Management Seminar Newsletter
November 2021
Professional Development Offerings
Harness My Emotional Prowess
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Time and Location: 10:00 am - Noon West Support Center - Mt Evans
Instructor: Kari Werder, CIA Strategist
Registration LINK
How to Lead a Constructive Conversation
Do you shy away from giving difficult feedback or having conversations that might provoke a negative response. Perhaps you sometimes wonder why you bothered having the conversation in the first place? This course will help. This interactive class is designed to help managers to develop their communication skills to feel more confident at handling difficult conversations effectively to achieve positive outcomes.
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Time and Location: 10:00 am - Noon West Support Center - Mt Evans
Instructor: Vanessa Hoffman, PD Coordinator
Registration LINK
The Art of Staff Retention
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Time and Location: 9:00 am - 11:00 am West Support Center - Telluride
Instructor: HR Employee Relations Directors
Registration LINK
Registration LINK for the Virtual class offering from 9-11 am on December 15, 2021
LEADERSHIP
How to Reframe What Work Means to You
Our society often conceives of work as something we must endure so we can afford to do something else. The former CEO of Best Buy explains why this view has led to a crisis of engagement among leaders and employees alike, and offers a different model that he introduced during his tenure: No matter our jobs, we can and must choose to approach work as an essential element of our humanity, a key to our search for meaning as individuals, and a way to find fulfillment in our life. With this point of view come three steps for business leaders: 1) They must find their own personal purpose; 2) They must lead their employees to do the same; and 3) They must help their employees to connect their own personal missions with the larger purpose of the company.
Read the full article from Harvard Business Review HERE
5 Things High-Performing Teams Do Differently
New research suggests that the highest-performing teams have found subtle ways of leveraging social connections during the pandemic to fuel their success. The findings offer important clues on ways any organization can foster greater connectedness to engineer higher-performing teams. Doing so takes more than simply hiring the right people and arming them with the right tools to do their work. It requires creating opportunities for genuine, authentic relationships to develop. The authors present five key characteristics of high-performing teams, all of which highlight the vital role of close connection among colleagues as a driver of team performance.
Read the full article from Harvard Business Review HERE
SHARPEN THE SAW
Adopt These 7 Small Habits and Boost Your Mental Well-Being
Prioritizing our mental health can seem daunting. Oftentimes, we view acts of self-care as grand gestures or time-consuming habits that are difficult to stick with. At the same time, we tend to underestimate the power small—very small—changes have over the way we feel, physically and mentally.
Read the full article from Happify Daily HERE