Bulldogs United In Learning Drake (BUILD) is a learning and development series available to faculty and staff who wish to enhance their professional skills, improve their wellbeing, and expand their boundaries.

Human Resources would like to thank those who provided suggestions for future BUILD training topics. Your input helped guide our class offerings this academic year.

Here is a sneak peek into the Fall 2021 schedule:

• We’ve added three more Microsoft classes this fall – Teams Calling, Teams Channels and Files, and Teams Forms. In addition, Christine Marchand, institutional research and academic compliance coordinator, will facilitate two Qualtrics classes.
• If you need a little relaxation break, we are offering three virtual 30-minute mindfulness classes over lunch. Each covers a unique mindfulness technique.
• Danielle Green, director, Student Counseling Center, will lead a discussion that focuses on the stress and anxiety you may be feeling as we return to campus, and ways to combat it.
• Maureen De Armond, executive director, HR, will present three classes this fall, including a class that focuses on tools for identifying and combating pandemic fatigue.
• We are holding both an active shooter training session and a self-defense class, facilitated by Scott Law, executive director, Public Safety and Operational Services.
• For those needing healthy eating ideas, join our on-campus dietitian Samantha Matt, as she leads a session on healthy eating, cooking, and shopping tips.
• And learn more about what you do best and how to apply your personal strengths to your personal and professional life in our two-part Strength Finders course. Kristin Economos, director of student leadership programs, will present.

We are still adding classes and already have a great list of topics for this spring, including time management, CPR, leading hybrid teams, social media best practices, implicit bias, an anti-racism capacity-building workshop, reducing screen time, STEM Hub at Drake, and much more.

The complete Fall 2021 BUILD schedule will be available on myDrake by the end of the week.

To register for a class, please send an email to linda.feiden@drake.edu.

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources