Co-sponsored by: Sharan Kalwani

***CANCELED***

Workshop Overview

The Leadership Skills workshop is intended to help participants develop and improve interpersonal, group, team and leadership skills.  The workshop is targeted to those in management or leadership roles in engineering/technical organizations, business, industry, academia or volunteer organizations.  However, anyone interested in further developing these skills in dealing with people and working within any type of organization will benefit from the workshop.  The format for the workshop includes the presentation of the core material and interactive participation; using exercises, case studies and open discussion.

 Workshop Content

Introduction

• Definition of Leadership
• Interpersonal Effectiveness

 Leadership

• Attributes of a Leader
• Difference between management skills and leadership skills
• Being a Leader
• Holistic Communications

 Interpersonal communications

• Personal Interactive Skills
• Jungian type personality indicators
• Myers-Briggs Self Evaluation
• Motivating
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Team Building
• Coaching

 Conflict Management

• Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Styles
• Self Evaluation
• Situations to use conflict styles and consequences
• Confronting Conflict

 Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Formal techniques, eg. KT, Alamo, Cause Mapping, etc
• Brainstorming
• Synergistic Decision Making

Speaker(s): , Sharan Kalwani

Agenda:

10:00 AM – Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update

10:15 AM – Skills Talk: Part 1

11:00 AM – Break

11:15 AM – Skills Talk: Part 2

12:00 AM – Break/Lunch

12:30 AM – Skills Talk: Part 3 plus Exercises

01:30 PM –  Q & A

01:45 PM – Formal Conclusion. 

A printed copy of the notes will be provided to each confirmed attendee. There is a small fee to cover costs of refreshments and the printed material. Registration is final only after fee is pre-paid

Location:
Room: 202
Bldg: Dodge Hall
118 Library Drive
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan
48309-4479