Real Colors® Workshop: Online!

Like True Colors?  You love this Real Colors® Workshop!! Imagine having the ability to clearly communicate your thoughts and ideas to clients, friends and family. Picture yourself having a unique level of insight into the things that motivate you and others. Envision achieving all the things you want from life, both personally and professionally. You…

Optum Conference Call: Managing Grief This Holiday Season

We recognize that UTC employees may still be experiencing feelings of grief, sadness and other emotions as we enter the upcoming holiday season.  We want to offer an opportunity to call-in to participate, or just listen to, a discussion (via phone) on coping with grief led by an OPTUM psychologist (this is a closed discussion…

New Hire Paperwork Training

New Hire Paperwork Training Join this one-hour session to walk through the completion of new hire paperwork including the New Hire/Rehire Form, Form I-9, W-4, and Direct Deposit form.  We will cover common errors and provide time for Questions and Answers.   Presenter:  UTC Human Resources, Employment Services Targeted Audience:  Departmental Administrative Support Staff and…

Optum: How to Address Performance Problems (for Managers)

How you handle performance concerns as a manager is central to your organization’s success, as well as your own. How can you be fair yet firm? Participants will: Discuss effective strategies for confronting employees Create a plan for how to handle verbal or physical abuse Provide insight into the necessity for solid documentation Discuss why…

Search Committee Training

Search Committee Training is mandatory for anyone serving on a faculty or exempt staff search committee at UTC, and the training must be repeated after 2 years. This Zoom training provides essential information and resources for search committee members.  It includes an overview of the search process, compliance guidelines, the roles and responsibilities of search…

UT Office of Employee Development (EOD) Topic of the Month: Critical Thinking

December: Critical Thinking How often do you think about thinking? Critical thinking is an essential skill to be innovative and invigorated in the workplace. In this session we will investigate the meaning of critical thinking and how it is utilized to solve problems, build strategies, and increase engagement. Zoom session: Register HERE

Social Security Considerations

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Still Living in Uncertain Times COVID-19

We are all still living in unprecedented times, which foster worry and anxiety. Heightened worry and fear can only make trigger events worse than they already are. Controlling the way that we process the events is the goal of this seminar. Participants will: • Explore options to help us continue to adjust as best as…

COVID-19: Still Living in Uncertain Times

We are all still living in unprecedented times, which still fosters worry and anxiety. Heightened worry and fear can only make trigger events worse than they already are. Controlling the way that we continue to process events is the goal of this seminar. Participants will: • Learn to accept the new reality and new expectations…

TIAA Webinar : Inside Money, Managing Income and Debt

TIAA Webinar : Inside Money, Managing Income and Debt How to help make money work, the importance of cash flow and how to use it, saving and spending, understanding debt and how to manage it. Zoom Information is below. One tap mobile: US: 8884754499,,98373347041# (Toll Free) or 8335480276,,98373347041# (Toll Free) Meeting URL: https://tiaa.zoom.us/j/98373347041?pwd=SFc1UkRUK1F6ZFpyV3Q5NEFqdkh4QT09 Meeting ID:…

Staff Annual Performance Review Drop-In Sessions

Have a question about the Staff Annual Performance Review process?  The Office of Human Resources is sponsoring four drop-in sessions to help you get your questions answered.  The first one is Thursday! Virtually drop-in anytime during one of the sessions scheduled below, and the HR leadership team and members of the Division of Diversity & Engagement…

Market proof your retirement

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Strategies for staying on track

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Staff Annual Performance Review Drop-In Sessions

Have a question about the Staff Annual Performance Review process?  The Office of Human Resources is sponsoring four drop-in sessions to help you get your questions answered.  The first one is Thursday! Virtually drop-in anytime during one of the sessions scheduled below, and the HR leadership team and members of the Division of Diversity & Engagement…

Estate Planning Considerations

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Staff Annual Performance Review Drop-In Sessions

Have a question about the Staff Annual Performance Review process?  The Office of Human Resources is sponsoring four drop-in sessions to help you get your questions answered.  The first one is Thursday! Virtually drop-in anytime during one of the sessions scheduled below, and the HR leadership team and members of the Division of Diversity & Engagement…

Relaxation Techniques

A This session identifies the importance of relaxation in a high-stress world, defining what relaxation is and why it is important, as well as offers tips to insert relaxation practices into your daily life. Participants will: • Learn tips for energizing to improve effectiveness at work and at home • Consider why relaxation skills are…

Tax planning considerations

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ParTNers for Health Lunch and Learn: Social Media Use and Misuse

In this workshop, Optum explores both the benefits and negative impacts of social media. While we recognize there are many reasons to engage with others through social media, there is a downside if it becomes too compulsive and if we can’t switch it off. You may have read about how social media can be addictive…

ParTNers for Health Lunch and Learn – Increase Your Healthcare IQ

Our mission at Benefits Administration is to deliver comprehensive, affordable, dependable and sustainable benefits to all of our plan members. In recent years, we’ve added new and innovative programs and benefit improvements to help our members live their best lives. Learn about the range of benefit programs available to you and your dependents Ensure you’re…

How to Improve Communication Skills – Optum

Communication is at the heart of professional and personal interactions. Depending on skill level, the ways we communicate can open doors to productive relationships, a good working climate and opportunities. But lack of solid skills can close doors. This training offers participants a chance to apply skills that are critical to good communication. And, they’ll…

How to Improve Communication Skills – Managers – Optum

The level of a manager’s influence relies heavily on their communication skills. This program will address the communication concerns managers uniquely face, exploring the skills required to be effective. Register here

Conference for Women’s Leadership: E4 Symposium

*EMPOWERED * ENCOURAGED * ENRICHED * ENLIGHTENED * The in-person E4 Symposium will build community through engagement in learning and professional development opportunities in a one-and-half-day format delivered through four leadership areas of emphasis. The four tracks are: (a) emerging; (b) early; (c) mid-level; and (d) executive. There will be time and space to engage…

How to Build Successful Teams – Managers – Optum

Managers will learn to identify the characteristics of effective teamwork, influence the work group function and recognize the signs of difficulty on a team. This program will also help participants form and maintain effective teams and improve productivity and morale. Participants will: Define teamwork Determine their individual work style Learn how to modify work style…

How to Build Successful Teams – Employees – Optum

Participants will discover their own work style and how that personal style interacts within the team. This program features exercises that prompt employees to maintain effective teams and work together to reduce tension and stress and improve morale and productivity. Participants will: Identify warning signs Explore the benefits of teamwork Determine strategies for interaction Identify…

Crucial Learning Webinar: Courageous Humility: Leading With Resilience In These Challenging Times

Bonnie St. John, former Paralympic skier, former director of the White House National Economic Council and author of Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy, teaches skills for leading with humility in the face of modern-day social and emotional challenges. Register for the Crucial Learning Summer Webinar Series: Bright Minds and Big…

*NEW* One-day Certificate Program: Leading From Where You Are

“You don’t need a title to show some leadership.” – Robin Sharma Program Objectives: “Leading from Where You Are” is a certificate program designed for the professional development of all employees regardless of status, classification, or title. The program is the preliminary learning opportunity that anchors the overall leadership development focus of UT System HR…

UT Risk Management

This zoom training session will include but is not limited to: an overview of what the Office of Risk Management does, policies that dictate UT’s risk management practices, and procedures for filing claims, insurance management, and general risk mitigation. Objectives: Introduce new or updated procedures, explain risk management practices, answer questions, and make UTC employees…

How to Prevent Burnout – Managers – Optum

Recent evidence suggests that managers can influence employee burnout, directly and indirectly, through the actions they take and the health models that they too live by. What managers do and say matters. Even managers and supervisors who do not think they have a role as a health leader should consider attending this session because it…

Crucial Learning Webinar: How to Become a Better Listener

Rapid technological advances have given us infinitely more ways to communicate with people across time and space. Yet many of us feel more disconnected than ever from other human beings. Why? What drives our sense of connection or disconnection to others? How can we use (or step away from) technology to foster more meaningful connections?…

Leading From Where You Are In-Person Session

University Center Chickamauga Room

*BACK AGAIN!* One-day Certificate Program: Leading From Where You Are “You don’t need a title to show some leadership.” – Robin Sharma September 22, 8:30am-5:00pm, Chickamauga Room Program Objectives: “Leading from Where You Are” is a certificate program designed for the professional development of all employees regardless of status, classification, or title. The program is…