2019 Statewide Learning and Development Solutions
Topics:
  • Featured Courses in January
  • Expansion of Governors Talent Challenge
  • Learning Lessons: Activate your Resillience
Featured Courses


In the month of January, the Center for Organizational Effectiveness (COE) is offering a few courses to encourage your continued learning and development. You can learn more about these courses and more from COE on our new website.
Click on the class names below to see more information about the course, available dates, and to register:

Course Name
Cost
Course  Date
$175.00
1/14/2019
$380.00
1/15/2019
$325.00
1/16/2019
$795.00
1/16/2019
$3,058.00
1/22/2019
$380.00
1/23/2019
$225.00
1/24/2019
$325.00
1/29/2019
$200.00
1/31/2019
$125.00
1/31/2019
Expansion of Governor's Talent Challenge
COE is happy to announce that additional classes have been made available through the Governors Talent Challenge starting in 2019. These are not new classes. Identifying the scope of existing classes is too narrow to fulfill the intent of the Talent Challenge, and that additional classes are needed to achieve the goal of systemic process improvement throughout agencies that participate in the Talent Challenge.
 
View information and register for classes on the COE website .  We have general enrollment classes and agency purchase classes.
 
General enrollment classes have been scheduled for your convenience. To participate in any of these classes, click on the class name, fill out the registration form for the class, and dates that you want. We will follow up with you to confirm registration and complete payment.
 
Agency purchase allows a single agency or department to request one or more classes for dates and location that meet your needs. This type of purchase allows us to direct the focus of the class specifically on your project and team needs. This option includes the 50% matching funds, and gives access to these high-quality classes for a great price. To request an agency purchase of any of these classes, contact COE and let us know which class(es) you want to purchase, how many people will be participating, and what dates you want. Typically agency purchase classes need to include at least seven participants.

These eleven classes are eligible for matching funds through the Governors Talent Challenge:

GPS -Driving Lean Culture Change, 2 day Course
GPS -Establishing Lean Accountability: Increasing Performance through Ownership
GPS -Lean Foundations, One Day
GPS -LEAN Leader
GPS -  The 4 Truths of Lean Change Management: Winning the Battle of Hearts and Minds, 2 days
GPS - Three Day Lean Boot Camp
Honsha - Continuous Improvement
Honsha - Identify and Execute Process Improvements
Honsha - Lean Leaders Vision and Strategy
Honsha - Lean Standardization
Honsha - Eight Step Problem Solving 12-Week Program
 
Matching Funds
In order to incentivize participation in the Talent Challenge, the Governor's Office will reimburse participating departments for 50% of the cost of classes that are included in the Talent Challenge. Payments will be made monthly by the Governor's Office. Matching fund payments will be based on confirmation that participants paid for and registered in training.

Click the following link to learn more about the matching funds that reduce the cost of this training:  Matching Funds Process for CO Talent Challenge
 
Participant Project Requirement
Each participant in a Talent Challenge course is responsible for completing a project which demonstrates application of learning objectives from the course and which results in improvement within the participant department and agency. Participants are responsible for identifying, completing, and reporting data from the project. The reported data will include a short narrative summary of the project documenting the problem, actions taken, and impact of the process improvement in quantifiable measures for example: time savings, dollar savings, improvements in customer satisfaction, improvements in engagement or performance. A description of completed projects will be posted on the CO Talent Challenge Project Reporting .

Learning Lessons
Optimize Your Resilience
by Nancy Sharp

It's a new year and with that, a change in administration that may impact you or your agency directly, indirectly, or in ways you cannot yet know.

A transition of leadership (no matter how remote the change feels) can strain one's resilience. This is true for all kinds of disruptive events, including personal losses like my own, which, at the time, diminished my confidence, optimism, and ability to meet my goals. Being widowed young with preemie twins and no life insurance just wasn't the narrative I imagined. I moved through this experience by learning to summon the resilience I never knew I had.

While some level of anxiety is perfectly normal amid times of upheaval, be on guard for signs of apathy and stuckness. Here are two questions to reflect upon. Do challenging events feel disproportionately large or even insurmountable? Are these challenges impacting other areas of work and life?

It's important to understand the range of emotions people feel during periods of change, stress, and uncertainty. We are all hard-wired differently, and yet everyone has the capacity to be resilient with the right tools and practice. That's because resilience is a learned skill that can be deepened and sustained over time.

Real resilience, however, is a lot more nuanced than the clinical definition offered by the American Psychological Association. Real resilience is not just about bouncing back, it's about learning to transcend the events that "hold us" by integrating the lessons and the losses. In order to do this, we must cultivate self-awareness, empathy, a broad perspective, and a willingness to grow and change.

I would welcome the chance to teach you and your team the Resilience Rx Framework™, a model that was inspired by my own experience and road-tested by professionals and executives facing a myriad of disruptive events. The Framework is easy enough to use daily and applicable to challenges small and large. Every training program is customized and supported by research in the areas of resilience, emotional intelligence, positive psychology, leadership, and change management.

When events feel daunting and unwelcome, learn to live in the gray zone, beyond black and white expectations. Learn to be more adaptive and to reject limiting beliefs and behavior. In so doing, you and your team will come to view disruption as unexpected opportunities for growth and change. A resilient mindset and practice are all it takes to thrive.  
 
Nancy Sharp is a keynote speaker, trainer, and award-winning author focused on resiliency in the workplace. She brings 30 years' experience in the communications industry, along with expertise as a CEO speechwriter and coach. Nancy holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and authored the bestselling memoir Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Bold Living, recipient of the Colorado Book Award, and a book for children and families called Because the Sky is Everywhere. She is widely published in national media and lives in Denver, CO (how she got there is a story of resilience).  Learn more at www.NancySharp.net.

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