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

Workshops for Higher Education & Business

The Details

Let's Develop Your Topic Together

Sample Topics:

Active Listening

Making Meetings Work

Managing Multiple Priorities

Individual and Organizational Strategies for Adapting To The Everchanging Workplace

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

Workshops for Higher Education
& Business