Unleash your Niner potential through the webinar series for Charlotte employees

December 6, 2023
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Are you ready to discover how to reach your full potential in the workplace? If so, register for the Webinar Series for Charlotte Employees.

The free, monthly, interactive webinars, sponsored by human resources through the School of Professional Studies, will provide Charlotte employees with the tools needed to tackle some of today’s toughest workplace challenges. All of the webinars run from noon to 1 p.m.

Register for the series today! The first webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 10.

Jumpstart Your 2024 (Wednesday. Jan. 10)

  • Reflect on what you accomplished in 2023
  • Recognize why effective prioritization and planning is essential in today’s business environment
  • Narrow your priorities down to specific focus areas
  • Create goals for 2024 that challenge and stretch your comfort zone

Communicate Like a Rockstar (Wednesday, Feb. 14)

  • Understand how the communication process can be managed to help recognize and overcome barriers
  • Positively influence another person’s behavior and his/her way of thinking
  • Adapt your delivery and message to the style of that other person

Psychological Safety in the Workplace (Wednesday, March 13)

  • Demonstrate an introductory understanding of psychological safety
  • Examine the difference between Psychological Danger vs. Psychological Safety
  • Describe the negative effects that a lack of psychological safety has on teams
  • Review five ways to create psychological safety
  • Identify one step to incorporate within your daily work

Be an Effective (and Awesome) Team Member (Wednesday, April 10)

  • Address the value of collaboration to organizations
  • Outline the conditions that must exist for teams to work collaboratively
  • Examine tactics to encourage high-trust relationships with colleagues

Developing Positive Relationships with Difficult People (Wednesday, May 8)

  • Encourage positive behaviors and discourage difficult behavior in others
  • Identify and handle the most common types of difficult people
  • Turn negative situations into positive ones

Establishing a Growth Mindset (Wednesday, June 12)

  • Evaluate your personal mindset and summarize factors and challenges that contribute to it
  • Examine motivation in a different way and set goals that move you towards your own defined success
  • Discover how to let go of negativity and seize opportunities to build your growth mindset
  • Implement strategies that foster a growth mindset and focus on continuous improvement

Creative Conflict Resolution (Wednesday, July 10)

  • Explore sources of conflict
  • Recognize the positive and negative effects of conflict
  • Examine individual approaches to conflict
  • Implement strategies to develop creative solutions to resolve conflict

Tackling Tough Conversations (Wednesday, Aug. 14)

  • Discover new strategies for handling difficult conversations effectively
  • Determine what makes a conversation difficult and effectively preparing for them
  • Initiate and conduct skilled conversations leading to behavioral change

Increase Your Productivity with Process Improvement (Wednesday, Sept. 11)

  • Apply a Business Process Improvement (BPI) framework in your organization
  • Identify processes in need of improvement
  • Create and implement stakeholder engagement and buy-in

Dynamic Listening Skills (Wednesday, Oct. 9)

  • Acknowledge the emotions and ideas of others to build trust and improve communication in team situations
  • Adjust communication behaviors to communicate with different styles
  • Listen actively to separate message content from feeling
  • Ask questions to expand knowledge and bring out new ideas

Fearless Decision Making (Wednesday, Nov. 13)

  • Review basic decision-making styles
  • Recognize why others do not or cannot make decisions
  • Understand the critical keys to effective decision making
  • Become more confident in making sound decisions

Trust Strategies to Drive Commitment and Productivity (Wednesday, Dec. 11)

  • Define trust and its value in the workplace
  • Identify and model behaviors that solicit trust in others
  • Foster effective, authentic working relationships within your team