Empower is a cross-departmental initiative designed to bring a thoughtful professional development and computer training program to the staff and managerial faculty members of the University of Hartford community.
The University of Hartford constantly strives to improve the efficiency of training opportunities available to our new and existing staff and collegiate chairs responsible for the oversight of staff. With this initiative, we aim to provide a single point of contact for all professional development training opportunities available to University employees, safeguard the standardization of class content, and ensure regularly scheduled Banner and other computer system training.
E-mail us for more information, to sign up for a class, or to suggest future classes. We would love to hear from you about what you would like to learn.
Upcoming Sessions
Legally-mandated Sexual Harassment Training
Changes to The State of Connecticut law on Sexual Harassment training has mandated that the University to provide all existing employees with sexual harassment training.
Here’s how to get started:
- Go to the online training.
- Provide your full name and University of Hartford email address, and click “register”.
- You will receive an email from CHRO enclosing the online training. Click “view training”.
- Click the “Materials” tab.
- Watch the videos, titled “Section 1” thru “Section 6”, complete all requires quizzes.
- Within 24 -72 hours you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
- In order to receive credit for the online training, you must forward the Certificate of Completion to EmPOWER at empower@hartford.edu.
Technology Tuesdays Training
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Intermediate Formulas |
May 21 |
This class covers more formulas and function in Excel. It includes IF, COUNT, COUNTIF, and LOOKUP. |
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Formatting and Charts in Excel |
May 28 |
A picture is worth a thousand words! This class helps you to format your spreadsheets for maximum clarity and turn your data into charts that look polished and complete. |
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Pivot Tables in Excel |
June 4 |
Pivot tables are a data summarization tool that will help you manipulate your data for better analysis. Among other functions, this tool can help you quickly sort, count, total or average large amounts of data. |
Space is limited, and seating is first come/first served.