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• Webinar: From Learning to Changes in Behavior that Stick

  • When
    Tuesday, April 23, 2019
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
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  From Learning to Changes in Behavior that Stick

  
  

  We’ve all been to a conference or workshop where we ooh and ahh over the learning content and promise of application. Then we go back to our desk we move forward without the promised changes. Kristen O’Shea has been training around Gallup’s CliftonStrengths for 8 years and has witnessed individuals and teams experience the excitement of learning about their strengths and the failure of applying actual behavior change. In this webinar we will dive into some tools that help to integrate learning into what is already taking place in the flow of the workday and help to actually change behavior through neuroscience and positive psychology.

  Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand how habits are formed and when learning translates to changes in behavior
  • Experience different integration platforms that enhance learning throughout the workday
  • Create your own habit exercise to apply to your own behavior and talents

  
  

  Speaker: Kristen Brunkow O'Shea

  

  Kristen increases the performance of individuals and teams through Gallup CliftonStrengths, engagement, and well-being with her company O'Shea Strengths Coaching. She has moved the needle on development of strengths for corporate, nonprofit, government, and faith organizations. Kristen proudly pioneered and championed the vision of Kansas State University becoming a Strengths-based campus. The journey of how she increased engagement, well-being and retention, and impacted a campus of more than 28,000 students is featured in the introduction of Gallup’s Clifton Strengths for Students book. Kristen was recently invited to share her inspirational story with an audience of 1,500 as the Keynote at the Gallup CliftonStrengths Summit 2018.

  Kristen previously served as Executive Director of the quality of life division for the Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Greater Topeka, and coordinated membership for LeadingAge Kansas an association for non-profit aging services. She has received the Rising Professional Award for the College of Human Ecology at Kansas State University for 2019.

  
  

  Important: For easy access to this webinar, you must also register via Zoom using the button above. You'll receive an email from Zoom with a link to join the event!

  
  

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• Leaders as Teachers

  • When
    Tuesday, May 14, 2019
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    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    1001 Locust St, Kansas City, MO 64106
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  Leaders as Teachers

  This session will focus on how to develop a manager and leadership course continuum that begins when people first begin managing others and goes throughout all career stages to the executive level. Based on lessons learned in designing, developing and delivering multiple courses throughout the employee lifecycle, Pattie and her team will describe how they implemented the various programs and lessons learned along the way. From this you will learn how to effectively rely on a leader as teacher model, how to include relationship building as a core component and how to include interactivity to create engagement.

  

  Speaker: Pattie Whitmer, JE Dunn

  Pattie is the Vice President of Learning and Development. She has been with JE Dunn since 2008 and after spending a year in Operations moved to take the national learning and development leader position. Pattie earned her Masters of Education specializing in Adult Education. She believes that learning is a life-long process and dedicates herself to developing and delivering programs that help employees improve their performance and grow in their careers.

  
  

  
  

  About the location:

  Parking is free with validation from our front desk receptionists. Please park in the visitor spots in the JE Dunn garage available as they enter off of 10th Street (heading east).

  1001 Locust St, Kansas City, MO 64106

  
  

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• Today's Students, Tomorrow's Workers

  • When
    Tuesday, June 11, 2019
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    8:00 AM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Mid-America Nazarene University, 2030 East College Way, Olathe, KS 66062
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  Today's Students, Tomorrow's Workers

  A panel of local university deans and professors will speak to us about today's students. How are they different? How are they the same? What changes have they made to teaching methods or tools in recent years? What is working? Where do they think the gaps are for their graduates as they join the workforce?

  After the panel talks to us about their students, we will allow them to ask the attendees a few questions that they want to know from our corporate leaders.

  Also present for networking time will be local college representatives with information for those members who are looking to join the student population again with a certificate or masters program.

  Panel Participants: 

  • Avila University, Chair of the Visual Communication Arts school - Nicole Esquibel
  • Mid-America Nazarene University Assoc Professor, Instructional and Research Librarian -Lauren Hays 
  • Kansas University, Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication - Dr. Angela Gist-Mackey, 
  • Emporia State University, Resa Chair for the Instructional Design and Technology Department - Jozenia Colorado
  • Baker University, Vice President for Academic Affairs - Marcus Childress 

  
  

  Location:
  Mid-America Nazarene University, Mabee Learning Commons (Building 11)
  2030 East College Way, Olathe, KS 66062

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