Classroom & Webinar Courses

Overview of writing SMART Goals for performaance management.

Hiring Manager Training – Recruitment Process Overview

Leadership Huddle: Communicating Through Change

Leadership Huddle: Storytelling for Leaders

• September 14: Bird Byte: Strengthening Team Accountability – A 15-minute microlearning focused on fostering ownership, clarifying expectations, and creating a culture of accountability that drives individual and team performance.
• October 12: Bird Byte: Working Across Teams – A 15-minute microlearning focused on building effective partnerships across departments to strengthen communication, alignment, and shared success.
• November 9: Bird Byte: Virtual and Hybrid Collaboration - A 15-minute microlearning focused on leveraging practical strategies for communication, engagement, and collaboration in virtual and hybrid work environments.
• December 14: Bird Byte: Leadership Wellbeing - A 15-minute microlearning focused on sustaining personal wellbeing through intentional practices that support resilience, effectiveness, and long-term leadership success.

This course equips leaders with practical tools to develop employees intentionally, strengthen engagement and retention, and support long‑term growth through ongoing performance management, individual strengths awareness, career conversations, and stay interviews. It emphasizes that leadership development happens most effectively through everyday interactions, not just formal training.

• June 8: Bird Byte: What You Do Best as a Leader –This course will help leaders identify their natural strengths and understand how those strengths positively impact others.
• July 13: Bird Byte: Managing Competing Priorities – A 15-minute microlearning focused on managing competing priorities to make deliberate, aligned, and timely decisions in complex environments. 
• August 10: Bird Byte: Leading Effective Team Meetings - A 15-minute microlearning focused on leading efficient, purposeful team meetings that drive clarity, engagement, and decisions. 

Develop the skills to recognize, manage, and prevent stress and burnout by building practical habits that protect well-being, strengthen resilience, and sustain personal and professional performance.

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.