Cultivate the Spirit of Ricks
We encourage you to learn more about the history of BYU-Idaho and help us preserve and enhance the unique “Spirit of Ricks.”
Training for Departments
Leadership
Customer Service
Compliance (Legal)
Certified Courses
Human Relations
Leadership
Leadership Training is offered by Human Resources. The purpose is to build leadership and interpersonal skills across campus. Leadership training is available for all full and part-time employees (including student employees).
These guidelines supplant the annual "performance review" process.
The Leadership Pattern training is specifically designed to help the Church workforce to develop Christlike leadership attitudes and behaviors.
Learn about participating in and benefiting from councils. Includes downloadable PDFs filled with excerpts from Elder M. Russell Ballard's book Counseling with Our Councils, LDS talks, and other resources.
BYU-Idaho encourages its employees and students to work towards growing as leaders through the gospel perspective. Student and faculty can find reliable resources in ways to develop as an effective leader.
An outline of the main principles of the Church’s "People Management" program.
Customer Service training helps teach employees how to best serve the community with basic principles of customer service including email and telephone etiquette.
Compliance Training
Information and training for employees regarding topics such as information privacy, sexual harassment, and Title IX. Compliance training generally deals with employment laws and university policies.
Training for all employees in required upon expanded computer access within the 24 hours of access.Training includes information privacy laws and university policies.
The Employment Law Training Series consists of monthly training on designated employment laws relevant to managers at BYU-Idaho.
Certified Courses (Fee Required)
Various training includes communication development, software training, and certified courses.
Certification course for employees to develop the 7 Habits for Highly Effective People in Workday.
This training is based on the book "The Speed of Trust" by Stephen M.R. Covey. Additional resources are provided below. For more information, contact BYU-Idaho Human Resources.
A certified course for developing skills to communicate effectively with others. Crucial Conversations provides quotes, videos, and assessments to help elevate employee conversation skills.
Human Relations
Take a personality, trait, and talent test to find your strengths as a leader.
Additional Resources
Workday Learning is a new module that was just added to the Workday system at BYU-Idaho. Workday Learning is a training management system designed for workforce training. It is not an academic or classroom LMS; it is a product that is specifically designed for workplace training and development.
Definition of OpenCourseWare = Free Online University Courses (generally, that now includes any free online training). OpenCourseWare is also commonly referred to as MOOC's — Massive Open Online Courses