Featured Trainings

• NOMINATION PERIOD CLOSED 12/6/23 – Must go through the nomination process – and yes, you can nominate yourself!
• Must have worked at Carleton for at least 1 year
• Have not already completed this program

Please feel free to reach out to Human Resources by email: hr@carleton.edu

In order to communicate effectively, leaders must listen at a deeper level and understand the importance of managing the tone of your message. In this module, participants will learn tools to manage the flow of a conversation and communication techniques that soften the bluntness of their opinion as well as providing a vehicle for directly stating one’s feelings and beliefs. 

Conflict Resolution:  Discusses several different approaches to conflict and participants will gain tools to give them a framework for working through conflict to a successful conclusion. 

Creating Effective Teams: Teams tend to function at a high level of effectiveness and satisfaction when members feel a sense of shared ownership and common purpose, a belief that their ideas are valued along with those of their teammates, and optimism that their input will be used in making decisions. Participants learn the components that create highly effective teams. 

It is critical to develop a mindset in which managers continually look for ways to grow, to be aware of their strengths and weaknesses.  People tend to ignore or minimize feedback when they are too afraid to hear the message.  This module helps participants uncover their irrational fears and faulty beliefs and see how these become obstacles to their own growth and effectiveness. 

Resource Management to Achieve Results: Leading effectively means being efficient with time and resources. Participants learn how to use a delegation tool to recognize the importance of looking for tasks that are appropriate for others to handle, to fully consider whether it is critical for them to handle the task, and to think about the time sensitivity of tasks.

Creative Thinking:  An organization is creative when its employees do something new and useful without being directed to do so, the results of which are improvements and innovations.  In this session, participants are introduced to three approaches to creative problem solving to help them work more creatively with their teams. 

Motivation and problem solving: A motivating vision and clear, open communication are components critical to achieving results in an optimistic, high quality and timely fashion. Participants will learn how to apply a problem-solving tool to use when people are somewhat de-motivated about a situation or just unsure how to get out of a spot where they feel stuck. 

Coaching Others: Participants will learn the most common strategies leaders use to create higher productivity. In this session, participants learn a model for cultivating their growth and development and practice a coaching discussion tool to help them give feedback and direction.

• 10am – 12pm: This module will be lead by the HR team and include a discussion of employment policies at Carleton along with general employment law information.
• 12p – 1p: Lunch with President Byerly and Division Heads
• 1p – 2p: Celebrate program completion and social time.