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Personal Development Courses

Personal development is the key to professional development. Are there areas you are either struggling in or looking to grow in personally, with the goal of translating this into your professional life? The personal development courses focus on everything from learning to be more inclusive, how to boost your career, how to manage change, among many other topics.

New! Everything DiSC: Productive Conflict

Apply DiSC assessment results to better understand our personal responses in conflict.

New! Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done teaches skills to manage the constant flow of requests, tasks, and interruptions that face employees at all levels of an organization

Identify and Maximize Your Strengths

After completing the online assessment prior to the course, you will attend this program to receive your results and explore what you naturally do best, identify the impacts of those talents on your work and relationships, and determine how to further develop these areas to be most successful.

Identify and Maximize Your Strengths Part 2: Unlock the Full 34

Did you know, Gallup offers access to your unique distribution of the 34 talents and strengths? In this continued learning session, you will unlock your full 34 strengths report and learn what those mean to you through a series of reflective and interactive exercises.

Ready, Set, Change!

This interactive and engaging session from organizational change expert and experienced keynote speaker, April Callis-Birchmeier, is appropriate for anyone responsible for implementing and guiding change in their organizations, such as leaders, project managers and their team members, HR professionals and more.

Roadmap to Retirement

If you are an MSU faculty or staff member, and you have decided to retire within a year or two, you may want to consider attending the Roadmap to Retirement class. This half-day workshop covers a range of topics critical to your successful retirement.

The Power of Habit™

You will learn how to spot your habit loop, turn bad days into good data, and create habits that get the results you want.

Understanding and Navigating Shame in the Workplace

This course can help leaders be less susceptible to efforts by others to use shame triggering to diminish the leader’s effectiveness, sustainability, and efforts to develop inclusive, diverse, and healthy work team cultures.

*MSU HR Organization and Professional Development follows all applicable state and public health guidance and university-wide directives. If deemed necessary or advisable to refrain from in-person learning, courses scheduled as in-person will instead be hosted in a virtual format.

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Breaking Free from Stress

Creating and Sustaining a Positive Workplace

Everything DiSC: Agile EQ

New! Everything DiSC: Productive Conflict

New! Getting Things Done

Identify and Maximize Your Strengths

Identify and Maximize Your Strengths Part 2: Unlock the Full 34

Ready, Set, Change!

Roadmap to Retirement

The Power of Habit™

Understanding and Navigating Shame in the Workplace

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