Responses on both the Staff Experience Survey (Campus) and the CommUNITY Feedback Survey (Health) named the importance of career growth and professional development.

Learning & Organizational Development is privileged to support your growth and development, and we take your feedback very seriously. We’ve reviewed both quantitative and qualitative survey results and uncovered the following needs:

• More career planning resources and programming
• Better support to connect professional development to career advancement
• More access to professional development opportunities, and expanded offerings

Ways we’ve taken action:

• A commitment to make Career Development Week an annual event.
• The recent hiring of a full-time Senior Career Coach to expand programming and web resources.
• The release of the Career and Professional Development Plan template to help employees and supervisors connect professional development to career planning.
• Updates to our website, a monthly newsletter, and a LinkedIn page to better promote our offerings, including the UC Learning Center’s Skillsoft Library that offers anytime-access to professional development content.
• Providing a template, Funding and/or Release Time Request for Professional Development, that departments and supervisors can adopt and adapt to facilitate and streamline professional development requests.
• Expansion of L&OD’s catalog of trainings, including new personal effectiveness trainings and a new Customer Service Certificate Series.

Resources for Supervisors and Managers

UC Davis provides resources to Campus and Health people leaders to take action on their survey results to optimize staff experience.

• UC Davis Campus: https://hr.ucdavis.edu/staff-experience-survey/resources
• UC Davis Health: https://intranet.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/internal-news/ucdhs/community-feedback-survey/2022/12