Explore Organizational Leadership's diverse offerings to support you wherever you are in your leadership journey.
Transitioning from Peer to Supervisor
Join this session and learn how to identify opportunities and challenges in your transition to a supervisory role.
- Tue 4/8/25 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm (Registration Deadline: Tue 4/1/25)
Giving and Receiving Feedback
This course will provide practical strategies for giving and receiving feedback gracefully and constructively.
Leadership and Culture: Strategies to Prevent Workplace Issues and Retaliation
This course gives leaders tools and strategies to create a more welcoming and respectful work environment. You'll leave with tools to help you create an environment that prevents wrongdoing and retaliation and more.
Leadership and Culture: Creating a Positive Work Environment
This foundational course provides managers with the tools and knowledge to lead a successful culture change journey within their team. You'll walk away with the tools to improve productivity and efficiency while fostering a healthy work-life balance and more.
Introduction to Financial Resources
In this course, you will learn how to identify a supervisor’s responsibilities for effective stewardship of university funds and determine appropriate revenue sources for unit expenditures.
- Fri 5/9/25 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (Registration Deadline: Fri 5/2/25)
Communication Styles in the Workplace
This course will explore communication in the workplace through the Straight Talk® system developed by communications expert and organizational leadership consultant Eric Douglas.
- Tue 5/13/25 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (Registration Deadline: Tue 5/6/25)
Understanding the Administrative Services Offered by the Shared Services Center
The Shared Services Center (SSC) provides a broad range of transactional support in collaboration with university business partners for all three campuses and Michigan Medicine. Learn how to navigate the variety of services provided by the U-M Shared Services Center.
- Wed 5/14/25 10:00 am to 11:30 am (Registration Deadline: Tue 5/13/25)
Talent Acquisition Bootcamp
Learn how to identify and use inclusive hiring strategies and practices in this course designed for U-M faculty and staff. This session is useful for those involved in recruiting and hiring staff, especially hiring managers, hiring team members or individuals coordinating staff searches.
Introduction to Payroll
Learn more about the policies and procedures of processing payroll that will help ensure accurate and timely pay for your employees.
- Tue 6/3/25 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (Registration Deadline: Fri 5/30/25)
Psychological Safety in the Workplace
This course will explore what psychological safety is (and is not) and how leaders can contribute to a positive, values-based workplace culture.
- Tue 6/10/25 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (Registration Deadline: Fri 6/6/25)
