In addition to the monthly virtual training opportunities being offered through Extension Organizational Development, we also have custom training opportunities for your department or team. The following training opportunities are available through EOD and our campus partners:
- CliftonStrengths Online Talent Assessment (offered through CALS and Extension HR) - This is a great opportunity to assess the strengths of everyone on your team and learn how to utilize those strengths to improve your team’s performance.
- Crucial Conversations (coming 2025) - A crucial conversation is a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. When conversations turn crucial, people tend to follow one of two ineffective paths: they either speak directly and abrasively to get the results they want but harm relationships, or they remain silent with the hope of preserving relationships only to sacrifice results. But there’s a better way. Crucial Conversations gives people the skills to step into disagreement—rather than over or around it—and turn disagreement into dialogue for improved relationships and results.
- FISH! Philosophy - Learn about the four practices of the FISH! Philosophy (Be There, Play, Make Their Day, Choose Your Attitude) to help improve engagement, retention, and the morale of your team.
- Real Colors - Real Colors® is a dynamic workshop experience using the Real Colors Personality Type Test: a user-friendly, intuitive tool that identifies four personality types common to all people—Gold, Green, Blue, and Orange. The goal is to provide participants with the skills to:
- understand human behavior
- uncover motivators specific to each temperament
- improve communication with others
- Strategic Planning - Work with our EOD team to develop a strategic plan for your team’s future. Strategic planning work includes:
- Team Canvas Exercise
- Developing and Stating Core Values
- Developing and Establishing a Vision
- Developing Goals and Objectives
- Start/Stop/Continue Activity
- Team Building - From icebreakers and name games, to group initiatives, to trust exercises, we can offer a wide variety of activities customized to meet the goals and needs of your team.
- Training - Whatever the challenges, goals, or needs are for your team, EOD can help! The following are just a few of some of the trainings we have developed and can facilitate:
- Building Collaborative and High Performing Teams
- Generations at Work: Building a Collaborative Team Across Ages
- Goal Setting as a Team
