Sessions

Concurrent Session
Let’s #Cancel Polarization: Learn to Work it Out at Work
W317
In-Person Monday 06/12/2023 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM   Add to calendar
Competencies: Interpersonal (Behavioral), Leadership (Behavioral) | Intended Audience: Mid-Level
Workplace Application:
Participants will learn facilitation/coaching skills to assess and positively and proactively intervene in polarization in their organizations. 

Is your organization negatively impacted by the increasing polarization in our society? Join us to discover how YOU as an HR Professional can identify emerging polarization in your organization and explore real-world facilitation and coaching skills to open dialogue and repair rifts, as well as build confidence and competence to act as a true business partner to coach the leaders you serve to foster such courageous and mission-critical conversations.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify current and emerging polarization patterns and their caustic implications for your people, culture, and results.
  • Explore real-life case studies of polarization issues to demonstrate how to apply coaching skills to these challenging situations.
  • Discover and practice three simple but powerful coaching skills to prevent and overcome polarization in the workplace - creating awareness, understanding intention, and focusing on habits and behaviors.
  • Walk-away with actionable insights about how to prevent the process of polarization by keeping the doors of dialogue open for a warm collegial atmosphere in the workplace, including HR Professionals' critical role in leading empathetic interactions to foster cultures that promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

In-person session offerings are on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Barbara Anne  Trautlein  Photo
Presenter:
Barbara Anne Trautlein, Principal,
Change Catalysts, LLC
Shawna Corden Photo
Presenter:
Shawna Corden, Executive Coach,
Shawna Corden Coaching and Webinars