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SPRING 2013 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Building & Leading Great Teams

with Janet Ruprecht

Your organization’s greatest resource is the enthusiasm and creativity of your people. Whether you are working with an intact team or forming a new one, this series provides effective methods that lead to more productive action. It addresses the special challenges of working with virtual teams and off-site members. You will also learn to help members from different generations work together more smoothly.These five workshops are fun, thought-provoking, and extremely practical. Valuable for experienced managers as well as new team leaders, the workshops may be taken as a series or individually.

 

Increasing Team Synergy

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

THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Meetings that Get Results

Learn facilitation techniques that allow anyone, whether participating in the meeting or leading it, to ensure 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.

THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Problem Solving Tools for Teams

Learn techniques that help your team solve problems objectively. These include creating problem and solutions statements, Pareto analysis, selecting and weighting decision-making criteria, and persuading upper management to try the solutions.

date .......... Fri., March 8

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

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

place .......... HBAC

instr .......... Janet Ruprecht

course .......... EENC X009, 27617

Designing a Great Team

Do you have the players you need yet? Discover how different people approach problem-solving and how to make more efficient use of their differences. Learn a faster, less frustrating, more effective technique to speed up group decision-making and arrive at better solutions.

THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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.

THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

The Instructor

Janet Ruprecht served as marketing director, process streamliner, and then corporate management trainer for a successful computer technology company that was ranked one of the best places to work in the U.S. Upon returning to Humboldt County, she founded Actions Speak Louder to teach management, professional and personal development skills, team leadership, and process-improvement skills. She has offered management skills training in the business, government, non-profit, and educational sectors.

Call (707) 826-3731 to register! (VISA/MC. Please have appropriate course numbers handy.)

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