Explore Organizational Leadership's diverse offerings to support you wherever you are in your leadership journey.
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.
- Thu 4/11/24 8:00 am to 12:00 pm (in-person)
This course is open to U-M Leaders with at least one direct report who would like to create an environment where employees feel safe to express concerns, provide feedback and report complaints without fear of retaliation.
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.
This course is open to any U-M managers or supervisors who would like to learn how to make positive changes to their workplace climate and culture.
Leadership 101
The Leadership 101 curriculum is designed for individuals new to U-M, newly promoted to a supervisory position, or interested in learning more about leadership. Pick and choose which courses best suit your learning needs; they can be taken in any order. All courses are held over Zoom and last 90 min. - 2 hrs.
People Management 101: Introduction to Payroll
Learn more about the policies and procedures of processing payroll that will help ensure accurate and timely pay for your employees.
- Thu 4/11/24 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Registration Deadline: Wed 4/10/24)
Business Administration 101: 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.
- Wed 4/17/24 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (Registration Deadline: Wed 4/10/24)
Leadership 101: Transitioning from Peer to Supervisor
Join Peer to Supervisor and learn how to identify opportunities and challenges in your transition to supervisor.
- Thu 4/25/24 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (Registration Deadline: Thu 4/18/24)
Business Administration 101: 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.
Business Administration 101: Introduction to Procurement
Learn how to identify which items you can purchase with and without Procurement Services Involvement and the appropriate buying method for your purchase.
- Wed 5/15/24 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm (Registration Deadline: Wed 5/8/24)
People Management 101: Talent Acquisition Bootcamp
Learn how to identify and use inclusive hiring strategies and practices in this course designed for U-M faculty and staff involved in recruiting and hiring staff, especially hiring managers, hiring team members or individuals coordinating staff searches.
Leadership 101: Introduction to Leadership at U-M
Designed to assist faculty and staff in developing the essential leadership skills necessary to lead a team of individuals at U-M, this Introduction to Leadership course will be helpful whether you are in a formal leadership position or not.
- Thu 5/23/24 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm (Registration Deadline: Thu 5/16/24)
