The ‘Learning Academy’ is now ‘Employee Professional Development & Enrichment’

The ‘Learning Academy for Faculty and Staff’ is now called ‘Employee Professional Development & Enrichment’ and is located on the 4th Floor of College Park Plaza. Members of this department include: Steve Wagner (Executive Director of Organizational Learning, swagner@grcc.edu), Liz Timmer (Coordinator, ltimmer@grcc.edu), MaryBeth VanTill (Staff Facilitator, mvantill@grcc.edu), and Pam DeGryse (Education Support Professional, pdegryse@grcc.edu).

Employee Professional Development & Enrichment will continue to facilitate improvement at GRCC by offering professional development opportunities, promoting employee enrichment, and enhancing work-group effectiveness.

This work includes:

• New employee on-boarding
• Training to enhance
  • Work-related competencies (e.g., Best Practices for Meetings)
  • Technology skills (e.g., Microsoft Office, Groupwise)
  • Social skills (e.g., Collaborative Communication)
  • Institutional functioning and change (e.g., M & C Performance Evaluation)
  • Risk management (e.g., Sexual Harassment)
  • Compliance with legally-mandated knowledge/skills (e.g., Right to Know)
• GRCC’s Leadership Institute
• Rewards and Recognition
• Employee Wellness
• Personal Enrichment

Continue to watch GRCC Today for employee learning opportunities as well as the other programs formerly part of the Learning Academy or go to www.grcc.edu/la for full program offerings and information (note: our website will be updated in the near future).  Faculty professional development will now be coordinated by The Center for Teaching Excellence under the direction of Dr. Ric Underhile.