Belonging and Community

UC Core Competencies - Building Relationships

  • Models, fosters, and promotes University of California Principles of Community. Demonstrates empathy and respect for all people regardless of differences; promotes fairness and equity. Cultivates, champions, embodies, embraces, and supports a sense of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

    • DEIB

    • Staff Orgs/Communities of Practice

    • Working with people who are different than you

    • Engaging others to make them feel valued and accepted

    • Maintaining goals of inclusion

    • Self-Awareness

    • Treating others with dignity, respect and equity

    • Value diverse people and ideas

    • Empowering team members to contribute ideas/achieve goals

    • Conflict resolution

Three Keys to Developing Women Leaders

Organizations are focused on improving the gender diversity of their leadership teams. Despite the aspiration to have more diverse leadership teams, few women occupy senior leadership positions. Although women constitute the majority of students obtaining higher-education degrees, the proportion of women in management decreases as seniority increases. Women are not falling through the cracks in the leadership pipeline because of poor performance. This research study will help you maximize the impact of your leadership development efforts by following these three keys:

Target mindset,...

Integrate Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging into Your Work

Diversity has come to mean having a culture that values uniqueness. Inclusion means inviting diverse groups in -- ensuring that people with different viewpoints, cultures, genders, and races can take part in company life. If you're tuned in to conversations about HR, you've probably heard these terms come up quite often. But there's also a third piece which works to fully actualize the first two: belonging. It's belonging that helps make each individual fully known and accepted for who they are. This is the critical key to fully honoring and engaging the whole person at work. In this...

How to Manage Students

When I mention that my department (Student Affairs IT) has more than 100 student employees working alongside our 60 career staff, campus colleagues usually remark, “Wow, that’s wonderful!” and then ask, “How on earth do you do that?” As a manager who is committed to student leadership and staff development, I am passionate about this subject, and happy to share with the Wisdom Café community some insights and best practices that I have learned and developed over the years.

In my view, good management is good management, regardless of the level of professional experience of one...

Building Business Relationships

Have you been eyeing a promotion or new job? By learning how to form and leverage relationships with others in your professional orbit, you can propel your career to new heights. In this course, join Simon T. Bailey as he helps you master the art of building business relationships. Using scenarios and personal experiences from his own career, Simon explains how to build authentic professional relationships by focusing on four key areas: inspiring, influencing, impacting, and integrating. Discover how you can build meaningful rapport, set yourself up for visibility and success, manage up,...

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Amy Edmondson, professor at Harvard Business School, first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams in 1999. Since then, she has observed how companies with a trusting workplace perform better. Psychological safety isn’t about being nice, she says. It’s about giving candid feedback, openly admitting mistakes, and learning from each other. And she argues that kind of organizational culture is increasingly important in the modern economy. Edmondson is the author of the new book ...

Bring Resolution to Your Conflicts

Improve your relationships with your coworkers, clients, and managers and find your way through conflict back to cooperation. In this LinkedIn Learning course, negotiation and leadership coach Lisa Gates shares the secrets of effective conflict resolution and reveals simple, repeatable techniques that apply in most business situations. She presents "The Resolution Roadmap," a practical framework for exploring and navigating conflict resolution,...

Counter Potential Unconscious Bias

We're all biased. Our experiences shape who we are, and our race, ethnicity, gender, height, weight, sexual orientation, place of birth, and other factors impact the lens with which we view the world. In this course, diversity expert Stacey Gordon helps you recognize and acknowledge your own biases so that you can identify them when making decisions, and prevent yourself from making calls based on a biased viewpoint. Stacey explains some of the most common forms that a bias takes: affinity bias, halo bias, perception bias, and confirmation bias. She helps you recognize the negative effects of...

Developing Your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence can help you build effective relationships at work. Executive coach and organizational psychologist Gemma Roberts explains what emotional intelligence is and why it's important. She helps you become more self-aware so that you can identify triggers that may hijack your performance. She also helps you align your intentions and your impact so that you can build strong and collaborative relationships.

Learning Objectives:

What is emotional intelligence? Watching for triggers and hijacks Finding flow Disrupting thinking Reclaiming...

5 Ideas for Boosting Engagement at Work

Every other year, the Council of UC Staff Assemblies (CUCSA) sends an engagement survey to a randomly selected group of non-represented UC staff. The results are now in and will be announced soon at your location (if they haven’t already). That makes October a perfect month to talk about how to boost engagement — yours and your team’s.

You don’t need to be a people manager to care about and nurture engagement. Whatever your role, you’ll benefit from working with people who are interested in and committed to their job and company. And, you have an obligation to yourself to find...