Let’s #Cancel Polarization: Learn to Work it Out at Work
Is your organization negatively impacted by the increasing polarization in our society? Join us to discover how YOU as an HR Professional can identify emerging polarization in your organization and explore real-world facilitation and coaching skills to open dialogue and repair rifts, as well as build confidence and competence to act as a true business partner to coach the leaders you serve to foster such courageous and mission-critical conversations.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify current and emerging polarization patterns and their caustic implications for your people, culture, and results.
- Explore real-life case studies of polarization issues to demonstrate how to apply coaching skills to these challenging situations.
- Discover and practice three simple but powerful coaching skills to prevent and overcome polarization in the workplace - creating awareness, understanding intention, and focusing on habits and behaviors.
- Walk-away with actionable insights about how to prevent the process of polarization by keeping the doors of dialogue open for a warm collegial atmosphere in the workplace, including HR Professionals' critical role in leading empathetic interactions to foster cultures that promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
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Barbara Anne Trautlein
Barbara Trautlein is author of Change Intelligence and originator of the CQ® System for Developing Change Intelligence®. For over 30 years, Barbara has coached executives, trained leaders at all levels, certified change agents, and facilitated mission-critical change initiatives. She is gifted at sharing strategies and tactics that are accessible, actionable, and immediately applicable. Barbara has a unique ability to connect with her audiences in industries across the globe. Clients served include Abbott, BP, Cisco, Deloitte, Northwestern University, and the United Nations. Barbara holds a doctorate in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Shawna Corden
Shawna Corden excels in building better leaders and fostering a coaching culture. She combines her 23+ years of Fortune 10 experience, with her 15+ years of Leadership excellence. She is well positioned to coach Leaders with credentials in Coaching, Project Management, and Change Management. She is an Executive Coach, Faculty Member, PMP, and Change Leader. She is the author of Coach Culture: A Playbook for Winning in Business and Meet Me in the Middle: A Guide to Overcoming & Preventing Polarization in the Workplace. Her podcast Playbook for Performance is available on all platforms including YouTube.