Retreat Post-It Board

2014-2015 Term Proposal

Training grant pilot

• $10,000 to fund pilot program for professional development grants.

  • These grants would look to address development gap between Lynda.com and department skills training.

  • Fund development that individual units do not have a clear incentive to fund.

  • Give staff a greater role in determining training objectives.

    • Fund all or part of training costs..

    • Opportunity for individual staff to define their own development.

    •   Opportunity to articulate our vision of employee experience, development, growth.

    • Develop staff to benefit a broader university wide scope.

  • Funds to be administered by Staff Council committee.

    • Staff would submit proposals for funding.

    • The committee would look to include training for a diverse all kinds of staff.

    • Staff provided grants would provide writes-up of their experience, similar to student internships.

Lynda.com marketing

• Assist with Lynda.com roll out.

  • Facilitate brown bags and larger presentations university-wide.

    • Coordinate space and event production.

    • Coordinate word of mouth marketing.

  • Identify student, faculty, staff Lynda.com success stories for new website.

  • Solicit interested student, faculty and staff to curate topical playlists showing how to build skills on Lynda.com.

Mentoring programs

• Mentoring opportunities via UTlists

  • Produce FAQ for new UTSC website detailing how UT list service can be used for mentoring in various communities of practice.