USM Professional Development Week

USM Professional Development (PD) week is the first virtual conference hosted by the USM Training Committee, a group of talent development professionals representing each of the USM schools. PD week is a knowledge-building week for USM faculty and staff. The conference workshops are designed to broaden and advance the employee’s professional and personal well-being. Throughout the week, you will have the opportunity to network with other USM employees. PD is a one-of-its-kind event—register to reserve your seat next to other higher education professionals.

USM training and development professionals and leaders will facilitate sessions to:

• Broaden perspectives to leverage knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Acquire competencies to advance work performance and productivity
• Engage in diverse conversations to handle the transitioning workplace

Registration instructions:

• June 7th and 11th events require separate registration via Zoom to participate. Please note that there is very limited registration as noted under each event. If you do not already have access to Zoom at your institution, please download it prior to your session here.
• June 8th through 10th event registration is being handled via Hopin a virtual conference platform that will require the creation of a user account. Once you register via Hopin, during those three-dates of the conference, you will be able to attend as many or as few of the breakout sessions without any additional registration (and can add them to your calendar by clicking on the calendar icon next to each breakout session). Similar to attending an in-person conference where you can attend breakout sessions based on your schedule and interest.
  • To create your Hopin account, select your university under "Tickets" and scroll down to "Checkout".
• For technical questions or concerns, please email profdev-usm@umd.edu.

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