Management & Leadership Series

Are you a Manager or Supervisor, the head of a department or a team? Your ability to guide individuals and groups is a significant factor that influences morale, productivity, turnover, and the health of the workplace. Join us for this engaging and practical series of workshops that will build your confidence and toolkit to lead others. The Management & Leadership Series covers essential knowledge and tools that often are not directly developed despite advancement into supervisory roles. The online workshops are interactive with time built in for break-out rooms, large group discussions, personal reflections, and practice time for new skills. This series is great for anyone who leads others and would like to work on skills, learn more about their own leadership strengths and struggles, and gain a multitude of practical tools and resources. We draw heavily from the “real world” experiences of participants, so come prepared to share your own ideas and be inspired by others in the group.

About the Instructor: Karen Blumberg from Adaptiva HR, leads this series. As an experienced workshop facilitator, Karen brings great joy and passion to helping individuals and teams learn and grow. She helps identify how Learning & Development can address key needs within an organization and create a comprehensive plan to extend learning beyond a workshop. As a seasoned mental health clinician, and an Organizational Consultant, she provides knowledgeable, compassionate support to employees when they are experiencing something distressful.

This workshop series is comprised of five classes on Wednesdays, 3/19, 4/2, 4/16, 4/30, and 5/14. One ticket at $300 covers all five classes.

March 19: Being a Steward of Workplace Culture

What are the elements of Workplace Culture, and what impacts it (positively and negatively)? Just as important, what role do YOU, as a leader in your organization, play in influencing the culture at work? Through lots of interactive learning, we not only deepen our understanding of these dynamics, but we also learn take-back-to-work tools. The environments of our workplace are entirely the result of choices and actions each of us makes. As leaders, we have a special relationship as the stewards of the workplace culture, to help manage and maintain a positive, productive and safe workplace environment.

April 2: Discovering & Enhancing your Leadership Style(s)

Being a manager or a supervisor means leading people. What makes a great leader? What is your style of leadership? In this workshop, you will learn effective leadership strategies to guide and motivate your employees. This workshop helps leaders, new and veteran, increase their confidence to lead others by building on their current level of knowledge and skills when it comes to developing employees, coordinating projects, delegating duties, and managing logistics. Become a more agile leader by learning more ways to lead.

April 16: Giving Effective Performance Feedback

Do you cringe when you hear the words, “performance feedback?” Are you a “no news is good news” kind of boss? This workshop is for YOU! Created for Supervisors and Managers, we will cover why effective performance feedback is vital to a successful organization AND provide practical strategies for giving employees praise and criticism. Great bosses help employees be great at what they do and guidance, in the form of productive and helpful feedback, is essential to this. We will give you clear and effective tools to do it, and hep you gain in confidence shifting your perspective into a growth mindset.

April 30: Dealing with Difficult Behaviors at Work

Do you have a 20/80 problem? As in 20% of your employees are consuming 80% of your time? Most of the time, most of the people you work with are on track and things are going smoothly. But then there are the exceptions. This workshop will provide strategies and tools to help you change patterns that disrupt others, diminish productivity, and deplete morale. We will have lots of “hands on” opportunities for those who want it, so bring actual situations you are facing (sample scenarios will also be used).

May 14: Leading Teams and Groups of People

A team is more than just a group of individuals. Teams have their own life-cycles and needs. Harnessing and guiding the talent and energy of a group takes its own unique set of skills, as does helping that group navigate through challenges and conflicts. This interactive workshop offers leaders of teams tools and strategies necessary for achieving results by helping members align their work toward common goals, making conflicts productive, and developing a high degree of trust.