As a manager, you lead your new employee’s onboarding process. You have an opportunity to provide the new employee with the information, tools and resources they need to be successful as quickly as possible in their new role. This module is designed to provide you with the information you need to ensure your new employee has a positive experience during their first weeks and months in their new role.

Psychological safety is essential for creating a positive work culture where individuals feel valued, respected and empowered to contribute their best. It fosters open communication, learning, collaboration and innovation, ultimately leading to higher performance and organizational success. This course will explore what psychological safety is (and is not) and how leaders can contribute to a positive, values-based workplace culture.

LinkedIn Learning offers a library of video based content designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career. All active faculty, staff (including temporary employees), and students have complimentary access to this ever-growing library of learning content. Through data driven insights from LinkedIn, the LinkedIn Learning platform allows you to see recommendations tailored to your specific needs. Bring your curiosity and questions.  

You will learn to:

• Access and navigate LinkedIn Learning

This course aims to shift our culture to be more LGBTQIA+ friendly. When it comes to attractionality and gender identity, language is so important. It helps us to acknowledge, respect and affirm the diversity of bodies, genders and relationships that exist at U-M. We’ll discuss roadblocks and challenges some people face when using inclusive language. After identifying those challenges, we will share strategies to make practicing easier. We’ll also learn how to use them in interactions with patients, students, staff and colleagues.

Privilege is often misunderstood when used in a DEI context. An individual can have privilege in one area and not another. Life may not have been easy, yet an individual could still have elements of privilege. In this interactive session, we will explore the nuances around privilege as it relates to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. 

You will learn to:

• Identify types of privilege and where you have/don’t have privilege

• Determine ways elements of privilege intersect

We want who you are to align with what you do, and LinkedIn is a first step to help you get there. In this session you will learn LinkedIn’s best practice recommendations for building an all-star profile that tells your professional story. We will also discuss how to attract employers, grow your professional skills, and connect to new job opportunities through a great LinkedIn profile.

In this microlearning session, a tried-and-true approach for having difficult conversations will be used. We will demonstrate how to begin challenging conversations and move the conversation forward in a collaborative way. You will learn, try and apply this approach to real life scenarios.

We’re here to help you take your own professional development to the next level with a new tool that puts professional development resources at your fingertips. The Development Journey helps you navigate resources and create a development plan in areas aligned with your interests and passions. You will also learn useful techniques for diving into LinkedIn Learning that will equip you to use this anywhere, anytime professional development resource to supplement your Development Journey.

We want who you are to align with what you do, and LinkedIn is a first step to help you get there. In this session you will learn LinkedIn’s best practice recommendations for building an all-star profile that tells your professional story.