Seminars and Other For-Fee Programs
- Spring & Fall Seminar Series
- Preparing for Retirement: Day I
- Preparing for Retirement: Day II
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People®
- DISC Personalized Leadership Assessment
Our reputation for excellence in education, coupled with the size of The University of Iowa, allows us to provide you with exceptional professional development opportunities at a low cost. We want to help you minimize your training costs, while making a powerful, lasting impact on your effectiveness. We've worked hard to keep our fees low; most are up to 40 percent less than public seminar rates. Add to this our 10 percent discount to anyone who registers for three or more seminars from this series and you have an exceptional value!
By pairing with an industry leader, Rockhurst University & Continuing Education Center, we're able to feature some of the best trainers in the business from National Seminars Series and Padgett-Thompson. You'll find they lead seminars that are both entertaining and memorable-but more importantly, they are results-oriented. The ultimate benefit of our speakers' approach is that they offer an abundance of information and skill-building techniques that are focused on making a difference in your job and your career. As a result, you'll leave with useful ideas and important "know-how" to make workplace challenges easier to handle. Seminar workbooks reinforce learning as well.
Topic:
Varies from year to year. Past topics have included:
- Cultivating Winning Attitudes
- How to Develop Highly Effective Marketing Plans & Competitive Strategies
- Coaching, Mentoring, & Team-Building Skills for Supervisors, Managers, & Team Leaders
- Thinking Outside the Lines
- Building Budgeting Skills
- Shortcuts to Creating and Maintaining Organized Files and Records
- Assertiveness Skills for Supervisors
- Real World Solutions for Dealing with Bad Attitudes in the Workplace
- How to Handle the Challenges of Change
- Fundamentals of Supervision in Non-Profit and University Settings
To learn about what we are offering this semester, please visit our current list of seminars.
Preparing for Retirement: Day I
Advertising Description:
Financial Considerations of Retirement. Retirement can be the most enjoyable and productive time in a person's life. This seminar is designed to assist University faculty and staff, ages 50 and older, with the changes retirement brings. Hear vital information to help you prepare for this rewarding phase of your life. You and your spouse/partner can register for both days, or you can choose to attend only one day.
Key Topics:
- Financial Aspects of Retirement
- Social Security
- Health Insurance and Long-Term Care Insurance
- TIAA/CREF
Objectives:
- To familiarize participants with the financial aspects of retirement, including insurance, investment and estate planning options.
- To inform participants of the University retirement process.
- To present participants with resources available to plan for, and to help with the transition into, retirement.
Participants (audience course is aimed at):
Faculty and staff ages 50 and older, and their spouses/partners.
Preparing for Retirement Day II
Advertising Description:
Social, Emotional, and Health Conditions of Retirement. Retirement can be the most enjoyable and productive time in a person's life. This seminar is designed to assist University faculty and staff, ages 50 and older, with the changes retirement brings. Hear vital information to help you prepare for this rewarding phase of your life. You and your spouse/partner can register for both days, or you can choose to attend only one day.
Key Topics:
- Understanding the unique challenges of retirement
- Finding a structure to address your personal needs.
- Services and opportunities available in Iowa City and Johnson County
- Healthy aging.
- Physical and psychosocial changes with aging
- Decisions to be made regarding these changes.
Objectives:
- To enhance participants' perspectives on retirement, and to provide information on choices one makes during this time.
- To prepare participants for the physical and emotional changes which occur after retirement.
- To make participants aware of resources and opportunities available after retirement.
Participants (audience course is aimed at):