Upcoming Courses

HR 2038 Supporting Employee Well-being and Career Development 

This session will equip people leaders and prospective people leaders with the knowledge and resources necessary to support a culture of well-being and career development in the workplace.

• Proactively supporting the well-being and career development of your staff.
• Helping employees who are navigating difficult circumstances or challenges.
• Departments, programs, and tools available to help you and those you supervise.

HR 2024 Being a Conscious Leader 

In its most simple form, conscious leadership is bringing one's whole self with total awareness to your leadership position. Conscious leaders focus on the “we” rather than the “me” and realize that their role is to create a collaborative culture of trust, care, and influence. These leaders are concerned about the overall vision, are self-motivated, and are not prone to making impulsive decisions. Conscientious leaders are concerned about getting a job done in the best way for their organization and the individuals on their team. Conscious leadership is a critical element to developing a thriving team and organization that operates from presence. Conscious leaders automatically create a reliable and robust culture of trust which has a powerful impact on morale and by extension, productivity.

• What does it mean to be a conscious leader and how do you demonstrate it.
• Understand how conscious leaders lead.
• Above the Line as opposed to Below the Line.
• Linking your personal leadership values with those described as conscious leadership.
• Connecting conscious leadership to creating environments where people THRIVE.

Facilitated by ODE Kathy Burkgren, AVP, and Jennifer Fonseca, Senior Management Consultant

HR 3017 - Leader As Coach 

Leader as Coach is a four-session, highly interactive program that builds leaders’ capacity to coach with intention and impact. Participants learn essential coaching principles, apply a practical model for unlocking personal and professional growth, and practice mindful communication strategies. Leaders leave this program with tools they can immediately integrate into their everyday conversations and relationships.

• Learn the principles of coaching.
• Understand the importance of supervisor as coach.
• Utilize a coaching model to help individuals discover their personal and professional potential.
• Leverage mindful-based coaching strategies as a leader.
• Develop relationships and establish trust.

Facilitators: Kathryn Burkgren, Ph.D., AVP, Tanya Grove, Assistant Director, and Ari Mack, Sr. Management Consultant, ODE

HR 2028 Unleashing the Power of Your Team 

What does it mean to be a leader and unleash the power of your team? In this course, you will explore the behaviors and cultural issues that get in the way of leading effectively, as well as your role in creating an environment where all employees feel empowered.

• Understand what it means to be a leader and to empower someone.
• Explore the leader’s role in empowering their direct reports and the specific challenges faced by under-represented employees.
• Learn how to create an environment where employees can excel in their zone of genius.
• Understand what it means to thrive in the workplace.

Facilitated by Marcus Brooks, Senior Management Consultant and Trainer, ODE and Dane Cruz, Director, CITE

HR 3055 - Managing and Facilitating Meetings 

As a result of communicating in remote, onsite, and hybrid work environments, you will learn effective techniques for facilitating business meetings.

Facilitated by Marcus Brooks, Senior Management Consultant and Trainer, ODE

HR 3056 - Effective Listening 

How well you listen has a major impact on how effective you are in your work, and on the quality of your relationships with others. Good listeners are more productive and have greater
ability to influence, persuade and negotiate. They also seem to have fewer misunderstandings and less unresolved conflict. Listening is a skill that everyone can develop.

Learn the importance of listening and techniques for effective listening.

Facilitated by Marcus Brooks, Senior Management Consultant & Trainer, ODE

HR 2056 Engaging the Strength of Connection 

Engage the strength of connection as we provide participants with practical insights and actionable strategies to enhance connectivity within your workplace. Inspired by the book “Connectable” by Ryan Jenkins, we draw from the core principles outlined in the research to engage in dynamic discussions and foster authentic connections. This class is a golden opportunity for those interested in boosting their interpersonal skills, adapting to changing work landscapes, strengthening collaboration, and increasing business success.

• Explore key principles of connection
• Build practical skills for authentic connection
• Understand how connection boosts individual and team productivity
• Understand how to cultivate a culture of collaboration and belonging

Facilitated by Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, ODE

HR 2067 Utilizing Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Application 

This comprehensive course is designed to provide you with a solid foundation in understanding and utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies effectively. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience with AI, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the world of AI confidently.

Facilitated by Steve Jackson, Senior Management Consultant and Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, ODE

HR 1013 - Employee Engagement 

Engaged employees fully invest their best selves in the work they do. But what is employee engagement and how is it created? Employees and leaders intuitively know that when we find a place where we can throw our hearts, spirits, minds, and hands into our work, we are happier, healthier, and produce better results. Yet, most of us struggle to understand exactly why we engage in some environments and don’t in others.

As a result of attending this workshop, you will:

• Understand what employee engagement is and isn’t.
• Learn the 3 types of employees and how to locate yourself among them.
• Develop strategies to remain committed to workplace mission and vision while maintaining and enhancing your own well-being.
• Explore the pillars of intrinsic motivation and how to work with your organization to ask for what you need.
• Develop strategies for cultivating a collaborative and empowering environment that fosters pride, creativity, and commitment amongst our employees.

Facilitated by Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, ODE

HR 3053 Establishing and Maintaining Trust in Work Groups 

Learn how to establish trust within onsite, hybrid and remote work-groups; and what actions in work lead to trust and which disrupt trust.

HR 2090 Navigating Change and Ambiguity: Finding Opportunity in Uncertainty

This engaging session helps participants build the mindset and skills needed to navigate change and ambiguity with confidence.

Through reflection, discussion, and practical tools, attendees learn to strengthen perseverance, stay grounded in uncertainty, and uncover opportunities for innovation within evolving environments.

Instructor, Ari Mack 

HR 2044 De-Mystifying Burnout 

Today’s workplace presents a multitude of challenges for us to overcome! It’s hard to be at our best when we feel bogged down by the weight of burnout. We will explore how to build awareness of what your burnout activators might be and how to effectively navigate through them while building resilience when stress and burnout set in.

Facilitated by Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, ODE

HR 3068 So, You Want to Be a People Leader? 

Discover if you have the desire and would like to acquire or hone the skills to be an excellent people leader. Data recently gathered at Cornell and supported by data being reported on across the world, indicates that people don’t leave jobs, they leave bad managers and toxic work environments. Too often in the past individuals who were good technical experts were chosen to lead and manage others. Often the skill that makes you the best technical expert is completely different than the skill of leading and managing others. Excellent people leaders are critical to creating a culture where people feel valued, a sense of belonging, and engaged.

• Understand the role and expectations Cornell has of people leaders.
• Learn the significance of people leaders having a passion for leading, developing, and coaching. others towards the accomplishment of the mission and vision of the organization.
• Discover the importance of emotional intelligence in managing others.
• Learn the skills to lead and develop individuals and teams.
• Know the critical role coaching plays in developing others.
• Align and implement objectives to advance the strategy of the department.

Facilitated by Marcus Brooks, Senior Management Consultant and Trainer, ODE

HR 3067 Journeying with Generations 

The workforce today includes representation from as many as 5 generations. Have you ever spent time thinking about how this impacts your workplace culture? Your day-to-day activities? Have you ever wondered about how to better understand the perspective of someone from outside of your own generation and how you might communicate more effectively with this person? Please join us for a forum to discuss the ways in which we can improve our understanding of and communication with colleagues in a multi-generational workforce. You will also have the opportunity to learn about additional resources available to you here at Cornell to support you in this endeavor.

By the end of this session, we hope that participants will:

• Feel comfortable having conversations within their own units about their generations and their perspectives through their generational lens.
• Become more comfortable engaging with colleagues of other generations while exploring how to tap into the cumulative experience of all.
• Explore how the intersectionality of generational cohorts, life experiences, and identities come together and create unique dynamics.
• Challenge assumptions and apply strategies for making the workplace more welcoming and inclusive for all generations.

Facilitated by Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, ODE

HR 2025 Navigating Your WorkLife Journey 

Work-life integration, well-being, self-care. There is a way to bring your full, healthy authentic self to work. In this session, we discuss and develop strategies that integrate a life of play, rest, and action. Create your best life by developing a plan that works for you. Learn how to disrupt conditioned patterns of work that increase you and your team’s efficiency.

• Develop an understanding of what well-being means to YOU as a leader.
• Develop strategies to integrate your self-care routines into your day to day lives.
• Develop an understanding of how living a life of play and rest can maximize not only your efficiency as a leader, but your team’s overall efficiency as well.
• Begin developing strategies to help you cultivate an environment of work-life integration and well-being.

Facilitated by ODE Senior Management Consultants, Ari Mack and Jennifer Fonseca

HR 2055 Emotional Agility 

Emotional Agility: Harnessing your inner energy for action, impact and growth. Emotional agility allows us to harness the power of our Emotional Intelligence to take action through the highs and lows we experience as human beings. In this class you’ll learn more about the pillars of emotional agility, as well as explore your own strengths and growth opportunities when it comes to tapping into the emotional energy that flows through you!

Facilitated by Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, ODE

HR 2026 Creating and Nurturing a Highly Functional Team 

As a leader, managing team dynamics in a productive and meaningful way can be the key to over-all success. This course focuses on five areas that are critical to a leader’s ability to keep a team moving forward. Trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results are everyday factors that are a part of everyone’s work life. Join other leaders for small and large group discussions as we share strategies from Patrick Lencioni’s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”.

• Understand the 5 Dysfunctions of a team and explore strategies and behaviors leaders can use to overcome them.
• Build trust and become more adept at addressing behaviors in a respectful and honoring manner.
• Develop strategies to better navigate through behaviors by engaging more on problem resolution, brainstorming and achievement of results.
• Think through ways to prioritize your work on the most urgent matters first, assigning people based on the goals of the organization and individual needs, passions, and strengths to accomplish them.

Facilitated by ODE, Marcus Brooks, Senior Management Consultant and Dane Cruz, Director of CITE.

HR 2092 Being a Conflict Navigator

Conflict is an inevitable aspect of human interaction, occurring in various forms and contexts, whether it's in the workplace, relationships, or within communities. However, conflicts need not always result in negative outcomes. Skilled conflict navigators possess the ability to understand, manage, and resolve conflicts constructively, fostering positive outcomes and maintaining healthy relationships. This course equips participants with the essential knowledge, strategies, and practical skills to become adept conflict navigators.

Instructor: Marcus Brooks