Leadership Development and Organizational Change

Creative thinking and innovation goes beyond problem-solving and continuous improvement. It is about value creation and the ability to see opportunities for growth where others do not. Whether entering new markets, launching new products and services, or re-thinking current processes, it takes an innovator’s mindset to make it happen.

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Register for Creative Thinking at Work

Master communication and leadership skills to effectively manage employees, establish priorities and delegate responsibilities. Building awareness of team dynamics and how to engage employees through group problem-solving and decision-making. Become an effective leader with the ability to develop productive relationships and ensure alignment and collaboration.

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Register for Leadership Skills for Success: Engaging Employees and Building Teams

Communicate effectively and respectfully in a multi-generational workplace while leveraging differences to build stronger work relationships. Understand why generational differences exist and prepare to change your mindset to use new ways of communicating with others. Learn to avoid making age-based assumptions that diminish both respect and trust.

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Register for Generational Differences at Work

Resilience in the workplace is about having a sense of purpose, while remaining an authentic version of yourself. Resilience helps to increases job satisfaction, self-esteem, employee engagement, communication and innovation. A resilient and adaptable workforce supports one another to get work done more efficiently and effectively. Resilient and adaptable teams work collaboratively to solve problems, react to change more quickly and strengthen relationships to reduce interpersonal conflict.

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Register for Resilience at Work: Adapting to Change and Rebounding from Workplace Challenges

The ways of working are rapidly changing, requiring a resilient mindset, a winning playbook, and the ability to navigate complexities to meet the demands of the future. Women leaders are an essential ingredient to organizational success and yet gender equity continues to elude us leaving women to push through barrier.

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Learn more about Advancing Women Leaders into the Future: Strategies for Success

Influence and persuasion is an important set of skills that helps you achieve success in life. Whether it's selling products or services, getting others on board with your point of view, or simply motivating others to act in a certain way, these skills will significantly help you achieve unmatched results.

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Register for Influence and Persuasion

Build skills for developing impactful and engaging coaching conversations that improve team performance. Establish an understanding of when feedback discussions need to transition to a coaching relationship. Review theories for changing behavior, the importance of trust, crucial coaching elements and formulating successful development plans to enhance performance and build potential.

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Register for Performance Feedback and Coaching: Engaging in High Impact Discussions

Learn to artfully inspire your people and motivate them to change by meeting them where they are with a fully realized, articulated vision for the future and concrete actionable steps to get there. This workshop offers a self-assessment, a method to navigate real-world scenarios and a personal action plan.

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Register for Leading Change

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to harness emotions in sensing, understanding and responding adeptly to social cues in the surrounding environment. Measure your current EI level and receive coaching to improve it. Learn to use your EI to interact with others, solve problems and achieve higher performance.

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Register for Emotional Intelligence: An Edge for Leaders

For anyone who wants to improve oral presentation skills and overcome reluctance to speak in public and gain tools for more effective presentations. This online workshop is part of the four-course Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program and participants do not have to be online at a specific time.

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Register for Effective Communication (online)

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program this course examines the history of unions in the US through the use of film. Students will explore the various social issues raised by each film. Each week we will watch a film, analyze it, and discuss our reactions.

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Register for Labor and Film

Effective leaders are organizational innovators and change agents. Today’s leaders are faced with complex, ambiguous and diverse work environments. This workshop explores how the leader as a “Visionary Change Ambassador” can become a stronger advocate for employees in a way that drives positive change throughout the workplace.

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Learn more about Leading Change in a Diverse Workforce

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program this for-credit class prepares participants for assuming responsibilities in their organization by developing the skills and abilities required of union leaders. Each participant will prepare a plan for improving how their local union functions.

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Register for Leadership in Unions

This program allows busy union activists to take college credit courses regardless of location or work schedules. An introduction to dispute resolution theory and practice, this course examines the nature and sources of conflict and the role of negotiations, mediation, arbitration and fact-finding in the resolution of disputes.

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Register for Managing Conflict

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program this course surveys the major areas of the law as it applies to workers and unions in the private sector. Students will concentrate on major provisions of the NLRB, examining how NLRB and Federal Courts have interpreted the national labor laws.

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Register for Private Sector Labor Law