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Workshops for Higher Education
& Business

The Details

Book a workshop for your organization tailored to your professional development needs. Recent workshops I have delivered include topics such as Metamorphosis: Individual and Organizational Strategies for Adapting to The Ever-changing Workplace for the American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators; Making Meetings Work; Managing Multiple Priorities; Turning Groups Into Effective Teams; and Goal Setting for Rhode Island Higher Education Training Consortium; and The Challenges of Teaching Self-Regulatory Behaviors: Pedagogical Principles and Practical Solutions for St. Bonaventure University.

Let's Develop Your Topic Together

Below are a few sample workshop descriptions for your business or organization.  Workshops topics range from time management and combatting procrastination to DEI practices, team dynamics, and active listening. Let’s design a workshop together. Schedule a workshop for an hour, a half-day or a full-day of professional development. See my CV for an extensive list of topics.

Sample Topics:

Active Listening

Objectives

  • Define Listening

  • Distinguish among different levels of attending

  • Examine nonverbal behavior, verbal messages, contextual listening, and active listening

  • Conversation’s Complexities: Identify roadblocks and obstacles to  listening and understanding

  • Diversity: Understand the importance of listening to others and oneself

  • Learn the art of questioning

  • Execute concrete strategies to develop active listening skills

  • Create an action plan for implementation of the newly developed skills

Making Meetings Work

Objectives

  • Concrete strategies for running meetings

  • Basic facilitation and group process skills

  • Effective agenda setting processes

  • Constructive ways to gather and encourage feedback and ideas

  • Techniques for following up and increasing accountability

Managing Multiple Priorities

Objectives

  • Analyze the Who, What, Where, How, When of Managing Multiple Priorities

    • Look at multi-tasking  versus focusing

    • Critique and understand flaws in current time management conceptual ideology

  • Explore Self-Regulatory Behaviors

    • Time management

    • Goal setting

  • Analyze and understand the cycle of procrastination

  • Examine Goal Setting 

  • Reflect on Success Strategies

Individual and Organizational Strategies for Adapting To The Everchanging Workplace

Objectives

  • Reflect on individual personality strengths, habits, and characteristics

  • Understand how personality strengths and characteristics affect workplace relationships 

  • Learn how values mediate how they contribute to the workplace culture

  • Discover basic active listening, communication, and conflict resolution skills for the workplace

  • Consider individual and organizational change management through the lens of effective goal setting and success strategies

  • Find out what creates an effective workplace and team climate

AAPSE

Metamorphosis: Individual and Organizational Strategies for Adapting to The Everchanging Workplace

"Dr. Laurie Hazard was an engaging and interactive keynote speaker at our National Conference. The session "Metamorphosis: Individual and Organizational Strategies for Adapting to The Everchanging Workplace" provided insight, mental stimulus, and opportunity to connect with our peers and colleagues in a critical time of rebuilding and regrouping. Laurie is professional, talented, empathetic and personable and was received by our audience well. I have continued to use strategies I learned in this session in my professional settings."

 

-- Jolene Warnke, President

American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators

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