Southern Oregon University's executive and management training workshops address skills gaps identified by local employers. Do you want to expand your leadership skills to be a more effective leader? Do you have good manager who struggle with some aspects of developing a work team? Do you want to enhance your team's performance? These skills make all the difference in growing from good to GREAT. Click on the topics below to find out more information about these Professional Developmen workshops.
Workshops for 2018-2019:
These workshops are 3 to 6 hours in length to further develop your leadership skills.
Developing Intelligent Teams: Managing Emotions & Thriving Under Pressure - Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:30am – 11:30am Cost: $125
Location: Higher Education Center, Medford Rm 129B
Description: Are you ready to enhance your team’s performance, boost productivity, and skyrocket creativity by creating intelligent teams that successfully navigate change? Intelligent teams take emotional intelligence to the next level—they develop and apply relationship systems. This hands-on workshop will explain and demonstrate the essential tools and framework to develop and lead an intelligent team. You will acquire and practice tools to harness your team’s collective potential to create a “we” vs. “me” mentality. With this heightened understanding, you will be equipped to develop and optimize your team’s functioning to have constructive collaboration with tangible results. Click here for more information. Presented by Paul Seymour. Click here to register.
Leadership through the MBTI (Myers-Briggs) - Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Date & Time: November 28, 2018, 8:00am to 12:00pm Cost: $165 (plus $50 for MBTI report)
Location: Higher Education Center, Medford Room 129B
Description: This half day workshop will utilize the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to understand, appreciate and work with different personality styles. Each participant will receive their personalized Myers-Briggs Report to better understand their own leadership style and preferences, their potential challenges, and possible areas for leadership development. This will also help you understand other people’s preferences, appreciate other’s differences and learn approaches to interact with other types more effectively. Click here for more information. Presented by Stuart Meyer. Click here to register.
Strategy Planning for Teams - Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Date & Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 8:30am -11:30am Cost: $125
Location: Higher Education Center, Medford, Room 129B
Description: What if you had a terrific, innovative idea to grow your business? How do you plan it? What questions do you ask, and in what order? Does it even matter, or should you "just do it" and see what happens?
In this workshop, we will step through critical questions, which you will apply to your specific business or breakthrough idea. Participants will come away with the foundation for a buisness plan, including the basis for a go/no go decision and the beginnings of a strategic plan that you can take home and flesh out. Presented by John Lamy. Click here for more information. Click here to register.
Thriving in the MIdst of Change While Maintaining Work-Life Quality - January 16, 2019
Date & Time: Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 8:30am-11:30am Cost: $125
Location: Higher Education Center, Medford Rm 129B
Description: Because the process of identifying values and their connection to intrinsic motivation and work-life quality has been largely misunderstood and overlooked in many organizations, many companies find themselves losing valued employees or suffering from a lack of genuine engagement from their people. We've been told that the session we provide for leaders, managers, supervisors, and Human Resource professionals in this area literally transforms how leaders work with their people and how people themselves integrate their work and their personal life. Click here for more information. Presented by Christopher Harding.
Decision-making Groups: The Quality is in the Process - February 20, 2019
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 8:30am-11:30am Cost: $125
Location: Higher Education Center, Medford Rm 129B
Description: We are born into groups. Most of us take our first breaths within the confines of a group—the doctor, the nurse, your mother, your father, other relatives and health officials. From that day forward we move from group to group: making friends and making decisions. Group life is built into the fabric of our lives from birth and continues across the span of our professional and personal lives. A life lived in groups is unavoidable for all of us reading these sentences. The purpose of this workshop is to make you a more skilled group leader or group member in just three hours. We will explore ways in which you can make incremental, user-friendly changes in how you and others communicate in the group decision-making context to upgrade member satisfaction, agreement, and commitment to both the process by which decisions are made and the actual decisions that groups makes.
Here are some great courses which go in depth into various topics that are 5 weeks long in Fall 2018:
These classes are intense 5 week classes that include a few evenings in the Higher Education Center in Medford and online. If you would like more information about these classes, please contact professional@sou.edu.
IT legal and Ethical Issues - September 24 to October 28
Inquires into the ethical and legal implications of the products, activities, and behaviors of digital technology users, emphasizing U.S. laws and technology. Examines digital works, copyright laws, software, business practice patents, and a few significant court cases that raise fundamental constitutional issues. Enables students to understand the complex laws surrounding digital technology and to be able to form sound ethical and legal positions in the digital world. Professor: Len Jacobson.
Organizational Communication - October 29 to December 2
Studies the formal and informal channels of the message movement (up, down, and lateral) in modern profit and nonprofit organizations. Examines the role of communication in different theoretical approaches (e.g., classical, cultural, systems, and human resources) and organizational processes (e.g., assimilation, leadership, and decision making). Professor: Moneeka Settles.
Organizational Leadership - October 29 to December 2
Based on a wide range of research and literature, this course includes an overview of major theories, approaches, and themes of leadership along with practical self-assessments to allow each student to explore how each leadership approach applies to respective situations. A major emphasis will be the application of the field of emotional intelligence to the study of leadership. Professor: John Bowling.
Digital Portfolios - September 24 to October 28
The Learning Outcomes of this class are:
Professor: Bobby Arellano
Past Workshop Topics:
It's a Matter of Mindset: Three Critical Perspectives that Drive Effective Quality & Continuous Improvement
It's a Matter of Mindset: Three Critical Perspectives that Drive Effective Quality & Continuous Improvement
May 23, 2018 at 8:30AM - 11:30AM in Ashland $125 per person
While quality and continuous improvement processes like TQM, Six Sigma, Lean, and Lean Six Sigma were each designed to facilitate improvement, they have definite differences in basic aims and perspectives. There are, however, three essential (though not often discussed) mindset components that underlie each of these systems, and are necessary to effectively implement improvement processes. In this session, we will explore:
- Why a tool called the State of Mind Diagram can be essential to all quality improvement efforts
- How a phenomenon now known as the Virus of Bias can interfere with assessments and data analysis and what leading companies are doing about it
- What the term Quantum Responsibility means and how this foundational approach ensures more effective engagement, communication, and buy-in from all those involved in a continuous improvement or quality process
- How an understanding of a process known as Leveraging the Genius of Inclusion increases a team’s ability to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented throughout the improvement process.
Based on well-honed tools and processes used by companies like Toyota, Dow Chemical, Intel, Amgen, and Whirlpool Corporation, the course will also include case studies, peer-to-peer discussions, and group dialogue. Presenter: Christopher Harding
Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
June 6th, 2018 at 8:30AM - 4:00 PM $245.00 per person
Managers and employees spend an inordinate amount of time managing their own and team members’ conflicts and challenges. Few people have had quality training in these areas; as a result, resolution processes and outcomes are often less than productive or lasting. They can lead to uncomfortable and costly tangible and intangible consequences for the individuals involved and sometimes the entire organization. Conflicts can “blow up;” or silently “linger” with resentment; get in the way of the work; take more time than they should; or even lead to increased grievances, absences, and turnover. In this practice-based workshop, managers and employees both will learn: how to increase their personal power in any conflict, identify what’s really at stake when issues emerge, engage in best practices for raising tough issues, respond appropriately when they are presented, decide whether or not to get involved in others’ conflicts, and create communication agreements for conflict prevention in their own departments. Participants will become aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their own and others’ conflict styles and tactics. For more details about this workshop, click here.
Project Management and Metrics
Project Management & Metrics - Learn How to Manage The Busy-ness
April 27, 2018 at 8:30AM - 3:00 PM $245.00 per person
Too complicated, too complex, too overwhelming: Making progress on a large project can feel like an endless Monday! This two-part workshop offers an introduction to project management and metrics that will help you establish control, and mark progress, over complex tasks that span months and involve multiple people. Click here for more information.
Project Management Fundamentals (8:30am-12:30pm) – An introduction to the language and framework of project management. Upon completion participants will have the tools to manage projects involving 3-5 people and spanning several months duration. We will lay out the basics of the classical Waterfall model, with a half-dozen hands-on exercises. We’ll use ProjectLibre software (freeware) to generate a Gantt Chart. Participants must bring a project to class to use in the exercise – either a work or home project.
Metrics (1:00-3:00pm) – An introductory class designed to engage participants in understanding the real purpose and use of metrics. We will examine the big ideas and best practices associated with metrics. Upon completion participants will be prepared to comfortably apply metrics to processes in their world.
Financial Literacy for Managers
Financial Literacy for Managers
January 24th & February 7th, 2018 at 8:30AM - 11:30 $245.00 per person
The need for financial literacy at the management level is more important than ever. As businesses experience rapid changes accompanied by mounting challenges there is an increased demand for transparency and accountability and a need to improve existing financial reporting models. During this two session workshop, you will be equipped with the knowledge to bolster the financial capacity of your division or organization, and improve decision making and provide better support to your organization while understanding Financial reporting such as performance and loss statements, income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements, managerial accounting, budget analysis, and performance evaluation tools to become proficient in budget and cost analysis that impact financial strategies.
Responsibility, Empowerment, and Accountability: Three Secrets Effective Leaders Know and Apply
Responsibility, Empowerment, and Accountability: Three Secrets Effective Leaders Know and Apply
March 14th & March 28th, 2018 at 8:30AM - 11:30 $245.00 per person
Responsibility, Empowerment, and Accountability are powerful tools too often misunderstood and poorly applied in today’s organizations. In this two-session course (3 hours each), you will discover and practice the essential skills and mindset necessary for effectively implementing empowerment while creating a culture of authentic responsibility and accountability. Based on principles and practices utilized by Fortune 100 companies and thriving start-up organizations alike, this interactive, participatory course will enable you to you generate optimum engagement, effectiveness, and buy-in from your staff, colleagues, partners, or family members.
Other Workshops to Meet Your Needs:
Do you have other management training needs specific to your leadership team? Our network of professional development specialists can build content especially for you. We can also pull in topic specialists from across the Northwest to meet specialized needs. Email professional@sou.edu.
Register for Business & Career Development workshops at: www.sou.edu/takeaclass
For more information or group registration call 541-552-8150 or email professional@sou.edu
