Mission and Vision Focus

UC Core Competencies - Creating the Future

  • Shows understanding of and commitment to the UC mission and vision.

    • Using organization mission and vision to guide decision-making

    • Inspiring others to achieve mission and vision of the university

    • Clearly communicates team mission/vision that aligns with University

    • Harnesses information and opportunities to more effectively achieve the mission

    • Proactively builds an environment where team members strive to excel

Strategic Thinking

Strategic thinking is the ability to think on a big and small scale, long and short term, and into the past and the present. While strategic thinking is a valuable skill for everyone in an organization, it becomes increasingly essential as you ascend the ladder. In fact, you may have a difficult time being promoted or succeeding as a leader without it. Yet, no one formally teaches strategic thinking—so it's critical to take the initiative and learn how to do it yourself.

Career and personal branding expert Dorie Clark shows you how to carve out time to think...

People Skills for a Multicultural Workplace

Working in a cuturally diverse environment is a rewarding and fufilling professional experience that provides opportunities to expand your communication skills. Self-awareness and other practices, such as patience and understanding, are necessary qualities to have when working and thriving with colleagues in a multicultural workspace.

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My UC Career

This online development portal is available to all UC faculty, academic personnel, staff and students seeking to advance their career. Six self-paced modules help users discover their internal UC career mobility options, highlight accomplishments and identify how they can achieve their career goals within UC.

Registering for an account provides instant access to the following six self-paced modules:

Begin Career Discovery Job Search Resume Tell Your Story Network and Research Pre and Post Interview

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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,...

The 9 Characteristics of a Good Decision

Decision-making can be the single-greatest weight upon your shoulders if you don’t know how to manage stress or if the consequences are less than ideal. So, how do you know what a good decision looks like? When evaluating decisions on a day-to-day basis, there are always characteristics to consider before taking action. Some characteristics of a good decision are positive impact, inclusion, and executability.

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