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Resources for Staff

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How-to...

  • Receive Feedback
  • Apologize
  • Prepare for a difficult conversation
  • Use E-mail effectively
  • Gain a different perspective on E-mail
  • How to get to know your co-workers
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Other Helpful Offices

  • Academic and Staff Assistance Program (ASAP)
  • Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention Office (Affirmative Action)
  • Disability
    Workplace Accommodations
  • Distressed Students
  • Employee & Labor Relations
  • Title IX & Sexual Harassment Policy Compliance Office
  • Threat Management Team (TMT)
  • Whistleblower Complaints
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Frequently Used Policies

  • Staff Personnel Policies (Human Resources)
  • Sustaining Community and Preventing Violence
  • All others (UC Santa Barbara and University of California Policies)
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Reading

  • Fisher and Ury, Getting to Yes
  • Heen and Stone, Thanks for the Feedback
  • Achor, The Happiness Advantage
  • Crawshaw, Taming the Abrasive Manager

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Office of the Ombuds
1205-K Girvetz Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7210
(805) 893-3285
University of California, Santa Barbara

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