Managing Change, Navigating Forward — July 25 PEN Webinar

The amount of change we’ve all had to navigate the last few years is significant: we’ve changed work environments and work structures; we’ve changed products and service offerings; we've changed communication methods; we’ve redesigned supply chains.  In some sectors and industries, entire business models have changed. While the pace of change may have stabilized a [...]

2024-07-22T11:21:00-05:00July 1, 2024|

Manager Skills Workshop — Oct 8-9 IN-PERSON Workshop

Educate. Encourage. Inspire. -- A Powerful Developmental Experience for Emerging Leaders Do you have a hardworking and talented person on your team who is ready to take the next step up to leading and managing others? Perhaps you know a new manager, who is struggling to understand the new world of managing others. Unfortunately, we’ve [...]

2024-09-16T14:55:16-05:00June 3, 2024|

Rumble Skills: Improving Leadership by Improving Communication — June 13 PEN Webinar

Direct communication skills are the foundation to strong leadership and effective teams.  But with all the changes in today's work environment (hybrid and remote workers; changing demographics, generational preferences, and an increasingly diverse workforce;  advancement of different communication channels) and with the increasingly important conversations that leaders need to have with their workers, how do [...]

2024-05-22T10:07:09-05:00May 22, 2024|

Say What?? 18 Best Practices for Effective Communication – May 2024

I had a conversation with a CEO of a PEN member organization recently, in which he lamented the fact that his messages were just not getting through to employees -- he was communicating, but the messages just weren’t sticking.  So I asked him what channels he was using, to which he replied the normal ways: [...]

2024-05-20T13:02:15-05:00May 20, 2024|

Yes, and…: The Art of Collaboration, Creativity & Leadership — Aug 20 IN-PERSON Workshop

Yes, the art of improv is fun. And it can help business & organizational leaders hone invaluable skills. Improv trains us to be deep listeners, to collaborate in real time, to think on our feet, and to trust our gut. The Performance Excellence Network is pleased to announce a unique & powerful workshop: Yes, and...: [...]

2024-06-03T09:59:18-05:00April 29, 2024|

Communication, Team Building, Time Management: Speed Sharing — Feb 8 PEN Webinar

As our environment continues to shift, we are all in search of new ideas, updated approaches, and best practices to get things done.  And oftentimes the best ideas come from our peers.  So… The Performance Excellence Network – in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Iowa Quality Center – is pleased to [...]

2024-01-29T14:17:26-06:00January 29, 2024|
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