Understanding Your Mission, Gauging Your Motivation

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Understanding Your Mission, Gauging Your Motivation

Learn to distill the root of your essence by evaluating your daily routine, examining your priorities, identifying your core values, and ultimately determining what your personal mission is. Participants will determine how both your personal and professional lives can help you find more fulfillment in daily living. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Comprehend core principles related to mission and motivation including routine, priorities, and values
  • Identify individual essence statements that drive personal mission and motivation

Understanding Social Capital in a Matrixed Organization

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Understanding Social Capital in a Matrixed Organization

Discover concepts, practices, and tools necessary for distributed teams operating in a matrixed organizational structure. Participants will learn about the intent and advantages of a matrixed organization and uncover both the visible and invisible tools that are within your control to improve your experience. You will discuss ways to understand social capital and the roles, quality, and accountability and performance involved in matrixed organizations.

Learning Objectives

  • Broaden communication styles to create the ability to adapt to and enroll peers, employees, and clients
  • Identify 2-3 tactical moves to untangle challenges created by social challenges and to name and amplify when things are working well

Understanding the Fundamentals: An Introduction to Visual Design

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Understanding the Fundamentals: An Introduction to Visual Design

Design pertains to nearly everything and is all around us! Words and images — the building blocks of design — are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital and printed worlds. As design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture. An introduction to the design world, participants will learn about these foundations so that you can grow your own eye for design and apply what you learn in your work, building your design capacity and improving your understanding of language used in visual design.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize basic design fundamentals
  • Apply tips and tricks in your visual design work

Engaging in Compassionate Conflict

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Culture

Engaging in Compassionate Conflict

Navigating conflict in relationships with colleagues and on teams can be challenging. Given the pace and magnitude of change in organizations and the realities of shifts in the environments around us, tensions for us and those around us can easily elevate. In order to address these tensions when they escalate, we’ll introduce an empathic and compassionate framework to more easily navigate these conflicts in real-time. Participants will engage in a thought-provoking set of discussions and exercises exploring new ways of resolving conflict using a head and heart-centered approach. This compassionate conflict approach builds inner resilience, strengthens relationships in the near- and long-term, and enhances work and team cultures.

Learning Objectives

  • Define head and heart conflict resolution responses
  • Understand the greater context for the ways we typically respond to conflict
  • Develop heart-centered conflict resolution strategies through a compassionate conflict framework
  • Apply compassionate conflict skills to strengthen resilience and deepen relationships

Defining Your Career Journey and Goals

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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)

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

Cultivating Your Virtual Network

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Cultivating Your Virtual Network

Gallup found that “People who have a “best friend at work” are seven times as likely to be engaged in their job” (Vital Friends, Tom Rath). We all know workplace relationships are key; and in a virtual setting, it can be difficult to figure out how to widen your circle. Participants will practice virtual networking. In addition to learning from and teaching your colleagues, we will share well-established tips and tricks for growing your professional network, as well as the benefits it provides. You will leave with a “Vital Friends” worksheet that helps you determine which of your colleagues play key roles in your professional network, so you can continue
to strengthen those bonds. (45 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the value of your social network and the implications of your professional network
  • Define approaches on how to both deepen and expand your network
  • Learn tips and tactics to identify and build your network

Conversing with Leaders

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Leadership

Conversing with Leaders

Designed as a space for staff to learn from experienced leaders within your organizations.
Trainers prepare relevant questions and guide leaders to reflect on their career journeys, share
stories about how they have grown as leaders, overcome obstacles, and advance in their
professional careers. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Analyze experienced leaders professional growth and career journeys
  • Connect your personal career path with potential development opportunities

Building Habits to Achieve Desired Outcomes

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Building Habits to Achieve Desired Outcomes

Participants will discover overarching principles for creating your own “hacks” and making little shifts to create a big impact. Through reflection and identification of what you need to leave behind and what you need to carry forward, you will discover the habits and tactics personalized to achieving your goals. (45 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Identify your current habits, practices, and preferences
  • Understand conditions that contribute to your overall work performance and engagement
  • Develop a plan of action to improve your overall performance and experience
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The Art and Science of Time Management

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The Art and Science of Time Management

Our jobs are complex, and we face the need to balance competing priorities on a daily basis. Discovering how best to manage yourself and your work within time constraints is a skill that allows us to be strong colleagues and builds our reliability and credibility with your teams and clients. Perhaps most importantly, effective time management reduces personal stress and makes space for you to focus on what matters most.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand best practices to manage self in service of setting priorities
  • Leverage frameworks and tools to provide order to your work week
  • Identify the components of a complete request
  • Learn how and when to “protect your yes” by saying no

Practicing the Art of Business Writing

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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

  • Apply audience-specific context and content in communication
  • Organize a variety of communication techniques for powerful writing, speaking,
    and presenting

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