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Extension Methods & Delivery
Building Support  
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Office, Team, and Personal Development 


EXTENSION METHODS & DELIVERY


Helping the Extension Community Navigate the Emerging AI Landscape (Extension Foundation)

Sept. 11 | 11 a.m. - Noon PDT
Register here. Description and details to come.

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Food Waste Community of Practice (Extension Foundation)

Sept. 22 | 11 a.m. - Noon PDT
Register here. Description and details to come.

Crafting Effective Impact Statements (Extension Foundation)

Thursday, Sept. 25 | 11 a.m.  – Noon PDT 
Register here. Description and details to come.


BUILDING SUPPORT


UC ANR offers several resources to help you succeed in funding, fundraising and outreach. The Office of Contracts and Grants supports staff with training and tools for navigating the grant process. Development Services helps with donor engagement, gift processing and fundraising campaigns. And the Government & Community Relations Toolkit provides guidance for effectively engaging elected officials and community partners.


EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION


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UC Managing Implicit Bias (eCourses; UC Learning Center)

Discover how to strengthen your decision-making, collaboration and leadership by completing the UC Davis Implicit Bias Certificate Series. This interactive program equips you with tools to recognize and reduce the impact of unconscious bias in everyday work, from hiring and supervision to teamwork and client interactions. By building awareness and practicing practical strategies, you’ll not only enhance equity and inclusion across UC ANR but also grow your own effectiveness as a professional. Required and elective courses.


OFFICE, TEAM, & PERSONAL MANAGEMENT


Conflict Competence: From Bystander to Upstander (UC Davis Ombuds)

Sept. 11 | 9 - 11 a.m. PDT

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What do you do when you see incivility, but it’s not directed at you? What is your role if you witness micro or macro aggressions in the workplace? How do you support your colleagues and help address problematic behavior? These are not simple questions and there is not a single correct answer. Through this discussion driven, scenario-based workshop, you will explore your own barriers to taking action and identify five strategies you could use when moving from being a bystander to being an upstander.

Overcoming Academic Perfectionism (NCFDD)

Sept. 11 | 11 a.m.- Noon. PDT

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In this webinar, perfectionists will unite to get clear about:

  • The causes and consequences of excessive perfectionism.
  • The features of academic life that intensify perfectionism
  • Strategies to identify when your perfectionism is at work, assess whether it is useful or debilitating, and adjust your standards and behavior accordingly
  • The secret to finding real satisfaction in every step of the writing process
Teamwork (Extension Foundation)

Sept. 16 | 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m. PDT

Registration
Are you working with a group you wish felt like a team? Together, we’ll uncover the five aspects of highly effective teams using wisdom from Google’s “Project Aristotle” to unleash the power of great teamwork.

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Civic Engagement: The Good, the Bad and the Learning (Extension Foundation)

Sept. 24 | 11 a.m. - Noon PDT

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How do you define "civic engagement"? How does that impact the ways you approach your work? In this webinar, we will address the task of defining “civic engagement” as we share the University of Minnesota Extension Community Development’s process model and its connection to our experiences working with communities. Walk away with fresh insights from a discussion of important and challenging questions to deepen your own civic engagement work.

PaymentWorks & Candex – New Aggie Enterprise Systems

Sept. 25 | Noon-12:30 p.m. 

Tracy Roman, Associate Director of the Business Operations Center (BOC) will give an overview of two new Aggie Enterprise systems that streamline Aggie Enterprise processes and meet UC and IRS compliance requirements.
 
PaymentWorks is the new portal for onboarding new suppliers into the Aggie Enterprise system. Candex is the new one-time payment process for individuals.
 
Come learn how and when to use these systems.  
 
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
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