JoAnna Van Brocklin

Focus On Your Talents - An Introduction to CliftonStrengths

Discover the power of your natural talents and learn how to use them to achieve personal and professional goals. Join us for an insightful workshop where you'll explore your talents and learn how CliftonStrengths can be a valuable tool to unlock your full potential. 

Jesus Gomez Manzo

Resilient Thinking: Harnessing Perspective, Influence, and Growth

In today’s fast-paced work environment, stress and challenges are inevitable—but our mindset can shape how we navigate them. This interactive workshop will explore how shifting perspectives, building resilience, and harnessing influence can transform obstacles into opportunities for growth. Through practical strategies and engaging discussions, UCR staff will gain tools to manage stress effectively, cultivate a positive outlook, and foster a supportive workplace culture. Join us to strengthen your mental well-being and turn challenges into stepping stones for success!

Moses Preciado

Unlocking Trust: Building Authentic Connections for Professional Success

Trust; the foundation of every relationship, personal and professional. Every word you speak, every action you take, can either build trust or erode it. How often do we truly consider the trust we have built or the trust that needs building? In this engaging presentation, we’ll uncover the secret to building and maintaining trust in a professional or personal setting, explore the small but powerful investments that strengthen bonds, and reveal how even one wrong move can shake the foundation of credibility. Don't miss this chance to master the art of trust.

Alex Rollins, Erika Santoyo, Sarah Dillon

No Energy Vampires Allowed: Driving Your Team to Positive Energy and Success

This uplifting session explores 10 rules to fuel your life, work, and team with positive energy. Learn practical strategies to stay motivated, overcome challenges, and create a vision that inspires success and positivity in every aspect of your life.

Seana Nunez

Renewing Your Energy and Sharpening Your Saw

Just like you can’t cut wood with a dull saw, you can’t help those around you if you don’t renew yourself.  Learn about renewing your energy and “Sharpening Your Saw” so you have the energy to achieve your goals.

Taking Control of Your Finances

Nea Alvarado Voss

A New Model of Performance Management 

Tired of feeling like your performance evaluations are a waste of time? Looking for a way to get more out of performance evaluations for yourself or your team, including a plan to build your own career path? This workshop will cover the new model of Performance Management that is getting started here at UCR. Come learn about the campus vision and direction for staff performance development and take away some tools that you can implement in the next performance cycle.

Ed Marchall

Reducing Workplace Injuries

Megan Hansen-Rush

What is MEI?

This workshop will introduce and describe the Chancellor's Making Excellence Inclusive Program. This certificate based program walks participants through a series of learning activities designed to make the subject matter directly applicable to the university environment. The program objectives will serve as a path of engagement in which all participants will start building knowledge and move incrementally towards innovation, based on the Diversity Engagement and Learning Taxonomy Assessment.

Jeffery Butler

Leading in Times of Uncertainty

Discover the How the Human Psyche Handles Change:
Uncover the paradoxical hurdle that every leader faces when confronted with uncertainty and how they can pragmatically regain psychological control.

Conflict-Proofing Strategies:
Identify thought distortions and how to systematically guide someone through uncertainty in order to regain team harmony.

Strategic Insights:
Discover strategies that leaders from various industries and levels use to create buy in during times of drastic change.

Rejeana Mathis

Time Management: A Balancing Act

This session focuses on a scarce resource - time. You will explore practical techniques for “controlling time” and making it a manageable resource. Several methods for examining, planning and maximizing the utilization of time will be discussed.

Michelle Hardwick

Tips for Using Data to Create a Compelling Story

When you are trying to tell a story to help someone see a certain point of view or simply trying to influence someone to go along with your proposal, using data can help your story. How you present that data is important to help your message stand out.

Dr. Rosemary Tyrrell

Flipping the Script: Cultivating a Growth Mindset in Ourselves and Others

Unlock the power of a growth mindset in this interactive workshop designed to help you and those around you shift from fixed perspectives to transformative growth. Through practical strategies, reflective exercises, and collaborative discussions, you'll learn how to identify limiting beliefs, reframe challenges as opportunities, and foster resilience in the face of setbacks. 

Melanie Ramiro

Mastering Event Marketing

A great event isn’t just created—it’s marketed with precision.  If you’ve ever poured your heart into an event only to face empty seats, it’s time for a smarter approach! In this workshop, you’ll learn top event planners' bold, innovative marketing strategies for sparking excitement, creating urgency, and attracting a packed crowd. Don’t leave attendance to chance—learn how to connect, captivate, and fill every seat so your target audience never misses what you have to offer!

Alex Rollins

The Ideal Team Player: Unlocking Humility, Drive, and Emotional Intelligence

Unlock the power of the three essential virtues of the ideal team player—Humble, Hungry, and Smart—by focusing on your own personal growth and professional development. In this engaging Zoom workshop, you’ll explore how humility, drive, and emotional intelligence shape your success in both your career and everyday life. Through reflective exercises and guided discussions, you’ll gain insight into your own strengths and identify areas for improvement. You’ll leave with practical strategies to cultivate these virtues and enhance your effectiveness as a team player, leader, and communicator.

Hung Wu, Kimberlie Hayden, Jasmine Henderson

Beyond the Buzzword: Identifying and Addressing Different Types of Burnout

Beyond the Buzzword cuts through the noise surrounding burnout to offer a clear understanding of its various forms. This guide helps you identify the specific type of burnout you or someone you know might be experiencing, moving past the general concept to offer targeted strategies for addressing each unique manifestation of exhaustion.  Learn to recognize the distinct signs and symptoms, and discover practical solutions to reclaim your well-being

Sharlene Grace Bucasas

Interview Preparation and Techniques: Have Your Sh!t Together

Interviews can be nerve-wracking, but preparation is key to boosting your confidence and making a strong impression. In this workshop, you'll gain practical strategies to sharpen your interview skills, tackle challenging questions with ease, and present your best self. Whether you're preparing for a job interview, a promotion, or a career transition, this session will equip you with actionable insights to demonstrate that you have your sh!t together—and that you're the best fit for the position.  

Maria Anguiano

Taking Ownership and Taking Risks

Come join us for the closing of the UCR Staff Conference 2025! We will have some networking opportunities along with some light refreshments at the Alumni & Visitor Center.