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Managing your time helps participants learn how to focus on important work while maintaining time for other responsibilities. Through the use of lecture, discussion, and hands-on activities, participants will leave the course with tools and tips to manage their daily responsibilities.   OBJECTIVES:

• Prioritize tasks and identify where the most time and attention is needed.
• Create routines and automation to efficiently handle recurring tasks.
• Manage meetings to make them a better use of time.
• Use Gmail, Calendar, and other Google Apps to organize your work.

Fundamentals of Influence is a workshop-based class that helps participants learn and apply tools that will impact their ability to influence at work and beyond. Through a series of activities and peer feedback, participants will learn to apply these skills to real-life strategic influencing challenges they’re currently facing. The discussion of this workshop aims to help participants identify the challenges surrounding influencing and elevate your skill to influence more effectively.   OBJECTIVES:

• Understand and address personal challenges around influencing.
• Apply and practice using different tools when influencing.
• Build confidence around using an influencing model.

Email Writing Skills: Get to the Point provides participants an opportunity to learn ways to improve their writing skills and strategies to manage their inbox. Participants will review the value of communication and the impact that writing styles can have on messages. Through a series of real-life examples, writing exercises, and peer coaching, this workshop aims to help participants utilize best practices for writing and managing their email.   OBJECTIVES: Participants will improve the way they write email by:

• Communicating what they need from the reader.
• Saving time for themselves and the reader by writing “question-less” emails.
• Cutting down on unnecessary words.

Giving & Receiving Feedback is a workshop-based activity that will help participants learn about the theoretical foundation for feedback and the culture of feedback. Participants will also practice giving and receiving quality feedback.   OBJECTIVES:

• Understand what good feedback looks like.
• Gain insight on ways to give and receive feedback.
• Practice different ways of giving meaningful feedback.

Fundamentals of Teamwork is a workshop-based course that will help participants discover what makes a team effective and equip them with skills to optimize their contribution to their teams. Participants will practice interpersonal skills which enhance collaboration, such as active listening, perspective-taking, and giving and receiving feedback.   OBJECTIVES:

•  Identify what makes a team effective.
• Increase your ability as a team member to contribute.
• Recognize different working styles and understand the impact your working style has on others.
• Increase your capacity to build working relationships with team members through interpersonal skills and techniques.

Work is a diverse, rapidly changing environment and as a result teams may develop differently, creating “micro-cultures.” Differences in approach, attitudes, norms, and expectations will arise. This workshop will help teams identify and mitigate team culture issues. Your team will explore different cultural perceptions of how the team approaches work, and develop an action plan to improve collaboration.   OBJECTIVES:

• Explore individual differences of behavior and communication on the team through a cultural lens.
• Discuss perceptions about your own team.
• Agree on ways to change behavior to improve collaboration.

Video calls are vital in how we communicate and get work done. But with the majority of participants only on VC, there’s potential for accidental exclusion. To paraphrase Joe Gerstandt, ‘Consciously include, so you won’t unconsciously exclude.’ Here are 24 tips that can help make our meetings more inclusive for people with disabilities, distracting WFH situations, shaky internet connection, neurodivergent and...essentially, all of us. 🙂   OBJECTIVES:

• Learn how to plan ahead, what to do during the meeting, how to make your materials inclusive, and help people speak up.