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 2026.

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

• March 3rd and 4th | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• May 6th and 7th | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Lunch is provided for sessions.

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue® workshop cost: TBD.

Crucial Influence® equips leaders across campus—whether supervising a small team or guiding major institutional priorities—with practical skills to drive meaningful behavior change. Grounded in 50 years of social science research, the course introduces the Six Sources of Influence model to help leaders understand the personal, social, and structural factors that shape behavior. Participants learn how to apply these sources intentionally to strengthen team culture, improve collaboration, and achieve results. This course is ideal for faculty and staff seeking evidence-based tools to make their leadership more effective and adaptive.

Organizational Effectiveness is offering two in-person Crucial Influence® workshops during Spring 2026.

• Thursday, April 23rd | 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, April 30th | 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Lunch is provided for sessions.

Workshop Fee:  TBD

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 2026:

• March 10, 2026 | 1:00 - 4:00pm

There is a $30 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.

Have you ever struggled to communicate with that one person that, regardless of what you try, you can’t seem to connect with or understand? This could be your opportunity to have a breakthrough. This course takes you through how you can use the information from the DISC assessment and apply it in common and/or challenging conversations. Explore how you like to be communicated with, how others with different styles like to be communicated with, and how you can take these differences to adapt to the intended recipients of your communication to make the meaning more impactful. 

The Using DISC to Improve Communication in-person workshop includes one session in Spring 2026:

• February 12, 2026 | 8:30 am – 4:30 pm 

There is a $150 fee associated with this workshop which includes a code to take the DISC assessment and lunch during the workshop. 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. The results are emailed to you. Please bring your assessment results with you to the workshop.

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 microlearning opportunities, which include a short video and reflection exercise that can be completed on your own time, bookended by two required one-hour community learning sessions to start and end the challenge, and one optional session in the middle of the challenge to answer any questions you have about the challenge itself and the material being covered. 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 2, 2026 | 9am | 14-day challenge kickoff
• February 23, 2026 | 9am | 14-day challenge conclusion

Zoom links will be sent to participants prior to the workshops. Supporting videos are available to participants.

The Leadership is Everyone's Business workshop cost: TBD