Bates Leads: Fall 2023 Shared Student Employment Training
This fall’s offerings have both asynchronous and in person components. We will centrally track completion and attendance of trainings via Bates Engage.
Bates Engage
Bates Leads affiliates must upload their student employees to the Bates Leads: Student Employment Resources group on Bates Engage by Friday, August 18. We recommend you communicate with your student employees what your expectations are regarding these trainings prior to 8/18. You will assign students to the trainings below via member tags, and may also check on your students’ completion of the trainings via member tags in the group. Please find information on how to use Bates Engage to assign trainings and track completion here:
Asynchronous Training
This training will cover the following topics:
- How to submit your biweekly timesheet
- How to manage your time, commitment, and expectations
- How to communicate in an office environment, including official social media channels
- How to give and receive feedback
- How to handle situations that may arise in the workplace
Each supervisor may set their own deadline for completion; we recommend that it is completed within the first two weeks of hiring.
As a Bates Leads affiliate, you may access this training now in beta form to help you decide whether to have your student employees complete it. Note that if this is the first time you’re accessing Bates Engage, there will be a user on-boarding that you will have to complete before viewing the training modules. Please note: HR is updating Garnet Gateway timesheets this summer, which will have a new format, and we are waiting for that update to be completed before we record the timesheet module. If you are unable to access the training, please contact leads@bates.edu.
In Person Training
Tuesday, September 5
9:00 to 10:00am: “Work” It Out: Navigating Workplace Challenges
LOCATION CHANGE: Commons 221/222
Member Tag: General Training
This training, led by staff from Campus Life, Global Education, and the OIE, will engage students in multiple potential scenarios they may encounter in their student employment position. This is an interactive, conversation-based training. Coffee, tea, water, and light snacks will be served.
10:00 to 10:45am: Overview of Title IX Policies & Reporting
LOCATION CHANGE: Commons 221/222
Member Tag: Title IX Training
This session will include an overview of the Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Anti-Harassment Policy, information on reporting & support resources, as well as resolution processes for complaints of bias, harassment, and discrimination, including sexual violence.
11:00am to 12:45pm: Break for Convocation & Lunch
1:00 to 2:30pm: Peer Advisor Training
LOCATION CHANGE: Bardwell Field Tent
Member Tag: Peer Advisor Training
This training is led by staff from the OIE, Residence Life & Health Education, and the Multifaith Chaplaincy. It is suitable for any students that have peer supervisory or advisory responsibilities, including peer advisors and student managers. The following topics will be covered:
- Understanding identity and power in peer leadership roles
- Exploring effective listening
- Boundaries and caring for yourself
Light refreshments will be served.
2:30pm on: Student Academic Support Center and Student Writing & Language Center Training
In planning this shared training, we agreed to not offer in person sessions from 2:30 to 6:00pm to permit the Student Academic Support Center (SASC) and the Student Writing and Language Center (SWLC) to train their student leaders. That said, please be conscientious of what you require after 2:30 pm; if you don’t have any student employees that also work at SASC and/or SWLC, feel free to schedule debrief time or additional training sessions.
Wednesday, September 20
The below training will take place in Memorial Commons, Chase Hall
7:00 to 8:30pm: Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Leadership Toolkit
Please note that Bates Leads affiliates will be charged $20/person for actual attendees at this training, due to the facilitation fee associated with working with Water’s Edge Consulting.
Member Tag: E&I Training
This is a 90-minute interactive workshop designed to introduce a range of anti-oppressive tools that support equity, inclusion, and belonging praxis among student leaders at Bates.
Key elements include:
● Leadership values – How do you define and understand each of these concepts (equity, inclusion, belonging) as they relate to leadership? Utilizing the Bates Leads’ Leadership Framework as a foundation, what leadership values do you see relating to equity, inclusion, and belonging?
● Positionality – How can deeper awareness of your personal positionality better equip you to apply and practice EIB values in your leadership? How can a power-aware analysis of your group strengthen inclusive leadership?
● EIB Praxis – What practices and ways of being can support the creation of a club/org culture rooted in EIB values?
○ Diversity Welcome tool (from Training for Change)
○ Container building
○ Communication and transparency
○ Consent and conscious relationship agreements (from Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation)
○ Assessment and feedback tools
● Accountability – What is the interplay of leadership and responsibility, and how might you define and then model accountable leadership within the Bates community?
Staff of Bates Leads affiliates are encouraged to attend to participate alongside their students. Food will be served.
Wednesday, October 4
The below training will take place in Memorial Commons, Chase Hall
7:00 to 8:30pm: Conflict Lab
Please note that Bates Leads affiliates will be charged $20/person for actual attendees at this training, due to the facilitation fee associated with working with Water’s Edge Consulting.
Member Tag: E&I Training
This is a 90-minute interactive workshop designed to explore individual and societal contexts for conflict, and to begin to reframe conflicts as opportunities for growth and needed change.
Key elements include:
● Identifying and exploring individual and societal “baggage” related to conflict
● Conceptualizing a model for conflict that is generative
● Role of leadership during conflicts
● The power of a genuine apology
● Building a proactive conflict response plan for yourself and your group
Defined as a “lab,” the majority of this workshop will take place in rotating small groups, in which participants will have hands-on experience completing specific tasks related to the key elements.
Staff of Bates Leads affiliates are encouraged to attend to participate alongside their students. Food will be served.