Professional and Personal Development Programs

Open to faculty and staff.

Register at http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu/

Vanguard Live Webinar—Retirement Income; 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29; 1-2 p.m. This in-depth session will demonstrate how to use your retirement savings to create a sustainable income stream to last you through retirement.

Vanguard Live Webinar—Investing in Volatile Markets; 5/4, 5/8, 5/11, 5/15, 5/18, 5/22, 5/25, 5/29; 10-11 a.m., 1-2 p.m., 4-5 p.m. This webinar will teach you how to set clear investment goals, create a broadly diversified mix of investments, keep costs low, and invest for the long term. Note: Spanish sessions available. Visit the registration link for more details.

Challenging Your Negative Attitudes; 5/6; 12:30-1:30 p.m. By challenging our negative attitudes, we have the power to take control of pessimistic perspectives and stressful situations. During this course, participants will learn to manage the impact of negative situations, deal with their own negative thoughts more effectively, and learn coping tools for dealing with change.

TED Talk Tuesday: How To Multiply Your Time; 5/12; 12:30-1:30 p.m. In this challenging and counter-intuitive video, Self-Discipline Strategist and New York Times bestselling author of Rory Vaden, shows you why you can’t solve today’s time-management challenges with yesterday’s time-management strategies. More importantly he explains why procrastinating on purpose is the key to being able to multiply your time.

TIAA Live Webinar—Estate Planning Basics; 5/12; 12-1 p.m. Ensuring that our assets will pass to loved ones and causes that are near and dear is important to most of us. Discover the components of a basic estate plan and strategies to ensure that your wishes are met.

TIAA Live Webinar—Start to Finish: The Early Career Woman’s Guide to Financial Wisdom; 5/12; 3-4 p.m. When women are starting their careers, there’s a lot to consider—career goals, job satisfaction, achieving a work/life balance. But it’s important to also consider retirement. Discover how establishing a plan now can help establish your financial future.

TIAA Live Webinar—Market-Proof Your Retirement; 5/13; noon-1 p.m. In retirement—and the years leading up to it—protecting your savings becomes just as important as growing it. Join us to learn how to create your own personal pension with TIAA Traditional, offered by Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA).

TIAA Live Webinar—Paying Yourself: Income Options in Retirement; 5/13; 3-4 p.m. Learn the rules that govern retirement assets and find out when to consider using different income sources.

TIAA Live Webinar—The 411 on 529 College Savings Plans; 5/14; 12-1 p.m. Learn how 529 college savings plans work and how to invest in one for a child, grandchild, yourself or other loved one.

Getting Work Done; 5/14; 12:30-1:30 p.m. Throughout a normal workday, there are multiple distractions that can get many of us off task and behind on our to-do lists.  In this course, we’ll review tactics to help you stay on target with the many moving pieces of your role.  You’ll identify your biggest time sponges and ways to manage them, create priority lists, understand ways to delegate when not in a position of authority, and learn ways to achieve an acceptable work life balance.

How to Make Yourself Indispensable; 5/21; 12:30-1:30 p.m. Indispensable employees perform with a mindset that drives them to think, act, and behave differently. In this seminar, you’ll learn how to: take ownership of your responsibilities and results, take initiative to go above and beyond what is expected of you, expand your sphere of influence, perform well under pressure, adapt to changing situations, and avoid being irreplaceable.

Work-life Workshops

Open to faculty and staff.

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Using the Tuition Benefit for You and Your Family; 5/5; 12:30-1:30 p.m. The University offers employees and their families tuition assistance. Join this session to learn more about the tuition benefit program and how you can use the benefit for yourself at Penn, or how the tuition benefit can support your dependents or spouse in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree.

Webinar: Dad Wants to do it Alone: When a Parent Will Not Accept Help; 5/5; 1-2 p.m. You’ve been concerned about your loved one living at home now that they’re older and having trouble getting around, and you’ve come up with the perfect plan to support them. There’s only one problem – they are refusing to acknowledge anything is wrong and won’t accept help. What now? So often our loved ones do not accept care supports because it can feel like a loss of control and independence. This webinar will address how to support your loved one’s autonomy, even when they need help and strategies to introduce beneficial care options in a non-threatening manner.

Virtual Workshop: Guided Mindful Meditation: 5/5, 5/27; 12:30-1:30 p.m. This workshop is offered twice a month for participants to practice present moment awareness with kindness and compassion. The guided meditation will focus on the breath and being in the body. Self-applied massage and gentle mindful movements that promote rest and relaxation, and reduce stress may also be included in the workshop. No experience necessary. All are warmly welcome. (BlueJeans instructions will be emailed the day before the workshop).

Virtual Workshop: Communication Improved-Conflict Reduced; 5/11; 12:30-1:30 p.m.Effective communication is essential not only for our professional life, but for our personal life as well. This interactive workshop focuses on non-verbal communication, active listening and barriers to effective communication. It explores how we can learn to effectively resolve conflicts more productively and prevent conflict from occurring, with a greater understanding of our conflict styles and methods of communication.

Sleep; 5/15; 12:30-1:30 p.m. Do you have questions about sleep? Are you sleepy and can’t figure out why? Are you having problems with sleep? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions please attend this workshop! We will discuss normal and abnormal sleep in both kids and adults. We will also review common sleep issues in the adult population. Last but not least we will explore what sleep does and why it is so important. BlueJeans instructions will be emailed the day before the workshop.

Penn Healthy You Workshops

Open to faculty and staff.

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Virtual Nutrition Counseling; 5/1, 5/4, 5/5, 5/7; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Knowing what to eat for your personal nutritional needs can be overwhelming! Benefits-eligible faculty and staff can now receive individualized nutrition counseling on campus on select days each month. A Family Food, LLC, Registered Dietician will work with you to address the nutrition-related questions and concerns you have and tailor a plan specific to you. Family Food dietitians offer nutrition counseling for adults concerned with a vast array of issues, including general healthy eating, cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, weight gain or loss, food allergies and sensitivities, slow metabolism, pregnancy, and much more.