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The University of Texas at Austin Learning & Development Human Resources

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You are receiving this email because you are a manager of people here at The University of Texas at Austin.

For the month April, the University of Texas Office of Learning & Development is focusing on providing you with tools for communicating with your teams. As the deadline for performance appraisals quickly approaches and you face new (and old) challenges around attracting, recruiting, and retaining talent; UT L&D wants to make sure you are aware of all the resources available to you as a manager.

UT L&D RESOURCES

COMPETENCIES BASICS

Competencies are the vocabulary for hiring, managing, and developing your team. They are a critical tool for you as a manager. In this short video, Kevin Crook, HR director in the College of Fine Arts, shares the basics of what competencies are and how to use them.

COMPETENCIES BASICS

UT COMPETENCIES COLLECTIONS

UT L&D has curated competencies collections from the LinkedIn Learning library. These competencies are available in UTLearn for you to view and share with your team.

UT COMPETENCIES COLLECTIONS

UT L&D LET’S TALK ABOUT TALKING

CURATED RESOURCE PAGE

UT L&D provides a number of webpages that curates resources on specific topics. Our Let’s Talk About Talking page has a wide variety of content for you to explore and share with your team.

LET'S TALK ABOUT TALKING

UT L&D COMMUNITY LEARNING TEAM

Looking for a learning event for your team that will help foster communication and collaboration? UT L&D can help. Explore the CLT webpage and reach out to us to discuss how we can help.

COMMUNITY LEARNING TEAM

LINKEDIN LEARNING RESOURCES

VIRTUAL PREFORMANCE REVIEWS & FEEDBACK

In this course, join Alisa Cohn—executive coach and leadership development expert—as she walks you through the performance review process when you have to deliver it virtually.

VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS AND FEEDBACK

COMMUNICATING WITHIN TEAMS

Communication is an integral part of strong teamwork. In this course, Duke University professor Dr. Daisy Lovelace walks you through how to cultivate the communication practices of high-performing teams.

COMMUNICATING WITHIN TEAMS

LINKEDIN LEARNING MONTHLY CHALLENGE STARTS APRIL 12TH!
APRIL CHALLENGE: THE GIFT OF FEEDBACK

LiL April Challenge graphic - The Gift of Feedback

Feedback is invaluable for your team to grow and develop professionally. So, this Learner Challenge will equip them with the skills needed to give and receive feedback, to deal with difficult feedback, and will uncover some potential pitfalls they may encounter along the way.

Challenge your team to participate every day – it takes ~5 minutes or less. To stay on track, encourage them to keep a journal or print the calendar and initial each day when they’ve completed it.

Follow these steps to participate:

Download the challenge calendar
Complete each day’s short LiL learning (~5 mins or less)
Initial each day’s box once you’ve watched the daily video

LIL APRIL CHALLENGE

UT MANAGER SPOTLIGHT

KAREN CHAWNER, DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS

Each month, UT L&D will spotlight a manager at UT using the same five questions to help other managers learn from each other and get a different perspective on managing at UT.

UT MANAGER SPOTLIGHT

UT HR PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS INFO

Each college, school, or unit sets their own deadline for their 12-month assessment, and yours is likely fast approaching. This page provides you with all the information you need to know for conducting appraisals with your staff.

UT HR PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS INFO

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