Retreat Post-It Board

Travel Scholarships and Networking

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Action Taken

Financial Aid/Award for helping to attend conferences and/or trainings  
Scholarships for UT Professional Development classes/certifications  
Face to face networking for staff for similar types of work and/or similar titles (if this exists already, a way to better publicize it)  
Increase number of conferences and presentations on campus for staff at low or no cost  
Teaching certificate program for staff - paced so that you can work and learn simultaneously  
In person trainings  
In person trainings from campus experts  
Expand professional development training to include satellite campuses (McDonald  Observatory)  
Submission page for staff to request training sessions  

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Career Counseling

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UT PDC: Free or low-cost for staff  
PRC Professional Development  
Resume writing assistance for those that do not have a current resume but might need to apply for a new job  
Professional Development opportunities  
Career counseling and planning  
Resume writing workshop for staff  
Resume classes that were offered in the past  
In person classes such as business writing and transforming lives through resilience. (Online is great, but some people prefer in-person)  
Conduct skills and interest tests for interested employees so employees and departments can see where employee(s) best fit  

Mentoring

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Need a mentor ship program across campus and within departments for 1 or 2 days a month  
Need a scholarship program across campus and within department where people can shadow other employees and work in other departments for 1 or 2 days per month  

Employee Retention

  

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How to keep quality staff employed at UT  
Promote from within and post vacant lower positions  
Retention policy to address increasing turnover  
Training for those affected by reorganization within a department changed by Shared Services  

Professional Training

  

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Increased access to professional training  
More marketing for Lynda.com  
Advertise the current free development classes available  
Training/advertisement of the new system of professional development available for employees for free - how do we make it more visible on a local level?  
Explicit examples of how much much experience Lynda.com course completions are equivalent to  
Training specific to Shared Services  

Issues

  

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Transparency regarding hours reduction  
Posting positions at a higher salary rate than existing staff in same position  
Opportunities for staff to volunteer in the community for a specified number of hours annually on UT work time  
Explicit examples of "other experience" in job postings with regard to military MOS/Certifications