March 5, 2013 Meeting of Staff Development and Training Advisory Committee

1. Review of Agenda
2. Retreat

• Review notes to this point—Have facilitators review the summaries that Julia made and synthesize, if possible.  We need to make a recommendation to EC
• The 2 page summary for New UL was reviewed.
  • Do you want a retreat?
  • When do you want it?  August and January are the best for public services staff, but not for processing folks.
  • How long should it be?
  • Is it mandatory or not?  Needs to be clear how supervisors handle questions.  Pros and cons
  • What are the parameters for topics?
  • Who handled?  First 3 were the AUL for Services:  Bob and Scott, Diversity committee helped with # 2, Staff Development helped with #3.

1.                 LAMP update (Cindy Ingold)

• This is moving along.  Website will be up soon.  Registration will begin in March

1.  Wellness activities (Zoe Revell—not attending)–updates

• Pedometer challenge—April.  Michelle Guerra will do the pedometer calibration session the last week of March
  •         Money Smart week sessions  — April 23 and 25—Identify Theft and Credit Score
  • Working on Spring Cleaning for our inboxes to the BOX
  • May hope to do CPR class

1.    Orientation checklist and follow up.

• Cindy and Beth are working on scheduling follow up with those who’ve been hired in last 6 months of so….tentative date April 4 from 10 to 12 in 314.  Suggestions for content (other than answering questions) would be appreciated.

i.      Ask:  What are things people need to know about sooner?

7.   Supervisory training

• Cindy presenting workshops:
  • Job description writing training
  • Did follow-up discussions on DiSC
  • 2 more sessions have been contracted with Shirley Stelbrink
    • One suggestion was “crucial conversations” – Shirley will send a draft of what she would cover in this
    • Other suggestions included :
      • Business writing.  There seems to be a lack of professionalism, communication and civility in emails.  Writing Effective Emails:  Professional Communication in the Digital Age.  Don’t have ideas for individuals to present.
      • How to estimate time for projects.
        • Task assessment, project management resource allocation
        • Assessing your own strengths and weaknesses in projects
        • Best tips and tricks to use in existing software, like Outlook

1. Training Topics suggested:

From AC:  training for committee chairs on how to run meetings.  Jan Ison has been contacted and will do a session on running meetings in May.

Next meeting;  Tuesday, April 2, 1:30-3 pm in 428 Library