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Welcome! UW Tacoma and UW Continuum College - Tacoma Professional Development Center are excited to begin offering leadership development workshops in partnership with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. These workshops will be exclusively for Tribal Administration employees to grow their skills, foster their inherent leadership potential, and elevate the work they do.
On this page, you will find information about the workshops being offered this year, what content you can expect, and who will be facilitating them.
To register or for any general questions about the partnership, please contact Puyallup Tribe of Indians HR.
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September: Time Management for Managers
3.5 hours / .35 CEUs
Time management trainings often focus on its impact on an individual's work, but managers and supervisors must also manage the time and work of others. In this workshop, you will assess where you spend your time and how that correlates to core values and goals. You will learn the basics of two powerful approaches are the foundation for many tools used to manage individual and team time: Kanban and the Time Management Priority Matrix. You will also review how to overcome typical time challenges, deal with every day "stuff" that interferes with your plans, effectively work with others, and work through procrastination. The interactive classroom experience emphasizes strategic thinking, flexibility, and how to help your team understand their own challenges with Time Management.
After this workshop, you should be able to
- Identify how to spend time wisely
- Recognize the roles of importance and urgency
- Develop strategies for managing the "stuff"
- Identify and practice effective ways to work with and manage others
- Use strategies to move through procrastination
Instructor: Joey Pauley
Joey Pauley, MA, is the founder and President/CEO of Applied Leadership Teams, bringing over 20 years of experience in organizational change and development. An engaging and effective leader, Joey excels in motivating work groups and surpassing customer expectations. In his recent role as a trusted adviser, he has successfully led executive director transitions, organizational restructuring, and strategic planning cascades. Known for co-creating tailored processes with his clients, Joey supports and develops individual and organizational milestones, promotes clear communication, and fosters dispersed leadership. The result is not only effective communication, leadership, and collaboration but also a positive organizational culture.
October: Workplace Conflict Fundamentals
7 hours / .7 CEUs
Leaders spend much of their time communicating to execute strategy and address conflicts. In order to resolve these roadblocks to success, leaders need skills to quickly and fairly resolve issues, create win-win results, and reduce the high cost of conflict. Inspire those around you by improving your communication skills to build trust and a unified team. The skills developed in this course are designed to help you achieve goals in your life and career and are effective for conversations at work, in the community, and at home.
After this workshop, you should be able to
- Explore how emotions impact conflict resolution and how to avoid common pitfalls.
- Prepare the setting and themselves for conflict resolution.
- Build trust within their team.
- Assure the best outcome in a conflict using the inflexible rules of negotiation.
- Build your value by practicing the 7-step process for having difficult conversations.
- Get to 'Yes' in conversations and life by creating win-win solutions.
Instructor: Tina Hagedorn
Tina Hagedorn is the Founder and President of Hagedorn and Associates, LLC, a management consulting firm. Tina has served as a consultant for over 25 years and is committed to ethical leadership development with a focus on generating superior earnings for her clients. Ms. Hagedorn developed PowerStone Management Consulting tools designed to guide you through the change process and provide creative business solutions focused on results.
Tina provides consulting in the areas of strategy, leadership, and revenue development. Throughout her career, she has earned a wide-ranging record for successful conflict resolution, contract negotiation, crisis management and turnaround. Ms. Hagedorn has a reputation for versatility involving diverse constituents in demanding environments and a straightforward objective approach to problem solving.
Tina holds a Leadership Executive MBA, Seattle University, Albers School of Business and Economics and a Bachelor of Business Administration, Pacific Lutheran University, magna cum laude, Business Administration, Business and Economics. Ms. Hagedorn is recognized by Beta Gamma Sigma, Alpha Mu Alpha for academic achievement and is a Provost Merit Scholar.
November: Facilitating Effective Meetings
3.5 hours / .35 CEUs
Ineffective meetings are a tremendous waste of time and resources. To ensure that meetings have greater value and produce tangible results, they must be skillfully planned and executed. In this workshop, you will learn how to set more effective meeting goals, develop best practice agendas, encourage participation, and facilitate difficult group dynamics.
After this workshop, you should demonstrate improved skills in
- Planning meetings
- Conducting meetings
- Improving results after meetings
- Gaining participation
- Diffusing common disruptions
- Managing difficult group dynamics
Instructor: Nathan Navarro
Nathan T. Navarro, MBA, has hands-on-experience in initiating and implementing successful process improvement programs and projects at The Boeing Company and Seattle City Light. He is considered a senior specialist and process improvement consultant to executive leaders, managers, customers, employees, and work teams. In addition to teaching Lean Six Sigma and Leadership courses for the University of Washington Continuum College, Nathan teaches High Performance Management, Root Cause Analysis, and Lean courses at Everett Community College.
Nathan earned an MBA from the University of Phoenix Bellevue Washington ground campus; a Business Degree, University of Phoenix San Antonio Texas ground campus; and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt certificate, University of Washington Tacoma.
January: Designing and Leading Change
3.5 hours / .35 CEUs
Designing change that matters and accelerating its integration into a new way of working is the centerpiece of this workshop. You'll discover the phases of transition, questions to ask of any change initiative, effective change communication strategies, and a variety of smart ways to design change with intentionality and care. To get the most out of this workshop, you should be leading, participating in, or considering change initiatives or projects in your work so you can learn to apply the principles of change management to your specific case.
After this workshop, you should be able to apply design thinking and collaborative processes in designing change through methods like:
- Acting as a proactive change agent
- Initiating and supporting change within the organization
- Implementing strategies to help others adapt to change
- Emphasizing and fostering creativity and innovation
- Recognizing the impact change has on morale and productivity
- Communicating effectively about how and when change will occur
- Involving staff in the change process
- Helping colleagues break from the past
Instructor: Megan Oczkewicz
Megan Oczkewicz, LSS Black Belt, is a Continuous Improvement Manager at the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). She has over eight years of process improvement experience in the public sector both at WSDOT and at the Washington State Health Care Authority. She facilitates process improvements, team building exercises, and large meetings. She also teaches various classes on Lean Six Sigma, Change Management, and Meeting Effectiveness, as well as being a lead instructor in UW's Washington Certified Public Manager® program. She holds a UW Tacoma Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
February: The Trust Advantage
3.5 hours / .35 CEUs
When there is no trust, people are afraid to offer suggestions or honest feedback and a lack of collaboration can result in slipping deadlines, unreliability, and an absence of organizational alignment. The Trust Advantage gives you the foundation for better communication within your team, reduced conflict, and a stronger commitment to each other's goals. This workshop is based on experiential training, focusing on building a trusting culture in teams through core leadership principles, behaviors, and processes.
After this workshop, you should be able to
- Identify organizational factors that affect trust and distrust
- Begin increasing trust by exhibiting trusting behaviors
- Apply tools and tips for increasing trust
- Understand how to repair trust when it is broken
Instructor: Joey Pauley
Joey Pauley, MA, is the founder and President/CEO of Applied Leadership Teams, bringing over 20 years of experience in organizational change and development. An engaging and effective leader, Joey excels in motivating work groups and surpassing customer expectations. In his recent role as a trusted adviser, he has successfully led executive director transitions, organizational restructuring, and strategic planning cascades. Known for co-creating tailored processes with his clients, Joey supports and develops individual and organizational milestones, promotes clear communication, and fosters dispersed leadership. The result is not only effective communication, leadership, and collaboration but also a positive organizational culture.
