Collaboration & Teams

Quality Teachings Talks - Mentoring and Supporting Students in Experiential Learning

OSU strives to provide experiential learning opportunities for our students. Through healthy mentorship and support, we can build thriving learning communities around these transformational experiences. Come discuss mentoring students on projects outside of the traditional classroom environment.

Week 3 - Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 11:00 - 11:50 AM PST | Austin 126 

By Maria Ruiz-Cortes on March 4, 2024

DFA Risk Appetite Statements and Risk Assessment Tools: Train the Trainer

Insurance and Risk Management Services will facilitate a workshop for unit leaders and supervisors to provide exposure to the DFA Risk Appetite Statements and Risk Assessment Tools. Attendees will gain hands-on practice and develop the skills necessary to assist other employees in understanding and incorporating the DFA Risk Appetite Statements and Risk Assessment Tools into their work. Registration is required.

By Melissa Medina on June 6, 2023

Upcoming: Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement—by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics—at all levels of your organization. By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you’ll surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment.

By Melissa Medina on April 28, 2023

Personal and Professional Boundaries

Interpersonal boundaries are present in all relationships, both personal and professional. This topic involves recognizing when boundaries are problematic (too porous or too rigid) and why people may struggle to set and maintain good boundaries. Participants will learn techniques to effectively communicate boundaries and understand approaches to address and resolve internal obstacles to setting limits experiencing healthy productive relationships.

This is a recording from April 2023. Click “Learn more and register” to access the recording.

By Melissa Medina on Feb. 28, 2023

How to Deal With a Difficult Person

At one time or another, we have all dealt with a difficult person. Whether they are hard to communicate with, acting defensive or just handling a situation inappropriately, interactions with difficult people can affect our confidence, mood and focus. Learning to recognize and cope with common difficult behaviors in ourselves and others can help make difficult encounters much more manageable.

This is a recording from February 2023. Click “Learn more and register” to access the recording.

By Melissa Medina on Jan. 13, 2023

LinkedIn Learning

Learn something new with LinkedIn Learning!

LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps you discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos. With over 16,000 courses and personalized recommendations, you can discover, complete, and track courses related to your field and interests. LinkedIn Learning is available at no cost to all active OSU faculty, staff, and students.

By Katy Ahlvin on April 19, 2022

Emotional Intelligence

Implementing discipline over our emotional life is difficult and requires lifelong practice. Being able to choose to act or respond in a particular manner is preferable to re-acting on a consistent basis, yet it is difficult. Enhancing emotional intelligence improves our ability to master our emotional functioning. High emotional intelligence can improve our communications with all others, enhance our perception of satisfaction with ourselves and our lives and increase our productiveness overall.

By Katy Ahlvin on March 7, 2022

Covid-19 Collection: Communication

Learn the best practices when it comes to interpersonal communication: communicating remotely, having difficult conversations, and communicating across cultures.

This OSU-curated LinkedIn Learning collection* features 2 hours and 21 minutes of content, including:

  • Communicating Remotely (self-paced online video)
  • Having Difficult Conversations (self-paced online course)
  • Interpersonal Communication (self-paced online course)
  • Communicating Across Cultures (self-paced online course)  

 

By Katy Ahlvin on Feb. 4, 2021

Bullying

Learn to recognize the stages of bullying, its effects and impact, and options for effective intervention.

Bullying education is recommended for all OSU students and employees. 

To request this training, submit a Training Request form through University Ombuds Office’s website (the "Learn more and register" link will direct you to the Ombuds Training Request form).

By Katy Ahlvin on Dec. 24, 2020