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Assessing Your People and Writing Clear and Helpful Evaluations
Discover how to use evaluations to help improve team member’s performance, providing them goals to help them envision and achieve success. Through a series of frameworks and tools, participants will explore ways to design effective evaluations that lead to actionable results. (90 min workshop) Show more ›Learning Objectives
- Explain the differences in assessments as a career mentor from evaluation as a clinician or scientist
- Design and communicate strong narrative feedback in written form
- Interpret evaluations and communicate insights from evaluations for actionable results
Training Pathway: Building Strong Mentoring Relationships
Leadership
Creating Space for Others to Develop: How to Help a Struggling Mentee/Trainee
Focused on a strengths-based approach to help all junior staff/mentees, participants learn about positive psychology and appreciative inquiry. Through simple, effective tools, you will understand how you can build a relationship to enable the growth and development of all staff. Additionally, participants will discover clear, actionable frameworks that can be used with struggling staff to advance your performance. (90 min workshop) Show more ›Learning Objectives
- Define tools and frameworks to encourage development
- Identify and leverage the appropriate tools to support a struggling mentee
- Explain how to effectively develop individuals’ strengths
Training Pathway: Building Strong Mentoring Relationships
Leadership
Defining Your Career Journey and Goals
Setting goals is an important part of determining how individuals can advance in their careers, and can help provide framing for formal or informal mentoring relationships. Participants will understand ways to develop as mentors and/or mentees to determine short and long-term goal-setting frameworks. The course will include Agile Goals and Career Journey mapping that can be used as powerful tools to establish trust and a strong mentoring relationship. Recommended as the first session in the Building Strong Mentoring Relationships Training Pathway. (90 min workshop) Show more ›Learning Objectives
- Identify how agile goals are valuable in a mentee’s career journey
- Distinguish the mentor and mentee career journeys to date
- Construct an initial high-level roadmap to achieve goals
Training Pathway: Building Strong Mentoring Relationships
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Leadership
Establishing a Growth Mindset: Developmental Feedback
Conversations around feedback are often regarded as some of the most difficult in the workplace. Participants will learn clear definitions of feedback; clear, simple frameworks to use in feedback conversations; and how to effectively partner with mentees to build feedback ability, in service of personal and professional development for all. (90 min workshop) Show more ›Learning Objectives
- Explain effective feedback tactics
- Design and provide developmental feedback to encourage and inspire progress
- Practice giving feedback
Training Pathway: Building Strong Mentoring Relationships
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Building Organizational Resilience
Leaders are responsible for preparing, surviving, managing, and emerging from ongoing stressors and shocks to your organizations. Building organizational resilience provides leaders with a lens and key guiding questions to identify which areas of your organizations you might focus on to increase overall resilience. Additionally, leaders will also have opportunities to engage with one another and learn what’s worked for other leaders in the past and in their various contexts. Show more ›Learning Objectives
- Recognize scientific principles applicable to leading organizations through ongoing stressors and shocks
- Apply tools to gain a better understanding of the strengths and vulnerabilities of your organization
- Create an action plan of shifts leaders will make in your organizations that build additional resilience
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Building a Foundation for Leadership
3 Courses
Designing and Leading Outcome-Driven Meetings
According to a recent study, employees consider more than 50% of weekly meetings a waste of time; this translates into an unthinkable number of wasted hours and resources each month. Participants learn practical approaches to facilitate powerful meetings focused on achieving desired outcomes. From identifying the meeting type to ensuring the right people attend to gaining insights on how to address difficult conversations and conflicts as they arise, you will discover methods to help you thoughtfully design and execute impactful meetings.
Learning Objectives
- Leverage tools to manage time, energy, and dynamics in group settings
- Apply methods to help groups generate ideas and make hard decisions
- Use new tactics to navigate and manage conflict across groups
Practicing the Art of Business Writing
No matter the industry or sector, written communication is an integral way we affect and influence an audience. Participants will learn and practice the essential principles of business writing including how to write persuasively using the “Writing Trifecta” of utility, clarity, and brevity. You will review grammar and punctuation rules as well as common mistakes to avoid. Finally, you will discover best practices of quality assurance with hands-on learning and resources to strengthen your writing.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to apply audience-specific context and content in communication
- Organize a variety of communication techniques for powerful writing, speaking, and presenting
Building Core Customer Service Skills
How do seasoned leaders approach their daily to-do list and still have time to impact positive change? Building Core Customer Service Skills explores the primary and distinctive mindsets and methods that set apart change agents from the average employee. Participants will identify the fewest and most important actions and behaviors that will produce the highest value for your organizations. Participants will learn new tools and techniques centered on key customer service skill sets, including active listening, pattern identification, and root cause analysis.
Learning Objectives
- Apply theoretical and practical models to assess and understand customer needs
- Leverage frameworks for setting and managing customer expectations effectively
- Promote tactics for continuous personal practice and improvement