Career Crafting Through Job Crafting

Udari Perera
EA Team Leader

Join the “Career Crafting through Job Crafting” workshop to learn how to enhance job satisfaction and career growth by crafting your everyday job, tasks and relationships with tools that are available to you. Build a compelling portfolio CV and set actionable career goals.

Connect, Listen, Improve (Elevate), Repeat

Rhian Muir and Tom Owen
Managers, Student Hubs

Taking learning from our approach to elevating tauira and kaimahi experience, this engaging and interactive workshop will take participants through a journey of UX inspired continuous improvement tools. In this workshop, we will share insights and learnings from our experience as well as worked examples of tools used.

Creative Camaraderie: Elevate Your Work and Life through Shared Creative Experiences

Ginger Conly and Morgan Nicolasen
Functional Analyst and Practice Manager, Technical Analyst Services

Have you ever shared dad jokes with co-workers or learned a choreographed dance for an event? If so, this workshop is for you! If not, it’s still for you! In this interactive session, we’ll explore how creative camaraderie can elevate wellness and build community. Through engaging exercises, dynamic discussions, and practical takeaways, we’ll unlock fresh ways to connect through creativity.

Elevate Your Calm: Thriving Through Change and Uncertainty

Lance Burdett
External Speaker – WARN International

Lance will talk about how to manage the challenges of change, ways to adapt to ongoing change and how to reduce worry. Plus, how to motivate ourselves across the day, how to switch off after a busy day, and how to get a better night’s sleep.

Elevate Your Dance and Fitness Journey: Fun, Fitness, and Fulfillment

Shweta Prabhakar
Group Services Administrator, Gpop Admin Coordinator

Join our electrifying workshop and transform your dance and fitness journey! Dive into exhilarating dance routines and high-energy fitness exercises that promise fun, fitness, and fulfillment. Unleash your inner dancer, boost your energy, and achieve your fitness goals in a vibrant, supportive environment. Perfect for all levels—come ready to sweat, smile, and shine! Wear your most comfortable shoes and bring a water bottle.

Elevate Your Digital Capabilities and Growth Mindset Using AI 

Gill Hotter and Eleanor Almeida
Digital Capability Coaches

Enhance your digital capabilities and be inspired to develop a growth mindset during an interactive hour!
• Team up
• Learn how to use Copilot Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be your work buddy.
• Solve a unique challenge.
We’ll draw from real Digital Coaching scenarios, meaning you’ll gain practical tips to take away!

My Story, Our Story

Nikki Mandow and Kim Meredith,
Media & Communications Advisers

Nikki is part of the University’s research communications team and host of UoA’s new podcast, Ingenious. This workshop explores why storytelling matters and how to recognise and develop the awesome stories in your job and your team. And, once you’ve found those stories, how to get them out from Waipapa Taumata Rau.

Online Safety: Empowering Staff and Students to Detect and Respond to Cyber Threats

David Nandigam
Cybersecurity Specialist

This engaging workshop, Online Safety, empowers university staff with essential cybersecurity skills through real-world scenarios, hands-on activities, and job-specific exercises. Aligned with the Elevate theme, it highlights personal responsibility in protecting ākonga and kaimahi, while demystifying threats like phishing and showcasing practical tools already embedded in daily university work.

Take Ownership of Your Development Story at Waipapa Taumata Rau

Treena Brand, Kirsty Edmiston and Renetta Alexander
Strategic Capability And Performance Consultants and Practice Lead

Through reflection and sharing of stories, understand how to take control of your own career development (kaimahi) and how to build the right environment for those conversations (Leaders). Get to know Ngā Taumata Tutukinga (Our Capability Framework), and understand the active role you can play in collective development success.

The Show Must Go On: Lessons from an Event Manager to Elevate your Career

Amanda Wallace and Maeghan Loehr
Event and Conference Planners

Wellbeing Enhanced with Breath-Powered VR Experiences

Alistair Cran and Sean Kelly
Business Development Manager and CIE Tech & Prototying Manager

Join us for “Wellbeing Enhanced with Breath-Powered VR Experiences,” a transformative workshop where cutting-edge VR technology meets mindful breathing techniques. Discover how to elevate your mental and physical health in an immersive, interactive environment. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to enhance your wellbeing
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You Are a Poet! (Even if you don’t know it, yet)

Sophie Procter
Content Writer & Coordinator

How words are presented can elevate them from a simple exchange of information into something unforgettable. In this workshop I’ll show you how “thinking poetically” – reading, writing and performing poetry – can elevate your storytelling and communication while acting as a conduit between complex ideas and a broader audience.