Your Well-Being is Critical to Everyone's Success
Managing our stress on an individual level is a key factor in making the Hybrid Work Pilot "work." As we move forward into Phase III of the pilot — which begins Jan. 3 and runs through the Spring semester (watch the latest Tom Talk for details) — let’s all make self-care a priority and look for ways to support our teammates with maximum empathy. UCF offers free wellness resources through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and talk to your supervisor about other options that are available to support you.
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Protect Yourself from Re-Entry Stress
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Change can challenge us in unexpected ways, especially in our current situation. “Re-Entry Stress is Contagious. Here’s How to Protect Yourself,” a recent article from Harvard Business Review by Melody Wilding, offers strategies for maximizing empathy to help alleviate anxiety and focus on more positive emotions in work teams. Tips include: - Take your emotional temperature
- Visualize a boundary
- Empathize, don’t internalize
- Practice co-regulation
- Be a resilience booster
- Have a way to cleanse the day
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Power Up Your Leadership Skills
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“Thrive in the New World of Work,” a podcast from organizational training company FranklinCovey, explores leadership in the rapidly developing paradigm of hybrid work. Episode 1 of Season 1, “Be a Better Leader,” offers insight from researchers and other experts on fueling autonomy as a foundation of collaboration, creativity and innovation. It’s available on Soundcloud and Apple Podcasts.
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“I highly recommend checking it out. I hope it will add value to your leadership journeys in these evolving times — as it has mine.” |
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Donate Joy this Holiday Season
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‘Tis the season for Toys for Tots, the United States Marine Corps program that provides toys for children who would otherwise not receive a holiday present, and DDL has two options to donate a new, unwrapped toy and deliver some major joy. - Drop off toys in the festive bin in the Digital Learning Center lobby by Dec. 1
- Have toys delivered to Susan Hicks at UCF Digital Learning Center, 12351 Research Parkway, Room #104, Orlando, FL 32826 by Nov. 30
For questions or other donation options, please email Susan.Hicks@ucf.edu
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New Online Option for Financial Technology Students
UCF Online recently launched the first fully online master’s degree program from the UCF College of Business. The innovative, 30-credit hour M.S. in FinTech integrates finance with technology to prepare students for next generation careers in this fast-growing field that is changing the future of financial services.
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Celebrate Diversity
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November is National Native American Heritage Month, celebrating the rich ancestry and traditions of the first Americans with in-person and virtual events presented by The Library of Congress, National Archives, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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DDL Experts Inspire Innovation
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On Nov. 2, instructional designers Alyssa Albrecht, Ashley Salter and Jessica Tojo-Raible presented “Real-World Application of Learning in a Virtual World” at the WCET 33rd Annual Meeting. During the interactive session, the trio guided participants through an exploration of best practices for facilitating applicable learning examples and sharing successes and failures from this past year through the lens of their institutional context.
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WE ARE AN ENGINE FOR INNOVATION
By leveraging game-changing educational technology, we pioneer new ways to fuel student access, enrollment and success, with an emphasis on decreasing time to graduation, reducing the cost of higher education, and improving the quality of the learning experience — at UCF and beyond. Let's change the future, together.
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