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3-Part On-demand Web Conference
Straight Talk 2010: Communicating with Your Staff, Your Teams, Your Boss

Join management expert Gary Ford for three 90-minute webinars designed to help you more effectively communicate and manage up, down and across your organization.

Agenda   Registration   Presenters   Webinar FAQs   Online Community   Sponsorship Opportunities


Presenter
Gary Ford, Principal, GLFord Consulting

Moderators
Greg Stevens, Assistant Director, Professional Development, AAM
Jonathan Finkelstein, Founder and Executive Producer, LearningTime

Agenda
Part 1: Communicating with your Staff


  • Explore the most significant challenges people managers face with staff, including employee motivation and productivity
  • Examine an approach for building trust and fostering open dialogue with staff members
  • Assess the appropriate leadership approach for a given employee
  • Hone skills in the area of performance feedback
  • Help derailed employees get back on track

Part 2: Communicating with your Teams 

  • Review the natural evolution of teams
  • Explore the dynamics and traits common to high performing teams
  • Learn how to assess your team’s current level of effectiveness
  • Engage in easy to reproduce activities that accelerate trust-building, facilitate increased accountability and healthy debate
  • Examine best practices for managing teams during times of transition

Part 3: Communicating with your Boss

  • Learn to more effectively calibrate your own expectations with those of your boss in the areas of ownership, initiative and sense of urgency
  • Explore the best way to disagree with your boss about work-related decisions
  • Examine the best approach to presenting solutions or opportunities to your boss

Registration

Individual Registration:
AAM member: $95
Non-member: $195


Partner Site License: please contact Greg Stevens at gstevens@aam-us.org for more information

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Please note: beyond a group experience, do not share your username and password with multiple people for simultaneous use. Note: No refunds will be given once registration has been processed.

Registration includes:

  • Access to the on-demand webconference
  • Access to the online community and resources, including the web conference PowerPoint presentations

Webinar FAQs

Click here to learn how an AAM webinar works.

Online Community
Already registered and have your username and password? Click here to access the online community.

Each AAM webinar or web conference experience is extended through an Online Community on the AAM website, exclusively for registrants and presenters. The community will serve as an information and entry portal, through which registrants can access the program, as well as handouts, transcripts and other resources before and after the program. Each registered participant will receive a username and password to access the community. Please note: You will not be able to share this username and password with multiple people for simultaneous use.


Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship opportunities are available for 2010 online programs. Get in front of thousands of museum professionals throughout the year!
Contact Greg Stevens at gstevens@aam-us.org.




LearningTimes is proud to produce and sponsor AAM 2010 Online Professional Development
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