Since arriving astatine Duke successful 2001 arsenic a wellness portion coordinator astatine Duke University Hospital, Seneca McLean’s vocation has evolved. And astatine each constituent successful her journey, Duke has had resources to assistance her determination forward.
Through Learning & Organization Development (L&OD), a portion successful Duke Human Resources, McLean has built up enactment skills successful courses specified as Fundamentals of Coaching and Moving from Peer to Supervisor.
“To me, it’s precise important to ne'er halt learning,” said McLean, programme coordinator for the Duke University School of Medicine’s Faculty Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Office. “Not lone tin that assistance you successful your career, but it keeps your caput engaged and boosts your confidence.”
In 2023, L&OD volition offer 97 nonrecreational and method improvement courses on leadership, connection and method skills disposable for Duke unit and faculty. The courses scope from $60 single-day method courses to $600 multi-day workshops. Included successful this year’s offerings are 19 sessions of caller courses, which were added based connected feedback received from leaders and colleagues crossed Duke.
“Through our learning needs appraisal and surveys, we are capable to gauge the needs of our workforce,” said Duke Assistant Vice President for Learning & Organization Development Keisha Williams. “Seeing our workforce’s challenges and opportunities for development, allows the L&OD squad to spot intentional resources successful beforehand of our worker population. It’s astir assessing the need, and gathering radical wherever they are to let them to turn and thrive successful their existent environment.”
New courses include Facilitate Virtual Learning (April 10 and December 1) and Train the Trainer (February 22, March 22, April 26, and October 16), which are designed for radical who, arsenic portion of their job, bid colleagues.
Other caller courses are Leading done Generational Differences (April 19); CliftonStrengthsFinder: Discover Your Greatest Talent (February 27 and October 26) and method courses connected Microsoft Visio (May 2 and September 12) and Microsoft OneNote (October 24).
“Our intent is to supply the assets for learning astatine each levels wrong our workforce,” Williams said. “Every idiosyncratic has a travel to their learning. We are present to guarantee they tin find their pathway and beryllium palmy successful each that they do.”
The 2023 slate besides features galore perennially fashionable courses specified as Managing Multiple Priorities (March 7, May 17, September 19 and December 11); Crucial Conversations: For Mastering Dialogue (February 28, June 21 and September 26); and 16 classes for some beginners and precocious users of Microsoft Excel.
And with virtual courses proving fashionable during the pandemic, astir classes are disposable online.
Erin Leshowitz, adjunct caregiver manager with Duke Raleigh Hospital’s inpatient surgical oncology unit, took respective online courses successful 2022, including Managing from the Middle and Crucial Conversations: For Mastering Dialogue.
“I thought it was truly convenient,” Leshowitz said. “I was truly impressed with however interactive they were for being online. With the exertion they use, we were capable to bash breakout rooms and enactment successful the people by answering questions they would have. It was precise interactive adjacent though it wasn’t successful person.”
Check retired the 2023 docket of courses and spot if there’s thing close for you.
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