The Missing Conversations: Navigating Awareness, Avoidance, and Adversity at Work

Zach Schaefer

What you don’t know can hurt you—and what you don’t talk about can absolutely destroy your team, your organization, and your career.

This webinar will give you and your team a framework to have higher quality conversations that directly and positively impact your work and culture.

In this webinar you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

  • The impact the leader’s “echo” has on employees as it reverberates throughout the organization.
  • How to prevent team member burnout by recognizing their accomplishments while giving them a new goal to shoot for.
  • The power of embracing effort itself as a talent that leaders can recognize and encourage in their teams.
  • Why so many leaders allow groupthink and the “disease to please” to stifle productive problem solving and constructive disagreement.
  • How to harness conflict as a catalyst for growth through healthy confrontation.
  • Why team members and peers often feel blindsided by feedback and constructive criticism.

About the Speaker: Zack Schaefer

Zach “Dr. Z” Schaefer is a successful entrepreneur, leadership coach, award-winning consultant, and highly-booked speaker. Three things you should know about Dr. Z:

1) He works with leaders to improve leadership communication behaviors and positively transform their organizations.

2) He’s a retired Associate Professor from the field of Applied Communication.

3) He’s a co-owner and Chief Culture Officer at The Post Sports Bar & Grill, a growing sports bar chain based in St. Louis, MO.

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Effective Communication Skills

A seven-part mini-course on concise, clear, and confident communication is introduced to help viewers develop strong communication skills. The course consists of seven lessons, each with practice exercises to help viewers apply the ideas. The first lesson focuses on overcoming long-windedness.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):

  • Resolve why you sometimes talk too much
  • Excessive Talkativeness Is Rooted In our Unspoken Beliefs
  • Gauge Your Long-windedness
  • Commit to Conciseness
  • Everybody Appreciates a Concise Message, and many more!

About the Speaker: Dr. Alex Lyon, PhD

Dr. Alex Lyon is a Professor in the Communication Department at SUNY Brockport, specializing in organizational communication. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2003, focusing on the intersection of power, ethics, and communication in the workplace.

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Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully

Elaine Lin Hering

Having a seat at the table doesn’t mean that your voice is actually welcome.

Knowing something is wrong doesn’t mean it’s easy to speak up.

In fact, there are incentives for many of us to stay silent.

Why speak up if you know that it won’t be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse?

Only by unlearning silence can we more fully unleash talent, speak our minds, and be more complete versions of ourselves.

In this webinar presented by author Elaine Lin Hering you will learn (Learning Objectives):

  • How we have learned to be silent.
  • How we have benefited from silence.
  • How we have silenced other people.
  • How to recognize and unlearn unconscious patterns so we can make more intentional choices about how we want to show up at home and at work.

About the Speaker: Elaine Lin Hering

Elaine Lin Hering is a facilitator, speaker, and writer.

She works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. Elaine has worked on six continents and with a wide range of corporate, government, and nonprofit clients.

She has trained mental health professionals, political officials, religious communities, and leaders at companies including American Express, Capital One, Google, Nike, Novartis, Shell, Pixar, and the Red Cross.

Elaine is a former Managing Partner of Triad Consulting Group and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in dispute resolution, mediation, and negotiation.

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overcome communication barrierspsychological safetyspeak up at workunlearning silenceworkplace communication