Take advantage of three one-hour sessions (May 29, June 5, June 12) focused on enhancing your capabilities in navigating change, giving and receiving feedback, and stakeholder engagement—delivered in a convenient online format.
Managing Change: Identifying Your Style & Building - May 29, 2025
This session explores three distinct change style preferences and how they shape our responses to workplace transitions. Through a practical self-assessment, participants will identify their primary approach while understanding that most professionals blend elements of all three styles. Discover why varied change styles strengthen team performance, learn to recognize potential misunderstandings between different approaches, and gain tailored strategies to enhance both your effectiveness and wellbeing during periods of change.
Building Relationships & Engaging With Stakeholders - June 5, 2025
This session focuses on practical approaches for higher education staff professionals who are managing multiple stakeholder relationships across campus and beyond. Through breakout discussions and a hands-on application exercises, participants will identify specific stakeholder relationships they want to strengthen and develop actionable plans to balance competing interests by finding shared priorities, creating dialogue opportunities, and communicating decisions with empathy.
Giving & Receiving Feedback with Radical Candor - June 12, 2025
This session explores how to deliver honest feedback that builds trust rather than eroding relationships. Based on Kim Scott's "Radical Candor" framework, participants will learn to strike the perfect balance between challenging directly and caring personally while practicing application of the Radical Candor approach to realistic workplace scenarios and develop strategies for giving clear, kind criticism alongside specific, sincere praise. Join us to transform how you approach workplace conversations and build stronger professional relationships through effective feedback.