Career skills courses created especially for Cornell employees
Organizational Development & Effectiveness (ODE) offers a variety of programs and workshops that can help improve work, build on professional knowledge, skills, and effective working practices, and ensure you have everything you need to put your best foot forward. Register today!
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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
Unlocking Your Authentic Voice: The Art of Public Speaking
In-person held in the Division of Human Resources Training Room, Suite 102 in the East Hill Office Building (EHOB) at 395 Pine Tree Rd.
Nervous about leading that meeting? Losing sleep over how you’ll manage to give that talk in front of all those people? Join us for this staff development teaser program where you will explore how to unlock the power of authenticity in public speaking. Our immersive course is designed to empower your voice and presence whether you're a seasoned speaker or stepping onto the stage for the first time. This class is tailored to help you connect deeply with your audience through genuine, communication and impactful presence.
What You'll Learn:
Techniques to overcome nervousness and speak confidently.
How to explore/discover your personal speaking style that reflects your true self and values. Strategies for connecting with your audience on multiple levels.
Understand the importance of authenticity in building trust and credibility with an audience.
Develop a toolkit of practical techniques to deliver memorable and impactful presentations.
Facilitated by Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, Organizational Development & Effectiveness (ODE)
Your resume is most likely the first impression you’ll make on a hiring manager or internal recruiter, so it’s extremely important to ensure that impression is accurate. While different opportunities require different resumes, the real goal of most resumes is to secure an opportunity to INTERVIEW. In this session, you will learn tips and important information on how to be strategic as you build your resume.
Managing up from any seat allows us to foster effective relationships throughout the organization, regardless of your role. In this session you’ll gain the awareness and tools that will help you consciously establish communication channels with your leaders! Explore managing up skills that help you be the architect of your own workplace experience!
Facilitated by Ari Mack, Senior Management Consultant, Organizational Development & Effectiveness (ODE)
Cover letters are an important part of your application materials and can serve as an example of your communication skills! In this workshop, we will review important details to pay attention to when communicating your interest and fit for a job. You’ll see examples of what to include and how to format a cover letter and you’ll hear about what hiring managers look for in cover letters.
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” – Ben Franklin. Being offered an interview is exciting and can also be daunting. Hear from an expert recruiter about everything you need to prepare for your interview and feel equipped to answer confidently. You will learn how to present your true self, highlight your strongest attributes, and adequately prepare for anticipated questions. Walk into the next job interview with total confidence.
The Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble and the Cornell University Recruitment and Employment Center worked very closely to develop this interactive scenario on unconscious bias in the staff search process. In this workshop for hiring managers, supervisors and search committee members, participants watch a filmed scenario of a search committee meeting, as five staff members begin to articulate their opinions about candidates for the short list. Following the scenario, the participants have an opportunity to ask one of the characters questions about the meeting. The CITE facilitator conducts a guided discussion of the participants responses to the scenario and the characters. This discussion is followed by a research talk on unconscious bias, describing the studies used to develop the interactions depicted in the scenario. The session concludes with a discussion of legal considerations and best practices for combating unconscious bias in searches.
Objectives: The objective of this scenario is to depict a complex, realistic, group interaction in order to stimulate group discussion about:
the behaviors, perspectives, emotions, assumptions, and biases of the members of the staff search committee as they evaluate applicants during a discussion of materials submitted for review;
unconscious bias which undermines fairness in the search process because of the tendency to evaluate applicants in a way that puts ‘minorities’ at a disadvantage;
the onus of responsibility for recognizing racial, gender and other forms of bias in the evaluation of applicants and for challenging our implicit hypotheses about applicants.
Facilitated by the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble (CITE)
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