Employee Development

Our training workshops develop insight and options in the areas of customer service, communication, leadership, personal effectiveness, and supervision. We will also work with individual departments throughout the University to offer custom-tailored training workshops to help achieve their primary team goals.

Our training and development programs are designed to improve individual and organizational performance in addition to assisting Indiana State University in achieving its overall institutional goals. Some of these programs have been carefully developed to assist employees increase their effectiveness by gaining greater knowledge of the university's operations.

• ISU Supervisory Certification Series

• ISU Leadership Development Series

• Team Development Series

• Talent management Series

Other Training Opportunities

DISC - Personality Profile Workshop -- Course length: 1 Hour
Productivity and teamwork are critical to the success of every organization, but often personality clashes among employees, supervisors and managers can have a negative effect on the team. Everyone has a personality - some stronger than others - and sometimes clashing personalities grow into major disruptions. The DISC training workshop is a fun and quick method designed to give your team members the tools and people skills they need to understand and appreciate the differences in the people they work with. The DISC model is comprised of four primary behavioral styles: D, I, S and C. Each style is very different, and each style comes with built-in conflict toward each of the other styles. Which style is best? The model doesn't focus on good or bad. What is good is the ability to understand, communicate with, and appreciate someone whose style is different from yours. This quick and fun training is ideal for a team meeting!

E-Learning

The Office of Human Resources and the Area of Training and Development offers online learning and development programs; Sycamore e-Learning and United Educators e-Learning. These programs are FREE to ISU currently enrolled students, as well as full-time and part-time faculty and staff. Sycamore e-Learning is powered by Skillsoft; a pioneer in the field of learning with a long history of innovation. Skillsoft provides cloud-based learning solutions worldwide, which range from global enterprises, government and education customers to mid-sized and small businesses. Their courses, books and videos have been developed by industry-leading learning experts to ensure that they build talent and develop a more knowledgeable, productive and valuable workforce. Some exciting areas of interest to this new site are videos, books, study aids, test preps and more. These include:

• Over 1,000 courses and videos including self-paced soft-skill training, technical training including; Microsoft Office, Windows8, Adobe, programming languages, and web development. 10,000 downloadable e-books
• There will also be an opportunity to take training for personal career certifications such as IT and Business Certifications, which include Cisco, CompTIA, Oracle, Microsoft, PMI, PHR, SPHR, CPA, Six Sigma, and many more. This will save in costs normally associated with these expensive training materials. If you would like to be certified in a specific field, you would only need to pay for taking the ACTUAL exam at an off-site location.
• Quick 1-hour courses are also available in leadership, management, customer service, resume writing, interviewing skills, sales, marketing, communication, presentation, team building, finance, accounting, business ethics, and time management, just to name a few

Please take an opportunity to use these resources to your advantage.

The e-Learning programs can be accessed through the ISU Apps in MyISU portal or visit the HR Systems page and click on the links under the “Training” section.