Professional Development - Summer 2026
Leadership Skills II
This series builds on the Developing Your Leadership Skills series. Topics include Managing Professional Relationships, Influencing and Persuading, Building Consensus, Enhancing Negotiation Skills, and Facilitating Supportive Environments. For graduate students and postdocs.
Location:
Sunnyside Apartments
Cottonwood Community Center (Building 797)
Schedule: Saturday Mornings from 10:30 AM - Noon
| May 16: | Managing Professional Relationships |
| May 23: | Influencing and Persuading |
| May 30: | Building Consensus |
| June 6: | Enhancing Negotiation Skills |
| June 13: | Facilitating Supportive Environments |
FREE (Certificate of Completion available if attending full series)
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Leveraging Emotional Intelligence
This series will explore the concept of emotional intelligence, and its application in professional work. Participants are invited to complete an emotional intelligence inventory to provide individual insights, with an opportunity for a 1:1 coaching session. The series will focus on understanding emotional intelligence, emotional intelligence and conflict navigation, emotional intelligence and negotiation, emotional intelligence and teamwork and, emotional intelligence and difficult conversations. For graduate students and postdocs.
Location: Gardner Commons, Rm 3105
Schedule: Wednesdays: 9:30-11 am
| May 20: | Understanding Emotional Intelligence |
| May 27: | Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Navigation |
| June 3: | Emotional Intelligence and Negotiation |
| June 10: | Emotional Intelligence and Working with Others |
| June 17: | Emotional intelligence and Difficult Conversations |
FREE (Certificate of Completion available if attending full series)
Register for Leveraging Emotional Intelligence