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Learning and Development

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319-335-2644
Campus Address
121-51 USB
Mailing Address

121 University Services Building, Suite 51
Iowa City, IA 52242-1911
United States

For-fee workshops bring proven ideas and methods to help you succeed in your career at the University of Iowa. These workshops are facilitated by Organizational Effectiveness' experienced team of trainers who are certified to offer these top national workshops to UI employees. 

 Discover:    In Person Workshops     |     Virtual (Zoom) Workshops

Registration

To enroll in the workshops, you can be selected for a Professional Development Award to attend the workshop of your choice at no cost or your department can sponsor your enrollment. To sponsor an enrollment and pay the workshop fee, please complete the registration form, and send with payment to UI Learning & Development, 121-51 USB or uilearndevelop@uiowa.edu.

Professional Development Awards

Organizational Effectiveness provides limited professional development awards for its for-fee workshops during the spring and fall semesters. Staff members with a regular appointment 50% time or greater receive an email twice a year (July and December) inviting them to apply for an award. Awards are made by random selection among all those who submit an application. The award allows recipients to attend the workshop at no cost.

In-Person Workshops 

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue®

The Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® workshop will help you: 

  • Resolve disagreements
  • Build acceptance and overcome resistance
  • Speak persuasively, not abrasively, about high-stakes, emotional, or controversial topics
  • Foster teamwork and better decision-making
  • Build teams that work together and act with unity and conviction 

Crucial Conversations Details

Open dialogue is vital to successful collaborations. If you would like to enhance your day-to-day conversations, Crucial Conversations is for you. Discussing difficult workplace issues with varying opinions is a challenge that often leads to low morale, reduced efficiency, and project delays. This training offers participants an opportunity to learn skills and apply principles in conversations with varying opinions, when stakes are high, and emotions are strong.

OE is offering two in-person Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® workshops during Spring 2025.

The Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® in-person workshop includes two sessions:

  • February 26th and 27th | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 
  • April 15th and 16th | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 
  • Lunch is provided for sessions.

*Crucial Conversations is also offered virtually. 

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® workshop costs $300 to attend. 

The Success Principles

The Success Principles workshop will help you: 

  • Create goals
  • Identify roadblocks to achieving your goals
  • Learn strategies for overcoming challenges

 

The Success Principles Details

Are you ready to take your life and your work to the next level? Learn to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, and realize all your ambitions. This workshop is based on the book, The Success Principles™ by New York Times bestselling author Jack Canfield. You will be introduced to timeless principles practiced by successful people throughout history - principles that, once implemented into your daily life, can take you where you want to go. Book and printed class materials provided.

The Success Principles is a one-day in-person workshop:

  • April 25, 2025 | 9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
  • Lunch is provided

The Success Principles workshop costs $50 to attend. 

 

CliftonStrengths at Work 

CliftonStrenths at Work workshop will help you: 

  • Identify and build an understanding of strengths introspectively
  • Learn how strengths enhance communication and team-building
  • Understand the significance in developing talents into strengths

CliftonStrengths Details

The CliftonStrengths at Work Workshop is a 3 hour exploration of individual strengths as reported by the CliftonStrengths assessment. Participants will gain an understanding of the significance in developing talents into strengths, and how strengths enhance communication and team-building. The session focuses on identifying and building an understanding of strengths introspectively. We will also begin to explore how understanding individual strengths can enhance collaborations in partnerships and teams.

The CliftonStrengths at Work in-person workshop includes one session in Spring 2025:

  • January 23rd | 9:00 a.m. - noon

There is a $25 fee associated with this workshop which includes: code for online assessment and course materials. Registration and payment must be received two weeks prior to the workshop. You will be sent the online assessment code after your registration and payment are confirmed. The assessment must be completed one week prior to the workshop. There will also be an assignment to complete prior to class start; the assignment may take up to an hour to complete.

Virtual (Zoom) Workshops

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue®

The Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® workshop will help you: 

  • Resolve disagreements
  • Build acceptance and overcome resistance
  • Speak persuasively, not abrasively, about high-stakes, emotional, or controversial topics
  • Foster teamwork and better decision-making
  • Build teams that work together and act with unity and conviction 

Crucial Conversations Details

Open dialogue is vital to successful collaborations. If you would like to enhance your day-to-day conversations, Crucial Conversations is for you. Discussing difficult workplace issues with varying opinions is a challenge that often leads to low morale, reduced efficiency, and project delays. This training offers participants an opportunity to learn skills and apply principles in conversations with varying opinions, when stakes are high, and emotions are strong.

The Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® virtual workshop includes five Zoom sessions:

  • March 31st and April 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 9th | 2:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.

*Crucial Conversations is also offered in-person. 

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® workshop costs $300 to attend. 

Leadership is Everyone's Business

The Leadership is Everyone's Business workshop will help you: 

  • Identify your own leadership strengths and areas for improvement based on your Leadership Practices Inventory Self-Assessment.
  • Employ at least one method for improving your capacity to engage in each of The Five Practices.
  • Create an action plan for the next steps in your development as a leader.

Leadership is Everyone's Business Details

Leadership is Everyone's Business - it's not about your title or your organizational role; it's about caring enough to take the action to inspire and change the lives of others. Take the 14-day Leadership Challenge! The experience includes daily 15-minute micro learning opportunities, which include a short video and reflection exercise that can be completed on your own time and two one-hour community learning sessions through zoom. The Leadership is Everyone's Business workshop is based on the five practices of exemplary leadership and are scientifically grounded in multiple decades of research. 

The Leadership is Everyone's Business virtual workshop includes two sessions via Zoom:

  • February 12th and 26th | 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. each day

Zoom links will be sent to participants prior to the workshops. Supporting videos are available to participants on December 2nd. 

The Leadership is Everyone's Business workshop costs $300 to attend.