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Strategies and programs that provide a more effective educational system for Ohio's workforce.
Fostering connections between rural and urban communities.
Growing Ohio's green industry and agriculture with high-impact commodity/issue teams.
Helping to create jobs through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Education leading to good stewardship of Ohio's natural resources.
Improving health and wellness, and positively impacting the state's economy.
Approaches for improving community quality of life.
The OSU Leadership Center will
be hosting Fran Kick,creator
of KICK IT IN and Mark Henson, sparkspace founder and chief imagination officer, for a workshop that is sure to inspire
your teams to work at their best, get better at what they do, and have fun in
the process. The workshop will be held on November 10 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.
Registration* is $75, but there is a special rate of $50 for OSU
Extension employees. E-mail Jody Termeer (termeer.1@osu.edu) or call the OSU
Leadership Center at 614-292-3114 for the group rate.
What to Expect...
Fran
Kick will KICK things off presenting how to capture a group's attention
and actively involve them (without just asking them to raise their hands).
Explore the different perspectives and many perceptions people have as
well as how they influence involvement. This opening session will give you
ideas that you can use to help participants pay attention and respond
appropriately. After all, in any learning situation we know that whether
you're the trainer or the trainee -- the more you put into it, the more
you'll get out of it!
How
can virtual teams, collaborating here-and-now teams, employee teams and management
teams work better together? Especially when there's less hierarchy, more
multi-tasking, flatter organizations all using fewer people who are doing
more work, with less time and less budget? Inspiring and interacting with
people to make things happen (vs. just watching things happen or worse
wondering what's happening), Fran will illustrate experientially what it
takes to nurture emerging leadership in any group, team or organization.
Learn
how you can synthesize and prioritize multiple ideas with any size group
quickly, efficiently and democratically. You'll have a chance to take what
you've learned and apply it immediately -- bringing your ideas and everyone
else's ideas together. Learn and experience how to capture, calculate, document
and measure all the potential application to what you've learned in any
situation.
Do
your teams always plan, collaborate, and problem solve as effectively as
they could? What if you could improve every team you lead or work on with some
simple, but highly effective activities? We'll show you how to encourage the kind of trust, creativity, and accountability that leads to highly
productive teams
We
believe fun and playfulness are keys to learning how to become a better team.
You'll be surprised at how a balloon can teach accountability, how a simple
childhood toy can encourage better communication, and how a piece of string can
help you think out of the box. Not only will you learn what makes teams work,
you'll learn how to be the best team player you've ever been.
*Registration
includes: participation in the November 10 workshop, continental breakfast,
and a FREE one-year membership to the OSU Leadership Center library with access to more than 2,500 leadership and management
resources that you can borrow for your personal/professional development (a $50
value!). You'll also get Web access to team-building tips, techniques and resources that you
can use to keep kicking it in and sparking your team long after the workshop.
Ohio
State University Extension embraces human diversity and is committed to
ensuring that all research and related educational programs are available
to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, disability, or veteran status. This statement is in accordance
with United States Civil Rights Laws and the USDA.
