Professional Skills and Career Development

Our professional skills courses provide opportunities to build additional skills to increase effectiveness and enhance abilities. Our professional skill courses focus on the people and job skills needed to be successful in our ever-evolving workplace. We offer different formats to meet your needs, including two-hour courses, one- to three-day workshops, as well as learning cohorts. In learning cohorts, the same group of learners participates in a program that consists of a series of sessions that can last three days or span over the year.

These courses are offered throughout the year in on-demand, live and live-online versions. Select the course to see a full description. For a complete description of the class you are interested in, select the current class schedule and register for the class on the UCOP Classes and Workshops Link page. If we are not currently offering a class that you want, you can express interest (doc) in the course in the UC Learning Center or fill out a class request form.

All UCOP employees also have free access to LinkedIn Learning courses (FAQs) and Gartner Manager and Employee Development toolbox. 

• Professional skills
  • Project management classes
    
    • Project Management Level I 
      • Project Management
    • Project Management Level II *Must complete Level I first
      • Project Management II
    • Microsoft Project 
      • Microsoft Project
    • Project Management for Non-Project Managers
    • LinkedIn Learning: project management training 
  • Time Management Classes 
    
    • Accomplishing More With Less for Managers
    • Accomplishing More With Less
    • LinkedIn Learning: time management training
• People (soft) skills
  • Effective professional relationships
    • Building Strong Work Relationships
    • LinkedIn Learning: Effective Relationships training
  • Social and emotional intelligence
    • Emotional Intelligence - Attain Result Through People.
    • Social Emotional Learning at Work
    • LinkedIn Learning: emotional intelligence
  • Communication
    • Writing
      • Get to the Point! Effective Writing Skills
      • LinkedIn Learning: written communication training
    • Influential Communications 
      
      • LinkedIn Learning: influential communications training
    • Challenging Conversations
      • Responding to Conflict
      • Dealing with Angry People
      • LinkedIn Learning: Difficult conversations training
    • Presentation
      • UCOP PowerPoint: Dynamic Presentations
      • Do's and Don'ts of Effective Presentations
      • Delivery Skills
      • LinkedIn Learning: presentation skills training
    • Public speaking 
      • Using Your Voice - Lesson 2: Speaking Clearly
      • LinkedIn Learning: public speaking training
• Learning and development cohorts
  • UC Women's Initiative (UCWI)
  • UC-Coro Leadership Collaborative
  • Mentorship Program
  • Take Charge
  • Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP)
  • UC People Management Certificate
    • Implicit Bias
  • UCOP People Management Integrated Learning Program (PM-ILP)