Each season, the University of Utah Professional Education Department will be bringing you a panel of experts on a topic. This upcoming season, we will be focusing on how to strengthen your human skills for personal growth.
Each event will begin at noon and will offer attendees a chance to hear from an expert, ask questions and make connections with other professionals. Light refreshments will be served and participants are invited to bring their own “brown bag” lunch to the event.
We have all been in those defining moments - in a “crucial” or “breakthrough” conversation with an important person, emotionally charged, where our decisions or behaviors at the moment could lead down many different paths. In our rapidly changing world, we are interdependent upon technologies, stresses, and pressures. This charged atmosphere makes it imperative to nourish our personal, professional, and community relationships. And develop tools, skills, and an enhanced capacity to find new and better solutions. This workshop will introduce you to the classic concepts of “Crucial Conversations” and how you can find better solutions, decision-making processes, increased commitment, and better relationships – not “my way” or “your way,” but “our way.”
An introduction to performance-based Improvisation and how it can improve your personal and professional life. We’ll explore the rules of improv, what they mean, and how they can apply to work and home life.
We easily get caught up in projects and deadlines related to our professional role. But, if we aren’t careful, we can neglect our most important project…us! In this presentation, we learn how to apply Project Management skills to our life to improve our abilities to tackle projects at home and in the workplace.
University of Utah alumni, James Jackson III will present on the subject of entrepreneurial leadership and communication. James founded the Utah Black Chamber in 2009, which represents several hundred businesses and has grown into the premier organization for Utah’s African-American and minority communities to connect, engage, and educate each other. Participants will become better leaders by developing a growth mindset.
University of Utah alumni, Melissa Ceballos, will teach you how to engage in intentional conversation while networking. After her 30-minute presentation, there will be a brief “mocktail” event for participants to practice their newfound skills.
We easily get caught up in projects and deadlines related to our professional role. But, if we aren’t careful, we can neglect our most important project…us! In this presentation, we learn how to apply Project Management skills to our life to improve our abilities to tackle projects at home and in the workplace.