Management Seminar Newsletter
April 2022
Professional Development Offerings
*NEW DATE * The Neuroscience of Leadership: Building Trust with the Brain in Mind
If you manage people, you know building and maintaining trust is the foundation of a strong culture. But what happens when outside factors, such as a pandemic or constant unforeseen change, uproot the foundation. Is your team purposely creating conflict or are their nervous systems out of whack and unable to release chemicals that allow us to trust?
Date & Time: Thursday, April 14, 2022 from 10:00 am - Noon
Location: Cantril Gym
Instructors: Jolee Jones, Director Stone Canyon Outdoor EdVentures
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Leading through Change
Participants will learn specific actions to help team members navigate and accelerate through change and achieve better performance.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 12 at 10:00 am - Noon
Location: Cantril Gym
Instructors: Vanessa Hoffman
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LEADERSHIP
What Makes a Leader?
When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision—the qualities traditionally associated with leadership. Such skills and smarts are necessary but insufficient qualities for the leader. Often left off the list are softer, more personal qualities—but they are also essential. Although a certain degree of analytical and technical skill is a minimum requirement for success, studies indicate that emotional intelligence may be the key attribute that distinguishes outstanding performers from those who are merely adequate.
Read the full article from Harvard Business review HERE
How Supportive Leaders Approach Emotional Conversations
Many leaders aren’t aware when they’re using emotionally dismissive and potentially harmful language with their employees. Most of the time, unintentionally dismissive language comes from a place of caring. Leaders want to support the person, to help them move through their issue, to minimize their pain. Sometimes in an attempt to minimize the pain, they minimize the person as well. On the other hand, some leaders believe that emotions don’t belong in the workplace. The past two years of compounding emotional strain have made it increasingly clear that managers need to shift their focus to meeting and supporting employees’ emotional well-being. It’s no longer enough to simply provide the operational tools and resources for your team to function — you also need to create psychological safety for them to thrive. That means getting comfortable with having uncomfortable conversations. The author presents six ways for managers to be supportive when someone shares an emotional situation or challenge
Read the full article from Harvard business review HERE
5 tactics to keep your communication style from undermining your trustworthiness
Even if you do all the right things to be trustworthy — keeping commitments, being honest, delivering results — your style could undermine your efforts. You could be so honest that you come across as abrasive and hurt people’s feelings. Or maybe you ramble when presenting information, so others see you as less capable.
Read the full article from New Globel Elite HERE
Video: Be the Last to Speak by Simon Sinek
SHARPEN THE SAW
5 Tiny Words and Phrases that Can Transform Your Life
Read the full article from Happiness, Inc HERE
This Year, Try Spring Cleaning Your Brain
Little green shoots are finally poking through the earth, signaling the arrival of warmer weather. The pandemic has not been declared over, but after living in survival mode for the last two years, some would say we are emerging into a “new normal.” Though that doesn’t mean our minds are at ease.
Read the full article from Capstone Partners HERE