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.