- June 12, 2017 - June 13, 2017
4:00 am - 1:00 pm
Increasing My Value As An Employee
June 12-13, 2017, Waco, Texas
Hosted by: McLennan County CSCD
7601 Steinbeck Bend Rd
Waco, TX
June 12, 2017
8:30 – noon Developing the Leader Within You
Leadership enables individuals to accomplish more on the job and in their personal lives. During this workshop, participants will:
- Gain an understanding of what leadership really is,
- Learn the fundamental practices of exemplary leaders,
- Learn the six facets of quality leadership
- Examine the barriers to personal leadership development,
- Explore sources of conditioning within their own lives,
- Discuss how to free themselves from limitations,
- Explore effective goal setting strategies, and
- Develop some effective personal leadership goals.
1:30 – 5 pm When Shift Happens
To ensure effectiveness in their careers, both employees and administrators must learn to deal with change. Shifts in work assignments, management, organizational philosophy, and available funding can have tremendous impacts on individuals ill prepared to deal with change. During this workshop, participants will:
- Explore the reasons people resist change,
- Identify the methods for dealing with change,
- Identify basic mistakes in dealing with change, and
- Learn how to successfully deal with change.
June 13, 2017
8:30 – noon How To Be A Star Player On Any Team
Participants in this interactive workshop will:
- Develop a working definition for the terms “team” and “teamwork”,
- Gain an understanding of barriers to effective teamwork,
- Explore the characteristics of winning teams,
- Determine qualities they feel are important for team players to possess, and
- Lear the productive secrets of star performers.
1:30 – 5 pm Thinking Outside the Box: A Path to Creative Problem Solving
Someone has said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. In a time of rapid change and a tremendous demand to be more effective in what we do, we cannot continue to do the same things over and over. During this highly interactive workshop, participants will:
- Have fun while learning the principles of creative problem solving,
- Identify roadblocks that limit problem solving abilities,
- Learn to define problems in a manner that leads to discovering multiple solutions to problems, and
- Gain skills that will enable them to apply “out of the box” thinking to situations that arise in their daily lives as well as in their jobs.