2019 STATEWIDE LEARNING &
DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NEWSLETTER
JUNE TOPICS
Welcome Scott Nuanes to the COE Team
Hello, I'm Scott Nuanes and I'm excited to join Tim Barker's team in the Center for Organizational Effectiveness as a Senior Organizational Development and Training Specialist.  My background is in public education where I've been an elementary school teacher, school administrator, and an Organizational Effectiveness Consultant at Kaiser Permanente. Most recently, I've worked as a vendor for the State for almost five years before joining as a full-time employee. I look forward to directly supporting the employees of the State of Colorado. As a third generation Colorado native, my new position is a dream come true. I look forward to teaming up with you to serve our fellow Coloradans, and to working toward making the State of Colorado an employer of choice. Feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Featured June Courses

Click on the class name below for more information about the course and available dates for registration:

COURSE NAME
COST
COURSE DATE
$0
6/4/2019
Project Management for New PMs and Department Leads 1-Day
$430
6/4/2019
Accountability is a Two-Way Street
$350
6/5/2019
Become a Safety Leader
$0
6/7/2019
Part one - Successful Safety and Part Two - Effective Safety Committees; Creation and Development
$0
6/10/2019
Statewide New Employee Orientation
$175
6/10/2019
Coaching for Performance
$275
6/11/2019
$325
6/12/2019
7 Cs of Influencing
$325
6/13/2019
Effective Peer Communications Skills - 1 day
$430
6/13/2019
Storytelling 2.0
$400
6/13/2019
10 Habits of a Safety Culture
$0
6/14/2019
A Crash Course in Leadership Development for New Managers
$325
6/17/2019
Courageous Conversations
$225
6/18/2019
Integrated Lean Process Improvement - Comprehensive - 2 day class
$795
6/18/2019
Respectful Workplace 2.0
$175
6/19/2019
$400
6/20/2019
THINK! Navigating Challenging Relationships
$380
6/20/2019
Time Management - 360 Degrees of Productivity
$275
6/20/2019
NSC 4hr Defensive Driving Course - English
$0
6/21/2019
Exceptional Customer Service
$350
6/25/2019
Leadership Impact Workshop
$400
6/25/2019
The Nuts & Bolts of State Supervision - 1 Day Workshop
$325
6/26/2019
THINK! Building High Performance Teams
$380
6/26/2019
Creative Problem Solving
$275
6/27/2019
Birkman Assessment
$200
6/28/2019
Franklin Covey All Access Pass
$235
6/28/2019
Online Lean Foundations
$125
6/28/2019
Presentation Skills
$235
6/28/2019

Learn more about these courses and everything else COE has to offer by visiting our website at  colorado.gov/dhr/coe-products-services .

Last Chance for 100% Paid Scholarships Through the  Governor's Talent Challenge
There are only four classes left in the Talent Challenge. Click below for more information.
 
COURSE
COST
COURSE DATE
$3,270
6/4 - 6/6
$3,270
6/11 - 6/13
$3,270
6/18 - 6/20
$800
6/25

Only register for the class you received a scholarship to attend. If you need to make a change contact Heather Velasquez at [email protected] or Tim Barker at [email protected]. 

Please send questions about Talent Challenge scholarship applications to Heather Velasquez and questions about course registration to COE at [email protected] or 303-866-2439.

For more information on the Talent Challenge visit our website at colorado.gov/dhr/coe-featured-training.

The Colorado Innovation Center
The Colorado Innovation Center is one of the coolest and most valuable resources that you are going to find online this year. This site is the result of grassroots collaboration between employees and allows people to share resources, documents, and templates across agencies. The site is searchable and t he resources are free. Employees can upload helpful resources to share and their contact information is made available for any further correspondence about the topic. Additionally, t here is a Statewide Shared Training page that allows employees to list free classes that are available. The Discussion Board is a great tool for questions or recommendations about the training and development opportunities available on the site.

Guidelines on sharing content through the Colorado Innovation Center:
  • Login with a Gmail account to submit content to the site.
  • Be sure that you have permission to share the content online. In general, if you did not have to pay for the resource and you are not collecting money for the resource, it should be fine to share on this site. When in doubt, contact the author or the organization where you received the resource.
    • Content must already be in an online location in order to be posted on this site. Posting from a team site or personal Google Drive site works for most people
  • You will need an image of the content to post it on the site.
    • Use the Snipping Tool to capture an image of your resource
  • If you select an existing category when you upload new content, it is easier for others to locate your resource. 
In March of 2019, the Learning Leader Group started a research project to develop a tool that would facilitate resource sharing across agencies.  It was discovered that a site was already developed that had most of the functionality we were looking for. In the spirit of collaboration and process improvement, the Learning Leader Group and the Lean Champion Team worked together to determine a final hosting location for the site and prepare the site for use by a statewide audience. The lean champions partner with State and non-State agencies, so the scope of this site is far-reaching!

Thanks to Corey and others on the Lean Champion team, the site is available for use! We hope you take advantage of the wonderful resources this site has to offer and that you  share resources for others to benefit from.   

The list of lean champions at each agency, is available at colorado.gov/performancemanagement/community-support.

If you are interested in the Lean Champion Group, contact Gary VanSuch at [email protected] or Corey Niemeyer at  [email protected].

Learning Leaders meet monthly to discuss employee training and development resources and initiatives. If you are interested in the Learning Leader group, contact Tim Barker at [email protected]. 
Learning Lessons
How to get Employees Excited About Training: 10 Ways to Motivate Them
As we approach the end of the fiscal year, it is more important than ever to motivate employees to complete training. In the article How to Get Employees Excited About Training: 10 Ways to Motivate Them from Edgepoint Learning, you will find great ideas on how to do so.

Michael Hansen discusses the reasons why getting employees excited about training is important, barriers to engaging training, and explains the ten following ways to motivate employees:
  • Ask employees what they need (and want!)
  • Show them the money
  • Make it easy 
  • Make it mobile 
  • Feed people 
  • Make training part of your company culture 
  • Personalize your training 
  • Give employees time (and space) to train 
  • Tie completed training to promotion and advancement opportunities 
  • Keep training engaging
For the entire article and additional resources, visit  edgepointlearning.com/get-employees-excited-about-training/
Center for Organizational Effectiveness
Department of Personnel & Administration
Division of Human Resources
303-866-2439