Professional Consortium Series
The 2023 Consortium Series is a monthly workshop for professionals to sharpen their skills and stay ahead of the competition.
For employers, this series provides your staff with professional development opportunities that teach critical skills needed every day. This series will focus on topics such as Rookie Leaders, Putting Your Strength, Gifts, and Talents to Work, Project Management, Brain Health, Difficult Conversations, and Succession Planning. Participants will leave each session with valuable tools ready to apply in the workplace immediately.
This series is designed for everyone! All industries are welcome. Any employee from manufacturing to health care to financial services and retail will benefit from these workshops
Cost
Consortium membership is $650 per seat. Each membership entitles you to one seat in each workshop for the current series. Businesses are welcome to rotate employees and are only limited by the number of membership seats purchased.
Workshops
"No regrets". It's not uncommon to hear people talk about regret as strictly a negative meaning if they have regrets, then they did it wrong. Without regret, we tend not to learn from our mistakes. Professionals at every level are going to make mistakes. This program identifies the differences and similarities among resilience, regret, and reflection. Participants will examine their approach to each of these. Additionally, participants will actively engage a prior decision to learn how to productively move forward.
Instructor: Dr. Sam Jennings II
Start Date: January 10
Mode: Online
Day: Wednesday
Time: 9 a.m. – noon
Cost: $125
This course will offer key Communication essentials, receiving and giving feedback, and Interpersonal skills development.
Instructor: Ginny Campbell
Start Date: February 8
Mode: Online
Day: Thursday
Time: 9 a.m. – noon
Cost: $125
Gain an easy-to-use set of tools and techniques to apply to any project. Learn how to form teams, communicate with stakeholders, measure progress and manage risks. Emphasizes simple and standardized methods. These methods are software agnostic, and effective regardless of your organization's size, or your position within the organization.
Instructor: Gene Hamacher
Start Date: March 8
Mode: Online
Day: Monday
Time: 9 a.m. – noon
Cost: $125
Simon Sinek's books "Start with Why" and "Finding Your Why" are great reads and provide interesting reflection. While neither is required reading for this class, participants will learn more about finding their “Why” and will engage in activities that will lead them to more clearly identify their “Why” for their professional lives. A more robust understanding of your “Why” can help stay the course day to day and make intentional career decisions.
Instructor: Dr. Sam Jennings II
Start Date: April 10
Mode: Online
Day: Wednesday
Time: 9 a.m. – noon
Cost: $125
A leader's responsibility involves ensuring their own competence in overseeing their employees' ability to meet the standards and levels of accomplishment expected in an organization. Holding employees accountable to high performance standards is essential; learn how to accomplish this by giving employees consistent feedback while setting goals and planning for success.
Instructor: Ginny Campbell
Start Date: May 15
Mode: Online
Day: Wednesday
Time: 9 a.m. – noon
Cost: $125
A quick browser search can give us millions of ideas of how to manage our time, lead a team, tackle a task, or work more effectively. Spoiler alert: No one can do it all. The class will focus on specific areas of work and will give each participant the opportunity to choose 1-2 behaviors they hope to change; then make a specific plan to do so. No pre-work is needed. Participants will be asked to engage and share their plans openly in order to examine their approach and support one another through change.
Instructor: Dr. Sam Jennings II
Start Date: June 12
Mode: Online
Day: Wednesday
Time: 9 a.m. – noon
Cost: $125
Contact
Colleen Hoffman
Customized Training Coordinator
208-769-7732
customizedtraining@nic.edu