Professional development
The Research Academy team has curated a list of their favorite ASU resources for ongoing professional development.
Ask colleagues for suggestions for your professional development opportunities for your role or goals!
Keep up with highlighted opportunities in the KE Training News.
Workday Learning
Workday Learning provides ASU employees with job-related training and ongoing professional development opportunities offered by ASU and LinkedIn Learning.
- Access job-related and elective ASU training.
- Access more than 20,000 online professional development workshops on LinkedIn Learning.
- Personalize development courses for your current role and prepare you for future opportunities.
ASU Staff Council: Professional Development and Empower Hour
The Professional Development and Empower Hour Program is responsible for promoting organizational and professional development opportunities to foster the growth and development of our staff by enhancing staff expertise and competencies.
Supervisor and Student Employee Development
Professional development resources for both supervisors and students at ASU, helping to integrate practical experience with positive impact. Help increase the career readiness of our working learners and enrich the relationships between working learners and their supervisors.
- Supervisor resources – Become Work+ Supervisor Foundations certified to learn best practices that can be customized to fit the needs of your working learners, and find resources for common supervisor activities, such as creating a working learner role, interviewing and hiring, onboarding working learners, supervising, and other professional development, and more!
- Additional leadership programs for employees.
- Student resources – Help for ASU’s working learners to build real career skills and support your ongoing professional growth. Explore opportunities, review application and interviewing tips, prepare for your first day in a new role, and make the most of your work experience.
- Review ASU CareerLink and these additional career resources for more assistance.
ASU Library
The ASU Library offers a wide array of tools, services, and spaces designed to support academic and professional goals. The ASU Library provides free access to books (including e-books), articles, videos, web and audio resources, course resources, dissertations, reports, and more.
ASU Library One Search enables you to find books available in the ASU Library, link to journals online, and discover scholarly articles.
The ASU Library also offers free access to the O’Reilly catalog of additional e-books, videos, audiobooks, shortcuts, expert playlists, articles, and more. (O’Reilly Catalog search tips.)
Other ASU professional development groups
- The ASU Project Management (PM) Network is a volunteer-run staff and faculty organization where project managers and those interested in project management (PM) at ASU can connect, communicate, and grow.
(Join the PM Network Slack channel.) - The Organizational Excellence Community of Practice (OECoP) is for all university staff who perform or are interested in process improvement, organizational development, change management, project management, and employee development.
(Join the OECoP Slack channel.)
ASU Events
ASU Events provides a filter system that makes it easy to discover opportunities that best align with your interests or goals. Pre-filtered options include:
LinkedIn Learning
Use LinkedIn Learning to develop soft skills (such as communication strategies, time management, and leadership) or hard skills (including technology tools like Office 365 and Adobe products).
ASU provides free LinkedIn Learning accounts for all faculty, staff, and student workers. Access job-related training and ongoing professional development opportunities offered by ASU and LinkedIn Learning through Workday Learning.
Students who are not student workers may be able to access LinkedIn Learning with a public library card.
Monthly focus calendars
Make learning part of your daily routine with LinkedIn Learning’s monthly focus calendars.
These bite-sized LinkedIn Learning videos (most under five minutes) deliver quick tips, insights, and learning opportunities that you can use right away. These are perfect for busy schedules when you want to build new skills without disrupting your workflow.
If a topic sparks your interest, dive into the full course when you are ready to learn more.
New to LinkedIn Learning?
Learn how to activate your LinkedIn Learning account and then review these LinkedIn Learning “How to” microlearnings:
- Connect your LinkedIn Learning profile with LinkedIn Learning
- LinkedIn Learning AI tools
- Using the LinkedIn Learning app
- LinkedIn Learning Collections
Not sure where to start?
Utilize Research Academy’s curated playlists to learn about common tools (such as Outlook, OneNote, Dropbox, Microsoft products, Excel, Zoom, and Adobe products), tips for common workplace activities such as working remotely, getting ahead in your career, communicating clearly, management best practices, business analysis, and building and maximizing your own LinkedIn profile!
Additional ASU LinkedIn Learning paths and playlist collections include offerings for staff, supervisors, and student workers.
Connect on LinkedIn
Building your LinkedIn network by following organizations and users helps you build a professional network, share your expertise, and stay in the know about new, real-world developments that can make your work easier, more impactful, and more engaging!
Follow your college, department, colleagues, collaborators, professional development networks, and experts in your field.
Start by connecting with these popular ASU LinkedIn pages: Arizona State University, Technology at Arizona State University, ASU Knowledge Enterprise, and the ASU Library.