Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter - October 2025
This month inside Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter: October is Emotional Wellness Month This October, we’re shining a light on Emotional Wellness Month. From campus resources and guided mindfulness to everyday practices that support balance and connection, it’s the perfect time to pause and nurture your wellbeing.
This month inside Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter:
October is Emotional Wellness Month
This October, we’re shining a light on Emotional Wellness Month. From campus resources and guided mindfulness to everyday practices that support balance and connection, it’s the perfect time to pause and nurture your wellbeing.
CSU Learn Courses
- Agile Team Conflict Resolution - AI Simulator - In this scenario, a team member and a product owner face a standoff over mid-sprint scope changes. The team must apply Agile principles to collaboratively negotiate changes, conduct trade-off analysis, and establish clear criteria for future decisions.
- Leadercamp On-Demand: Improving Your Management Skills - Whether you are new to leadership, or aspiring to be a leader, you need to focus your efforts on building some basic leadership skills that will benefit you in your career. These skills include Communication, Situational Leadership, Managing People Through Change, Understanding and Communicating Corporate Strategy and Vision, Managing Performance, and Creating Effective Teams.
Cross Campus Collaboration Courses
- Atomic Habits: Becoming the Architect of Your Life - In this workshop we will reflect on key guidance from the bestselling book, Atomic Habits by James Clear. The book provides practical, clear, and actionable strategies for creating systems that will aid you in breaking bad habits and in developing lasting desired habits with resilience.
- Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High | A Virtual Preview - The communication skills we teach focus on a specific kind of interaction: those when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. This is not a course on winning friends or winning people to your way of thinking; it’s about strengthening relationships and securing results in the moments that matter most.
- Learning Labs: Mindset Matters - Mindsets for Performance, Mindsets for Personal Potential, and Mindsets for Purpose - From overcoming difficulties to building a fulfilling life, our mindset plays a powerful role in shaping how we show up and engage with the world. Mindset Matters is a three-part Learning Lab series that introduces practical tools to help strengthen our thinking, improve our responses to challenges, and support both our professional and personal growth.
- Weekly Dose of Mindfulness - Weekly Dose of Mindfulness is an opportunity for all CSU community members to experience guided mindfulness practices with a trained facilitator.
- Increase Productivity with MS OneNote - Discover how Microsoft OneNote can become your central hub for organizing information, capturing meeting notes, outlining plans, and boosting productivity.
- Customer Engagement Bootcamp - In just two hours, you’ll get the inside scoop on what customer engagement actually means, how to rock it in person, on the phone, or over email, and how to build a game plan to level up your skills back on the job.
- Breath and Health - Have you ever experienced how altering the pattern you breathe improves your state of mind? Come experience the intimate link between our breath and our emotions.
- Communicating for Success – Tips and Tricks to Enhance Your Skills - This engaging workshop empowers professionals to enhance their communication skills by focusing on clarity, tone, and purpose across various workplace settings.
- Preventing Identity Theft - Learn how to protect your personal information and the proper steps to take for recovery from identity theft.
- Culture of Connection: Finding Our Heartbeat Through Engagement & Belonging - Through idea sharing, interactive activities, and observation of the positive change that belonging and engagement can bring to the workplace through data, the aim of this session is to find our common Heartbeat, and emphasize connection that goes beyond our title of "employee."
- Activating Your Leadership with Inclusive Values - This session challenges anyone who wishes to build their leadership skills to take the first step by naming their values. We’ll explore transactional leadership vs transformational leadership, managing vs leading, and inclusive leadership in action.
Much More
- CSU's Got Talent - The Accidental Project Manager
- In-Person SkillShops @ the Library
- SkillShops Facilitator Training Drop-In Sessions @ the Library
- Online at Your Own Pace SkillShops @ the Library
- Emotional Well-Being Affects Personal Growth Video
- Cybersecurity Awareness Month Activities
Latest PMC CPS
- REGISTER NOW: Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) 2025Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research CSU Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA Saturday, November 22, 2025
- Mid-Semester Feedback ProgramFaculty - Last chance to request confidential Mid-Semester Feedback from your students is Friday, October 3rd!
- Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kickoff: Empowering You to Secure 2025 and BeyondOctober brings weekly events, training, and resources to help protect accounts, devices, and campus systems.
- Monitoring Federal Agency Guidance During the Government ShutdownThe Office of Research & Sponsored Programs Foundation is closely monitoring the impact of the federal government shutdown in coordination with campus leadership and the CSU Office of Federal Relations. At this time, we encourage Principal Investigators (PIs) with active funding or pending proposals to follow the guidance below: For Investigators with Active Federal Awards
- Want an electric vehicle?Tap into State incentives, talk to experts and test drive a variety of EV's! North Coast Ride & Drive Resource Fair Saturday, October 4th, 10am - 2pm Redwood Acres Fields
- Teaching Excellence Symposium: October 8We are excited to invite you to the upcoming Teaching Excellence Symposium on October 8, 2025! This year’s theme is: Inspire, Innovate, Impact: Celebrating Educators This engaging event will provide valuable opportunities to connect with fellow educators, explore innovative teaching strategies, and celebrate the transformative power of education. President Spagna will give a special talk reflecting on his teaching career and promoting teaching and learning excellence.