Organizational Training

Intended Audience: All New Hires

Description: Our new hire orientation welcomes all new employees to COTA. COTA’s new employees will learn how they play an important role to COTA’s success. They will be informed on COTA’s policies, learn about COTA services, and understand the many benefits to joining COTA.

Objectives: Understand COTA’s mission, vision and 5-year strategic plan. Understand COTA’s history and where COTA is heading as an organization. Recognize COTA’s leadership team and their responsibilities. Understand COTA’s safety policies. Receive COTA’s compliance training: Ethics, Sexual Harassment, and Public Records. Introduce new employees to COTA’s insurance benefits and important deadlines. Introduce new employees to COTA’s tuition reimbursement program. Understand COTA’s payroll schedule and get an introduction to accessing payroll information on My Employee Space

Course Delivery: In-Person or Virtual

Instructor (Vendor and/or Department): Allison Ruman (+Organizational Training Team)

Dates Offered:

• Feb. 3
• Feb. 24
• March 10
• March 24
• April 14
• April 28
• May 19
• June 2
• June 23
• July 14
• July 28
• September 1
• October 6
• November 10
• December 1

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Description: Learning & Development is an essential part of our professional and personal goal achievements. This training gives you a look at how we, at COTA, seek to partner with you as you continue to grow professionally and personally.

Objectives: Explain the necessity of continuing education. Highlight the L&D offerings both in-house and for degree advancement (Organizational Training, Workforce Development, etc).

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor(s): L&D Management Team

Course Delivery: In-Person

Dates Offered:

• April 18 (10am-12pm)
• May 23 (10am-12pm)
• June 6 (10am-12pm)

Intended Audience: All Admin Employees

Description: Everything DiSC® is a personal development learning experience that measures preferences and tendencies based on the DiSC® model. This simple yet powerful model describes four basic styles: D, i, S, and C, and serves as the foundation for the Everything DiSC Application Suite. Participants receive personalized insights that deepen their understanding of self and others, making workplace interactions more enjoyable and effective.

Objectives: Identify your DiSC style, priorities and shading, as well as your motivators and stressors. Overview of the DiSC styles, how you react to each, and strategies to improve your effectiveness. Tips and suggestions for improving your working relationships with everyone in your organization

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor(s): Hope Short

Dates Offered:

• April 13 (10am-12pm)
• May 16 (10am-12pm)
• June 8 (10am-12pm)

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Description: Crucial Conversations are conversations with high stakes, different opinions and where emotions can get heated. In these situations we are often not at our best and often exhibit flight and/or fight behavior. Crucial Conversations teaches you a structured approach with 9 skills to emerge stronger together from these difficult conversations. Important themes are breaking free of prejudices, psychological safety, common interest, respect, trust, openness, honesty and how to communicate this by using the skillset.

Instructor(s): Ryan Smith/Hope Short

Course Delivery: In-Person

Dates Offered:

• April 11 (9am-4pm)
• May 23 (9am-4pm)
• June 15 (9am-4pm)

Intended Audience: COTA Managers/Leaders

Description: Influencer Training is a leadership course that teaches proven strategies to drive rapid and sustainable behavior change for teams and organizations. By learning how to discover and counteract the complex web of forces underlying resistant organizational problems, you’ll be able to make change inevitable.

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor(s): Allison Ruman/Ryan Smith

Dates Offered:

• April 25 (9am-4pm)
• May 11 (9am-4pm)
• June 22 (9am-4pm)

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Description: Composing professional emails is a daily occurrence that impacts our organization. By ensuring all emails are professional and courteous, we can be sure that our intended message is read and understood. This course includes time to practice what is being taught.

Objectives: What makes an email a professional email. What are the parts of a professional email. Identify some pitfalls to avoid when writing professional emails

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor: Nikki Janczyk

Dates Offered:

• April 6 (1pm-2pm)
• May 4 (10am-11am)
• June 15 (10am-11am)

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Description: PowerPoint presentations are a wonderful way to delivery information with clarity. In this course, we will learn the basics of developing a powerful PowerPoint presentation using COTA colors and templates. This course includes time to practice what is being taught.

Objectives: Identify how to use the COTA template for PowerPoints. Choose the correct COTA colors and fonts for your PowerPoint. Understand the proper use of colors and white spacing to make the most impact with your PowerPoint presentation

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor: Nikki Janczyk

Dates Offered:

• April 13 (11am-12pm)
• May 16 (10am-11am)
• June 15 (10am-11am)

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Description: In this course, you will learn how to become an effective presenter. By learning how to interact with your audience, and improve your presence, you will be able to deliver your presentations with poise and power.

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Objectives: Use proper body language. Recognize problems and fears with presenting and how to overcome them. Learn the qualities of an effective presenter Effectively engage your audience throughout the entire presentation. Effectively engage your audience throughout the entire presentation.

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor: Allison Ruman

Dates Offered:

• April 11 (10am-11am)
• May 23 (2pm-3pm)
• June 15 (10am-12pm)

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Description: Learn effective strategies for delivering constructive feedback and avoid common pitfalls when engaging in difficult conversations.

Objectives: Use a simple, yet effective communication framework to address a range of challenging dynamics. Transform your most intimidating situations into opportunities for building stronger relationships and improving outcomes. Diffuse hostility and relational stresses through effective communication. Increase learning through communication. Manage differences more effectively and productively.

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor: Hope Short

Dates Offered:

• April 6 (11am-12pm)
• May 9 (1pm-2pm)
• June 13 (10am-11am)

Intended Audience: All COTA Employees

Description: Today’s teams are different from the teams of the past: They’re far more diverse, dispersed, digital, and dynamic (with frequent changes in membership). But while teams face new hurdles, their success still hinges on a core set of fundamentals for group collaboration and teamwork. This course will define teamwork and collaboration, benefits of teamwork and collaboration, and improving teamwork and collaboration.

Objectives: You will be empowered to practice workplace collaboration. Utilize a set of learned skills that can improve productivity. Solve problems. Foster healthy relationships. Create teamwork.

Course Delivery: In-Person

Instructor: Hope Short

Dates Offered:

• April 6 (1pm-2pm)
• May 9 (10am-11am)
• June 13 (1pm-2pm)