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Growing Your Potential

Leverage strengths for your next steps

Growing Your Potential

The Growing Your Potential focus area takes a strength-based approach to professional development, recognizing and amplifying the diverse expertise and experiences each individual brings to our institution. 
 
Growing Your Potential provides clear pathways through personalized strength-based development plans, strategic mentorship relationships, and leadership roles in knowledge-sharing initiatives. Those seeking advancement have opportunities to develop leadership skills, expand their institutional knowledge, and demonstrate their expertise through collaborative projects tailored to their personal and professional goals. In turn, campus leaders have opportunities to showcase their expertise by leading workshops, mentoring colleagues, and participating in communities of practice that highlight their strengths while developing new competencies.
 
By creating an ecosystem where individual strengths are identified, celebrated, and strategically deployed, we foster a collaborative culture where everyone contributes to student success and institutional excellence.

 

Meet your Growing Your Potential Guide!

 

  Brittany Grice

  Vice President

  Human Resources

  brice@glendale.edu

 

Growing Your Potential Resources

Ongoing Opportunities:

  • SanFACC Mentorship Program
    • Matches mentees interested in entering or advancing in community college management with mentors from neighboring colleges
    • Applications open yearly in early Spring
  • Equity Amplified
    • Are you looking for a mentorship opportunity at GCC to help you grow in your role or identify next steps in your career?  The Equity AMPLified Mentorship programs is accepting applications until November 5, 2025!
    • This is an interdisciplinary effort designed to provide all classifications of employees with opportunities to connect, learn, and grow through internal coaching, cross-divisional networking, and off-site experiences to reflect on what part of their work in higher education means the most to them.
    • One special aspect of Equity AMPlified is that all mentors assigned to our selected mentees are thoughtfully chosen not only for their expertise relevant to mentee goals, but intentionally to be able to serve as a safe sounding board outside of any formal supervisory or evaluative chain.
  • Faculty Development Internship Program
    • Be a mentor for this program that trains and prepares interns for teaching at the community college level
    • Runs from June to December
    • Contact Val Dantzler, valiciad@glendale.edu, for more information
  • Innovation Expo
    • Open-house poster presentation of GCC innovations in process or ideas for innovations
    • Held annually in Spring
  • Thanks for the Feedback Book Club
    • Group discussion and work around the science and art of receiving feedback well
    • Check the events calendar for upcoming cohorts

GCC People:

Donna Diamond, Human Resources, ddiamond@glendale.edu

Upcoming Events in Growing Your Potential Focus Area