’s and don’ts, and
- offer and salary negotiation.
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Meeting ID: 923 7877 7889
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Peer Coaching: a Career Development Experiential Learning Space
Presenters: Colin Gerker-Junsay (he/him), Isela Peña-Rager (she/her/ella) and Ying Kuah (she/her)
About: Discover. Explore. Plan. Act! Coaching is all about focused dialogue through creative and thought provoking ways that stretch for maximum personal potential. Not only will you get a chance to work with someone 1:1 to explore your goals for the NOW conference, you will also get the chance to practice key coaching skills like active listening, asking open-ended questions, summarizing, and supporting your colleagues through their growth journey.
The session facilitators will demonstrate a brief peer coaching model, then create multiple rounds of breakout conversations with helpful starter questions. We encourage you to stay connected with your NOW conference buddies you meet in this session and through the day. Staying connected with those who keep you accountable to your goals is a major way to move your world forward. This is an opportunity for our workforce to expand access to coaching conversations! This session was developed in partnership with the NOW Conference Coaches’ Corner. Check out the Coaches’ Corner site to learn more about 1:1 coaching appointments available to you throughout the NOW conference. There are almost 30 trained coaching professionals here to support your growth!
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Meeting ID: 991 8059 2567
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Networking Activity: Virtual Coffee Chat
Have lunch then join a coffee chat, or join a coffee chat then have lunch….your choice! Please be timely, session doors close 1-minute after start time. Max 200 attendees per session. Inspired by a brief conversation one may have with someone they don’t know while grabbing coffee during a conference coffee break, participants engage in a brief low-pressure facilitated networking experience.
Session A: 12:50 PM - 1:15 PM
Doors open at 12:50 PM
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Meeting ID: 926 5730 6188
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Session B: 1:15 - 1:40 PM
Doors open at 1:05 PM
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Meeting ID: 979 0531 4753
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Adult Recess/Stretch Break with Cori Evans
Adult Recess/Stretch Break
Join us for this 10 minute activity before transitioning to your third breakout session.
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About Cori Evans:
Cori Evans oversees the Be Well at Work - Wellness Program on the UC Berkeley campus where she manages programs, services, policies and events designed to create and sustain a culture of health and well-being for faculty and staff. Cori received her MA in Sport Management from USF and her BS in Exercise Science from UC Davis where she competed in Track and Field. She went on to play Women’s Tackle Football for nearly ten years post-college and now enjoys officiating for USATF, golf, hiking excursions and travelling with friends. Cori is originally from Wichita, Kansas, home of the Wichita State Shockers.
Be Well at Work is offering tons of resources in the current virtual world. Click here to learn more!
Fewer, Shorter, Better Meetings: Getting the most out of Stand-ups, Networking, & More!
Presenter: Jill Finlayson
About: Do you really need a meeting? Who needs to attend? What are you trying to accomplish? Is there an agenda? From weekly team meetings to big collaborative planning sessions, what does it take to have a meeting that is worth everyone's time? Let's talk about agendas, tools, and techniques to brainstorm, problem solve, collaborate, and network. There are lots of different types of meetings but regardless of the goals, everyone wants to get stuff done, make sure everyone's voice is heard, and get out on time.
Tools for in-person and online may vary, but the strategies behind good meetings and decision-making are the same. Discover fun tools like Menti, Miro and Mural and scheduling time-savers like Calend.ly, and when2meet. Explore equitable practices like collaborative agendas, agile stand-ups, and ways to reduce the time you spend in meetings. This session will focus on the conference theme of Innovate, and in particular, focus on Productivity and Technology for optimizing your workday. And it does so in ways that foster collaboration, networking, and communication. Inclusive leadership and equitable participation are integrated into the program, helping leaders make sure all voices are heard, and helping all attendees learn how to “take space and make space.”
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Meeting ID: 910 0058 0366
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Finding my Voice in a Complex Organization
Presenters: Ari Wolfe, Claire-Marie Kooi, Michael Mansfield and Fatima Alleyne
About: Navigating a complex organization and trying to build your community can be daunting and frustrating. It can be even more challenging if you struggle with the lack of representation and community on campus, imposter syndrome, lack of leadership opportunities, finding your “voice”, as well as a host of other factors. For some of us there is even a lack of opportunity for failure -- for failure is associated with our entire race.
For others, you might be curious about how to grow your cultural competence to foster collaborations with people of other cultures, races, experiences, beliefs, and points of view and are afraid that you will make a mistake. You might be curious about how to support your colleagues, who might have been overlooked, silenced, unheard, or passed over. If you fit one of these categories, this workshop is for you!
In this interactive workshop, participants will engage in a gap analysis exercise to:
- define your career goals and
- develop your cultural competence.
This exercise is intended to help participants identify strategies to fill the gaps identified in order to successfully achieve their goals. This includes community building, finding mentors and/or mentees, identifying professional development opportunities, perspective analysis, and skill-building (e.g. growth mindset, uncomfortable conversations, effective communication approaches, for career advancement).
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Meeting ID: 951 3848 0648
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In Pursuit of Team Synergy: Enhancing Psychological Safety Skills Demo
Presenter: Catherine Ciano
About: Distributed leadership, also known as shared or self-managed leadership, is a form of team leadership in which the responsibility for directing and managing collective efforts becomes shared among team members. Teams with shared leadership comprise more than 33% of all organizational teams, with 78% of Fortune 1000 companies reporting the use of self-managed teams. Sharing leadership functions across individual team members has the benefit of allowing overseeing leaders to focus more resources on unanticipated novel demands. This exciting trend in team leadership allows increased opportunity for individual team members to engage with improving team processes such as psychological safety. Psychological safety refers to the degree to which ones’ environment is perceived to be safe for interpersonal risk taking. Psychological safety is associated with team learning, improved collaboration across differences, and better organizational outcomes.
This session will demo concepts and tools from the virtual lab course: Enhancing Team Psychological Safety. Attendees will observe and practice specific behavior shaping techniques for the purpose of an improved sense of team psychological safety. This session will be interactive and plans to utilize Zoom breakout rooms. During this session, participants will:
- learn skills to communicate and collaborate with team members more effectively,
- improve leadership abilities, specifically within environments where there is not a single designated leader, but rather when leadership is shared among all members of the team,
- and grow in their ability to make work more inclusive and accessible via cultivation of psychological safety.
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Meeting ID: 991 8059 2567
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Marketing the Most Important Product of All: YOU
Presenter: Patricia Bailey
About: This workshop is focused on developing a personal brand in the topic Grow. It’s no secret that today’s job market is flooded with talent. It can be hard to stand out as a candidate, to stay motivated and directionally focused, and to value oneself appropriately. This workshop will help individuals identify, develop, and present their personal brand. While the main focus of the workshop is career based, the skills learned are applicable in all areas of one’s personal life resulting in more confidence and consistency in how one handles challenges.
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Meeting ID: 961 3964 8153
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Questions, Questions, so many questions: Be Curious, Not Judgmental - Uncle Walt
Presenter: Kevin M. Reyes
About: How would you communicate if all you could do were to ask questions? What would you learn? How would it change your collaboration? What new discoveries would you make? What would you ask? How would this drive your daily interactions? How would it change in-person work? What would that mean for remote work? Are you curious yet?
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Meeting ID: 979 6150 6916
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Stuck on the Escalator: What We Know Now about Thriving
Presenter: Danny Ceballos, MBA, MAOD
About: When the pandemic hit, most of us were frozen in our tracks - having no idea what to do. This isn't surprising, and according to a recent Kaiser report, 7 in 10 employees report the pandemic is the most stressful time of their entire professional career. So what can we do differently and be better prepared for the next crisis that drops in our laps - because although new may not want to acknowledge it, this won't be our last!
There is promising new research on how our brain works that gives us hope. Knowing this "X factor" - called "mental fitness" - can give us the powerful insight, knowledge, and practical tools that can best prepare us for whatever comes next! Mental fitness is a measure of the strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur). This measure of your Mental Fitness is called PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient). A key to Mental Fitness is to weaken the internal Saboteurs who generate all your “negativity” in the way they respond to challenges. Your Saboteurs cause all your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, regret, guilt, and unhappiness. Your “Sage” lives in an entirely different region of your brain and handles challenges in ways that produce positive emotions like curiosity, empathy, creativity, calm, and clear-headed laser-focused action.
The research - with 500,000 participants - has shown PQ to be the best predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential. It is the basis of Shirzad Chamine’s New York Times bestselling book, Positive Intelligence. Join us for this powerful session on increasing your "x factor" - preparing your professionally and personally for the next crisis that comes into your life - AND optimizing your work, happiness, and relationships NOW.
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Meeting ID: 923 7877 7889
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That's Not Funny: How to Use Humor Appropriately in the Workplace
Presenter: Alfred Day
About: With the stress of work it is important to maintain a sense of humor during the course of the day. However, there is a fine line being being humorous and being offensive. How can one learn to use humor as a stress reliever and to connect to others while avoiding being inappropriate, offensive or hurtful to others. Come learn what to say and what not to say and humor can be used to connect us and not to divide us.
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Meeting ID: 963 2318 6049
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Polynesian/Tahitian Dance with Nicole Castillo
Let's Dance - Polynesian/Tahitian Style!
Join us for this 10 minute activity before transitioning to Afternoon Keynote, the Final Raffle Grand Prize and Closing Remarks.
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About Nicole Castillo:
Nicole Castillo joined the Be Well at Work team as the Wellness Program Coordinator after managing wellness programs and services at skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities in the senior care industry. She is an alumni of UC Davis where she earned her BS in Exercise Biology and Human Development. She will be responsible for the Breastfeeding Support Program, program publicity, marketing, and communications, as well as general support to the Be Well at Work Wellness Team.
Nicole is an active member of a Polynesian dance troupe where she dances hula and Tahitian competitively. When she's not rehearsing or performing, she enjoys traveling, going to concerts, and watching basketball.
Afternoon Keynote: Janet Napolitano
Ask Janet! A moderated Q&A with Janet Napolitano
Our afternoon keynote will be formatted as a moderated question and answer discussion featuring Janet Napolitano, Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and twentieth president of the University of California, and Eugene Whitlock, Chief People & Culture Officer, Assistant Vice Chancellor - Human Resources, UC Berkeley. Eugene will serve as moderator and will ask Janet questions collected in advance from conference attendees.
About Janet Napolitano:
Janet Napolitano is a Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. She served as the twentieth president of the University of California, the nation’s largest public research university with ten campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program.
Prior to joining the University of California, Professor Napolitano served as Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013. She is a former two-term Governor of Arizona, a former Attorney General of Arizona, and a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona. In 2019, Napolitano published How Safe Are We? Homeland Security Since 9/11.
Professor Napolitano earned her B.S. degree, summa cum laude, in Political Science from Santa Clara University, and her J.D. from the University of Virginia. She is based in Berkeley, CA.
About Eugene Whitlock:
Eugene Whitlock is the Chief People & Culture Officer/Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources at UC Berkeley. For five years, Eugene served as Vice Chancellor, Human Resources, and General Counsel of the San Mateo County Community College District, which serves 45,000 students across three colleges. In his human resources role, Eugene led the District’s equity-focused recruitment which resulted in the increased hiring of staff and faculty from underrepresented backgrounds. He championed professional development opportunities for employees, developed workshops and training on harassment and discrimination, and led efforts to support faculty and staff in order to enhance the employee experience. As a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, Eugene has been invited by the California Community Colleges State Chancellor, community colleges, and K-12 school districts throughout California to deliver training to Board members, administrators, faculty, and staff. In 2017, Eugene’s work was recognized by his peers who selected him for the “Progress in Diversity” award given for “Outstanding Achievement in Support of Diversity in the Higher Education Community.” Read Eugene's full bio here.
Closing Remarks: Lisa Rykert & Maddy Irwin
About Lisa Rykert:
Lisa (she/her/hers) serves as the Career & Professional Development Lead on the People & Organization Development team within UC Berkeley People & Culture. Lisa’s focus on campus is to support staff career growth and mobility with the goal of helping people to love the work they do and do the work they love within a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. Lisa is also a board certified coach (BCC). In addition to serving as the NOW Conference Co-Chair, Lisa's portfolio of staff career and professional development programs and services includes, campuswide career and professional development workshop offerings, career coaching, staff fellowship program co- manager, and UC Berkeley campus location coordinator for the systemwide Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP). You can connect with Lisa at lrykert@berkeley.edu or via linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisarykert/.
About Maddy Irwin:
Maddy Irwin is our Program Manager on the People & Organization Development team within UC Berkeley People & Culture. In her role, she manages programs and initiatives that support staff professional and career development campus-wide. In addition to serving as the NOW Conference Co-Chair, Maddy’s portfolio includes managing the Wisdom Cafe, UC Berkeley Women’s Initiative and Staff Service Awards. She also serves as co-chair of the staff fellowship program and UC Berkeley campus location coordinator for the UC Women’s Initiative for Professional Development. Maddy is originally from the east coast and graduated from Boston College before moving out to California and starting her career in Learning & Development.
Post Conference Networking Activity: Virtual Happy Hour
After the conference, hop into this session to connect and get to know others. Inspired by informal conversations one may have with a small group at a cocktail table during a post conference happy hour, participants engage in a facilitated networking experience designed for them to get better acquainted with others while growing their networking comfort and skills.
4:20 - 5:10 PM
Doors open at 4:15
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Click here to enter Zoom Room 2
Note: Max capacity for each Zoom room is 150. If you are unable to join Zoom Room 1, please try entering Zoom Room 2.
