2023 Staff Conference

Finding Your Why and Living with Intention

Knowing your purpose and living with intention helps improve your overall wellbeing and resiliency. This interactive session will explore the benefits of knowing your why and utilize tools to help you define your purpose. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the VIA Character Assessment which will be used in this session.

• Location: SC 310
• Speakers: Jenni Flanagan and Rhonda Wilson

Crucial Conversations

Together we work though key crucial conversation principles by understanding ourselves first and then focusing on others to determine a win-win solution for all.

• Explore elements of a crucial conversation
• Learn about your own style under stress
• Learn strategies to turn conversations into actions and results you want

• Location: SC 305
• Speaker: Tisha Gierhart

Working with Student Employees

Student employment is a job, a learning opportunity, a retention tool, and provides a workforce to help you. Strengthen your supervisory skills and turn their job into a professional development opportunity. Join us to learn strategies and collaborate with colleagues to help your student employees and Graduate Assistants excel.

• Location: SC 306
• Speakers:Kyndra Haggard and Maija Thompson

FERPA Jeopardy

FERPA can be FUN! Join us to play jeopardy, win prizes, and hopefully learn a few facts about FERPA (Family Education Rights and Privacy Act) and how it applies to Ball State University. Along with playing the game, we’ll answer questions and give examples of how to handle situations while remaining in compliance with the law. 

• Location: SC 303
• Speakers: Amanda Lee and Tambra White

Personal Safety and Self-Defense

Personal Safety and Self-Defense is a presentation designed to improve personal awareness and safety. This presentation will include lecture and voluntary practical participation. Topics covered are awareness of your surroundings, identifying awareness levels, identifying and avoiding possible threats to personal safety, and self-defense techniques.

• Location: SC 301-302
• Speakers: University Police Department 

A Better Way to Organize Your Work

Get things out of your head and into a system! Eliminate missed deadlines, reduce stress and free your space – and mind – of clutter. This workshop contains a collection of ideas and processes to help you manage incoming items, process work efficiently, and even have time for those bigger priorities: the “Should be Done’s”. You will learn a method that is easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement, and easy-to-maintain so that you can be organized, focused and productive every day.

• Strategies for managing incoming items (mail, email, meeting notes, etc)
• How to create and use a To Do system
• A method for prioritizing work and following through

• Location: SC 305
• Speakers:  Janet Jackson

Advanced Excel

One hour isn't a lot of time to learn Excel, but if you’ve used it before and need to learn how to get more out of your spreadsheets, this is the class for you. Delve deeper into the world of Excel and learn more about advanced formulas.

• Location: SC 237 (Forum Room)
• Speaker: Kathy Sasseman

• Pick up box lunches 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
• Lunch: 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
• Location: Cardinal Hall
• For employees who clock out/in for lunch, please download the Kronos Adjustment form and submit it to your supervisor or Kronos manager. 

Keynote Speaker - Not Time Management - Energy Management

What is a typical day like for you? Do you find yourself struggling to get out of bed? Once you get to work, do you spend your time responding to crises while fighting distractions? Do you feel irritable or impatient during your day? Do you find yourself driven by the demands of others, either at work or outside? The solution is not the latest time management trick or tip; its to focus on our energy levels, not our time. Energy Management instead of Time Management.

• Learn about 4 forms of energy: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual
• Learn how each type can be renewed and even expanded
• Develop our own individualized rituals to renew and expand our energy

• Location: Cardinal Hall
• Welcome:  Alan Finn
• Speaker:  Liz Haney, Director of Post Award, Compliance, and Operations in Sponsored Projects Administration