Join your colleagues for a dynamic training on the four primary functions of a manager, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. High engagement activities provide impactful experiences that will motivate you to implement new behaviors and better understand your responsibilities to UNLV and your employees.

Trainer: Amy Pouricau, advisor, Simmons Group

Communication & Feedback

According to Forbes, "82 percent of employees appreciate positive and negative feedback.” Join Dr. Mark Guadagnoli from the UNLV School of Medicine as he provides effective, practical strategies that will allow you to more confidently have feedback conversations with your direct reports. By practicing and applying the “Good, Better, How” method, you will be better able to provide your direct reports with clear, kind feedback to help them grow and be more productive.

Trainer: Mark Guadagnoli, Ph.D., professor, Department of Neuroscience and Neurology, associate dean, Faculty Affairs, director of learning and performance, UNLV School of Medicine

How to Write a Position

Come and hear from the UNLV Human Resources experts as they share the top five most important aspects of developing well-defined job descriptions.

Trainers

• Michelle Hogan, director, compensation, classification & recruitment, Human Resources, UNLV
• Damaris Aguirre, manager, compensation & classification, Human Resources, UNLV

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is a skill that allows us to read the style of individuals and adjust our communication accordingly. This course will focus on the five core competencies of emotional intelligence: self-management, self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation and empathy. Participants will learn to develop and implement these competencies to enhance their relationships in work and life by increasing their understanding of social and emotional behaviors, and learning how to adapt and manage their responses to particular situations.

Trainers

• Kim Virtuoso, Continuing Education, UNLV

Join nationally recognized cultural intelligence expert, Dr. Barbee Oakes, as she leads activities that demonstrate the importance of being culturally intelligent. By learning the impact cultural intelligence has on you, personally, and UNLV, as an institution, you will acquire skills that will help shift your cultural perspective and develop an intercultural mindset.

Trainer: Barbee Oakes, chief diversity officer, UNLV

Understanding and Managing Leave

Come and hear from the UNLV Human Resources experts as they share the top five most important aspects of understanding and managing leave.

Trainer: Michael Villapando, absence management coordinator, Human Resources, UNLV

Overview of Discrimination and Harassment Concerns

Brainstorm responses to a number of sample scenarios that will help you better understand what to do when someone you supervise or know expresses concerns about discrimination or harassment. You will walk away from this session with a clear list of strategies that contribute to a healthier work environment and campus climate.

Trainer: Michelle Sposito, director, equal employment & Title IX, UNLV

How to Conduct Performance Evaluations & Performance Management

Come and hear from the UNLV Human Resources experts as they share the top five most important aspects of conducting performance evaluations and performance management.

Trainers: Kim McGurk-Fulton, senior specialist, employee relations, Human Resources, UNLV

Motivation in the Workplace

What motivates us at work? How does this affect employee engagement? How does employee engagement impact success? The answers may surprise you! Engage in a lively discussion to discover your personal strengths and learn how to use them to motivate your team. You will leave the session with a list of 2-3 self-identified behaviors to help you create a positive, encouraging work environment.

Trainers:

• Lisa Sandoval, leadership development consultant
• Finley Cotrone, assistant professor in residence, UNLV

Recruitment & Hiring Best Practices

Join experts in recruitment and hiring from the UNLV Human Resources department who will share the most important strategies as you recruit and hire the next super star in your department.

Trainers:

• Michelle Hogan, director, compensation, classification & recruitment, Human Resources, UNLV
• Kimberly D. Kendricks, Ph.D., director of strategic initiatives for faculty success, UNLV faculty affairs

Corrective Action and Discipline

What is a Memorandum of Expectations? What is a Letter of Instruction? What about an NNR? NCT? What do these have to do with corrective action and discipline? Providing corrective action and discipline to direct reports can be confusing and scary. Come and learn from the employee relations experts about when it is appropriate to provide corrective action and progressive discipline and how the processes are different, depending on the employee's job classification by playing Jeopardy! and working through surprising example scenarios.

Trainer: Maria Langley, senior specialist, employee relations, HR, UNLV

Workplace Issues: Panel and Participant Questions

Do you still have questions whose answers will strengthen your management style? Join us and your colleagues to pose questions to a panel of MTA trainers to clarify content and further discuss topics presented during MTA sessions.