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Engagement Series

Current Series

2023 Series

As a UTHSC family, staying connected to each other is more important than ever. With working from home and talking with team members via Zoom, Human Resources has brought a fun and educational team together to share their experiences, stories, and provide advice for others who are facing this new normal.

Topics will include: How to Make the Most of Your Working Day, Suicide Prevention, Managing Across the 5 Generations in the Workforce, Self-Care: Small Changes for Positive Results and many more!

How to Make the Most of Your Working Day

How would you describe a productive day? A non-productive one? Understanding the importance of time management is central to success in all endeavors, as well as our overall sense of contentment. This training uses lecture, written exercises and group discussion to help you find ways to make the most of your time and, most importantly, make time for yourself.

Session One Recording
Presentation
Workbook

Suicide Prevention

This session Mike LaBonte, Executive Director for Memphis Crisis Center, will cover the basics of suicide first aid, including practical information on how to recognize and effectively respond to a potential suicidal crisis.  There will be an emphasis on evidence-based strategies for helping anyone that may be struggling with suicide, techniques for assessing risk, building safety, and how to link at-risk individuals to appropriate community and professional resources.

Session Two Recording
Memphis Crisis Center Brochure
Suicide Awareness and Intervention Handout

Managing Across the 5 Generations in the Workforce

Today’s workforce includes members of five different generations (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z). This presents managers leading multigenerational teams with many great opportunities and tasks. In this session, we will meet with leaders to understand the benefits and power of a generationally diverse workforce, learn how to collaborate, and overcome any challenges.

Session Three Recording

Self Care: Small Changes for Positive Results

This session will dive deep into learning ways to care for yourself just a little bit more, explore various ways to integrate self-care into your everyday life, how to build a self-care plan, and how to encourage others to build their own plan for self-care.

Session Four Recording

Money and Mental Health

This session will discuss learning how mental health and money are connected, spending patterns and mood changes on the brain, identify triggers for poor financial decisions and how to break patterns of behavior and explore habits to manage your mental health and improve financial wellness.

Session Five Recording

Resume Workshop

This session we will discuss how to write a summary or objective, top skills that employers are seeking, standout keywords, and tips on tailoring your resume for specific positions.

Session Six Recording

5 Ways to Healthier Eating

This session we will learn how to be a mindful eater, discuss behaviors that get in our way, use Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine a realistic goal weight, create your plan of action, and support each other in our plan.

Session Seven Recording

Managing Family and Relationships

This session we will understand the characteristics of healthy family relationships, identify the barriers and common problems in family systems, and become aware of healthy strategies to improve family relationships.

Session Eight Recording
Managing Family and Relationships Workbook

Past Series

Topics will include: Rethinking Soft Skills, The Great Resignation, Change Management, Improving Employee Morale and Engagement, Communication, and much more.

Rethinking Soft Skills

In this session, we will chat with Gabrielle Marshall, HR Employment Consultant, to discuss how to rethink your soft skills in the New Year.

Session One Recording

The Great Resignation

In this session, we will chat with Alisha Boone, Employment Recruitment Manager, and Anesha Jones, Employment Compliance Manager, to discuss how The Great Resignation changed the workforce over the past three years and the ways UTHSC has put our best foot forward to best equip ourselves in this new terrain.

Session Two Recording

Change Management

In this session, we will chat with Alisha Boone, Employment Recruitment Manager, and Gabrielle Marshall, Employment Consultant, to discuss how to develop a systematic approach to dealing with change, transition, and transformation and steps to take to allow for successful outcomes.

Session Three Recording

Improving Employee Morale and Engagement

In this session, we will chat with Alisha Boone and Brittany Neal, to discuss how to approach employee morale and engagement to improve employee satisfaction, departmental objectives, and organizational success.

Session Four Recording

Bridging the Generational Gap

Did you know that there are 5 different generations in the 2022 workforce? With an increase in multigenerational diversity, it is more difficult to manage differences in values. Please join Gabrielle Marshall and Nalisha Brown to discuss generations that make up the workforce, generation values in the workplace, and how to manage a multi-generation workplace.

Session Five Recording

Communication: Beyond the Basics

Presented by Optum, Bonnie La Duca

Every day, there are more and more ways to communicate but that increase in quantity does not always mean an improvement in quality. Quite the opposite, as we get more hurried so too do our meetings, emails, phone calls, texts and posts. Whether communication is virtual or face to face there are some golden guidelines that help ensure people understand us and we have the desired impact. Learning to think, speak and write effectively is a life skill that underpins all successful careers. 

Participants will: 
• Learn and use multiple perspectives
• Get clear about their objectives
• Use chunking and linking to structure communication
• Apply tips to be memorable and persuasive

Session Six Recording

Walk Me Through Your Resume

Why do employers ask the question “ Walk me through your resume? Do you know how to respond? Has your resume been updated? Please join Gabrielle Marshall and Alisha Boone in walking through your resume with a discussion of resume and interview tips.

Session Seven Recording

Walk Me Through Your Resume Presentation

Goal Setting and Professional Development

Do you always have a goal in mind but can’t seem to reach it? Do you want to progress professionally but don’t know what you should do or what resources to look to? Please join Melissa Rabalais and Debbie Long for a discussion on how to make your goals reality.

Session Eight Recording

As we ring in the new year in the midst of a pandemic, we may feel as though our resolutions and goals are not a priority. Still, we free ourselves from what we did not accomplish last year in order to focus on making this year better than ever before, but sticking to those resolutions is hard work. It takes concerted focus and effort to turn resolutions into new habits and make them stick in your organization or personal life.

Making a Career Change

In this session, we will chat with Gabrielle Marshall, HR Associate, and Alisha Boone, Employment Recruitment Manager, to discuss career changes, resume building, job applications and target specific jobs.

Session One Recording

Fitness and Nutrition 

In this session, we will chat with Suzanne Apperson, from the Fitness Center
about Fitness and Nutrition in the new year.

Session Two Recording

Stress Reduction 

In this session, we will chat about the how to manage stress reduction in the new year.

Session Three Recording

Connecting through Hobbies

In this session, we will chat with Allan Landstreet, Retirement Plan Advisor for RetireReady TN and Gina Curry, HR Insurance Coordinator, about Financial wellness, and work life balance.

Session Four Recording

FInancial and Work Life Balance

In this session, we will chat with Allan Landstreet, Retirement Plan Advisor for RetireReady TN and Gina Curry, HR Insurance Coordinator, about Financial wellness, and work life balance.

Session Five Recording

This 13-week series will take place every Friday from 10:00 -10:30 am CST, May 15- Aug 14, 2020. All sessions will be recorded and available for viewing.

Session 1 (May 15, 2020)

Staying Connected during COVID-19: Transitioning from campus to couch, hobbies, and tips on having a new work/life balance. Presenters: Jackie Cotton, Executive Administrative Aide to the Vice Chancellor- Finance and Administration, Jean Perdicaris, Administrative Coordinator II to Vice Chancellor-AFSA, Tim Florence, Manager of ITS Instructional Services

Session One Recording

Session 2 (May 22, 2020) 

We will chat with Holly Rounds, Director of Pediatrics, to discuss recent successes, team support/collaboration, strategies on balancing the workload, and advice for other teams.

Session Two Recording

Session 3 (May 29, 2020)

We will chat with Courtney Sievers, Assistant Dean of College of Dentistry, to discuss recent successes, team support/collaboration, strategies on balancing the workload, and advice for other teams.

Session Three Recording

Session 4 (June 5, 2020)

We will chat with Chief Berryhill and Deputy Chief Knight, Campus Police, to discuss recent successes, team support/collaboration, strategies on balancing the workload, and advice for other teams.

Session Four Recording

Session 5 (June 12, 2020)

We will chat with Lisa Aitken, Director of IT Customer Technology Support, to discuss recent successes, team support/collaboration, strategies on balancing the workload, and advice for other teams.

Session Five Recording

Session 6 (June 16, 2020)

Remote Tools and Technology: Presented by Lisa Hall, Executive Director of IT Business Productivity Solutions and Dennis Leber, Chief Information Security Officer with discussion around best resources for working remotely and how to maintain security in the age of COVID.

Session Six Presentation

Lisa Hall (lhall37@uthsc.edu) , Executive Director, Business Productivity Solutions

Dennis Leber (dleber@uthsc.edu),  Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) | HIPAA Security Officer

Tonya Brown (tlbrown@uthsc.edu), Application Support

IT Security Link: https://www.uthsc.edu/its/cybersecurity/ 

Zoom Information at: https://uthsc.edu/its/business-productivity-solutions/training/zoom/index.php 

Zoom Update License information: https://uthsc.edu/its/business-productivity-solutions/training/zoom/index.php 

Desktop & Web Apps information: https://www.uthsc.edu/its/business-productivity-solutions/training/index.php  

OnBase Information: https://www.uthsc.edu/its/business-productivity-solutions/product-management/onbase.php 

Tips for working from home: https://www.uthsc.edu/its/remote-work/index.php 

Always report any suspicious emails in your UTHSC account to abuse@uthsc.edu or call Helpdesk at 901.448.2222 ext. 1 immediately.

Session 7 (June 19, 2020)

We will chat with Edwin Jeffries, Superintendent of Custodial Services and Kim Moore Assistant Vice Chancellor of Facilities, to discuss recent successes, team support/collaboration, strategies on balancing the workload, and advice for other teams.

Session Seven Recording

Session 8 (June 26, 2020)

We will chat with Ann Salina, Director of Enrollment Management to discuss recent successes, team support/collaboration, strategies on balancing the workload, and advice for other teams.

Session Eight Recording

Session 9 (July 7, 2020)

Maintaining Work Life Balance: promoting resources and tips for UTHSC employees. Featured presenters: J. Lee Taylor, Director of Campus Recreation, Erin Jennings, Assistant Director of Campus Recreation, and Kathy Gibbs, Assistant Vice Chancellor of SASSI.

Session Nine Recording

Work Life Balance Presentation

Session 10 (July 10, 2020)

Do’s and Don’ts of Virtual Interviewing: a discussion for interviewees and interviewers presented by HR.

Session Ten Recording

Session 11 (July 17, 2020)

Virtual Onboarding and Virtual Orientation: a discussion on our change in process based on the pandemic presented by HR.

Session Eleven Recording

Session 12 (July 24, 2020)

The New Post Hiring: a discussion on how best to facilitate interaction, communication, and expectations when working in a pandemic environment. This session is presented by HR.

Session Twelve Recording

Post Hire Checklist

Session 13 (July 31, 2020)

Team collaboration: Best practices and tools for remote projects and collaborations, building trust and clear communication, additional resources for engagement. This session will be presented by HR. 

Session Thirteen Recording

 

Nov 30, 2023