Resilient Conversations for Leaders
Would you like to remain calm in difficult conversations? Do you want to be more skillful in navigating conflict with staff? This session designed for formal and informal leaders provides skills for working through day-to-day challenging interactions for better conversations in different settings. Whether you are in a challenging meeting, giving and receiving feedback or navigating a tense dialogue, learn the strategies that protect relationships and enhance teamwork when it comes to communication and conflict.
From this interactive and dynamic session, participants will learn:
• How to skillfully use awareness & manage your stress response for staying grounded
• The skills that transform conflict into conversations
• When and how to de-escalate intense interactions
• Steps to deal with rumination that comes from unresolved conflict
• The bounce back factor after difficult dialogues that is integral to protecting relationships
Bio: Shannon Gander is a Mental Health and Resiliency Strategist. She has an academic background that spans corporate health, mental health and conflict resolution. Shannon founded Life Work Wellness, a company that empowers individuals and workplaces to achieve their goals for better mental health. She has worked with multiple clients over the years whose stress level has impacted their ability to thrive at work, which drives her passion for empowering people with skills for mastering stress and preventing burnout. Shannon also demonstrates how everyone can contribute to healthy organizational culture. Drawing on her dynamic background, Shannon has a way of bringing wellness topics to life in a way that is authentic and engaging teaching participants skills to apply right away and into the future in all areas of life.
The Supervisor's Network Meeting is open to all supervisors, directors, and administrators of licensed early learning and child care programs. The intention of the group is to encourage open dialogue and knowledge exchange to enhance quality practices, such as human resource practices and policies, pedagogy, and leadership.
Please note: Participants will be given the link to the video and are required to participate in one of two ways-- with a microphone/built in speaker (such as the one built into your phone) or through chat. In addition there will be a log tracking which members contribute and which do not, and those that do not contribute will not receive PD hours.