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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!

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.

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.
  

• 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. 

This timely presentation is designed to help individuals gain valuable insight into the emotional and physical problems that can occur when we let our lives get out of balance. The session also covers several practical strategies that employees can utilize to restore balance and live happier, healthier and more productive lives.

Social Media is an important part of student engagement and customer service in Higher Education. Join Student Success and Student Affairs in this dynamic learning opportunity and we explore best practices and techniques to build your department or college’s social media strategy and content. The Summit is an excellent opportunity for staff and student employees to level up their social media acumen and prepare for the fall semester with a focus on the UTSA student audience.

Presentations include best practices in some of the most popular platforms at UTSA, information about institutional social media guidelines and accessibility as well as provide time for your team to craft goals and kick-start your content strategy for the 2022-2023 academic year.

The summit is designed for full-time and student staff managing department social media channels and student success and student services practitioners with social media as ancillary duties.

This timely session reviews the benefits and challenges of working from home and provides several tips and strategies that can help remote workers to maximize productivity and job satisfaction. Areas to be discussed include identifying the best workspace, planning/structuring your day, self-discipline, managing distractions, and meeting your personal/social needs.

We all have intense or negative thoughts and emotions at times. If we don’t manage them well, they can interfere with our peace of mind and enjoyment of life. This important session discusses strategies for improving our self-talk and emotional self-management skills to brighten our moods and enhance our ability to communicate effectively with others.

Employees who grew up in different time periods can have different values, different priorities, and different communication styles. This important presentation explores those differences and suggests strategies for effectively motivating employees from each generation.

All staff members can be called on to lead others at one time or another. Whether it be taking the lead on a project or organizing a department function, the ability to lead and influence others is an important skill set. This important session is designed to help individuals that are not currently in a supervisory role to enhance leadership skills such as building strong bonds with colleagues, collaborating effectively on tasks and projects, and resolving conflicts that arise.

This important workshop takes a practical look at the causes of burnout and provides several life management strategies that can help individuals to improve their health, regain motivation, and increase life satisfaction. Strategies include building resilience, time and stress management, and identifying and pursuing our life's purpose.

This seminar is designed to help supervisors and managers recognize how personal organization and use of time contribute to stress levels. In addition, the presentation offers a practical approach to prioritizing efforts and maintaining focus on the most important activities in our work and lives to reduce stress and increase our effectiveness.

This important session is designed to help individuals to enhance both their personal and interpersonal success in the workplace. Topics to be discussed include the keys to planning and prioritizing time, effective methods for coping with and managing stress, and several core communication skills that help to strengthen relationships, work collaboratively with clients and coworkers, and better handle difficult conversations and conflict.

During these difficult times many employees are experiencing higher levels of stress. This important session provides supervisors, managers, and HR professionals with practical strategies to help them to encourage individuals to live more balanced lifestyles so they can remain healthy and productive.

As employees prepare to return to the physical workplace, they may experience anxiety about their health and safety and have concerns about the many changes that have occurred since the pandemic began. This timely session will provide helpful strategies that will help individuals more effectively transition back into working onsite, cope with changes, and re-engage with their colleagues.

This timely session reviews the benefits and challenges of working from home and provides several tips and strategies that can help remote workers to maximize productivity and job satisfaction. Areas to be discussed include identifying the best workspace, planning/structuring your day, self-discipline, managing distractions, and meeting your personal/social needs.

This seminar is designed to help supervisors and managers recognize how personal organization and use of time contribute to stress levels. In addition, the presentation offers a practical approach to prioritizing efforts and maintaining focus on the most important activities in our work and lives to reduce stress and increase our effectiveness.