SkillSoft Spotlight Course of the Week ~ For Supervisors
Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning to help you more masterfully manage yourself personally and professionally, improve your effectiveness in managing your work, and support you in skillfully leading your teams. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.
This week's spotlight course is Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace (25 min)
Ensuring a diverse, welcoming, and productive organization means overcoming biases. No matter who you are, you are prey to unconscious biases. To be part of a complex, diverse workplace, you must take steps to overcome them.
In this course, you'll learn to recognize how superficial differences can contribute to bias and lead to prejudice and social stereotypes. You'll learn specific tactics for combatting unconscious bias and adopting an anti-bias approach. You'll also learn how to be an inclusive leader by using these tactics to overcome explicit and implicit bias across the organization and in the hiring process.
Participants will learn to:
- identify the types of differences that can contribute to unconscious bias in an organization
- recognize subtle signs of unconscious bias in an organization
- recognize examples of micro-affirmations in the workplace
- recognize how to lead an organization to overcome unconscious bias
- identify strategies for overcoming unconscious bias in the hiring process
- recognize systems that can be put in place to combat organizational bias
- recognize tactics for overcoming organizational biases
Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.
Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar.
Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.
SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning that supports you in navigating complex challenges in personal and professional life, helps you to increase your effectiveness, and to improve your relationships. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.
This week's spotlight course is Overcoming Your Own Unconscious Biases (22 min).
Each of us is a member of a society that is often partitioned into groups and tribes. While this is common to most societies, it can have harmful effects in the workplace, interfering with productivity and organizational success. We all hold biases, whether conscious or unconscious. Part of understanding the role of unconscious bias in the workplace is admitting to yourself that you, too, hold biases. Once accepted, you can take an anti-bias approach to overcoming unconscious prejudice. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize your own unconscious and implicit bias and how they can fall prey to social stereotypes.
Participants will learn to:
- identify how to recognize your unconscious biases
- identify tactics for observing your own unconscious biases
- recognize how to overcome unconscious bias by forming relationships with others
- identify guidelines for avoiding unconscious bias when making decisions
- identify the tactics for combating bias revival
- recognize the process for overcoming your unconscious biases
TO LOGIN:
Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.
Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar.
Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.
SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning that supports you in navigating complex challenges in personal and professional life, helps you to increase your effectiveness, and to improve your relationships. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.
This week's spotlight course is Overcoming Your Own Unconscious Biases (22 min).
Each of us is a member of a society that is often partitioned into groups and tribes. While this is common to most societies, it can have harmful effects in the workplace, interfering with productivity and organizational success. We all hold biases, whether conscious or unconscious. Part of understanding the role of unconscious bias in the workplace is admitting to yourself that you, too, hold biases. Once accepted, you can take an anti-bias approach to overcoming unconscious prejudice. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize your own unconscious and implicit bias and how they can fall prey to social stereotypes.
Participants will learn to:
- identify how to recognize your unconscious biases
- identify tactics for observing your own unconscious biases
- recognize how to overcome unconscious bias by forming relationships with others
- identify guidelines for avoiding unconscious bias when making decisions
- identify the tactics for combating bias revival
- recognize the process for overcoming your unconscious biases
TO LOGIN:
Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.
Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar.
Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.
The event will feature some of our campus experts as we continue to consider how to address structural racism, both in America and on our campus. This event is open to the public and registration is not required. View the event webpage for a list of panelists and log-in information.
We have received several requests for community members to be able to submit questions and comments for the panelists prior to the event. A link to do so is now available. While the form can be completed anonymously, all participants who provide an email address will receive a response from staff in the Office of Equity and Inclusion. Participants will also be able to submit questions during the live event.
Live captioning will be available and a video of the event will be available on the Office of Equity and Inclusion website.
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SkillSoft Spotlight Course of the Week ~ For Supervisors
Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning to help you more masterfully manage yourself personally and professionally, improve your effectiveness in managing your work, and support you in skillfully leading your teams. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.
This week's spotlight course is Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace (25 min)
Ensuring a diverse, welcoming, and productive organization means overcoming biases. No matter who you are, you are prey to unconscious biases. To be part of a complex, diverse workplace, you must take steps to overcome them.
In this course, you'll learn to recognize how superficial differences can contribute to bias and lead to prejudice and social stereotypes. You'll learn specific tactics for combatting unconscious bias and adopting an anti-bias approach. You'll also learn how to be an inclusive leader by using these tactics to overcome explicit and implicit bias across the organization and in the hiring process.
Participants will learn to:
- identify the types of differences that can contribute to unconscious bias in an organization
- recognize subtle signs of unconscious bias in an organization
- recognize examples of micro-affirmations in the workplace
- recognize how to lead an organization to overcome unconscious bias
- identify strategies for overcoming unconscious bias in the hiring process
- recognize systems that can be put in place to combat organizational bias
- recognize tactics for overcoming organizational biases
Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.
Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar.
Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.
As we prepare to welcome our new and returning retrievers to campus - the physical space, the community, and our virtual environments - be sure to check back to this page and welcomeweek.umbc.edu for updates and information.
As a new student, you can expect outreach from current students, faculty, and staff; information on virtual group activities; suggested transition workshops, videos, modules, and resources; and opportunities to meet other new students.
In the meantime, feel free to send any questions or concerns to
welcomeweek@umbc.edu and a Campus Life staff member will get back with you as soon as possible!
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With summer refresh upon all schools, come learn about new features for productivity, security and management in the Windows 10 May 2020 update. Also, hear about the new Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium) and how to deploy it across your devices to provide your users a safe and modern browser experience.
Targeted Audience
IT Professionals, Instruction Technologists
Presenter
Scott Ellison , Sr. Education Technical Specialist.
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Selling GRE Books
Selling GRE books:
1. ETS - Verbal reasoning
2. ETS - Quantitative reasoning
3. Kaplan - Practice tests
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Selling GRE books: 1. ETS - Verbal reasoning 2. ETS - Quantitative reasoning 3. Kaplan - Practice tests Willing to negotiate price. Email: lsaha1@umbc.edu
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Nature as Teacher
Nature Based Mindful Practice
An Invitation to Return...
There was a time in human history when each of us was alive and awake to both the beauty and the wisdom of the natural world. A time of awareness where we intuited that what was happening 'outside' was also happening 'inside' each of us. A time when nature was our teacher. The following practices invite you to return and rekindle this inner knowing for the sake of your own well-being, for the sake of our planet and for future generations to come who will inhabit it.
Principles of Mindfulness
Awareness - Paying attention to our attention - how and what we notice
Non-judgement - Our ability to accept experiences as they are without
evaluation or judgment
Peacefulness - Our ability to cultivate a state of peacefulness and equanimity
amidst changing conditions
Pay attention to these principles as you go through each exercise, bringing with you a sense of wakefulness, appreciation, and wonder to each experience.
8. Appreciating Our Elders
Go for a walk in a mature forest and contemplate how many years our elders - the trees and rocks in particular - have on us. What might they have seen over the years? What might we learn about resilience and wisdom from them?
This PDF was made possible with a grant from Center for Art Design and Visual Culture and Nature Sacred.
Campus Status: The University is open, with employees working remotely. UMBC’s physical campus remains closed. Maryland is currently under a Safer at Home Order.
For the most updated information and more information on actions to reduce COVID-19 risks in our community, please visit
covid19.umbc.edu. If you have questions or concerns, please email
covid19@umbc.edu.
Retrievers Return Roadmap
- Stay tuned for updates on fall courses this week. We will share by email and on our site.
Student Services and Support
Campus Access
- UMBC’s physical campus remains closed and employees continue to work remotely. Only employees with permission from their supervisor, approved researchers, and/or approved students should be on campus.
- If you have a one-time emergency need to visit campus, call UMBC Police Deputy Chief Bruce Perry at 443-677-2195 or Lieutenant Derrick Johns at 410-207-0850.
- It may be summer but there is a lot going on, view the Weekly Update.