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| • | Advanced Facilitation Skills Workshop | |
| • | The Art and Practice of Public Leadership | |
| • | Basic Supervisory Skills |
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| • | Leading the Workforce of the Future |
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| • | The Challenge of Leadership |
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| • | Preventing Sexual Harassment: Creating an Even Playing Field |
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| • | Delivering Dynamic and Persuasive
Presentations |
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| • | Develop Your Organizational Talent: Growing People, Building Leaders |
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| • | Discipline and Corrective Action |
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| • | Selecting the Best: Interviewing Skills for Supervisors and Managers |
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| • | Unraveling the Mystery of the Initials: Employment Law Basics |
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| • | Facilitator Skills Workshop |
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| • | Painless Performance Evaluations: Managing Day to Day Employee Performance |
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| • | Advanced Facilitation Skills - This three-day
intensive workshop provides participants the opportunity to further develop
their meeting leadership skills.
This workshop is for the successful and experienced facilitator
who wants additional practice leading meetings and using advanced skills. The training will provide the opportunity to review essential facilitator
and leadership skills, as well as to gain advanced tools for confronting
difficult meeting situations. Participants will develop effective questioning
skills while learning to structure and pace a meeting effectively. Tools for consensus building and for reaching closure will be emphasized. Finally, examples and practice will be provided in order to allow
participants the opportunity to explore the dynamics of public meetings,
including the planning and facilitation of meetings with public involvement. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | The Art and Practice of Public Leadership - This
ten to twelve day intensive experience, our hallmark program, provides
future public executives with the opportunity to hone their leadership
skills and to consider how they need to adapt to take on higher level
leadership roles within the organization. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Basic Supervisory Skills - This highly interactive workshop helps
supervisors or "would be" supervisors clarify their role as
leaders of their work group. After completion of this course, participants
will be able to describe the characteristics of a successful supervisor,
define responsibilities of a first-line supervisor, apply major federal
employment laws to basic supervisory situations, maximize workplace performance
amongst employees and create a personal development plan for the future. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Leading the Workforce of the Future - This interactive session offers current demographic trends that impact the workforce and presents strategies for managing generational differences in the workplace. Issues including technological advances, workforce attitudes, and current social trends are addressed as we develop a picture of the workforce of the future. Participants will walk away with ideas for creating an action plan for their own organizations. Click here for a complete program outline.
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| • | The Challenge of Leadership -
A research-based exploration of the dimensions of leadership based on the work of Kouzes and Posner. Through the use of an assessment tool, five leadership practice areas are explored and an action plan for using each practice area is developed. Participants also spend time analyzing what it takes to be a great leader in the organization of today, considering current economic times and new workforce beliefs. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Preventing Sexual Harassment: Creating an Even Playing Field - As a result of recent Supreme Court rulings, organizations
must have clear employment policies in place and recurrently train their
employees about employment laws. This highly interactive workshop presents
the most critical employment laws and principles managers and supervisors
face on a daily basis. Participants will learn the intricacies of employment
laws and how they relate to their daily role as organizational figureheads.
Harassment, equal opportunity laws, equal pay, family and medical leave
and disability accommodation are some of the issues that will be addressed. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Delivering Dynamic and Persuasive Presentations - Organizational
leaders often sell their ideas or persuade others to act. This interactive
workshop enables participants to learn how to design their messages so
they appeal to the listener and move them to act through intensive practice
exercises. Attendees will learn what it takes to communicate to a group
with confidence and power. Time permitting, other issues including the
use of audiovisual equipment may be incorporated into this session. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Develop Your Organizational Talent: Growing People, Building Leaders - Managers and supervisors
often neglect one of their most vital roles: coaching and mentoring their
employees. In today's world, organizational leaders are key links to retaining
and developing the organization’s future labor force. They must learn
to develop skills that will remove them from the daily crises and concentrate
on preparing their staff for the future. This course emphasizes the importance
for managers to standardize employee development into their mission and
will present practical tips on how it can be accomplished. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Discipline and Corrective Action - Address and resolve supervisor
dilemmas by learning to change your reaction towards conflict and uncomfortable
employee issues. Through role-play exercises, participants will discover
how to assess a situation, decide on appropriate options and develop a
game plan in order to resolve employee performance dilemmas. When appropriate,
the organization’s discipline policies are incorporated into this
program. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Selecting the Best: Interviewing Skills for Supervisors and Managers - In today’s
business environment, selecting the right person for the job is one of
the most critical decisions a manager makes. Yet many managers do not
approach the task with the right tools, game plan, or knowledge. This
program, designed to help leaders make the right hiring choices, focuses
on defining the most critical skills needed on the job, developing the
most effective questions, and conducting an interview that determines
whether the candidate will be successful in the position. Participants
will also explore the legal ramifications that apply to hiring decisions.
Finally, the session ends with a discussion of the factors that help retain
employees once they’ve been brought into the work environment. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Unraveling the Mystery of the Initials: Employment Law Basics
- Within an organization, supervisors and managers are often challenged
by many laws, court rulings and policies that impact the way they handle
their staff. This course reviews the most critical employment laws and
helps participants understand their obligations under these laws. Topics
covered include Equal Employment Opportunity, equal pay, family and medical
leave and disability accommodation. Time permitting, the issues of employee
privacy and workplace violence may be incorporated into this program. Click here
for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Facilitator Skills Workshop - This workshop, based on the classic
Doyle and Straus book, How to Make Meetings Work, provides an introduction
to the four key functions played in successful meetings. Participants
learn to lead meetings with the goal of bringing groups to consensus.
Techniques for idea generation and decision making are presented and practiced.
Methods for managing group dynamics are also offered. In the two
day version of this workshop, participants receive extensive practice
and feedback on their facilitation skills. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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| • | Painless Performance Evaluations: Managing Day-to-Day Employee Performance - The performance management
cycle is an important organizational tool that assists in fostering a
smooth running organization. In this course, participants will learn to
create work climates that are conducive to creating productive performance
appraisals and maintaining positive communication about work performance. They will also prepare for and conduct performance discussions that encourage
the exchange of information. Upon completion, participants will be able
to implement a performance management plan with their employees. Click
here for a complete program outline. |
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