Wisdom Cafe Wednesday

Archives of past Wisdom Cafe Wednesday newsletters.

Maximize What You Learn at Work

You are spending 39% of your work time learning and most of that learning occurs on the job. However, 11% of work-time is spent on wasted learning that does not improve your performance. This guidebook helps foster more productive learners and improve performance by prioritizing the most relevant learning, seeking information and learning from colleagues, and reflecting on learning experiences.

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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

Learn more about these modules...

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,...

Learn the Secrets of Great Collaboration

Although collaboration can be difficult at times, there are ways to make it easier and more fruitful. Join Prakash Raman as he describes the necessary steps to overcome common challenges of the workspace to reach a result-yielding, cooperative space.

Watch this course and learn to: Solve collaboration challenges Establish roles and responsibilities Engage support from leaders Facilitate effective meetings and more And yes, you do have free access (when you log-in with your CalNet Info). Just another sweet perk of working at UCB!

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,...

How to Make Better Decisions and Avoid Jumping to Conclusions

In today's fast-moving world, we are always under pressure to act now, rather than spend time reasoning things through and thinking about the true facts.

Not only can this lead us to a wrong conclusion, but it can also cause conflict with other people, who may have drawn quite different conclusions on the same matter.

Learn how to avoid making wrong conclusions using the Ladder of Inference. Read More Here.

Find Your Time Management Style

When it comes to time management strategies, one size does not fit all. To create your optimal workday, you must consider many factors, including the nature of your job, the level of interaction you have with others, and your personal preferences. In this course, productivity expert Dave Crenshaw expands upon the concepts covered in his other time management courses to help you boost your productivity by crafting a personalized approach to time management. Dave takes you through an assessment to discover your time maangement style and then shows how to adapt fundamental time management...

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 ...