The Leadership Toolkit
Boost your career potential with this three-part webinar series, designed to elevate your skills and confidence in the workplace. Enhance teamwork and drive innovation, activate emotional intelligence for effective project leadership, and learn how to present with confidence to senior leaders.
Whether you're aiming to lead, connect, or deliver, this series provides actionable insights to help you succeed at every level. Don't miss out!
University of Minnesota employees can receive 200 wellness points by viewing a CCAPS professional development webinar. Please complete this form to record your wellness points.
The Power of Collaboration
Wednesday, February 26 | noon—1 p.m.
Presented by Carolien Moors
In today’s hybrid and always-evolving workplace, effective collaboration is instrumental for individual and team success, as well as for professional well-being. This webinar explores how to enhance collaboration by embracing traditional teamwork principles, unlocking the power of diverse minds, boosting individual adaptability, ensuring more seamless communication, and discussing best practices for effectively navigating collaboration in a hybrid world.
This webinar provides you with actionable strategies to:
- cultivate psychological safety and inclusion for all team members.
- build trust and cohesion in hybrid and remote teams.
- harness the strengths of neurodiverse teams to spark problem-solving and innovation.
- overcome common challenges in cross-functional collaboration.
Carolien Moors, MPsych and MEd, has applied psychology and business insight to the challenges faced by leaders and teams as an organizational consultant, speaker, and coach—focusing on candor, accountability, and change—for more than 30 years.
Harness Emotional Intelligence in Project Leadership
Wednesday, March. 26 | noon—1 p.m.
Presented by Ben Chan
Emotional intelligence is a critical skill for project managers to effectively navigate team dynamics, foster collaboration, and work through challenging situations in the drive to success. By harnessing our self-awareness and mastering these techniques, we can respond with empathy and adaptability in both immediate challenges and long-term professional growth.
In this webinar, we will learn:
- the importance of emotional intelligence in project management and its impact on team success.
- how we can build our self-awareness by identifying personal emotional triggers and behavioral patterns.
- learn strategies to manage emotions and maintain composure in high-pressure situations.
Ben Chan is a project management leadership coach helping overwhelmed, stressed out project managers to become confident, strategic project leaders who are better equipped to overcome their challenges and power their career.
Master Meetings with Decision-Makers
Wednesday, April 23 | noon—1 p.m.
Presented by Lindsay Read
Are you uncomfortable running meetings with senior leaders? Have you received feedback that you lack confidence when presenting? As you move up in your career, it's common to feel like you're not quite hitting the mark when leading meetings with senior leaders.
In this webinar, we'll discuss how to demonstrate your leadership skills in meetings with your senior leaders. You'll learn how to use meetings to get the clarity and support you need to do your job effectively and move the work forward.
You’ll get more comfortable:
- being more assertive when leading meetings.
- balancing decision-making and collaboration in your meetings.
- sharing your point of view with senior leaders even when you do not know the right answer.
Lindsay Reed brings a well-informed, creative approach to her work with high-performing and high-potential leaders, with 20 years of experience coaching and consulting at world-class universities and organizations around the globe.
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University Employee Wellbeing Points
CCAPS's Free Webinar Series is partnering with the University's Employee Wellbeing Program. For each free webinar attended, you may earn 200 points towards your goal.
How many points will I receive after attending a webinar?
1 hour webinar = 200 points
Are there limits on the number of CCAPS professional development webinars I can listen to in order to receive Wellbeing points?
No. You can now receive points for attending unlimited webinars per program year.
How do I request my Wellbeing points?
Fill out this request form. CCAPS will also provide a link to the request form within the slide deck at the end of each webinar. A link to the request form should also appear in the YouTube description of past webinars.
When will OHR process my Wellbeing points request?
Point requests will be submitted on the 1st Tuesday of the month following the webinars. If you have any questions or are not seeing your Wellbeing points reflected, please contact [email protected].
How do I check my current points rewards status?
You can check your current status by visiting the Wellbeing Program page, or you can email [email protected].
Can I obtain Wellbeing points for listening to past webinars?
Yes. You can obtain points for listening to past webinars. You can access our past webinars by visiting CCAPS's Professional Development Webinar Archive. You will need to submit a Wellbeing points request form for each webinar you listen to.
Who do I contact if I have questions about the Wellbeing Program?
Visit the Wellbeing Program website or email your questions to [email protected].