During these 15-minute monthly micro-learning sessions for leaders, you will learn tools and strategies that can be quickly implemented to create a positive working environment. 

Please use the session list to enroll in the corresponding course of your choosing. You may also enroll in each offering!

• January 12: Bird Byte: The 10 Minute Leadership Reflection – A leadership routine that will help you reflect on employee performance to provide effective and routine recognition, feedback and support.
• February 9: Bird Byte: Stay Interviews – A powerful leadership strategy to help you retain talent and make intentional improvements
• March 9: Bird Byte: Recognize and Celebrate - Quick strategies for recognizing and celebrating employee wins, progress and success
• April 13: Bird Byte: Encourage and Support Employee Growth – Meaningful conversations you can have with employees to help them grow where they are.
• May 11: Bird Byte: Leadership Wellbeing  – A time to reset and refresh as leaders embark on the busy season that the end of the semester can bring about.
  

Develop the skills to lead meaningful 1:1 conversations and conduct impactful stay interviews that strengthen trust, increase engagement, and support employee retention.

Explore practical tools and strategies to monitor employee performance effectively. Learn how to leverage feedback, recognition, and goal tracking while aligning with UTSA’s core competencies for performance evaluation. Walk away with actionable techniques to foster growth, accountability, and engagement within your teams. 

During these 15-minute monthly micro-learning sessions for leaders, you will learn tools and strategies that can be quickly implemented to create a positive working environment. 

Please use the session list to enroll in the corresponding course of your choosing. You may also enroll in each offering!

•  09-8-2025 – SMART Goals for Employee Success – Learn to set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goals that drive clarity and accountability.
• 10-14-2025 – Micro-Habits for Leadership Success – Discover how small, consistent actions can strengthen leadership effectiveness.
• 11-10-2025 – Mindful Delegation  – Learn considerations and tools to help assign the right task to the right person with clear expectations and follow-up.
• 12-8-2025 – Leadership Wellbeing  – Explore ways to maintain your energy, focus, and resilience while leading others.

This session will focus on simple, actionable tips for balancing your time and energy to enhance overall wellbeing as a leader of teams.

Participants will learn effective ways of communicating and engaging with employees in virtual or hybrid workplace settings to increase team collaboration and engagement.

Participants will learn to guide their teams with clarity, consistency, and care, ensuring that morale and momentum are maintained throughout transitions, change and times of ambiguity.

During these 15-minute monthly micro-learning sessions for leaders, you will learn tools and strategies that can be quickly implemented to create a positive working environment. 

Please use the session list to enroll in the corresponding course of your choosing. You may also enroll in each offering!

Join other leaders at UTSA in our Leadership Foundations series to enhance your leadership knowledge and skills.  

This course will teach you specific processes for developing a mission and vision statement with your team.   

The instructor will introduce each process and provide an opportunity for leaders to collaborate and practice during class.  You will leave this course ready to implement this process with your team!

The audience for this course is all UTSA supervisors, managers, and leaders.

Join other leaders at UTSA in our Leadership Foundations series to enhance your leadership knowledge and skills.  

This course will expose leaders to different forms of communication, identify barriers and model effective communication along with developing active listening skills as you lead today and tomorrow.  Leaders will be able to use these skills to lead teams, build relationships, and achieve their goals as leaders at UTSA.

Join other leaders at UTSA in our Leadership Foundations series to enhance your leadership knowledge and skills. 

In this course, you will learn why it is essential for leaders to set professional boundaries and effective strategies for maintaining them.  

The audience for this course is all UTSA supervisors, managers, and leaders.

Join other leaders at UTSA in our Leadership Foundations series to enhance your leadership knowledge and skills.  In this course you will learn how to enhance social relations and define roles within teams, often involving collaborative tasks.

This course will provide leaders with an understanding of how change impacts people and teams.  This course will also provide considerations beyond project details to think about when implementing change.

Join other leaders at UTSA in our Leadership Foundations Plus series to enhance your leadership knowledge and skills.  

This course will help leaders become more efficient. They will also become more proficient with delegating, managing time, setting goals and expectations (for themselves and others), providing feedback, resolving conflict, and administering discipline.

Join other leaders at UTSA in our Leadership Foundations Plus series to enhance your leadership knowledge and skills. 

This course provides leaders with a technique that’s generally used to instill confidence in an employee while gently telling them what they could do in the future to perform even better.

In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to manage a remote or hybrid team. Topics covered include establishing trust, building relationships, staying connected, team communication, and online meetings.