Learning Experiences | Ohio University

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Learning Experience Name	Pre-Requisite	Duration	Format	Register	Description	Learning Objectives
Ohio University Payment Cards	None	30 minutes	eLearn	More Information
AFSCME 3200 Overview	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register
Effectively Directing and Delegating as a Manager	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience provides information on the key proficiencies of managing people, such as setting direction and establishing clear objectives and goals for your direct reports. It discusses the importance of organizing, as well as communicating for clarity and direction. It also covers the best practices for planning delegation and the techniques you need to carry through with delegation. Finally, the learning experience details the importance of monitoring delegated tasks to ensure employees are on the right track.
Facing Management Challenges of Difficult Behavior and Diverse Teams	None	45 mintues	eLearn	Register	This learning experience covers useful techniques and processes for conflict resolution. You'll learn methods for resolving conflict when dealing with an employee's difficult behavior. You'll also learn ways of effectively managing team conflict and understanding and dealing with conflict in the workplace as a whole.
Developing Successful Coaching Relationships	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn coaching techniques for building dynamic and purposeful coaching relationships. You'll learn some coaching principles that will guide you in helping your team members exceed their preconceived limitations and reach their full potential.
Accountable Leadership	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn about building accountability in your teams, demonstrating your own willingness to be accountable especially when things go wrong, and fostering an environment of accountability in those you work with.
Facilitating a Brainstorming Session	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you will learn specific techniques and strategies for facilitating a successful brainstorming session. You’ll also learn about leading your team through productive activities, handling diverse personalities and priorities, and keeping your business team focused and on-task without limiting ideas and innovation.
Leading Virtually	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience will provide strategies and techniques for using modern collaboration technologies to leverage the benefits of virtual teams and overcome their inevitable challenges.
Leading through Problem Solving and Decision Making	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	The hallmark of leadership is being able to work through problems and make tough decisions using the skills and experience of your team. In this learning experience, you'll learn how to use a three stage approach to engage your team in this effort.
Building and Leading Successful Teams	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn methods for team building and team leadership. You'll also learn strategies for avoiding and mitigating team dysfunction and conflict. Finally, you'll learn how successfully leading teams is integral in the modern marketplace.
Influencing and Persuading Others	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn about methods of persuasion that will rally your stakeholders around your cause. You'll discover influencing techniques that set the stage for making your case, appeal to your audience, and get the commitment you need to move forward with your team, your goals, and your career.
Leading Others through Conflict	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you’ll learn strategies for managing team conflict at both the group and individual levels. You'll also learn how to use conflict as a positive force that can lead to innovation and an openness toward looking at the business in new ways.
Do We Have a Failure to Communicate?	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll examine some common communication challenges and how you can successfully navigate them. By showing patience, perseverance, and accountability, you can effectively deal with tough conversations, communicate your message, and reach mutual understanding and agreement.
Networking to Improve Leadership Effectiveness	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you’ll learn how professional networking can improve your effectiveness as a leader. You’ll also learn how to assess your business networking efforts and utilize them to ensure they’re working for you. Finally, you’ll learn about the types of social skills needed for executive networking and how to establish a network identity and ensure its authenticity.
Leading through Setting and Managing Priorities	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn methods for establishing priorities that will allow you to meet organizational and team goals. You'll learn how to evaluate and adjust your own style in regard to priority management principles, and how individual personalities and motivators can drive priorities. You'll also discover how to organize your time and manage disruptions to ensure you meet your goals and learn from the experience.
Leading with Strategic Thinking	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn the characteristics that distinguish leading with strategic thinking and the competencies required to do so. You'll learn how strategic management incorporates sound business strategy into your decision making, helping you meet your team's and organization's goals.
Leading through Shared Vision	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	A powerful vision, clearly articulated, motivates people to take action and drives business results. In this learning experience, you'll learn how to create and communicate a realistic and actionable vision that inspires commitment from people.
New Leadership Transitions	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	Employees enter leadership roles earlier and via different paths than in the past. In this learning experience, you'll learn about common challenges that new leaders face, and some techniques for setting goals, building teams, and getting early wins.
Facing Challenges as a First Time Manager	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience describes ways to manage former colleagues effectively and establish credibility as a first-time manager. You'll also learn how to balance conflicting expectations as a new leader.
Higher Education Business Model	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience allows participants to examine the financial models of higher education institutions, the external challenges facing higher education institutions, and the implications of these challenges at Ohio University.
Polishing Your Skills for Excellent Customer Service	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn how to enhance your interactions with customers to project service excellence. You'll explore how to establish effective customer relationships that involve customers in problem solving. Finally, you'll discover how to improve communication for a better client service (CS) in a cross-cultural customer support center or help desk environment.
Facing Confrontation in Customer Service	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn about typical trouble spots in dealing with angry customers and guidelines for avoiding conflict. You'll also learn how to handle a customer complaint by defusing the tension, investigating the problem, and coming to an agreement on a solution.
Rapport Building in Customer Service	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn how to improve client service (CS) by building rapport with customers. It covers paying close attention to customer needs, connecting with the customer, and being positive. You'll also learn how to empathize with customers by relating your own experiences, reflecting their emotions back to them, and normalizing their difficulties.
Communicating Effectively with Customers	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience explains how to adapt to the different communication types and identify the common emotions that customers experience when contacting a support center. It also explains how to adapt your writing skills to communicate through e-mail and to document incidents.
Using Active Listening in Workplace Situations	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	Active listening skills are used by professionals in a wide range of occupations to enhance their work. In this learning experience, you'll learn listening skills that can help in the workplace, and techniques for becoming an effective active listener.
Providing Effective Internal Customer Service	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn about types of internal customers and how to identify internal customer relationships. You'll also learn about the importance of getting to know your internal customers, identifying their expectations of you, and taking action on those expectations. Finally, you'll learn guidelines for providing internal customer service excellence.
Providing Telephone Customer Service	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn basic etiquette tips for answering, managing, and ending client service (CS) calls. You'll also learn how to make a good impression by listening, using questions to probe for more information, minding your tone, and empathizing with the customer. Finally, you'll learn ways of reflecting or adapting to your customer's style.
Creating Effective Social Customer Service	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you’ll learn about the importance of using social media for customer service, the changes brought about by social customer services, and how companies are adapting to this new way of addressing customer issues. You’ll also learn how changes in the behavior and expectations of customers have impacted customer service and become familiar with the advantages of social customer service for businesses, gaining an understanding of the importance of other digital tools to support your customers.
Dealing with Customer Service Incidents and Complaints	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide an efficient client service (CS). It covers how to improve customer relationships to reduce conflict and enable service excellence. You'll also learn how to provide accurate documentation for incident reporting.
Designing Customer Service Strategy	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn about techniques used to shape the direction of customer service in an organization, including mapping, researching, taking action on, and evaluating moments of truth. You'll also learn how to develop and implement a customer service strategy to achieve service excellence.
Essentials for Anger Management	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you’ll explore how to manage your anger and your anger response. You’ll also explore the nature of anger, including its root causes and ways to use it positively in the workplace. And you’ll learn how develop empathy for colleagues who may be causing your anger.
Clarity and Conciseness in Business Writing	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll explore techniques you can use to make your writing more clear. Specifically, you'll learn about the importance of using short and familiar words, appropriate connotations, concrete and specific language, and transitional words and phrases. You'll also explore tips for being more concise in your writing and best practices for organizing content.
Keeping Business Calls Professional	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn about some basic rules of etiquette that will help improve your phone skills and keep your business calls professional. You'll explore general best practices, and how to make and receive calls professionally. You'll also learn some best practices for using a cell or smart phone, and how to record and leave effective voicemail messages.
Making an Impact with Non-verbal Communication	None	3o minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you’ll learn how our attitude and tone, as well as body language such as posture, gestures, and facial expressions, can have significant impact on the way we communicate. You’ll explore techniques to help you project a positive attitude and presence. You’ll also discover how to read other people’s body language.
Communicating with Confidence	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn about being an effective speaker. You'll discover ways to prepare, techniques to avoid being nervous and how to use your voice and body language to communicate with self-confidence.
Controlling Conflict, Stress, and Time in a Customer Service Environment	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, you'll learn how to identify and resolve conflict, negotiate with customers, and develop strategies to better manage time and stress, and you'll explore how a positive approach and attitude can benefit client service (CS).
Benefits Offerings	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience introduces the types of benefits offered to OHIO faculty and staff, the eligibility requirements, and where to find specific resources regarding these benefits.	By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Recognize why the university offers benefits. Identify what benefits are offered and explain them to candidates, new hires or staff Demonstrate the ability to utilize university benefits Demonstrate ability to locate details regarding university benefits Use appropriate benefits terminology
Crushing Imposter Syndrome	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	While imposter syndrome impacts all genders within higher education (apparently most of us feel like imposters!), this workshop will evaluate the syndrome from a gendered lens, highlighting the ways in which girls are socialized to perfection. Inspired by both Valerie Young's iconic text Secret Thoughts of Successful Women and Reshme Saujani's incisive text Brave, Not Perfect, we will confront our imposter syndrome head-on with tangible tools to remind us of our value and worth.
Gender 101	None	1 hour	Instructor Led	Register	This interactive workshop will ask participants to engage with social constructions of gender in order to: define gender and sex; identify consequences of strict adherence to gender roles; improve media literacy; identify when they first began to understand gender; create actionable steps to improve inclusivity and encourage freedom in gender expression.
Stay out of Your Way	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This workshop will help participants examine the language which they use to communicate their confidence level. We will highlight the ways in which women have traditionally undersold their skills, and develop new ways of speaking about ourselves. While the focus of the workshop is on empowering women, the skills discussed are applicable to everyone regardless of gender identity. Additionally, we encourage attendance from anyone interested in serving in a supervisory role, as it can help understand the gendered differences in communication styles you may notice from your colleagues. It's important that supervisors, Human Resources, and colleagues know how they can be supportive of empowering others.
Lifting Women Up: Cultivating Influence to Achieve Our Goals	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	In this session, we will articulate the internal and external barriers, including sexism and other intersecting forms of oppression, that hold women back from achieving our goals. We'll develop strategies to enable us to identify our personal board of directors, cultivate allies, and develop influence.
Identifying Rape Culture and How to Respond	None	1.5 hours	eLearn	Register	This workshop will provide participants with the tools needed to identify comments, actions, and myths that uphold rape culture. Participants will leave having role played bystander intervention strategies to disrupt rape culture. We strongly encourage that those attending this workshop also attend a Better Bystanders training, which focuses on bystander intervention, offered through Health Promotion.	By the end of this learning experience, you should be able to: Define rape culture Identify and work to confront rape culture and the ways in which institutionalized oppression influences societal beliefs on sexual violence Critically analyze written and visual texts (when paired with the recommended readings) Increase empathy for survivors of sexual violence Practice tangible skills to interrupt language that normalizes and perpetuates rape culture.
New Hire Paperwork and I-9 Completions	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience provides an overview of how to ensure proper and timely completion of new hire paperwork for faculty, staff, and student employees. Particular focus will be given to accurate and timely completion of the form I-9.
Microsoft Excel Skills	None	30 minutes - 1 hour (varies by learning experience)	eLearn	Register	Choose any from the following: Basic Formulas Working with Data in Pivot Tables Inserting & Manipulating Data Adding Data & Calculations Referencing Data
Microsoft Word Skills	None	30 minutes - 1 hour (varies by learning experience)	eLearn	Register	Choose any from the following: Formatting documents Structuring Documents Illustrating Documents Adding Data & Calculations Using Table Tools
Microsoft Teams Skills	None	30 minutes - 1 hour (varies by learning experience)	eLearn	Register	Choose any from the following: Sign-in and Set Up Teams and Channels Conversation Tools Call and Meeting Tools Creating, Finding and Sharing Information
Microsoft Outlook Skills	None	30 minutes - 1 hour (varies by learning experience)	eLearn	Register	Choose any from the following: Tagging, Sorting, and Filtering Email Calendar Tools Contact Tools Designing & Shaping Email Optimizing Workflow
Microsoft PowerPoint Skills	None	30 minutes - 1 hour (varies by learning experience)	eLearn	Register	Choose any from the following: Formatting Presentations Organizing Presentation Assets Using Multimedia in Presentations Creating Graphics & Diagrams Preparing & Delivering Slide Shows
Make the Time You Need: Get Organized	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will discover how schedule management can help you regain control of your time. Participants will learn how to leverage your personality to boost your productivity and explore techniques for dealing with time stealers, and learn how to create practical to-do lists and keep them relevant and realistic.
Uncovering and Utilizing Your Talents and Skills	None	30 minutes (w/Action Plan)	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn what is meant by talent and skill, and why it's important to understand what talents participants possess. This learning experience also covers techniques for identifying unique capabilities, and outlines what should be included in a talent action plan to fully utilize and develop key talents and skills.
Clarity and Conciseness in Business Writing	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will explore techniques you can use to enhance their writing. Specifically, participants will learn about the importance of using short and familiar words, appropriate connotations, concrete and specific language, and transitional words and phrases. Participants will also explore tips for being more concise in your writing and best practices for organizing content.
Facilitation Fundamentals	None	1.5 hours	c	Register	Participants will be introduced to teaching and facilitation skills and techniques. Emphasis is placed on the use of active, experiential learning methods with adult learners. Participants leave the workshop with a self-created template for their own workshops and training sessions.
Contributing as a Virtual Team Member	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn how to develop the skills you need to show team leadership and be an effective member of a virtual team. Participants will explore personal traits that are useful when working on a team remotely. Participants will also learn strategies to stay connected with other team members, and ways to manage your time and overcome the challenges associated with managing teams remotely.
Networking Skills	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	Participants will learn how to develop a professional network to enhance collaborative opportunities and to identify in-person and online opportunities to expand their network.
Taking Stock of Your Work/Life Balance	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn about how to detect imbalance between home and work and how to achieve a healthy compromise between work balance and life balance. Participants will also assess their current work/life balance.
Unleashing Personal and Team Creativity	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	This learning experience describes personal barriers to creativity and how to overcome them. It provides strategies for enhancing creativity in the workplace. In addition, it outlines key requirements for promoting creativity in a work environment. And it explores techniques for fostering creativity in teams, including brainstorming and role playing.
Developing Your Critical Thinking and Cognitive Flexibility	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience will help participants improve their critical thinking skills. Participants will learn about the intake, investigate, and act stages of critical thinking, as well as how to use analytical techniques to assess information. Finally, participants will learn the advantages of keeping an open mind through cognitive flexibility.
Outwitting Your Cognitive Bias	None	30 minutes	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, participants will learn techniques for identifying cognitive bias, as well as strategies for overcoming specific biases.
Intercultural Competence	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This workshop will provide interactive opportunities to increase self-awareness, learn key terms and concepts associated with of intercultural competence, and practice inclusive communication strategies to improve and to enhance and strengthen relationship-building skills within and across departments and planning units at OHIO University.
Conflict Resolution	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This learning experience provides an overview of conflict resolution styles, stages of conflict escalation, and strategies for resolving conflict at different stages.
The Fundamentals of Communication	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	Participants will learn about the basic fundamentals of communication skills, and how verbal and non-verbal communication impact interpersonal relationship building. Also covered are the differences and skills in face-to-face, phone, distance, and email communication styles and techniques.
Active Listening	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This learning experience introduces participants to various techniques associated with active listening, with an emphasis on in-workshop active practice and reflection.
SafeZone Training	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	Participants will learn about the dynamics of gender and sexual diversities while also exploring different ways to embody inclusive allyship for people of all orientations, genders, sexualities, identities, and levels of being out.
Landing Zone	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This five-session workshop series provides participants with more understanding and the resources to help veteran students better handle their unique challenges across campus Participants must attend at least one Landing Zone session to earn a badge for credit towards completing this certificate. Although badges for additional learning experiences in this series may be earned, only one badge will count towards certificate requirements.
Emotional Intelligence	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This learning experience introduces the concepts of emotional intelligence, and how to be aware of both one’s own feelings and the feelings of others to improve and enhance interpersonal relationships.
Anger & Conflict	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This learning experience provides an examination of how anger can impact how individuals approach conflict and difficult conversations. Emphasis is placed on identifying one’s own sources of anger and how to mitigate negative emotions in difficult interpersonal situations.
Building and Sustaining Trust in the Workplace	None	2 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This learning experience assists in building trusting relationships by exploring the nature of trusting relationships, recognizing impact of trust in the workplace, and identifying specific actions to build, rebuild, and sustain trust.
Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn about unconscious bias and practice strategies to combat unconscious bias in the workplace through creating an anti-bias approach to their interpersonal and organizational relationships. Participants will also learn how to lead anti-bias change in their own units.
Trust-Building through Effective Communication	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn how clarity in communication is crucial for building trusting relationships with others. This learning experience brings together verbal, non-verbal, and active listening skills to help improve levels of trust between individuals.
Managing Difficult Conversations	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	This skills-based learning experience introduces skills and techniques in diplomacy and tactful communication in how to handle difficult conversations with staff members. Participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of how to fully utilize these skills in difficult circumstances.
Difficult People: Strategies to Keep Everyone Working Together	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn about interpersonal strategies that help when working in team-based environments. These strategies include ways to manage difficult behavior and ensure that team members are aligned with project goals, how to use feedback effectively, and how to use conflict management to make collaborative work more productive.
Effective Team Communication	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn how to avoid bad habits and ineffective communication amongst team members through a focus on using team membership and active listening skills. Participants will have the opportunity to practice these skills within the eLearning experience.
Encouraging Team Communication and Collaboration	None	45 minutes	e Learn	Register	Participants will learn how to effectively support active communication and collaboration across team members. Dedicated focus is spent on both face-to-face and virtual work environments.
Being an Effective Team Member	None	45 minutes	eLearn	Register	Participants will learn about the important contributions strong team members can make. This learning experience provides an examination of strategies to become a more valued and effective team member through collaboration and communication-related skills, as well as positive psychological techniques that help strengthen team-based efforts.
Compensation Philosophy & Framework	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience provides users with a foundational understanding of the University’s overall compensation philosophy, the types of positions within the University, and how those positions are mapped to the compensation framework. Topics include salary and creating and maintaining job position descriptions.	Identify the different job categories at the University and which positions are under UHR Compensation’s purview. Understand OHIO’s compensation framework, and how positions at the University are placed within that framework and assigned a pay grade. Create and update a position description and understand how this document is used to map a job to the framework. Develop an understanding about the Pay Administration Guidelines and its purpose.
Interviewing: Doing it Right	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience will present strategies for exercising sound judgment in the hiring and interviewing process. It will help managers and supervisors recognize and avoid discrimination in the recruitment process.	Identify an example of having properly prepared for an interview Identify the types of questions used to gain insight into the applicant Identify guidelines for conducting a productive interview Identify the qualities to assess in determining a good candidate for hire
EEO and Lawful Hiring (Skillsoft)	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	In this learning experience, participants learn about the Equal Employment Opportunity laws that guide OHIO's recruitment efforts and aid them in carrying out hiring practices that are fair and lawful.	Identify examples of employment actions that are prohibited by Equal Employment Opportunity laws Recognize precise definitions of key EEO terms Recognize and define EEO requirements and terminology
Human Resources Overview	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	Provides an overview of key functions, activities and services within the University Human Resources department including who to contact for support and where to go for more information.	Define various UHR service offerings Identify who to contact for additional assistance Locate commonly needed HR forms Become familiar with location of HR policies Develop awareness of various UHR systems you may use Gain an overview of the UHR legal framework
Leaves of Absence	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	Provides an overview of various Leaves of Absence and the processes to request, obtain approval for, and administer leaves in a compliant manner in accordance with Ohio University Policies. Participants will understand available leaves and where related policies and resources can be located for future reference.	Identify what leaves are available for faculty and staff Identify the provisions afforded for each leave Locate policies, resources, and point of contact to manage each type of leave
Preventing Violence & Bullying in the Workplace (Skillsoft)	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience offers strategies for preventing the escalation of conflict, identifies circumstances that can possibly trigger violence in the workplace, and provides guidance on what to do if you find yourself in potentially violent situations.	Identify situations and behaviors that would be considered workplace violence Recognize early warning signs of the potential for violent behavior Identify how to respond appropriately when confronted by an aggressor in the workplace Identify how to recognize, respond to, and prevent violence in the workplace
Diversity Advocate Workshop	None	1.5 hours	Instructor Led	Register	This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to combine the knowledge gained from OHIO Search Committee Training with evidence-based bystander intervention techniques. The aim of this workshop is to ensure that participants are comfortable intervening in, leading, or supporting conversations surrounding diversity and inclusion throughout search processes. This learning experience’s learning objectives represent the skills that participants will practice in this workshop and then use to support OHIO’s Search Committee process, and thus it is strongly encouraged that participants have attended OHIO Search Committee Training within the past six months, but the workshop is open to all interested.	Redirect when offered protected information; Amplify underappreciated voices in the committee; Recognize and counter when someone is operating in bias; Advocate for process steps designed to reduce the impact of bias.
Booking Group Travel	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience shows users how to book group travel with the University’s travel management company and how to use preferred provider(s). Topics include airfare, lodging, meals, transportation, expense reimbursement, international travel, and meeting space.	Define who Christopherson Business Travel is and why to utilize them. Determine how to request flights, ground transportation, and hotels for group travel and events. Determine what to do if you have an issue.
Distributed Journal Entries I: Preparation	Chart of Accounts Fundamentals	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience shows users how to download and fill out an Excel Journal Entry Template. It also reviews pertinent areas of the Chart of Accounts. This learning experience is available to everyone responsible for journal entry preparation. CFAO permission is not required for this learning experience.	Define Distributed Journal Entry Understand Roles Identify the advantages of using Journal Entries at OHIO Know important Chart of Account Concepts Learn key terms, concepts, and determine correct Journal Category and Descriptions Recognize when it is appropriate to complete a Journal Entry Learn how to populate an Excel Journal Entry Template Understand Rules and Guidelines for Journal Entries
Distributed Journal Entries II: Processors	Distributed Journal Entries I: Preparation	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience demonstrates the Distributed Journal Entries process that allows campus users to prepare and upload journal entries to Oracle Ebiz. By the end of this learning experience, you will be able to successfully upload a journal entry to Oracle Ebiz and monitor the import and posting process.	Log In Download the Excel Journal Entry Template Stage Journals Delete or Edit and Revalidate Journals Upload Journals Monitor Journal Status Search Journals Follow Rules and Guidelines
Cost Share	Grants Accounting Fundamentals	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience provides an overview of the types of cost share, how cost share is tracked and reported, monitoring cost share, and Planning Unit responsibilities for cost share.	Define Cost Share Recognize the Impact of Cost Sharing Differentiate between Allowable and Unallowable Cost Share Document and Account for Cost Share Identify Requirements for Reporting Cost Share
Booking Individual Travel	None	1 to 1.5 hours	eLearn	Register	This learning experience provides an introduction to the University travel provider, Christopherson Business Travel and how to leverage their services. This learning experience includes the following topics: How to book and pay for airfare, ground transportation, lodging in Concur and through and a travel agent and highlights of the University travel policy and procedures.	Demonstrate how to book flights, ground transportation and lodging Define Christohperson Business Travel services and how to work with them Determine what to do if you have a travel issue Review travel policy and procedures
Travel Policy and Procedures	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience provides a detailed look at the Ohio University travel policy and procedures. This learning experience will cover policy overview, transportation, lodging, meals and incidentals, receipt requirements, cash advances, as well as other compliance related topics.	Interpret/translate University travel policy into daily best practices. Define traveler responsibilities. Define documentation requirements.
Concur Expense Reporting	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience provides an overview of navigating and using Concur. This learning experience includes the following topics: setting up and managing the user profile, setting Delegates and Proxies, alerts and itineraries, creating reports, costing, per diems, and an overview of Approver structure.	Define the substantiation requirements. Use Concur to substantiate and submit travel, University card, and cash reimbursement transactions. Describe the process from submission to approval through payment. Determine appropriate usage for delegates. Set up a delegate in Concur.
Oracle Business Intelligence Reporting Fundamentals	OBI Navigation, Chart of Accounts Fundamentals	2 hours	eLearn	Register	This learning experience will review the dashboard pages contained on the Finance dashboard (available to all faculty and staff). The learning experience will focus on reviewing prompts available for selecting data; segment value hierarchies utilized in the dashboard prompts; and understanding the drilldown options available from each page. This learning experience will provide information about the purpose of each dashboard page and how to use the various pages most effectively. While most dashboard pages ultimately end up displaying transaction details, we’ll discuss which page gets you to your information most efficiently. Participants should be familiar with pivot tables and vlookups in Excel prior to attending. An OBI Navigation video is required pre-work.	Explain the benefits of the Finance Dashboard Recognize Chart of Accounts (COA) structure and hierarchies in reporting Differentiate the purposes and uses of the Finance Dashboard’s pages Locate online help resources
BobcatBUY Fundamentals	None	1 hour	eLearn	Register	Overview of the standard purchasing process, navigation of the BobcatBUY e-procurement system, and basic functionality for the shopper/requestor/approver roles. Topics include: basic search, creating and modifying carts, setting up default accounting codes and shipping locations, setting notifications, shopping in catalogs, making non-catalog purchases with an existing supplier, and submitting requisitions and workflow.	Log in to BobcatBUY Navigate the main page Set up your user profile Shop and manage cart for catalog and non-catalog items Search for documents and suppliers
Grants Accounting Fundamentals	Chart of Accounts Fundamentals	2 hours	Instructor-Led	Register	Grants Accounting Fundamentals provides a more in-depth look at Grants Accounting. Grants Accounting is a sub-ledger of the General Ledger (GL). Grants Accounting utilizes Project-Task-Award (PTA). Topics include Grants Accounting Module and how it is used, PTA segment values, understanding dates, allowed cost schedules, and auto-accounting to the GL.	Identify the purpose and uses of the Oracle Grants Accounting Module Examine the Project-Task-Award (PTA) structure Determine which segments summarize from Grants to the GL Determine the impact of dates and cost schedules on transactions Utilize the Account Validation Tool Complete a cost transfer
Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Navigation	None	20 minutes	eLearn	Register	The Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Navigation is a self-study eLearning experience that will introduce users to the basics of OBI Reporting. In this learning experience, you will learn how to select prompts, save customizations, export and print reports and dashboards, as well as drilling down on specific information and changing the report view in the search results.	Identify navigation best practices when using Oracle Business Intelligence Define what a customization is and how to use customizations Define various reporting prompt options and how to use them Practice creating a dashboard report
Search Committee: Preparing for the Search	None	2 Hours	eLearn	Register	This learning experience is geared towards search committee chairs and department heads. The training focuses on establishing inclusive search committees, writing inclusive job descriptions, and creating inclusive recruitment plans as well as understanding the impact of bias in these early stages of the search process.	By the end of this session you will be able to: Understand and discuss the impact of implicit bias in early stages of a search Establish and lead inclusive search committees Write inclusive and robust job descriptions and recruitment plans
Search Committee: Candidate Evaluation and Selection	None	2 Hours	Instructor-Led	Register	This learning experience is geared towards search committee chairs and members, focuses on inclusive candidate evaluation and selection processes, and discusses the impact of bias during these later stages of the search process.	By the end of this session you will be able to: Understand and discuss the impact of implicit bias in candidate screening, evaluation, and selection Host inclusive, compliant, and consistent candidate experiences Standardize candidate evaluation to combat bias
Performance Management: Foundations and Goal Setting	None	1 Hour	eLearn	Register	This learning experience is designed for supervisors at OHIO and includes an overview of the performance management cycle at OHIO, distinguishes between employee and supervisor responsibilities in the process, and provides information about the construction of written goals and objectives.	Identify the reasons why performance management is used at Ohio University. Distinguish both supervisor and employee performance management roles. Recognize the stages of the Performance Management Cycle. Identify elements of SMART goals and write goals that align with broader departmental objectives. Describe the components that are needed to support ongoing performance objectives. Complete the Ohio University Performance Evaluation form.
Performance Management: Coaching and Feedback	None	2 Hours	Instructor-led	Register	This learning experience is designed for supervisors at OHIO and focuses on coaching and feedback. This learning experience works to demonstrate effective communication elements and how to drive open and honest performance conversations between employees and supervisors. NOTE: It is recommended that you take "Performance Management: Foundations and Goal Setting" learning experience before participating in this learning experience.	Determine effective coaching behaviors and applications Demonstrate effective communication and drive honest and open performance conversations Give examples of ways to provide continuous dialogue
Performance Management: Formal Evaluation and Recognition	None	2 Hours	Instructor-Led	Registration will become available once training dates are scheduled. Please check back.	This learning experience is designed for supervisors at OHIO and outlines an equitable performance management system; assists employees and supervisors on how to best prepare and deliver high-quality, written evaluations; and discusses performance motivation, rewards, and recognition. NOTE: It is recommended that you take "Performance Management: Coaching and Feedback" learning experience before participating.	Determine which behaviors allow for an equitable performance management system Demonstrate behaviors needed to prepare and deliver written evaluations Identify performance rewards and the performance improvement process
Performance Management for Non-Supervisors	None	1.5 Hours	Instructor-Led	Register	This learning experience is designed for staff members that do not supervise or manage others. Participants will learn about OHIO’s Performance Management System and understand the roles that supervisors and employees play in the process.
Individual Compensation Distribution (ICD)	None	1.5 Hours	Instructor-Led	Registration will become available once training dates are scheduled. Please check back.	The Individual Compensation Distribution training covers how to set up and maintain contracts and awards in the Individual Compensation Distribution module within Oracle.	By the end of this session you will be able to: Define ICD and how it is used at Ohio University. Determine how to initiate an ICD contract. Describe the approval process for ICD contracts. Describe new contract types and where to find reference materials. Define Payroll calendar dates and where to find them.
Cash Handling & Credit Card Security Awareness	None	2 Hours	eLearn	Register* *If you are a Student Employee attempting to sign up for this learning experience, please have your supervisor email Carole Gilkey at gilkey@ohio.edu to gain access.	Provides an overview of the cash handling responsibilities for: collecting cash, checks, and credit cards; required safeguards and internal controls; understanding responsibilities for PCI compliance; required training & certification.	By the end of this session you will be able to: Examine the principles of effective cash handling Identify Risks and Internal Controls Recognize counterfeit currency Review Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Requirements Apply guidelines as an OHIO merchant or OHIO employee handling payment card information Demonstrate Best Practices Identify potential penalties for non-compliance
Chart of Accounts Fundamentals	None	4 Hours	Instructor-Led	Register	Provides an overview of the Chart of Accounts (CoA) which provides the structure for all financial and management related reporting. Specific topics include General Ledger (GL) CoA, Grants CoA, segment values, object codes, functions, hierarchy, creating new values, and tools.	By the end of this session you will be able to: Define concepts and terms of the Chart of Accounts Describe the General Ledger and Grants Account Structures Describe Hierarchies within segments Determine where to find and how to use tools for the Chart of Accounts
Internal Awards	Chart of Accounts Fundamentals, Grants Accounting Fundamentals	3.5 Hours	Instructor Led	Registration by invitation only Contact Kris Sano sanok@ohio.edu for more details	Shows authorized users how to establish Internal Awards using the Grants Accounting system. Topics include set-up of Project-Task, set-up of Award, funding & budgeting, reporting, and closeout of internal awards. Participants must have Planning Unit authorization to establish Internal Awards prior to attending this learning experience. Watching an Oracle Navigation Tutorial is required pre-work for this learning experience.	By the end of this session you will be able to: Define Project-Task-Award Login and Navigate Oracle Search for an existing Project Create a Project Create Task(s) Add an Award Establish Funding and Budget Describe Closeout of Internal Awards