F&S Training Calendar
Welcome to the Facilities & Services Training Calendar. The training provided here represents a broad spectrum of topics that have been vetted and determined to be relevant to professionals in F&S.
Training Requests
We're committed to supporting your growth and success, and we're looking for your input on learning opportunities. If you or your team have a training need, please submit a Facilities & Services Training Request.
Monthly Safety Training
Required monthly safety training sessions are sent to staff directly through the Grainger Learning Management System (GLMS). The GLMS platform allows employees to see their specific training dashboard as well as gives supervisory staff an enhanced way to track and record engagement and completion.
Staff will see emails from alerts_graingerlms@icertainty.com when new trainings are available. You can access GLMS and assigned training at fands.icertainty.com using your netID and password.
For questions regarding monthly safety training, please contact Safety & Compliance at oshs@illinois.edu.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmThis session explores how operations leaders are using cleaning innovations (including software, AI, robots, etc.) to gain greater visibility and agility across their cleaning operations while empowering front line teams to do more with less. b
Monday, November 10, 2025
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8:00 am - 1:30 pmCentral Stores & Receiving Conference Room 1A
New Team Member Orientation highlights the different aspects of F&S and aims to foster a sense of belonging. This program is designed to provide new team members with a smooth and successful transition into our organization.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 amCentral Stores & Receiving Conference Room 1A
Self-awareness involves getting perspectives from others, but feedback can lead to defensiveness, avoidance, and toxic team dynamics. This workshop focuses on how leaders can create an environment where feedback is shared helpfully and healthfully.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm
In this session, discover how powerful reports and intuitive dashboards can transform raw information into actionable insights. Learn how to leverage these tools to make smarter, data-driven decisions, optimize your resources, and stay ahead of potential issues.
Monday, November 17, 2025
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This course will enable you to learn the components of critical thinking and avoid blocks to critical thinking. As a result, you’ll be able to think more creatively and independently, make better decisions by problem solving systematically, identify the value of ideas and reach well-reasoned conclusions.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am
This mini presentation will define microaggressions, messages, and themes experienced by individuals and groups. The presentation will also provide recommendations for effectively identifying and responding to microaggressions.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm
The pace of change at work is accelerating—and AI literacy is quickly becoming a must‑have skill. In this APPA webinar, University of Cincinnati engineer and educator Sid Thatham shows practical, low‑risk ways facility leaders and campus teams can use today’s tools to boost productivity, sharpen decisions, and upskill for what’s next.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This course will provide you with the knowledge and tools to develop your emotional intelligence. You’ll learn how to avoid self-sabotaging outcomes by altering how you perceive and respond to emotionally charged situations. In addition, you’ll improve your ability to resolve conflict constructively, create a productive work environment, build, and mend mend relationships.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
Attend this session and unwrap Santa’s secret leadership strategies so you can deliver your own leadership magic. It’s one present that you won’t have to wait until Christmas to open.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
Through this course you will learn which time-management style works best for you and how to eliminate bad work habits. As a result, you will be able to increase productivity, be more dependable, handle interruptions, feel in-control of your workweek and reduce stress.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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9:00 - 10:00 am
This training will educate participants on legal protections related to immigration and citizenship status under the Illinois Human Rights Act. The training will cover rights in employment, housing, education, finance, and public spaces, and highlights protections against retaliation.
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10:00 - 11:00 am
Workplace stress is unavoidable. The key to handling stress is not to avoid it, but to find methods to work with it without losing resolve. This course is designed to give participants the tools they need to identify workplace stressors, end self-deprecating talk, build communicative workplace structures, and calmly deal with change.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm
This session will explore best practices for future-proofing elevator communication systems, managing vendor access risks, and ensuring continuous compliance through proactive diagnostics and automated testing. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to reduce liability, support compliance, and modernize systems with confidence.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
The Leadership Development for Women course will provide participants with the tools to navigate challenges, gain confidence to lead, and motivate future generations. Additionally, participants will gain knowledge on the value of networking and mentoring for inspiring others to recognize their full potential as leaders.
Friday, November 21, 2025
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10:00 - 11:30 am
Learning to communicate effectively with employees helps you to have better relationships with your employees, encounter fewer problems, and achieve your goals more easily, making you more valuable to your organization. The ability to communicate clearly is an essential management skill that can make your job more fulfilling and improve your career prospects.
Monday, November 24, 2025
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8:00 am - 1:30 pmCentral Stores & Receiving Conference Room 1A
New Team Member Orientation highlights the different aspects of F&S and aims to foster a sense of belonging. This program is designed to provide new team members with a smooth and successful transition into our organization.
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This workshop will examine the possibility of increasing happiness through the power of positive thinking. Happiness will spread throughout your organization, and have a positive effect on everyone. With our Increasing Your Happiness workshop your participants will engage in unique and helpful ways to increase their happiness.
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1:00 - 2:30 pm
In this course you will learn how to pinpoint unethical behavior, create a plan for an effective ethics program, and deal with unethical co-workers. As a result, you will be able to build organizational trust, have greater integrity when approaching problems, have increased respect among workers, and establish clear standards of ethical behavior.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
This presentation aims to educate learners on their rights under the Illinois Human Rights Act, focusing on protections against sex and sexual orientation-related discrimination.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Organizations of all types and sizes use strategic plans to become more successful and competitive. Strategic plans help to focus energy and resources on activities that align with the organization’s mission and vision. They help to increase efficiency and reduce costs; improve marketing efforts and organizational development; and manage risk and uncertainty.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
This course will provide an overview of implicit bias to support individual and interpersonal behavior change.
External Training Offerings
Many of the training sessions are offered outside of F&S so the registration links will take you directly to the website that is offering the training. After attending the training, come back here and click the link below to help us track participation and gather your opinion about the training you attended. Your feedback is appreciated.