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SPRING 2012 EXTENSION


Building & Leading Great Teams

with Janet Ruprecht

Leverage your organization’s greatest resource: the enthusiasm and creativity of your people. This series provides effective methods to build the synergy that leads to more productive action. The techniques can immediately be put to work. The five half-day workshops are fun, thought-provoking, and extremely practical. They are valuable for experienced managers as well as new team leaders. The workshops may be taken as a series or individually.

Managing Time, People & Priorities

Back by popular demand!
Learn to use (and coach) easy and effective tools to improve time management, prioritization, workload balance, controlling interruptions, and delegation. Discover how to make better use of your resources and increase your influence over your own manager, your staff, and your organization.

date ..... Fri., Jan. 13

time ..... 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

fee .... $75, plus $10 materials fee

place ..... Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, Eureka

instr ..... Janet Ruprecht

course ..... EENC X009, 27724

Building Team Synergy

This workshop offers an in-class experience of team decision-making and an explanation of the processes that will build the synergy necessary to increase motivation and productivity. Discover how good teams can make more effective decisions. Learn how to coach your team to differ constructively, value synergy, and build consensus.

date ..... Fri., Feb. 10

time ..... 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

fee .... $75, plus $20 materials fee

place ..... Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, Eureka

instr ..... Janet Ruprecht

course ..... EENC X009, 27726

Advanced Facilitation

Learn techniques to help your team solve problems objectively. These include creating problem and solutions statements, selecting and weighting decision-making criteria, and persuading upper management to try the solutions. Discover a faster, less frustrating, more effective technique to speed up group decision-making and arrive at better solutions.

date ..... Fri., April 13

time ..... 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

fee .... $75, plus $25 materials fee

place ..... Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, Eureka

instr ..... Janet Ruprecht

course ..... EENC X009, 27730

Meetings that Get Results

Learn facilitation techniques that allow anyone, whether participating in the meeting or leading it, to insure much shorter meetings that deliver powerful results. Learn skills to control under- and over-participation, deal with difficult people, help a group of opinionated people resolve complex issues, and commit to timely action.

date ..... Fri., March 9

time ..... 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

fee .... $75, plus $10 materials fee

place ..... Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, Eureka

instr ..... Janet Ruprecht

course ..... EENC X009, 27727

Managing Non-Stop Change

This workshop explains the spectrum of responses to change by both the individual and the organization. Realistically, it assumes there will be resistance, and it explains how to overcome it. Learn the four phases of the individual’s natural response to change, how to diagnose a team member’s current response, and how to coach your people through each phase swiftly and effectively. Understand organizational resistance to change and discover what you can do about it.

date ..... Fri., May 11

time ..... 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

fee .... $75, plus $25 materials fee

place ..... Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, Eureka

instr ..... Janet Ruprecht

course ..... EENC X009, 27731

The Instructor

Janet Ruprecht spent 10 years as director of marketing for a successful start-up in the computer industry, a company ranked one of the best places to work in the U.S. When she was tapped by the founders to help keep it that way, she began by streamlining procedures across functions in order to increase profits. She further began to teach management, organizational and personal development skills workshops to the managers and employees of four sister companies. Upon returning to Humboldt County, she founded Actions Speak Louder to offer management skills training. She has trained local leaders in the business, government, non-profit, and educational sectors.

 

 

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