Managers as Career Growth Partners
Virtual Workshop | Wednesday, October 21 | 11:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. ET
$295 for CUPA-HR Members | $595 for Nonmembers
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Explore how you can support your employees in their career growth!
As a manager, are you doing all you could be doing to support your employees’ career growth? This half-day virtual workshop will expand your thinking on what career and professional development could look like for your employees and how you can facilitate, encourage and support employees’ growth and learning, even when budgets are tight.
The workshop format is highly interactive and includes presentations, reflections, hands-on activities and dialogue with peers, so come prepared to engage, reflect and share ideas. Each segment of the workshop is led by experts in leadership and higher ed HR, with each topic area building on the previous one. Seats are limited to support interaction among participants. The workshop will not be recorded.
Registration closes October 19 at 11:59 p.m. ET
Workshop Agenda
The Lasting Value of Career and Professional Development for Your Employees – 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. ET
Career and professional development shouldn’t be just a perk, but rather a strategic investment tied to performance, engagement, retention and succession. We’ll explore how managers can actively facilitate development even when budgets are limited, and why investing in employees, even those who move internally, strengthens institutional talent pipelines. You’ll gain with actionable ideas for moving your employees’ growth forward.
Presenters
Lisa Laughter
Senior Career Coach, Learning and Professional Development
University of California-Davis
Edda Urea
Senior Executive Director, HR Learning and Organizational Development, and Compliance/Title IX and ADA/504 Coordinator
Texas State Technical College
Break – 12:45-1:00 p.m. ET
Rethinking Succession Planning – 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET
Explore how to move from static replacement lists to active talent cultivation. We’ll hear how intentional development transformed potential into leadership for one higher ed HR leader. We’ll also examine how to identify and grow talent in everyday work while designing low-risk stretch assignments that build leadership capacity for the future.
Presenters
Jill Haskell
Training and Development Coordinator
University at Albany
Nicole Englitsch
Organizational Development Manager
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Break – 2:15-2:30 p.m. ET
Coaching for Employee Growth – 2:30-3:45 p.m. ET
Discover practical tools for coaching employees to own and design their growth path. Using principles grounded in inquiry and curiosity, we’ll practice asking powerful questions and explore everyday coaching habits that align with both individual goals and team needs. You’ll leave with an understanding of core coaching skills and resources to navigate everyday coaching.
Presenters
Valyncia Raphael-Woodward
Executive Director, Employee and Labor Relations
University of Southern California
Zhivi Williams
Learning and Development Manager
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
Wrap-Up – 3:45-4:00 p.m. ET
CORE
Employee Development
ENGAGEMENT
Coaching
BUILDING CAPABILITIES
Succession Planning
This workshop has been submitted to HRCI and SHRM for preapproval.
New to CUPA-HR Virtual Events?
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CUPA-HR is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization of HR professionals serving our nation’s institutions of higher education. The content and discussions in these workshops are intended to be educational in nature and do not constitute legal advice or counsel. To that end, we request that participants refrain from promoting partisan positions during the workshops.