Fall staff development, wellness classes offer variety Fall staff development, wellness classes offer variety Basic grammar and proofreading, writing effective business communications, feng shui for office and home, effective journaling and women's self-defense techniques. They're among the workshops that the Staff Development and Wellness Program of the Human Resources Department is offering to university employees this fall. Working at a university is a great opportunity to continue learning and growing professionally. Although the university offers tuition remission and the opportunity to work on a degree, many employees don't have the time to take a class for college credit, he said. For them, staff development and wellness workshops offer learning alternatives.
Staff development focuses on enhancing skills directly related to a person's performance on the job.
This fall, such workshops as effective business communications, the outstanding university receptionist series, and the effective supervision series are designed to meet employees' professional needs. The professional life of an employee, however, is only part of the equation. As hard as our employees work and as much of themselves as they give to the university, wellness classes are a way of honoring them with information about reducing stress, living more peacefully and healthfully and meeting their personal goals. Wellness classes might look at diet and exercise, stress management or meditation, Buford said. It all depends on what employees want and need.