You have chosen to be a Monarch. We hope you choose to develop your dominion today!
The ODU Human Resources Training & Organization Development Team is committed to creating relevant learning opportunities, inspiring self-directed professional growth, and promoting optimum management of self and others. We have created and curated online professional development opportunities for all types of learners.
Administrative Professional Faculty, Classified Employees, and Hourly Employees are eligible to register for these courses.
Courses are free and open for all eligible employees on a first come first serve basis. Approval from your supervisor is required to attend.
Spring 2025 Schedule: All courses are 9-11 AM
- Jan 16: Effective Communication Skills - Online
- Jan 22: Leadership Essentials - Online
- Jan 30: Emotional Intelligence I - Online
- Feb 6: Service Behaviors that Matter - Online
- Feb 13: Emotional Intelligence II – Online
- Feb 19: Emotional Intelligence III - Online
- Feb 20: Team Up for Success - Online
- Mar 6: Coaching for Performance Success - Online
- Mar 12: Strategies to Shift: From Peer to Supervisor - Online
- Mar 13: Service Behaviors that Matter - In Person
- Mar 19: Resilient and Ready: Handle Change Like a Champ - In Person
- Mar 20: Conflict Management - Online
- Mar 27: Team Up for Success - In Person
Synchronous Facilitator-Led Courses
- COACHING FOR PERFORMANCE SUCCESS: Be prepared to offer the best to your employees. This course will help you identify the mindset and skills needed to coach for performance. Coaching models will be discussed to help maximize performance and foster positive results.
- COMMUNICATION FLEXIBILITY: UNDERSTAND AND ADAPT YOUR STYLE: Building communication flexibility allows you to choose a different style to customize your message to the preferred communication style(s) of your audience and ensures that your message is heard. Understanding different communication styles is crucial to working together effectively. In this course, you will learn about four different communication styles, how to identify each, identify your natural communication style, and how to adapt your own communication approach.
- EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Effective communication is an essential tool in achieving productivity and maintaining resilient working relationships at all levels of an organization. This course will identify the common barriers of communication and practice the skills necessary for effective communication.
- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE I: MANAGE SELF: Can you adequately harness your emotions so they don't interfere with your ability to listen or problem solve? This course delves deep in to how the brain handles emotion and how to identify the differences between emotions and feelings to help you manage yourself and others in the workplace.
- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE II: SOCIAL AWARENESS & EMPATHY: Social awareness is our ability to accurately pick up on the emotions of other people and understand what is really going on with them. This course will help you improve your ability to understand others' emotions and reactions and respond in a supportive and understanding manner.
- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE III: RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Relationship Management skills allow us too not merely be transactional, but to be transformative. This course will support your ability to foster the best out of others and your ability to help them grow, develop, and resolve conflict.
- LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS: Leadership is a decision, not a position. This online course has been created for managers who have the desire, inner drive, and a growth mindset to move from where you are now to where you have chosen to go on your leadership journey. This online course is structured to provide a broad overview and to establish context to allow learners to categorize leadership characteristics and foster future learning and self-development. Participants will be taking a selection of self-assessments that will provide you with insight and identify areas and opportunities for continued learning and growth.
- RESILIENT AND READY: HANDLE CHANGE LIKE A CHAMP: The ability to navigate change with resilience is a crucial skill. This online course is designed to empower you with the tools and insights needed to thrive amidst uncertainty. Through an exploration of resilience, you will gain insights into your reactions and behaviors and explore resilience-building techniques that foster adaptability.
- SERVICE BEHAVIORS THAT MATTER: Superior customer service should be practiced by all Monarchs. At its core, quality customer service is making sure everyone feels they are valued, heard, respected, treated fairly, and appreciated. Find out how to demonstrate the Fantastic Service Equation and develop your skills to provide exceptional customer service.
- STRATEGIES TO SHIFT: FROM PEER TO SUPERVISOR: This course is designed to support supervisors who have transitioned from a peer role to a supervisory position. Participants will learn the key skills and strategies necessary to manage professional boundaries, develop credibility, and foster a productive team environment.
- TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR TIME: Time management can have an enormous impact on your performance and productivity in the workplace. This course will help participants identify the common distractions that get in the way of getting things done and identify strategies on how to minimize these distractions.
- TEAM UP FOR SUCCESS: The difference between success and failure is a great team. This class will enable participants to learn the importance of teamwork to workplace success and the specific role each individual on a team may play. Do you possess the 3 Virtues of The Ideal Team Player? Take this course and find out for yourself.
Certificate Programs
Asynchronous Self-Led Courses
- Commonwealth of Virginia Learning Center (COVLC): HR Custom-Created Courses
Administrative Professional Faculty, Classified Employees, and Hourly Employees are eligible to register for these courses.
Courses are free and open for all eligible employees on a first come first serve basis. Approval from your supervisor is required to attend.
Spring 2025 Schedule: All courses are 9-11 AM
- Jan 16: Effective Communication Skills - Online
- Jan 22: Leadership Essentials - Online
- Jan 30: Emotional Intelligence I - Online
- Feb 6: Service Behaviors that Matter - Online
- Feb 13: Emotional Intelligence II – Online
- Feb 19: Emotional Intelligence III - Online
- Feb 20: Team Up for Success - Online
- Mar 6: Coaching for Performance Success - Online
- Mar 12: Strategies to Shift: From Peer to Supervisor - Online
- Mar 13: Service Behaviors that Matter - In Person
- Mar 19: Resilient and Ready: Handle Change Like a Champ - In Person
- Mar 20: Conflict Management - Online
- Mar 27: Team Up for Success - In Person
Synchronous Facilitator-Led Courses
- COACHING FOR PERFORMANCE SUCCESS: Be prepared to offer the best to your employees. This course will help you identify the mindset and skills needed to coach for performance. Coaching models will be discussed to help maximize performance and foster positive results.
- COMMUNICATION FLEXIBILITY: UNDERSTAND AND ADAPT YOUR STYLE: Building communication flexibility allows you to choose a different style to customize your message to the preferred communication style(s) of your audience and ensures that your message is heard. Understanding different communication styles is crucial to working together effectively. In this course, you will learn about four different communication styles, how to identify each, identify your natural communication style, and how to adapt your own communication approach.
- EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Effective communication is an essential tool in achieving productivity and maintaining resilient working relationships at all levels of an organization. This course will identify the common barriers of communication and practice the skills necessary for effective communication.
- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE I: MANAGE SELF: Can you adequately harness your emotions so they don't interfere with your ability to listen or problem solve? This course delves deep in to how the brain handles emotion and how to identify the differences between emotions and feelings to help you manage yourself and others in the workplace.
- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE II: SOCIAL AWARENESS & EMPATHY: Social awareness is our ability to accurately pick up on the emotions of other people and understand what is really going on with them. This course will help you improve your ability to understand others' emotions and reactions and respond in a supportive and understanding manner.
- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE III: RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Relationship Management skills allow us too not merely be transactional, but to be transformative. This course will support your ability to foster the best out of others and your ability to help them grow, develop, and resolve conflict.
- LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS: Leadership is a decision, not a position. This online course has been created for managers who have the desire, inner drive, and a growth mindset to move from where you are now to where you have chosen to go on your leadership journey. This online course is structured to provide a broad overview and to establish context to allow learners to categorize leadership characteristics and foster future learning and self-development. Participants will be taking a selection of self-assessments that will provide you with insight and identify areas and opportunities for continued learning and growth.
- RESILIENT AND READY: HANDLE CHANGE LIKE A CHAMP: The ability to navigate change with resilience is a crucial skill. This online course is designed to empower you with the tools and insights needed to thrive amidst uncertainty. Through an exploration of resilience, you will gain insights into your reactions and behaviors and explore resilience-building techniques that foster adaptability.
- SERVICE BEHAVIORS THAT MATTER: Superior customer service should be practiced by all Monarchs. At its core, quality customer service is making sure everyone feels they are valued, heard, respected, treated fairly, and appreciated. Find out how to demonstrate the Fantastic Service Equation and develop your skills to provide exceptional customer service.
- STRATEGIES TO SHIFT: FROM PEER TO SUPERVISOR: This course is designed to support supervisors who have transitioned from a peer role to a supervisory position. Participants will learn the key skills and strategies necessary to manage professional boundaries, develop credibility, and foster a productive team environment.
- TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR TIME: Time management can have an enormous impact on your performance and productivity in the workplace. This course will help participants identify the common distractions that get in the way of getting things done and identify strategies on how to minimize these distractions.
- TEAM UP FOR SUCCESS: The difference between success and failure is a great team. This class will enable participants to learn the importance of teamwork to workplace success and the specific role each individual on a team may play. Do you possess the 3 Virtues of The Ideal Team Player? Take this course and find out for yourself.
Certificate Programs
Asynchronous Self-Led Courses
- Commonwealth of Virginia Learning Center (COVLC): HR Custom-Created Courses
Frequently Asked Questions
Develop Your Dominion refers to the Professional Development courses either created, curated, or facilitated by our HR Training & Development Team. There are 2 types of Develop Your Dominion courses:
- Synchronous Facilitator-Led Courses
These courses are facilitated by our team, have specific meeting times (online), and require registration to attend. The available courses are listed on this page. - Asynchronous Self-Led Courses
These are online learning modules. We have custom-created courses available on the Commonwealth of Virginia Learning Center (COVLC), and we have specially curated courses available on LinkedIn Learning.
You can register for courses online. Go to our Develop Your Dominion page to see what classes are currently available.
- Go to our Registration Page
- Click on the course title you would like to register for
- Click the "Sign Up" button
- Enter your name and ODU email, then click "Save"
Please obtain supervisor approval before registering for a course.
Yes, you must register to participate in the Develop Your Dominion Facilitator-Led (synchronous, online) courses.
However, there are a number of on-demand Develop Your Dominion courses available on the Commonwealth of Virginia Learning Center (COVLC) that are asynchronous and do not require registration as they are self-directed. If you like self-paced courses, you should also check out our course collections available on LinkedIn Learning.
- For courses taken in the COVLC:
- Once you have completed the course, scroll to your Completed Training section and if a certificate is available, click on or tab to the radio button, "View Certificate"
- Click on the Print button located at the top left of dialog box
- For courses taken in LinkedIn Learning
- For HR synchronous courses:
- Send an email with your name and the course you would like a certificate for to hrtraining@odu.edu or contact the trainers individually:
- Marilyn Baylon mbaylon@odu.edu
- Debbie Couch dcouch@odu.edu
- Send an email with your name and the course you would like a certificate for to hrtraining@odu.edu or contact the trainers individually:
Email hrtraining@odu.edu as soon as possible.
Contact the HR Training & Organization Development Team at hrtraining@odu.edu. Or contact the training consultants individually:
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