Overview

The Leadership Essentials workshops are designed for supervisors and administrators who want to maximize their leadership potential and effectiveness. The workshops combine knowledge and skill-building to help participants learn the essentials of effective leadership and skills for building and maintaining a high-performing team as well as key employment principles and policies, and the role they play in managing day-to-day HR issues for their departments.

Leadership programs are also available to individual departments. Please contact Organization Development (412-624-8044) to discuss further.

Engaging Your Employees

Presenter: Maureen Lazar, Manager, Learning & Development
Organization Development

Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Time:  9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: 342 Craig Hall

Who Should Attend:  Individuals who directly manage or supervise the work of other staff

Are your employees engaged in the workplace? In what ways can we keep them engaged in their work? This workshop helps leaders to recognize the difference between engaged and disengaged employees and introduces them to techniques for better engagement. Participants will learn the levels of engagement and how to achieve them through effective leadership. Through interactive experiences, participants will learn five engagement factors and the methods for daily practice in the workplace.

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Feedback: An Essential Leadership Skill

Presenter: Maureen Lazar, Manager, Learning and Development
Diane Chabal, Learning and Development Specialist
Organization Development
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Time: 1 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Location: 342 Craig Hall
Who Should Attend: Individuals who directly manage or supervise the work of other staff

Providing feedback to employees can be challenging, but is crucial to creating an environment of success in any organization. This workshop introduces multiple tools to assist supervisors in offering and documenting feedback that will reinforce and change behaviors of individuals. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using feedback tools and strategies.

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Influential Leadership*

Presenter: Maureen Lazar, Manager of Learning & Development
Organization Development

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2016
Time: 1-4:30 p.m.
Location: 342 Craig Hall
Materials Fee: $58

Who Should Attend: Individuals who directly manage or supervise the work of other staff

Influential leadership helps leaders make things happen – it gets their good ideas heard, accepted, and enacted. In this workshop, leaders will learn influencing strategies and how to package ideas to gain the commitment of even the most skeptical co-workers. Through use of video and real-life situations, participants practice using the skills learned by creating a strategy, packaging the idea, and ultimately gaining commitment.

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Strategies for Resolving Conflict*

Presenter: Maureen Lazar, Manager, Learning and Development
Organization Development
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Time: 1 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Location: 342 Craig Hall
Materials Fee: $20
Who Should Attend: Individuals who directly manage or supervise the work of other staff

Conflict in the workplace is inevitable. You, as a supervisor, determine how to handle conflicts that arise within your organization. What are the implications of this decision? At what point do you intercede in a conflict? In this workshop, participants will identify their preferred way to address conflict, learn alternative methods, and learn to analyze a conflict to identify appropriate strategies for resolution that can ultimately lead to positive change in the workplace.

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The Respectful Workplace

Presenters: Jane Volk, Director
Keith Kapusta, Employee Relations Specialist
Employee and Labor Relations, Office of Human Resources
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016
Time: 9 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: 342 Craig Hall

Who Should Attend: Individuals who directly manage or supervise the work of other staff.

Everyone knows the importance of preventing discrimination and harassment in the workplace. The University of Pittsburgh policies and sound management practices dictate preventing all forms of disrespectful behavior that are harmful to others, have an adverse effect on morale, and undermine productivity. Participants will leave this workshop with a heightened sensitivity and awareness for identifying behaviors that are disrespectful and/or illegal. They will learn how to prevent such behaviors, how to respond when they arise, and how to foster an environment based on mutual respect.

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*Please note that there is a materials fee for these Leadership Essentials workshops. This fee will cover the cost of materials for each participant. Participation in these workshops requires the completion of the  registration form including appropriate authorization for attendance and financial responsibility. Forms can only be submitted via fax or campus mail. Online registration cannot be used for these Leadership Essentials workshops. Also note that fees will not be refunded with a cancellation less than two weeks prior to the workshop.


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