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Accelerating Your Project Management Success
Designed for Project Managers, participants will discover ways to align the fewest, most critical project management concepts, practices, and techniques. With a shared understanding of core best practices, PMs across the globe can better enroll others, more consistently produce high quality results, and quickly adapt to meet changing project demands. You will learn to better distinguish what is truly important from the “noise,” stay in sync on project progress, tackle unexpected twists; and move forward with planning, scheduling, managing, and tracking key initiatives with peace of mind and less stress. Show more ›Amazing Race through Microsoft Teams
Accelerate your understanding of Microsoft Teams by completing tasks in small groups. Participants will complete a checklist in a race against other groups and discuss your findings in this fast-paced and interactive session. (60 min workshop) Show more ›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 ›Building an Intentional Culture
Define your organization’s desired culture. Through a series of individual exercises, team discussions, and group work, participants will determine the steps you can take as a team to build and support the culture that best fits your organization. Participants first define your desired culture individually, then as a group. From there, participants determine your norms and behaviors (what you value and commit to as a team), along with specific corresponding systems and processes. By the end of the session, participants walk away with an agreed upon definition of your culture, and practical steps you can take to live into it each and every day. Show more ›
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Ways of Wellbeing: Working the Edges — Wellbeing in Uncertain Times
Times of accelerated change, both personal and public, require us to shift, adapt, and adjust as individuals and as teams. Discover healthy strategies, approaches, and mindsets to help regain your work-life balance. You will understand how to recognize the environmental stressors that affect you and your team and practical tools and techniques to better address them. Show more ›
Building a Foundation for Leadership
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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