Leadership Skills
For those who aspire to develop leadership skills we present the following leadership opportunities:
February 2023
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Engagement: Fact, Fiction, Application
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Time: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: In person, SHA018
Target Audience: All faculty and staff
Company: Silver Consulting
Facilitator: Seth SilverThis informative three hour session begins with participants reflecting on when they “felt very engaged” and when they “felt highly disengaged”, noting the key differences and coming to a basic understanding of employee engagement as a state of mind in the workplace. The session then provides an important summary of the origin of the concept (antecedent ideas over the past 50 years); the most accepted definitions at this time (e.g. “a state of vigor, absorption and dedication”); and key research findings from the past 15 years on engagement levels globally, the impacts of engagement on individuals and organizations, and the most accepted measures. The session then presents a ‘Top 10 List’ of practical ideas, many supported by research, to foster employee engagement. As always in these programs, there are partner exercises, relevant YouTube clips, and numerous opportunities for reflection, best practice sharing and action planning. If your organization is thinking about an engagement strategy, or is already measuring engagement, this program will be revealing and helpful.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants in this three-hour workshop will:- Reflect on their own experience being engaged, or not, at work
- Learn in some depth about the concept of employee engagement, its origins, limitations, measures and effects
- Learn ten practical ways to help any organization improve employee engagement, with positive results both to individuals and to the organization’s bottom line
March 2023
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Challenging Conversations for Front Line Employees
Date: Tuesday, March 21
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Location: Virtual Synchronous, Zoom
Target Audience: All faculty and staff
Facilitator: Gary SlyeThis session is designed to make front line employees more confident when faced with a challenging conversation with students, parents or other employees. This session looks at creating the right mindset for a successful conversation to take place, how to avoid trigger points that may lead to increased frustration, and how to engage in a conversation using a simple model as a guide that leads to a resolution.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how unspoken rules can impact the nature of the conversation.
- Learn the seven common factors that lead to dissatisfaction.
- Explore verbal and non-verbal communications that can help facilitate a conversation.
- Examine how the current environment may be contributing to challenging conversations and how to mitigate.
- Utilize a framework for engaging in a challenging conversation for on-off issues (CATER) and for deeper, recurring issues (Coaching).
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StrengthFinder
Date: Friday, March 24
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Location: Virtual Synchronous, Zoom
Target Audience: All faculty and staff
Company: Gary Slye
Facilitator: Gary SlyeLive up to your full potential. Discover your unique strengths profile and maximize your potential by doing more of what you love. Studies show that focusing on using one's strengths has a significant positive effect on physical, mental, and social well-being. In other words, strengths help you live longer, feel happier, and build better relationships. Wouldn't that be great to wake up every morning to do what you feel excited to do in the surroundings of people that get it? All it takes is your willingness to discover and apply your strengths on a regular basis.
Take a step toward understanding how your strengths guide your actions, decisions, and thoughts.
This is an online program to introduce new managers and leaders to a strengths-based approach using StrengthFinders. Participants will learn:
- To understand their talents and how to develop them into strengths.
- How strengths affect the way we perceive others, and how others perceive you.
- How to apply a strength-based approach to leading a team.